Hebrews 4:1-3
A FURTHER WARNING AGAINST UNBELIEF. The promise still in force:... [ Continue Reading ]
A FURTHER WARNING AGAINST UNBELIEF. The promise still in force:... [ Continue Reading ]
LET US THEREFORE FEAR, LEST, A PROMISE BEING LEFT US OF ENTERING INTO HIS REST, ANY ONE OF YOU SHOULD SEEM TO COME SHORT OF IT.... [ Continue Reading ]
FOR UNTO US WAS THE GOSPEL PREACHED AS WELL AS UNTO THEM; BUT THE WORD PREACHED DID NOT PROFIT THEM, NOT BEING MIXED WITH FAITH IN THEM THAT HEARD IT.... [ Continue Reading ]
FOR WE WHICH HAVE BELIEVED DO ENTER INTO REST, AS HE SAID, AS I HAVE SWORN IN MY WRATH, IF THEY SHALL ENTER INTO MY REST; ALTHOUGH THE WORKS WERE FINISHED FROM THE FOUNDATION OF THE WORLD. The inspired writer here continues his warning based upon the incidents of the journey in the wilderness: Let u... [ Continue Reading ]
FOR HE SPAKE IN A CERTAIN PLACE OF THE SEVENTH DAY ON THIS WISE, AND GOD DID REST ON THE SEVENTH DAY FROM ALL HIS WORKS.... [ Continue Reading ]
The rest remaining to the people of God:... [ Continue Reading ]
AND IN THIS PLACE AGAIN, IF THEY SHALL ENTER INTO MY REST.... [ Continue Reading ]
SEEING THEREFORE IT REMAINETH THAT SOME MUST ENTER THEREIN, AND THEY TO WHOM IT WAS FIRST PREACHED ENTERED NOT IN BECAUSE OF UNBELIEF;... [ Continue Reading ]
AGAIN, HE LIMITETH A CERTAIN DAY, SAYING IN DAVID, TODAY, AFTER SO LONG A TIME; AS IT IS SAID, TODAY IF YE WILL HEAR HIS VOICE, HARDEN NOT YOUR HEARTS.... [ Continue Reading ]
FOR IF JESUS HAD GIVEN THEM REST, THEN WOULD HE NOT AFTERWARD HAVE SPOKEN OF ANOTHER DAY.... [ Continue Reading ]
THERE REMAINETH THEREFORE A REST TO THE PEOPLE OF GOD.... [ Continue Reading ]
FOR HE THAT IS ENTERED INTO HIS REST, HE ALSO HATH CEASED FROM HIS OWN WORKS, AS GOD DID FROM HIS. The fact that all the works of God, including the eternal rest in the mansions above, were finished from the foundation of the world, is here substantiated from Holy Writ: For He spoke somewhere concer... [ Continue Reading ]
LET US LABOR THEREFORE TO ENTER INTO THAT REST, LEST ANY MAN FALL AFTER THE SAME EXAMPLE OF UNBELIEF.... [ Continue Reading ]
BOLDNESS IN FAITH IN OUR HIGH PRIEST. The power of God's Word in the face of unbelief:... [ Continue Reading ]
FOR THE WORD OF GOD IS QUICK, AND POWERFUL, AND SHARPER THAN ANY TWO-EDGED SWORD, PIERCING EVEN TO THE DIVIDING ASUNDER OF SOUL AND SPIRIT, AND OF THE JOINTS AND MARROW, AND IS A DISCERNER OF THE THOUGHTS AND INTENTS OF THE HEART.... [ Continue Reading ]
NEITHER IS THERE ANY CREATURE THAT IS NOT MANIFEST IN HIS SIGHT; BUT ALL THINGS ARE NAKED AND OPENED UNTO THE EYES OF HIM WITH WHOM WE HAVE TO DO. The exhortation follows naturally from the exposition: Let us, then, earnestly strive to enter into that rest, lest anyone fall in the same sort of unbe... [ Continue Reading ]
SEEING, THEN, THAT WE HAVE A GREAT HIGH PRIEST, THAT IS PASSED INTO THE HEAVENS, JESUS, THE SON OF GOD, LET US HOLD FAST OUR PROFESSION.... [ Continue Reading ]
The encouragement offered by our great High Priest:... [ Continue Reading ]
FOR WE HAVE NOT AN HIGH PRIEST WHICH CANNOT BE TOUCHED WITH THE FEELING OF OUR INFIRMITIES, BUT WAS IN ALL POINTS TEMPTED LIKE AS WE ARE, YET WITHOUT SIN.... [ Continue Reading ]
LET US THEREFORE COME BOLDLY UNTO THE THRONE OF GRACE, THAT WE MAY OBTAIN MERCY AND FIND GRACE TO HELP IN TIME OF NEED. The picture which the inspired writer had just drawn of the omniscience of God as revealed through His Word might well cause the average reader to quail in terror, feeling his own... [ Continue Reading ]