Jesus was to put all enemies under his feet

JESUS WAS TO PUT ALL ENEMIES UNDER HIS FEET
EDITED BY GLENN PEASE
Hebrews 10:13 13
and since that time he waits for his
enemies to be made his footstool.
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Pulpit Commentary Homiletics
The Sacrifice And Sovereignty Of Christ
Hebrews 10:12, 13
W. Jones But this Man, after he had offered one sacrifice, etc.
I. THE SACRIFICE OFFERED BY CHRIST.
1. Self-sacrifice. The Jewish priests offered goats, lambs, etc. But Jesus Christ "gave
himself." The whole of his life upon earth was a sacrifice. The sufferings of the closing
scenes were sacrificial. His death was sacrificial. In all he acted with entire spontaneity
(John 10:17, 18). All was the outcome of the infinite love wherewith he loved us. It is of the
very nature of love to sacrifice self for the beloved. No sacrifice is so Divine as that of self.
"Greater love hath no man than this," etc. (John 15:13).
2. Self-sacrifice for sin. The death of Jesus was neither
(1) a mere martyrdom; nor
(2) an offering to pacify the wrath of God; but
(3) it was a "sacrifice for sins." "He appeared to put away sin by the sacrifice of himself."
"Christ also suffered for sins once, the righteous for the unrighteous," etc.
3. Self-sacrifice for sin of perpetual efficacy. "He offered one sacrifice for sins for ever."
Christ's sacrifice was offered once for all It needs no repetition. It is completely efficacious
for all sins of all men for ever(cf. Hebrews 9:25-28). It seems to us that to speak of
"offering Christ upon the altar" in the Lord's Supper is utterly unscriptural, and a
reflection on the sufficiency of the "one sacrifice for sins forever" which our Lord offered.
II. THE POSITION OCCUPIED BY CHRIST. "Sat down on the right hand of God." This
position is suggestive of:
1. Rest. The sitting down is opposed to the standing of the preceding verse. Christ's
sacrificial work is completed. The sufferings of his earthly life are over forever. The toil

and conflict are all past. He has finished the work that was given him to do (cf. Hebrews
1:3).
2. Honor. "The right hand" is the position of honor. He is "crowned with glory and honor"
(Hebrews 2:9; cf. Philippians 2:6-11). The glory of redemption is his.
3. His exaltation is a guarantee that all who are one with hire in sacrifice shall be one with
him in sovereignty. There is a cross for each of his disciples; there is also a crown for every
one who faithfully bears that cross (cf. Matthew 16:24; John 12:26; Romans 8:17;
Revelation 3:21).
III. THE EXPECTATION ENTERTAINED BY CHRIST. "From henceforth expecting till
his enemies be made the footstool of his feet." The foes of our Lord are rebellious angels
and rebellious men. All persons and all things which are opposed to his character and
sovereignty are his enemies. Ignorance, the darkness of the mind, is opposed to him as "the
Light" and "the Truth." Tyranny is opposed to him as the great Emancipator. He
proclaimed the universal brotherhood of men. Sin is opposed to him as the Savior and the
Sovereign of men. Death is opposed to him as the Life and the Lifegiver. All these he will
completely and for evervanquish. "He must reign till he hath put all his enemies under his
feet." Let us endeavor to realize the certainty of this.
1. History points to it. During nearly nineteen centuries the spirit and the principles of
Christ have been advancing and gaining strength in the world. Tyrannical despotisms
passing away; free governments spreading; slavery losing its place and power; liberty and
the recognition of human brotherhood constantly growing; cruelties and oppressions ever
decreasing; Christian charities and generosities everincreasing; the night of ignorance
receding; the day of intelligence advancing and brightening. The past is prophetic of the
complete triumph of Christ.
2. The spirit of the age points to it. There is much of evil in the age; but there are also many
good and hope-inspiring things. The age is one of broadening freedom, earnest inquiry,
growing intelligence, and many and ever-increasing charities. All these are in harmony
with Christianity, results of Christianity; and as men advance in them they will be the more
fitted and disposed to embrace Christianity.
3. God's Word assures it. (See Psalm 2:8; Psalm 72:8-17; Daniel 7:13, 14.) 4. Christ is
waiting for it. "From henceforth expecting" - implying his undoubted assurance of it. He
cannot be disappointed. - W.J.
Biblical Illustrator
This Man, after He had offered.

Hebrews 10:11-13
The eras of redemption
Homilist.I. THE PAST ERA OF CHRIST'S REDEMPTIVE HISTORY. He has "offered
one sacrifice for sins."
1. Christ's death was a self-immolation.
(1)His self-proprietorship.
(2)His unexampled philanthropy.
2. His death was a self-immolation for sin. He died to put away sin: to put it away in its
guilt-form — in its idea-form — and in its habit-form. His death was a self-immolation for
sin unrepeatable. "One... for ever." Sufficient for all lands and ages.
II. THE PRESENT:ERA OF CHRIST'S REDEMPTIVE HISTORY. "Sat down at the
right hand of God."
1. Rest.
2. Heaven.
III. THE FUTURE ERA OF CHRIST'S REDEMPTIVE HISTORY. "From henceforth
expecting," &c.
1. Christ has enemies. Fallen angels and sinful men.
2. These enemies He will subjugate. Some will be subdued by the moral influences of His
truth and love; and some by the resistless might of His retributive justice. Lessons:
1. The repugnance with which humanity should regard sin.
2. The true test by which we may determine the worth of our Christianity. The absence of
sin.
3. The certainty of Christianity's ultimate triumph.
4. The absurdity of waiting for any further helps to conversion.
(Homilist.)
The perfection of Christ's atonement
C. Bradley, M. A.I. We see Him ON THE EARTH; and this is what He is said to have done
here — "He offered one sacrifice for sins." The apostle, we must remember, is both
comparing and contrasting Him with the Jewish priests. His object is to show us that He is
all to the Church these priests everwere, and all in a much higher degree. He compares
Him with them. Now one part of their office was to make reconciliation or atonement for
the sins of the people. Thus far then our Lord resembles the Jewish priests — He really
offered a sacrifice. But the apostle also contrasts Him with them. He made, he says, one
sacrifice only. There was in His case no perpetual standing by the altar, no daily
ministering, no multiplying of victims. His precious blood once shed, all is over; the fire on
the altar goes out, and the altar itself is soon thrown down and destroyed. And here become
evident; two blessedtruths.
1. One sacrifice serves for all God's Church — not only one priest, but one offering.

2. This one offering of Christ serves effectually for all God's Church. Not only are all His
people cleansed, they are all fully and eternally cleansed, by it.
II. We must now follow our Lord INTO HEAVEN. The text carries Him there in His
human nature; and more than that — in the character He bore here in His human nature,
the great Expiator of our sins. The apostle's language intimates to us —
1. The repose of Christ in heaven, a repose indicating the completeness and perfection of
the work He had performed on earth.
2. The high exaltation of Christ in heaven.
(C. Bradley, M. A.)
The sacrifice and triumph of Christ
W. Atherton.I. THIS GOD-MAN OFFERED ONE SACRIFICE FOR SIN. That was the
sacrifice of Himself, which we may consider as implying surrender.
1. He offered His body (Isaiah 1.6; PEa. 69:21; Isaiah 52:14). These were sufferings of no
common kind.
2. But, in suffering, He offered His mind. The sufferings of our Redeemer's soul must be
considered as the soul of His sufferings.
3. He offered in sacrifice His glory — by which we understand how glory will follow up the
shame. Now, our Redeemer's feelings were not blunted or stoical — nay, they were
delicately fine; and when they called Him " a deceiver of the people," "a glutton, and a
wine-bibber"; when they said He had a devil — that He was not fit to live: He must have
felt the indignity with great acuteness.
4. He offered in sacrifice the consolations of heaven's protection (Matthew 27:46).
5. He offered in sacrifice His life (John 15:13; Romans 5:8).
6. He offered in sacrifice His will. He prayed that the cup of suffering might pass from Him
(Matthew 26:42); yet He gave His person into the hands of those who put it to torture: He
voluntarily resigned Himself to that train of overwhelming and distressing ideas, that
threw His mind into an agony and bathed Him in a bloody sweat.
II. FOR WHAT PURPOSE DID HE OFFER THIS SACRIFICE? Whenever we think, or
read, about the sufferings of Christ, we are immediately directed to sin (1 Corinthians 15:3;
1 Peter 3:18; 1 Peter 2:24; Isaiah 53:5). This Man offered Himself a sacrifice for sin —
1. To avert the consequences of it. Jesus Christ paid the penalty, that He might deliver the
sinner from the consequences of his sins.
2. He died that He might remove the presence of sin, by doing away the love of it; by
cleansing the guilty in the" fountain opened for sin and uncleanness," — rendering the
person " without spot, or wrinkle, or any such thing."
3. He offered Himself a sacrifice to overcome the forfeiture of sin.
III. THE EXALTATION OF OUR REDEEMER.
1. This was through the medium of His resurrection.

2. And He has now " sat down at the right hand of God." God is a great and invisible
Spirit, with whom literally there can be neither standing nor recumbency. We must,
therefore, understand this phrase figuratively; and it is —
(1)Expressive of rest.
(2)Honoured.
(3)Power, authority, dominion.
IV. THE PURPOSES OF HIS WILL SHALL BE FULFILLED. Of the adversaries of Jesus
Christ we observe —
1. That Satan is the most subtle, ancient, and formidable.
2. Error. Error may be said to be a hydra with many heads. These systems degrade God's
creatures, rob the Redeemer, murder the souls of men; and as such they must come down:
by the general diffusion of knowledge, by the spread of the Scriptures, by the piety of God's
people.
3. Another enemy is to be found in wicked, unconverted men. But these enemies shall be
the footstool of the "Lion of the tribe of Judah." Upon unconverted men, Jesus Christ will
employ His gospel on their understandings, and His Spirit on their consciences, and His
providence on their circumstances and their bodies; and these weapons shall be " mighty
through God to the pulling down of strongholds."
4. Another enemy of Christ is death. He is said to be the last enemy that shall be destroyed
(1 Corinthians 15:26).
5. All these enemies have been made by one worse than the devil himself, and that enemy is
sin. To destroy sin the Son of God was manifested — for this purpose He offered Himself a
sacrifice — for this purpose He has commanded His gospel to be preached to every
creature — for this purpose He is, at this moment, seatedat the right hand of God, invested
with all power, to employ whatever instrument He thinks proper, and to give a blessing to
those means that they may be effectual.Application:
1. Here we discover the character of sinners. They are said to be enemies to Christ.
2. We learn, again, that these unconverted persons must be His footstool, whether at home
or abroad. Will you be conquered by the sceptre of His grace; or will you be broken in
pieces by the iron rod of His wrath?
3. We see the duty of the people to extend by conquest the triumphs of the Redeemer: to
bring home His rebel outcasts, that they may be savedfrom sin and Satan's snare.
(W. Atherton.)
The matchless Mediator
B. D. Johns.I. Is His RELATION TO CALVARY.
1. He accomplished what all others failed to do.
2. He accomplished what none others need attempt after Him.
II. Is His RELATION TO HEAVEN.
1. Enjoyment of tranquil repose.

