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Go on with Hebrews 2, Brother Smith.
Although him, we just been singing certainly was I just that way?
Come from verse 9.
But we see Jesus.
Who has made a little?
That he, by the grace of God, should taste death for every man.
Where it became him, For whom are all things, and by whom are all things, in bringing many sons unto glory to make the captain of their salvation perfect through suffering.
For both he that sanctified, and they who are sanctified, are all of one, for which 'cause he is not ashamed to call them brethren.
Saying, I will declare thy name unto my brethren, in the midst of the church will I sing praise unto thee, and again I will put my trust in him and again.
Behold I and the children which God has given me.
For as much then as the children are partakers of flesh and blood, he also himself likewise took part of the same that through death he might destroy or annull him that had the power of death, That is the devil.
And deliver them who through fear of death.
Where all their lifetimes subject to *******.
For verily he took not on him the nature of angels, but he took on him the seed of Abraham.
Wherefore, in all things that behoove him to be made like unto his brethren, that he might be a merciful and faithful high priest in things pertaining to God.
To make reconciliation for the sins of the people.
For inner he himself hath suffered being tempted, he is able to succor them that are tempted.
This first expression that we have in this verse but we see Jesus.
Reminded me of what we have in John 12.
When I came to Phillips, the Greeks, and said Sir, we would see Jesus.
Well, beloved Saints of God is a challenge to my heart, and I hope it will be to yours. Is that true of us? Do we really desire to see Jesus today?
Or do we wish to accomplish something before he comes? Would be rather he delays coming a little while. So I believe that that's a challenge there, but not only so the Lord's reply did not seem like an answer to their decide request.
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To see Jesus, well, he immediately speaks of his death to them. I suppose the Lord was reminding them that the only way they could really see Jesus as through his death and resurrection as a living man, the glory. So here we find the Greeks said they we would see Jesus. And again I asked, beloved, are we really in that attitude of soul that we would like to see him right now?
Well then, in our verse we get, Paul says. But we see him.
How did Paul see him? By faint as the risen man glorified the Father's right hands. Then John speaks up in first Epistle and the third chapter.
And the end of verse two, he says, we shall be like in four We shall see him, we shall see him.
How precious the Lord is that we shall see him, Paul says we do see him now by faith, as a glorified man. But John says we shall see him. And again he says in the Revelation, And they shall see his face, how precious that is. And his name shall be in their foreheads. Perfect resemblance, that blessed man. If I may repeat this story, I think Brother Barry heard it at at.
Kentucky. But he won't forgive me, I hope.
About this beautiful thought we have in Revelation 22. Four his name shall be in their foreheads. My wife and I were traveling on a coastal steamer and the North Coast of China, and they were carrying a cargo of sheep. Not very nice companions, but nevertheless I suppose it would be quite 100 sheep on board. And this Chinese man had bought them. He paid for them. They were his.
Nobody gets very well. Come on board and say, well, that cheap is mine. Why, oh you save it. They could do that. Surely they could pick one out and say that ones mine. So this farmer, Chinese farmer, he had his name printed on each forehead of every sheet. The Chinese characterized on the forehead. There's no disputing it now. Nobody had come on board and say, well, now that's mine, he said. Look at the forehead.
My name there, Well, beloved, to think that you and I are going to have his name.
In our foreheads. And so with the Greek said we would see Jesus. Paul says we do see him. John says we shall see him. What a cheer to our hearts. And if you'll pardon me for going on just a little longer. I was thinking about this chapter, although it presents to us in this wonderful verse here a glorified Christ, one who is very much alive, one who would say I am he that liveth and was dead. But behold, I'm alive again on that forevermore.
And so we have this chapter sometimes called the Death Chapter, yet it speaks of one who's glorified father, sorry, hand alive. Why is it called the Death chapter? Because we have here in verse 15.
Speak to those who are in fear of death.
Speaks of the power of death, Speaks of the taste and suffering of death. Well, I suppose the fear of death was ours, the power of death of the devils, and the face and suffering of death of Christ.
He tasted death did enough, and all its bitterness of seeing so we have here, although it represents Christ in the glory, yet it's sometimes called the death chapter because of this.
So you have the fear of death is ours, the power of death of Satan.
And the suffering of death was Christ, and that was for our sakes.
Would you say, Brother Gladding, that there are several reasons in this chapter why Jesus died?
Well, the first reason I'd leave would be the glory of God, would it not?
He, by the grace of God, takes his death for every man. No one ever died in that way. We die because of sin.
Our one man sin entered into the world, and death by sin. So death passed upon all men in that all of sins. So the only one who died by the grace of God was the Son of God himself. He had no sin.
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Death had no claim on ever upon him, whatever He could have gone right from Gethsemane to to glory. But in order that his grace might reach your poor needy soul and mine, he went into death for us. He laid down his life, for he said, I have power to lay it down, I have power to take it again and.
