C H Spurgeon on Hebrews 12 & God's "Punishment"

"God's people can never by any possibility be punished for their sins. God has punished them already in the person of Christ, Christ, their substitute, has endured the full penalty for all their guilt, and neither the justice nor the love of God can ever exact again that which Christ has paid. Punishment can never happen to a child of God in the judicial sense".

C H Spurgeon - "Chastisement" - New Park Street Pulpit - delivered on Sabbath Morning, October 28, 1855

Ern Baxter on Jesus as our Great High Priest

"As our High Priest having entered God's Presence He is called the "forerunner" (Hebrews 6:20) ... Jesus is there to establish our right to be with Him in the Presence of God now in the Spirit and be "forever" with Him after the resurrection. See Him then as the forerunner "for us" and rejoice that He is the guarantee of permament access to the Father".

Ern Baxter - "Christ's Ministry Today" - New Wine Magazine - July/August 1977 - CGM Publications - (p10).

C H Spurgeon on Hebrews 10:9

"He taketh away the first that He may establish the second".

"I want to urge all of you to come to this decision very emphatically. I beesech you never to try to bring back "the first". I do not suppose you will ever literally imitate the Jews, and offer the sacrifices enjoined under the ceremonial law; but there is, in certain quarters an attempt to bring back portions of it, ill-formed, broken bones of that which has long since been dead. For instance, when men insist upon it that such an unscriptural ceremony as infant sprinkling is necessary to salvation and that another man-made rite must be performed or else grace will not come to us, if we yield to their pretensions for a single moment - we shall be putting ourselves under the bondage of a ceremonial law which has not even the authority which the law given by Moses had".

C H Spurgeon - "Metropolitan Tabernacle - 1900 - Volume 46" - Pilgrim Publication (1977) - (p507).