Hebrews Chapter Thirteen Verses 1-6

HEBREWS CHAPTER THIRTEEN VS 1-6 (USING KJ TEXT, STUDY BOOK WILL REFERENCE A DIFFERENT VERSION FOR READING)

Heb 13:1  Let brotherly love continue. 

Heb 13:2  Be not forgetful to entertain strangers: for thereby some have entertained angels unawares. 

Heb 13:3  Remember them that are in bonds, as bound with them; and them which suffer adversity, as being yourselves also in the body. 

Heb 13:4  Marriage is honourable in all, and the bed undefiled: but whoremongers and adulterers God will judge. 

Heb 13:5  Let your conversation be without covetousness; and be content with such things as ye have: for he hath said, I will never leave thee, nor forsake thee. 

Heb 13:6  So that we may boldly say, The Lord is my helper, and I will not fear what man shall do unto me. 

Main Point: These are some of the final admonishments. This includes encouraging hospitality and refraining from some specific sins and pitfalls. Verse six indicates that there must have been some form of persecution during that time.

1.   What must we do because we have recieved a kingdom that cannot be shaken? Verses 1-3 deal directly with attitudes towards others. Church, strangers, and those imprisoned. In this case I assume it is imprisoned Christians. The exhortations if practiced will keep the church body unified, extend a welcome to anyone who belongs to God and keep up the spirits of those suffering.

2.   How can we hold marriage in honor? What will God judge? The latter answers the first. Those who defile a marriage sexually will be facing God for answers.

3.   What promise does God give in verse five? What does being free from the love of money have to do with believing the promise? “I will never leave you nor forsake you.”  Being fond of silver….obviously, we need money to get along in the world. More to the point, we are to be content: G714 -Apparently a primary verb (but probably akin to G142 through the idea of raising a barrier); properly to ward off.
The love of money is called covetousness in the KJ version. Before we get to crazy when it comes to gaining money and/or desiring it to our detriment we are to RAISE A BARRIER to its affects.

4.   What promise is given to us in verse 6? “If god is for us, who can be against us?” Note that this does not happen until we can shake the practice of sin in our lives (as he alludes to previously).

Additional:
4) sexually immoral: G4205 por'-nos From πέρνημι pernēmi (to sell; akin to the base of G4097); a (male) prostitute (as venal)

   adulterous: G3432 moy-khos' Perhaps a primary word; a (male) paramour;

Note that the warning is against men. What does this say?

Hebrews Chapter Twelve Verses 25-29

HEBREWS CHAPTER TWELVE VS 25-29 (USING KJ TEXT, STUDY BOOK WILL REFERENCE A DIFFERENT VERSION FOR READING)

Heb 12:25  See that ye refuse not him that speaketh. For if they escaped not who refused him that spake on earth, much more shall not we escape, if we turn away from him that speaketh from heaven: 

Heb 12:26  Whose voice then shook the earth: but now he hath promised, saying, Yet once more I shake not the earth only, but also heaven. 

Heb 12:27  And this word, Yet once more, signifieth the removing of those things that are shaken, as of things that are made, that those things which cannot be shaken may remain. 

Heb 12:28  Wherefore we receiving a kingdom which cannot be moved, let us have grace, whereby we may serve God acceptably with reverence and godly fear: 

Heb 12:29  For our God is a consuming fire. 

Main Point: The ending is much like 10:31, that signifies a terrifying scenario of rejecting God and in turn being judged by Him for it. It comes hot off the heels of his message of the covenant of Jesus being far above the meeting with Moses which was earthly. “THIS IS HEAVENLY STUFF PEOPLE…YOUR LAST HOPE…WAKE UP!” ….more or less.

10. What are ways that we can “refuse him who is speaking?” The writer covers this 14-17. He covers it in chapter 10 when he speaks of abandoning the church and sinning willfully. (All indications of a lack of faith) – I assume we can all come up with a personal list, and a list of egregious acts against God we see on a daily basis.

11. What was yet to happen that is being promised (12:26-27)? What is this referring to? Shake heaven and earth so that the things that cannot be shaken will remain. There is only one thing that cannot be shaken and that is God …and all that His will encompasses. This statement is a direct contrast to the Mt Sinai reference. That was God molding His people for the eventual day the messiah would come and He would gather all people to Him through the redeemer Jesus. THAT defeats death, sin, fear, and opens the door for reconciliation back to God. As he said earlier…..we are sons now. Heaven is our final rest. But the kingdom is NOW! Final judgment is longed for, not dreaded.

12. What must be our attitude toward God (28)?  - Grateful: G5485 From G5463; graciousness (as gratifying)- Happy. Serve: G3000 From λάτρις latris (a hired menial); to minister (to God), that is, render religious homage: Acceptable: G2102 From G2101; quite agreeably Reverence: G127 Perhaps from G1 (as a negative particle) and G1492 (through the idea of downcast eyes); bashfulness,  Awe: G2124 From G2126; properly caution, that is, (religiously) reverence (piety)
When we take into account our condition before Him, and what HE has done to win us to His service, what else can we be? This, plus when we consider who He is and what He has created.

13. What must we offer? Why? This question is answered previously because it is so closely connected to our attitude.