Living Out Our Faith

Pastor Martin concludes our study of the book of Hebrews.

Heb 13:12  Therefore Jesus also, that He might sanctify the people with His own blood, suffered outside the gate. 

Heb 13:13  Therefore let us go forth to Him, outside the camp, bearing His reproach.

Heb 13:14  For here we have no continuing city, but we seek the one to come. Abraham…

Heb 13:15  Therefore by Him let us continually offer the sacrifice of praise to God, that is, the fruit of our lips, giving thanks to His name. Standing order…

Heb 13:16  But do not forget to do good and to share, for with such sacrifices God is well pleased. 

“to share” is: koinōnia – koy-nohn-ee’-ah

From G2844; partnership, that is, (literally) participation, or (social) intercourse, or (pecuniary) benefaction: – (to) communicate (-ation), communion, (contri-), distribution, fellowship.

1Jn 3:14  We know that we have passed from death to life, because we love the brethren. He who does not love his brother abides in death. 

1Jn 3:15  Whoever hates his brother is a murderer, and you know that no murderer has eternal life abiding in him. 

1Jn 3:16  By this we know love, because He laid down His life for us. And we also ought to lay down our lives for the brethren. 

1Jn 3:17  But whoever has this world’s goods, and sees his brother in need, and shuts up his heart from him, how does the love of God abide in him? 

1Jn 3:18  My little children, let us not love in word or in tongue, but in deed and in truth. 

Heb 13:17  Obey those who rule over you, and be submissive, for they watch out for your souls, as those who must give account. Let them do so with joy and not with grief, for that would be unprofitable for you. 

Heb 13:18  Pray for us; for we are confident that we have a good conscience, in all things desiring to live honorably. 

Paul tells us that “all things are lawful for me but not all are expedient.” There are some things that we as Christians shouldn’t do, because it will cause a brother to stumble.

1 Thessalonians 5:21-22; 

1Th 5:21  Test all things; hold fast what is good. 

1Th 5:22  Abstain from every form of evil. 

 1 Cor 9:26,27; Matt 25:21,23; Luke 19:16, 17; Luke 12:48; 1 Cor 4:5).

Jas 4:4  Adulterers and adulteresses! Do you not know that friendship with the world is enmity with God? Whoever therefore wants to be a friend of the world makes himself an enemy of God. 

Heb 13:19  But I especially urge you to do this, that I may be restored to you the sooner. 

Heb 13:20  Now may the God of peace who brought up our Lord Jesus from the dead, that great Shepherd of the sheep, through the blood of the everlasting covenant, 

“Brought to you by the Blood of the Everlasting Covenant….” 

Jas 1:16  Do not be deceived, my beloved brethren. 

Jas 1:17  Every good gift and every perfect gift is from above, and comes down from the Father of lights, with whom there is no variation or shadow of turning. 

Jas 1:18  Of His own will He brought us forth by the word of truth, that we might be a kind of firstfruits of His creatures. 

katabolē : kat-ab-ol-ay’

From G2598; a deposition, that is, founding; figuratively conception: – conceive, foundation.

Mat 13:35  that it might be fulfilled which was spoken by the prophet, saying: “I WILL OPEN MY MOUTH IN PARABLES; I WILL UTTER THINGS KEPT SECRET FROM THE FOUNDATION OF THE WORLD.” 

Mat 25:34  Then the King will say to those on His right hand, ‘Come, you blessed of My Father, inherit the kingdom prepared for you from the foundation of the world: 

Luk 11:49  Therefore the wisdom of God also said, ‘I will send them prophets and apostles, and some of them they will kill and persecute,’ 

Luk 11:50  that the blood of all the prophets which was shed from the foundation of the world may be required of this generation, 

John 17:24  “Father, I desire that they also whom You gave Me may be with Me where I am, that they may behold My glory which You have given Me; for You loved Me before the foundation of the world. 

Eph 1:3  Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who has blessed us with every spiritual blessing in the heavenly places in Christ, 

Eph 1:4  just as He chose us in Him before the foundation of the world, that we should be holy and without blame before Him in love, 

Heb 4:3  For we who have believed do enter that rest, as He has said: “SO I SWORE IN MY WRATH, ‘THEY SHALL NOT ENTER MY REST,’ ” although the works were finished from the foundation of the world. 

