Category: Hebrews

Good Morning!

Hebrews 3:7-14(NIV)

7 So, as the Holy Spirit says:

“Today, if you hear his voice,

8 do not harden your hearts

as you did in the rebellion,

during the time of testing in the wilderness,

9 where your ancestors tested and tried me,

though for forty years they saw what I did.

10 That is why I was angry with that generation;

I said, ‘Their hearts are always going astray,

and they have not known my ways.’

11 So I declared on oath in my anger,

‘They shall never enter my rest.’ ”[b]

12 See to it, brothers and sisters, that none of you has a sinful, unbelieving heart that turns away from the living God. 13 But encourage one another daily, as long as it is called “Today,” so that none of you may be hardened by sin’s deceitfulness. 14 We have come to share in Christ, if indeed we hold our original conviction firmly to the very end. 

Thoughts:

Be encouraged that you have been given “Today!” The potential is bounded by no one. The Holy Spirit has given this day to you to make what you want of it. It is your free will to choose. And regardless of your choice, He will forever love you. But, this day, let us do something for Him by doing something for the ones He loves most…you and I.

Today, in the name of Jesus, do something for yourself, and then do something for another person. It can be someone you know, or not. It can be a huge amazing gift, or it can be a simple hello. For as long as there is love in your gift, love of Jesus, it will bring Glory and Honor to the one that made all things.

Have a beautiful “Today.”

Amen

JesusSaves

Moses was an incredible and amazing man…As Sprit-Filled and wonderful as he was, Jesus is the Son of God!

Hebrews 3:1-6 (NIV)

3 Therefore, holy brothers and sisters, who share in the heavenly calling, fix your thoughts on Jesus, whom we acknowledge as our apostle and high priest. 2 He was faithful to the one who appointed him, just as Moses was faithful in all God’s house. 3 Jesus has been found worthy of greater honor than Moses, just as the builder of a house has greater honor than the house itself. 4 For every house is built by someone, but God is the builder of everything. 5 “Moses was faithful as a servant in all God’s house,”[a] bearing witness to what would be spoken by God in the future. 6 But Christ is faithful as the Son over God’s house. And we are his house, if indeed we hold firmly to our confidence and the hope in which we glory.

 
Thoughts:

These verses are written to establish who Jesus was for all. Not just for Jews, but for all Gentiles. We are the Gentiles. He was given to us by God. Moses was awesome…no doubt there. The obedience and Faith of Moses has never been questioned. However, Jesus was, is, and will always be more. So much more was Jesus, that He is ENOUGH!!!

I love the analogy to the House that Jesus built. We are the house, and God the builder through Jesus Christ. And as great and wonderful and perfect as His houses are…Jesus is Greater. The builder is greater. Our Savior is greater!!! Amen!

Hallelujah…Jesus Saves!

We were sent a Savior that we can see, feel, and relate to. God did that for us.

Hebrews 2:5-18 (NIV)
Jesus Made Fully Human

⁵ It is not to angels that he has subjected the world to come, about which we are speaking. ⁶ But there is a place where someone has testified:

“What is mankind that you are mindful of them,
    a son of man that you care for him?
⁷ You made them a little^[a] lower than the angels;
    you crowned them with glory and honor
⁸  and put everything under their feet.”^[b][c]

In putting everything under them,^[d] God left nothing that is not subject to them.^[e] Yet at present we do not see everything subject to them.^[f] 9 But we do see Jesus, who was made lower than the angels for a little while, now crowned with glory and honor because he suffered death, so that by the grace of God he might taste death for everyone.

¹⁰ In bringing many sons and daughters to glory, it was fitting that God, for whom and through whom everything exists, should make the pioneer of their salvation perfect through what he suffered. ¹¹ Both the one who makes people holy and those who are made holy are of the same family. So Jesus is not ashamed to call them brothers and sisters.^[g] 12 He says,

“I will declare your name to my brothers and sisters;
    in the assembly I will sing your praises.”^[h]

¹³ And again,

“I will put my trust in him.”^[i]

And again he says,

“Here am I, and the children God has given me.”^[j]

¹⁴ Since the children have flesh and blood, he too shared in their humanity so that by his death he might break the power of him who holds the power of death—that is, the devil— ¹⁵ and free those who all their lives were held in slavery by their fear of death. ¹⁶ For surely it is not angels he helps, but Abraham’s descendants. ¹⁷ For this reason he had to be made like them,^[k]fully human in every way, in order that he might become a merciful and faithful high priest in service to God, and that he might make atonement for the sins of the people. ¹⁸ Because he himself suffered when he was tempted, he is able to help those who are being tempted.

