Hebrews

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Hebrews
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• I beg you, my friends, to listen patiently to
  this message of encouragement for this letter I
  have written you is not very long. (Hebrews
  1322 GN)

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• God, who gave our forefathers many different
  glimpses of the truth in the words of the
  prophets, has now, at the end of the present age,
  given us the truth in the Son. Through the Son
  God made the whole universe, and to the Son he
  has ordained that all creation shall ultimately
  belong. This Son, radiance of the glory of God,
  flawless expression of the nature of God, himself
  the upholding principle of all that is, effected
  in person the reconciliation between God and man
  and then took his seat at the right hand of the
  majesty on high. (Hebrews 11-3, JB Phillips)
• washed, purified, cleansing

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• This shows that the Son is far greater than the
  angels, just as the name God gave Him is greater
  than their names. For God never said to any angel
  what He said to Jesus You are My Son. Today I
  have become Your Father. God also said, I will
  be His Father, and He will be My Son. And when
  He brought His firstborn Son into the world, God
  said, Let all of Gods angels worship Him.
  (Hebrews 14-7 NLT)

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• About the Son, however, God said Your kingdom,
  O God, will last forever and ever! You rule over
  your people with justice. You love what is right
  and hate what is wrong. That is why God, your
  God, has chosen you and has given you the joy of
  an honor far greater than he gave to your
  companions. He also said, You, Lord, in the
  beginning created the earth, and with your own
  hands you made the heavens. They will disappear,
  but you will remain they will all wear out like
  clothes. You will fold them up like a coat, and
  they will be changed like clothes. But you are
  always the same, and your life never ends.
  (Hebrews 18-12 GN)

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• But we do see Jesus, who for a little while was
  made lower than the angels, so that through Gods
  grace he should die for everyone. We see him now
  crowned with glory and honor because of the death
  he suffered. It was only right that God, who
  creates and preserves all things, should make
  Jesus perfect through suffering, in order to
  bring many children to share his glory. For Jesus
  is the one who leads them to salvation. He
  purifies people from their sins, and both he and
  those who are made pure all have the same
  Father. (Hebrews 29-11 GN)

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• But we do see Jesus, who for a little while was
  made lower than the angels, so that through God's
  grace he should die for everyone. We see him now
  crowned with glory and honor because of the death
  he suffered. It was only right that God, who
  creates and preserves all things, should make
  Jesus perfect through suffering, in order to
  bring many children to share his glory. For Jesus
  is the one who leads them to salvation. He
  purifies people from their sins, and both he and
  those who are made pure all have the same
  Father. (Hebrews 29-11 GN)

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• Do not conform yourselves to the standards of
  this world, but let God transform you inwardly by
  a complete change of your mind. (Romans 122
  GN)

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• Since all of these sons and daughters have flesh
  and blood, Jesus took on flesh and blood to be
  like them. He did this so that by dying he would
  destroy the one who had power over death (that
  is, the devil). In this way he would free those
  who were slaves all their lives because they were
  afraid of dying. (Hebrews 214-15 GN)

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• Therefore, it was necessary for Jesus to be in
  every respect like us, his brothers and sisters,
  so that he could be our merciful and faithful
  High Priest before God. He then could offer a
  sacrifice that would take away the sins of the
  people. Since he himself has gone through
  suffering and temptation, he is able to help us
  when we are being tempted. (Hebrews 217-18
  NLT)
• propitiation, atone, a means of reconciliation
• How?

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• My Christian friends, who also have been called
  by God! Think of Jesus, whom God sent to be the
  High Priest of the faith we profess. He was
  faithful to God, who chose him to do this work,
  just as Moses was faithful in his work in God's
  houseMoses was faithful in God's house as a
  servant, and he spoke of the things that God
  would say in the future. But Christ is faithful
  as the Son in charge of God's house. We are his
  house if we keep up our courage and our
  confidence in what we hope for. (Hebrews 31-6
  GN)

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Trust

• Those who traveled with Moses in the desert And
  to whom did God swear that they should never
  enter his rest? Was it not these very men who
  refused to trust him? Yes, it is all too plain
  that it was refusal to trust God that prevented
  these men from entering his rest.. (Hebrews
  318,19, JB Phillips)
• The LORD said to Moses, How much longer will
  these people reject me? How much longer will they
  refuse to trust in me, even though I have
  performed so many miracles among them? (Numbers
  1411 GN)

