Category: Hebrews

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The only worthwhile religion fits you to eat of that Altar Above. Worthwhile religion will strengthen your faith in Jesus Christ, help you to be a peacemaker in your family and church, and a Gospel blessing to church leaders. Take this prayer (v.20,21) as your model in your prayers for family and congregation.

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* Righteous God, please teach us more of the life You want us to live, from Your word today.

“For here we have no lasting city, but we seek the city that is to come.”

This has been an ongoing theme through this wonderful letter – The unseen, the heavenly, the better country, the new Jerusalem.

We are exhorted toward the behaviour that this reality produces,

“Therefore let us go to him outside the camp and bear the reproach he endured. For here we have no lasting city, but we seek the city that is to come.”

We will bear the same reproach that Jesus endured when we stand in Him, knowing that it was outside the camp on that hill called the skull that He suffered for us.

We can continually offer up sacrifices that are pleasing to God, walking in obedience to our leaders in God’s church, desiring to act honorably in all things, praying without ceasing, doing good and sharing what we have – We can do these things through Jesus! Because of His work, what He has done, in His strength and might and power!

This is true religion!

* Father God,

Thank You for Your word that reminds us to look to Jesus, to consider Him!

As He suffered outside the camp, so we are to bear the same reproach, as we await the city built by You dear God.

What a hope this is, thank You Lord!

Amen.

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Mount Sinai is the mountain that God’s people were not to touch. Mount Zion Above is the mountain that you should touch. It is only with Christ and His Gospel that all peoples will find God, will find their true home. Verses 12:28,29 are worthy of your deep thought.

SJA Notes

* Lord God, You alone are worthy of all praise and honor, Your Name is to be kept holy.

“Keep your life free from the love of money, and be content with what you have, for he has said, ‘I will never leave you nor forsake you.'”

The write of Hebrews has some very practical wisdom in today’s passage.

We have read of our God who shook the earth with His voice, and will shake both earth and heaven “Yet once more”.

This LIVING GOD is with us. He will never leave us or forsake us.

So where then do we place our love? Who are our hearts resting in?

Let us guard our hearts against veering off toward a love of money and earthly gain.

Let us guard out hearts toward loving our God – the One who calls us from darkness into light.

He alone is worthy of our praise.

Let us love Him as He first loved us.

* Holy God,

You are a consuming fire.

Please help us to offer up to You acceptable worship.

Today and each day onwards.

Amen.

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When you face much opposition to your faith, there is someone whose life we should always turn to and consider – Christ’s. (v.2,3) A time of reflection on His life every day will strengthen you emotionally, spiritually and in every other way. This is the fount of living peacefully with others, the fount to a holy life – the good life.

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* Holy God, You word to us is true. Please teach us what to do today and may we walk in it.

“Consider him who endured from sinners such hostility against himself, so that you may not grow weary or fainthearted.”

Consider Him!

Look to Jesus.

Jesus was despised and rejected by men, a man of sorrows and acquainted with the same grief we experience.

Jesus came down and dwelt among us.

This is our God.

When we are discouraged with life, disheartened and feeling low, let us be reminded to,

Consider Jesus.

* Father God,

Thank You for Your discipline, which is painful for a moment, but yields the peaceful fruit of righteousness.

Remind us each day to consider Jesus.

Thank You that Your word tells us this is a help for us, for our endurance, our perseverance.

Amen.