Heb 9:24  For Christ has not entered the holy places made with hands, which are copies of the true, but into heaven itself, now to appear in the presence of God for us; 

Heb 9:25  not that He should offer Himself often, as the high priest enters the Most Holy Place every year with blood of another—

Heb 9:26  He then would have had to suffer often since the foundation of the world; but now, once at the end of the ages, He has appeared to put away sin by the sacrifice of Himself. 

1Pe 1:20  He indeed was foreordained before the foundation of the world, but was manifest in these last times for you 

Rev 13:8  All who dwell on the earth will worship him, whose names have not been written in the Book of Life of the Lamb slain from the foundation of the world. 

Rev 17:8  The beast that you saw was, and is not, and will ascend out of the bottomless pit and go to perdition. And those who dwell on the earth will marvel, whose names are not written in the Book of Life from the foundation of the world, when they see the beast that was, and is not, and yet is. 

One notable exception:

Heb 11:11  By faith Sarah herself also received strength to conceive seed, and she bore a child when she was past the age, because she judged Him faithful who had promised. 

Heb 13:20  Now may the God of peace who brought up our Lord Jesus from the dead, that great Shepherd of the sheep, through the blood of the everlasting covenant, 

Heb 13:21  make you complete in every good work to do His will, working in you what is well pleasing in His sight, through Jesus Christ, to whom be glory forever and ever. Amen.

Who is doing the work?

Php 2:13  for it is God who works in you both to will and to do for His good pleasure. 

Php 1:6  being confident of this very thing, that He who has begun a good work in you will complete it until the day of Jesus Christ; 

Eph 2:4  But God, who is rich in mercy, because of His great love with which He loved us, 

Eph 2:5  even when we were dead in trespasses, made us alive together with Christ (by grace you have been saved), 

Eph 2:6  and raised us up together, and made us sit together in the heavenly places in Christ Jesus, 

Eph 2:7  that in the ages to come He might show the exceeding riches of His grace in His kindness toward us in Christ Jesus. 

Eph 2:8  For by grace you have been saved through faith, and that not of yourselves; it is the gift of God, 

Eph 2:9  not of works, lest anyone should boast. 

Eph 2:10  For we are His workmanship, created in Christ Jesus for good works, which God prepared beforehand that we should walk in them. 

“make you complete in every good work to do His will,”

Rev 3:10  Because you have kept My command to persevere, I also will keep you from the hour of trial which shall come upon the whole world, to test those who dwell on the earth. 

Rev 3:11  Behold, I am coming quickly! Hold fast what you have, that no one may take your crown. 

1Co 9:24  Do you not know that those who run in a race all run, but one receives the prize? Run in such a way that you may obtain it. 

1Co 9:25  And everyone who competes for the prize is temperate in all things. Now they do it to obtain a perishable crown, but we for an imperishable crown. 

1Co 9:26  Therefore I run thus: not with uncertainty. Thus I fight: not as one who beats the air. 

1Co 9:27  But I discipline my body and bring it into subjection, lest, when I have preached to others, I myself should become disqualified. 

Mat 6:16  “Moreover, when you fast, do not be like the hypocrites, with a sad countenance. For they disfigure their faces that they may appear to men to be fasting. Assuredly, I say to you, they have their reward. 

Mat 6:17  But you, when you fast, anoint your head and wash your face, 

Mat 6:18  so that you do not appear to men to be fasting, but to your Father who is in the secret place; and your Father who sees in secret will reward you openly. 

Mat 6:19  “Do not lay up for yourselves treasures on earth, where moth and rust destroy and where thieves break in and steal; 

Mat 6:20  but lay up for yourselves treasures in heaven, where neither moth nor rust destroys and where thieves do not break in and steal. 

Mat 6:21  For where your treasure is, there your heart will be also. 

Synopsis

Rom 12:1  I beseech you therefore, brethren, by the mercies of God, that you present your bodies a living sacrifice, holy, acceptable to God, which is your reasonable service. 

Rom 12:2  And do not be conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind, that you may prove what is that good and acceptable and perfect will of God. 

Heb 13:22  And I appeal to you, brethren, bear with the word of exhortation, for I have written to you in few words. 

Heb 13:23  Know that our brother Timothy has been set free, with whom I shall see you if he comes shortly. 

Heb 13:24  Greet all those who rule over you, and all the saints. Those from Italy greet you. 

Heb 13:25  Grace be with you all. Amen.