Hebrews 3:15-19 While it is said, “Today if you hear His voice, Do not harden your hearts, as when they provoked Me.” 16 For who provoked Him when they had heard? Indeed, did not all those who came out of Egypt led by Moses? 17 And with whom was He angry for forty years? Was it not with those who sinned, whose bodies fell in the wilderness? 18 And to whom did He swear that they would not enter His...

Hebrews 3:14 For we have become partakers of Christ, if we hold fast the beginning of our assurance firm until the end.            The author of Hebrews was not one to sit around and amongst professed Christians who doubted the superiority of Jesus Christ while assuming that since they once made a profession of faith in Christ that they were once saved, always saved. To the author, a true believer...

Hebrews 3:13 But encourage one another day after day, as long as it is still called “Today,” so that none of you will be hardened by the deceitfulness of sin.Now instead of falling away from God, the audience was to “encourage” (Gr. parakaleō) each other day-by-day. To “encourage” is a term used for the Holy Spirit—the Spirit of God who comes alongside another to help, advocating on their behalf l...

Hebrews 3:12 Take care, brethren, that there not be in any one of you an evil, unbelieving heart that falls away from the living God.            The Bible is clear that once salvation is granted to a person, after trusting in Jesus Christ as Lord and Savior, he/she can never lose it. Yet it is also clear there are some who profess to know Christ who do in fact fall away from their faith. Did they ...

Hebrews 3:7-11 Therefore, just as the Holy Spirit says, “Today if you hear His voice, 8 Do not harden your hearts as when they provoked Me, as in the day of trial in the wilderness, 9 Where your fathers tried Me by testing Me, and saw My works for forty years. 10 Therefore I was angry with this generation, and said, ‘They always go astray in their heart, and they did not know My ways’; 11 as I swo...

Hebrews 3:5-6 Now Moses was faithful in all His house as a servant, for a testimony of those things which were to be spoken later; 6 but Christ was faithful as a Son over His house—whose house we are, if we hold fast our confidence and the boast of our hope firm until the end.A quick summary of Jesus’ superiority over Moses is given in vv. 5-6. Whereas Moses was faithful as a servant over God’s pe...

Hebrews 3:2-4 [Jesus] was faithful to [God the Father] who appointed Him, as Moses also was in all His house. 3 For He has been counted worthy of more glory than Moses, by just so much as the builder of the house has more honor than the house. 4 For every house is built by someone, but the builder of all things is God.In defending the command to “consider Jesus” in Hebrews 3:1, the author expoun...

Hebrews 3:1 Therefore, holy brethren, partakers of a heavenly calling, consider Jesus, the Apostle and High Priest of our confession.Having established from the Jewish Scriptures Jesus’ superiority over angels, the author of Hebrews draws another conclusion in 3:1-6 much like the one in 2:1-4 with the word “therefore.” The conclusion he makes draws from his previous discussion in Hebrews, chapters...

Hebrews 2:16-18 For assuredly [God] does not give help to angels, but He gives help to the descendant of Abraham. 17 Therefore, He had to be made like His brethren in all things, so that He might become a merciful and faithful high priest in things pertaining to God, to make propitiation for the sins of the people. 18 For since He Himself was tempted in that which He has suffered, He is able to co...

Hebrews 2:14-15 Therefore, since the children share in flesh and blood, He Himself likewise also partook of the same, that through death He might render powerless him who had the power of death, that is, the devil, 15 and might free those who through fear of death were subject to slavery all their lives.The writer of Hebrews has endeavored to show how God took on human flesh and became a living ma...

Hebrews 2:11-13 For both He who sanctifies and those who are sanctified are all from one Father; for which reason He is not ashamed to call them brethren, 12 saying, “I will proclaim Your name to My brethren, in the midst of the congregation I will sing Your praise.” 13 Again, “I will put My trust in Him.” And again, “Behold, I and the children whom God has given Me.”While on the cross, Jesus not ...

Hebrews 2:10 For it was fitting for Him, for whom are all things, and through whom are all things, in bringing many sons to glory, to perfect the author of their salvation through sufferings.The epistle of Hebrews was written to Jewish believers in Christ. Though professing believers, some had begun to drift from their faith. Having relegated Jesus to an angelic being, they were neglecting their s...

Philippians 2:9-11 For this reason also, God highly exalted Him, and bestowed on Him the name which is above every name, 10 so that at the name of Jesus every knee will bow, of those who are in heaven and on earth and under the earth, 11 and that every tongue will confess that Jesus Christ is Lord, to the glory of God the Father.       What followed Jesus of Nazareth’s obedience as God in the fles...

Hebrews 8b-9 But now we do not yet see all things subjected to him. 9 But we do see Him who was made for a little while lower than the angels, Jesus, because of the suffering of death crowned with glory and honor, so that by the grace of God He might taste death for everyone.So mankind lost what was originally his in Eden after Adam and Eve sinned. God gave Adam authority over His creation, puttin...

Hebrews 2:8 You have put all things in subjection under his feet.” For in subjecting all things to him, He left nothing that is not subject to him. But now we do not yet see all things subjected to him.Man’s original destiny on the earth to rule over all things well was thwarted by Adam’s sin (Gen. 3). Since then, neither mankind nor the earth itself has been the same. Man forfeited his kingdom an...