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• Let us, then, hold firmly to the faith we
  profess. For we have a great High Priest who has
  gone into the very presence of God---Jesus, the
  Son of God. Our High Priest is not one who cannot
  feel sympathy for our weaknesses. On the
  contrary, we have a High Priest who was tempted
  in every way that we are, but did not sin. Let us
  have confidence, then, and approach God's throne,
  where there is grace. (Hebrews 414-16 GN)

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Melchizedek

• We have this hope as an anchor for our lives. It
  is safe and sure, and goes through the curtain of
  the heavenly temple into the inner sanctuary. On
  our behalf Jesus has gone in there before us and
  has become a high priest forever, in the priestly
  order of Melchizedek. (Hebrews 619-20 GN)

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• If it be possible to bring men to spiritual
  maturity through the Levitical priestly system
  (for that is the system under which the people
  were given the Law), why does the necessity arise
  for another priest to make his appearance after
  the order of Melchizedek (Hebrews 711, JB
  Phillips)

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• The former way of doing things, a system of
  commandments that never worked out the way it was
  supposed to, was set aside the law brought
  nothing to maturity. Another way--Jesus!--a way
  that does work, that brings us right into the
  presence of God, is put in its place. (Hebrews
  718,19, JB Phillips)

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• But Christ, because he lives for ever, possesses
  a priesthood that needs no successor. This means
  that he can save fully and completely those who
  approach God through him, for he is always living
  to intercede on their behalf. (Hebrews 724,25,
  JB Phillips)
• Consequently, he is able to save to the
  uttermost those who draw near to God through him,
  since he always lives to make intercession for
  them. (Hebrews 725, ESV)
• So let us come boldly to the throne of our
  gracious God. There we will receive his mercy,
  and we will find grace to help us when we need
  it. (Hebrews 416 NLT)

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• I have been speaking to you in parables - but
  the time is coming to give up parables and tell
  you plainly about the Father. When that time
  comes, you will make your requests to him in my
  own name, for I need make no promise to plead to
  the Father for you, for the Father himself loves
  you. (John 1625,26 JB Phillips)
• and I do not promise to intercede with the
  Father for you, for the Father loves you
  himself (Goodspeed)

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• If there had been nothing wrong with the first
  covenant, there would have been no need for a
  second one. But God finds fault with his people
  when he says, The days are coming, says the
  Lord, when I will draw up a new covenant with the
  people of Israel and with the people of Judah. It
  will not be like the covenant that I made with
  their ancestors on the day I took them by the
  hand and led them out of Egypt. They were not
  faithful to the covenant I made with themNow,
  this is the covenant that I will make with the
  people of Israel in the days to come, says the
  Lord I will put my laws in their minds and write
  them on their hearts. I will be their God, and
  they will be my people. None of them will have to
  teach their friends or tell their neighbors,
  'Know the Lord.' For they will all know me, from
  the least to the greatest. (Hebrews 87-12
  GN)

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• Now the first agreement had certain rules for
  the service of God, and it had a sanctuary, a
  holy place in this world for the eternal God. A
  tent was erected in the outer compartment were
  placed the lamp-standard, the table and the
  sacred loaves. Inside, beyond the curtain, was
  the inner tent called the holy of holies in which
  were the golden censer and the gold inlaid ark of
  the agreement, containing the golden jar of
  manna, Aaron's budding staff and the stone
  tablets inscribed with the words of the actual
  agreement. Above these things were fixed
  representations of the cherubim of glory, casting
  their shadow over the ark's covering, known as
  the mercy seat. (All this is full of meaning but
  we cannot enter now into a detailed
  explanation.) (Hebrews 91-5, JB Phillips)
• Place of atonement

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• Seeing that that first tabernacle was a parable
  (a visible symbol or type or picture of the
  present age). In it gifts and sacrifices are
  offered, and yet are incapable of perfecting the
  conscience or of cleansing and renewing the inner
  man of the worshiper. (Hebrews 99 - Amplified)
• how much more is accomplished by the blood of
  Christ! Through the eternal Spirit he offered
  himself as a perfect sacrifice to God. His blood
  will purify our consciences from useless rituals,
  so that we may serve the living God. For this
  reason Christ is the one who arranges a new
  covenant (Hebrews 914 GN)

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• Through Christ was to be fulfilled the purpose
  of which the tabernacle was a symbolIn all, God
  desired His people to read His purpose for the
  human soul. It was the same purpose long
  afterward set forth by the apostle Paul, speaking
  by the Holy Spirit Ed 36.2 Know ye not that
  ye are the temple of God, and that the Spirit of
  God dwelleth in you? If any man defile the temple
  of God, him shall God destroy for the temple of
  God is holy, which temple ye are. 1 Corinthians
  316, 17.Thus in labor and in giving they were
  taught to co-operate with God and with one
  another. And they were to co-operate also in the
  preparation of the spiritual building--Gods
  temple in the soul. (Education, 34-37)

