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Excerpts: "Himself has suffered." There is no suffering when one gives way to temptation, but there is suffering if one resists it. In that case, the more there is of suffering, the more of spiritual life is revealed. Christ was really tempted; and though for Him the evil could come only from outside, still He suffered under the pressure of temptation. Having known temptation, Christ can sympathize with those who suffer being tempted, and He can come to their help. He does not bring any help to innocent man, nor to man in sin, but He brings succor to the saints in their struggle with sin. The power of temptation is less when it is felt than before it is felt or discerned. But when the struggle comes we find Christ to sustain, however serious may be the case. If one has fallen, two things remain to do; to extirpate whatever opened the door to the enemy (in other words, to judge the evil to the root); and in the future to leave oneself in the Lord's hands. The two things are seen in Peter's case; John 21.
Hebrews 6
Verses 1-3. Leaving the weak notions of Christ which a Jew or a Pharisee could have understood and admitted, "let us go on to perfection," receiving the testimony of God respecting the Christ whom He has raised to a heavenly glory. Why cleave to these Jewish notions when in possession of the precious revelations which belong to the heavenly calling?
"Let us go on to perfection," to the perfect man, to that stage in which our faith lays hold of Christ in His present glory and cleaves to the blessing which flows to us from this Christ in heaven.
Hebrews 9
Verses 13, 14. If the blood of Christ belongs to God, it is nevertheless on man's account it was shed. Christ, the anointed Man, offered Himself without spot, and His blood purged the conscience of the believers. But what perfection is in this work of salvation! There is no room left for man to take a part in the divine operations; a redemption which saves him is accomplished, but this work is entirely of God. Christ offered Himself by the eternal Spirit. The work of the cross is perfect and absolute; wrought wholly between Christ and God, to the exclusion of all outside. Christ in His death has been lifted up from the earth. " How much more shall the blood of Christ... purge your conscience? " The purification of the conscience by the blood is simply maintained here. The effect of the blood of Christ unfolded in its extensiveness will be the subject-matter of chapter 10.
Table of Contents
1. Hebrews, Notes on the Epistle to the: Hebrews
2. Hebrews 2: All of One
3. Hebrews 2:5-18 What Is Man?
4. Hebrews 6: Perfection
5. Hebrews 9-10: Christ's Work and Its Consequences
6. Hebrews 9:27-28: Christ's Coming, Faith's Crowning
7. Hebrews 11: Faith
8. Hebrews 13:7-19: Burning and Eating the Sacrifices
9. Hebrews 13:17-25: Obedience the Saint's Liberty
10. James, Brief Exposition of: James
11. James, Notes on the Epistle of: James
12. 1 Peter 1 and 2, Reading on: 1 Peter 1-2
13. 1 Peter 1:1-9: Sanctified, Purged, and Kept
14. 1 Peter 2: Our Pilgrimage, Priesthood, and Suffering
15. 1 Peter 3:10-18 Are You Brought to God?
16. 2 Peter 1: Grace and Government
17. 2 Peter 1:4: Partaker of the Divine Nature
18. 1 John 1, Notes on: 1 John
19. 2 John, Notes on: 2 John
20. 3 John, Notes on: 3 John
21. 1 John 1: Fellowship With the Father and the Son
22. 1 John 3:1-10: The Positiveness of Life in Christ
23. 1 John 4-5: The Love of God, the Love of Saints, and Overcoming the World
24. 1 John 5:6-21: The Three Who Are Witnessing
25. 1 John, Notes on: 1 John
26. Jude, Epistle of: Jude
27. Revelation, On: Revelation
28. Revelation, Outline of the: Revelation