If you are still part of a religious organization, such as a Christian Church, in America today, look around at the people in your religious group and see if any of them have suffered like Paul did as he described here. The fact is that Christians in America today are the majority, es...
Hebrews 12:11 No discipline seems enjoyable at the time, but painful. Later on, however, it yields a harvest of righteousness and peace to those who have been trained by it. Romans 7:4 Therefore, my brothers, you also died to the law through the body of Christ, that you might belong...
If you are still part of a religious organization, such as a Christian Church, in America today, look around at the people in your religious group and see if any of them have suffered like Paul did as he described here. The fact is that Christians in America today are the majority, esp...
As the Hebrews spent 40 years in the wilderness, so Jesus is led by the Spirit into the wilderness. There after 40 days of fasting – which sharpens our vision of what really matters – to be tempted, or more helpfully tested, judged, tried. (in the way one might try a metal to see...
Hebrews 4:8For if Joshua had given them rest, God would not have spoken later about another day.Acts 7:45And our fathers who received it brought it in with Joshua when they dispossessed the nations God drove out before them. It remained until the time of David,Psalm 78:55He drove out...
Actually, the Old and New Testaments make up a unified whole, and God’s spiritual law and His thinking do not change (Malachi 3:6; Hebrews 13:8). Still, all of the 10 Commandments are mentioned in the New Testament, and as a group they are called: The way to “enter into life”...
Have you ever wondered why the Hebrews kept making graven images of golden calves or bulls? It is because the bull is a symbol of strength, so if you are going to make your own god, you would naturally want that god to give the impression of being strong. Therefore, when a prophet ...
HEBREWS 10 Christ’s Sacrifice Once for All 1The law is only a shadow of the good things that are coming—not the realities themselves. For this reason it can never, by the same sacrifices repeated endlessly year after year, make perfect those who draw near to worship. 2Otherwise, would ...
HEBREWS 2 Warning to Pay Attention 1We must pay the most careful attention, therefore, to what we have heard, so that we do not drift away. 2For since the message spoken through angels was binding, and every violation and disobedience received its just punishment, 3how shall we escape if...
Hebrews 7 New International Version Melchizedek the Priest 7 This Melchizedek was king of Salem and priest of God Most High. He met Abraham returning from the defeat of the kings and blessed him, 2 and Abraham gave him a tenth of everything. First, the name Melchizedek means “king of ...