Pastors Jim and Marie Watt
(From: HEBREWS #9 - 10:1-18)
I. 10:1-18 JESUS' SACRIFICE: LONG FORETOLD BY DAVID AND TYPE
a. 10:1 PERFECTION: NOT POSSIBLE BY “LAW” SACRIFICES
SkiAN [4639] gar Echon ho NOmos [3551]ton melLONton a-gaTHON,
For the law having a shadow of the good thingsto come,
ouk auTEN ten eiKOna [1504]ton pragMAton [4229],
not the very image of the things,
kat' e-ni-auTON [1763] tais auTAIS thuSIais [2378], has prosPHErou-sin [4374]
they can never with the same sacrifices year by year,
eis to di-e-neKES [1336], ouDEpo-te DUnan-tai tous pro-ser-choMEnous [4374]te-leiOsai [5048].
which they offer continually, make perfect them that draw nigh.
b. 10:2 CESSATION OF OLD SACRIFICES: REVEALS THEIR WEAKNESS
ePEI ouk an ePAUsan-to [4973] pros-pheROme-nai [4374],
Else would they not have ceased to be offered,
diA to me-deMIan Echein Eti suNEIde-sin [4893]ha-mar-tiON
because the worshipers having been once cleansed,
tous laTREUon-tas [3000], HApax ke-ka-tha-risMEnous [2508]?
would have had no more consciousness of sins?
c. 10:3 But in these sacrificesremembrance is made of sins year by year.
all' en auTAIS aNAMne-sis [364]ha-mar-tiON kat' e-ni-auTON [1763].
d. 10:4 For it is impossible for blood of bulls and goats to take away sins.
aDUna-ton [102] gar HAIma [129] TAUron kai TRAgon a-phaiREIN [851]ha-marTIas.
e. 10:5-7 JESUS' BODY: GOD'S PROVISION TO REMOVE SIN
Di' ho ei-serCHOme-nos [1525] eis ton KOSmon, LEgei,
Wherefore when he comes into the world, he says,
ThuSIan [2378] kai pros-phoRAN [4376] ouk eTHEle-sas [2309], SOma de ka-terTIso[2675]moi;
Sacrifice and offering you would not, But a body did you prepare me;
ho-lo-kauTOma-ta [3646]kai peRI ha-marTIas ouk euDOke-sas [2106]: TOte EIpon, 'I-DOU, HEko
6In whole burnt offerings and sacrificesfor sin you had no pleasure: 7Then said I, Lo, I am come
(en ke-phaLIdi [2777] bibLIou GEgrap-tai peRI eMOU) tou poiEsai, ho TheOS, to THEleMA [2307]sou.
(In theroll of thebook it is written of me) :To do your :will, O:God.
f. 10:8-9a JESUS' WILL: PROVES A SUFFICIENT SACRIFICE
aNOte-ron LEgon [HOti] ThuSIas [2378]kai pros-phoRAS [4374]kai ho-lo-kauTOma-ta [3647]
Saying above [that], Sacrifices and offerings and whole burnt offerings
kai peRI ha-marTIas ouk eTHEle-sas, ouDE euDOke-sas [2106]
and sacrificesfor sin you would not, neither had pleasure in them
(HAIti-nes kaTA NOmon prosPHEron-tai), TOte EIre-ken, 'I-DOU, HEkotou poiEsai to THEleMA sou.
(the which are offered according to the law), 9athen has he said, Lo, I am come to do your :will.
g. 10:9b He takes away the first, that he may establish the second.
a-naiREI [337] to PROton, HIna to DEUte-ron STEse[2476].
h. 10:10 SANCTIFICATION: BASED ON SACRIFICE OF CHRIST
en hotheLEma-ti he-gi-asMEnoi [37]esMEN
By which will we have been sanctified
diA tes pros-phoRAS [4376]tou SOma-tos [4983]IeSOU ChrisTOU ePHApax [2178].
through the offering of the body of Jesus Christ once for all.
i. 10:11-13 CONTRAST OF JESUS' PRIESTHOOD WITH LEVITES
Kai pas men hi-eREUS HESte-ken [2476]kath' heMEran lei-tourGON [3008]
And every priest indeed stands daily ministering
kai tas auTAS polLAkis prosPHEron [4374]thuSIas,
and offering often the same sacrifices,
HAIti-nes ouDEpo-te DUnan-tai pe-ri-eLEIN [4014] ha-marTIas:
the which can never take away sins:
HOUtos de, MIan huPER ha-mar-tiON pro-seNEGkas [4374]thuSIan eis to di-e-neKES [1336],
12 but this one, when he had offered one sacrifice for sins for ever,
eKAthi-sen [2523] en de-xiA tou TheOU:
sat down at God's right:
to loiPON ex-deCHOme-nos HEos teTHOsin hoi echTHROI auTOU hu-poPOdi-on ton poDON auTOU.
