The Church Series - Part Two - Hebrews 10
Writer Author Sylvia Huffnagle
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Heb: 10:14-16: For by one offering he hath perfected for ever them that are sanctified. 15: Whereof the Holy Ghost also is a witness to us: for after that he had said before, 16: This is the covenant that I will make with them after those days, saith the Lord, I will put my laws into their hearts, and in their minds will I write them;
(Who is perfected? Them that are sanctified--set apart for the Lord. How are they sanctified? God puts His laws in their heart. His laws--that‘s right--He has not done away with the law. He has done away the legal written code. God’s laws are in the hearts of true believers because they have repented of their ways and turned to Him for guidance. Their heart has been made right with Him and now He will be able to teach them how to live and give.)
17-20: And their sins and iniquities will I remember no more. 18: Now where remission of these is, there is no more offering for sin.19: Having therefore, brethren, boldness to enter into the holiest by the blood of Jesus, 20: By a new and living way, which he hath consecrated for us, through the veil, that is to say, his flesh;
(Those who meet the above criteria have been washed clean of all sin. They do not to keep on confessing their acts of rebellion and disobedience--they are gone. They can enter into God’s presence with boldness. This means they are welcome to go to God about any and everything that they are concerned about. The blood of Jesus has provided this new and living way to approach God. The new way is a Father/child relationship with the Almighty.)
21-23: And having an high priest over the house of God; 22: Let us draw near with a true heart in full assurance of faith, having our hearts sprinkled from an evil conscience, and our bodies washed with pure water. 23: Let us hold fast the profession of our faith without wavering; (for he is faithful that promised;)
(Our profession or confession is that Jesus is our Lord and Savior and our sin is washed away and we have a Father/child relationship with God. For this plan of God’s to draw us close to Him, we must exercise faith. That is; we must steadily believe and be conscious of these truths.)
24-27: And let us consider one another to provoke unto love and to good works: 25: Not forsaking the assembling of ourselves together, as the manner of some is; but exhorting one another: and so much the more, as ye see the day approaching. 26: For if we sin wilfully after that we have received the knowledge of the truth, there remaineth no more sacrifice for sins, 27: But a certain fearful looking for of judgment and fiery indignation, which shall devour the adversaries.
(I don’t care what you may have been taught about salvation, this is the way it is. One reason we are to assemble is to encourage one another to trust and obey God because it is written right here if we sin willfully after receiving the sacrifice that Jesus made for us, there is no alternative sacrifice that can separate us from sin. Jesus is the Way, the Truth, and the Life.
What I’m hearing in church these days is that it is none of our (the congregation’s) business who’s taking communion and how people dress, and so on. That is a far cry from this exhortation which tells us to care about each other’s position in the Lord. We are one body--how is it that it is none of the body’s business what the fingers do or the feet or whatever.)
Ezek: 13:5: Ye have not gone up into the gaps, neither made up the hedge for the house of Israel to stand in the battle in the day of the LORD.
© Sylvia Huffnagle
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