Posted by David Carroll
Listen to the mp3 podcast: Hebrews 12:11-27, March 20, 2005Don’t mistake God’s Loving discipline in pain and suffering for cruel punishment. Otherwise you may become bitter. Suffering has meaning, purpose. It is for discipline that you endure; it hurts temporarily. Esau is an example of a bitter person and what a sad story that was. But even Jesus suffered and benefited from it:Hebrews 5:8 (NKJV)Though He was a Son, yet He learned obedience by the things which He suffered.This chapter ends with a discusion about a massive earthquake that is to come. We find out that everything we see here
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Posted by David Carroll
Listen to the podcast: Hebrews 12:1-11, March 13, 2005Are you coasting through life? You need to be running. The point of this book of Hebrews is to endure, persevere, run, fight, don't drift, don't neglect. I used to run for exercise (wish I still could!). But I did not do it because it felt good while I was running. I did it because it felt so good when I finished. This chapter tells us to lay aside the weights which hold us back. Too many times we ask "Is it a sin to do this or that?" That's not the
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