Again, to show that there was never an independent act in his whole life.
That this commandment have I received of my father.
Could we say through the medium of that he destroyed him who had the power of death?
Yes, we could just mention that.
His death here.
Uh, making a taunt list. We've got a 3D suggested in the.
Ninth verse and also in the 17th verse where he makes reconciliation. It's on the basis of atonement.
That's really.
The basis of all the blessings. But he died also to fulfill the counsels of God. We get that more possibly in the.
Earlier verse we had.
Previously.
In the 7th and 8th verses, all the councils of God were to be fulfilled in a man.
But he had to restore that which he took not away first. We get that in the 69th sum. I think it is. He had to restore. He had to bring back again.
The ruin that Satan had brought in, and man, but also.
As was just suggested later in the chapter.
There were those who, through their all their lifetime, were subject to fear.
Subject bombing, The fear of death.
So it says.
He had through death he might.
14 Verse four As much then as the children are partakers of flesh and blood, he also himself likewise took part of the same that through death he might destroy him that had the power of death, that is the devil. But also deliver them who were who through fear of death, were all their lifetime suffered to *******.
Well, that would be the third reason and then the fourth reason would really take us into the subject of the epistle or that is he is taking that office as priest and.
It's seen here in the full character of Priest, the High Priest, that is, he makes atonement but also.
He is able to sucker those that are tempted.
And that's because of our present infirmities. And then it leads on, of course, to his Melchizedek Priesthood. We get that later in the in the book. But I'm just thinking of this expression in this ninth verse. But we see Jesus. I believe in this portion, these verses we're reading now, the Spirit of God is bringing before us the man Christ Jesus and his work. Now we've had his person in the first chapter particularly.
The glory of his person as the Son of God, God himself, and as the Creator. And there we see the foundation of all our blessings. If the Jew was to rest now his soul upon the revelation that God has given, he wants to know the foundation. Well. The foundation is the man Christ Jesus, but the one who carries all of these glory.
Personal glory. There are two portions in the word of God that give us these glories, particularly, and that's the first chapter of John, as well as this first chapter of Hebrews. Possibly others too, but I mean they stand out, particularly giving us the personal glories of the Lord Jesus, however.
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In this ninth verse, but we see Jesus.
When you get to the end of the epistle.
It matters not how much the person is brought before us as to his official glories, or the fact that he is the Son of man.
And all of this still at the end of the book we still have Jesus, and that was the one who was made known to men personally. And so I believe in the book of Hebrews, although you and I may enjoy the truth, that we are gathered to His precious name from one body.
We may enjoy the fact that we're going to reign with him and all these things.
What we particularly have before us in this epistle is simply the fact that we belong to him as his companions, and this everyone here who is a Christian can enjoy this morning, regardless of whether there's any further truth known about him. He has made us his companions. We find that in the first chapter. We find it also. Here we're his companion.
We're going through a waste, howling wilderness.
And we find in the 13th chapter that Jesus Christ is the same yesterday.
Today and forever, I believe the spirit would bring before us in these verses the person himself who would attach us to himself in this way is his companions.
Wouldn't you say, Brother Lundy, that in speaking about these different views of the sufferings of Christ, they are two distinct fuels of those sufferings?
That is, there is the atoning sufferings and that you get at the end of the 17th 1St to make reconciliation for the sins of the people.
Now that required his being forsaken on the cross, where he bore our sins, as Peter tells us in his own body on the tree. Then there were sufferings during the whole lifetime of the Lord Jesus.
In order to fit him for a special service that he is carrying on now in behalf of his people, so you'll find in the.
The 10th verse Or it became him for whom are all things and by whom are all things, in bringing many sons and glory.
To make the captain of their salvation perfect through suffering.
Floral Well, during the large lifetime down here, the trials that he passed through, the rejection by his own people, Israel.
And the way the Lord entered into the sorrows of even those that He healed when He was here, all that during his lifetime, was fitting the Lord for a special service.
That he is carrying on now and leading the many sons on the glory.
And they have noticed this too.
And the beginning of that tenth verse four it became him for whom are All things? And Bible.
Are all things, it would seem, that the Spirit of God?
Has sold zealous to present to us the wonders and the glories, and the majesty of the person of Christ.
That every opportunity possible is seized to exult that person before us when it's a matter of his atonement.
As we get in the first chapter, we get King the brightness of his glory and expressed image of his person, and upholding all things by the word of his power. What majesties, What sending glories? And then what do you get when he by himself at me Purgation for our seniors, That glorious one who is, is the one who purged away our sins.
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And now when it's the subject of his leading the many sons to glory, were reminded of as glory in connection with His rights, His position, his being the Creator, for it said for by Him are all things.
Or over all things. And by whom are all things this one who is leading us to to the glory.
Is the one who is the creator, and in host hand the Father has placed all things, and we need to continually have before us beloved this that, this one.
