HEBREWS 12

Hebrews 12

Hebrews 12 and verse 1 reads.

Heb.12:1] Wherefore seeing we also are compassed about with so great a cloud of witnesses, let us lay aside every weight, and the sin which doth so easily beset us, and let us run with patience the race that is set before us,

Paul spoke a street Greek, and using this word “Cloud” for the word Crowd, as he has done before in 1Thess.4:17, proves he also wrote this book of Hebrews. Now, what did this verse say? Set aside our sins, by repentance, and run this race. This race is with many other brothers and sisters, but with the patience of the Saints, stay on course as Christians.

Heb.12:2] Looking unto Jesus the author and finisher of our faith; who for the joy that was set before him endured the cross, despising the shame, and is set down at the right hand of the throne of God.

Jesus is author of this book, and the Living Word. That by his death on the cross he destroyed Death, that is the Devil. Heb.2:14.

Heb.12:3] For consider him that endured such contradiction of sinners against himself, lest ye be wearied and faint in your minds.

By his love and compassion, he endured the cross that we may endure the race, that we have repentance to finish the race.

Heb.12:4] Ye have not yet resisted unto blood, striving against sin.
[5] And ye have forgotten the exhortation which speaketh unto you as unto children, My son, despise not thou the chastening of the Lord, nor faint when thou art rebuked of him:
[6] For whom the Lord loveth he chasteneth, and scourgeth every son whom he receiveth.

Christ did not whimper on the cross, he did it for our sins. Likewise, we should not be afraid to do the works for the Lord. the Lord only chastises the ones he loves.

Heb.12:7] If ye endure chastening, God dealeth with you as with sons; for what son is he whom the father chasteneth not?

Father calls us his children, a child that has no discipline sins against the Father.

Heb.12:8] But if ye be without chastisement, whereof all are partakers, then are ye bastards, and not sons.
[9] Furthermore we have had fathers of our flesh which corrected us, and we gave them reverence: shall we not much rather be in subjection unto the Father of spirits, and live?

We loved our fleshly fathers when they disciplined us, should we not love our Spiritual Father as well? After all, it is God that gives everlasting Life.

Heb.12:10] For they verily for a few days chastened us after their own pleasure; but he for our profit, that we might be partakers of his holiness.

Our fleshly fathers disciplined us for their pleasure, but God did so for life everlasting, that is our inheritance.

Heb.12:11] Now no chastening for the present seemeth to be joyous, but grievous: nevertheless afterward it yieldeth the peaceable fruit of righteousness unto them which are exercised thereby.

Discipline might not be pleasant but we endure for the peace of the Lord.

Heb.12:12] Wherefore lift up the hands which hang down, and the feeble knees;
[13] And make straight paths for your feet, lest that which is lame be turned out of the way; but let it rather be healed.

When others that follow you fall then pick them up and continue the race on the straight path. We won’t leave a brother behind.

Heb.12:14] Follow peace with all men, and holiness, without which no man shall see the Lord:

Please the Lord, Mat.5:8 reads.

Mat.5:8] Blessed are the pure in heart: for they shall see God.

Back to Heb.12 and verse 15 reads.

Heb.12:15] Looking diligently lest any man fail of the grace of God; lest any root of bitterness springing up trouble you, and thereby many be defiled;

We are responsible for those that we lead. Never allow others to teach them falsely, never allow them into the church.

[16] Lest there be any fornicator, or profane person, as Esau, who for one morsel of meat sold his birthright.

Check out this word fornicator in the Strongs’, it is a male prostitute. We have been studying inheritance. Esau sold his for a bowl of pottage.

Heb.12:17] For ye know how that afterward, when he would have inherited the blessing, he was rejected: for he found no place of repentance, though he sought it carefully with tears.

Esau sought his blessings from the wrong father. He turned to Isaac for his blessings when he should have turned to the LORD. Gen.27:30-40.

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,

Speaking of the children when they came out of Egypt, they went off the track with unbelief. Stay on course, finish the race.

