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Hebrews 10:15 And
the
Holy
Spirit
also
testifies to
us; for
after
saying,
(NASB:
Lockman) |
Greek:
Marturei
de
emin
kai
to
pneuma
to
agion;
meta
gar
to
eirekenai,
Amplified: And also the Holy Spirit adds His testimony to us [in confirmation
of this]. For having said,
(Amplified
Bible - Lockman)
Barclay: And to this the Holy Spirit is our witness, for after he has said: (Westminster
Press)
NLT: And the Holy Spirit also testifies that this is so. First he says, (NLT
- Tyndale House)
Phillips: The Holy Spirit himself endorses this truth for us, when he says,
first: (Phillips:
Touchstone)
Wuest: Moreover, there testifies also to us the Holy Spirit. For after
having said, (Erdmans)
Young's Literal: and testify to us also doth the Holy Spirit, for after that He hath
said before, |
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AND THE HOLY
SPIRIT ALSO BEARS WITNESS TO US FOR AFTER SAYING: Marturei (3SPAI) de hemin kai to pneuma to
hagion meta gar to eirekenai (RAN): (2:3,4;
3:7;
9:8;
2 Samuel 23:2;
Nehemiah 9:30;
John 15:26;
Acts 28:25;
1 Peter 1:11,12;
2 Peter 1:21;
Revelation 2:7,11,17,29;
3:6,13,22;
19:10)
This verse shows that the Holy Spirit
is our Teacher, the One Jesus promised declaring that...
When the Helper comes, Whom I will send
to you from the Father, that is the Spirit of truth, who proceeds from the
Father, He will bear witness of Me (Jn 15:26)
The Spirit reveals God
the Father and God the Son by inspiring the writing of Scripture. The Spirit
has revealed in the past
The Holy Spirit is signifying this, that
the way into the holy place has not yet been disclosed while the outer
tabernacle is still standing (see note
Hebrews 9:8)
He reveals in the
present as in this verse (bears witness =
present tense
= ongoing activity)...
Therefore, just as the Holy Spirit says, "TODAY IF YOU HEAR HIS VOICE (see
note
Hebrews 3:7)
The Spirit who first
led people to write the Scriptures Peter recording that
no prophecy was ever made by an act of
human will, but men moved by the Holy Spirit spoke from God (see note
2 Peter 1:21)
The Spirit continues
to guide God's people to understand them, as Hebrews shows. The Spirit is
the Inspirer and Teacher of Scriptures and the One Who enables us to live
according to the Scriptures.
Bears witness (3140)
(martureo from mártus = witness, one who has information
or knowledge of something & hence can bring to light or confirm
something; English ~ martyr) ) means to be a witness, to testify, to
give evidence, to give testimony, to affirm that one has seen or heard
or experienced something. To be well reported. It means to provide
information about a person or an event concerning which the speaker
has direct knowledge. Martureo in some context is used in the
sense of making an important and solemn declaration. It can be used in
the sense of confirmation or approval and so to affirm n a supportive
manner.
Martureo is another key word
in Hebrews, with 7/81 (almost 10% of the NT uses)
Hebrews 7:8 (note)
- In this case mortal men receive tithes, but in that case one
receives them, of whom it is witnessed that he lives on.
Hebrews 7:17 (note)
- For it is attested of Him, "YOU AREA PRIEST FOREVER
ACCORDING TO THE ORDER OF MELCHIZEDEK ."
Hebrews 10:15 (note)
- And the Holy Spirit also testifies to us; for after saying,
Hebrews 11:2 (note)
- For by it the men of old
gained approval.
Hebrews 11:4 (note)
- By faith Abel offered to God a better sacrifice than Cain, through
which he obtained the testimony that he was
righteous, God testifying about his gifts, and through faith,
though he is dead, he still speaks.
Hebrews 11:5 (note)
- By faith Enoch was taken up so that he would not see death; AND HE
WAS NOT FOUND BECAUSE GOD TOOK HIM UP; for he obtained the witness
that before his being taken up he was pleasing to God.
