_TRUE OR FALSE OVER CHAPTER TWELVE_ 1. The Christian life is compared with running a race. 2. The Author and Finisher of our faith is Christ. 3. The Lord chastens those whom He loves. 4. Esau bought his brother's birthright. 5. A term applied to the church is the general assembly. 6. Our... [ Continue Reading ]
III. _The perfect and final faith of the Christian dispensation. Hebrews 12:1-29_. A. _Jesus, the Author and Perfector of our faith. Hebrews 12:1-3_. _TEXT_ Hebrews 12:1-3 Hebrews 12:1 Therefore let us also, seeing we are compassed about with so great a cloud of witnesses, lay aside every weigh... [ Continue Reading ]
B. _Perils threatening the life of faith. Hebrews 12:4-17_. 1. _Failure to respond to chastening. Hebrews 12:4-13_. _TEXT_ Hebrews 12:4 Ye have not yet resisted unto blood, striving against sin: Hebrews 12:5 and ye have forgotten the exhortation which reasoneth with you as with sons. My son, r... [ Continue Reading ]
_Falling short of the grace of God. Hebrews 12:14-17_ _TEXT_ Hebrews 12:14-17 Hebrews 12:14 Follow after peace with all men, and the sanctification without which no man shall see the Lord: Hebrews 12:15 looking carefully lest there be any man that falleth short of the grace of God; lest any root o... [ Continue Reading ]
C. _The nature of the old covenant in contrast with that of the new. Hebrews 12:18-24_. 1. The terror of the old. Hebrews 12:18-21. _TEXT_ Hebrews 12:18-21 Hebrews 12:18 For ye are not come unto a mount that might be touched, and that burned with fire, and unto blackness, and darkness, and temp... [ Continue Reading ]
_The mercy of the new. Hebrews 12:22-24_. _TEXT_ Hebrews 12:22-24 Hebrews 12:22 but ye are come unto mount Zion, and unto the city of the living God, the heavenly Jerusalem, and to innumerable hosts of angels, Hebrews 12:23 to the general assembly and church of the Firstborn who are enrolled in he... [ Continue Reading ]
D. _Warning. Hebrews 12:25-29_. _TEXT_ Hebrews 12:25-29 Hebrews 12:25 See that ye refuse not Him that speaketh. For if they escaped not when they refused Him that warned them on earth, much more shall not we escape who turn away from Him that warneth from heaven: Hebrews 12:26 Whose Voice then sh... [ Continue Reading ]