That is all gloriously and so wonderfully being brought before us became one of our own rights, but always set apart.
The perfect man, the Holy Christ of God.
Is the One the Spirit of God a real man, and now a man in the glory of God?
I suppose that's why the New Testament begins with this blessed person, the first verse of Matthew 1, Jesus Christ.
The last chapter of the Revelation that finishes with Jesus Christ. So as you say, the Spirit of God will definitely bring the forest and blessed persons.
I was thinking of that phrase We see Jesus.
And her brother Gladding was bringing before us the different times that we see Jesus. But I was thinking about the present in which we have the privilege of seeing Jesus by faith.
I know that in these last days.
The enemy is busy seeking to distract the Saints of God.
And one way he does it is by.
Bringing in troubles, difficulties into the assembly.
Getting us occupied with these sad experiences.
And it becomes a way of detracting us from Christ.
And even as we're sitting in the meeting many times, even in the breaking of prayers.
And seeking to be occupied with Christ, His suffering is death. We find our minds wandering away, getting occupied with these things.
And then again, there may be business problems and difficulties and we get distracted by them. Now I'm sure that God allows many difficulties and trials in our lives.
That's one side of it, but I believe the enemy of our souls and the enemy of Christ.
Seek seeks to capitalize on these things and uses them to distract us to get us away from seeing Jesus.
All how we need to cry to God for grace, that we might keep our eye fixed upon the Lord Jesus, because what else is there for us in this scene just before he comes? What is there that will satisfy us and make us happy and give us peace for just that, to see Jesus?
In connection with that, I'd like to mention another practical thing that might be helpful.
How are we going to see Jesus today down here with these eyes which we have in our heads?
2 verses one in Acts 9 where Saul was stricken down. Maybe we don't need to turn to it, but we all remember, perhaps, that he said, Who art thou, Lord? And the answer from heaven says I am Jesus, whom thou persecuted. Now Paul was persecuting the Saints of God, and then through him writing to the Corinthians, the Spirit of God says.
In the third chapter of Second Corinthians.
Where he was addressing the Saints at Corinth and in Achilla you are manifestly declared to be the epistles of Christ, and we can read an epistle with our eyes. And it's in the Saints of God that now we are going to see Jesus. And the very language you're manifestly declared to be suggest that sometimes it might not be easy to see Christ in our brethren.
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So we ought to try to read very earnestly and see Christ in our brethren.
There are only two occasions when the Lord calls himself Jesus. Of them one our brother just mentioned and connects with Saul.
Someone said, oh out there, Lord, he said, I am Jesus, whom thou persecuted.
Well, the response was saw was then. Well Jesus, what will you have me to do now? It was Lord, Lord welcome to have me to do. And then we get the same thought. In the last chapter of the Revelation the Lord says, I Jesus have sent mine Angel to testify these things. I am the root and offspring of David the Brighton morning star. So there are only two occasions where the Lord calls himself Jesus.
But the response in both on both occasions were connected with Saul. Lord, he didn't call him Jesus, he called him Lord. And in the last chapter of the Revelation even though come Lord Jesus. So I think it's nice to see the response from the heart addressing him as Lord although he calls himself Jesus, yet he is Lord too, besides their own massage.
In the first chapter of Hebrews we have the Lord Jesus addressed as thy throne, O God is forever and ever, and the glory of his person, as God is brought before us. But that blessed One, who is God, has become a man. And we sing in the little hymn how wondrous the glories that meet in Jesus, and from his face shine. His love is eternal and sweet, His human tis also divine.
And there are those who would set aside the Godhead glory of the Lord Jesus. There were those who would deny his spotless, perfect humanity. And both are so carefully guarded in the word of God. And I believe it's important that we should see them brought before us in this epistle. For these are days in which the truth is being attacked. But as to the Lord Jesus becoming a man, there are two particular reasons given for us.
God, as God could not die, so God became a man in the person of Christ, and as man, as we're told in this second chapter, he was made a little lower than the angels for the suffering of death. The Lord Jesus felt perfectly and fully all that it meant to his holy soul to be forsaken of God and to bear the wrath and judgment of God. And I believe we could say, brethren, that this expression, the suffering of death.
It's not just the physical death. The Lord Jesus had exhausted the judgment when he passed through that which could be spoken of his physical death. But the suffering of death, I believe, refers to what he endured in atonement, in those hours of darkness when he bore the wrath and judgment of God. It cannot be disconnected, of course, with his going into physical death, but I believe it's important to see.
And that the Lord Jesus exhausted that suffering that was due to sin, the suffering of death, and he did that as a man that was necessary, that he should become a man and go through that in order that he might bear the judgment of God against sin.
But then there is also another reason given to us. As if we have often remarked, He could have come down from heaven and accomplished that work necessary for our salvation, and gone right back to heaven. All that was necessary for the settling of the question of sin was upon the cross in those hours of darkness His bearing the judgment of God. But why did he live for 33 1/2 years?
