Hebrews Part 33

HEBREWS PART 33

Hebrews 12:25-13:7

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

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

a. The Obligations - 12:12-17

b. The Believer’s Position - 12:18-24

c. Fifth Warning: Warning Against Ingratitude 12:25-29

1. Do not refuse Him who is speaking (v25)

2. There was a shaking, there will be a final shaking v26

3. Things shakable are temporary; things unshakable are eternal (v27)

4. Therefore let us have gratitude (v28)

5. Because the the alternative is divine judgment (v29)

D. Concluding Encouragements - 13:1-25

1. Moral Directions - 13:1-6

a. Let philadelphia continue (v1)

b. Don’t forget to show hospitality to strangers (v2)

c. Have sympathy for those in prison (v3)

d. Marriage is to be held in honor among all (v4)

e. Be content with the things you have (v5)

f. God will not leave you and man cannot harm you (v6)

2. Religious Directions - 13:7-17

a. Remember those who led you and taught you (v7)

b. Jesus must be the center of our faith (v8)

c. Do not be carried away by varied and strange teachings 9

d. Nothing but Jesus is the altar (v10)

e. The offering of sin was brought outside the camp (v11)

f. Therefore Jesus also suffered outside the gate (v12