Come Alongside Let us hold unswervingly to the hope we profess, for he who promised is faithful. And let us consider how we may spur one another on toward love and good deeds. Let us not give up meeting together, as some are in the habit of doing, but let us encourage one another –
In Tune with Jesus For in just a very little while, ‘He who is coming will come and will not delay. But my righteous one will live by faith. And if he shrinks back, I will not be pleased with him.’ But we are not of those who shrink back and are destroyed, but of
Our Future Hope Now faith is being sure of what we hope for and certain of what we don’t see. This is what the ancients were commended for Hebrews 11:1,2 These opening two verses are a capsule summary of the chapter. Hebrews 11 brings together a description of faith (the key Hebrews’ readers will need
Being Certain By faith we understand that the universe was formed at God’s command, so that what is seen was not made out of what was visible. By faith Abel … By faith Enoch … By faith Noah … By faith Abraham Hebrews 11:3,4,5,7,8 Why does the writer of Hebrews talk about how our world
A Promised City All these people were still living by faith when they died. They did not receive the things promised; they only saw them and welcomed them from a distance. And they admitted that they were aliens and strangers on earth. People who say such things show that they are looking for a country
The Faithful Great Others were tortured and refused to be released, so that they might gain a better resurrection. Some faced jeers and flogging, while still others were chained and put in prison. They were stoned. They were sawed in two; they were put to death by the sword. They went about in sheepskins and
The Race Therefore since we are surrounded by such a great cloud of witnesses, let us throw off everything that hinders and the sin that so easily entangles, and let us run with perseverance the race marked out for us. Let us fix our eyes on Jesus, the author and perfecter of our faith, who
Our Home But you have come to Mount Zion, to the heavenly Jerusalem, the city of the living God. You have come to … Jesus the mediator of a new covenant, and to the sprinkled blood that speaks a better word than the blood of Abel Hebrews 12:22,24 The writer has just described the mountain
God’s New World Therefore, since we are receiving a kingdom that cannot be shaken, let us be thankful, and so worship God acceptably with reverence and awe, for our “God is a consuming fire” Hebrews 12:28,29 The passage that concludes with our text above is an ominous warning that God has said He will shake
Our Greatest Security Keep your lives free from the love of money and be content with what you have, because God has said, “Never will I leave you; never will I forsake you.” So we say with confidence, “The Lord is my helper; I will not be afraid. What can man do to me?” Hebrews
