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Hebrews 12:1-29 (GN)

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¹ As for us, we have this large crowd of witnesses around us. So then, let us rid ourselves of everything that gets in the way, and of the sin which holds on to us so tightly, and let us run with determination the race that lies before us. ² Let us keep our eyes fixed on Jesus, on whom our faith depends from beginning to end. He did not give up because of the cross! On the contrary, because of the joy that was waiting for him, he thought nothing of the disgrace of dying on the cross, and he ³ Think of what he went through; how he put up with so much hatred from sinners! So do not let yourselves become discouraged and give up. ⁴ For in your struggle against sin you have not yet had to resist to the point of being killed. ⁵ Have you forgotten the encouraging words which God speaks to you as his children? "My child, pay attention when the Lord corrects you, and do not be discouraged when he rebukes you. ⁶ Because the Lord corrects everyone he loves, and punishes everyone he accepts as a child." ⁷ Endure what you suffer as being a father's punishment; your suffering shows that God is treating you as his children. Was there ever a child who was not punished by his father? ⁸ If you are not punished, as all his children are, it means you are not real children, but bastards. ⁹ In the case of our human fathers, they punished us and we respected them. How much more, then, should we submit to our spiritual Father and live! ¹⁰ Our human fathers punished us for a short time, as it seemed right to them; but God does it for our own good, so that we may share his holiness. ¹¹ When we are punished, it seems to us at the time something to make us sad, not glad. Later, however, those who have been disciplined by such punishment reap the peaceful reward of a righteous life. ¹² Lift up your tired hands, then, and strengthen your trembling knees! ¹³ Keep walking on straight paths, so that the lame foot may not be disabled, but instead be healed. ¹⁴ Try to be at peace with everyone, and try to live a holy life, because no one will see the Lord without it. ¹⁵ Guard against turning back from the grace of God. Let no one become like a bitter plant that grows up and causes many troubles with its poison. ¹⁶ Let no one become immoral or unspiritual like Esau, who for a single meal sold his rights as the older son. ¹⁷ Afterward, you know, he wanted to receive his father's blessing; but he was turned back, because he could not find any way to change what he had done, even though in tears he looked for it. ¹⁸ You have not come, as the people of Israel came, to what you can feel, to Mount Sinai with its blazing fire, the darkness and the gloom, the storm, ¹⁹ the blast of a trumpet, and the sound of a voice. When the people heard the voice, they begged not to hear another word, ²⁰ because they could not bear the order which said, "If even an animal touches the mountain, it must be stoned to death." ²¹ The sight was so terrifying that Moses said, "I am trembling and afraid!" ²² Instead, you have come to Mount Zion and to the city of the living God, the heavenly Jerusalem, with its thousands of angels. ²³ You have come to the joyful gathering of God's first-born, whose names are written in heaven. You have come to God, who is the judge of all people, and to the spirits of good people made perfect. ²⁴ You have come to Jesus, who arranged the new covenant, and to the sprinkled blood that promises much better things than does the blood of Abel. ²⁵ Be careful, then, and do not refuse to hear him who speaks. Those who refused to hear the one who gave the divine message on earth did not escape. How much less shall we escape, then, if we turn away from the one who speaks from heaven! ²⁶ His voice shook the earth at that time, but now he has promised, "I will once more shake not only the earth but heaven as well." ²⁷ The words "once more" plainly show that the created things will be shaken and removed, so that the things that cannot be shaken will remain. ²⁸ Let us be thankful, then, because we receive a kingdom that cannot be shaken. Let us be grateful and worship God in a way that will please him, with reverence and awe; ²⁹ because our God is indeed a destroying fire.


