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
https://open.spotify.com/episode/2WzDVJMZD4QYQlfUShunVk?si=5d_DttCsRXuXFxN9SMq0yg Since Question 4 stated that we were created to glorify God, the present question focuses upon how we are to do that. Before we discuss the answer given, we ought to make certain that we properly understand the question itself. Glory and glorify are such commonly used words among Christians that the actual meaning …
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://open.spotify.com/episode/0rrDRtoSPPjuzST79lRe8E?si=PVUIzy0XSEyMbJ7M3dwOSQ This week of Pride Month featured the pride flag flying high over the White House like a triumphant banner over a conquered foe. This was then accompanied by a pride celebration at the capital in which pushback against flashers forced the present administration to admit that it took things just a bit too far. …
https://open.spotify.com/episode/6nnE1cWka26YnsqEy9zRar?si=jGERTWrbRoCNdU36z0xDsA This question is the natural follow-up to Question 4, and it is just as fundamental. Just as lasting ethics can only exist if they have been established by a Creator, so too is the world around us comprehensible because it has been created by the Creator. Although some who deny the existence of the …
The following quotation is from Richard Phillips' expository commentary on the book of Hebrews: Complaining is a symptom of a deeper spiritual problem. If we grumble and complain, if we rebel and revolt, it indicates a very poor knowledge of God. Indeed, this was exactly the Lord's diagnosis of Israel, as we see in verse …
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
https://open.spotify.com/episode/3Ahok8Vy1Rqvgz0tqQtKwg?si=IPMVJT8gT3GghsUyDfaHpw Since Question 2 affirmed that God is the Creator and Sustainer of all things, He is our Creator and Sustainer. Therefore, our present question addresses a subject of nearly supreme practicality (and notice the two-part structure of the question): How and why did God create us? The first sentence gives us the answer proper, …
My decision to preach Hebrews 4:12-13 within the same sermon as verses 1-11 obviously meant leaving much upon the cutting room floor, yet this sermon from the Prince of Preachers on Hebrews 4:12 will hopefully be a sufficient supplement. Whether you listen to my reading or read the text yourself below, I pray that you …
Continue reading The Word a Sword | A Sermon by Charles Spurgeon
https://youtu.be/vPvYVelbUM4 Therefore, while the promise of entering his rest still stands, let us fear lest any of you should seem to have failed to reach it. For good news came to us just as to them, but the message they heard did not benefit them, because they were not united by faith with those who …
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