The Prayers of the Apostles - Booklet Two - Hebrews 13,20, 21

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The Prayers of the Apostles – Booklet Two
A. W. Pink

Hebrews 13:20, 21

“Now the God of peace, that brought again from the dead our Lord Jesus, that great shepherd of the sheep, through the blood of the everlasting covenant, Make you perfect in every good work to do his will, working in you that which is wellpleasing in his sight, through Jesus Christ; to whom be glory for ever and ever. Amen” Hebrews 13:20, 21.

This prayer contains a remarkable epitome of the entire epistle―an epistle to which every minister of the Gospel should devote special attention. Nothing else is so much needed today as expository sermons on the epistle to the Romans and the Hebrews: the former supplying that which is best suited to repel the Legalism and Arminianism which are now so rife; and the latter to refute the cardinal errors of Rome and expose the sacerdotal pretensions of her priests. It provides the divine antidote to the poisonous spirit of ritualism, which is now making such fatal inroads into so many sections of a decadent Protestantism. That which occupies the central portion in this vitally important and most blessed treatise is the Priesthood of Christ, which embodies the substance of what was foreshadowed both in Melchizedek and Aaron. Therein it is shown that His one perfect sacrifice has forever displaced the Levitical institutions and made an end of the whole Judaic system. That all-sufficient oblation of the Lord Jesus made complete atonement for the sins of His people, fully satisfying every legal claim which God had upon them, thereby rendering needless any efforts of theirs to placate Him. “For by one offering he hath perfected for ever them that are sanctified” (Heb. 10:14), or set apart unto God in all the excellence of His finished work. God’s acceptance of Christ’s atoning sacrifice was demonstrated by His raising Christ from the dead and setting Him at the right hand of the Majesty on high. That which characterized Judaism …