DISCOURSE: 2308 SEASONS OF PENITENCE RECOMMENDED Hebrews 10:3. _In those sacrifices there is a remembrance again made of sins every year_. IN the institutions of the Mosaic law, burthensome as they were, God consulted the best interests of his people. Repentance, faith, and obedience, were inculcat... [ Continue Reading ]
DISCOURSE: 2309 CHRIST SUPERSEDING THE LEGAL SACRIFICES Hebrews 10:5. _When he cometh into the world, he saith, Sacrifice and offering thou wouldest not, but a body hast thou prepared me: in burnt-offerings and sacrifices for sin thou hast had no pleasure. Then said I, Lo, I come (in the volume of... [ Continue Reading ]
DISCOURSE: 2310 THE PERFECTION OF CHRIST’S SACRIFICE Hebrews 10:14. _By one offering he hath perfected for ever them that are sanctified. Whereof the Holy Ghost also is a witness to us: for after that he had said before, This is the covenant that I will make with them after those days, saith the Lo... [ Continue Reading ]
DISCOURSE: 2311 THE WAY OF ACCESS TO GOD THROUGH THE VAIL Hebrews 10:19. _Having therefore, brethren, boldness to enter into the holiest by the blood of Jesus, by a new and living way, which he hath consecrated for us, through the vail, that is to say, his flesh; and having an High-priest over the... [ Continue Reading ]
DISCOURSE: 2312 STEADFASTNESS AND ACTIVITY IN GOD’S SERVICE INCULCATED Hebrews 10:23. _Let us hold fast the profession of our faith without wavering; (for he is faithful that promised;) and let us consider one another to provoke unto love and to good works: not forsaking the assembling of ourselves... [ Continue Reading ]
DISCOURSE: 2313 THE EVIL AND DANGER OF APOSTASY Hebrews 10:26. _If we sin wilfully after that we have received the knowledge of the truth, there remaineth no more sacrifice for sins, but a certain fearful looking for of judgment and fiery indignation, which shall devour the adversaries. He that des... [ Continue Reading ]
DISCOURSE: 2314 THE BENEFIT OF PAST EXPERIENCE Hebrews 10:32. _Call to remembrance the former days_. TO take a retrospect of our past lives, is the duty of every child of man. Without a frequent revision of the past, no man can repent, no man believe, no man be saved. We must be sensible of our gui... [ Continue Reading ]
DISCOURSE: 2315 PATIENT FORTITUDE REQUIRED Hebrews 10:35. _Cast not away therefore your confidence, which hath great recompence of reward. For ye have need of patience, that, after ye have done the will of God, ye might receive the promise_. THERE have been, to the Church of Christ, seasons of bitt... [ Continue Reading ]
DISCOURSE: 2316 THE TRUE MEANS OF PERSEVERING TO THE END Hebrews 10:38. _Now the just shall live by faith: but if any man draw back, my soul shall have no pleasure in him. But we are not of them who draw back unto perdition; but of them that believe to the saving of the soul_. TRIALS are the portio... [ Continue Reading ]