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Saturday Oct 18, 2014
Saturday Oct 18, 2014
The Opposite of Hebrews 11:6, The Opposite of Faith.
[Psa 14:1 ESV] To the choirmaster. Of David. The fool says in his heart, "There is no God." They are corrupt, they do abominable deeds, there is none who does good.
[Psa 14:2 ESV] The LORD looks down from heaven on the children of man, to see if there are any who understand, who seek after God.
[Psa 14:3 ESV] They have all turned aside; together they have become corrupt; there is none who does good, not even one.
[Psa 14:4 ESV] Have they no knowledge, all the evildoers who eat up my people as they eat bread and do not call upon the LORD?
Part II
Obeying God’s Holy Information
[Heb 11:7 ESV] By faith Noah, being warned by God concerning events as yet unseen, in reverent fear constructed an ark for the saving of his household. By this he condemned the world and became an heir of the righteousness that comes by faith.
Obeying God’s Holy Information
[Heb 11:8 ESV] By faith Abraham obeyed when he was called to go out to a place that he was to receive as an inheritance. And he went out, not knowing where he was going.
[Heb 11:9 ESV] By faith he went to live in the land of promise, as in a foreign land, living in tents with Isaac and Jacob, heirs with him of the same promise.
[Heb 11:10 ESV] For he was looking forward to the city that has foundations, whose designer and builder is God.
Obeying God’s Holy Information
[Heb 11:11 ESV] By faith Sarah herself received power to conceive, even when she was past the age, since she considered him faithful who had promised.
[Heb 11:12 ESV] Therefore from one man, and him as good as dead, were born descendants as many as the stars of heaven and as many as the innumerable grains of sand by the seashore.
Obeying God’s Holy Information, regardless of the outcome.
[Heb 11:13 ESV] These all died in faith, not having received the things promised, but having seen them and greeted them from afar, and having acknowledged that they were strangers and exiles on the earth.
The Big Picture Faith
[Heb 11:14 ESV] For people who speak thus make it clear that they are seeking a homeland.
[Heb 11:15 ESV] If they had been thinking of that land from which they had gone out, they would have had opportunity to return.
[Heb 11:16 ESV] But as it is, they desire a better country, that is, a heavenly one. Therefore God is not ashamed to be called their God, for he has prepared for them a city.
[Heb 11:17 ESV] By faith Abraham, when he was tested, offered up Isaac, and he who had received the promises was in the act of offering up his only son,
[Heb 11:18 ESV] of whom it was said, "Through Isaac shall your offspring be named."
[Heb 11:19 ESV] He considered that God was able even to raise him from the dead, from which, figuratively speaking, he did receive him back.
[Heb 11:20 ESV] By faith Isaac invoked future blessings on Jacob and Esau.
[Heb 11:21 ESV] By faith Jacob, when dying, blessed each of the sons of Joseph, bowing in worship over the head of his staff.
[Heb 11:22 ESV] By faith Joseph, at the end of his life, made mention of the exodus of the Israelites and gave directions concerning his bones.
[Heb 11:23 ESV] By faith Moses, when he was born, was hidden for three months by his parents, because they saw that the child was beautiful, and they were not afraid of the king's edict.
[Heb 11:24 ESV] By faith Moses, when he was grown up, refused to be called the son of Pharaoh's daughter,
[Heb 11:25 ESV] choosing rather to be mistreated with the people of God than to enjoy the fleeting pleasures of sin.
[Heb 11:26 ESV] He considered the reproach of Christ greater wealth than the treasures of Egypt, for he was looking to the reward.
[Heb 11:27 ESV] By faith he left Egypt, not being afraid of the anger of the king, for he endured as seeing him who is invisible.
[Heb 11:28 ESV] By faith he kept the Passover and sprinkled the blood, so that the Destroyer of the firstborn might not touch them.
[Heb 11:29 ESV] By faith the people crossed the Red Sea as on dry land, but the Egyptians, when they attempted to do the same, were drowned.
[Heb 11:30 ESV] By faith the walls of Jericho fell down after they had been encircled for seven days.
[Heb 11:31 ESV] By faith Rahab the prostitute did not perish with those who were disobedient, because she had given a friendly welcome to the spies.
[Heb 11:32 ESV] And what more shall I say? For time would fail me to tell of Gideon, Barak, Samson, Jephthah, of David and Samuel and the prophets--
[Heb 11:33 ESV] who through faith conquered kingdoms, enforced justice, obtained promises, stopped the mouths of lions,
[Heb 11:34 ESV] quenched the power of fire, escaped the edge of the sword, were made strong out of weakness, became mighty in war, put foreign armies to flight.
[Heb 11:35 ESV] Women received back their dead by resurrection. Some were tortured, refusing to accept release, so that they might rise again to a better life.
[Heb 11:36 ESV] Others suffered mocking and flogging, and even chains and imprisonment.
[Heb 11:37 ESV] They were stoned, they were sawn in two, they were killed with the sword. They went about in skins of sheep and goats, destitute, afflicted, mistreated--
[Heb 11:38 ESV] of whom the world was not worthy--wandering about in deserts and mountains, and in dens and caves of the earth.
[Heb 11:39 ESV] And all these, though commended through their faith, did not receive what was promised,
[Heb 11:40 ESV] since God had provided something better for us, that apart from us they should not be made perfect.
Saturday Oct 11, 2014
Saturday Oct 11, 2014
1. Faith: Root, Fruit
Root: God gives us Holy Information; It is Truth. Irrelevant of our belief or not.
We acknowledge It is True.
Fruit: We respond accordingly. Know, Trust, Obey. Intimacy = LOVE God,
Affection for God comes and go. Depends on what sins you happen to love more.
Christians have the gift of Struggle, Galatians 5
Consider Adam and Eve in the Garden. When God came walking, they went running.
Christians struggle with Running or Obeying. Again, depends if we happen to love our sin more at that moment.
However, the Holy Spirit empowers and pushes us to Faith.
2. God is the source of Faith, Not You. You don’t generate your own faith.
The world says, Generate your own faith, = Just believe.
Worldly faith. Subjective; You are the source, You are the god, who makes it real.
Godly Faith. Objective; It is TRUE, whether you believe it or not.
God Enables us to believe.
[Heb 12:2 ESV] looking to Jesus, the founder and perfecter of our faith, who for the joy that was set before him endured the cross, despising the shame, and is seated at the right hand of the throne of God.
Album: Prince of Egypt, Sung by Whitney Houston and Mira Carey
Many nights we've prayed
With no proof anyone could hear.
In our hearts a hopeful song we barely understood.
Now we are not afraid
Although we know there's much to fear.
We were moving mountains long before we knew we could.
Chorus
There can be miracles when you believe.
Though hope is frail,it's hard to kill.
Who knows what miracles you can achieve
When you believe.
Somehow you will,
You will when you believe.
In this time of fear,
When prayer so often proved in vain,
Hope seemed like the summer birds
too swiftly flown away.
But now I'm standing here(Now I'm standing here)
With heart so full I can't explain
Seeking faith and speaking words I never thought I'd say.
lyrics http://www.allthelyrics.com/lyrics/prince_of_egypt_soundtrack/mariah_carey_whitney_houston_when_you_believe-lyrics-78679.html#ixzz37LdkmOnR
[Luk 17:3 ESV] Pay attention to yourselves! If your brother sins, rebuke him, and if he repents, forgive him,
[Luk 17:4 ESV] and if he sins against you seven times in the day, and turns to you seven times, saying, 'I repent,' you must forgive him."
[Luk 17:5 ESV] The apostles said to the Lord, "Increase our faith!"
[Luk 17:6 ESV] And the Lord said, "If you had faith like a grain of mustard seed, you could say to this mulberry tree, 'Be uprooted and planted in the sea,' and it would obey you.
[Luk 17:7 ESV] "Will any one of you who has a servant plowing or keeping sheep say to him when he has come in from the field, 'Come at once and recline at table'?
[Luk 17:8 ESV] Will he not rather say to him, 'Prepare supper for me, and dress properly, and serve me while I eat and drink, and afterward you will eat and drink'?
[Luk 17:9 ESV] Does he thank the servant because he did what was commanded?
[Luk 17:10 ESV] So you also, when you have done all that you were commanded, say, 'We are unworthy servants; we have only done what was our duty.'"
3. The opposite of Faith is open rebellion towards God.
[Rom 1:16 ESV] For I am not ashamed of the gospel, for it is the power of God for salvation to everyone who believes, to the Jew first and also to the Greek.
[Rom 1:17 ESV] For in it the righteousness of God is revealed from faith for faith, as it is written, "The righteous shall live by faith."
[Rom 1:18 ESV] For the wrath of God is revealed from heaven against all ungodliness and unrighteousness of men, who by their unrighteousness suppress the truth.
[Rom 1:19 ESV] For what can be known about God is plain to them, because God has shown it to them.
[Rom 1:20 ESV] For his invisible attributes, namely, his eternal power and divine nature, have been clearly perceived, ever since the creation of the world, in the things that have been made. So they are without excuse.
