Robert and Richard... for an interesting discussion... Our Scripture Lesson is Hebrews 10:1-10. Our subject: “To Do Thy Will Oh God. “1For 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. 2For then would they not have ceased to be offered? because that the worshippers once purged should have had no more conscience of sins. 3But in those sacrifices there is a remembrance again made of sins every year. 4For it is not possible that the blood of bulls and of goats should take away sins. 5Wherefore when he cometh into the world, he saith, Sacrifice and offering thou wouldest not, but a body hast thou prepared me: 6In burnt offerings and sacrifices for sin thou hast had no pleasure. 7Then said I, Lo, I come (in the volume of the book it is written of me,) to do thy will, O God. 8Above when he said, Sacrifice and offering and burnt offerings and offering for sin thou wouldest not, neither hadst pleasure therein; which are offered by the law; 9Then said he, Lo, I come to do thy will, O God. He taketh away the first, that he may establish the second. 10By the which will we are sanctified through the offering of the body of Jesus Christ once for all.” Now in verse 1 reference is made to the law. Again this does not refer to the law as a whole, but to the law of sacrifices, to atonement, and to priesthood. Now, unhappily we have many in the church today who generalize that to mean the whole of God’s law, and that is an abuse of exegesis of interpretation. A couple of years ago I saw a sign in one city, as you entered, or as you left: “55 MPH. That’s the law.” Now, did they mean that’s the law concerning witnesses? The law concerning murder? No, they meant the law concerning speed limits. It’s obvious. The context determines everything. So for people to take as they routinely do, the law here, and say: “This has reference to everything in the Pentateuch, all the law of Moses.” The context makes clear that the law here means the sacrificial law. To make law mean more than this means to falsify the letter to the Hebrews. pocketcollege/beta/index.php?title=To_Do_Thy_Will_Oh_God_-_RR198L21
Posted on: Thu, 04 Sep 2014 08:13:01 +0000
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