Thoughts:
It would have been easy for Jesus to solve all problems with force, but God had done that once already. Instead, He was sent to us to give Himself fully to us in forgiveness of sin. God knows what we require as His creation. We are a creation in need of confirmation by sight. Our eyes can blind, even still.

So when Jesus came to us, we were given an example to follow, to emulate. We were even given the same miraculous powers He was given by the Father as well. All of this in order that we would be saved from our sin. Yes, that sin as well. And that one. Yes!

Amen! JesusSaves!

All the power in all of the Universe, known and unknown to us, lay in the hands of Jesus Christ. God deemed it so. The name above all other names…

Hebrews 2:1-4 (NIV)
1 We must pay the most careful attention, therefore, to what we have heard, so that we do not drift away. 2 For since the message spoken through angels was binding, and every violation and disobedience received its just punishment, 3 how shall we escape if we ignore so great a salvation? This salvation, which was first announced by the Lord, was confirmed to us by those who heard him. 4 God also testified to it by signs, wonders and various miracles, and by gifts of the Holy Spirit distributed according to his will.

 
Thoughts:

The Angels spoke it, and as such it is a very strong message. One that ties and binds us to punishment by the law. The old law. But God sent His only son. By doing so we been set free from even that which had previously been said through Angels and prophets sent by God. Jesus cleaned it all up and took with Him to the cross.

As believers in Christ Jesus, we are no longer subject to the law. Instead we have been redeemed and set free through the blood of Jesus. Amen…it is Finished!!! Hallelujah! JesusSaves!

Jesus is established as being above all others who have ever come before Him. Jesus is the Alpha and the Omega…the Beginning and the End. He is ALL!

Hebrews 1:5-14 (NIV)
5 For to which of the angels did God ever say,

“You are my Son; today I have become your Father”[a]?

Or again,

“I will be his Father, and he will be my Son”[b]?

6 And again, when God brings his firstborn into the world, he says,

“Let all God’s angels worship him.”[c]
7 In speaking of the angels he says,

“He makes his angels spirits, and his servants flames of fire.”[d]

8 But about the Son he says,

“Your throne, O God, will last for ever and ever; a scepter of justice will be the scepter of your kingdom. 9 You have loved righteousness and hated wickedness; therefore God, your God, has set you above your companions by anointing you with the oil of joy.”[e]

10 He also says,

“In the beginning, Lord, you laid the foundations of the earth, and the heavens are the work of your hands. 11 They will perish, but you remain; they will all wear out like a garment. 12 You will roll them up like a robe; like a garment they will be changed. But you remain the same, and your years will never end.”[f] 13 To which of the angels did God ever say, “Sit at my right hand until I make your enemies a footstool for your feet”[g]?

14 Are not all angels ministering spirits sent to serve those who will inherit salvation?

  
Thoughts:

Put to rest any notion that maybe, just maybe, Jesus was a prophet. He was not. Put to rest any notion that He was just a teacher. He was more…way more. Put to rest any notion that Jesus came to us to do anything less than save every soul that ever drew a breath of air, every living soul that ever draws a breath of air today, and every living soul that will ever breath. He did, is, and will save us all!

In these verses, He is given credence. Not for Him, but for YOU. So that it is laid out in black and white so that any shadow of doubt can be quenched and doused. Jesus is the Creator. Jesus is our Savior. Jesus is Lord! Amen! Hallelujah!

Jesus is found throughout the Bible, concealed in the Old, and revealed in the New. Over the next few months, I will be studying the Book of Hebrews. Please feel free to follow along and comment.

Hebrews 1:1-4 (NIV)
God’s Final Word: His Son

1 In the past God spoke to our ancestors through the prophets at many times and in various ways, ² but in these last days he has spoken to us by his Son, whom he appointed heir of all things, and through whom also he made the universe. ³ The Son is the radiance of God’s glory and the exact representation of his being, sustaining all things by his powerful word. After he had provided purification for sins, he sat down at the right hand of the Majesty in heaven. ⁴ So he became as much superior to the angels as the name he has inherited is superior to theirs.

The name of Jesus! There is power in that name. The name of our Savior. The name of our Advocate, who sits at the right hand of the Father and pleads our case for us with His blood.

Prior to Jesus coming for us, prophecy was given through man. With Jesus though, the Word was made real. The Word of God walked among us, and He walked for us. It is in these verses at the beginning of the Book of Hebrews that we are told that Jesus is higher than all others that have come before Him. Jesus is the last word. And it is the most powerful word ever spoken. JESUS!
Amen! Maranatha!!!
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