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Cleansing of the temple

• In this way he will perform the ritual to purify
  the Most Holy Place from the uncleanness of the
  people of Israel and from all their sins. He must
  do this to the Tent, because it stands in the
  middle of the camp, which is ritually unclean.
  (Leviticus 1616 GN)

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• On that day the ritual is to be performed to
  purify them from all their sins, so that they
  will be ritually clean. (Leviticus 1630 GN)
• and perform the ritual to purify the Most Holy
  Place, the rest of the Tent of the LORD's
  presence, the altar, the priests, and all the
  people of the community. These regulations are to
  be observed for all time to come. This ritual
  must be performed once a year to purify the
  people of Israel from all their sins. (Leviticus
  1633-34)

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The spiritual temple

• Come to Christ, who is the living cornerstone of
  Gods temple. He was rejected by the people, but
  he is precious to God who chose him. And now God
  is building you, as living stones, into his
  spiritual temple. (1 Peter 3)
• I will make those who are victorious pillars in
  the temple of my God, and they will never leave
  it (Revelation 312).

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• You, too, are built upon the foundation laid by
  the apostles and prophets, the cornerstone being
  Christ Jesus himself. He is the one who holds the
  whole building together and makes it grow into a
  sacred temple dedicated to the Lord. In union
  with him you too are being built together with
  all the others into a place where God lives
  through his Spirit (Ephesians 220-22).

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• Surely you know that you are God's temple and
  that God's Spirit lives in you! God will destroy
  anyone who destroys God's temple. For God's
  temple is holy, and you yourselves are his
  temple (1 Corinthians 317 - GN).
• Don't you know that your body is the temple of
  the Holy Spirit, who lives in you and who was
  given to you by God? (1 Corinthians 619 - GN)
• For we are the temple of the living God! As God
  himself has said, I will make my home with my
  people and live among them I will be their God,
  and they shall be my people (2 Corinthians 616
  - GN).
• We are his house if we keep up our courage and
  our confidence in what we hope for (Hebrews 36
  - GN).

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• Out of one of these four horns grew a little
  horn, whose power extended toward the south and
  the east and toward the Promised Land. It grew
  strong enough to attack the army of heaven, the
  stars themselves, and it threw some of them to
  the ground and trampled on them. It even defied
  the Prince of the heavenly army, stopped the
  daily sacrifices offered to him, and ruined the
  Temple. People sinned there instead of offering
  the proper daily sacrifices, and true religion
  was thrown to the ground. The horn was successful
  in everything it did.

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• Then I heard one angel ask another, How long
  will these things that were seen in the vision
  continue? How long will an awful sin replace the
  daily sacrifices? How long will the army of
  heaven and the Temple be trampled on? I heard
  the other angel answer, It will continue for
  2,300 evenings and mornings, during which
  sacrifices will not be offered. Then the Temple
  will be restored. (Daniel 89-14 GN)

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• Do not let anyone deceive you in any way. For
  the Day will not come until the final Rebellion
  takes place and the Wicked One appears, who is
  destined to hell. He will oppose every so-called
  god or object of worship and will put himself
  above them all. He will even go in and sit down
  in Gods Temple and claim to be God. (2
  Thessalonians 23-4 GN)

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What is the function of the priest?

• It is the duty of priests to teach the true
  knowledge of God. People should go to them to
  learn my will, because they are the messengers of
  the LORD Almighty. But now you priests have
  turned away from the right path. Your teaching
  has led many to do wrong. You have broken the
  covenant I made with you. (Malachi 27-8 GN)
• The people of Judah have broken their promise to
  God and done a horrible thing in Jerusalem and
  all over the country. They have defiled the
  Temple which the LORD loves. (Malachi 211 GN)

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• And according to the law, I may almost say, all
  things are cleansed with blood, and apart from
  shedding of blood there is no remission.
  (Hebrews 922 ASV)

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• if you do not eat the flesh of the Son of Man
  and drink his blood, you will not have life in
  yourselves. Those who eat my flesh and drink my
  blood have eternal life, and I will raise them to
  life on the last day. For my flesh is the real
  food my blood is the real drink. Those who eat
  my flesh and drink my blood live in me, and I
  live in them. (John 653-55).