2. Elevation to highest honour.
3. Execution of universal power.
III. IN HIS RELATION TO THE MILLENNIUM.
1. He has opponents.
2. His enemies are in process of subjugation.
3. His ultimate supremacy will be complete.
(B. D. Johns.)
One offering
E. N. Kirk, D. D.I. THE PERMANENCE OF THE REPETITION OF CHRIST'S
SUFFERINGS IS NOT NECESSARY FOR THE PURPOSES OF THE ATONEMENT. If
we look at the influence of it on other beings, good and bad, we can see that the transient
acts of Christ's life, and the permanent assumption of our nature for our redemption, are
an eternal guarantee of His love of the law. If we look at its effects on the pardoned, it is
sufficient that Christ lived here thirty-three years, and died once. The mother that bore
you, and cherished you in infancy's helpless years, needs not repeat all that, in order to
convince you of her love, or to strengthen her claims upon your love. A stranger rushed
into the flames, and saved you from a horrid death, when you were a child. Will you ever
forget it? God needed only to express once, in this form, His unvarying grief at our sins —
His uncompromising opposition to them. Nay, more:
II. THE PERMANENT SUFFERING OF THE INNOCENT AND BENEVOLENT
REDEEMER WOULD DEFEAT THE VERY END OF ATONEMENT. That end is, to
diminish suffering in the universe. If we are to be saved at the eternal expense of such a
Being; if He is to be for ever buffeted and spit upon, while we are crowned with glory; if He
is to sink under the Father's frown, while we rejoice in the light of His countenance — then
the cost is too great. To awaken the most generous sentiments in the hearts of the
redeemed, and to sustain them, Christ must be rewarded with everlasting honour and joy.
To enjoy heaven by the continued sufferings of our Friend and Redeemer, would make us
selfish; to see His sufferings, and not be selfish, would make our own happiness impossible.
(E. N. Kirk, D. D.)
Philosophy and sin
W. J. Dawson.When Renan was once askedwhat he did with sin in his philosophy, he
shrugged his shoulders, and laughed and said, "I suppress it."
(W. J. Dawson.)
Sat down on the right hand of God.
Christ exalted
C. H. Spurgeon.I. THE COMPLETENESS OF THE SAVIOUR'S WORK.
1. He has done all that was necessary to make an atonement and an end of sin. He has done
so much, that it never will be needful for Him again to be crucified. Oh! if the last thread
had not been woven in the great garment of our righteousness, He would be spinning it
now; if the last particle of our .debt had not been paid, He would be counting it down now;

and if all were not complete, He would never rest, until, like a wise builder, He had laid the
top-stone of the temple of our salvation. No; the very fact that He sits still, and rests, proves
that His work is finished.
2. And then note again, that His sitting at the right hand of God implies that He enjoys
pleasure; for at God's right hand "there are pleasures for evermore." Now I think the fact
that Christ enjoys infinite pleasure has in it some degree of proof that He must have
finished His work. He has joys as God; but as the man-God, His joys spring from the
salvation of the souls of men. That is His joy, which is full, in the thought that He has
finished His work and has cut it short in righteousness. I think there is some degree of
proof, although not, perhaps, positive proof there, that Jesus must have finished His work.
3. The fact that it is said He has sat down for everproves that He must have. done it. Christ
has undertaken it to save all the souls of the elect. If He has not already savedthem, He is
bound to do something that will save them, for He has given solemn promise to His Father,
that He will bring many souls unto glory.
4. Yet, the best proof is, that Christ sits at His Father's right hand at all. For the very fact
that Christ is in heaven, accepted by His Father, proves that His work must be alone. Why,
as long as an ambassador from our country is at a foreign court, there must be peace; and
as long as Jesus Christ our Saviour is at His Father's court, it shows that there is real peace
between His people and His Father. Well, as He will be there for ever, that shows that our
peace must be continual. But that peace could not have been continual, unless the
atonement had been wholly made, unless justice had been entirely satisfied; and, therefore,
from that very fact it becomes certain that the work of Christ must be done.
II. THE GLORY WHICH HE HAS ASSUMED. "After He had offered one sacrifice for
sins for ever, sat down on the right-hand of God." Now, by this you are to understand the
complex person of Christ; for Christ, as God, always was on His Father's throne; He
always was God; and evenwhen He was on earth He was still in heaven. But Jesus Christ,
as the man-God, has assumed honours which once He had not; for as man, He did not at
one time sit on His Father's throne; He was a suffering man; but as God-man He has
assumed a dignity next to God; He sits at the right hand of the glorious Trinity.
1. From this we gather, that the dignity which Christ now enjoys is surpassing dignity.
There is no dignity to be compared to that of Christ.
2. In the next place, Christ has real dignity. Some persons have mere empty titles, which
confer but little authority. But the man-Christ Jesus, while He has many crowns and many
titles, has not one tinsel crown or one empty title. He overruleth all mortal things, making
the evil work a good, and the good produce a better, and a better still, in infinite
progression.
3. And once more: this honour that Christ hath received (I mean the Man-God Christ) was
deservedhonour; that dignity which His Father gave Him He well deserved.
4. We must consider the exaltation of Christ in heaven as being in some degree a
representative exaltation. Christ Jesus exaltedat the Father's right hand, though He has
eminent glories, in which the saints must not expect to share, essentially He is the express
image of the person of God, and the brightness of His Father's glory, yet, to a very great
degree, the honours which Christ has in heaven He has as our representative there.

III. WHAT ARE CHRIST'S EXPECTATIONS?
1. We are told, He expects that His enemies shall be made His footstool. In some sense that
is already done; the foes of Christ are, in some sense, His footstool now. What is the devil
but the very slave of Christ, for he doth no more than he is permitted against God's
children? What are wicked men but the servants of God's providence, unwittingly to
themselves? In that sense all things are now Christ's.
2. But we expect greater things than these at His coming, when all enemies shall be beneath
Christ's feet upon earth. We are, therefore, many of us, "looking for that blessedhope; that
glorious appearing of the kingdom of our Saviour Jesus Christ"; many of us are expecting
that Christ will come; we cannot tell you when; we believe it to be folly to pretend to guess
the time, but we are expecting that evenin our life the Son of God will appear, and we
know that when He shall appear He will tread His foes beneath His feet, and reign from
pole to pole, and from the river evento the ends of the earth.
3. Christ will have all His enemies put beneath His feet, in that great day of judgment. Oh I
that will be a terrible putting of His foes beneath His feet, when at the second resurrection
the wicked dead shall rise; when the ungodly shall stand before His throne, and His voice
shall say, "Depart, ye cursed."
(C. H. Spurgeon.)
The priests standing, Christ sitting
A. B. Davidson, LL. D.That the ministry of the priests under the law is ineffectual is seen
from their continual standing and offering (comp. ver. 2). That the Son's is effectual
appears from the fact which we know from prophecy fulfilled (Psalm 110:1; chaps, 2:9, 8:1)
in Him, that having made His one offering He sat down. He ceased, and no more offers, but
awaits the final issue of His one offering, which shall be when He appears a second time
unto salvation (Hebrews 9:28).
(A. B. Davidson, LL. D.)
From henceforth expecting till His enemies be made His footstool.
The destined supremacy of Christianity
R. S. Storrs, D. D.The Being presented by this inspired declaration is Jesus Christ; and
Christianity is the systemof truth of which He is the centre — its Alpha and Omega. Its
supremacy is inferred —
1. From the fact that God has established and introduced it to human knowledge.
2. From its interior structure, its fitness to man, the reply which it gives to His deepest
demands.
3. From the fact that the supremacy of Christianity will nobly complete the circle of
history; will give unity, wholeness to the annals of the race, and will show through their
courses a sublime method.
4. The specific declarations of God in the Scriptures assure us of that result.
5. The historic progress of Christianity among men, with the nature of the arena on which
it now acts, gives assurance of its supremacy. How then ought its friends to labour for
Christianity, to spread its truth, its promise, and life I How vividly also does this last

thought come to us: the personal obligation of each of us to submit from the heart to
Christ's dominion. The ancient legend of the Church, that Julian died exclaiming as he
expired, "Galilean, Thou hast conquered," is certain to be realised in the substance of its
history in every soul not submitted to Christ. His rule at last shall be complete, and the
period of that sway shall compass eternity. In that last and glorious age there will be found
no place on earth, no place in heaven for him who hath not bowed to Christ! The dominion
of Messiahhath no promises for him.
(R. S. Storrs, D. D.)
Christ's confident expectation of ultimate victory
A. Bax.I know nothing more sublime in the inspired writings than that representation of
the Lord given us in the Epistle to the Hebrews, in which He is depicted as "seatedupon
His throne at His Father's right hand, expecting till His enemies become His footstool."
Reflect for a moment upon the sight that must meet that omniscient gaze! A world black
with appalling crime and hideous depravity. A world reeking with drunkenness, and lust,
and violence, and bloodshed. A world wrapped in the night of spiritual ignorance and
heathen darkness. Angels beholding it, in ignorance of the Divine purpose, might well have
despaired of it as a world too sunken to raise, too hopeless to deliver. Yet it is upon this sad
world that the Saviour's eye is fixed with such confident anticipation. No fear agitates His
mind, no doubt breaks His rest. In His view nothing hangs in uncertainty or remains in
jeopardy. To Him the fulfilment is as sure as though it were already realised. Fixing our
eyes upon intervening and secondary things, our heart often fails us; but He looks right on
through present conflict to the victory beyond; He knows there can be but one result —
"His enemies shall lick the dust." "All kings shall fall down before Him; all nations shall
serve Him."
(A. Bax.)
The signs of advancing victory
A. Bax.Just as a man in early spring will fall down on some mossy bank over a pale
primrose, with a keen joy in his heart, not so much for what it is in itself, but as the
harbinger of the great glowing summer so surely advancing. As he looks at it, the leaden
skies grow into sapphire clearness, the naked woodlands are once more dressed in living
green, and the long winter silence is broken by the wild gushes of sweetest bird-music. He
knows that behind that tender plant lies God's immutable covenant, that, "While the earth
remaineth, seedtime and harvest, and cold and heat, and summer and winter shall not
cease" — lie those omnific forces that will soon fulfil all the promise of this prophetic
flower. So Christ welcomed each little sign of His advancing victory. A few Samaritans,
returning with the woman with whom He had previously conversed at the well of Sychar,
drew from Him the exultant utterance, "Lift up your eyes, and look on the fields; for they
are white already to harvest." The faith of one centurion is regarded at once as the earnest
of the whole Gentile world" "And I say unto you, that many shall come from the east and
west, and shall sit down with Abraham, and Isaac, and Jacob, in the kingdom of heaven."
On another occasion two or three Greeks express a desire to see Him, and that desire fills
Him with a holy transport. "The hour is come, that the Son of man should be glorified ....
Now is the judgment of this world: now shall the Prince of this world be cast out." Aa
eloquent expositor has said that "they were to Him as the first-fruits of the great flock of