Hebrews 11:39 (note)
- And all these, having gained approval through their faith,
did not receive what was promised
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Hebrews 10:16 "THIS
IS THE
COVENANT THAT I
WILL
MAKE WITH
AFTER
THOSE
DAYS,
SAYS THE
LORD: I WILL
PUT MY
LAWS UPON THEIR
HEART, AND ON
THEIR
MIND I WILL
WRITE
THEM," He then says, (NASB:
Lockman) |
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Greek:
Aute
e
diatheke
en
diathesomai
pros
autous
meta
tas
emeras
ekeinas,
legei
kurios,
didous
nomous
mou
epi
kardias
auton,
kai
epi
ten
dianoian
auton
epigrapso
autous
Amplified: This is the agreement (testament, covenant) that I will set up and
conclude with them after those days, says the Lord: I will imprint My
laws upon their hearts, and I will inscribe them on their minds (on
their inmost thoughts and understanding),
(Amplified
Bible - Lockman)
Barclay: “This is the covenant I will make with them after these days, says
the Lord. I will put my laws upon their hearts; and I will write them
upon their minds,” (Westminster
Press)
NLT: "This is the new covenant I will make with my people on that day,
says the Lord: I will put my laws in their hearts so they will
understand them, and I will write them on their minds so they will
obey them." (NLT
- Tyndale House)
Phillips: 'This is the covenant that I will make with them after those days,
says the Lord: I will put my laws into their hearts, and in their
minds I will write them'. (Phillips:
Touchstone)
Wuest: This is the testament which I will make with them after those days,
the Lord says, I am putting my laws upon their hearts, and upon their
minds I will write them. (Erdmans)
Young's Literal: 'This is the covenant that I will make with them after those days,
saith the Lord, giving My laws on their hearts, and upon their minds I
will write them,' |
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THIS IS THE COVENANT THAT I WILL MAKE WITH THEM
AFTER THOSE DAYS SAYS THE LORD: aute e diatheke en diathesomai (1SFMI) pros autous
meta tas hemeras ekeinas, legei (3SPAI)
kurios: (Heb
8:8-12;
Jeremiah 31:33,34;
Romans 11:27)
Covenant
(1242)
(diatheke from dia = two + tithemi = to place
pictures that which is placed between two Thus, a covenant is
something placed between two, an arrangement between two parties.) was
a commonly used in the Greco-Roman world to define a legal transaction
in settling an inheritance. Diatheke denotes an irrevocable
decision, which cannot be cancelled by anyone. A prerequisite of its
effectiveness before the law is the death of the disposer and thus
diatheke was like a "final will and testament". In reference to
the divine covenants, such as the Abrahamic covenant, diatheke is not
a covenant in the sense that God came to agreement or compromise with
fallen man as if signing a contract. Rather, it involves declaration
of God’s unconditional promise to make Abraham and his seed the
recipients of certain blessings.
Them = Jews yet this covenant is now available to anyone who believes
that Christ's blood is satisfactory & sufficient to save them from the
penalty of their sins -- eternal destruction & separation.
The ultimate fulfillment of some of God's promises to Israel in
Jer 31:38-40 await complete fulfillment in the millennial age
I WILL PUT MY LAWS UPON THEIR HEART
AND UPON THEIR MIND I WILL WRITE THEM: didous (PAPMSN) nomous mou epi kardias auton
kai epi ten dianoian auton epigrapso
(1SFAI) autous:
God deals with
the power of sin by writing the law on our hearts so that we hate sin
from the inside and love God's will and walk in his ways freely, not
merely by external legal constraint. That's the new covenant = a New
Heart
Ezekiel
records God's promises concerning the New Covenant...