Well, we have another reason why he became a man, and that is set before us too, that he might be a merciful and faithful high priest, and as our little opening hymn put it all the path the Saints are treading, trodden by the Son of God.
And so we not only look adoringly and see him exhausting the judgment, but all. How lovely, brethren, There isn't a situation that we pass through in our lives that the Lord hasn't gone through it before us.
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He suffered here never, never the results of sinning himself but for us. But he suffered physically. He suffered the forsaking of his friends. He suffered misunderstanding. He suffered hunger, thirst, and weariness in everything apart from sin. He was tempted like unto us and every stage of life. I think it's most beautiful, although the curtain of silence is drawn by the Spirit of God.
Over the youth of his pathway, we see him as a child. We see him growing up. We see him as a man passing through everything. And there's not one of us, whether a child here or a young person or a one who has grown to maturity, who can't say He understands he's been through the pathway before. And that's why he's brought before us in this chapter as the perfect man, in order that he might not only settle the question of our sins.
But enter into just what we're passing through everyone of us in our pathway, whether it's in our homes, in the assembly and business, whatever it is, there's one who's been through it. And so he's now there, crowned with glory and honor. He's perfect God, but brother, he's perfect man at God's right hand, too. There's a man in the glory, that one who's interceding for us remains a man in order that he might.
Enter into all that we pass through and that we can look up and say.
And there's a man in the glory. I see Jesus as as Steven said, I see the glory of God and Jesus standing at the right hand of God. Well this ought to encourage our hearts. But I also just comment in the end of this ninth verse. It says he tasted death for every man. The other translation as he tasted death for everything because the whole of the Lord creation has suffered as the results of Adam's sins.
Creation fell, and the whole creation has been subjected to the results of Adam's fall. But in the millennial age that it's speaking out in this chapter, and the whole creation is going to share in the exaltation of that one, and the lion will lie down with the lamb. They shall not hurt nor destroy in all my holy mountain and when the Lord as man takes His place at the head.
The new creation not only will redeem men be brought into blessing and association with him.
But all wonder of wonders, the whole creation will smile. The trees of the field will clap their hands.
The desert will blossom as the Rose. Oh, how far reaching, how blessed the results of that one. But when we speak of them, let us remember the glories of his person, that he is perfect God and perfect man. Much error has come in by either falling into the one extreme or the other.
Are trying to separate, And I read a terrible statement of a man saying that God as the Lord Jesus was God, and as God he couldn't sin, but as man he could sin. What a terrible thing the Spirit of God is carefully guarding in these passages His glory as God, but his glory as man too. And while he was man, he was God at the same time in the fullest absolute sense of the word in him What?
Us all the fullness of the Godhead bodily.
I was thinking that it might be helpful to understand how the Lord could be made perfect and yet He was always perfect as the Son of God, as the Holy One who knew no sin. And yet we are told in this tenth verse.
The captain of their salvation, perfect through suffering.
And then if you return to the fifth chapter.
Of this same epistle.
We ran down the seventh verse, who in the days of his flesh, when he had offered up prayers and supplication, with strong crying and tears unto him, that was able to save him, read out of death, and was heard in that he feared.
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For though he were a son, yet he learned obedience by the things which he suffered. And being made perfect, he became the author of eternal salvation. Unto all them that obey him now perfect there is only in the sense.
Of the Lord being qualified and prepared for this special service, of leading the many sons unto glory, He was a real man. And as our brother has so beautifully brought before us about all that the Lord passed through in connection with his sympathy with.
A poor, sinful man.
And indeed, in a special way with his own it has prepared him and all beloved. May we stop and think of that, prepared him to serve you and me in a very important way in connection with our wilderness journey. And I would say this too, calling attention to the Scripture, that he has been made perfect.
Through suffering, that is, we have him looked at in this tenth verse.
As the captain of their salvation. In a way, Joshua.
Is a foreshadowing or the type of the Lord?
The Moses brought them out of Egypt, but Joshua LED them into the Promised Land. He went all the wilderness journey through with Israel and then LED them into the promised Land. He was the captain of their salvation in that sense, of course.
World only. But now we have the captain of our salvation leading us not into a rest down here, but into that rest where the blessed Lord Himself has gone before and where he is now crowned with glory and honor. And he's been made perfect for that service, you know, in the great.
Victories in History of the Nations where some.
Outstanding victory was won. It was always in connection with the leadership of some great general, but you know, some of the greatest generals that ever lived finally went down in defeat, like Napoleon at Waterloo. But isn't that encouraging, Beloved, to think that our leader, the captain of our salvation, is perfect never has made a mistake.
And so that are reaching the glory where Christ is waiting is just as sure as though we're already there. We just need, again, as it has been pointed out, to keep our eye on Him so that we will not fail along the way or dishonor him in any way. And when we do fail, beloved, oh may we get before him as soon as possible.
