Hebrews Part 31

HEBREWS PART 31

Hebrews 12:5-24

1. INTRODUCTION

II. GOD’S FINAL WORD IN HIS SON 1:1-10:18

III. PRACTICAL APPLICATION FOR WALKING WITH THE SON 10:19-13:25

A. Urgings—Warning—Encouragement - 10:19-39

B. The Evidence of the Life of Faith - 11:1-40

C. The Urging to Have Faith that Endures - 12:1-29

1. Faith and Discipline - 12:1-11

a. The Reasons to Endure - 12:1-2

b. The Measure of Endurance - 12:3-4

c. The Purpose of Suffering - 12:5-11

1. They have forgotten they are sons of God (v5)

2. God disciplines and it is evidence of sonship (v6)

3. It is for discipline that you endure (v7)

4. Without discipline you’re not a son of God (V8)

5. Even earthly fathers disciplined their children (v9)

6. Earthly fathers discipline was short and faulty (v10)

7. Sorrow yields peaceful fruit of righteousness (v11)

2. Faith and the Believer’s Obligations - 12:12-29

a. The Obligations - 12:12-17

1. Strengthen the weak and feeble (v12)

2. Remove stumbling blocks to yield peaceful fruit (v13)

3. Pursue peace with all men (v14)

4. See to it that you appropriate the grace of God (v15)

5. Don’t let bitterness spring up like Esau (v16)

6. Esau’s decision was irrevocable (v17)

b. The Believer’s Position - 12:18-24

1. For you have not come to a place of terror (vv 18-21)

2. But you have come to a system of Grace (vv 22-24)