[Rom 1:21 ESV] For although they knew God, they did not honor him as God or give thanks to him, but they became futile in their thinking, and their foolish hearts were darkened.
[Rom 1:22 ESV] Claiming to be wise, they became fools,
God is the source of Faith:
[Rom 16:25 ESV] Now to him who is able to strengthen you according to my gospel and the preaching of Jesus Christ, according to the revelation of the mystery that was kept secret for long ages
[Rom 16:26 ESV] but has now been disclosed and through the prophetic writings has been made known to all nations, according to the command of the eternal God, to bring about the obedience of faith--
[Rom 16:27 ESV] to the only wise God be glory forevermore through Jesus Christ! Amen.
Commanded to have Faith.
[1Co 16:13 ESV] Be watchful, stand firm in the faith, act like men, be strong.
What about walk by faith, not by sight? Be careful of Pseudo Dichotomies.
[2Co 5:6 ESV] So we are always of good courage. We know that while we are at home in the body we are away from the Lord,
[2Co 5:7 ESV] for we walk by faith, not by sight.
Pseudo Dichotomies.
Science VS Religion
Work VS Religion
Politics VS Religion
Education VS Religion
Vacation VS Religion.
It’s all, really, a sneaky plan to Remove God and His Commands from every area of our lives.
[Heb 11:1 ESV] Now faith is the assurance of things hoped for, the conviction of things not seen.
We did not see, but we have evidence.
1. The Word of God to tell us.
2. The evidence of what God Did all around us.
[Heb 11:2 ESV] For by it the people of old received their commendation. (Approved by God.)
God told them something, they obeyed.
[Heb 11:3 ESV] 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.
Science VS Religion! Pseudo science VS God
The atheistic world view is the “Naturalistic” world view. (Anything but God)
Things are made of things that are made, but all of the origin in nothingness.
Before the “big bang” & evolution.
[Heb 11:4 ESV] By faith Abel offered to God a more acceptable sacrifice than Cain, through which he was commended as righteous, God commending him by accepting his gifts. And through his faith, though he died, he still speaks.
Abel knew what God required and obeyed. Cain knew what God required and did not obey.
Attitude also played a role.
[Heb 11:5 ESV] By faith Enoch was taken up so that he should not see death, and he was not found, because God had taken him. Now before he was taken he was commended as having pleased God.
[Gen 5:22 ESV] Enoch walked with God after he fathered Methuselah 300 years and had other sons and daughters.
[Gen 5:23 ESV] Thus all the days of Enoch were 365 years.
[Gen 5:24 ESV] Enoch walked with God, and he was not, for God took him.
[Heb 11:6 ESV] And without faith it is impossible to please him, for whoever would draw near to God must believe that he exists and that he rewards those who seek him.
Not Easter bunny, Santa Claus believe. Subjective
Acknowledge what is True, Objective.
The Opposite of Hebrews 11:6, The Opposite of Faith.
[Psa 14:1 ESV] To the choirmaster. Of David. The fool says in his heart, "There is no God." They are corrupt, they do abominable deeds, there is none who does good.
[Psa 14:2 ESV] The LORD looks down from heaven on the children of man, to see if there are any who understand, who seek after God.
[Psa 14:3 ESV] They have all turned aside; together they have become corrupt; there is none who does good, not even one.
[Psa 14:4 ESV] Have they no knowledge, all the evildoers who eat up my people as they eat bread and do not call upon the LORD?
Part II
Obeying God’s Holy Information
[Heb 11:7 ESV] By faith Noah, being warned by God concerning events as yet unseen, in reverent fear constructed an ark for the saving of his household. By this he condemned the world and became an heir of the righteousness that comes by faith.
Obeying God’s Holy Information
[Heb 11:8 ESV] By faith Abraham obeyed when he was called to go out to a place that he was to receive as an inheritance. And he went out, not knowing where he was going.
[Heb 11:9 ESV] By faith he went to live in the land of promise, as in a foreign land, living in tents with Isaac and Jacob, heirs with him of the same promise.
[Heb 11:10 ESV] For he was looking forward to the city that has foundations, whose designer and builder is God.
Obeying God’s Holy Information
[Heb 11:11 ESV] By faith Sarah herself received power to conceive, even when she was past the age, since she considered him faithful who had promised.
[Heb 11:12 ESV] Therefore from one man, and him as good as dead, were born descendants as many as the stars of heaven and as many as the innumerable grains of sand by the seashore.
Obeying God’s Holy Information, regardless of the outcome.
[Heb 11:13 ESV] These all died in faith, not having received the things promised, but having seen them and greeted them from afar, and having acknowledged that they were strangers and exiles on the earth.
The Big Picture Faith
[Heb 11:14 ESV] For people who speak thus make it clear that they are seeking a homeland.
[Heb 11:15 ESV] If they had been thinking of that land from which they had gone out, they would have had opportunity to return.
[Heb 11:16 ESV] But as it is, they desire a better country, that is, a heavenly one. Therefore God is not ashamed to be called their God, for he has prepared for them a city.
[Heb 11:17 ESV] By faith Abraham, when he was tested, offered up Isaac, and he who had received the promises was in the act of offering up his only son,
[Heb 11:18 ESV] of whom it was said, "Through Isaac shall your offspring be named."
[Heb 11:19 ESV] He considered that God was able even to raise him from the dead, from which, figuratively speaking, he did receive him back.
[Heb 11:20 ESV] By faith Isaac invoked future blessings on Jacob and Esau.
[Heb 11:21 ESV] By faith Jacob, when dying, blessed each of the sons of Joseph, bowing in worship over the head of his staff.
[Heb 11:22 ESV] By faith Joseph, at the end of his life, made mention of the exodus of the Israelites and gave directions concerning his bones.
[Heb 11:23 ESV] By faith Moses, when he was born, was hidden for three months by his parents, because they saw that the child was beautiful, and they were not afraid of the king's edict.
[Heb 11:24 ESV] By faith Moses, when he was grown up, refused to be called the son of Pharaoh's daughter,
[Heb 11:25 ESV] choosing rather to be mistreated with the people of God than to enjoy the fleeting pleasures of sin.
[Heb 11:26 ESV] He considered the reproach of Christ greater wealth than the treasures of Egypt, for he was looking to the reward.
[Heb 11:27 ESV] By faith he left Egypt, not being afraid of the anger of the king, for he endured as seeing him who is invisible.
[Heb 11:28 ESV] By faith he kept the Passover and sprinkled the blood, so that the Destroyer of the firstborn might not touch them.
[Heb 11:29 ESV] By faith the people crossed the Red Sea as on dry land, but the Egyptians, when they attempted to do the same, were drowned.
[Heb 11:30 ESV] By faith the walls of Jericho fell down after they had been encircled for seven days.
[Heb 11:31 ESV] By faith Rahab the prostitute did not perish with those who were disobedient, because she had given a friendly welcome to the spies.
[Heb 11:32 ESV] And what more shall I say? For time would fail me to tell of Gideon, Barak, Samson, Jephthah, of David and Samuel and the prophets--
[Heb 11:33 ESV] who through faith conquered kingdoms, enforced justice, obtained promises, stopped the mouths of lions,
[Heb 11:34 ESV] quenched the power of fire, escaped the edge of the sword, were made strong out of weakness, became mighty in war, put foreign armies to flight.
[Heb 11:35 ESV] Women received back their dead by resurrection. Some were tortured, refusing to accept release, so that they might rise again to a better life.
[Heb 11:36 ESV] Others suffered mocking and flogging, and even chains and imprisonment.
[Heb 11:37 ESV] They were stoned, they were sawn in two, they were killed with the sword. They went about in skins of sheep and goats, destitute, afflicted, mistreated--
[Heb 11:38 ESV] of whom the world was not worthy--wandering about in deserts and mountains, and in dens and caves of the earth.
[Heb 11:39 ESV] And all these, though commended through their faith, did not receive what was promised,
[Heb 11:40 ESV] since God had provided something better for us, that apart from us they should not be made perfect.
Saturday Oct 04, 2014
Saturday Oct 04, 2014
Previously in Chapter 10!
The Old Testament Moral Law is satisfied!
[Heb 10:16 ESV] "This is the covenant that I will make with them after those days, declares the Lord: I will put my laws on their hearts, and write them on their minds,"
[Heb 10:17 ESV] then he adds, "I will remember their sins and their lawless deeds no more."
[Heb 10:18 ESV] Where there is forgiveness of these, there is no longer any offering for sin.
A Recap; The Holy of Holies, Through The Curtain, Great High Priest.
[Heb 10:19 ESV] Therefore, brothers, since we have confidence to enter the holy places by the blood of Jesus,
[Heb 10:20 ESV] by the new and living way that he opened for us through the curtain, that is, through his flesh,
[Heb 10:21 ESV] and since we have a great priest over the house of God,
Our Response:
Draw Near
[Heb 10:22 ESV] let us draw near with a true heart in full assurance of faith, with our hearts sprinkled clean from an evil conscience and our bodies washed with pure water.