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:
[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:
[21] And so terrible was the sight, that Moses said, I exceedingly fear and quake:)

Even after all they saw with their own eyes they didn’t believe, and had no faith. This angered the LORD tremendously. But Moses being the great intercessor that he was, went to the burning bush not for himself, but for the people. Let’s go to Due.9 and pick it up with verse 11 and it reads.

Due.9:11] And it came to pass at the end of forty days and forty nights, that the LORD gave me the two tables of stone, even the tables of the covenant.
[12] And the LORD said unto me, Arise, get thee down quickly from hence; for thy people which thou hast brought forth out of Egypt have corrupted themselves; they are quickly turned aside out of the way which I commanded them; they have made them a molten image.
[13] Furthermore the LORD spake unto me, saying, I have seen this people, and, behold, it is a stiffnecked people:
[14] Let me alone, that I may destroy them, and blot out their name from under heaven: and I will make of thee a nation mightier and greater than they.

God told Moses that he would make a great nation with just Moses. But the promise was with Abraham, Isaac and Jacob. The LORD was that angry with the people, but Moses interceded for their sake.

Due.9:15] So I turned and came down from the mount, and the mount burned with fire: and the two tables of the covenant were in my two hands.
[16] And I looked, and, behold, ye had sinned against the LORD your God, and had made you a molten calf: ye had turned aside quickly out of the way which the LORD had commanded you.

Stay in His way, Jesus told us this path was straight and narrow.

Due.9:17] And I took the two tables, and cast them out of my two hands, and brake them before your eyes.
[18] And I fell down before the LORD, as at the first, forty days and forty nights: I did neither eat bread, nor drink water, because of all your sins which ye sinned, in doing wickedly in the sight of the LORD, to provoke him to anger.
[19] For I was afraid of the anger and hot displeasure, wherewith the LORD was wroth against you to destroy you. But the LORD hearkened unto me at that time also.
[20] And the LORD was very angry with Aaron to have destroyed him: and I prayed for Aaron also the same time.
[21] And I took your sin, the calf which ye had made, and burnt it with fire, and stamped it, and ground it very small, even until it was as small as dust: and I cast the dust thereof into the brook that descended out of the mount.

Moses stamped the golden calf to powder and made them drink it. But I want you to know that if we step off the path of righteousness, the Lord will discipline us. Back to Heb.12 and verse 22 reads.

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,
[23] To the general assembly and church of the firstborn, which are written in heaven, and to God the Judge of all, and to the spirits of just men made perfect,

Talking about his Elect, the firstborn. This Jerusalem is not now, but mentioned in Rev.14:1-4 and it reads.

Rev.14:1] And I looked, and, lo, a Lamb stood on the mount Sion, and with him an hundred forty and four thousand, having his Father’s name written in their foreheads.
[2] And I heard a voice from heaven, as the voice of many waters, and as the voice of a great thunder: and I heard the voice of harpers harping with their harps:
[3] And they sung as it were a new song before the throne, and before the four beasts, and the elders: and no man could learn that song but the hundred and forty and four thousand, which were redeemed from the earth.
[4] These are they which were not defiled with women; for they are virgins. These are they which follow the Lamb whithersoever he goeth. These were redeemed from among men, being the firstfruits unto God and to the Lamb.

Back to Heb.12 and verse 24 reads.

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.

Abel’s blood cried out for vengeance, Gen.4:10, but Christ’s blood for Salvation.

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:

Jesus Christ sits on the right hand of God in heaven.

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.

Not only will he shake the earth but heaven also. Those on the right side of heaven come with Jesus and are that great army he brings with him. Those on the wrong side of the gulf are also kicked out of heaven, and these we will teach in the millennium with discipline.

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.

Our Rock is not their rock, but this shaking will happen at the seventh trump. And I say, Come , Lord Jesus come.

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:
[29] For our God is a consuming fire.

Never forget “God is a consuming fire”. All rudiments, that is all that is evil, shall be as chaff. Then, and only then, will we have eternity. Let’s go to his throne.

Father, we thank you for your word and ask that you bless all that love you in Jesus’s precious name, Amen.

KJV along with The New Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance of The Bible