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LESSON 3 * PART 4 * BOOK 52
Hebrews 12:18 – 13:25 - Part 2
We’re just going to get right back into the Book and Hebrews chapter 13 verse 10. Remember I’m always stressing I feel Paul wrote this Book of Hebrews, especially when he made mention of the Body, back there in one of the previous verses. Alright now he’s says in verse 10:
Hebrews 13:10
Because, after all, until Paul’s epistles were completed, and the Age of Grace was now made available, the Temple was necessary. It was the only approach to God. But now with the Age of Grace opened up and Paul’s epistles finished, God could permit the Temple to be destroyed, and it was. Hebrews 13:11
Now the same here in Hebrews is a reference to the city of Jerusalem. And even in the Temple worship those beasts’ bodies were not burned there in the Temple complex, they were taken outside the city wall. Now verse 12.
Hebrews 13:12
Alright so it was all in a fulfillment of God’s divine purposes, so Christ also, you see, suffered outside the city walls.
Hebrews 13:13
"Let us (now then as believers) go forth therefore unto him without (or outside) the camp, (or outside the city) bearing his reproach." We’ve glorified it. We’ve taken away the enigma and the shame and the reproach of the cross. But oh, it was a place of horrible shame and reproach. There isn’t a man alive that can understand all that took place at that cross. When God reckoned all the sin of mankind as having been placed on the sin-bearer.
Mercy! See, that’s why I maintain it’s no longer mandatory for us to pray the so called "sinners prayer – God be merciful to me a sinner." God poured out His mercy. From the very onset of Paul’s apostleship it was almost a guaranteed step leading to persecution. It was a place of reproach. Now verse 14.
Hebrews 13:14a
The Bible says, I’m a citizen of heaven, and every believer is. Our citizenship, Paul says, is already in heaven. Abraham looked for a city whose builder and maker was God.
An ambassador. It was an exposure of the horrible lifestyle of our American foreign service people, how that they lived lives of drunkenness and immorality in their places of duty in foreign countries. Ugly Christians are Christians who are a bad reflection of their homeland in heaven. And so here we are to identify with the reproach of the cross, not a place of something beautiful. It was God’s wrath being poured out for sinful men on God the Son. Now verse 15.
Hebrews 13:15
Thanksgiving. If you’re not living a life of thanksgiving, don’t expect God’s blessings, because God has every right for a believer to just constantly be thankful. Here Paul writes to you and I as blood-bought believers.
Romans 12:1
"I beseech you therefore, brethren, by the mercies of God, that ye present your bodies (your flesh and blood body) a living sacrifice, holy, acceptable unto God, which is your reasonable service." Gives up its life. Verse 15 again:
Hebrews 13:15a
Hebrews 13:15
"By him therefore let us offer the sacrifice of praise to God continually, that is the fruit of our lips giving thanks to his name." Your body! If you want to live a life that is pleasing to God, a living sacrifice, all you have to do is just use your lips in praise and thanksgiving and God will be pleased. Alright, so we offer up the sacrifice of praise once a month? "Continually," Every waking moment of our lives we should be just simply praising God in one way or another. Well, you think God’s any different? Hebrews 13:16
"But to do good and to communicate forget not: for with such sacrifices God is well pleased." Now verse 17. Hebrews 13:17
Now then, in the closing verses of Hebrews, verse 18 to the end. Hebrews 13:18
Now verse 19.
Hebrews 13:19
Now verse 20:
Hebrews 13:20a
"Now the God of peace, that brought again from the dead our Lord Jesus,…" Some even thought the whole Bible was the Gospel. That great Shepherd of the sheep. "The Lord is my shepherd…" Jesus then said, "Feed my sheep." And the Lord comes back again with "Peter, lovest thou me more than these?" And Peter answers again, "Lord you know I love you." And again Jesus says, "Feed my sheep." Now isn’t it amazing that Peter, a man’s man, agreed to that with a handshake. Galatians chapter 2; and remember the setting. Paul has been out ministering to Gentiles for about 15-18 years, but what’s been happening? Galatians 2:8
Now here comes that gentlemen’s handshake between Peter and Paul.
Galatians 2:9
that we (Paul and Barnabas) should go unto the heathen, (or the Gentiles) and they (Peter, James and John and rest of the apostles would go where?) unto the circumcision." (The Jew or Israel). Now verse 21.
Hebrews 13:21a
through Jesus Christ;…" "I can do all things through Jesus Christ my Lord." Hebrews 13:21-23a
Paul. And so here’s another reason I feel Paul is the writer.
Hebrews 13:23-25
Amen."
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