Hebrews
The Hebrews writer completes his lesson with inspiration from faith (Heb 11), encouragement from hope (Heb 12), and finally, the challenge to continue in their commitment of love, being content in trust.
Do you make every effort to live in peace with everyone? To be holy? Why does the writer warn to “see to it” that no one gives in to that specific list of sins? Make every effort to live in peace with everyone and to be holy; without holiness no one will see the Lord.…
Endure hardship as discipline; God is treating you as his children.” Hebrews 12:7 We don’t like suffering. Particularly in our culture, suffering is to be avoided at all costs. However, suffering is one of God’s vehicles of choice for helping us grow. No discipline seems pleasant at the time, but painful. Later on, however, it…
According to Hebrews 12, we have many obstacles and sin that easily entangles us, discouraging us in our race. Fixing our eyes on Jesus is how we can persevere.
Now faith is confidence in what we hope for and assurance about what we do not see. This is what the ancients were commended for.By faith we understand that the universe was formed at God’s command, so that what is seen was not made out of what was visible.” Hebrews 11:1-3 In Hebrews 11, learn…
If I sin, am I out? If not, do I have a license to sin? The scriptures describe our salvation as a divine relationship, not a moral standing. Listen and explore the nature of our salvation described in Hebrews 10.
Jesus is a High Priest of the order of Melchizedek. What does that mean and how does it impact our faith?
The people of the Exodus had two bodies of water to cross: the Red Sea symbolizes baptism -their transformation from slavery to freedom, much as we enter baptism as slaves to sin and emerge free of it. They also needed to cross the Jordan and receive the promised rest, but they didn’t. Hebrews warns us…
In Hebrews 12, it says that Jesus was able to endure the shame of the cross for the joy set before him. What was this amazing joy that helped Jesus endure?
Leaving Christianity to return to Judaism would be a mistake for the Jewish Christians suffering persecution in Rome. The Hebrew writer challenges them to not make the mistake their ancestors did in the desert with Moses, which resulted in hardness of heart.
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