This passage relates to the following topic(s):
(v. 1) Sin / Wickedness / Satan - Throw off everything that hinders
(v. 2) Focus - Fix our eyes on Jesus
(v. 3) Patience / Perseverance / Standing Firm - Consider him who endured such opposition so you will not grow weary and lose heart
(v. 3) Persecution - Consider him who endured such opposition so you will not grow weary and lose heart
(v. 4) Sin / Wickedness / Satan - Struggle against sin, you have not resisted to shedding your blood
(v. 7) Suffering / Hardship - Endure hardship as discipline
(v. 7) Discipling / Correction - Endure hardship as discipline
(v. 14) Peace - Make every effort to live in peace
(v. 15) Anger / Fits of Rage / Bitterness - Allow no bitter root to grow up
(v. 15) Grace - See to it that no one misses the grace of God
(v. 15) Discipling / Correction - See to it that no one misses the grace of God
(v. 16) Purity / Sexual Immorality / Adultery - Sexually immorality is like giving up your inheritance for a meal
(v. 28) Worship - Worship with reverence and awe

This passage relates to the following question(s):
(v. 6) Is the Christian yoke easy or difficult? He punishes everyone he accepts as a son

This passage is referenced in the following quiet time(s):
(v. 1) Purpose Driven Life - Using What God Gave You (2008-06-30)
(v. 1) Purpose Driven Life - Becoming a World-Class Christian (part 3) (2008-07-17)
(v. 1) Prayer of the Righeous - God is Preparing a Place (part I) (2013-03-17)
(v. 1) Why We Need Jesus - He Guides Us By His Words and Actions (2009-04-28)
(v. 1) Mind Change - Starting Out (2011-11-06)
(v. 2) Mind Change - Starting Out (2011-11-06)
(v. 2) Why We Need Jesus - He Guides Us By His Words and Actions (2009-04-28)
(v. 2) Mind of Christ - Intro (part VIII) (2011-06-15)
(v. 2) Desire's Journey - Blessed are the Nice? (2010-05-24)
(v. 2) Names of Jesus (part II) (2011-04-08)
(v. 2) 30 Days at the Cross - Mistreatment but Not Misery (2008-08-12)
(v. 2) NT Commands (part V) (2011-03-12)
(v. 2) 30 Days at the Cross - Not Surprise by Joy (2008-08-22)
(v. 3) Followup - Heart Issues (2011-01-20)
(v. 3) Why We Need Jesus - He Guides Us By His Words and Actions (2009-04-28)
(v. 3) 30 Days at the Cross - Not Surprise by Joy (2008-08-22)
(v. 4) God is love (2010-09-15)
(v. 4) Followup - Heart Issues (2011-01-20)
(v. 5) Daughter Needs - Pushover Papa (2011-08-10)
(v. 5) 30 Days at the Cross - Life through Death (2008-07-28)
(v. 5) Power of Spiritual Thinking - Buy Now and Pay Later (2008-05-04)
(v. 5) Power of Spiritual Thinking - The Easy Way Out (2008-05-05)
(v. 5) Wild at Heart - False self (part 2) (2009-09-11)
(v. 5) God is love (2010-09-15)
(v. 5) Followup - Heart Issues (2011-01-20)
(v. 6) God is love (2010-09-15)
(v. 6) Daughter Needs - Pushover Papa (2011-08-10)
(v. 6) Fearing God - Respect for His Discipline (2011-05-29)
(v. 6) Wild at Heart - False self (part 2) (2009-09-11)
(v. 6) Followup - Heart Issues (2011-01-20)
(v. 6) Power of Spiritual Thinking - The Easy Way Out (2008-05-05)
(v. 6) Power of Spiritual Thinking - Buy Now and Pay Later (2008-05-04)
(v. 6) Genesis 8 - The Flood (part III) (2011-10-08)
