LETTERS ON HEBREWS NO. 1

LETTERS ON HEBREWS NO. 1

I have been much interested in Hebrews lately, you will see some notes on it in the November ‘Voice’. The services of the High Priest in Hebrews 4 and in Hebrews 10: 21 are very interesting. In Hebrews 4 He serves me with reference to my infirmity. In Hebrews 10 He serves me in relation to God. I believe that we must know the first service before we can know the second, and when one is looking for the second one is glad to find the first. The tendency is to limit the Lord’s services to the first, that is helping me out of my infirmities, not seeing that He relieves me of the infirmities on my side, in order that He may conduct me to His own side in the sanctuary. It is very blessed that He lends Himself to my side, but it is unspeakably blessed when I am in company with Him on His own side. The loss is in confiding one’s expectations only to one’s own side, for then we are not prepared for the immensity which through grace is ours.

^[p. 20] I see this is a defect often in what is spoken or written of eternal life. It is limited to Christ’s life down here on the earth where He humbled Himself. Surely His life here was most blessed and necessary for us, but we must also follow Him where He is now in glory, where He is the full expression of eternal life. He was the manna here; we need it every day; but He is now the old corn of the land. He was always that; but now He is that to us. “As ... I live by the Father: so he that eateth me, even he shall live by me” (John 6: 57).

Another subject has interested me much — our gain from a glorified Christ in addition to all we gain from Him in His death and resurrection.