Humble ourselves in His presence, confess our failure and whatever it is that has broken our communion and get restored in our souls. Now I know that the subject I just mentioned is not the subject of the book of Hebrews.
That's where we get the advocacy of Christ, restoring those that are out of the way.
In Hebrews, it's his high priesthood to keep us from falling.
So that we should begin the day by going to him as our high priest and looking to him for grace that we might not in any way to dishonor him, crying to him for his protecting love over us and care over us. When we do fail, then we need the advocacy of Christ to get restored in our souls.
But I just wanted to call out the call a special attention to how he could be perfect and yet he was always perfect.
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Jannier in connection with this verse that was referred to in the 5th chapter.
It says eternal salvation.
That is the ninth verse.
And may I just ask the question?
There might be someone here this morning that would like to know how they could avail themselves of this salvation. We we speak of it as those who have it and enjoy it. But there may be someone here who does not know how they might obtain this salvation.
And the ground upon which their souls can rest. And perhaps someone might help us in this.
Well, the Lord Jesus only has one kind of salvation for us, and that's eternal salvation.
In this there is not only the work of putting away our sins, but it's the priesthood of Christ that carries us through, as we have in Peter. If the righteous scarcely or with difficulty be saved, where shall the ungodly in the center appear? So when the Lord Jesus picked us up in His grace, we were saved, our souls were saved, and he has promised never to let us go. But the wilderness journey is still ahead.
How did Israel get through the wilderness? Was it because of the keeping of the law? No, it was because of the priesthood. That was the only thing that carried them through. And so the one who has died for us lives for us, and as the captain of our salvation, he's caring for us and bringing us through. And as our brother remarked, a low advocacy is not mentioned in Hebrews. In a sense it is implied. It's not really the subject because.
The perfection of the work of Christ and His one glorious work that has perfected forever them that are sanctified, is set before us. And so nothing can alter the standing of the believer because of that glorious work, but his present work for us is going to carry us through.
So he is the author of Eternal Salvation. Perhaps just a little comment too.
Unto all them that obey him. It's not looked upon here as a conditional thing. That is, obedience is sometimes spoken of in the Scripture as the obedience of faith, and the gospel is presented to the Sinner making a command to him. God now commandeth all men everywhere to repent. He's looked upon a disobedient. If he refuses that command when he vows to it, He has looked upon as.
Yielding the obedience of faith. It says it's made known to all nations for the obedience of faith. I say that because it could be thought that it depended on our our whether we're obedient and we'll be brought through. Now it all depends upon him and our bowing to that one. As Joshua took off his shoes and bowed to the captain who was going to bring them into the possession of the land, so we too take that place.
We acknowledge Him as the author of eternal salvation. We bow before Him. We own his claims. We know He accomplished redemption for us. We know He's going to carry us through, and we don't depend on ourselves but upon Him.
Just tell your brother Hale what your father wants said. Perhaps I asked the question. Someone asked the question as to why it is said the only place that you find the Lord in tears in Gethsemane.
Is in this 5th chapter of Hebrews who in the seventh verse, who in the days of his place when he had offered up prayers and supplication with strong crying and tears. Oh, doesn't that touch your heart and mind? Strong cry? That's Gethsemane. And he reply was that it's because in Hebrews you get the priesthood of Christ.
And it has to do.
With the tenderness.
The sorrows of the Lord.
God was preparing him. If we get in, look at here, sweat, great drops of blood, falling down to the ground and being in an agony, prayed more earnestly. But it's lovely that here, where his priesthood is brought before us, we have where we that what we'll find in no other place.
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Those tears of the Son of God. Oh, touching both. That is for our poor heart to think that it's not only tears but it's strong crying. And we're hearing Brother Brown say one time that if you could have been near the.
Garden of Gethsemane that night, he said. You would have heard the Lord actually sobbing. Wasn't just a cry, but all the agony of soul that he was passing through there.
And Satan.
The Prince of this world pressing that cup before him, what it would mean for him to go to the cross, and yet oh how he yielded to the father's will, when he said, not my will, but thine be done.
Beloved does knockout endear his heart to your heart and mind.
And to think we have such a priest now.
Watching over us, Excuse me brother, I was just going to add with what you said that connection with the priesthood. In the 8th chapter it says in the.
Third verse for every high priest.
Is ordained to offer gifts and sacrifices. Wherefore it is of necessity that this man have somewhat also to offer.
The previous chapter in the 27th verse in the last part of the verse.
For this he did once, when he offered up himself.
Now for one who's inquiring as to salvation.
We find here in Hebrews that there is one who is a priest and the sacrifice all at once, and that there is no other sacrifice that God can accept.
Then that sacrifice that he himself has provided. So if you are inquiring after salvation this morning, remember that the Spirit of God is bringing before us here the one who went to Calvary's cross.
