Heb 12:24 And to Jesus the mediator of the new covenant, and to the blood of sprinkling, that speaketh better things than that of Abel.
Yesterday we studying the above verse. There is so much meat on that verse's bone -so to speak. We are feasting on meat now and not milk, we are no longer babes but we've grown up into Christ, haven't we? We have to believe we will grow up, by the grace of God, into spiritual adults because we aren't supposed to forever remain babes needing feeding, needing milk.
Ultimately the above verse is telling us that our Savior is a MEDIATOR of a new covenant, the old one involved sacrificial services that included the sacrifice of animals. This new covenant only needed Jesus' blood, His blood being the only blood that could redeem us, blood that is holier than even Abel's, the first to die- murdered by his brother.
Continuing on...
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
Remember this from just a short bit ago--
Heb 12:18 For ye are not come unto the mount that might be touched, and that burned with fire, nor unto blackness, and darkness, and tempest,
Heb 12:19 And the sound of a trumpet, and the voice of words; which voice they that heard intreated that the word should not be spoken to them any more:
Heb 12:20 (For they could not endure that which was commanded, And if so much as a beast touch the mountain, it shall be stoned, or thrust through with a dart:
Heb 12:21 And so terrible was the sight, that Moses said, I exceedingly fear and quake:)
Heb 12:22 But ye are come unto mount Sion, and unto the city of the living God, the heavenly Jerusalem, and to an innumerable company of angels,
Moses spoke upon earth. The people wanted Moses to speak to them, not God because they were afraid.
Exo 20:18 And all the people saw the thunderings, and the lightnings, and the noise of the trumpet, and the mountain smoking: and when the people saw it, they removed, and stood afar off.
Exo 20:19 And they said unto Moses, Speak thou with us, and we will hear: but let not God speak with us, lest we die.
Now read this-
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
They escaped NOT who refused him that spake on earth.
People did NOT escape the law through Moses. People were given the truth of God's love, a love that is so incredibly amazing, a love that is beyond them to know on their own. They were shown their sin- the reason for their separation from God and His love, and then shown a way to be reconciled as much as would be possible until the time for the Messiah would come. No one escaped that life, no child of God, no chosen of God, no one whose heart went after the TRUE GOD.
And if NO one could escape from the ceremonial law of God, why does anyone imagine they can escape the voice of the Son of God, the heavenly voice of the Redeemer?
It's truly amazing that people have the audacity to NOT believe. They have the freedom of choice and they choose to disbelieve, they choose to look away, they choose a path of their own divination, they walk according to their own wills as if they had a hand in their own creation. NONE of us have created ourselves, not a single one of us had ANYTHING at all to do with our own creation! NO ONE! Not the smartest, not the dumbest, not the prettiest, not the ugliest, not the skinniest, not the fattest, not a single person has ever had a hand in their own creation. And, if not a single person has EVER had a hand in their own creation why do they imagine they were not created by God? I know, I know there are all sorts of theories to explain away our existence, but none of them make complete sense except our being designed by a Creator as beings who could propagate. And each being that has a hand in creating another being does so only by the fact the original parent was created by God.
So I ask again, if no one could escape from the ceremonial law of God, why does anyone imagine they can escape the voice of the Son of God, the heavenly voice of the Redeemer? Not a single one of us will escape the truth it confronts us all. The heavenly voice of our Savior-- God becoming a Man-God; a Man-God dying, a Man-God resurrected, a Man-God to save all who would be saved, all who would be His, all who would know His love, all who would hear His voice and be known by Him.
His--
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.
And by the grace of God we will study more tomorrow, feasting on the word of our Lord, filling our spiritual bellies full with the meat of His word, growing strong in the LORD.
All by HIS LOVE!
Yesterday we studying the above verse. There is so much meat on that verse's bone -so to speak. We are feasting on meat now and not milk, we are no longer babes but we've grown up into Christ, haven't we? We have to believe we will grow up, by the grace of God, into spiritual adults because we aren't supposed to forever remain babes needing feeding, needing milk.
Ultimately the above verse is telling us that our Savior is a MEDIATOR of a new covenant, the old one involved sacrificial services that included the sacrifice of animals. This new covenant only needed Jesus' blood, His blood being the only blood that could redeem us, blood that is holier than even Abel's, the first to die- murdered by his brother.
Continuing on...
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
Remember this from just a short bit ago--
Heb 12:18 For ye are not come unto the mount that might be touched, and that burned with fire, nor unto blackness, and darkness, and tempest,
Heb 12:19 And the sound of a trumpet, and the voice of words; which voice they that heard intreated that the word should not be spoken to them any more:
Heb 12:20 (For they could not endure that which was commanded, And if so much as a beast touch the mountain, it shall be stoned, or thrust through with a dart:
Heb 12:21 And so terrible was the sight, that Moses said, I exceedingly fear and quake:)
Heb 12:22 But ye are come unto mount Sion, and unto the city of the living God, the heavenly Jerusalem, and to an innumerable company of angels,
Moses spoke upon earth. The people wanted Moses to speak to them, not God because they were afraid.
Exo 20:18 And all the people saw the thunderings, and the lightnings, and the noise of the trumpet, and the mountain smoking: and when the people saw it, they removed, and stood afar off.
Exo 20:19 And they said unto Moses, Speak thou with us, and we will hear: but let not God speak with us, lest we die.
Now read this-
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
They escaped NOT who refused him that spake on earth.
People did NOT escape the law through Moses. People were given the truth of God's love, a love that is so incredibly amazing, a love that is beyond them to know on their own. They were shown their sin- the reason for their separation from God and His love, and then shown a way to be reconciled as much as would be possible until the time for the Messiah would come. No one escaped that life, no child of God, no chosen of God, no one whose heart went after the TRUE GOD.
And if NO one could escape from the ceremonial law of God, why does anyone imagine they can escape the voice of the Son of God, the heavenly voice of the Redeemer?
It's truly amazing that people have the audacity to NOT believe. They have the freedom of choice and they choose to disbelieve, they choose to look away, they choose a path of their own divination, they walk according to their own wills as if they had a hand in their own creation. NONE of us have created ourselves, not a single one of us had ANYTHING at all to do with our own creation! NO ONE! Not the smartest, not the dumbest, not the prettiest, not the ugliest, not the skinniest, not the fattest, not a single person has ever had a hand in their own creation. And, if not a single person has EVER had a hand in their own creation why do they imagine they were not created by God? I know, I know there are all sorts of theories to explain away our existence, but none of them make complete sense except our being designed by a Creator as beings who could propagate. And each being that has a hand in creating another being does so only by the fact the original parent was created by God.
So I ask again, if no one could escape from the ceremonial law of God, why does anyone imagine they can escape the voice of the Son of God, the heavenly voice of the Redeemer? Not a single one of us will escape the truth it confronts us all. The heavenly voice of our Savior-- God becoming a Man-God; a Man-God dying, a Man-God resurrected, a Man-God to save all who would be saved, all who would be His, all who would know His love, all who would hear His voice and be known by Him.
His--
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.
And by the grace of God we will study more tomorrow, feasting on the word of our Lord, filling our spiritual bellies full with the meat of His word, growing strong in the LORD.
All by HIS LOVE!
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