Midsummer gnat season is officially here, and earlier this week, I asked Tiff whether or not we are unknowingly descendants of ancient Egypt who are receiving a fresh outpouring of the third of the ten plagues from Exodus. It's a somewhat humorous exaggeration, I know, but every time I run my electric flyswatter through a …
https://open.spotify.com/episode/7p2LIAG77lorCIWAxGwhZO?si=NH1pvnZpSZSK7HpSJxq4RQ Much as the first three commandments set our minds squarely upon how we ought to love God supremely with all our being, the three before us in this question focus upon how we ought to love our neighbor as ourselves. These are also the three shortest commandments among the Ten, being recorded for us …
Continue reading Question 11: What Does God Require in the Sixth, Seventh, and Eighth Commandments?
For it was indeed fitting that we should have such a high priest, holy, innocent, unstained, separated from sinners, and exalted above the heavens. He has no need, like those high priests, to offer sacrifices daily, first for his own sins and then for those of the people, since he did this once for all …
Continue reading We Have Such a High Priest | Hebrews 7:26-8:5
https://open.spotify.com/episode/5fRKheenNLypPHRmgEFgp7?si=rzN_2dO8Q6qBgsR6bRvnKw The Ten Commandments are often divided into two tables, one pertaining to the love of God and the other describing how we are to love our neighbor. The most traditional division is between the Fourth and Fifth Commandments. The Fourth Commandment, after all, requires the remembering and keeping of the Sabbath day holy, while the Fifth Commandment demands honor to be given to …
Continue reading How the Sabbath Calls Us to Love God and Our Neighbor
For this Melchizedek, king of Salem, priest of the Most High God, met Abraham returning from the slaughter of the kings and blessed him, and to him Abraham apportioned a tenth part of everything. He is first, by translation of his name, king of righteousness, and then he is also king of Salem, that is, …
Continue reading After the Order of Melchizedek | Hebrews 7:1-25
Though we speak in this way, yet in your case, beloved, we feel sure of better things—things that belong to salvation. For God is not unjust so as to overlook your work and the love that you have shown for his name in serving the saints, as you still do. And we desire each one …
Continue reading Hold Fast to the Hope Set Before Us | Hebrews 6:9-20
For it is impossible, in the case of those who have once been enlightened, who have tasted the heavenly gift, and have shared in the Holy Spirit, and have tasted the goodness of the word of God and the powers of the age to come, and then have fallen away, to restore them again to …
Continue reading Crucifying Once Again the Son of God | Hebrews 6:4-8
About this we have much to say, and it is hard to explain, since you have become dull of hearing. For though by this time you ought to be teachers, you need someone to teach you again the basic principles of the oracles of God. You need milk, not solid food, for everyone who lives …
Continue reading Let Us Leave the Elementary Doctrine of Christ | Hebrews 5:11-6:3
For every high priest chosen from among men is appointed to act on behalf of men in relation to God, to offer gifts and sacrifices for sins. He can deal gently with the ignorant and wayward, since he himself is beset with weakness. Because of this he is obligated to offer sacrifice for his own …
Continue reading The Source of Eternal Salvation | Hebrews 5:1-10
https://youtu.be/wi28Dhg7YYY Since then we have a great high priest who has passed through the heavens, Jesus, the Son of God, let us hold fast our confession. For we do not have a high priest who is unable to sympathize with our weaknesses, but one who in every respect has been tempted as we are, yet …
Continue reading Draw Near to the Throne of Grace | Hebrews 4:14-16
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