So that he might make atonement in order to bring you into relationship with God. I know the book of Hebrews goes on to show how we might be maintained as worshippers, but it also shows us that he has He has perfected forever them that are sanctified and that work was done by himself on Calvary's cross, so that you can rest entirely on this work.
The perfection of his person in the first chapter and the perfection of his work in this second chapter, that he has made reconciliation, so that as a result of that work, faith believing you have been reconciled to God. What a wonderful salvation. And this is eternal salvation.
Here too is it not to notice that in chapter 2 it says but we see Jesus, And then in chapter 12, looking steadfastly, the new translation looking steadfastly on Jesus. It would seem almost that as the glories have been yet further unfolded, any epistle, that wonderful appeal at the end seems so very, very challenging. To our hearts we see Jesus. That's wonderful.
But looking steadfastly on Jesus? When I read those words, I find myself thinking of the poor woman who was bowed over with infirmity and could in no wise lift herself up. When you picture someone like that, you think of someone with a very, very limited horizon. If you've ever met anyone like that, you realize how difficult it is for them even to straighten up enough to greet you and to look you in the face.
But the Lord saw the condition of that poor woman, and He saw mine too, and yours with our bowed over conditions.
All that we could ever see was a pitiful, limited horizon that was around us here and the Lord touched her and I love to think of that. She was immediately straightened up and looked without effort into the face of the Lord Jesus. What a wonderful thing. Well now if we'd met that same poor woman a week later and had seen her Bob overlooking down again, we think what a strange thing this is after she has received that touch and she's been able to look up into the face of the Lord Jesus.
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What would she ever want to bow down again for? But I'm afraid that's what we've done. The Lord Jesus has touched us and turned our eyes away from those things that could never, never, never satisfy us. He's turned our eyes upon himself, and we've just been reminded of what a wonderful privilege it is to be able to look under Jesus, to see Jesus, and to be reminded.
Of what he went through in order that he might not only be our Redeemer, but the one who occupies that place on our behalf, now in the glory. And to think that the Word of God would tell us, looking steadfastly on Jesus, oh, may we never never be found bowed down again.
To look at the poor things that are only going to fade away and be turned to dust and ashes, but to look upward as that poor woman did, whom the Lord types, I think it might be well, because they are always, I think, unsaved in a audience like this.
To remember this.
That if you were touched last night by the solemnity of the gospel.
To think of that endless duration cast into the lake of fire, has troubled or exercised your soul in any way to remember that if you come to Christ.
As a poor, helpless, lost hell deserving center, the salvation you will receive will be an eternal salvation.
His lovely thoughts are Brother Hale brought out about that. But get full of that first of all principles that to receive Christ.
In much simplicity, just a child's acceptance of the Savior who died on the cross for sinners.
You instantly have that eternal salvation that you can never, never lose.
Sacrifice is just mentioned. I'm thinking the contrast we have in First Kings 18.
And verses 3738.
Where Elijah said, Hear me, O Lord, hear me that these people may know that thou art the Lord God, and that thou hast turned their heart back again. Then the fire of the Lord fell and consumed the burnt sacrifice, and the wood and the stones and the dust, and licked up the water that was in the trench. And when all the people saw it, they fell on their faces.
And said, the Lord he is the God, the Lord he is the God.
Find the fire consumed the sacrifice. But a Calvary, beloved, the sacrifice consumed the fire that blessed one who gave himself as the perfect sacrifice to God for sin. He consumed all the fire of God's judgment on the cross of Calvary, in order that you and I might be eternally saved, that we might know the joy of eternal redemption.
I was calling to think of that Blessed One was consuming the fire. The fire didn't consume him. He consumed the fire of God's Gujarat forest on the cross for God's glory and for our eternal salvation. I believe there's one more thought. We should not omit him considering this tenth verse and that is that he is leading many sons under glory. Well, it was true.
In the days of the apostles.
That the Lord had many sons then, and it's true today.
And let's not narrow our thoughts to a little company that we're connected with. The Lord knows them that are His, and He has those scattered over the world who have accepted the Savior. And we should remember that the same one that we're looking to ourselves this morning here in Toledo is the same one that's leading.
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God's Son's scattered over the world to that glory.
And his work will be perfect until he has every redeemed one saved and with himself in the Father's house.
Verse 11 If we may pass on, for both he that sanctifies and they who are sanctified are all of one.
For which 'cause he is not ashamed to call them brethren?
Could we say that oneness is spoken of in the scripture in three different ways? In John 17 it's rather oneness in the family. That is, since we have been born into the family of God, we are children of God by faith in Christ Jesus. And so in that sense there is one family, 1 flock, 1 shepherd. But then there is another and that is oneness in the body of Christ and it's by 1 Spirit we are all baptized into one body.
Whether we be Jews or Gentiles, as children we look up and call God our Father.