Hold Fast
[Heb 10:23 ESV] Let us hold fast the confession of our hope without wavering, for he who promised is faithful.
Encourage Other Christians via Fellowship & Ministry.
[Heb 10:24 ESV] And let us consider how to stir up one another to love and good works,
[Heb 10:25 ESV] not neglecting to meet together, as is the habit of some, but encouraging one another, and all the more as you see the Day drawing near.
Those who hear the Gospel and do not respond have offended God the Father to outrage.
[Heb 10:26 ESV] For if we go on sinning deliberately after receiving the knowledge of the truth, there no longer remains a sacrifice for sins,
[Heb 10:27 ESV] but a fearful expectation of judgment, and a fury of fire that will consume the adversaries.
To reject the Gospel is worse than breaking the 10 commandments. Because, Now it’s Personal!
[Heb 10:28 ESV] Anyone who has set aside the law of Moses dies without mercy on the evidence of two or three witnesses.
[Heb 10:29 ESV] 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 of the covenant by which he was sanctified, and has outraged the Spirit of grace?
[Heb 10:30 ESV] For we know him who said, "Vengeance is mine; I will repay." And again, "The Lord will judge his people."
Greater the Grace, Worse the Punishment!
As Jesus Sent out His Disciples.
[Mat 10:11 ESV] And whatever town or village you enter, find out who is worthy in it and stay there until you depart.
[Mat 10:12 ESV] As you enter the house, greet it.
[Mat 10:13 ESV] And if the house is worthy, let your peace come upon it, but if it is not worthy, let your peace return to you.
[Mat 10:14 ESV] And if anyone will not receive you or listen to your words, shake off the dust from your feet when you leave that house or town.
[Mat 10:15 ESV] Truly, I say to you, it will be more bearable on the day of judgment for the land of Sodom and Gomorrah than for that town.
The Gospel:
We are all guilty of breaking God’s Moral Law.
We are all condemned to Eternal Punishment because we are guilty.
Jesus fulfilled the Just requirements of God’s law by taking our punishment instead of us.
God can legal dismiss our Case.
There is no other way to get God’s Grace and Mercy, but through His Son.
Now keep in mind, God is not obligated to give us Grace & Mercy, He is obligated to give us Justice.
[Heb 10:31 ESV] It is a fearful thing to fall into the hands of the living God.
But! Enlighted!
[Heb 10:32 ESV] But recall the former days when, after you were enlightened, you endured a hard struggle with sufferings,
[Heb 10:33 ESV] sometimes being publicly exposed to reproach and affliction, and sometimes being partners with those so treated.
[Heb 10:34 ESV] For you had compassion on those in prison, and you joyfully accepted the plundering of your property, since you knew that you yourselves had a better possession and an abiding one.
People either Accept or Attack the Gospel
[Heb 10:35 ESV] Therefore do not throw away your confidence, which has a great reward.
Confidence in what? The Gospel!
[Heb 10:36 ESV] For you have need of endurance, so that when you have done the will of God you may receive what is promised.
[Heb 10:37 ESV] For, "Yet a little while, and the coming one will come and will not delay;
[Heb 10:38 ESV] but my righteous one shall live by faith, and if he shrinks back, my soul has no pleasure in him."
[Heb 10:39 ESV] But we are not of those who shrink back and are destroyed, but of those who have faith and preserve their souls.
Communion
[1Co 11:23 ESV] For I received from the Lord what I also delivered to you, that the Lord Jesus on the night when he was betrayed took bread,
Bread:
[1Co 11:24 ESV] and when he had given thanks, he broke it, and said, "This is my body which is for you. Do this in remembrance of me."
[1Co 11:25 ESV] In the same way also he took the cup,
Wine:
after supper, saying, "This cup is the new covenant in my blood. Do this, as often as you drink it, in remembrance of me."
[1Co 11:26 ESV] For as often as you eat this bread and drink the cup, you proclaim the Lord's death until he comes.
Saturday Sep 27, 2014
Saturday Sep 27, 2014
Hebrews 10 Part 1. Ritual (Religion) Bad, Love & Obey God, Good.
Isn’t Religion Loving God? Nope.
[Heb 10:1 ESV] For since the law has but a shadow of the good things to come instead of the true form of these realities, it can never, by the same sacrifices that are continually offered every year, make perfect those who draw near.
If it worked, it would have stopped after the first one.
[Heb 10:2 ESV] Otherwise, would they not have ceased to be offered, since the worshipers, having once been cleansed, would no longer have any consciousness of sins?
[Heb 10:3 ESV] But in these sacrifices there is a reminder of sins every year.
Animal sacrifice cannot remove your sin.
[Heb 10:4 ESV] For it is impossible for the blood of bulls and goats to take away sins.
[Heb 10:5 ESV] Consequently, when Christ came into the world, he said, "Sacrifices and offerings you have not desired, but a body have you prepared for me;
[Heb 10:6 ESV] in burnt offerings and sin offerings you have taken no pleasure.
Hold on, If God has not pleasure in animal offerings, why did He command it?
1. What is the greatest of all commands? Love God.
2. The offerings were to Make Atonement for sin.
[Lev 23:28 ESV] And you shall not do any work on that very day, for it is a Day of Atonement, to make atonement for you before the LORD your God.
Atonement: kaphar: to cover, purge, make an atonement, make reconciliation, cover over with pitch
3. To remind the people of their sin and God’s Justice AND Mercy AND Grace.
[Lev 23:43 ESV] that your generations may know that I made the people of Israel dwell in booths when I brought them out of the land of Egypt: I am the LORD your God."
[Heb 10:7 ESV] Then I said, 'Behold, I have come to do your will, O God, as it is written of me in the scroll of the book.'"
[Heb 10:8 ESV] When he said above, "You have neither desired nor taken pleasure in sacrifices and offerings and burnt offerings and sin offerings" (these are offered according to the law),
[Heb 10:9 ESV] then he added, "Behold, I have come to do your will." He does away with the first in order to establish the second.
Once For All
[Heb 10:10 ESV] And by that will we have been sanctified through the offering of the body of Jesus Christ once for all.
[Heb 10:11 ESV] And every priest stands daily at his service, offering repeatedly the same sacrifices, which can never take away sins.
[Heb 10:12 ESV] But when Christ had offered for all time a single sacrifice for sins, he sat down at the right hand of God,
[Heb 10:13 ESV] waiting from that time until his enemies should be made a footstool for his feet.
Once and for All.
[Heb 10:14 ESV] For by a single offering he has perfected for all time those who are being sanctified.
Holy Spirit Fortified
[Heb 10:15 ESV] And the Holy Spirit also bears witness to us; for after saying,
[Heb 10:16 ESV] "This is the covenant that I will make with them after those days, declares the Lord: I will put my laws on their hearts, and write them on their minds,"
[Heb 10:17 ESV] then he adds, "I will remember their sins and their lawless deeds no more."
[Heb 10:18 ESV] Where there is forgiveness of these, there is no longer any offering for sin.
No more need for religion (man-made ritual) works.
Holiness
The condition of the heart.
[Psa 51:16 NIV] You do not delight in sacrifice, or I would bring it; you do not take pleasure in burnt offerings.
[Psa 51:17 NIV] My sacrifice, O God, is a broken spirit; a broken and contrite heart you, God, will not despise.
[Psa 51:18 NIV] May it please you to prosper Zion, to build up the walls of Jerusalem.
[Psa 51:19 NIV] Then you will delight in the sacrifices of the righteous, in burnt offerings offered whole; then bulls will be offered on your altar.
Ritual (religion) without real love is rejected by God.
[Amo 5:21 ESV] "I hate, I despise your feasts, and I take no delight in your solemn assemblies.
[Amo 5:22 ESV] Even though you offer me your burnt offerings and grain offerings, I will not accept them; and the peace offerings of your fattened animals, I will not look upon them.
[Amo 5:23 ESV] Take away from me the noise of your songs; to the melody of your harps I will not listen.
[Amo 5:24 ESV] But let justice roll down like waters, and righteousness like an ever-flowing stream.
[Amo 5:25 ESV] "Did you bring to me sacrifices and offerings during the forty years in the wilderness, O house of Israel?
[Amo 5:26 ESV] You shall take up Sikkuth your king, and Kiyyun your star-god--your images that you made for yourselves,
[Amo 5:27 ESV] and I will send you into exile beyond Damascus," says the LORD, whose name is the God of hosts.
God has always been after our affections.
[Psa 14:2 ESV] The LORD looks down from heaven on the children of man, to see if there are any who understand, who seek after God.
[Psa 14:3 ESV] They have all turned aside; together they have become corrupt; there is none who does good, not even one.
[Psa 14:4 ESV] Have they no knowledge, all the evildoers who eat up my people as they eat bread and do not call upon the LORD?
This is what a Living Sacrifice Looks Like.
[Rom 12:1 ESV] I appeal to you therefore, brothers, by the mercies of God, to present your bodies as a living sacrifice, holy and acceptable to God, which is your spiritual worship.