humanity; and their presence as the first stroke of the bell which sounded the fatal but
glorious hour." And His attitude to-day upon His throne is still that of calm, quiet,
confident expectation.
(A. Bax.)
Christ will have the whole world
J. Fleming, D. D.It is on record that, during the late civil war in America, and when victory
was swaying from side to side, that commissioners from the Confederate States sought and
obtained an interview with President Lincoln, with the view of trying to effect an
arrangement for the independence of the territory they represented. They knew the tender-
heartedness of Mr. Lincoln, and appealed to him to stay the effusion of blood which, at the
moment, was flowing in torrents. They were willing to forego several of the States for
which they had hitherto fought, if he would consent to the remainder being independent.
They pleaded with him for hours, and made use of the strongest arguments and
considerations they could adduce to gain their object. When they had finished, the
President, who had patiently and attentively listened to all that had been said, raised his
hand, and then bringing it down with emphasis on the map which lay before him, replied,
"Gentlemen, this Government must have the whole."
(J. Fleming, D. D.)
COMMENTARIES
Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers(13) Expecting.—This word belongs to the
contrast just mentioned. He does not minister and offer His sacrifice again, but waits for
the promised subjection of His foes. Once before in this context (Hebrews 9:28) our thought
has been thus directed to the future consummation. There it consists in the second coming
of Christ for the salvation of “them that wait for Him;” here it is He Himself who is
“waiting,” and the end is the attainment of supreme dominion. (See Hebrews 1:3; Hebrews
1:13.)
Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary10:11-18 Under the new covenant, or gospel
dispensation, full and final pardon is to be had. This makes a vast difference between the
new covenant and the old one. Under the old, sacrifices must be often repeated, and after
all, only pardon as to this world was to be obtained by them. Under the new, one Sacrifice
is enough to procure for all nations and ages, spiritual pardon, or being freed from
punishment in the world to come. Well might this be called a new covenant. Let none
suppose that human inventions can avail those who put them in the place of the sacrifice of
the Son of God. What then remains, but that we seek aninterest in this Sacrifice by faith;
and the seal of it to our souls, by the sanctification of the Spirit unto obedience? So that by
the law being written in our hearts, we may know that we are justified, and that God will
no more remember our sins.
Barnes' Notes on the BibleFrom henceforth expecting - Or waiting. He waits there until
this shall be accomplished according to the promise made to him that all things shall be
subdued under him; see the notes on 1 Corinthians 15:25-27.

Till his enemies - There is an allusion here to Psalm 110:1, where it is said, "The Lord said
unto my Lord, Sit thou at my right hand until I make thine enemies thy footstool." The
enemies of the Redeemerare Satan, the wicked of the earth, and all the evil passions of the
heart. The idea is, that all things are yet to be made subject to his will - either by a cheerful
and cordial submission to his authority, or by being crushed beneath his power. The
Redeemer, having performed his great work of redemption by giving himself as a sacrifice
on the cross, is represented now as calmly waiting until this glorious triumph is achieved,
and this promise is fulfilled. We are not to suppose that he is inactive, or that he takes no
share in the agency by which this is to be done. but the meaning is, that he looks to the
certain fulfillment of the promise.
His footstool - That is, they shall be thoroughly and completely subdued. The same idea is
expressedin 1 Corinthians 15:25, by saying that all his enemies shall be put under his feet.
The language arose from the custom of conquerors in putting their feet on the necks of
their enemies, as a symbol of subjection; see Joshua 10:24; notes, Isaiah 26:5-6.
Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Bible Commentary13. expecting—"waiting." Awaiting the
execution of His Father's will, that all His foes should be subjected to Him. The Son waits
till the Father shall "send Him forth to triumph over all His foes." He is now sitting at rest
(Heb 10:12), invisibly reigning, and having His foes virtually, by right of His death, subject
to Him. His present sitting on the unseen throne is a necessary preliminary to His coming
forth to subject His foes openly. He shall then come forth to a visibly manifested kingdom
and conquest over His foes. Thus He fulfils Ps 110:1. This agrees with 1Co 15:23-28. He is,
by His Spirit and His providence, now subjecting His foes to Him in part (Ps 110:1-7). The
subjection of His foes fully shall be at His second advent, and from that time to the general
judgment (Re 19:1-20:15); then comes the subjection of Himself as Head of the Church to
the Father (the mediatorial economy ceasing when its end shall have been accomplished),
that God may be all in all. Eastern conquerors used to tread on the necks of the
vanquished, as Joshua did to the five kings. So Christ's total and absolute conquest at His
coming is symbolized.
be made his footstool—literally, "be placed (rendered) footstool of His feet."
his enemies—Satan and Death, whose strength consists in "sin"; this being taken away
(Heb 10:12), the power of the foes is taken away, and their destruction necessarily follows.
Matthew Poole's Commentary That which remaineth he expecteth, eventhe fulfilling of his
Father’s promise to him, Psalm 110:1, patiently waiting, earnestly looking, for what is most
certain, and wherein he cannot be disappointed; for in respect of himself. His enemies
cannot infest him more, being entirely vanquished already; but in respect of his
administration, he waits till all that oppose his royal priesthood, as the devil and his angels,
sin, the curse, death, and the world, with which he conflicts as a Priest to destroy them with
his own blood, as his members do by it, Revelation 12:11. Having given them their death’s
wound by his own death, he sits down, and waits in the successive ages of his church, until
upon his elect it be made good, putting all under his own and church’s feet, so to overcome
and trample on them, as men on their footstools: see Hebrews 2:8 1 Corinthians 15:26.
Gill's Exposition of the Entire BibleFrom henceforth expecting,.... According to God's
promise and declaration to him, Psalm 110:1.
Till his enemies be made his footstool; see Gill on Hebrews 1:13.

Geneva Study Bible{4} From henceforth expecting till his enemies be made his footstool.
(4) He prevents a private objection, that is, that yet nonetheless we are subject to sin and
death, to which the apostle answers, that the full effect of Christ's power has not yet shown
itself, but shall eventually appear when he will at once put to flight all his enemies, with
whom we still struggle.
EXEGETICAL (ORIGINAL LANGUAGES)
Meyer's NTCommentaryHYPERLINK "/hebrews/10-13.htm"Hebrews 10:13. Τὸ λοιπόν]
henceforth, sc. from the time of His sitting down at the right hand of God. What is meant is
the time yet intervening before the coming in of the Parousia. The taking of τὸ λοιπόν in the
relative sense: “as regards the rest, concerning the rest” (Kurtz), is, on account of the close
coherence with ἐκδεχόμενος ἕως, unnatural, for which reason also the passages adduced by
Kurtz as supposed parallels, Ephesians 6:10, Php 3:1; Php 4:8, 1 Thessalonians 4:1, 2
Thessalonians 3:1, do not admit of comparison.
The object of the waiting is expressedby our author in the language of Psalm 110:1.
The ἐκάθισεν … τὸ λοιπὸν ἐκδεχόμενος ἕως … involves for the rest the supposition that the
destruction of the enemies of Christ is to be looked for evenbefore His Parousia. The
author accordingly manifests here, too, a certain diversity in his mode of viewing the
subject from that of the Apostle Paul, since the latter (comp. 1 Corinthians 15:22-28)
anticipates the destruction of the anti-Christian powers only after the time of Christ’s
Parousia. The supposition, which de Wette holds possible for the removal of this difference,
that the author of the Epistle to the Hebrews “thought only of the triumph of the gospel
among the nations, even as Paul also expectedthe universal diffusion of the gospel and the
conversion of the Jews before the appearing of Christ,” has little probability, considering
the absolute and unqualified character of the expression here chosen: οἱ ἐχθροὶ αὐτοῦ.
Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges13. his footstool] Psalm 110:1; 1 Corinthians
15:25.
Bengel's GnomenHYPERLINK "/hebrews/10-13.htm"Hebrews 10:13. Ἐκδεχόμενος,
expecting) By this word the knowledge of our exalted Lord is not denied, Revelation 1:1 :
comp. Mark 13:32 : but His subjection to the Father is intimated; Acts 3:20. Sitting and at
rest, He expects.—οἱ ἐχθροὶ αὐτοῦ, His enemies) whose strength consists in sin.

Christ Exalted
“This Man, after He had offered one sacrifice forsins forever, sat down
on the right hand of God; From henceforth expecting till His enemies be
made His footstool.”
Hebrews 10:12, 13
At the Lord’s Table we wish to have no subject for contemplation but our
blessedLord Jesus Christ and we have been accustomedgenerallyto consider
Him as the Crucified One, “the Man of Sorrows and acquainted with grief.”
We have had before us the emblems of His broken body and of His blood shed
for many for the remissionof sins but I am not quite sure that the crucified
Savior is the only appropriate theme, although, perhaps, the most so. It is well
to remember how our Savior left us–by what road He traveled through the
shadows ofdeath. But I think it is quite as well to recollectwhatHe is doing
while He is awayfrom us–to remember the high glories to which the crucified
Savior has attained.
And it is, perhaps, as much calculatedto cheerour spirits to behold Him on
His Throne as to considerHim on His Cross. We have seenHim on His Cross,
in some sense–thatis to say, the eyes of men on earth did see the crucified
Savior. But we have no idea of what His glories are above. They surpass our
highest thought. Yet faith can see the Saviorexalted on His Throne and surely
there is no subjectthat can keepour expectations alive, or cheerour drooping
faith better than to considerthat while our Savior is absent, He is absenton
His Throne. And that when He has left His Church to sorrow for Him, He has
not left us comfortless–He has promised to come to us–that while He tarries
He is reigning and that while He is absent He is sitting high on His father’s
Throne.
The Apostle shows here the superiority of Christ’s sacrifice overthat of every
other priest. “Every priest stands daily ministering and offering oftentimes
the same sacrifices, whichcan never take awaysins–but this ‘Man,’ or Priest–
for the word ‘Man’ is not in the original–"afterHe had offeredone sacrifice
for sins,” had finished His work and forever, He “satdown.” You see the
superiority of Christ’s sacrifice rests in this–that the priest offered continually
and after he had slaughteredone lamb, another was needed. After one
scapegoatwas driven into the wilderness, a scapegoatwas neededthe next
year, “but this Man, when He had offered only one sacrifice forsins,” did
what thousands of scapegoatsneverdid and what hundreds of thousands of
lambs never could effect. He perfected our salvation and workedout an entire
atonement for the sins of all His chosenones.

