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By Jesse Jenkins

Benchley, May 6, 2012

• Hebrews 13:17 – See Luke 22:24-26. Elders rule by their leading and example. They are not to lord their position over the congregation. If the elders try to lead in a way that goes against God’s word, the members of the congregation are responsible for recognizing this and not going along with it. Otherwise, the members are to submit to the leadership of the elders.

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By Jesse Jenkins

Benchley, April 29, 2012

• Hebrews 13:2 – This happened to Lot when he entertained angels that had the form of men.
• Hebrews 13:4 – Marriage is the grandest of all eartly relationships. It is the one that patterned after Christ and the church.
• Hebrews 13:6 – Don’t be afraid of physical harm to the extent that you will forsake God to escape from harm.
• Hebrews 13:7-9 – Jesus and His teaching does not change over time, so we should study the old teachings and not be led away by strange, new teachings.
• Hebrews 13:13 – The writer is admonishing his audience to go outside the “camp” of the Old Law to serve Jesus.

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By Jesse Jenkins

Benchley, April 22, 2012

• Hebrews 12:22-24 – The writer here is telling the audience that they have come to the church of the New Covenant, not the Old Covenant. We as Christians are part of the “general assembly and church of the firstborn.” He was trying tos who them that they were under the New Covenant and should not forsake it for the Old Covenant despite what persecution they may have to deal with.

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By Jesse Jenkins

Benchley, April 1, 2012

• Hebrews 12:5-6 – God’s word is the means by which He disciplines us. It is not through physical ailments or some sort of physical punishment.
• Hebrews 12:11 – None of us are so strong that we don’t ever need correction. Discipline is not pleasant for either the person giving or receiving it, but it requires much love and care.
• Hebrews 12:14 – We are to pursue peace on God’s standards, not on any other standard.

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By Jesse Jenkins

Benchley, March 25, 2012

• Hebrews 11:30 – The faith that caused the walls to fall down was an obedient faith on the part of Joshua and the Israelites.
• Hebrews 11:34 – When we are weak, we are made strong in God because we put our faith in Him.

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By Jesse Jenkins

Benchley, March 18, 2012

• Hebrews 11:12 – The descendants of Abraham and Sarah became innumerable in both the physical and spiritual senses.
• Hebrews 11:24-25 – None of us will have to give up as many physical things as Moses did because we don’t have as many physical blessings as he did growing up in Pharaoh’s house.

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By Jesse Jenkins

Benchley, March 11, 2012

• Hebrews 11:3 – The world was created by God speaking it into existence.
• Hebrews 11:4 – Abel offered a sacrifice from his flock while Cain offered a sacrifice from the field. The only reason Abel’s sacrifice was aceptable was because he offered it in faith. Cain offered his sacrifice at his own discretion – not through faith. God must have given Cain and Abel some instruction with regard to acceptable sacrifice in order for Abel to offer a sacrifice through faith. This also shows that there is such a thing as unacceptable worship.
• Hebrews 11:5 – What an amazing compliment – to be pleasing to God. The only other person we have record of that was taken up by God is Elijah.
• Hebrews 11:6 – We must believe that God is the first cause of all things.
• Hebrews 11:7 – When Noah built the ark and people refused to go in it, the people were condemned. It is the same as when we teach God’s word and they reject it.

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By Jesse Jenkins

Benchley, February 26, 2012

• Hebrews 10:26 – This is not saying that if they gave up the New Covenant and went back to the Old Covenant, they could never come back to the New Covenant and be saved. We know from many other passages that God will accept those who repent and return to His ways.
• Hebrews 10:29 – Those who discount the blood of Christ and will not follow God’s commandments under the New Covenant have essentually trampled Jesus Christ under foot.
• Hebrews 10:30 – God is a God of love, but He is also a vengeful God and will punish those who do not obey Him. Modern religious teaching often downplays the vengeful aspect of God.
• Hebrews 10:32-34 – We are not likely to suffer persecution as these people did, but even if we do, we have a much grater reward waiting for us.
• Hebrews 10:36-38 – These verses seem to be talking about the destruction of Jerusalem, not the second coming of Christ. These verses refer back to Habakkuk 2:3-4.
• Hebrews 11:1 – This verse is not a definition of faith. Faith is “receiving testimony and believing it to be so”. This verse gives the function of faith.
• Hebrews 11:3 – God created the world from ntohing, thus His work is beyond the realm of science.

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By Jesse Jenkins

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By Jesse Jenkins

Benchley, February 5, 2012

• Hebrews 9:23 – Why is “sacrifices” plural here? This may be a figure of speech to compare the many sacrifices of the Old Testament with the one sacrifice of Jesus. The Bible often uses the plural form of a ord to include the singular. This may also be referring to Jesus’ sacrifice in combination with either God’s sacrifice in sending Him or our own personal sacrifices that we must make to follow Christ.
• Hebrews 9:27 – Christians should not be afraid to die. If we are serving God like we should, we would be much better off in heaven.
• See I Thessalonians 4:13-18.
• Hebrews 9:28 – The second time that Jesus comes, it will not be to save men. It will be as a judge.
• Hebrews 10:1-2 – We do not have to feel the guilt of our sins once we have been forgiven.
• Hebrews 10:9 – God took away the first covenant when He established the new covenant. We are no longer bound by the laws, sacrifices, and ceremonies of the first law.