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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• In the past God spoke to our ancestors at many
  different times and in many different ways
  through the prophets. In these last days he has
  spoken to us through his Son. God made his Son
  responsible for everything. His Son is the one
  through whom God made the universe. His Son is
  the reflection of God's glory and the exact
  likeness of God's being. He holds everything
  together through his powerful words. After he had
  cleansed people from their sins, he received the
  highest position, the one next to the Father in
  heaven. (Hebrews 11-3 GODS WORD)

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• The Son was made greater than the angels, just
  as the name that God gave him is greater than
  theirs. For God never said to any of his angels,
  You are my Son today I have become your
  Father. Nor did God say about any angel, I will
  be his Father, and he will be my Son. But when
  God was about to send his first-born Son into the
  world, he said, All of God's angels must worship
  him. But about the angels God said, God makes
  his angels winds, and his servants flames of
  fire. (Hebrews 14-7 GN)

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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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• Christ has also introduced us to God's
  undeserved kindness on which we take our stand.
  So we are happy, as we look forward to sharing in
  the glory of God. But that's not all! We gladly
  suffer, because we know that suffering helps us
  to endure. And endurance builds character, which
  gives us a hope. (Romans 52-4 CEV)

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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)

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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
  house. A man who builds a house receives more
  honor than the house itself. In the same way
  Jesus is worthy of much greater honor than Moses.
  Every house, of course, is built by someone---and
  God is the one who has built all things. Moses
  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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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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Trust

• When God made his solemn promise, They will
  never enter the land where I would have given
  them rest---of whom was he speaking? Of those
  who rebelled. We see, then, that they were not
  able to enter the land, because they did not
  believe. (Hebrews 318,19 GN)
• 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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• Now, God has offered us the promise that we may
  receive that rest he spoke about. Let us take
  care, then, that none of you will be found to
  have failed to receive that promised rest. For we
  have heard the Good News, just as they did. They
  heard the message, but it did them no good,
  because when they heard it, they did not accept
  it with faith. We who believe, then, do receive
  that rest which God promised. It is just as he
  said, I was angry and made a solemn promise
  They will never enter the land where I would have
  given them rest! He said this even though his
  work had been finished from the time he created
  the world. (Hebrews 41-3 GN)

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• For somewhere in the Scriptures this is said
  about the seventh day God rested on the seventh
  day from all his work. This same matter is
  spoken of again They will never enter that land
  where I would have given them rest. Those who
  first heard the Good News did not receive that
  rest, because they did not believe. There are,
  then, others who are allowed to receive it.
  (Hebrews 44-6 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. There we will receive mercy
  and find grace to help us just when we need it.
  (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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• Now, if the work of the levitical priests had
  been perfect, there would have been no need for a
  different kind of priest to appear, one who is in
  the priestly order of Melchizedek, not of Aaron.
  For when the priesthood is changed, there also
  has to be a change in the law. And our Lord, of
  whom these things are said, belonged to a
  different tribe, and no member of his tribe ever
  served as a priest. It is well known that he was
  born a member of the tribe of Judah and Moses
  did not mention this tribe when he spoke of
  priests. The matter becomes even plainer a
  different priest has appeared, who is like
  Melchizedek. He was made a priest, not by human
  rules and regulations, but through the power of a
  life which has no end. For the scripture says,
  You will be a priest forever, in the priestly
  order of Melchizedek. (Hebrews 711-17 GN)

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• The old rule, then, is set aside, because it was
  weak and useless. For the Law of Moses could not
  make anything perfect. And now a better hope has
  been provided through which we come near to
  GodBut Jesus became a priest by means of a vow
  when God said to him, The Lord has made a solemn
  promise and will not take it back 'You will be a
  priest forever.' This difference, then, also
  makes Jesus the guarantee of a better covenant.
  (Hebrews 718-22 GN)

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• There was a long succession of priests because
  when a priest died he could no longer serve. But
  Jesus lives forever, so he serves as a priest
  forever. That is why he is always able to save
  those who come to God through him. He can do this
  because he always lives and intercedes for them.
  (Hebrews 723-25 GODS WORD)
• 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 them, and so
  I paid no attention to them. Now, 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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• 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
  covenent (Hebrews 914 GN)

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• That is why even the first covenant went into
  effect only with the use of blood. First, Moses
  proclaimed to the people all the commandments as
  set forth in the Law. Then he took the blood of
  bulls and goats, mixed it with water, and
  sprinkled it on the book of the Law and all the
  people, using a sprig of hyssop and some red
  wool. He said, This is the blood which seals the
  covenant that God has commanded you to obey. In
  the same way Moses also sprinkled the blood on
  the Sacred Tent and over all the things used in
  worship. Indeed, according to the Law almost
  everything is purified by blood, and sins are
  forgiven only if blood is poured out. (Hebrews
  918-22 GN)
• 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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• 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)
• The High Priest, properly ordained and
  consecrated to succeed his father, is to perform
  the ritual of purification. He shall put on the
  priestly garments 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. So Moses did as the LORD had commanded.
  (Leviticus 1632-34 GN)

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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? If the people
  worshiping God had really been purified from
  their sins, they would not feel guilty of sin any
  more, and all sacrifices would stop. 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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• Christ, however, offered one sacrifice for sins,
  an offering that is effective forever, and then
  he sat down at the right side of God. There he
  now waits until God puts his enemies as a
  footstool under his feet. With one sacrifice,
  then, he has made perfect forever those who are
  purified from sin. And the Holy Spirit also gives
  us his witness. First he says, This is the
  covenant that I will make with them in the days
  to come, says the Lord I will put my laws in
  their hearts and write them on their minds.
  (Hebrews 1012-16 GN)

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• We have, then, my friends, complete freedom to
  go into the Most Holy Place by means of the death
  of Jesus. He opened for us a new way, a living
  way, through the curtain---that is, through his
  own body. We have a great priest in charge of the
  house of God. So let us come near to God with a
  sincere heart and a sure faith, with hearts that
  have been purified from a guilty conscience and
  with bodies washed with clean water. Let us hold
  on firmly to the hope we profess, because we can
  trust God to keep his promise. (Hebrews 1019-23
  GN)

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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)

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• We are not people who turn back and are lost.
  Instead, we have faith and are saved. (Hebrews
  1039 GN)
• 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)
• 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)