Hebrews 12:8

Sermon Bible Commentary - Hebrews 12:3-13

Hebrews 12:3-13 I. Chastisement is sent by fatherly love. There, where we are most sensitive, God touches us. The thorn in the flesh is something which we fancy we cannot bear if it were to be lifelong. We have emerged, as it were, out of a dark tunnel, and fancy that the rest of our journey will be amid sunlit fields. We have achieved steep and rugged ascents, and imagine the period of great and exhausting exertion is over. The trial deepest and sorest seems to leave us for a while, yet it... read more

Charles Simeon

Charles Simeon's Horae Homileticae - Hebrews 12:4-13

DISCOURSE: 2336AFFLICTIONS THE FRUIT OF GOD’S LOVEHebrews 12:4-13. Ye have not yet resisted unto blood, striving against sin. And ye have forgotten the exhortation which speaketh unto you as unto children, My son, despise not thou the chastening of the Lord, nor faint when thou art rebuked of him: for whom the Lord loveth he chasteneth, and scourgeth every son whom he receiveth. If ye endure chastening, God dealeth with you as with sons; for what son is he whom the father chasteneth, not? But... read more

Chuck Smith

Chuck Smith Bible Commentary - Hebrews 12:1-29

Shall we turn now to Hebrews, chapter 12.Wherefore, seeing we are also compassed about with so great a cloud of witnesses ( Hebrews 12:1 ),What this does not mean is that the Old Testament saints, which are spoken of in chapter 11, are sitting there in heaven watching the activities on the earth. It doesn't mean that they are just watching us to see how we are going to react and respond and we've got this big gallery up here of Old Testament saints. It does mean that their life of faith and... read more

Joseph Sutcliffe

Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments - Hebrews 12:1-29

Hebrews 12:1 . Wherefore, seeing we also are compassed about with so great a cloud of witnesses. Confessors and martyrs of the ancient church are here supposed to be the spectators of our course, and we are here called upon to follow these veterans of the faith. Their number is such that they are said to be a cloud, like the assembled multitudes seen on special occasions to witness some extraordinary spectacle. Nor is it the celestial host only that are interested in this contest; we are... read more

Joseph Exell

The Biblical Illustrator - Hebrews 12:7-8

Hebrews 12:7-8If ye endure chasteningChastening: what is it?“It is for chastening that ye endure”--such is the reading and translation in the R.V. That is the purpose sought and prized; an end that sufficiently justifies God in such dealing with His sons, and that sustains His sons in experience of His dealing. 1. But what is “chastening”? Supposing we had a word that meant child-training, son.training, and this under the direction of a father who would spare no pains necessary for its perfect... read more

John Trapp

John Trapp Complete Commentary - Hebrews 12:8

8 But if ye be without chastisement, whereof all are partakers, then are ye bastards, and not sons. Ver. 8. Then are ye bastards ] Qui exclpitur a numero flagellatorum, excipitur a numero filiorum, saith one. He that escapes affliction may well suspect his adoption. I have no stronger argument against the pope’s kingdom, saith Luther, than this, quod sine cruce regnat, that he reigns without the cross. They have no changes, surely they fear not God. read more

Samuel Bagster

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge - Hebrews 12:8

Hebrews 12:6, Psalms 73:1, Psalms 73:14, Psalms 73:15, 1 Peter 5:9, 1 Peter 5:10 Reciprocal: Deuteronomy 23:2 - General Psalms 73:5 - They are Proverbs 1:32 - and the Hosea 4:14 - punish read more

John Wesley

Wesley's Explanatory Notes - Hebrews 12:8

But if ye be without chastisement, whereof all are partakers, then are ye bastards, and not sons.Of which all sons are partakers - More or less. read more

Daniel Whedon

Whedon's Commentary on the Bible - Hebrews 12:8

8. Nay, these persecutions are a proof of sonship, and should call forth a filial feeling. All The sons, as in the catalogue of chapter 11, and as in the case of we, (Hebrews 12:1,) and of Jesus, Hebrews 12:2. Suffering is the necessary condition of divine heroism, the badge of divine sonship, from the highest Son to the humblest. Bastards Offspring of the harlot, and not sons of God. Such were the Judaic oppressors; sons of an adulterous Church, and exempt from the hierarchical... read more