We shall notice, in the first place, this morning, the completeness ofthe
Savior’s work of atonement–He has done it–we shall gather that from the
context. Secondly, the glory which the Savior has assumed. And thirdly, the
triumph which He expects. We shall dwell very briefly on eachpoint and
endeavorto pack our thoughts as closelytogetheras we can.
1. We are taught here in the first place, THE COMPLETENESSOF THE
SAVIOR’S WORK. He has done all that was necessaryto be done to
make an atonementand an end of sin. He has done so much that it will
never be needful for Him againto be crucified. His side, once opened,
has sentforth a deep stream, deep enough and precious enough, to wash
awayall sin. He needs not againthat His side should be opened, or that
any more His hands should be nailed to the Cross. I infer that His work
is finished from the factthat He is describedhere as sitting down. Christ
would not sit down in Heaven if He had more work to do.
Sitting down is the posture of rest. Seldom did He sit down on earth. He said,
“I must be about My Father’s business.” Journeyafter journey, labor after
labor, preaching after preaching followedeachother in quick succession. His
was a life of incessant toil. Restwas a word which Jesus never spelled. He may
sit for a moment on the well. But even there He preaches to the womanof
Samaria. He goes into the wilderness but not to sleep. He goes there to pray.
His midnights are spent in labors as hard as those of the day–labors of
agonizing prayer, wrestling with His Fatherfor the souls of men.
His was a life of continual bodily, mental and spiritual labor. His whole man
was exercised. Butnow He rests. There is no more toil for Him now. There is
no more sweatofblood, no more the weary foot, no more the aching head. No
more has He to do. He sits still. But do you think my Saviorwould sit still if
He had not done all His work? Oh, no, Beloved. He said once, “ForZion’s
sake I will not rest until her glory goes forth like a lamp that burns.” And I
am sure He would not rest, or be sitting still unless the greatwork of our
atonement were fully accomplished.
Sit still, blessedJesus, while there is a fear of Your people being lost? Sit still,
while their salvation is at hazard? No! And Your truthfulness and Your
compassiontell us that You would still labor if the work were still undone.
Oh, if the last thread had not been wovenin the greatgarment of our
righteousness, He would be spinning it now. If the last particle of our debt had
not been paid, He would be counting it down now. And if all were not finished
and complete, He would never rest, until, like a wise builder, He had laid the
topstone of the temple of our salvation. No. The very fact that He sits still,
rests and is at ease proves that His work is finished and is complete.

And then note againthat His sitting at the right hand of God implies that He
enjoys pleasure. Forat God’s right hand “there are pleasures forevermore.”
Now I think the factthat Christ enjoys infinite pleasure has in it some degree
of proof that He must have finished His work. It is true, He had pleasure with
His Fatherbefore that work was begun. But I cannot conceive that if, after
having been incarnate, His work was still unfinished, He would rest. He might
rest before He beganthe work, but as soonas He had begun it, you will
remember, He said He had a Baptism wherewith He must be baptized and He
appearedto be hastening to receive the whole of the direful Baptism of agony.
He never restedon earth till the whole work was finished. Scarcelya smile
passedHis brow till the whole work was done. He was “a Man of Sorrows and
acquainted with grief,” until He could say, “it is finished.” And I could
scarcelyconceivethe Saviorhappy on His Throne if there were any more to
do. Surely, living as He was on that greatThrone of His, there would be
anxiety in His breastif He had not securedthe meanestlamb of His fold and if
He had not rendered the eternalsalvation of every blood-bought one as sacred
as His own Throne. The highest pleasure of Christ is derived from the fact
that He has become the “Head over all things to His Church,” and has saved
that Church.
He has joys as God–but as the Man-God, His joys spring from the salvationof
the souls of men. That is His joy–which is full in the thought that He has
finished His work and has cut it short in righteousness. Ithink there is some
degree of proof, although not perhaps positive proof there, that Jesus must
have finished His work.
But now, something else. The fact that it is said He has satdown forever
proves that He must have done it. Christ has undertaken to save all the souls
of the elect. If He has not already savedthem, He is bound to do something
that will save them. Remember He has given solemn oath and promise to His
Father that He will bring many souls unto glory and that He will make them
perfect through His own righteousness. He has promised to present our souls
unblemished and complete–
“Before the glory of His face
With joys divinely great.”
Well, if He has not done enoughto do that, then He must come againto do it.
But from the fact that He is to sit there forever, that He is to wearno more the
crownof thorns, that He is never againto leave His Throne, to ceaseto be
king any more, that He is still to be girded by His grandeur and His glory and
sit forever there, is proof that He has accomplishedthe great work of

propitiation. It is certain that He must have done all from the fact that He is to
sit there forever, to sit on His Throne throughout all ages, more visibly in the
ages to come, but never to leave it–againto suffer and againto die.
Yet, the best proof is that Christ sits at His Father’s right hand at all. Forthe
very fact that Christ is in Heaven, acceptedby His Father proves that His
work must be done. Why, Beloved, as long as an ambassadorfrom our
country is at a foreign court, there must be peace. And as long as Jesus Christ
our Savioris at His Father’s court, it shows that there is real peace between
His people and His Father. Well, as He will be there forever, that shows that
our peace must be continual and like the waves ofthe sea, shallnever cease.
But that peace couldnot have been continual, unless the atonement had been
wholly made, unless justice had been entirely satisfied–and, therefore, from
that very factit becomes certainthat the work of Christ must be done.
What? Christ enter Heaven–Christsit on His Father’s right hand before all
the guilt of His people was rolled away? Ah, no. He was the sinner’s
Substitute. And unless He paid the sinner’s debt and died the sinner’s death,
there was no Heaven in view for me. He stoodin the sinner’s place and the
guilt of all His electwas imputed to Him. God accountedHim as a sinner and
as a sinner He could not enter Heaven until He had washedall that sin away
in a crimson flood of His own gore–unless His own righteousness hadcovered
up the sins which He had taken on Himself–and unless His ownatonement
had takenawaythose sins which had become His by imputation.
The fact that the Father allowedHim to ascendup on high–that He gave Him
leave, as it were, to enter Heaven and that He said, “Sitat My right hand,”
proves that He must have perfectedHis Father’s work and that His Father
must have acceptedHis sacrifice. ButHe could not have acceptedit if it had
been imperfect. Thus we prove that the work must have been finished, since
God the Father acceptedit. Oh, glorious doctrine! This Man has done it. This
Man has finished it–this Man has completedit. He was the Author, He is the
Finisher. He was the Alpha, He is the Omega.
Salvationis finished, Complete! Otherwise He would not have ascendedup on
high, nor would He also sit at the right hand of God. Christian! Rejoice!Your
salvationis a finished salvation–atonementis wholly made–neitherstick nor
stone of yours is wanted. Not one stitch is required to that glorious garment of
His–not one patch to that glorious robe that He has finished. ‘Tis done–'tis
done perfectly. You are acceptedperfectly in His righteousness.You are
purged in His blood. “Byone offering He has perfected foreverthem that are
sanctified.”

II. And now, our secondpoint–THE GLORY WHICH HE HAS ASSUMED.
“After He had offeredone sacrifice for sins forever, satdown on the right
hand of God”–the glory which Christ has assumed. Now, by this you are to
understand the complex PersonofChrist. Christ, as God, always was onHis
Father’s Throne. He always was God. And even when He was on earth He was
still in Heaven. The Son of God did not cease to be omnipotent and
omnipresent when He came wrapped in the garments of clay. He was still on
His Father’s Throne. He never left it, never came down from Heaven in that
sense.
He was still there, “Godover all, blessedforever.” As He has said, “The Sonof
Man who came down from Heaven, who, also,” atthat very moment was “in
Heaven.” But Jesus Christ, as the Man-God, has assumedglories and honors
which once He had not. For as Man He did not at one time sit on His Father’s
Throne. He was a Man, a suffering Man, a Man full of pains and groans, more
than mortals have ever known. But as God-Man, He has assumed a dignity
next to God. He sits at the right hand of God–atthe right hand of the glorious
Trinity, Father, Sonand Holy Spirit, sits the Personof the Man Jesus Christ,
exalted at the right hand of the Majestyon High.
From this we gather that the dignity which Christ now enjoys is surpassing
dignity. There is no honor, there is no dignity to be compared to that of
Christ. No angelflies higher than He does. Save only the greatThree-in-One
God, there is none to be found in Heaven who can be calledsuperior to the
Personof the Man Christ Jesus. He sits on the right hand of God, “far above
all angels, principalities, powers and every name that is named.” His Father
“has highly exalted Him and given Him a name which is above every name,
that at the name of Jesus every knee should bow, of things in Heavenand of
things on earth and of things under the earth.”
No dignity can shine like His. The sons of righteousness thathave turned
many to Godare but as stars compared with Him, the brightest of the suns
there. As for angels, they are but flashes of His ownbrightness, emanations
from His own glorious Self. He sits there, the greatmasterpiece ofDeity–
“God, in the Personof His Son,
Has all His mightiest works outdone.”
That glorious Man, takeninto union with Deity, that mighty Man-God,
surpasses everything in the glory of His majestic Person. Christian!
Remember your Masterhas unsurpassed dignity.
In the next place, Christ has real dignity. Some persons have mere empty titles
which confer but little powerand little authority. But the Man Christ Jesus,