Great Command
Great Commission
5 Disciplines
Quote from Kirk Cameron:
Cameron: When you make a decision, like, 'I’m not comfortable saying that line or doing that scene.’ Well, that meant that 11 writers had to come up with a new scene. And that meant that the other actors and actresses in that scene had to learn new lines, because I didn’t want to do that scene. It’s very easy for tabloids to grab onto that and say, ‘What’s the best way we can spin this into a front page story? I know! Kirk Cameron goes off the religious deep end!’ When in actuality, it was nothing more than a 17-year-old kid finding something that was worth more than all the celebrity in the world and wanting his life to be a living thank you to the God who had saved him from hell and adopted him into His own family.
Tuesday Sep 23, 2014
Tuesday Sep 23, 2014
[Heb 9:1 ESV] Now even the first covenant had regulations for worship and an earthly place of holiness.
Old Testament Rules
Civil, Ritual, Moral.
Christians still follow the Moral Code.
Holiness means set apart: Earthly place of holiness.
The Earthly holy place.
[Heb 9:2 ESV] For a tent was prepared, the first section, in which were the lampstand and the table and the bread of the Presence. It is called the Holy Place.
[Heb 9:3 ESV] Behind the second curtain was a second section called the Most Holy Place,
[Heb 9:4 ESV] having the golden altar of incense and the ark of the covenant covered on all sides with gold, in which was a golden urn holding the manna, and Aaron's staff that budded, and the tablets of the covenant.
[Heb 9:5 ESV] Above it were the cherubim of glory overshadowing the mercy seat. Of these things we cannot now speak in detail.
A few of the Regulations:
[Heb 9:6 ESV] These preparations having thus been made, the priests go regularly into the first section, performing their ritual duties,
[Heb 9:7 ESV] but into the second only the high priest goes, and he but once a year, and not without taking blood, which he offers for himself and for the unintentional sins of the people.
God’s too Holy, We are too evil. No reconciliation yet.
[Heb 9:8 ESV] By this the Holy Spirit indicates that the way into the holy places is not yet opened as long as the first section is still standing
[Heb 9:9 ESV] (which is symbolic for the present age). According to this arrangement, gifts and sacrifices are offered that cannot perfect the conscience of the worshiper,
[Heb 9:10 ESV] but deal only with food and drink and various washings, regulations for the body imposed until the time of reformation.
Jesus The High Priest
[Heb 9:11 ESV] But when Christ appeared as a high priest of the good things that have come, then through the greater and more perfect tent (not made with hands, that is, not of this creation)
[Heb 9:12 ESV] he entered once for all into the holy places, not by means of the blood of goats and calves but by means of his own blood, thus securing an eternal redemption.
[Heb 9:13 ESV] For if the blood of goats and bulls, and the sprinkling of defiled persons with the ashes of a heifer, sanctify for the purification of the flesh,
[Heb 9:14 ESV] how much more will the blood of Christ, who through the eternal Spirit offered himself without blemish to God, purify our conscience from dead works to serve the living God.
1. Purify our conscience
2. From dead works
3. To serve the Living God.
Our Hearts, A guilty conscience.
[1Jo 3:19 NIV] This is how we know that we belong to the truth and how we set our hearts at rest in his presence:
[1Jo 3:20 NIV] If our hearts condemn us, we know that God is greater than our hearts, and he knows everything.
[1Jo 3:21 NIV] Dear friends, if our hearts do not condemn us, we have confidence before God
[1Jo 3:22 NIV] and receive from him anything we ask, because we keep his commands and do what pleases him.
[1Jo 3:23 NIV] And this is his command: to believe in the name of his Son, Jesus Christ, and to love one another as he commanded us.
[1Jo 3:24 NIV] The one who keeps God's commands lives in him, and he in them. And this is how we know that he lives in us: We know it by the Spirit he gave us.
Christ is the Mediator of the New Covenant.
[Heb 9:15 ESV] Therefore he is the mediator of a new covenant, so that those who are called may receive the promised eternal inheritance, since a death has occurred that redeems them from the transgressions committed under the first covenant.
A Will ain’t no good unless the person has died.
[Heb 9:16 ESV] For where a will is involved, the death of the one who made it must be established.
[Heb 9:17 ESV] For a will takes effect only at death, since it is not in force as long as the one who made it is alive.
Sealed with blood.
[Heb 9:18 ESV] Therefore not even the first covenant was inaugurated without blood.
[Heb 9:19 ESV] For when every commandment of the law had been declared by Moses to all the people, he took the blood of calves and goats, with water and scarlet wool and hyssop, and sprinkled both the book itself and all the people,
[Heb 9:20 ESV] saying, "This is the blood of the covenant that God commanded for you."
[Heb 9:21 ESV] And in the same way he sprinkled with the blood both the tent and all the vessels used in worship.
[Heb 9:22 ESV] Indeed, under the law almost everything is purified with blood, and without the shedding of blood there is no forgiveness of sins.
Why blood?
Blood means something had to die for sins.
The Bible also tells us the life is in the blood.
[Lev 17:11 NIV] For the life of a creature is in the blood, and I have given it to you to make atonement for yourselves on the altar; it is the blood that makes atonement for one's life.
Doesn’t that make God like an outdated deity?
Reminder: God is Holy, Just & Eternal.
You and I are unholy and full of injustice, unless it is committed against us.
When we do one little, teeny tiny sin. (That statement is putrid evil)
A sin is always against the Holy, Just & Eternal God of the Universe.
The punishment MUST fit the crime. It’s only Fair.
[Heb 9:23 ESV] Thus it was necessary for the copies of the heavenly things to be purified with these rites, but the heavenly things themselves with better sacrifices than these.
Jesus Offered Himself at the Real Temple in Heaven.
[Heb 9:24 ESV] For Christ has entered, not into holy places made with hands, which are copies of the true things, but into heaven itself, now to appear in the presence of God on our behalf.
No Yo-Yo Jesus, Wesleyans
[Heb 9:25 ESV] Nor was it to offer himself repeatedly, as the high priest enters the holy places every year with blood not his own,
[Heb 9:26 ESV] for then he would have had to suffer repeatedly since the foundation of the world. But as it is, he has appeared once for all at the end of the ages to put away sin by the sacrifice of himself.
Once for ALL!
[Heb 9:27 ESV] And just as it is appointed for man to die once, and after that comes judgment,
[Heb 9:28 ESV] so Christ, having been offered once to bear the sins of many, will appear a second time, not to deal with sin but to save those who are eagerly waiting for him.
Saturday Sep 13, 2014
Saturday Sep 13, 2014
Hebrews 8
[Heb 8:1 ESV] Now the point in what we are saying is this: we have such a high priest, one who is seated at the right hand of the throne of the Majesty in Heaven,
[Heb 8:2 ESV] a minister in the holy places, in the true tent that the Lord set up, not man.
Jesus before his false trial:
[Mat 26:63 ESV] But Jesus remained silent. And the high priest said to him, "I adjure you by the living God, tell us if you are the Christ, the Son of God."
[Mat 26:64 ESV] Jesus said to him, "You have said so. But I tell you, from now on you will see the Son of Man seated at the right hand of Power and coming on the clouds of heaven."
Jesus also Shares the Prophecy of David.
[Mar 12:35 ESV] And as Jesus taught in the temple, he said, "How can the scribes say that the Christ is the son of David?
[Mar 12:36 ESV] David himself, in the Holy Spirit, declared, "'The Lord said to my Lord, "Sit at my right hand, until I put your enemies under your feet."'
[Mar 12:37 ESV] David himself calls him Lord. So how is he his son?" And the great throng heard him gladly.
Requirements for Priests
[Heb 8:3 ESV] For every high priest is appointed to offer gifts and sacrifices; thus it is necessary for this priest also to have something to offer.
[Heb 8:4 ESV] Now if he were on earth, he would not be a priest at all, since there are priests who offer gifts according to the law.
Copy & Shadow of reality.
[Heb 8:5 ESV] They serve a copy and shadow of the heavenly things. For when Moses was about to erect the tent, he was instructed by God, saying, "See that you make everything according to the pattern that was shown you on the mountain."
The Temple was a copy/shadow
The World is a copy/shadow.
Your Body is a copy/shadow.
Our current existence is a copy/shadow of something far greater! Far more real.
Mortal swallowed up by life
[2Co 5:1 NIV] For we know that if the earthly tent we live in is destroyed, we have a building from God, an eternal house in heaven, not built by human hands.
[2Co 5:2 NIV] Meanwhile we groan, longing to be clothed instead with our heavenly dwelling,
[2Co 5:3 NIV] because when we are clothed, we will not be found naked.
[2Co 5:4 NIV] For while we are in this tent, we groan and are burdened, because we do not wish to be unclothed but to be clothed instead with our heavenly dwelling, so that what is mortal may be swallowed up by life.
[2Co 5:5 NIV] Now the one who has fashioned us for this very purpose is God, who has given us the Spirit as a deposit, guaranteeing what is to come.