Moreover, I will give you a new
heart and put a new spirit within you; and I will remove the heart of
stone from your flesh and give you a heart of flesh. And I will put My
Spirit within you and cause you to walk in My statutes, and you will
be careful to observe My ordinances. (Ezekiel 36:26-27)
And I shall give them one heart,
and shall put a new spirit within them. And I shall take the heart of
stone out of their flesh and give them a heart of flesh, that they may
walk in My statutes and keep My ordinances, and do them. Then they
will be My people, and I shall be their God. (Ezekiel 11:19-20) |
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AND THEIR SINS
AND THEIR LAWLESS DEEDS I WILL REMEMBER NO MORE: kai ton hamartion auton kai ton anomion auton ou me mnesthesomai (1SFPI) eti:
Remember
(3403)
(mnaomai through the idea of fixture in mind or of mental
grasp) means to recall information from memory, but without
necessarily implication persons have actually forgotten
No is
actually the double negative (ou me) which gives one of
the strongest negatives possible.
Spurgeon in Faith's Checkbook
writes the following devotional entitled...
Absolutely No Remembrance:
According to this gracious
covenant the Lord treats His people as if they had never sinned.
Practically, He forgets all their trespasses. Sins of all kinds He
treats as if they had never been, as if they were quite erased from
His memory. O miracle of grace! God here doth that which in certain
aspects is impossible to Him. His mercy worketh miracles which far
transcend all other miracles.
Our God ignores our sin now that the sacrifice of Jesus has ratified
the covenant. We may rejoice in Him without fear that He will be
provoked to anger against us because of our iniquities. See! He puts
us among the children; He accepts us as righteous; He takes delight in
us as if we were perfectly holy. He even puts us into places of trust;
makes us guardians of His honor, trustees of the crown jewels,
stewards of the gospel. He counts us worthy and gives us a ministry;
this is the highest and most special proof that He does not remember
our sins. Even when we forgive an enemy, we are very slow to trust
him; we judge it to be imprudent so to do. But the Lord forgets our
sins and treats us as if we had never erred. O my soul, what a promise
is this! Believe it and be happy.
From Our Daily Bread-
A Past Long Gone
According to the English novelist
Aldous Huxley, "There are no back moves on the chessboard of life."
Yet we remain aware of things we have done and things we have left
undone. Our sins worry us. They motivate us to wish fervently that
somehow we could undo the past.
That's why those who put their faith in Jesus can be thankful for
God's message in both the Old and New Testaments. When Paul preached
in Antioch, he said, "By [Jesus], everyone who believes is justified
from all things from which you could not be justified by the law of
Moses" (Acts 13:39). The law condemned us (Romans 7:10-11), but Jesus
offers deliverance and new life (8:1).
Are you worried about what you've done in the past? Rejoice! God has
"cast all our sins into the depths of the sea" (Micah 7:19). Are you
still concerned about your sins? Rejoice! "Their sins and their
lawless deeds I will remember no more" (Hebrews 10:17). And "I have
blotted out, like a thick cloud, your transgressions" (Isaiah 44:22).
If you have put your faith in Jesus and asked Him to forgive you, the
past is truly forgotten. "As far as the east is from the west, so far
has He removed our transgressions from us" (Psalm 103:12). Trust and
rejoice!—Vernon C Grounds (Our
Daily Bread, Copyright RBC Ministries, Grand Rapids, MI. Reprinted by
permission. All rights reserved)
My sin—O, the bliss of this
glorious thought—
My sin, not in part but the whole,
Is nailed to the cross and I bear it no more,
Praise the Lord, praise the Lord, O my soul. —Spafford
God's forgiveness frees us from the chains of regret. |
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NOW WHERE THERE IS FORGIVENESS OF THESE THINGS: hopou de aphesis touton:
Mt 26:28
THERE IS NO LONGER ANY OFFERING FOR SIN: ouketi prosphora peri hamartias:
The OT sacrifices were merely an "offering," to be sure they were the
specific God given means of providing temporary "relief" and gave at least
limited access of sinful man to a thrice holy God. In Christ's redemptive
work, ''FORGIVENESS'' was in a sense the perfect completion of atonement.
The blood of sacrificial animals effected a temporary atonement, but the
sacrificial system in itself could not take away sin and its consequent debt
(which required forgiveness), =slavery which called for redemption, or
alienation which demanded reconciliation. Christ through His death made the
perfect atonement (cf. 9:14) with everlasting efficacy. |
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