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…had the brightness of fire (Ezekiel 1:26-27). The author of the book of Hebrews picks up on this and tells us that our God is a burning fire (Hebrews 12:29). Thus, this image of Ezekiel 1, I believe, is an image of God’s throne. It is the place we come when we seek Him in prayer (Hebrews 4:14-16). It is an awesome place, a glorious place, a place where sin has no presence, and yet we are welcomed there when…

…However, too many times, when I have heard people saying things similar to what you have heard, I find that people are thinking about physical blessings. It is the physical blessings that Jesus wants us to turn our focus from. He wants us to focus on Him (Hebrews 13:1-3), and on the things of heaven (Matthew 6:33). To be members of the heavenly kingdom (Phillipians 3:20) means that we do not use God to obtain what we want on this…

…Is there a need for His blood to continue to be shed, or His body to continue to be broken? I think that is precisely what Hebrews says we cannot do (Heb. 6:6 – He cannot be recrucified.) However, as stated before, there are many great Lutherans who would strongly disagree with my position on this issue. I believe that communion, like the rapture, is what it is before God. If I am wrong, then all of these years I…

…He was called to preach 4:42-44 Calling His Disciples 5:1-11 Cleansing a Leper 5:12-16 Healing a paralytic 5:17-26 Calling Matthew 5:27-32 Teaching on Fasting 5:33-39 Teaching on the Sabbath 6:1-11 Calling the 12 6:12-16 Healing Many 6:17-19 Teaching His Disciples about the Kingdom 6:20-49 Healing a Centurion’s servant 7:1-10 Raising the son of the widow of Nain 7:11-17 Teaching about John 7:18-35 Teaching about forgiveness 7:36-50 Ministered by women 8:1-3 Parable of the sower 8:4-15 Parable of the light 8:16-18…

…(Romans 1:27). What is true of women is true also of men. There is a natural use of our sex organs that is honorable before God (Hebrews 13:4). There is an unnatural use that God will judge (Hebrews 13:4). Paul urges the Corinthians, who formerly were into all sorts of sexual deviancy (1 Corinthians 6:9-11) to flee from sexual immorality (1 Corinthians 6:18). He then goes on to state in 1 Corinthians 7:9 that if anyone cannot exercise self-control, then…

…committed under the first covenant. For where a will is involved, the death of the one who made it must be established. For a will takes effect only at death, since it is not in force as long as the one who made it is alive. Hebrews 9:15-17 The thief was not the first one to have been forgiven by Jesus of his sins before the death, burial and resurrection of Jesus Christ. Read Matthew 9:6. Besides all that, there…

Question from a Site Viewer Hebrews 12:14 says, “Pursue peace with all people, and holiness without which no man shall see the Lord.” The “pursue peace” part is connected to the verse in the Sermon on the Mount where Jesus says, “Blessed are the peace-makers for they shall be called the children of God.” The “holiness” part in the Sermon on the Mount is where it says, “Blessed are the pure in heart for they shall see God.” You cannot…

…true. The writer to the Hebrews writes in Hebrews 11:6 that the one who comes to God must believe that God is and that God is a rewarder of those who diligently seek Him. Notice again, the author places the locus of belief and seeking on the person. But again, I belabor the point. So, when some of us follow what was handed down and believed by the earliest church on this subject, we do so based on a great…

…without any cost, without any pain [that’s ME!], without any demands on personal change . . . and they want it right now . . . poof . . . instantaneous! Jesus Christ didn’t qualify himself to be our High Priest through ease and personal pleasure. He became qualified through the things He suffered (See: Hebrews 5:8). Trial after trial after trial was the means God the Father used to qualify Him to be our highest of High Priests. Believers…

…Bible as the ‘Bride of Christ’ (Revelation 21:9) and the passages in the Books of Hebrews and Colossians concerning the difference between the Old Covenant of the Law of Moses and the New Covenant of Grace through Jesus Christ ran through my head (Hebrews 8-10; Colossians 2), when it occurred to me that each Covenant was like a Marriage Contract, and that the New Convenant could not be entered into without the ‘death’ of the Old Covenant. God didn’t just…