We Eagerly Await leaving the shadowlands.
[Rom 8:18 NIV] I consider that our present sufferings are not worth comparing with the glory that will be revealed in us.
[Rom 8:19 NIV] For the creation waits in eager expectation for the children of God to be revealed.
[Rom 8:20 NIV] For the creation was subjected to frustration, not by its own choice, but by the will of the one who subjected it, in hope
[Rom 8:21 NIV] that the creation itself will be liberated from its bondage to decay and brought into the freedom and glory of the children of God.
[Rom 8:22 NIV] We know that the whole creation has been groaning as in the pains of childbirth right up to the present time.
[Rom 8:23 NIV] Not only so, but we ourselves, who have the firstfruits of the Spirit, groan inwardly as we wait eagerly for our adoption to sonship, the redemption of our bodies.
[Rom 8:24 NIV] For in this hope we were saved. But hope that is seen is no hope at all. Who hopes for what they already have?
The New Covenant is better than the old.
[Heb 8:6 ESV] But as it is, Christ has obtained a ministry that is as much more excellent than the old as the covenant he mediates is better, since it is enacted on better promises.
What does he mean “faultless?”
[Heb 8:7 ESV] For if that first covenant had been faultless, there would have been no occasion to look for a second.
The Answer is in verse 9.
[Heb 8:8 ESV] For he finds fault with them when he says: "Behold, the days are coming, declares the Lord, when I will establish a new covenant with the house of Israel and with the house of Judah,
[Heb 8:9 ESV] not like the covenant that I made with their fathers on the day when I took them by the hand to bring them out of the land of Egypt. For they did not continue in my covenant, and so I showed no concern for them, declares the Lord.
A Holy God & Sinful Man don’t mix well. There can be no intimacy.
After reminding the Israelites how God brought them out of Egypt.
[Jos 24:19 ESV] But Joshua said to the people, "You are not able to serve the LORD, for he is a holy God. He is a jealous God; he will not forgive your transgressions or your sins.
[Jos 24:20 ESV] If you forsake the LORD and serve foreign gods, then he will turn and do you harm and consume you, after having done you good."
[Jos 24:21 ESV] And the people said to Joshua, "No, but we will serve the LORD."
[Jos 24:22 ESV] Then Joshua said to the people, "You are witnesses against yourselves that you have chosen the LORD, to serve him." And they said, "We are witnesses."
[Jos 24:23 ESV] He said, "Then put away the foreign gods that are among you, and incline your heart to the LORD, the God of Israel."
[Jos 24:24 ESV] And the people said to Joshua, "The LORD our God we will serve, and his voice we will obey."
The New Covenant is Very Intimate!
[Heb 8:10 ESV] For this is the covenant that I will make with the house of Israel after those days, declares the Lord: I will put my laws into their minds, and write them on their hearts, and I will be their God, and they shall be my people.
[Heb 8:11 ESV] And they shall not teach, each one his neighbor and each one his brother, saying, 'Know the Lord,' for they shall all know me, from the least of them to the greatest.
Eze Prophecy of a time coming.
[Eze 36:26 ESV] And I will give you a new heart, and a new spirit I will put within you. And I will remove the heart of stone from your flesh and give you a heart of flesh.
[Eze 36:27 ESV] And I will put my Spirit within you, and cause you to walk in my statutes and be careful to obey my rules.
Holy Spirit Indwells You!
[1Co 6:19 ESV] Or do you not know that your body is a temple of the Holy Spirit within you, whom you have from God? You are not your own,
[1Co 6:20 ESV] for you were bought with a price. So glorify God in your body.
[Heb 8:12 ESV] For I will be merciful toward their iniquities, and I will remember their sins no more."
[Heb 8:13 ESV] In speaking of a new covenant, he makes the first one obsolete. And what is becoming obsolete and growing old is ready to vanish away.
Historical Observations.
There is no more temple or sacrifices.
Only rituals that represent Old Covenant rituals
You true meaning and purpose in life is only in Christ. Leave dead works.
[Heb 6:1 ESV] Therefore let us leave the elementary doctrine of Christ and go on to maturity, not laying again a foundation of repentance from dead works and of faith toward God,
[Heb 9:14 ESV] how much more will the blood of Christ, who through the eternal Spirit offered himself without blemish to God, purify our conscience from dead works to serve the living God.
Religion is dead works. Religion defined as man-made rules that can earn Heaven.
Anything that encroaches on the Finished Work of Jesus Christ is religion.
Fellowship, Ministry, Worship, Evangelism, Discipleship, is the response of people who are saved.
It’s how we We Love God and People and make Disciples who Love God and People.
Monday Sep 01, 2014
Monday Sep 01, 2014
Hebrews 7 Melchizedek Priesthood Greater than Aaronic Priesthood
[Gen 14:18 ESV] And Melchizedek king of Salem brought out bread and wine. (He was priest of God Most High.)
[Gen 14:19 ESV] And he blessed him and said, "Blessed be Abram by God Most High, Possessor of heaven and earth;
[Gen 14:20 ESV] and blessed be God Most High, who has delivered your enemies into your hand!" And Abram gave him a tenth of everything.
His Name, Title and Role:
[Heb 7:1 ESV] For this Melchizedek, king of Salem, priest of the Most High God, met Abraham returning from the slaughter of the kings and blessed him,
[Heb 7:2 ESV] and to him Abraham apportioned a tenth part of everything. He is first, by translation of his name, king of righteousness, and then he is also king of Salem, that is, king of peace.
Melchizedek = "king of righteousness"
Salem means Peace.
King of Righteousness, The King of Peace
A comparison of similarities.
[Heb 7:3 ESV] He is without father or mother or genealogy, having neither beginning of days nor end of life, but resembling the Son of God he continues a priest forever.
[Heb 7:4 ESV] See how great this man was to whom Abraham the patriarch gave a tenth of the spoils!
Priesthood receives Tithes.
[Heb 7:5 ESV] And those descendants of Levi who receive the priestly office have a commandment in the law to take tithes from the people, that is, from their brothers, though these also are descended from Abraham.
Abraham Tithed, Melchizedek Blessed.
[Heb 7:6 ESV] But this man who does not have his descent from them received tithes from Abraham and blessed him who had the promises.
[Heb 7:7 ESV] It is beyond dispute that the inferior is blessed by the superior.
[Heb 7:8 ESV] In the one case tithes are received by mortal men, but in the other case, by one of whom it is testified that he lives.
Levi Tithed via Great. . .Granddaddy Abraham
[Heb 7:9 ESV] One might even say that Levi himself, who receives tithes, paid tithes through Abraham,
[Heb 7:10 ESV] for he was still in the loins of his ancestor when Melchizedek met him.
A New Priest for a New Convenient
Old Convenient does not make people Perfect before the Holiness of God.
[Heb 7:11 ESV] Now if perfection had been attainable through the Levitical priesthood (for under it the people received the law), what further need would there have been for another priest to arise after the order of Melchizedek, rather than one named after the order of Aaron?
[Heb 7:12 ESV] For when there is a change in the priesthood, there is necessarily a change in the law as well.
Jesus is not from the tribe of Levi, but Judah
[Heb 7:13 ESV] For the one of whom these things are spoken belonged to another tribe, from which no one has ever served at the altar.
[Heb 7:14 ESV] For it is evident that our Lord was descended from Judah, and in connection with that tribe Moses said nothing about priests.
Requirement for Melchizedek Priesthood. . . . Be Immortal.
[Heb 7:15 ESV] This becomes even more evident when another priest arises in the likeness of Melchizedek,
[Heb 7:16 ESV] who has become a priest, not on the basis of a legal requirement concerning bodily descent, but by the power of an indestructible life.
Prophecies about Jesus
[Heb 7:17 ESV] For it is witnessed of him, "You are a priest forever, after the order of Melchizedek.
New Covenant Greater than the Old Covenant
[Heb 7:18 ESV] For on the one hand, a former commandment is set aside because of its weakness and uselessness
[Heb 7:19 ESV] (for the law made nothing perfect); but on the other hand, a better hope is introduced, through which we draw near to God.
God’s Word w/ an Oath.
[Heb 7:20 ESV] And it was not without an oath. For those who formerly became priests were made such without an oath,
[Heb 7:21 ESV] but this one was made a priest with an oath by the one who said to him: "The Lord has sworn and will not change his mind, 'You are a priest forever.'"
[Heb 7:22 ESV] This makes Jesus the guarantor of a better covenant.
Living Forever Makes Jesus the Final King/Priest in the order of Melchizedek
[Heb 7:23 ESV] The former priests were many in number, because they were prevented by death from continuing in office,
[Heb 7:24 ESV] but he holds his priesthood permanently, because he continues forever.
Serious Benefit! Saved Forever
[Heb 7:25 ESV] Consequently, he is able to save to the uttermost those who draw near to God through him, since he always lives to make intercession for them.
Such a High Priest!
[Heb 7:26 ESV] For it was indeed fitting that we should have such a high priest, holy, innocent, unstained, separated from sinners, and exalted above the heavens.