while He has many crowns and many titles, has not one tinsel crown or one
empty title. While He sits there He sits not there pro forma. He does not sit
there to have nominal honor done to Him. But He has realhonor and real
glory. That Man-Christ, who once walkedthe streets of Jerusalem, now sits in
Heaven and angels bow before Him. That Man-Christ, who once hung on
Calvary and there expired in agonies the most acute, now, on His Father’s
Throne exalted sits and sways the scepterof Heaven–nay, devils at His
presence tremble, the whole earth owns the swayof His Providence and on
His shoulders the pillars of the universe rest.
“He upholds all things by the Word of His power.” He overrules all mortal
things, making the evil work a goodand the goodproduce a better and a
better still, in infinite progression. The powerof the God-Man Christ is
infinite. You cannot tell how greatit is. He is “able to save unto the uttermost
them that come unto God by Him.” He is “able to keepus from falling and to
present us spotless before His presence.” He is able to make “all things work
togetherfor good.” He is “able to subdue all things unto Himself.” He is able
to conquer even death, for He has the power of death and He has the powerof
Satan, who once had powerover death.
He is Lord over all things, for His Father has made Him so. The glorious
dignity of our Savior!I cannot talk of it in words, Beloved. All I cansay to you
must be simple repetition. I can only repeatthe statements of Scripture. There
is no room for flights. We must just keepwhere we ever have been, telling out
the story that His Father has exalted Him to real honors and realdignities.
And once more–this honor that Christ has now received(I mean the Man-God
Christ, not the God-Christ, for He already had that and never lost it and
therefore could never obtain it. He was Man-Godand as such He was exalted)
was deservedhonor. That dignity which His Fathergave Him He well
deserved. I have sometimes thought if all the holy spirits in the universe had
been askedwhatshould be done for the man whom the King delights to
honor, they would have said, Christ must be the man whom God delights to
honor and He must sit on His Father’s right hand. Why, if I might use such a
phrase, I can almostsuppose His mighty Fatherputting it to the vote of
Heaven as to whether Christ should be exalted and that they carried it by
acclamation, “Worthyis the Lamb that was slain, to receive honor and glory
forever and ever.”
His Fathergave Him that. But still the suffrages ofall the saints and of all the
holy angels, saidto it, AMEN. And this thing I am certainof, that every heart
here–everyChristian heart, says AMEN to it. Ah, Beloved, we would exalt
Him, we would crownHim, “crownHim Lord of all.” Not only will His Father

crownHim but we, ourselves, would exalt Him if we had the power. And when
we shall have powerto do it, we will castour crowns beneath His feet and
crownHim Lord of all. It is deservedhonor. No other being in Heaven
deserves to be there. Even the angels are kept there and God “charges His
angels with folly.”
And certainly none of His saints deserve it. They feel that Hell was their
desert. But Christ’s exaltationwas a deservedexaltation. His father might say
to Him, “Welldone, My Son, well done. You have finished the work which I
had given You to do. Sit You foreverfirst of all men, glorified by union with
the Personofthe Son. My glorious co-equalSon, sit You on My right hand, till
I make Your enemies Your footstool.”
One more illustration and we have done with this. We must considerthe
exaltation of Christ in Heaven as being in some degree a representative
exaltation. Christ Jesus, exaltedat the Father’s right hand, though He has
eminent glories in which the saints must not expectto share, He is essentially
the express image of the PersonofGod. He is the brightness of His Father’s
glory, yet, to a very greatdegree, the honors which Christ has in Heaven, He
has as our representative there. Ah, Brethren it is sweetto reflect how
blessedlyChrist lives with His people. You all know that we were–
“One, when He died, one, when He rose,
One, when He triumphed o'er His foes;
One, when in Heaven He took His seat,
And angels sang all Hell’s defeat.”
Today you know that you are one with Him, now, in His presence. We are at
this moment “raisedup together,” and may, afterwards, “sittogether in
heavenly places, evenin Him.” As I am representedin parliament and as you
are, so is every child of God representedin Heaven. But as we are not one
with our parliamentary representatives, that figure fails to set forth the
glorious representationof us which our forerunner, Christ, carries on in
Heaven–forwe are actually one with Him. We are members of His body, of
His flesh and of His bones. His exaltation is our exaltation. He will give us to
sit upon His Throne, just as He has overcome and is set down with His Father
on His Throne.
He has a crown and He will not wearHis crownunless He gives us crowns,
too. He has a Throne but He is not content with having a Throne to Himself.
On His right hand there must be His bride in gold of Ophir. And He cannotbe
there without His bride. The Savior cannot be content to be in Heaven unless
He has His Church with Him, which is “the fullness of Him that fills all in all.”

Beloved, look up to Christ now. Let the eyes of your faith catchsight of Him–
behold Him there with many crowns upon His head. Remember, as you see
Him there, you will one day be like He is, when you shall see Him as He is.
You shall not be as greatas He is, you shall not be as glorious in degree but
still you shall, in a measure, share the little while. Be content to bear the sneer,
the jest, the joke, the ribald song. Be content to walk your weary waythrough
the fields of poverty, or up the hills of affliction. By-and-by you shall reign
with Christ, for He has “made us kings and priests unto God and we shall
reign forever and ever.”
By-and-by we shall share the glories of the Head. The oil has been poured on
His head. It has not trickled down to us yet–save only in that faithful
fellowship which we have. But by-and-by that oil shall flow to the very skirts
of the garments and we, the meanestof His people, shall share a part in the
glories of His house by being made kings with Him–to sit on His Throne–even
as He sits on His Father’s Throne.
III. And now, in the last place, WHAT ARE CHRIST’S EXPECTATIONS?
We are told, He expects that His enemies shall be made His footstool. In some
sense that is already done. The foes of Christ are, in some sense, His footstool
now. What is the devil but the very slave of Christ? For he does no more than
he is permitted againstGod’s children. What is the devil, but the servant of
Christ, to fetch His children to His loving arms? What are wickedmen, but
the servants of God’s Providence unwittingly to themselves? Christ has even
now “powerover all flesh that He may give eternal life to as many as God has
given Him,” in order that the purposes of Christ might be carried out.
Christ died for all and all are now Christ’s property. There is not a man in
this world who does not belong to Christ in that sense, forHe is God over him
and Lord over him. He is either Christ’s Brother, or else Christ’s Slave, His
unwilling vassalthat must be draggedout in triumph, if He follows Him not
willingly. In that sense all things are now Christ’s.
But we expect greaterthings than these, Beloved, atHis coming, when all
enemies shall be beneath Christ’s feet upon earth. We are, therefore, many of
us, “looking for that blessedhope. That glorious appearing of the kingdom of
our SaviorJesus Christ.” Many of us are expecting that Christ will come. We
cannot tell you when. We believe it to be folly to pretend to guess the time but
we are expecting that even in our lifetime the Sonof Godwill appear. We
know that when He shall appear He will tread His foes beneathHis feet and
reign from pole to pole and from the river even to the ends of the earth.

Not long shall anti-Christ sit on her sevenhills. Notlong shall the false
Prophet delude his millions. Notlong shall idol gods mock their worshippers
with eyes that cannotsee and hands that cannothandle and ears that cannot
hear–
“Lo! He comes, with clouds descending.”
In the winds I see His chariot wheels. I know that He approaches and when
He approaches He “breaks the bow and cuts the spearin sunder and burns
the chariotin the fire.” And Christ Jesus shallthen be king over the whole
world. He is king now, virtually. But He is to have anotherkingdom.
I cannot see how it is to be a spiritual one, for that is come already. He is as
much king spiritually now as He everwill be in His Church, although His
kingdom will assuredlybe very extensive. But the kingdom that is to come, I
take it, will be something even greaterthan the spiritual kingdom. It will be a
visible kingdom of Christ on earth. Then kings must bow their necks before
His feet. Then at His Throne the tribes of earth shall bend. Then the rich and
mighty, the merchants of Tyre and the travelers where gold is found, shall
bring their spices and myrrh before Him and lay their gold and gems at His
feet–
“Jesus shallreign whereverthe sun
Does His successive journeys run;
His kingdom stretch from shore to shore,
Till moons shall wax and wane no more.”
Once more, Beloved–Christwill have all His enemies put beneath His feet in
that greatday of judgment. Oh, That will be a terrible putting of His foes
beneath His feet, when at that secondresurrectionthe wickeddeadshall rise.
Then the ungodly shall stand before His Throne and His voice shall say,
“Depart, you cursed.” Oh, Rebel, you that have despisedChrist–it will be a
horrible thing for you, that that Man, that gibbeted, crucified Man, whom you
have often despised–willhave powerenough to speak you into Hell. That the
Man whom you have scoffedand laughed at and of whom you have virtually
said, “If He is the Son of God, let Him come down from the Cross,” willhave
powerenough, in two or three short words–to damn your soul to all eternity–
“Departfrom Me, you cursed, into everlasting fire, prepared for the devil and
his angels.”
Oh, What a triumph that will be, when men, wickedmen, persecutors and all
those who opposedChrist, are all castinto the lake that burns! But, if
possible, it will be a greatertriumph when he who led men astray shall be
dragged

“Shalllift his brazen front, with thunder scarred,
Receive the sentence and begin anew his Hell.”
Oh, when Satan shall be condemned and when the saints shall judge angels
and the fallen spirits shall all be under the feet of Christ, “then shall be
brought to pass the saying that is written, He has put all things under Him.”
And when death, too, shall come forth and the “death of death and Hell’s
destructions” shall grind his iron limbs to powder, then shall it be said,
“Deathis swallowedup in victory.” For the greatshout of “Victory, victory,
victory,” shall drown the shrieks of the past–shallput out the sound of the
howling of death. And Hell shall be swallowedup in victory.
He is exaltedon high–He sits on His Father’s right hand, “from henceforth
expecting till His enemies be made His footstool.”
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BRUCE HURT MD
Hebrews 10:13 waiting from that time onward UNTIL HIS ENEMIES BE MADE A
FOOTSTOOL FOR HIS FEET. (NASB: Lockman)
Greek: to loipon ekdechomenos (PMPMSN) eos tethosin (3PAPS) oi echthroi autou
upopodion ton podon autou
Amplified: Then to wait until His enemies should be made a stool beneath His feet. [Ps.
110:1.] (Amplified Bible - Lockman)
Barclay: and for the future he waits until his enemies are made the footstool of his feet.
(Westminster Press)
NLT: There he waits until his enemies are humbled as a footstool under his feet. (NLT -
Tyndale House)
Phillips: from that time offering no more sacrifice, but waiting until "his enemies be
made his footstool". (Phillips: Touchstone)
Wuest: from henceforth expecting until His enemies be set down as a footstool for His
feet,
Young's Literal: as to the rest, expecting till He may place his enemies as his footstool,
WAITING FROM THAT TIME ONWARD UNTIL HIS ENEMIES BE MADE A
FOOTSTOOL FOR HIS FEET: to loipon ekdechomenos (PMPMSN) eos tethossin
(3PAPS) oi echthroi autou eos tethossin (3PAPS) oi echthroi autou hupopodion ton podon
autou:

• Heb 1:13; Ps 110:1; Daniel 2:44; Matthew 22:44; Mark 12:36; Luke 20:43; Acts 2:35;
1Cor 15:25
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JESUS IS WAITING
FOR HIS KINGDOM
Waiting from that time onward UNTIL HIS ENEMIES BE MADE A FOOTSTOOL FOR
HIS FEET - The writer is quoting Ps 110:1 - "The LORD says to my Lord: "Sit at My right
hand, Until I make Thine enemies a footstool for Thy feet."
Waiting (1551) (ekdechomai from ek = from + dechomai = receive kindly, accept deliberately
and readily; related prosdechomai) means literally to receive or accept from some source. The
preposition ek in this compound may have a perfective idea indicating that one is read and
prepared to deal with the situation when it arrives. It means to remain in a place or state and
await an event or the arrival of someone. The idea is to look or tarry for, to watch for, expect, be
about to receive from any quarter. In regard to of future events it means to wait for them
expecting them to happen.
Ekdechomai is used 8 times in the Septuagint (LXX) (Ge 43:9; 44:32; Ps. 119:122; Is 57:1; Ho
8:7; 9:6; Mic. 2:12; Nah. 3:18)
Ekdechomai - 7 times in the NT…
John 5:3 In these lay a multitude of those who were sick, blind, lame, and withered,
waiting for the moving of the waters;
Acts 17:16HYPERLINK "/acts-17-commentary#17:16"+ Now while Paul was waiting
for them at Athens, his spirit was being provoked within him as he was beholding the
city full of idols.
1 Corinthians 11:33 So then, my brethren, when you come together to eat, wait for one
another.
1 Corinthians 16:11 Let no one therefore despise him. But send him on his way in peace,
so that he may come to me; for I expect him with the brethren.
Hebrews 10:13 waiting from that time onward until His enemies be made a footstool for
His feet.
Hebrews 11:10HYPERLINK "https://www.preceptaustin.org/hebrews_118-10#11:10"+
for he was looking for the city which has foundations, whose architect and builder is
God.
James 5:7HYPERLINK "/james-5-commentary#5:7"+ Be patient, therefore, brethren,
until the coming of the Lord. Behold, the farmer waits for the precious produce of the
soil, being patient about it, until it gets the early and late rains.
Enemies (2190) (echthros from échthos = hatred, enmity) means (in the active sense) to be
hateful, hostile toward, at enmity with or adversary of someone. In the passive sense echthros
pertains to being subjected to hostility, to be hated or to be regarded as an enemy. An enemy is
one that is antagonistic to another; especially seeking to injure, overthrow, or confound the
opponent. Scripture often uses echthros as a noun describing "the adversary", Satan! Like father
like son!

We were all enemies of God, we toward Him in rebellion, and He toward us in wrath, and
therefore we all needed to be reconciled to God. There would be no hope without the removal of
His wrath and our rebellion. Man is the enemy of God, not the reverse. Thus the hostility must be
removed from man if reconciliation is to be accomplished. God took the initiative in bringing
this about through the death of his Son.
In Colossians Paul uses echthros to explain that… although you were formerly alienated
(estranged - and hostile in mind, the antonym of reconciled) , engaged in evil deeds (echthros),
yet He has now reconciled (apokatallasso = reconcile fully, thoroughly, completely, change
thoroughly, of bringing together friends who have been estranged) you in His fleshly body
through death, in order to present you before (Literally = down in the eye of God ~ Coram Deo =
before the face of God) Him holy and blameless (amomos) and beyond reproach (anegkletos )
(see note Colossians 1:21-22)
Spurgeon - They are crushed already. Sin, which is the sting of death, has been removed, and
the law, which was the strength of sin, has been satisfied. Sin being put away by Christ’s death,
He has effectually broken the teeth of all His enemies. When Jesus Christ offered Himself unto
God He fulfilled that ancient promise, “The offspring of the woman will strike the serpent’s
head” (Gen 3:15). Christ has set His foot upon the old dragon’s head and crushed out His power.
Still, however, a feeble fight is kept up. Feeble, I say, for so it is to Christ, though to us it seems
vigorous. Sin and Satan within us, and all Christ’s enemies without us, including death itself, are
vainly raging against the Christ of God, for every day they are being put beneath His feet. Every
day as the battle rages the victory turns unto the enthroned Christ.
Footstool (5286) (hupopodion from hupopódios = underfoot from hupo = under + pous = foot)
is literally something under the feet and thus a foot rest or foot stool. The Jewish synagogue in
the 2-3rd century had a stone bench running along the walls, with a lower tier or footstool for the
feet of those sitting on the bench.
Hupopodion is used 9 times in the NT…
Matthew 5:35 or by the earth, for it is the footstool of His feet, or by Jerusalem, for it is
the city of the great King.
Matthew 22:44 'The Lord said to my LORD, "Sit at My right hand, Until I put Thine
enemies beneath Thy feet "'?
Mark 12:36 "David himself said in the Holy Spirit, 'The Lord said to my LORD, "Sit at
My right hand, Until I put Thine enemies beneath Thy feet.'"
Luke 20:43 Until I make Thine enemies a footstool for Thy feet."'
Acts 2:35HYPERLINK "/acts-2-commentary#2:35"+ Until I make Thine enemies a
footstool for Thy feet."'
Acts 7:49HYPERLINK "/acts-7-commentary#7:49"+ 'Heaven is My throne, And
earth is the footstool of My feet; What kind of house will you build for Me?' says the
Lord; 'Or what place is there for My repose?
Hebrews 1:13 But to which of the angels has He ever said, "Sit at My right hand, Until I
make Thine enemies A footstool for Thy feet "?
Hebrews 10:13 waiting from that time onward until His enemies be made a footstool for
His feet.

James 2:3 and you pay special attention to the one who is wearing the fine clothes, and
say, "You sit here in a good place," and you say to the poor man, "You stand over there,
or sit down by my footstool,"
Hupopodion is used 4 times in the Septuagint (LXX) (Ps. 99:5; Psalm 110:1; Is 66:1; Lam.
2:1)…
Psalm 99:5 Exalt ye the Lord our God, and worship at his footstool; for he is holy.
Lamentations 2:1 How the Lord has covered the daughter of Zion With a cloud in His
anger! He has cast from heaven to earth The glory of Israel, And has not remembered His
footstool In the day of His anger.
Isaiah 66:1 Thus says the LORD, "Heaven is My throne, and the earth is My footstool.
Where then is a house you could build for Me? And where is a place that I may rest?
Who are His enemies? (Heb 2:14, 15-note) for one enemy rendered powerless. Surely the fallen
flesh is an enemy of Christ and His righteousness! In 1 Cor 15:26 Paul describes the last enemy,
death. Satan, who now has "the power of death" over sinners will one day be incarcerated and
punished forever in the "lake of fire" (Rev 20:10HYPERLINK
"http://www.spiritandtruth.org/teaching/Book_of_Revelation/commentary/htm/032010.htm"+).
I know I'm a sinner and Christ is my need;
His death is my ransom, no merit I plead.
His work is sufficient, on Him I believe;
I have life eternal when Him I receive.
—Anon.
ONCE AND FOR EVER
Andrew Murray Hebrews 10:11-14
IN the last verses of Hebrews 7., where the eternal priesthood of Jesus had been set forth, He was
spoken of as one who needeth not daily to offer, for this He did once for all, when He offered up
Himself--a Son, perfected for evermore. And so in Hebrews 9., with its teaching of the efficacy
of His blood, we had the thought repeated, Christ entered in once for all. Not that He should
offer Himself often, else must He have often suffered; now once hath He been manifested; Christ
once offered shall appear a second time. The contrast is put as strongly as possible between the
sacrifices ever repeated, and the offering of Christ once for all. So, too, in the beginning of our
chapter the impotence of the sacrifices year by year continually is proved from the fact, that the
conscience once cleansed would need no new sacrifice; as a fact, they only renewed the
remembrance of sins. And now, in the concluding verses of the argument, the thought is summed
up and pressed home anew. The priest standeth day by day offering often-times; Christ offered
one sacrifice for ever. By one offering He hath perfected for ever them that are sanctified. The
once of Christ's work is the secret of its being for ever: the more clear the acceptance of that
divine once for all, the more sure the experience of that divine for ever, the continually abiding
working of the power of the endless life.
Once and for ever: see how the two go together in the work of Christ in its two principal
manifestations. In His death, His sacrifice, His blood-shedding, it is once for all. The propitiation
for sin, the bearing and the putting away of it, was so complete that of His suffering again, or
offering Himself again, there never can be any thought. God now remembers the sin no more for
ever. He has offered one sacrifice for ever; He hath perfected us for ever. No less is it so in His

resurrection and ascension into heaven. He entered once for all through His blood into the
Holiest. When He had offered one sacrifice for ever, He sat down on the right hand of God. The
once for all of His death is the secret of the for ever of the power of His sacrifice. The once for
all of His entering through the blood, the power of the for ever of His sitting on the throne.
What is true of Christ is true of His people. The law of His life is the law of theirs. Of the once
for all and the for ever of His work on earth and in heaven, their lives and spiritual experience
will feel the power and bear the mark. See it in conversion. How many have struggled for years
in doubt and fear, simply because they did not apprehend the once for all of Christ's atonement.
They could not understand how it was possible for a sinner once for all to believe and be saved.
No sooner was it made plain to them that the punishment was borne, that the debt was paid, once
for all, all became clear and they counted it their duty and joy at once to accept what was so
finished and so sure. And they could see, too, how the once was for ever--the power of the
endless life bearing them on into the for ever of God's presence.
And no otherwise is it with the believers entering within the veil, into a life of unclouded and
unbroken fellowship. We saw in Christ's work the two manifestations of the once and the for
ever. It was not only in the death and blood-shedding, but in the entering into the Holiest and the
blood-sprinkling in heaven. To many it appears at variance with all the laws of growth and
development, that there should be a once for all of an entrance within the veil. And yet there are
witnesses not a few who can testify that when the once of Christ's entering in was revealed in its
infinite power as theirs, all doubt vanished, and not only boldness but power of access was given,
which brought them into an experience of the eternal and unchanging power of the heavenly
priesthood, and of the kingdom within as set up and kept by the Holy Spirit, which they never
had thought of. And that once was followed by the for ever of the continually abiding, which the
priesthood of Jesus was meant to secure.
But He, when He had offered one sacrifice for sins for ever, sat down on the right hand of God;
from henceforth expecting till His enemies be made the footstool of His feet. We have said
before, the Epistle would fill us with the thought of a heavenly Christ; nothing less than the
knowledge of that can enable us to live as the partakers of a heavenly calling. Let us fix our eyes
here again upon Christ as King. The once of sacrifice and death issues in the for ever of the
nearness and the power of God. The once of our entrance into the death of Christ and His life,
brings us back to the fellowship with Christ in the love and power of the Father in heaven. His
for ever is one of victory', and of the blessed expectation of its full manifestation in the
subjugation of every enemy. Our life within the veil may he one too of possession and
expectation combined; the enjoyment of the overcoming life, with the going on from strength to
strength in the victory over every foe. Between these two pillars--on the one hand, this ONCE
FOR ALL, on the other this FOR EVER, the way into the Holiest passes and brings us to the
throne of God and of the Lamb.
1. The time when the long and patient preparation was perfected in this once for all was
in God's hands. Christ waited on the Father. Even so, our full participation in it is not
something we can count a thing to be grasped; in the faith of it we bide God's time,
seeking each day to live in a redemption that is perfected and eternal. Through faith and
longsuffering we inherit the promises.
2. Once for all. That covers my past completely--my past not only of guilt, but of sin with
all its consequences. For ever. That covers my future, with all its possible needs. Between
these two, in the present moment, the Now of daily life, I am saved with an everlasting

