Hebrews 10

Hebrews 10

Hebrews 10

Shawn Bumpers / General

Hebrews

Psalm 40:7–9 NKJV

Then I said, “Behold, I come; In the scroll of the book it is written of me. I delight to do Your will, O my God, And Your law is within my heart.” I have proclaimed the good news of righteousness In the great assembly; Indeed, I do not restrain my lips, O Lord, You Yourself know.

2 Corinthians 5:21 NKJV

For He made Him who knew no sin to be sin for us, that we might become the righteousness of God in Him.

Galatians 3:23–24 NKJV

But before faith came, we were kept under guard by the law, kept for the faith which would afterward be revealed. Therefore the law was our tutor to bring us to Christ, that we might be justified by faith.

Christ’s willing sacrifice was God’s means of making his people holy. 

Psalm 110:1 NKJV

The Lord said to my Lord, “Sit at My right hand, Till I make Your enemies Your footstool.”

Ephesians 2:8–9 NKJV

For by grace you have been saved through faith, and that not of yourselves; it is the gift of God, not of works, lest anyone should boast.

Jeremiah 31:33–34 NKJV

But this is the covenant that I will make with the house of Israel after those days, says the Lord: I will put My law in their minds, and write it on their hearts; and I will be their God, and they shall be My people. No more shall every man teach his neighbor, and every man his brother, saying, ‘Know the Lord,’ for they all shall know Me, from the least of them to the greatest of them, says the Lord. For I will forgive their iniquity, and their sin I will remember no more.”

Hebrews 10:39 NKJV

But we are not of those who draw back to perdition, but of those who believe to the saving of the soul.

v1-4

The Temple was still there and the sacrificial system was ongoing.

64 and 68 AD – the Temple was destroyed in 70 AD.

So then, we might say that the annual Day of Atonement did not accomplish “remission of sin” but only “reminder of sin.” 

The nation’s sins were covered; but they were not cleansed.

v5-10

Genesis 22

Abraham obeyed.

Genesis 22:8 KJV

And Abraham said, My son, God will provide himself a lamb for a burnt offering: so they went both of them together.

It was God who provided the sacrifice and not man.

The author here quotes from Psalm 40:6-8 (LXX)

“to pierce”

“to dig”

John 4:34 NKJV

Jesus said to them, “My food is to do the will of Him who sent Me, and to finish His work.

John 5:30 NKJV

I can of Myself do nothing. As I hear, I judge; and My judgment is righteous, because I do not seek My own will but the will of the Father who sent Me.

John 6:38 NKJV

For I have come down from heaven, not to do My own will, but the will of Him who sent Me.

John 17:4 NKJV

I have glorified You on the earth. I have finished the work which You have given Me to do.

Colossians 2:8 NKJV

Beware lest anyone cheat you through philosophy and empty deceit, according to the tradition of men, according to the basic principles of the world, and not according to Christ.

Colossians 2:10 NKJV

and you are complete in Him, who is the head of all principality and power.

Jesus came to do the Father’s will.

v11-18

Hebrews has contrasted the Old Covenant High Priest with Jesus Christ.

Psalm 110:1 NKJV

The Lord said to my Lord, “Sit at My right hand, Till I make Your enemies Your footstool.”

Christ is in the place of exaltation and victory. 

Hebrews 1:3 NKJV

who being the brightness of His glory and the express image of His person, and upholding all things by the word of His power, when He had by Himself purged our sins, sat down at the right hand of the Majesty on high,

Colossians 2:10 NKJV

and you are complete in Him, who is the head of all principality and power.

How do we know that we have this perfect standing before God?

Jeremiah 31:33–34 NKJV

But this is the covenant that I will make with the house of Israel after those days, says the Lord: I will put My law in their minds, and write it on their hearts; and I will be their God, and they shall be My people. No more shall every man teach his neighbor, and every man his brother, saying, ‘Know the Lord,’ for they all shall know Me, from the least of them to the greatest of them, says the Lord. For I will forgive their iniquity, and their sin I will remember no more.”

Hebrews 10:3–4 NKJV

But in those sacrifices there is a reminder of sins every year. For it is not possible that the blood of bulls and goats could take away sins.

ἄφεσις aphesis: pardon, remission, and absolution

Matthew 26:28 NKJV

For this is My blood of the new covenant, which is shed for many for the remission of sins.

v19-25

Tabernacle and it’s grounds – off limits to all but priests.

No one but the High Priest … and that only once a year.

Mark 15:38 NKJV

Then the veil of the temple was torn in two from top to bottom.

Hebrews 4:16 NKJV

Let us therefore come boldly to the throne of grace, that we may obtain mercy and find grace to help in time of need.

Hebrews 8:13 NKJV

In that He says, “A new covenant,” He has made the first obsolete. Now what is becoming obsolete and growing old is ready to vanish away.

Hebrews 7:25 NKJV

Therefore He is also able to save to the uttermost those who come to God through Him, since He always lives to make intercession for them.

Invitation to draw near.

Invitation of verse 23 to hold fast.

Hebrews 7:25 NKJV

Therefore He is also able to save to the uttermost those who come to God through Him, since He always lives to make intercession for them.

Hebrews 2:10 NKJV

For it was fitting for Him, for whom are all things and by whom are all things, in bringing many sons to glory, to make the captain of their salvation perfect through sufferings.

Hebrews 3:1 NKJV

Therefore, holy brethren, partakers of the heavenly calling, consider the Apostle and High Priest of our confession, Christ Jesus,

Hebrews 3:6 NKJV

but Christ as a Son over His own house, whose house we are if we hold fast the confidence and the rejoicing of the hope firm to the end.

Hebrews 9:28 NKJV

so Christ was offered once to bear the sins of many. To those who eagerly wait for Him He will appear a second time, apart from sin, for salvation.

Hebrews 13:14 NKJV

For here we have no continuing city, but we seek the one to come.

“So much the more as you see the Day approaching.”

A strong motive for continuing in the faith is the soon coming of Jesus Christ. 

2 Thessalonians 2:1 NKJV

Now, brethren, concerning the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ and our gathering together to Him, we ask you,

v26-31

Hebrews 2:1 NKJV

Therefore we must give the more earnest heed to the things we have heard, lest we drift away.

Hebrews 3:7–9 NKJV

Therefore, as the Holy Spirit says: “Today, if you will hear His voice, Do not harden your hearts as in the rebellion, In the day of trial in the wilderness, Where your fathers tested Me, tried Me, And saw My works forty years.

The letter’s original audience.

Not backsliders. 

1 Chronicles 21:13 NKJV

And David said to Gad, “I am in great distress. Please let me fall into the hand of the Lord, for His mercies are very great; but do not let me fall into the hand of man.”

v32-39

He moves to confirmation of their standing.

Their former boldness.

“The just shall live by faith.”

The quote is from Habakkuk 2:4.