Jesus Offered Up Himself!
[Heb 7:27 ESV] He has no need, like those high priests, to offer sacrifices daily, first for his own sins and then for those of the people, since he did this once for all when he offered up himself.
The Perfect Son Forever, appointed by the Oath of God
[Heb 7:28 ESV] For the law appoints men in their weakness as high priests, but the word of the oath, which came later than the law, appoints a Son who has been made perfect forever.
Hebrews Chapter 7
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Saturday Jul 05, 2014
Saturday Jul 05, 2014
Context: The writer is just starting to talk about Christ as the last, Final High Priest, Greater than the Aaronic Priesthood.
He is getting ready to explain more deeply the Permanence of Jesus’s Office as Priest & how it’s effects the permanence of our Salvation.
Meanwhile back in Chapter 5.
You Can’t grow in the depths of maturity if you still doubt that Jesus Saved You.
[Heb 5:11 ESV] About this we have much to say, and it is hard to explain, since you have become dull of hearing.
[Heb 5:12 ESV] For though by this time you ought to be teachers, you need someone to teach you again the basic principles of the oracles of God. You need milk, not solid food,
[Heb 5:13 ESV] for everyone who lives on milk is unskilled in the word of righteousness, since he is a child.
[Heb 5:14 ESV] But solid food is for the mature, for those who have their powers of discernment trained by constant practice to distinguish good from evil.
Know! . . . That You Are Saved!
[Heb 6:1 ESV] Therefore let us leave the elementary doctrine of Christ and go on to maturity, not laying again a foundation of repentance from dead works and of faith toward God,
[Heb 6:2 ESV] and of instruction about washings (baptism), the laying on of hands, the resurrection of the dead, and eternal judgment.
[Heb 6:3 ESV] And this we will do if God permits.
**Baptism is an outward sign or expression of an inward transformation.
** Laying on of hands. An intimate personal connection for the purpose of dispensing a blessing.
** Resurrection of the dead
Jesus Says.
[Mat 22:31 ESV] And as for the resurrection of the dead, have you not read what was said to you by God:
[Mat 22:32 ESV] 'I am the God of Abraham, and the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob'? He is not God of the dead, but of the living."
** Eternal Judgment.
[Rev 20:12 ESV] And I saw the dead, great and small, standing before the throne, and books were opened. Then another book was opened, which is the book of life. And the dead were judged by what was written in the books, according to what they had done.
[Rev 20:13 ESV] And the sea gave up the dead who were in it, Death and Hades gave up the dead who were in them, and they were judged, each one of them, according to what they had done.
[Rev 20:14 ESV] Then Death and Hades were thrown into the lake of fire. This is the second death, the lake of fire.
No yo-yo Jesus!
[Heb 6:4 ESV] For it is impossible, in the case of those who have once been enlightened, who have tasted the heavenly gift, and have shared in the Holy Spirit,
[Heb 6:5 ESV] and have tasted the goodness of the word of God and the powers of the age to come,
[Heb 6:6 ESV] and then have fallen away, to restore them again to repentance, since they are crucifying once again the Son of God to their own harm and holding him up to contempt.
If you think you lost your salvation, then give up now. There is no second chance.
Those Who Are Redeemed, Born Again, Saved. .. Bear Fruit.
[Heb 6:7 ESV] For land that has drunk the rain that often falls on it, and produces a crop useful to those for whose sake it is cultivated, receives a blessing from God.
[Heb 6:8 ESV] But if it bears thorns and thistles, it is worthless and near to being cursed, and its end is to be burned.
The Evidence of Salvation.
A True and Sure love for God, revealed in the following.
1. A Undeniable desire to Follow Jesus!
[2Co 5:14 NIV] For Christ's love compels us, because we are convinced that one died for all, and therefore all died.
A sincere desire to know the Bible and Obey the Bible. Because the Bible is God’s Word.
It’s a sincere desire to know God better.
2. The gift of struggle, is the work of Sanctification.
[Gal 5:16 ESV] But I say, walk by the Spirit, and you will not gratify the desires of the flesh.
[Gal 5:17 ESV] For the desires of the flesh are against the Spirit, and the desires of the Spirit are against the flesh, for these are opposed to each other, to keep you from doing the things you want to do.
[Gal 5:18 ESV] But if you are led by the Spirit, you are not under the law.
[Gal 5:19 ESV] Now the works of the flesh are evident: sexual immorality, impurity, sensuality,
[Gal 5:20 ESV] idolatry, sorcery, enmity, strife, jealousy, fits of anger, rivalries, dissensions, divisions,
[Gal 5:21 ESV] envy, drunkenness, orgies, and things like these. I warn you, as I warned you before, that those who do such things will not inherit the kingdom of God.
[Gal 5:22 ESV] But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness,
[Gal 5:23 ESV] gentleness, self-control; against such things there is no law.
[Gal 5:24 ESV] And those who belong to Christ Jesus have crucified the flesh with its passions and desires.
[Gal 5:25 ESV] If we live by the Spirit, let us also keep in step with the Spirit.
[1Jo 4:19 NIV] We love because He first loved us.
A response to true love creates acts of true love in the case of God’s love for us.
A messy struggle from old sinful activity to new holy activity.
That happens to look like the 5 Disciplines.
Assurance of Salvation, Knowing you are saved for sure, makes one work harder.
[Heb 6:9 ESV] Though we speak in this way, yet in your case, beloved, we feel sure of better things--things that belong to salvation.
FELLOWSHIP
[Heb 6:10 ESV] For God is not unjust so as to overlook your work and the love that you have shown for his name in serving the saints, as you still do.
[Heb 6:11 ESV] And we desire each one of you to show the same earnestness to have the full assurance of hope until the end,
Fruit!
[Heb 6:12 ESV] so that you may not be sluggish, but imitators of those who through faith and patience inherit the promises.
When God makes a Promise NOT even God can change it.
[Heb 6:13 ESV] For when God made a promise to Abraham, since he had no one greater by whom to swear, he swore by himself,
[Heb 6:14 ESV] saying, "Surely I will bless you and multiply you."
[Heb 6:15 ESV] And thus Abraham, having patiently waited, obtained the promise.
What about when God does something wrathful?
He didn’t break a promise.
It was always when His creation broke a Convent Agreement.
God is always the victim of evil humanity. He is always Just in His Actions. He is always FAIR.
Nowhere in History or Current day can you say God is not Fair.
There are two groups of people in the World.
Those who receive Gods Justice and those who receive His Mercy & Grace.
[Heb 6:16 ESV] For people swear by something greater than themselves, and in all their disputes an oath is final for confirmation.
[Heb 6:17 ESV] So when God desired to show more convincingly to the heirs of the promise the unchangeable character of his purpose, he guaranteed it with an oath,
God’s Guarantee of Salvation:
[2Co 1:20 ESV] For all the promises of God find their Yes in him. That is why it is through him that we utter our Amen to God for his glory.
[2Co 1:21 ESV] And it is God who establishes us with you in Christ, and has anointed us,
[2Co 1:22 ESV] and who has also put his seal on us and given us his Spirit in our hearts as a guarantee.
Mortal Swallowed up by Life!
[2Co 5:4 ESV] For while we are still in this tent, we groan, being burdened--not that we would be unclothed, but that we would be further clothed, so that what is mortal may be swallowed up by life.
[2Co 5:5 ESV] He who has prepared us for this very thing is God, who has given us the Spirit as a guarantee.
[2Co 5:6 ESV] So we are always of good courage. We know that while we are at home in the body we are away from the Lord,
[2Co 5:7 ESV] for we walk by faith, not by sight.
Our Inheritance
[Eph 1:13 ESV] In him you also, when you heard the word of truth, the gospel of your salvation, and believed in him, were sealed with the promised Holy Spirit,
[Eph 1:14 ESV] who is the guarantee of our inheritance until we acquire possession of it, to the praise of his glory.
Two Unchangeable Things:
1. God’s Unchanging Purpose
2. God’s Promise or Oath.
[Heb 6:18 ESV] so that by two unchangeable things, in which it is impossible for God to lie, we who have fled for refuge might have strong encouragement to hold fast to the hope set before us.
[Heb 6:19 ESV] We have this as a sure and steadfast anchor of the soul, a hope that enters into the inner place behind the curtain,
The Holy of Holies! The Throne of God Himself!!!!!
[Heb 6:20 ESV] where Jesus has gone as a forerunner on our behalf, having become a high priest forever after the order of Melchizedek.
Celebrate Communion
[1Co 11:23 ESV] For I received from the Lord what I also delivered to you, that the Lord Jesus on the night when he was betrayed took bread,
[1Co 11:24 ESV] and when he had given thanks, he broke it, and said, "This is my body which is for you. Do this in remembrance of me."
[1Co 11:25 ESV] In the same way also he took the cup,
after supper, saying, "This cup is the new covenant in my blood. Do this, as often as you drink it, in remembrance of me."
[1Co 11:26 ESV] For as often as you eat this bread and drink the cup, you proclaim the Lord's death until he comes.
