Hebrews 9:14

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Hebrews 9:14

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Summary

How much more shall the blood of Christ, who through the eternal Spirit offered himself without spot to God, purge your conscience from dead works to serve the living God?

How

Matthew 7:11

Luke 12:24

Romans 11:12

Who

1 Peter 3:18

Eternal

Romans 1:20

1 Timothy 1:17

Offered

Purge

Hebrews 9:9

Hebrews 1:3

Hebrews 10:2

Dead works

Hebrews 6:1

To serve

1 Peter 4:2

General references

Acts 24:16

Bible References

How

if ye then, as wicked as ye are, know how to bestow proper gifts upon your children; how much more shall your heavenly father give good things to them that ask him?

consider the ravens: for they neither sow nor reap: nor have cellar or barn: are not you of much greater value than the fowls?

now if their fall be to the advancement of the world, and the few converts among them bring in whole numbers of the Gentiles: how much more so will it be, when the Jewish body recover?

Who

but if I exorcize devils by the spirit of God, then the kingdom of God is set up among you.

"the spirit of the Lord is upon me, because he hath anointed me to preach the gospel to the poor, he hath sent me to heal the broken hearted, to preach deliverance to the captives, and recovery of sight to the blind, to set at liberty them that are bruised,

for he whom God hath sent, saith nothing but what is divine: for God hath given him the spirit without restriction.

after he had given the apostles he had chosen, the orders they were to execute by the holy spirit.

how Jesus of Nazareth divinely inspired by the holy spirit, and with miraculous power, went about doing good, and healing all that were under the oppression of the devil: because God was with him.

but as to his holy spirit miraculously declared to be the son of God, by his resurrection from the dead:

for Jesus Christ himself has already suffer'd for our sins, the innocent for the guilty, to bring us to God: who, tho' he died with respect to his body, was rais'd to life by that spirit,

Eternal

for ever since the creation of the world, his eternal power and divinity, things in themselves invisible, are clearly seen, being perceived by the things that are made; so that they are without excuse:

to the king of the world, the immortal, invisible, and the only God be honour and glory to endless ages. amen.

Offered

the high priest only enter'd, and that but once every year, when he carried the blood, which he offered for himself, and for the errors of the people.

as those high priests of the law were, to offer up daily sacrifices, first for his own sins, and then for those of the people: having done this once for all, by offering up himself.

as the son of man came not to be ministred unto, but to minister, and to give his life a ransom for all.

did raise us all, who were in that deadly state of sin, to life by Christ, for by grace ye are saved:

for Christ loved us, and for us gave himself an offering and a sacrifice acceptable to God.

who gave himself for us, to redeem us from all iniquity, and qualify us to be his peculiar people, passionately affected to virtue.

he himself cancel'd our sins by the crucifixion of his body, that we being set free from sin, might live in the service of virtue. it is by his bruises that you were healed:

for Jesus Christ himself has already suffer'd for our sins, the innocent for the guilty, to bring us to God: who, tho' he died with respect to his body, was rais'd to life by that spirit,

Purge

This type subsists to the present time, both gifts and sacrifices being still offered, which cannot purify the mind of him that officiates

who being the radiation of his glory, and the imprest image of his substance, and governing all things by his powerful command, after having himself made expiation for our sins, sat down on the right hand of the divine majesty in the highest heavens.

for then they would not have been repeated, because they who sacrificed being once purified, would not have been conscious of wanting any further atonement for their sins:

Dead works

Therefore omitting for the present the principles of the christian doctrine, we shall proceed to something more sublime, without mentioning those fundamental articles of repentance from destructive vices, and of divine faith:

To serve

that we should be delivered from the power of our enemies, and serve him with security,

neither yield your members as instruments to iniquity: but yield yourselves unto God, as being alive after having been dead; and your members as instruments of righteousness.

for by one law, I am dead to the other law, that I might live unto God:

how successful our arrival was among you, and how you renounc'd your idols to serve the living and true God,

so that for the future he does not pass the rest of this life in gratifying his sensual passions, but in conformity to the divine precepts.

General references

and 'tis my endeavour to preserve a conscience free from reproach both with respect to God, and with respect to men.