Hebrews 12:1-3 Click on link to read passage. You may select your own version of the Bible after the link opens. This passage is such a wonderful challenge. How many of us truly recognize the baggage we carry around with us? What are the things that pull us away from a relationship with Christ? What is it that keeps us from extending Christ’s love to the sick, lonely and/or hurting people around us? Busy-ness? Business profits? Poorly utilized idle
Proverbs 3:5-12 Click on link to read passage. You may select your own version of the Bible after the link opens. Proverbs 3:5-6 This proverb is one of the best. It challenges us to put God’s directions above our own judgement. Yet how many times have we responded to a scripture with a “yes, but…” and failed to do what was clearly set forth in the passage. Sometimes we can legitimately affirm that a particular passage was intended for a
Hebrews 10:15-18 Click on link to read passage. You may select your own version of the Bible after the link opens. How beautiful the new covenant is to our spirits. With the new covenant God puts the laws in our hearts – he gives us the desire to honor him by obeying his commands. He also agrees to remember our sins and lawless acts no more. It is Jesus’ sacrifice that brings us this forgiveness – no other sacifice
Hebrews 10:11-14 Click on link to read passage. You may select your own version of the Bible after the link opens. These verses again contrst the sacrifices of the Old Testament with Jesus’ most glorious sarifice. The high priest of the old covenant had to continually make sacrifices for the people These sacrifices served more to make the people aware of their sins than to bring lasting forgiveness. In contrast, Jesus is both our sacrifice and our high priest.
Hebrews 10:1-10 Click on link to read passage. You may select your own version of the Bible after the link opens. The book of Hebrews continues to remind us that we only see a shadow of the good things in store for us. These reminders are intriguing to those who stop and consider them. The sacrifices of the Old Testament brought temporary forgiveness but not a change of heart. What God really wants is the kind of repentance that