A sincere desire to know the Bible and Obey the Bible. Because the Bible is God’s Word.
It’s a sincere desire to know God better.
2. The gift of struggle, is the work of Sanctification.
[Gal 5:16 ESV] But I say, walk by the Spirit, and you will not gratify the desires of the flesh.
[Gal 5:17 ESV] For the desires of the flesh are against the Spirit, and the desires of the Spirit are against the flesh, for these are opposed to each other, to keep you from doing the things you want to do.
[Gal 5:18 ESV] But if you are led by the Spirit, you are not under the law.
[Gal 5:19 ESV] Now the works of the flesh are evident: sexual immorality, impurity, sensuality,
[Gal 5:20 ESV] idolatry, sorcery, enmity, strife, jealousy, fits of anger, rivalries, dissensions, divisions,
[Gal 5:21 ESV] envy, drunkenness, orgies, and things like these. I warn you, as I warned you before, that those who do such things will not inherit the kingdom of God.
[Gal 5:22 ESV] But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness,
[Gal 5:23 ESV] gentleness, self-control; against such things there is no law.
[Gal 5:24 ESV] And those who belong to Christ Jesus have crucified the flesh with its passions and desires.
[Gal 5:25 ESV] If we live by the Spirit, let us also keep in step with the Spirit.
[1Jo 4:19 NIV] We love because He first loved us.
A response to true love creates acts of true love in the case of God’s love for us.
A messy struggle from old sinful activity to new holy activity.
That happens to look like the 5 Disciplines.
Assurance of Salvation, Knowing you are saved for sure, makes one work harder.
[Heb 6:9 ESV] Though we speak in this way, yet in your case, beloved, we feel sure of better things--things that belong to salvation.
FELLOWSHIP
[Heb 6:10 ESV] For God is not unjust so as to overlook your work and the love that you have shown for his name in serving the saints, as you still do.
[Heb 6:11 ESV] And we desire each one of you to show the same earnestness to have the full assurance of hope until the end,
Fruit!
[Heb 6:12 ESV] so that you may not be sluggish, but imitators of those who through faith and patience inherit the promises.
When God makes a Promise NOT even God can change it.
[Heb 6:13 ESV] For when God made a promise to Abraham, since he had no one greater by whom to swear, he swore by himself,
[Heb 6:14 ESV] saying, "Surely I will bless you and multiply you."
[Heb 6:15 ESV] And thus Abraham, having patiently waited, obtained the promise.
What about when God does something wrathful?
He didn’t break a promise.
It was always when His creation broke a Convent Agreement.
God is always the victim of evil humanity. He is always Just in His Actions. He is always FAIR.
Nowhere in History or Current day can you say God is not Fair.
There are two groups of people in the World.
Those who receive Gods Justice and those who receive His Mercy & Grace.
[Heb 6:16 ESV] For people swear by something greater than themselves, and in all their disputes an oath is final for confirmation.
[Heb 6:17 ESV] So when God desired to show more convincingly to the heirs of the promise the unchangeable character of his purpose, he guaranteed it with an oath,
God’s Guarantee of Salvation:
[2Co 1:20 ESV] For all the promises of God find their Yes in him. That is why it is through him that we utter our Amen to God for his glory.
[2Co 1:21 ESV] And it is God who establishes us with you in Christ, and has anointed us,
[2Co 1:22 ESV] and who has also put his seal on us and given us his Spirit in our hearts as a guarantee.
Mortal Swallowed up by Life!
[2Co 5:4 ESV] For while we are still in this tent, we groan, being burdened--not that we would be unclothed, but that we would be further clothed, so that what is mortal may be swallowed up by life.
[2Co 5:5 ESV] He who has prepared us for this very thing is God, who has given us the Spirit as a guarantee.
[2Co 5:6 ESV] So we are always of good courage. We know that while we are at home in the body we are away from the Lord,
[2Co 5:7 ESV] for we walk by faith, not by sight.
Our Inheritance
[Eph 1:13 ESV] In him you also, when you heard the word of truth, the gospel of your salvation, and believed in him, were sealed with the promised Holy Spirit,
[Eph 1:14 ESV] who is the guarantee of our inheritance until we acquire possession of it, to the praise of his glory.
Two Unchangeable Things:
1. God’s Unchanging Purpose
2. God’s Promise or Oath.
[Heb 6:18 ESV] so that by two unchangeable things, in which it is impossible for God to lie, we who have fled for refuge might have strong encouragement to hold fast to the hope set before us.
[Heb 6:19 ESV] We have this as a sure and steadfast anchor of the soul, a hope that enters into the inner place behind the curtain,
The Holy of Holies! The Throne of God Himself!!!!!
[Heb 6:20 ESV] where Jesus has gone as a forerunner on our behalf, having become a high priest forever after the order of Melchizedek.
Celebrate Communion
[1Co 11:23 ESV] For I received from the Lord what I also delivered to you, that the Lord Jesus on the night when he was betrayed took bread,
[1Co 11:24 ESV] and when he had given thanks, he broke it, and said, "This is my body which is for you. Do this in remembrance of me."
[1Co 11:25 ESV] In the same way also he took the cup,
after supper, saying, "This cup is the new covenant in my blood. Do this, as often as you drink it, in remembrance of me."
[1Co 11:26 ESV] For as often as you eat this bread and drink the cup, you proclaim the Lord's death until he comes.
Saturday Jun 21, 2014
Saturday Jun 21, 2014
[Heb 5:1 ESV] For every high priest chosen from among men is appointed to act on behalf of men in relation to God, to offer gifts and sacrifices for sins.
[Heb 5:2 ESV] He can deal gently with the ignorant and wayward, since he himself is beset with weakness.
[Heb 5:3 ESV] Because of this he is obligated to offer sacrifice for his own sins just as he does for those of the people.
[Heb 5:4 ESV] And no one takes this honor for himself, but only when called by God, just as Aaron was.
Jesus is The High Priest
[Heb 5:5 ESV] So also Christ did not exalt himself to be made a high priest, but was appointed by him who said to him, "You are my Son, today I have begotten you";
Paul in Acts 13, also refers to the following Psalm.
[Psa 2:7 ESV] I will tell of the decree: The LORD said to me, "You are my Son; today I have begotten you.
God Verbally Announces Jesus is His Son.
[Mat 3:16 ESV] And when Jesus was baptized, immediately he went up from the water, and behold, the heavens were opened to him, and he saw the Spirit of God descending like a dove and coming to rest on him;
[Mat 3:17 ESV] and behold, a voice from heaven said, "This is my beloved Son, with whom I am well pleased."
[Heb 5:6 ESV] as he says also in another place, "You are a priest forever, after the order of Melchizedek."
Psalm 110: 4.
[Psa 110:4 ESV] The LORD has sworn and will not change his mind, "You are a priest forever after the order of Melchizedek."
[Heb 5:7 ESV] In the days of his flesh, Jesus offered up prayers and supplications, with loud cries and tears, to him who was able to save him from death, and he was heard because of his reverence.
Matthew and Mark record His agony in the Garden.
[Mat 26:37 ESV] And taking with him Peter and the two sons of Zebedee, he began to be sorrowful and troubled.
[Mat 26:38 ESV] Then he said to them, "My soul is very sorrowful, even to death; remain here, and watch with me."
[Mat 26:39 ESV] And going a little farther he fell on his face and prayed, saying, "My Father, if it be possible, let this cup pass from me; nevertheless, not as I will, but as you will."
Luke’s Account of Jesus’ agony in the Garden, An angel appeared to strengthen Him.
[Luk 22:43 ESV] And there appeared to him an angel from heaven, strengthening him.
On The Cross!
[Mar 15:34 ESV] And at the ninth hour Jesus cried with a loud voice, "Eloi, Eloi, lema sabachthani?" which means, "My God, my God, why have you forsaken me?"
[Mar 15:37 ESV] And Jesus uttered a loud cry and breathed his last.
What was that last Shouts? There were TWO.
[Jhn 19:30 ESV] When Jesus had received the sour wine, he said, "It is finished," and he bowed his head and gave up his spirit.
[Luk 23:46 ESV] Then Jesus, calling out with a loud voice, said, "Father, into your hands I commit my spirit!" And having said this he breathed his last.
“Learned obedience. . .”
[Heb 5:8 ESV] Although he was a son, he learned obedience through what he suffered.
Jesus: He is the Sinless experiencing the curse and the judgment of a sinner.
“Being Made Perfect. . .”
[Heb 5:9 ESV] And being made perfect, he became the source of eternal salvation to all who obey him,
God is Immutable. He does not change.
[Jas 1:17 ESV] Every good gift and every perfect gift is from above, coming down from the Father of lights with whom there is no variation or shadow due to change.
[Psa 102:25 ESV] Of old you laid the foundation of the earth, and the heavens are the work of your hands.
[Psa 102:26 ESV] They will perish, but you will remain; they will all wear out like a garment. You will change them like a robe, and they will pass away,
[Psa 102:27 ESV] but you are the same, and your years have no end.
