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Please respond to the points in the OP and this post here below thanks
The entire book of Hebrews is about Jesus being the very Fulfilment of the entire Pentateuch.
Paul is not, by fact of history, known to write Hebrews. The entire book reads about translating each portion of the Mosaic Covenant as a revelation of Jesus Christ so that former Jews could understand Jesus Christ.
The entire book states; The old covenant was thus and so, now Jesus has fulfilled it, let's discuss x portion of EVERYTHING found in the Pentateuch, especially everything pertaining to what Moses wrote about Moses and the Law.
As it begins, it keeps drawing dichotomies between Moses and Jesus, then intensifying the intense need for the Hebrews (Jews) to make a very distinct choice.
Moses <------------------------------------------------ or -------------------------------------------------> Jesus
By Hebrews 10, where the thesis verse of this OP is located it is amplified to VERY hard, inflexible verbiage.
Hebrews 10:1 The law is only a shadow of the good things that are coming—not the realities themselves. For this reason it can never, by the same sacrifices repeated endlessly year after year, make perfect those who draw near to worship. 2 Otherwise, would they not have stopped being offered? For the worshipers would have been cleansed once for all, and would no longer have felt guilty for their sins. 3 But those sacrifices are an annual reminder of sins. 4 It is impossible for the blood of bulls and goats to take away sins.5 Therefore, when Christ came into the world, he said:“Sacrifice and offering you did not desire,but a body you prepared for me;6 with burnt offerings and sin offeringsyou were not pleased.7 Then I said, ‘Here I am—it is written about me in the scroll—I have come to do your will, my God.’”
Hebrews 10:1 speaks of a Shadow, which means that it is a theological "Type". Substance casts a "Shadow". The Anti-Type/Substance is clearly revealed to be Jesus Christ.
Incase this is not clearly understood, Hebrews 11:1 specifies that Faith is the SUBSTANCE of things unseen. This binds Faith to Jesus and Jesus alone.
Hebrews 11:1 Now faith is the substance of things to be hoped for, the evidence of things that appear not.Hebrews Chapter 1 reveals that Jesus is what had been hoped for. John 5:39 does, also.
Hebrews 4 contrasts the dead bodies of Israelites in the desert that couldn't follow the Law and Rebelled. It then draws the dichotomy of Rebellion with not observing a very specific Sabbath Rest that is Today (Which reads intentionally as Every Day, because it's always "Today").
Jesus is our Sabbath rest from our works of the Flesh, which stink, like a corpse.
If a person desires to follow Moses, they have no sacrifice remaining for any of the transgressions listed from Deuteronomy 4 - Deuteronomy 31:26. The sacrificial system is over.
If a person desires to accept Christ's fulfillment of ALL Law contained in Moses (All 5 books of Moses), they are Saved.
Hebrews concludes by exalting the Royal Law (Love thy neighbor as thyself)(PERIOD).
Hebrews 13:1 Keep on loving one another as brothers and sisters. 2 Do not forget to show hospitality to strangers, for by so doing some people have shown hospitality to angels without knowing it. 3 Continue to remember those in prison as if you were together with them in prison, and those who are mistreated as if you yourselves were suffering.4 Marriage should be honored by all, and the marriage bed kept pure, for God will judge the adulterer and all the sexually immoral. 5 Keep your lives free from the love of money and be content with what you have, because God has said,“Never will I leave you;never will I forsake you.”6 So we say with confidence,“The Lord is my helper; I will not be afraid.What can mere mortals do to me?”To the Carnally minded person, Hebrews 13:4 reads about carnal Law found in Moses. To the Spiritual mind, it is about fidelity to trusting in Jesus and forsaking Moses, in the name of faithfulness to the Gospel.
The very book of Hebrews forces Jews to choose between Jesus or Moses.
I don't like these discussions, but, this very verse that is being discussed is at the heart of many Christians giving up their faith. I cannot be silent on this matter.
I am a sinner, only saved by Jesus, condemned by the 10 and all 600 + others. I confess this, that I have, hold sin, to honor 1 John 1:8. I am only a "SAINT", because I am DEAD and it is only the Holy Spirit of Jesus Christ, who dwells within me that is declared alive. I desire the TRUTH (JESUS) to dwell within my Soul as He does, so I am forced, bound to Honesty, which may be unpopular, but I don't desire praise. I desire Jesus. I am a sinner. It is only by the Righteousness of Jesus that is in place of my DAILY DEAD WORKS of the FLESH, that I am SAVED.
I already have.You now have my Scriptural response, now I will employ a secondary emotional appeal.
Have you met a Christian that "sins on accident"?
Have you met a Christian that is "without sin"?
Have you met a passage in scripture that says "Promising God to do better next time will Save you"?
If Christians, who do, all of them, willfully sin in different ways employ dishonesty towards others to cover this fact up or use strange confusing verbiage to express this concept, what is the validity of mishandling Hebrews 10 as what it is intended to be and what is the damage that mishandling Hebrews 10 does to the Body and Unbelievers?
If Christians employ the "Sin of Commission (Sin that we do) versus the Sin of Omission (Sin that we want to do but don't do)" argument, doesn't Jesus Decimate that argument when He binds Lusting in one's heart as transgression equal to committing adultery and Hate in one's heart as physical Murder?
If we who sin are the reason that Jesus died for humanity, while we were yet sinners, so He Who knew no sin could become all sin for us, so that us who sin could be declared sinless by His righteousness and not ours, how is it "Christian" to place the weight of the Law back on a "Christians" shoulders, again?
The new Christian is likened unto a baby. Jesus says that it is better that we have a millstone tied around a persons neck (Reference to the Stone Law) and they be cast to the bottom of the sea, than to offend one of those little ones.
Satan tries to get Jesus (The Living Bread) to turn Stone (The Stone Law) into Bread (Provision unto mankind).
Jesus asks; Which of you, being a loving parent would give your child a SNAKE if they ask for BREAD.
Hebrews 2:14 and 1 Corinthians 15:55,56 can keep going unnoticed, but Jesus didn't leave them unnoticed.
I will conclude my emotional appeal with one closing statement;
God, the Creator, Infinite God died and bled for humanity. I believe this. I believe that He rose on the Third Day. This means, by scripture that I am SAVED. Now, this work of GOD, that saves me, can I, a creation improve on this work? Can I become more saved by my mortal efforts than God has saved me? This said, should I spend each day trying to ensure that I am MORE SAVED, or should I now concern myself with the UNSAVED? What was Jesus concerned about?
How powerful is that blood?
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