salvation; the To-day of the Eternal Spirit, even as the Holy Ghost saith, To-day--makes
the Once and the for ever a daily present reality. Andrew Murray. The Holiest of All
ANGELS, GOD’S GUARDIANS
Dr. W. A. Criswell
Hebrews 1:10-14
11-14-76 7:30 p.m.
We welcome you who are now listening to the service of the First Baptist Church in Dallas over
KCBI, the radio station that belongs to our Bible Institute, and over KRLD, the great radio
station of the Southwest. There are thousands and thousands of you who are listening to this hour
and to the pastor as he brings the message on Angels, God’s Guardians.
Now will you turn with me to the first chapter of the Book of Hebrews? Hebrews chapter 1 and
we are going to read out loud together verses 10 through 14; begin at chapter 1, to the end of—
begin with verse 10 in chapter 1, to the end of the chapter. And if on the radio you are sharing
the service with us, we encourage you to read it out loud with us. Get a Bible, and read it out
loud with us. All of us together, the Book of Hebrews, toward the end of your New Testament,
beginning at verse 10, now together:
And, Thou, Lord, in the beginning hast laid the foundation of the earth; and the heavens are the
works of Thine hands.
They shall perish, but Thou remainest: and they all shall wax old as doth a garment;
And as a vesture shalt Thou fold them up, and they shall be changed: but Thou art the same, and
Thy years shall not fail.
But to which of the angels said He at any time, Sit on My right hand, until I make Thine enemies
Thy footstool?
Are they not all ministering spirits, sent forth to minister for them who shall be heirs of
salvation?
[Hebrews 1:10-14]
The angelic guardians ministering to us from the Lord; the angels are “ministering spirits, sent
forth to minister for them who shall be heirs of salvation” [Hebrews 1:14].
In the sermon last Sunday night on Demons, the Hounds of Hell, I mentioned the fact in the
beginning, that there is more to this world than just substance and matter; there is another world.
There is another intelligence; there is another reality and it is the world of spirit. I tried to
illustrate it with a man who dies. His body, his physical frame, is there before you, every piece of
him, every part of him, it all is there, but he’s now a corpse, he’s a cadaver. What has happened?
Nobody knows. All of the medical authorities in the world could not define for you what is
death. There is something gone; there is a something other that constitutes a man. He is not just
body, he is not a lone physical frame; he is also soul and spirit. There is another world beyond
the world of substance and matter, and that is the world of spirit.

Then last Sunday night, I spoke of the introduction we have to this other world in the Holy
Scriptures. It begins with God, and God is spirit [John 4:24]. Then it continues with the Holy
Spirit of God brooding over the dark and chaotic world [Genesis 1:2]. Then it continues
throughout the Holy Scriptures, describing that other world that belongs to heaven.
Tonight, I speak of the angels, the guardians of God. They are a created host. We do not become
angels when we die, but the angels are a separate creation. For example, in Psalm 148: 2, 5 the
inspired psalmist writes, “Praise ye Him, all His angels: praise ye Him, all His hosts . . . Let them
praise the name of the Lord: for He commanded, and they were created.” We do not become
angels, but angels are a separate creation of Almighty God. Now in Job we read that they were
present when God made the universe, when He flung these planets to swing around their orbits.
In the thirty-eighth chapter of Job, God asks him, “Where wast thou when I created the earth,
when I laid its foundations [Job 38:4], when the morning stars sang together, and all the sons of
God, the angels of glory, shouted for joy?” [Job 38:7] When the Lord created this vast illimitable
universe it was perfect [Genesis 1:31]. It fell because of sin. But when God created it, it was
perfect. And when the angels of God looked upon it, they were amazed at the creative
workmanship of the Lord, and they shouted in amazement, and astonishment, and in joy [Job
38:7]. I learn from that, that they were created first; the heavenly hosts were created first, and
then God made this vast, illimitable universe [Job 38:7].
I read again in 1 Peter that as the Lord worked out the plan of redemption, they followed that
working out in as great an amazement as they saw the creation of God in the beginning. They did
not know what God was doing. They did not understand it. But as the Lord worked it out, and
they saw the developing redemption of the Lord through the ages and the ages [1 Peter 1:1-11], it
says in 1 Peter 1 that “these things the angels desired to look into” [1 Peter 1:12]. It was an
astonishment to them how God was working out the marvelous redemptive program for us. And
watching it, they desired to know it and to look into it. Can you imagine therefore the reception
that our Lord had in heaven, when after He was crucified for our sins, was buried, and was raised
the third day for our justification [1 Corinthians 15:3-4; Romans 4:25], when He returned back to
glory, what a triumph was accorded Him as He was received back into the gates of heaven by the
angelic hosts, who had watched with deepening interest the plan of redemption unfolding
through the ages?
There is only one sort of a hint in the Bible concerning a vast decision that those angels, created
by the Lord, made in some distant and unknown age in the past. There was rebellion in heaven.
Sin was found in Satan. And according to the twelfth chapter of the Apocalypse, one third of all
of the vast angelic hosts fell in that rebellion with Satan, and those angels are what you call
demons [Revelation 12:3-4]. They are the followers of Lucifer. But two thirds of the great
angelic hosts remain true to Almighty God, and they are eternal in their felicity, in their joy, in
their holiness, and in their happiness. They are called “the holy angels” of God [Mark 8:38].
They are called “the elect angels” of God [1 Timothy 5:21]. They are called the angels of light [2
Corinthians 11:14]. And now forever their status is fixed. That is the same way it shall be with
us.
We also have a tremendous decision to make in our lifetime, as in the life of the created angels of
God. And when that decision is finally made, it is forever fixed. After death, we are either saved
and in the bosom of the Father [Luke 16:22], or we are lost and forever shut out in outer
darkness, in the kingdom of damnation [Matthew 22:13]. And as it is with us, so it was with the
angels in heaven; having made their final decision, their status is forever fixed; some of them lost

and forever, and some of them in the presence of God, praising Him world without end
[Revelation 7:11].
We speak now of their number, and of their name, and of their rank. The numbers of angels, in
the fifth chapter of the Book of the Revelation, is called “ten thousand times ten thousand and
thousands of thousands” [Revelation 5:11]. The Greek is “myriads, upon myriads, upon
myriads.” That is, they are innumerable; they are without number. They are the hosts that follow
the Lord in heaven. And they have ranks: some of them are called archangels; one of those
archangels is called a “prince” of the people of God [Daniel 10:13, 12:1]. Another one is called
“Michael the archangel” [Jude 9]. And another one in a passage is to raise us from the dead with
“the voice of an archangel” [1 Thessalonians 4:16]. Some of them are archangels. Some of them
in the Bible are called mighty angels. Several times in the Apocalypse it speaks of a mighty
angel . . . “as of one who stands with one foot on the sea and one foot on the land [Revelation
10:1-2], and raises his hand to heaven . . . saying, The time shall be no more” [Revelation 10:5-
6], a mighty angel. Some of them are called cherubim [Genesis 3:24]. Some of them are called
seraphim [Isaiah 6:2]. But they are different ranks of the angelic hosts in heaven.
They have names, as we have; one of them we know is called Gabriel [Luke 1:26], that is, “the
hero of God,” or “the mighty one of God”; Gabriel. Another one is called Michael [Daniel 10:13;
Revelation 12:7], “who is like God,” Michael. One of them is called Lucifer, that is, “the son of
the morning” [Isaiah 14:12], the one who fell. And in non-canonical literature, one of them is
called Raphael, “God heals.” The angels are named as we are named, and each one of them has a
name, though their infinitude is beyond our comprehension.
And they have assignments. And in the Word of God you will find that the same angel does the
same thing all the way through the Bible. For example, Gabriel is the announcer and the herald
of God; wherever he appears in the Bible, he’s bringing an announcement. He’s heralding a great
truth. It was Gabriel who brought to the statesman-prophet Daniel, the revelation of the seventy
weeks [Daniel 9:21-27]. It was Gabriel who made the announcement to Zacharias that he should
have a son in his old age [Luke 1:11-20]. It was Gabriel who appeared to the virgin Mary in
Nazareth, that she should be the mother of this foretold and foreordained Child [Luke 1:26-38].
Wherever Gabriel appears, he’s doing the same thing. He’s the great messenger from the throne
of God.
When you follow the life and ministry of Michael it is the same thing. Wherever Michael
appears, he is the great champion of the people and is doing battle for God. In the Book of
Daniel, for example, he helps the angel who was hindered by the demon of Persia [Daniel
10:13]. It is Michael the archangel who is disputing with Satan over the body of Moses [Jude 9].
And in the twelfth chapter of the Apocalypse, it is Michael the archangel who is fighting with the
dragon and his demons, and it is Michael who prevails [Revelation 12:7-9]. So all through the
Word of the Lord, when you see these angels appear on the sacred page, they have their separate
assignments. They have their distinctive rank, and they’re always doing the same thing for the
Lord.
In my text, in the Book of Hebrews, they are described as “ministering spirits [Hebrews 1:14],
angelic spirits, who were sent forth to minister to us who are the heirs of salvation.” They are all
guardian angels, and God sends them from the gates of glory to help us and to minister to us. For
example, they protect us, the angelic hosts from heaven. Two of them were sent to Sodom to take
Lot and his family out lest they die in that holocaust [Genesis 19:1, 15-22]. It was when Elisha
was surrounded by the armies of Syria that unperturbed, unafraid—Gehazi his servant looked