[Exo 3:14 ESV] God said to Moses, "I AM WHO I AM." And he said, "Say this to the people of Israel, 'I AM has sent me to you.'"
In The Garden, comparison
The serpent lied and said to disobey God was to become like God, knowing good and evil.
God does not know evil.
Who knew evil? . . . the serpent.
Adam and Eve were already “Like” God. They knew no sin.
Jesus comes to “know: experience” this evil when
[2Co 5:21 ESV] For our sake He (God) made Him (Jesus) to be sin who knew no sin, so that in Him (Jesus) we might become the righteousness of God.
Jesus is LEADING THE WAY in undoing, what was done in the garden.
[Heb 5:10 ESV] being designated by God a high priest after the order of Melchizedek.
Who is Melchizedek? The KING-PRIEST of Salem, future - Jerusalem
[Gen 14:18 ESV] And Melchizedek king of Salem brought out bread and wine. (He was priest of God Most High.)
[Gen 14:19 ESV] And he blessed him and said, "Blessed be Abram by God Most High, Possessor of heaven and earth;
[Gen 14:20 ESV] and blessed be God Most High, who has delivered your enemies into your hand!" And Abram gave him a tenth of everything.
The author pauses, realizing he is going to have to explain a lot more stuff, so he takes a moment to chastise and exhort the Christians.
[Heb 5:11 ESV] About this we have much to say, and it is hard to explain, since you have become dull of hearing.
(Point of Context) Jews should know their Old Testament.
Messianic Jews and Gentile Believers (The Christians) Should know the Gospel - Hebrews Chapter 6.
[Heb 5:12 ESV] For though by this time you ought to be teachers, you need someone to teach you again the basic principles of the oracles of God. You need milk, not solid food,
[Heb 5:13 ESV] for everyone who lives on milk is unskilled in the word of righteousness, since he is a child.
[Heb 5:14 ESV] But solid food is for the mature, for those who have their powers of discernment trained by constant practice to distinguish good from evil.
Again Garden comparison: Truly knowing Good from evil.
Apart from Christ, we are not like God. We don’t know good from evil. We only know evil.
[Rom 12:2 ESV] Do not be conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewal of your mind, that by testing you may discern what is the will of God, what is good and acceptable and perfect.
** RC Sproul “The subtleties of the devil are only subtle because Christians don’t know their Bible.”
Hebrews Chapter 5
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Saturday Jun 07, 2014
Saturday Jun 07, 2014
**Time for us to do a personal spiritual inventory**
How Am I responding to God’s Bible, Right Now, Today?
Therefore: How the Israelites Responded . . . . . .
[Heb 3:15 ESV] As it is said, "Today, if you hear his voice, do not harden your hearts as in the rebellion."
[Heb 3:16 ESV] For who were those who heard and yet rebelled? Was it not all those who left Egypt led by Moses?
[Heb 3:17 ESV] And with whom was he provoked for forty years? Was it not with those who sinned, whose bodies fell in the wilderness?
[Heb 3:18 ESV] And to whom did he swear that they would not enter his rest, but to those who were disobedient?
[Heb 3:19 ESV] So we see that they were unable to enter because of unbelief.
Christians VS Israelites: How we respond to God’s Word.
[Heb 4:2 ESV] For good news came to us just as to them, but the message they heard did not benefit them, because they were not united by faith with those who listened.
The REST Zone! God is in the REST ZONE, Some people are in it, some are not.
[Heb 4:3 ESV] For we who have believed enter that rest, as he has said, "As I swore in my wrath, 'They shall not enter my rest,'" although his works were finished from the foundation of the world.
[Heb 4:4 ESV] For he has somewhere spoken of the seventh day in this way: "And God rested on the seventh day from all his works."
[Heb 4:5 ESV] And again in this passage he said, "They shall not enter my rest."
How do you receive the good news?
[Heb 4:6 ESV] Since therefore it remains for some to enter it, and those who formerly received the good news failed to enter because of disobedience,
How do you receive Bible Truth Right Now . . . Today?
[Heb 4:7 ESV] again he appoints a certain day, "Today," saying through David so long afterward, in the words already quoted, "Today, if you hear his voice, do not harden your hearts."
[Heb 4:8 ESV] For if Joshua had given them rest, God would not have spoken of another day later on.
[Heb 4:9 ESV] So then, there remains a Sabbath rest for the people of God,
[Heb 4:10 ESV] for whoever has entered God's rest has also rested from his works as God did from his.
[Heb 4:11 ESV] Let us therefore strive to enter that rest, so that no one may fall by the same sort of disobedience.
God’s Rest Begins Today!
Today, receive God’s Truth.
Sabbath Rest begins when we have been SAVED.
First for Salvation,
Second for your life’s Purpose.
Our Purpose & Meaning begin to Mature.
New Creation
[2Co 5:17 ESV] Therefore, if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation. The old has passed away; behold, the new has come.
[2Co 5:18 ESV] All this is from God, who through Christ reconciled us to himself and gave us the ministry of reconciliation;
New Heart
[Eze 36:26 ESV] And I will give you a new heart, and a new spirit I will put within you. And I will remove the heart of stone from your flesh and give you a heart of flesh.
[Eze 36:27 ESV] And I will put my Spirit within you, and cause you to walk in my statutes and be careful to obey my rules.
A Child of God
[Jhn 1:11 ESV] He came to his own, and his own people did not receive him.
[Jhn 1:12 ESV] But to all who did receive him, who believed in his name, he gave the right to become children of God,
[Jhn 1:13 ESV] who were born, not of blood nor of the will of the flesh nor of the will of man, but of God.
Rest from our vain works, Meaningless, empty lives.
[Eph 2:4 ESV] But God, being rich in mercy, because of the great love with which he loved us,
[Eph 2:5 ESV] even when we were dead in our trespasses, made us alive together with Christ--by grace you have been saved--
[Eph 2:6 ESV] and raised us up with him and seated us with him in the heavenly places in Christ Jesus,
[Eph 2:7 ESV] so that in the coming ages he might show the immeasurable riches of his grace in kindness toward us in Christ Jesus.
[Eph 2:8 ESV] For by grace you have been saved through faith. And this is not your own doing; it is the gift of God,
[Eph 2:9 ESV] not a result of works, so that no one may boast.
[1Jo 1:9 ESV] If we confess our sins, he is faithful and just to forgive us our sins and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness.
Sabbath Rest!
[Rom 8:19 ESV] For the creation waits with eager longing for the revealing of the sons of God.
[Rom 8:20 ESV] For the creation was subjected to futility, not willingly, but because of him who subjected it, in hope
[Rom 8:21 ESV] that the creation itself will be set free from its bondage to corruption and obtain the freedom of the glory of the children of God.
[Rom 8:22 ESV] For we know that the whole creation has been groaning together in the pains of childbirth until now.
[Rom 8:23 ESV] And not only the creation, but we ourselves, who have the firstfruits of the Spirit, groan inwardly as we wait eagerly for adoption as sons, the redemption of our bodies.
Rest from the following:
Cursed Work!
[Gen 3:17 ESV] And to Adam he said, "Because you have listened to the voice of your wife and have eaten of the tree of which I commanded you, 'You shall not eat of it,' cursed is the ground because of you; in pain you shall eat of it all the days of your life;
[Gen 3:18 ESV] thorns and thistles it shall bring forth for you; and you shall eat the plants of the field.
[Gen 3:19 ESV] By the sweat of your face you shall eat bread, till you return to the ground, for out of it you were taken; for you are dust, and to dust you shall return."
Cursed body!
[Gal 5:17 ESV] For the desires of the flesh are against the Spirit, and the desires of the Spirit are against the flesh, for these are opposed to each other, to keep you from doing the things you want to do.
Suffering, death, pain, fear, frustration, heart break
[Rev 21:3 ESV] And I heard a loud voice from the throne saying, "Behold, the dwelling place of God is with man. He will dwell with them, and they will be his people, and God himself will be with them as their God.
[Rev 21:4 ESV] He will wipe away every tear from their eyes, and death shall be no more, neither shall there be mourning, nor crying, nor pain anymore, for the former things have passed away."
Share the Bible even with those who don’t believe it.
[Heb 4:12 ESV] For the word of God is living and active, sharper than any two-edged sword, piercing to the division of soul and of spirit, of joints and of marrow, and discerning the thoughts and intentions of the heart.
[Heb 4:13 ESV] And no creature is hidden from his sight, but all are naked and exposed to the eyes of him to whom we must give account.
Jesus is a General who leads from the Front!
[Heb 4:14 ESV] Since then we have a great high priest who has passed through the heavens, Jesus, the Son of God, let us hold fast our confession.
[Heb 4:15 ESV] For we do not have a high priest who is unable to sympathize with our weaknesses, but one who in every respect has been tempted as we are, yet without sin.
[Heb 4:16 ESV] Let us then with confidence draw near to the throne of grace, that we may receive mercy and find grace to help in time of need.
Hebrews Chapter 4
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