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• The Jewish Law is not a full and faithful model
  of the real things it is only a faint outline of
  the good things to come. The same sacrifices are
  offered forever, year after year. How can the
  Law, then, by means of these sacrifices make
  perfect the people who come to God?...As it is,
  however, the sacrifices serve year after year to
  remind people of their sins. For the blood of
  bulls and goats can never take away sins.
  (Hebrews 101-4 GN)

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• He was hated and rejected his life was filled
  with sorrow and terrible suffering. No one wanted
  to look at him. We despised him and said, He is
  a nobody! He suffered and endured great pain for
  us, but we thought his suffering was punishment
  from God. He was wounded and crushed because of
  our sins by taking our punishment, he made us
  completely well. (Isaiah 531-5 CEV)
• We thought he brought it on himself, that God
  was punishing him for his own failures. But it
  was our sins that did that to him, that ripped
  and tore and crushed him--our sins! He took the
  punishment, and that made us whole. Through his
  bruises we get healed. (Isaiah 534,5, TMB)

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• So, by virtue of the blood of Jesus, you and I,
  my brothers and sisters, may now have complete
  confidence to enter heaven's Most Holy Place by a
  fresh and life-giving way through the curtain,
  that is, his own human nature. And since we have
  a great High Priest who rules over God's house,
  let us go right into the presence of God with
  sincere hearts fully trusting Him, knowing that
  our inmost souls (consciences) have been purified
  by the sprinkling of his blood. (Hebrews
  1019-22, JB Phillips)

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• But anyone who is right with me thrives on loyal
  trust if he cuts and runs, I won't be very
  happy. But we're not quitters who lose out. Oh,
  no! We'll stay with it and survive, trusting all
  the way. (Hebrews 1038-39, The Message)

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• The fundamental fact of existence is that this
  trust in God, this faith, is the firm foundation
  under everything that makes life worth living.
  It's our handle on what we can't see. The act of
  faith is what distinguished our ancestors, set
  them above the crowd. (Hebrews 111-2, The
  Message)

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• Abel, Enoch, Noah, Abraham, Isaac, Jacob, Joseph,
  Moses, the prostitute Rahab
• Should I go on? There isn't enough time for me
  to speak of Gideon, Barak, Samson, Jephthah,
  David, Samuel, and the prophets. (Hebrews 1132
  GN)
• Then Samson prayed, Sovereign LORD, please
  remember me please, God, give me my strength
  just this one time more, so that with this one
  blow I can get even with the Philistines for
  putting out my two eyes. (Judges 1628 GN)

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• What a record all of these have won by their
  faith! Yet they did not receive what God had
  promised, because God had decided on an even
  better plan for us. His purpose was that only in
  company with us would they be made perfect.
  (Hebrews 1139-40 GN)

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• Let us keep our eyes fixed on Jesus, on whom our
  faith (trust) depends from beginning to end.
  (Hebrews 122, GNB)

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• For if we sin wilfully after that we have
  received the knowledge of the truth, there
  remaineth no more a sacrifice for sins, but a
  certain fearful expectation of judgment, and a
  fierceness of fire which shall devour the
  adversaries. (Hebrews 1026-27 ASV)

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• But what about people who turn away after they
  have already seen the light and have received the
  gift from heaven and have shared in the Holy
  Spirit? What about those who turn away after they
  have received the good message of God and the
  powers of the future world? There is no way to
  bring them back. What they are doing is the same
  as nailing the Son of God to a cross and
  insulting him in public! (Hebrews 64-6 CEV)

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• For if we sin wilfully after that we have
  received the knowledge of the truth, there
  remaineth no more a sacrifice for sins, but a
  certain fearful expectation of judgment, and a
  fierceness of fire which shall devour the
  adversaries. (Hebrews 1026-27 ASV)
• For if we go on deliberately and willingly
  sinning after once acquiring the knowledge of the
  Truth, there is no longer any sacrifice left to
  atone for our sins. (Hebrews 1026
  Amplified)

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• But what about people who turn away after they
  have already seen the light and have received the
  gift from heaven and have shared in the Holy
  Spirit? What about those who turn away after they
  have received the good message of God and the
  powers of the future world? There is no way to
  bring them back. What they are doing is the same
  as nailing the Son of God to a cross and
  insulting him in public! (Hebrews 64-6 CEV)
• For when people have once been enlightened,
  tasted the heavenly gift, become sharers in the
  Holy Spirit, and tasted the goodness of Gods
  Word and the powers of the future world and
  then have fallen away it is impossible to renew
  them so that they turn from their sin, as long as
  for themselves they keep executing the Son of God
  on the stake all over again and keep holding him
  up to public contempt. (Hebrews 64-6 JNT)