But as one in the body of Christ, we are members one of another, with Christ the head in glory. And as our brother just remarked, this includes everyone who has received Christ and is indwelled by the Spirit of God. They're part of the Church. Gathering together according to His word. We give expression to the truth that there is one body, but it doesn't mean that only those who are so gathered are part of that body.
Everyone who has been indwelled by the Spirit of God has been united. And in that sense we're we're one, we're one in Christ, in the body of Christ. But I believe there's still a third thought here, and that is one in kind. That is, he's not ashamed to call us brethren. The Lord Jesus didn't take upon him the nature of angels. He took upon him the seed of Abraham. And so we are men here and women, and he, the Lord Jesus, is up there at God's right hand, and he's a real man.
And so the one whom we talked to, the one whom we see, the one whom we expect to be with, is a real man. And as a man he is going to lead the singing. So what a wonderful thing We're one in the family of God is children. Knowing God is our Father, we're one united to one another and to Christ the head as members of his body. And also we're one in kind of that in that glory we will be.
Like him?
And that is, we'll have bodies of glory fashioned like unto his own glorious body. And that's the meaning, I believe here, of calling us Brethren. He didn't call angels brethren. He called redeemed men brethren. And so this verse springs this before us. He set us apart.
From a world that's under judgment, no longer part of the fallen race of humanity, but sanctified means set apart and set apart to be associated with him under the headship of the second man and last Adam, the Lord Jesus.
Although he's not ashamed to call his brethren, I believe it's important to realize and remember it's not right for us to call him our elder brother.
We sometimes hear that which is a very, very sad mistake and dishonouring to him.
To address him as our elder brother. Although he's not ashamed to call out his brethren, we should never address him in that way, should we? No. There. An older brother I heard make this remark years ago that while the Lord delights in in intimacy, the Lord does not countenance familiarity, and there's just that difference to call him.
An elder brother would be familiarity.
So that we need to avoid anything which in any way would bring down the.
Florists and the place that the Blessed Lord occupies. And you'll notice that right in this verse here where the sanctified ones. But he's the sanctifier. And in the first chapter we find in the in the ninth verse.
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Middle of the verse. Therefore God, even thy God, hath anointed thee with the oil of gladness.
Above thy fellows, although he may identify himself with us as one of the fellows of this glorious company, but he's above them. God's Holy Spirit is very, very jealous as to the position, the honors that belong to his beloved Son.
He might have the preeminence.
Is that the reason I would like to ask of this expression of one?
We have a lovely picture of the chaos. He wanted to see Jesus. He climbed in a tree well, but the Lord wasn't satisfied with that, just him seeing him.
Oh, no, never, he says. Come down. Are you going to die, House? Have a good look at me. Of course. I Killed Was too happy to do that. He was surprised.
When he got through his house he wanted to see Jesus, but when he got to the house he says Lord, He says Lord, I'm going to give the 4th no, I'm going to give half of my goods to the poor and my children and water. I will restore 4 fold. You obey the word of God. Now that was the law. He's supposed to do that. He did it. He was going to do it. The Lord says, ah, he's the son of Abraham.
He's a son of Abraham, but he called him Lord.
We have that brought in this chapter. I believe that children.
Are the seed of Abraham. It's really the seed of faith, is it not, that is brought in, but in that expression that we have in this verse.
The 11Th verse of one would would it not seem to guard?
This glory of his person, that is, he has identified himself with man's race, but there's still a distinction, and there are still the thousand faces as we have at the crossing of the Jordan. There's always a distance there that the spirit of God guards. And it's true that the truth of Ephesians 5.
That we have there.
This is all true, but that's not the subject here. The subject here is that he took a place as man and to accomplish all of these things that we've been Speaking of, and he's associating us with himself. But his thought is that he came down to become one with us in this. But there's always a distance there.
As to his person, person of the Lord.
Or not. I've enjoyed the thought in that connection in the gospel where the Lord sent Peter to get the money, and he said to him to go and get it, for that was in the fish, and bring it and give it not for us, but for me and thee. Well, I think that's perhaps the spirit of what we have here in this chapter, isn't it? Yes, yes. Now you'll notice that.
In this 11Th verse.
You're really on resurrection grounds. You're viewing the Lord as a risen man, for it was after he rose from the dead and made himself known to Mary Magdalene by calling her name. That is then that he said, Go tell my brethren I sin unto my Father and your father.
And under my God and your God there had been.
Prophecy as to this, and you'll find it in the 22nd Psalm. And the Lord was fulfilling that Psalm there on that resurrection morning when He sent Mary Magdalene with that message. But in the 22nd Psalm you read.
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Leading on in his sufferings of the Cross until their 21St verse, it says, Save me from the lion's mouth, for thou hast heard me from the horns of the unicorns. I will declare thy name unto my brethren in the midst of the Congregational I praise thee. Well, we'll take that up as we go on in our chapter, for that verse is quoted in this second of Hebrews.
