LET US RUN WITH PATIENCE -- Hebrews 12:1-29 -- Hebrews 12:1-29 is the chapter that really begins to make application of what has been learned concerning the priesthood of Jesus. This chapter provides motivation to run with perseverance the Christian race. Now that we have learned what saving faith... [ Continue Reading ]
_RUN THE CHRISTIAN RACE -- HEBREWS 12:1-3:_ This great chapter begins, "wherefore seeing we also are compassed about with so great a cloud of witnesses, let us lay aside every weight, and the sin which doth so easily beset us, and let us run with patience the race that is set before us." (Hebrews 12... [ Continue Reading ]
_RUN WITH ENDURANCE -- HEBREWS 12:4-17:_ Christians must be faithful, even during the worst of suffering. Christ suffered, even unto death. His sufferings are contrasted with the sufferings of the Hebrew Christians. The statement that they had not "yet resisted unto blood" was a warning of more seve... [ Continue Reading ]
_ RUN TO THE HEAVENLY JERUSALEM -- HEBREWS 12:18-22:_ The goal of the Christian is not Mount Sinai. That mountain is not our goal, even though at that mountain there was an awesome demonstration of God's power. (Exodus 19:1-25; Exodus 20:1-26) Even the sound of God's voice was so powerful that the p... [ Continue Reading ]
_RUN TILL THE RACE IS OVER -- HEBREWS 12:23-29:_ The great motivation to run is that we are: (a) A part of the general assembly, (b) Members of the church of the firstborn, (c) Part of an immovable kingdom, and (d) Serving our God who is a consuming fire. Why would anyone turn from Christianity bac... [ Continue Reading ]