Hebrews

July 06, 2021 – Tuesday Hebrews 13:6      NIV 6 So we say with confidence, “The Lord is my helper; I will not be afraid. What can mere mortals do to me?” Hebrews 13:6      CJB 6 Therefore, we say with confidence, “Adonai is my helper; I will not be afraid — what can a human being do to me?” Comment  We should be aware this is a direct quote from Psalm 118:6, but in Psalm 118, God is not described as a…

April 28, 2021 – Wednesday Hebrews 11:6       NIV 6 And without faith it is impossible to please God, because anyone who comes to Him must believe that He exists and that He rewards those who earnestly seek Him. Comment  The number one thing to notice in this verse is that the writer did not say without faith it is challenging to please God. Instead, the writer did say, without faith it is impossible to please God. Want to please God? Good works won’t…

April 27, 2021 – Tuesday Hebrews 4:3       NIV 3 Now we who have believed enter that rest, just as God has said, “So I declared on oath in My anger, ‘They shall never enter My rest.’”* And yet His works have been finished since the creation of the world *[from Psalm 95:11]  Comment  Chapter three was all about how Jesus is greater than Moses. Plus how the people rebelled against Moses and spent 40 years wandering because of…

June 08, 2020 – Monday                                                              Hebrews 10:32-34   NIV  REVISTED 32 Remember those earlier days after you had received the light, when you endured in a great conflict full of suffering.  33 Sometimes you were publicly exposed to insult and persecution; at other times you stood side by side with those who were so…

June 05, 2020 – Friday Hebrews 10:32-34   NIV 32 Remember those earlier days after you had received the light, when you endured in a great conflict full of suffering. 33 Sometimes you were publicly exposed to insult and persecution; at other times you stood side by side with those who were so treated. 34 You suffered along with those in prison and joyfully accepted the confiscation of your property, because you knew that you yourselves had better and lasting possessions. Comment If you go to…

April 27, 2020 – Monday Hebrews 2:15 NIV 15 and free those who all their lives were held in slavery by their fear of death. Hebrews 2:15 NKJV 15 and release those who through fear of death were all their lifetime subject to bondage. Comment Earlier today I simply could not get going on the verse of the day after food pick up from the Life Enrichment Center (LEC) in Dayton. Plus I banged my head pretty good on the liftgate of the SUV…

to obey is better than sacrifice / obedience is better than sacrifice * December 20, 2019 – Friday Hebrews 11:8  NIV 8 By faith Abraham, when called to go to a place he would later receive as his inheritance, obeyed and went, even though he did not know where he was going. Comments This chapter of Hebrews is about faith and how By faith so much was done. The first occurrence is in verse three where we read of creation  By faith we understand that…

to obey is better than sacrifice / obedience is better than sacrifice * December 19, 2019 – Thursday Hebrews 5:7-10 NIV 7 During the days of Jesus’ life on earth, He offered up prayers and petitions with fervent cries and tears to the One who could save Him from death, and He was heard because of His reverent submission. 8 Son though He was, He learned obedience from what He suffered 9 and, once made perfect, He became the source…

to obey is better than sacrifice / obedience is better than sacrifice * December 18, 2019 – Wednesday Hebrews 4:9-11  NIV 9 There remains, then, a Sabbath-rest for the people of God;  10 for anyone who enters God’s rest also rests from their works, just as God did from His.  11 Let us, therefore, make every effort to enter that rest, so that no one will perish by following their example of disobedience. Comments Continuing from yesterday, we see one more example of how…

to obey is better than sacrifice / obedience is better than sacrifice * December 17, 2019 – Tuesday   Hebrews 4:4-7a  NIV 4 For somewhere He has spoken about the seventh day in these words: “On the seventh day God rested from all His works.” (Genesis 2:2)  5 And again in the passage above He says, “They shall never enter My rest.” 6 Therefore since it still remains for some to enter that rest, and since those who formerly had the good news proclaimed to…

to obey is better than sacrifice / obedience is better than sacrifice * December 16, 2019 – Monday Hebrews 4:1-3  NIV 1  Therefore, since the promise of entering His rest still stands, let us be careful that none of you be found to have fallen short of it.  2 For we also have had the good news proclaimed to us, just as they did; but the message they heard was of no value to them, because they did not share the faith…

to obey is better than sacrifice / obedience is better than sacrifice * December 13, 2019 – Friday Hebrews 3:16-19  NIV 16 Who were they who heard and rebelled? Were they not all those Moses led out of Egypt?  17 And with whom was He angry for forty years? Was it not with those who sinned, whose bodies perished in the wilderness?  18 And to whom did God swear that they would never enter His rest if not to those who disobeyed?  19 So we…