Only with this difference in the second of Hebrews, the word congregation is.
Is given as the assembly. So there's no question that this verse in the 22nd Psalm was foretelling the time when Christ would be in the midst of the assembly, which is wonderful and blessed. But it was on that occasion that the Lord I called His disciples His brethren. Go tell my brethren.
I said not to my father and your father.
And out of my God and your God.
That's why, too, the Lord didn't say, I ascend unto our Father and to our God. But there again he maintained that possession that he had that he is in because of who he is. I ascended to my Father and your Father, and to my God and your God. The position which the Lord Jesus occupies is unique, and there is never that unholy intimacy that we sometimes find even in the Lord's blessed pathway. We find him alone in prayer.
We find him praying before his disciples, but we never find a single instance where.
There was a prayer meeting where the Lord and the disciples both prayed. No, the the communion between the Lord, Jesus the Son and the Father was perfect. It was absolute. With us so often as we pray, there may be the crop and the feathers. There may be something that's a hindrance to absolute and full communion. But the Lord's communion with his Father He could say at the grave of Lazarus. I knew that thou, hearest may always.
Oh, how perfect is the scripture and the glory of the Lord, Jesus maintained.
Feathers, brother.
Well, I suppose we could say the crop in the bird is the undigested food and the feathers would be like the outward shelf. And I think in all that we do there is something of that, and that is without us perhaps realizing it. We use expressions that we haven't really made our own. They have become common to us by hearing them, but they haven't entered into our inward parts and all that. That is just a repetition, a repeating of things that we have heard but not made our own.
Is not acceptable. And they are set by the place of the ashes. And then too we like to put on a show, perhaps before our brethren. We like to impress them. Well, that's like the feathers, you know. Well, it's nice to see that God didn't reject the whole sacrifice because there was crop and feathers. And I might say this to encourage any young person. You might say, well, I'm afraid if I got up to thank the Lord or if I tried to do something.
There be something of self in what I did. Well, don't forget, brethren, the whole sacrifice wasn't rejected because there was crop and feathers. The crop and the feathers were put in the place of the ashes, but the rest went up as a sweet savour to the Lord and he values from our hearts every little bit of Christ that there is, whether it's in our worship or in our service. So may we be encouraged that work was done by the priest, wasn't it?
There might be some that wonder where that scripture is found about the crop and the feathers. That's in Leviticus chapter one. You want to look it up. It's a nice meditation because it's in connection with the burnt offering, which was the acceptance offering and how wonderful to see that in the Lord Jesus Christ we are accepted and those offerings were pointing forward to Christ. And so there might be.
In our acknowledgment of this and re enjoyment of this that we are accepted in Christ, there might be those things that our brother hey host speaks of, but how wonderful to know that we're accepted in Christ anyway.
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I love to picture that too. Perhaps it's not wrong to picture it there, in the offerings in the verse of Leviticus, there is a book which certainly must have looked, I suppose, quite impressive, on that altar, the bullet, that large animal, was offered to God, and God spoke his words of approval and offering, made by fire of a sweet savour unto the Lord. But at the end of the same chapter, along comes another Israelite, and all that he can bring is a pigeon.
Well, here's where I must admit I visualize it. I see that poor pigeon with its head removed, its crop taken away, its feathers gone, and a pigeon is laid on that great brazen altar. Just picture it. It certainly wouldn't like look like much in our eyes. But the Lord says word for word, the same approval, an offering made by fire of a sweet savour unto the Lord.
I believe it would encourage us that whatever notes of worship or praise might be produced in our hearts as we're occupied with our Blessed Lord, certainly would be pleading to him if we would express them. I'd like to quote what I have quoted before, and some here of God was heard, but many may not have heard it after Paul, what our brother just said in a conference in the old country.
Many years ago.
Two able brothers expounded the word at length and well.
Well, according to First Corinthians 14, there was room for the prophet to speak third.
A poor brother got up who couldn't even use the King's English correctly.
And out of the fullness of his heart that was overflowing.
He said.
O us, do love him, thanks at all.
I was told of instant brother Armand told this.
And in the Saint Louis meeting years ago, they were just a few brothers that usually broke the bread till he got exercised about it. And one of the brothers was away, and so he felt that he should be away too. So he went to another gathering and the time came for the bread to be broken. And there was a very long pause. Finally a brother got up.
And his heart was so full when he got to the table.
That all they can say was, Lord, we thank Thee. And then he waited a few minutes and he said, Lord, we thank thee. And he broke the bread. And they said in that meeting they never felt the presence of the Lord, of the power of the Spirit of God in worship, as they did that morning. Now any brother here, no matter how few words he has, can say, Lord, we thank thee. And that is often more precious to the Lord.
Then a will formed and well expressed.
Prayer and and giving thanks.
Because we read the Lord himself, it says he took bread and gave thanks. Didn't quote a lot of scripture or hymns.
Thing #316.