kjv@Hebrews:10:1@ For the [Law] having a [Shadow] of good things to come, and not the very image of the things, can never with those sacrifices which they offered [Year][By][Year] continually make the comers thereunto perfect.
kjv@Hebrews:10:2@ For then would they not have ceased to be offered? because that the worshippers once purged should have had [No] more [Conscience] of sins.
kjv@Hebrews:10:3@ But in those sacrifices there is a remembrance again made of sins every [Year].
kjv@Hebrews:10:4@ For it is not possible that the [Blood] of bulls and of goats should take away sins.
kjv@Hebrews:10:5@ Wherefore when he cometh into the world, he saith, [Sacrifice] and [Offering] thou wouldest not, but a body hast thou prepared me:
kjv@Hebrews:10:16@ 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;
kjv@Hebrews:10:24@ And let us consider one another to provoke unto [Love] and to good works:
kjv@Hebrews:10:25@ 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.
kjv@Hebrews:10:29@ Of how much sorer [Punishment], suppose ye, shall he be thought worthy, who hath trodden under foot the [Son] of [God], and hath counted the [Blood] of the [Covenant], wherewith he was sanctified, an unholy thing, and hath done despite unto the [Spirit] of [Grace]?
kjv@Hebrews:10:30@ For we know him that hath said, Vengeance belongeth unto me, I will recompense, saith the [Lord]. And again, The [Lord] shall [Judge] his people.
kjv@Hebrews:10:33@ Partly, whilst ye were made a gazingstock both [By] reproaches and [Afflictions]; and partly, whilst ye became companions of them that were [So] used.
kjv@Hebrews:10:34@ For ye had compassion of me in my bonds, and took joyfully the spoiling of your goods, knowing in yourselves that ye have in [Heaven] a better and an enduring substance.
kjv@Hebrews:10:35@ Cast not away therefore your confidence, which hath great recompence of reward.
kjv@Hebrews:10:36@ For ye have need of patience, that, after ye have done the will of [God], ye might receive the promise.
kjv@Hebrews:10:37@ For yet a little while, and he that shall come will come, and will not tarry.
kjv@Hebrews:10:38@ Now the just shall live [By] faith: but if any [Man] draw back, my soul shall have [No] pleasure in him.
kjv@Hebrews:10:39@ But we are not of them who draw back unto perdition; but of them that believe to the saving of the soul.
Nowadays, minus the temple, there is no way for Jews to perform their sacrifices. I am sure that they have used some of these same scriptural quotes to justify their position, that the sacrifices weren't really needed in the first place. The problem for them still would be that there is no remission of sins without the sprinkling of blood. The Christian followers have not ceased from the sprinkling of blood, it is that the blood now is the blood of God's chosen one, the sacrifice He Himself provided as with Abraham, Jesus Christ. His sacrifice is once and for all and complete.
There are times in all Christians lives where they miss the mark, where they become drowsy or sloppy or unfruitful even counter productive. There are times even when we shake our fist and blame God (as in the death of our young child). We have all encountered times when we wondered if this draw back passage wasn't written for us. Self condemnation can be a tremendously discouraging thing. I would imagine however, if it is still in your heart to get back to the things of God, if there is still the will to repent and rejoin the body in fully restored standing, if the love of God is still wanted and sought after, then you definitely have not crossed this final point yet. This is written for the man where there is none of crushing sorrow, confussion and desire that remains, he has completely given himself over to his own condemnation, forever sealed in the hardness of his own heart.
So this is where Paul twice and the author of Hebrews once get "the just shall live by faith". Now we have the original context. Given our tendency to box God into the corners of what we think He should and should not be doing, given our blindness to everything except what is immediately before us, given our own personal track record and what we ourselves are being chastised over, we if seeking through this to become just should live by faith. kjv@Romans:1:17kjv@Galatians:3:11kjv@Hebrews:10:38
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