Hebrews 12:18-24 But you have come to Mount Zion and to the city of the living God… (v. 22a) BUT YOU HAVE COME… Do you sense the power in those four words??!! We are no longer Old Covenant or mountain or tabernacle people. We are redeemed! We are on this side of the cross!! …this …
Monthly Archives: December 2020
December 10 / Hebrews 12:12-17
Hebrews 12:12-17 See to it … that no one is … unholy like Esau, who sold his birthright for a single meal. (vv. 15a, 16b) There must be more information elsewhere in this letter, because I cannot follow what my Study Bible is suggesting, that the author’s “readers were thinking of compromising their faith in …
December 9 / Hebrews 12:1-11
Hebrews 12:1-11 For the Lord disciplines the one he loves, and chastises every son whom he receives. … If you are left without discipline, in which all have participated, then you are illegitimate children and not sons. (vv. 6, 8) I do not disagree with these verse, but I am asking myself how the Lord …
December 8 / Hebrews 11:30-40
Hebrews 11:30-40 They were stoned, they were sawn in two, they were killed with the sword. (v. 37a) I don’t know of any Biblical references to any Jewish “followers” being sawn in two. And while there are references to people being killed with the sword (e.g., leaders in the David-Absalom wars), it’s not clear that …
December 7 / Hebrews 11:23-29
Hebrews 11:23-29 By faith Moses … considered the reproach of Christ greater wealth than the treasures of Egypt… (vv. 24a, 26a) It’s easy to be confused when a speaker or writer uses the word “Christ”. That word is both a title (the Messiah) and, effectively, a name (Jesus Christ – more appropriately translated as “Jesus, …
December 6 / Hebrews 11:13-22
Hebrews 11:13-22 By faith Jacob, when dying, blessed each of the sons of Joseph… (v. 21) It’s always been strange to me that of the twelve sons of Jacob, only three rise to any level of prominence – Judah, Levi, and Joseph – Judah as the tribe from which David and Jesus were descended, Levi …
December 5 / Hebrews 11:1-12
Hebrews 11:1-12 By faith we understand that the universe was created by the word of God, so that what is seen was not made out of things that are visible. (v. 3) It’s constantly amazing to me that God SPOKE all things into existence. If we were meeting together Carol could tell you all she’s …
December 4 / Hebrews 10:32-39
Hebrews 10:32-39 For you had compassion on those in prison, and you joyfully accepted the plundering of your property… (v. 34a) My first reading of the day is from the NKJV Chronological Study Bible. Therein this verse reads “on me in my chains” instead of “on those in prison” (ESV) or “on prisoners” (NASB). So …
December 3 / Hebrews 10:26-31
Hebrews 10:26-31 A scary section today… For if we go on sinning deliberately after receiving the knowledge of the truth, there no longer remains a sacrifice for sins … How much worse punishment, do you think, will be deserved by the one who has trampled underfoot the Son of God, and has profaned the blood …
December 2 / Hebrews 10:19-25
Hebrews 10:19-25 Some really great material today… The author of Hebrews has argued for Jesus’ high priesthood, so now he tells us that we …have confidence to enter the holy places by the blood of Jesus (v. 19) and that we …have a great priest over the house of God. (v. 21) He then provides …