Topic:Strength at Wit’s End 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. Son though he was, he learned obedience from what …
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Topic:The Throne of Grace Therefore, since we have a great high priest who has ascended into heaven, Jesus the Son of God, let us hold firmly to the faith we profess. For we do not have a high priest who is unable to empathize with our weaknesses, but we have …
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Topic:Living Out of Rest There remains, then, a Sabbath-rest for the people of God; for anyone who enters God’s rest also rests from their works, just as God did from his. Hebrews 4:9-10 Here is a revolutionary new principle of human behavior, on which God intends man to operate. It …
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Topic:Warning, Warning! See to it, brothers and sisters, that none of you has a sinful, unbelieving heart that turns away from the living God. But encourage one another daily, as long as it is called “Today,” so that none of you may be hardened by sin’s deceitfulness. We have come …
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Topic:God’s House “Moses was faithful as a servant in all God’s house,” bearing witness to what would be spoken by God in the future. But Christ is faithful as the Son over God’s house. And we are his house, if indeed we hold firmly to our confidence and the hope …
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Topic:Perfect Through Suffering In bringing many sons and daughters to glory, it was fitting that God, for whom and through whom everything exists, should make the pioneer of their salvation perfect through what he suffered. Hebrews 2:10 The earthly life of Jesus is referred to in one phrase, “perfect through …
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Topic:Restoring Dominion In putting everything under them, God left nothing that is not subject to them. Yet at present we do not see everything subject to them. But we do see Jesus, who was made lower than the angels for a little while, now crowned with glory and honor because …
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Topic:Pay Careful Attention! We must pay the most careful attention, therefore, to what we have heard, so that we do not drift away. For since the message spoken through angels was binding, and every violation and disobedience received its just punishment, how shall we escape if we ignore so great …
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Topic:A Son or a Servant For to which of the angels did God ever say, “You are my Son; today I have become your Father”? Or again, “I will be his Father, and he will be my Son”? Hebrews 1:5 The writer of Hebrews is now comparing Jesus with the …
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Topic:The Power to Cleanse He provided the way for people to be made pure from sin. Then he sat down at the right hand of the King, the Majesty in heaven. Hebrews 1:3b Jesus is the final and complete word of God to man because he has solved the deepest …
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