upon him in amazement, and Elisha said, “But sir, they that are with us are more than they that
are with them” [2 Kings 6:15-16]. And Gehazi the servant looked around the city of Dothan,
everywhere that he looked there were the armies of Syria! And Elisha prayed and said, “Lord,
open the eyes of this young man.” And the Lord opened his eyes, and the mountains were filled
with chariots of fire round about Elisha [2 Kings 6:17].
In the lions’ den, it was an angel from God closing the mouths of the lions [Daniel 6:22]. And in
this beautiful passage in the eighteenth chapter of the Book of Matthew, verse [10], it says,
“These little ones, despise them not; for I say unto you, That in heaven their angels do always
behold the face of My Father which is in heaven” [Matthew 18:10]. Is He talking about little
children? Yes. Is He talking about young converts? Yes. Is He talking about us who somehow
are always in God’s sight? My little children, He is talking about us, too. In the presence of our
Father God in heaven, there is an angel who is close to the throne, who beholds the face of our
heavenly Father, and whose assignment is to watch over us; angels watching over us [Hebrews
1:14].
You see, God sends them for our strengthening and for our comforting. When Jacob, who had
never been away from home—when Jacob was sent to Haran, escaping the wrath of his brother
Esau, he laid down at night alone, took a stone for his pillow, and that night there appeared to
him a ladder. And the top of it leaned against the balustrades of glory and on the ladder were
angels. Do you remember what it says? “And there were angels ascending and descending”
[Genesis 28:12]. Where were they? They were in earth; they were with Jacob. They were
guardian angels and started there ascending to God and back down to Jacob. And when he
awoke, he said, “This is an awesome place; surely God is here” [Genesis 28:16-17]. And he
named it Beth–el, “the house of God” [Genesis 28:19]. Comforting us: when the Lord was
tempted in the wilderness [Matthew 4:1-10], there was an angel ministering to Him [Matthew
4:11]. And in the garden of Gethsemane, when He prayed [Luke 22:41-42]—and His sweat as it
were great drops of blood falling to the ground—an angel ministered to Him [Luke 22:43-44]. Is
not that our text? Who are these angels? “They are ministering spirits, sent forth to minister to
those who are the heirs of salvation” [Hebrews 1:14].
And God sends them to deliver us. However our trial, our persecution, our hardship, our
frustration, our disappointment in this life, angels are sent from heaven to deliver us. In the
twelfth chapter of the Book of Acts, it was an angel who smote Simon Peter on the side, and
awakened him [Acts 12:7]. The next morning he was to be executed by Herod Agrippa II; and
the angel led him forth out of the prison, and into the freedom of God’s beautiful world [Acts
12:8-10]. And in the Book of Acts, in that awful shipwreck, the apostle Paul stood and said to the
centurion and to the men who commanded the ship, “Be of good cheer, for there stood by me this
night an angel of the Lord, who said to me, Your life and all of these that are with you shall be
given you for a prey” [Acts 27:22-25]. Angels of God watching over us.
I had in my sermon, starting in the days of my childhood to this present moment, stories and
illustrations in my own life where God sent an angel to be guardian over me. One of them, and
the only one I’ll refer to, is one you’re familiar with, flying over the Amazon jungle, a vast
impenetrable forest, larger than continental United States; not a road in it, not a bridge in it—
flying in a little one engine, two-seated airplane, something happened. Sixty-five hundred feet in
a crossover, the engine exploded, it seemed to me. When you sink in the Amazon jungle, you
sink out of sight; no one could ever find you. A guardian angel brought it down; a guardian angel
set it in a place of a little tiny village. And a guardian angel lifted us up, and when he did, before

me was a rainbow, though there was no rain, there was a rainbow that followed us, preceded us,
all the way back to Yarinacocha; angels of God watching over us.
And how many times in your life could it have been a tragic accident, a deep and lasting sorrow,
and God sent an angel, watching over you? Thus does the Lord care for His people. They are
“ministering spirits, sent to us who are the heirs of salvation” [Hebrews 1:14]. It was an Angel
that was sent to Abraham that caught his arm when he was to plunge that knife into the heart of
his only begotten son, the child of promise, Isaac [Genesis 22:10-12]. An Angel spoke to him. It
was an angel that rolled away the stone before the sepulcher of our Lord and in contempt, it
seems to me, sat upon it, as though a stone could hold in a grave the Prince of glory, the Son of
God [Matthew 28:2]. And it is an angel who will come for us when we die [Luke 16:22]. Did
you hear that sweet song that Martha sang?
My latest sun is sinking fast,
My race is nearly run
My strongest trials now are past,
My triumph is begun!
O come, angel band, come, and around me stand,
O bear me away on your snowy wings
To my immortal home.
[“My Latest Sun is Sinking Fast,” J. W. Dadmun, 1860]
When we die, God will send an angel for us—guardian angels [Hebrews 1:14], watching over us:
Looking over Jordan, what did I see,
Coming after me? A band of angels
Swing low, sweet chariot, coming for to carry me home.
Swing low, sweet chariot, coming for to carry me home.
[from “Swing Low, Sweet Chariot,” Wallace Willis, 1862]
It will be an angel who will come for you, “And the angels carried Lazarus to Abraham’s
bosom” [Luke 16:22].
It will be the angels who accompany Christ when He comes again at the end of the age, at the
consummation of the world. How many of them? Heretofore in the Bible they have always
appeared just one, or just two. The only time many of them appeared was in the angelic choir;
singing, proclaiming, when Jesus was born in Bethlehem [Luke 2:13-15]—but in the Bible,
almost always it will be one or two—and that one exception of a choir when Jesus was born. But
when the Lord comes again, according to the twenty-fifth chapter of the Book of Matthew
[Matthew 25:31], according to the fifth chapter of the Book of Revelation [Revelation 5:11-12],
when the Lord comes again, He will come with all of the angelic hosts of heaven. Think of that.
Think of that! The myriads and the myriads, and the thousands times ten thousands, and
thousands of thousands when the Lord comes for His own [Revelation 5:11], I cannot imagine it!
My finite mind cannot grasp it. But when I try to think of it—when the Lord comes and all of the
angels [Matthew 25:31] with Him, and all of the saints in glory [Jude 14]—I think of a grand
finale in an opera, or in a drama, or on a stage, or by a great choir. And when the great finale

comes, they’re all there, singing and praising God to the top of their voices. That’s the way it’s
going to be when Jesus comes again. If they sang at His birth [Luke 2:11-15], if they welcomed
Him into glory when He was raised from the dead [Acts 1:9-10], think what it will be when the
Lord comes again with the hosts of heaven [Jude 1:14]. Oh, I want to be there! Don’t you?
Included in that number, waiting for Jesus, when He comes, or raised from the dust of the ground
to meet Him in the air [1 Thessalonians 4:16-17].
And that’s the appeal we press to your heart tonight. This night, this holy hour, giving yourself in
faith [Ephesians 2:8; Romans 10:8-13], in love, in commitment to our blessed Savior, come, and
welcome. In this balcony round, down one of these stairways; in the throng of people on this
lower floor, down one of these aisles, “Today, pastor, I have made my decision for Christ, and
I’m coming.” A family you, to put your life with us in this dear church; a couple you, or just one
somebody you; make the decision now in your heart, and in a moment when we stand to sing,
stand walking down that stairway, or coming down this aisle. And may the angels of God attend
you in the way as you come, while we stand and while we sing.
The Conclusion of the Theological
Argument: Hebrews
Hebrews 10:11-18
Dr. S. Lewis Johnson gives exposition on the writer of Hebrews' evidences of the completed
work of the Holy Spirit in the lives of believers in Christ.
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[Prayer] Father, we thank Thee for another opportunity to look at the Epistle to the Hebrews and
reflect upon the saving work of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ. We thank Thee for the
magnificent treatise, we thank Thee for its exaltation of our Lord and all that he’s done for us.

And we thank Thee, as well, for the admonitions which remind us that there is a responsibility
that each of us has with reference to the divine revelation, that when we read and ponder the
word of God things happen in our own heart and in our own lives either positively or negatively.
And we ask, Lord, that by Thy grace we may respond to the ministry of the word in a positive
way in order that the positive things that Thou hast promised may be our experience. We know
there are difficult trials that all of us must face, but one of the most important things is the
responsibility to the Scriptures that have been made known to us, given to us, preserved for us,
and we know that our responsibility is to submit to them. Lord, enable us, by Thy marvelous
grace, through the work of the Holy Spirit in our hearts, to be in submission to the word of God.
We pray that our studies may direct us into a deeper understanding of our Lord and Savior Jesus
Christ and through that more submission to him. We pray for each one present. We thank Thee
for them, for their interest in the word of God. We pray Thy blessing upon them, upon them in
their lives and in their families and among their friends; and may the aspirations and desires of
their hearts be met, Lord. We thank Thee for the assurance of the presence of the Holy Spirit
with us as we turn to the Scriptures and think the thoughts of our great sovereign God after him.
We pray now for each one present.
May our meeting honor our Lord Jesus Christ. In whose name we pray. Amen.
[Message] Well, tonight we are coming to the conclusion of the theological argument. That’s the
title that I’ve chosen for our subject tonight and I don’t want to imply by that there is no further
theological thought because there is, but that which he began in the first chapter reaches
something of a climax here in chapter 10 in verse 18, almost universally recognized by the
commentators who have written books on the Epistle to the Hebrews. So we’re calling it “The
Conclusion of the Theological Argument” reflected in that 18th verse, especially, “Now where
there is remission of these, there is no longer an offering for sin.”
Let’s read beginning at verse 11 through 18, last week we looked at verse 1 through verse 10.
These eighteen verses belong together but there was so much in them that I did something
contrary to what I usually do; I’ve divided it up into two messages. It could be divided, of
course, into many. But verse 11, the author writes.
“And every priest stands ministering daily and offering repeatedly the same sacrifices, which can
never take away sins. But this Man, after He had offered one sacrifice for sins forever, sat down
at the right hand of God, from that time waiting till His enemies are made His footstool. For by
one offering He has perfected forever those who are being sanctified. But the Holy Spirit also
witnesses to us; for after He had said before, ‘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,’ then He adds, ‘Their sins and their lawless deeds I will remember no more.’ Now
where there is remission of these, there is no longer an offering for sin.”
Now, if you followed along, you’ve noted, of course, that the new priesthood, after the order of
Melchizedek, which the Lord Jesus ministers in, is a final priesthood. The New Covenant that we
have looked at, particularly, in the 7th, 8th and 9th chapters, is a final covenant; and the new
sacrifice that he has just spoken about in detail, in chapter 10, although he’s referred to it in other
places, is also a final sacrifice. No replacements are necessary for the priesthood, for the
covenant or for the sacrifice. They are as we said last week, done deals. There is one priesthood
after the order of Melchizedek. There is one New Covenant. And, there is one final sacrifice.

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