(v. 6) 30 Days at the Cross - Life through Death (2008-07-28)
(v. 7) Followup - Heart Issues (2011-01-20)
(v. 7) Power of Spiritual Thinking - Buy Now and Pay Later (2008-05-04)
(v. 7) 30 Days at the Cross - Life through Death (2008-07-28)
(v. 7) God is love (2010-09-15)
(v. 7) Power of Spiritual Thinking - The Easy Way Out (2008-05-05)
(v. 8) God is love (2010-09-15)
(v. 8) Power of Spiritual Thinking - Buy Now and Pay Later (2008-05-04)
(v. 8) Followup - Heart Issues (2011-01-20)
(v. 8) Power of Spiritual Thinking - The Easy Way Out (2008-05-05)
(v. 8) 30 Days at the Cross - Life through Death (2008-07-28)
(v. 9) Disciplining Your Children (part I) (2014-04-04)
(v. 9) 30 Days at the Cross - Life through Death (2008-07-28)
(v. 9) God is love (2010-09-15)
(v. 9) Power of Spiritual Thinking - The Easy Way Out (2008-05-05)
(v. 9) Followup - Heart Issues (2011-01-20)
(v. 9) Power of Spiritual Thinking - Buy Now and Pay Later (2008-05-04)
(v. 10) Promises of God - Produces a Harvest (2009-03-18)
(v. 10) Followup - Heart Issues (2011-01-20)
(v. 10) God is love (2010-09-15)
(v. 10) 30 Days at the Cross - Life through Death (2008-07-28)
(v. 10) Power of Spiritual Thinking - Buy Now and Pay Later (2008-05-04)
(v. 10) Disciplining Your Children (part I) (2014-04-04)
(v. 10) Power of Spiritual Thinking - The Easy Way Out (2008-05-05)
(v. 11) Fear of Failure - No Discipline Seems Pleasant (2012-02-28)
(v. 11) Followup - Laziness (part II) (2011-01-23)
(v. 11) 30 Days at the Cross - Life through Death (2008-07-28)
(v. 11) Followup - Heart Issues (2011-01-20)
(v. 11) Disciplining Your Children (part I) (2014-04-04)
(v. 11) Power of Spiritual Thinking - Buy Now and Pay Later (2008-05-04)
(v. 11) Power of Spiritual Thinking - The Easy Way Out (2008-05-05)
(v. 11) Promises of God - Produces a Harvest (2009-03-18)
(v. 12) Power of Spiritual Thinking - Buy Now and Pay Later (2008-05-04)
(v. 12) Fear of Failure - No Discipline Seems Pleasant (2012-02-28)
(v. 12) Followup - Heart Issues (2011-01-20)
(v. 13) Fear of Failure - No Discipline Seems Pleasant (2012-02-28)
(v. 13) Power of Spiritual Thinking - Buy Now and Pay Later (2008-05-04)
(v. 14) One Another - Forgiving One Another (part 2) (2010-02-26)
(v. 14) Power of Spiritual Thinking - Buy Now and Pay Later (2008-05-04)
(v. 15) Wild at Heart - Healing the wound (part 3) (2009-09-17)
(v. 15) One Another - Forgiving One Another (part 2) (2010-02-26)
(v. 15) Falling in Love with God - Bitterness (2008-04-02)
(v. 17) Promises of God - Lord of the Unexpected (2009-03-07)
(v. 22) Names of the Church (part II) (2011-04-26)
(v. 22) Names of the Church (part III) (2011-04-27)
(v. 22) Names of the Church (part V) (2011-04-29)
(v. 23) Names of the Church (part III) (2011-04-27)
(v. 23) Names of the Church (part I) (2011-04-25)
(v. 28) Gratitude (part I) (2011-11-28)
(v. 29) Prayer of the Righeous - God is a Consuming Fire (part I) (2013-01-01)
(v. 29) Gratitude (part I) (2011-11-28)

Definition(s):
Israel (Iz-rehl): who prevails with God
Israel (Is-ra-el): who prevails with God
Moses (Moh-ziz): taken out; drawn forth
Sinai (Sigh-nigh): a bush; enmity
Zion (Zy-on): monument; raised up; sepulcher
On (Onn):
So (Soh):