“By faith Abel offered to God a better sacrifice than Cain, through which he obtained the testimony that he was righteous, God testifying about his gifts, and through faith, though he is dead, he still speaks.” (Hebrews 11:4 NASB1995) When I read this in Hebrews 11 about Cain and Abel, I knew I had to … Continue reading A Better Sacrifice
Hebrews
To Love and Good Deeds
“Let us hold fast the confession of our hope without wavering, for He who promised is faithful; and let us consider how to stimulate one another to love and good deeds, not forsaking our own assembling together, as is the habit of some, but encouraging one another; and all the more as you see the … Continue reading To Love and Good Deeds
He Who Promised is Faithful
“Therefore, brothers and sisters, since we have confidence to enter the holy place by the blood of Jesus, by a new and living way which He inaugurated for us through the veil, that is, through His flesh, and since we have a great priest over the house of God, let’s approach God with a sincere … Continue reading He Who Promised is Faithful
If You Hear His Voice
“Therefore, just as the Holy Spirit says,‘Today if you hear His voice,Do not harden your hearts as when they provoked Me,As in the day of trial in the wilderness,Where your fathers tried Me by testing Me,And saw My works for forty years.Therefore I was angry with this generation,And said, “They always go astray in their … Continue reading If You Hear His Voice
If We Neglect So Great a Salvation
“For this reason we must pay much closer attention to what we have heard, so that we do not drift away from it. For if the word spoken through angels proved unalterable, and every transgression and disobedience received a just penalty, how will we escape if we neglect so great a salvation?” (Hebrews 2:1-3 NASB’95) … Continue reading If We Neglect So Great a Salvation
Jesus Christ is God the Son
“God, after He spoke long ago to the fathers in the prophets in many portions and in many ways, 2 in these last days has spoken to us in His Son, whom He appointed heir of all things, through whom also He made the world. 3 And He is the radiance of His glory and … Continue reading Jesus Christ is God the Son
Our God is a Consuming Fire
“See to it that you do not refuse Him who is speaking. For if those did not escape when they refused him who warned them on earth, much less will we escape who turn away from Him who warns from heaven. And His voice shook the earth then, but now He has promised, saying, ‘Yet … Continue reading Our God is a Consuming Fire
Make Straight Paths for Your Feet
“Therefore, strengthen the hands that are weak and the knees that are feeble, and make straight paths for your feet, so that the limb which is lame may not be put out of joint, but rather be healed. “Pursue peace with all men, and the sanctification without which no one will see the Lord. See … Continue reading Make Straight Paths for Your Feet
The Discipline of The Lord
“You have not yet resisted to the point of shedding blood in your striving against sin; and you have forgotten the exhortation which is addressed to you as sons, “’My son, do not regard lightly the discipline of the Lord,Nor faint when you are reproved by Him;For those whom the Lord loves He disciplines,And He … Continue reading The Discipline of The Lord