13 henceforth expecting till his :enemies be made footstool of his :feet.
j. 10:14 For by one offering he has perfected for ever those being sanctified.
miA gar pros-phoRA [4376] te-teLEIo-ken [5048]eis to di-e-neKES [1336]tous ha-gi-a-zoMEnous [37].
k. 10:15-17 HOLY SPIRIT FORETOLD SUPERIORITY OF NEW COVENANT
Mar-tuREI [3140] de heMIN kai to PNEUma to HAgi-on; meTA gar to ei-reKEnai,
And the Holy :Spirit also bears witness to us; for after :he has said,
HAUtehe di-aTHEke[1242]hen di-aTHEso-mai [1303]pros auTOUS
16 This isthe covenant that I will make with them
meTA tas heMEras eKEInas, LEgei KUri-os: diDOUS NOmous mou ePI karDIas auTON,
After those :days, says the Lord: I will put my laws on their heart,
kai ePI ten diAnoi-an [1271]auTON e-piGRApso[1924]auTOUS,
Upon their :mind also will I write them; then,
Kai ton ha-mar-tiON auTON kai ton a-no-miON [458]auTON ou memneSTHEso-mai [3415]Eti.
17 And their :sins and their :iniquities will I remember no more.
l. 10:18 Now where remission of these is, there isno more offering for sin.
HOpou de Aphe-sis [859] TOUton, ouKEti pros-phoRA [4376]peRI ha-marTIas [266].
NOTE: 10:1 - Not just Jews - but many Christians - Protestants and Catholics - need to take note of this verse. Keeping rules and laws makes no one perfect. Only a personal, passionate devotion to Jesus, and allowing Him by His Spirit to live out Hislife through us, makes us acceptable to God. It is the OT Passover fulfilled by the NT Jesus in His “Finished Work” on Calvary, that causes us to have God's attention. OT law is but a shadow and type pointing forward to this great NT fulfillment and event!
10:4 - We must make no mistake. It was the blood of the sinless Son of man and Son of God - through His human body in identification with us, that is God's provision for sin. Liberal and modernistic theologians call this a “slaughter-house religion”. They are wrong! This, and this alone, is God's provision through His Son for the Atonement of Sin. Cain tried to come another way with bloodless sacrifices. God rejected them and accepted Abel's sacrifices of blood. Cain in anger murdered his brother. Modernists and liberals would like to remove all Conservative Bible believers and Bible practicers today. In Canada, many have told me so. Just so, political liberals would like to remove all political conservatives today - who stand on the Constitution of our Founding Fathers - and the Freedomthis provides. No dictatorship. No silencing of opposition.
10:8-9a - Jesus in His pre-existent state before His incarnation, volunteered to take a human body, identify Himself with the human race, recognize that we were not responsible for Adam's sin passed along to us, but also with the Father - recognized that all members of the human race that reject God's wayof reconciliation with Him - mustcome by way of Jesus' blood at the Cross, or forever perish.
Note 10:9b especially. Godhas taken awaythe law of the first covenant with animal blood sacrifice - and replaced it with the law of the Spirit of life in Christ Jesus, based on Hiseternal blood sacrifice.
See 10:11-13. Jesus fulfilled the will of the Father. He came as Son of man for this purpose. When from the Cross He proclaimed, “It is finished!” - the Father signified His approval by raising Christ from the dead on the third day! No other religion has such a founder and leader! Forty days later Jesus Ascended. The Father gave Him a Name above all Names! The very Name of God is in Jesus' Name - “Jehovah the Savior!” Every knee must bow to thisName. All angels worship Him. He is at God's right hand - High Priest after the order of Melchizedek, and our eternal, effective Intercessor. By His Spirit in us, His Heredity, He with the Spirit intercedes through us to God the Father's glory. One day at the end of the Millennium, when Satan is finally and fully defeated, then Jesus as Son of man will turn all things back to the Father, that God might be all in all!
10:15-17 - And all of this is wrought on our behalf by the New Covenant brought by Jesus through His death, burial and Resurrection. Now the old law that no man did or now can keep; - by the Spirit - Jesus writes it on our minds and heart (Jeremiah 31:31-34}; and what no man up to that time could accomplish - now Christ in us by His Spirit - triumphantly lives out His Resurrected life through us. Jesusisour Covenant! See Isaiah 42:6; 49:8.
10:18 - Never again do members of the human race need sacrifice for sin. Jesus' once-and-for-all sacrifice at Calvary provides eternal remission of sins. It is possible that sacrifice for teaching purposes, may be inaugurated again - but notfor remission of sin. There are 8 men named before birth. Ishmael was the first - Jesus was the last. God named Him, and told his step-father Joseph the reason for this Name above all Names! - J.A.W.