The document provides commentary on various biblical passages from Hebrews. It discusses key themes like the contrast between Mount Sinai and Mount Zion, the permanence of God's kingdom, duties of faith like showing hospitality and caring for prisoners, the sanctity of marriage, and being content with what you have through trust in God. It encourages remembering godly leaders and following the example of their faith and lives.

1. Hebrews
From Shadow to
Substance
Chapter 13(1)
09/23/12

2. Review
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.

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Look to the
result of chastening
more than the
process of
chastening

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We can't be trained
by
someone whom we
resist or ignore

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Trained
as God’s
“spiritual athletes.”

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Think of David after being
attacked by a lion when he
was just a boy tending the
sheep.
“Why did God allow such a
terrible thing to happen to
me?”

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12. Wherefore
lift up the hands
which hang down,
and the feeble
knees,

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13. And make
straight paths for
your feet, lest that
which is lame be
turned out of the way
[dislocated], but let it
rather be healed.

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Almost like a coach or a
military officer, the author
tells the “troops” to get
with it. He has given
exhaustive reasons to be
strong in the Lord and put off
discouragement, so now is the
time to do it.

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

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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,

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

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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.

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Many are corrupted
because of bitterness
towards someone they feel
has wronged them, and
they hold on to the
bitterness with amazing
stubbornness!

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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,

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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:

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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:

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21. And so terrible
was the sight,
hat Moses said,
I exceedingly fear
and quake:)

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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,

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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,

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24. And to Jesus the
mediator of the new
covenant, and to the
blood of sprinkling, that
speaketh better things
than that of Abel.

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For you have not come
to the mountain...:
Exodus 19:10-25
explains what it was like
when Israel came to
Mount Sinai.

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There was more smoke, like a
furnace, and earthquakes;
then the trumpet sounded long
- until Moses spoke, and God
Himself answered. God spoke
to Israel from Sinai, but
warned them in every way
possible to stay away.

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So that those who heard it
begged that the word should
not be spoken to them
anymore: The reaction of
Israel was understandable:
they were terrified (Exodus
20:18-21). They wanted the
experience to stop, not to
continue.

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Did this fear work in
promoting holiness among
the people of Israel? Did
it change the heart of
Israel? 40 days later,
they worshiped a gold calf,
saying it was the god that
brought them out of Egypt!

26. But we are in a different
place. For you have not come
Review
to the mountain: Our
relationship with God is not
modeled after Israel’s
experience on Mount Sinai.
We come to God’s other
mountain: Zion, the name of
the hill upon which Jerusalem
sits.

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But we are in a different
place. For you have not come
to the mountain: Our
relationship with God is not
modeled after Israel’s
experience on Mount Sinai.
We come to God’s other
mountain: Zion, the name of
the hill upon which Jerusalem
sits.

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Contrasts between Mount Sinai
and Mount Zion. i. Mount Sinai
was marked by fear and terror.
Mount Zion is a place of love and
forgiveness. ii. Mount Sinai is in
the desert. Mount Zion is the
city of the Living God. iii. Mount
Sinai spoke of earthly things.
Mount Zion speaks of heavenly
things.

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Contrasts between Mount Sinai
and Mount Zion. i. Mount Sinai
was marked by fear and terror.
Mount Zion is a place of love and
forgiveness. ii. Mount Sinai is in
the desert. Mount Zion is the
city of the Living God. iii. Mount
Sinai spoke of earthly things.
Mount Zion speaks of heavenly
things.

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vii. Mount Sinai brings an Old
Covenant, which was ratified by
the blood of animals. Mount Zion
brings a New Covenant, which is
ratified by the blood of God’s
precious Son. vii. Mount Sinai was
all about exclusion, keeping people
away from the mountain. Mount
Zion is all about invitation. ix.
Mount Sinai is all about Law.
Mount Zion is all about grace.

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vii. Mount Sinai brings an Old
Covenant, which was ratified by
the blood of animals. Mount Zion
brings a New Covenant, which is
ratified by the blood of God’s
precious Son. vii. Mount Sinai was
all about exclusion, keeping people
away from the mountain. Mount
Zion is all about invitation. ix.
Mount Sinai is all about Law.
Mount Zion is all about grace.

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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:

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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.

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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.

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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:

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29. For our
God
is a
consuming fire.

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Hebrews 10:31
It is a fearful
thing to fall into
the hands of the
living God.

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The kingdom itself will
never be shaken. So it
behooves us to seize
God’s unmerited approval
in Jesus, helping us to
serve God acceptably.

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Isaiah 34:4 And all the
host of heaven shall be
dissolved, and the heavens
shall be rolled together as
a scroll: and all their host
shall fall down, as the leaf
falleth off from the vine,
and as a falling fig from
the fig tree.

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Isaiah 65:17 For, behold,
I create new heavens and a
new earth:
and the former shall not be
remembered,
nor come into mind.

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Romans 8:19 For the
earnest expectation
of the creature
waiteth for
the manifestation of the
sons of God.

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Romans 8:21 Because the
creature itself also
shall be delivered from the
bondage of corruption
into the glorious liberty
of the children of God.

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Hebrews Chapter
13
Duties of Faith

44. Review
1 Let brotherly love
continue. 2 Be not
forgetful to entertain
strangers: for thereby
some have entertained
angels unawares.

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Let brotherly love continue:
The writer uses the ancient
Greek word
philadelphia here. He
seems to know that there is
brotherly love among these
Christians. He simply asks
that it would continue among
them.

46. Review
1 Peter 4:9
Use hospitality
one to another
without grudging

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And when the apostle
goes away, let him take
nothing but bread . . .
but if he asks
for money, he is a
false prophet.

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Matthew 25:35
For I was an hungred, and ye
gave me meat:
I was thirsty, and ye gave me
drink:
I was a stranger, and ye took
me in:

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3 Remember them that
are in bonds, as bound
with them; and them
which suffer adversity,
as being yourselves also
in the body.

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4 Marriage is honourable in
all,
and the bed undefiled:
but whoremongers and
adulterers
God will judge.

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4 Let marriage be held in honor
(esteemed worthy, precious, of
great price, and especially dear)
in all things. And thus let the
marriage bed be undefiled (kept
undishonored); for God will judge
and punish the unchaste [all
guilty of sexual vice] and
adulterous.

52. The Bible strictly condemns
sex outside of the marriage
commitment (fornicators
and adulterers God will
judge). But the Bible
celebrates sexual love
within the commitment of
marriage

53. Fornication and adultery are
not synonymous in the New
Testament: adultery implies
unfaithfulness by either party
to the marriage vow, while
the word translated
“fornication” covers a wide
range of sexual irregularities.

54. God will judge and
condemn fornication
and infractions of the
marriage-bond, no
matter how much
social sentiment may
condone them.

55. The object here is to state
that "honor" is to be shown
to the marriage relation.
It is not to be undervalued
by the pretence of the
superior purity of a state
of celibacy

56. 1 Timothy 4:2 Speaking lies in
hypocrisy; having their
conscience seared with a hot
iron; 3 Forbidding to
marry, and commanding to
abstain from meats, which God
hath created to be received with
thanksgiving of them which
believe and know the truth.

57. This may have been said
against the opinions of the
Essenes, called
Therapeutae, who held
marriage in little repute,
and totally abstained from
it themselves as a state of
comparative perfection.

58. 5 Let your conversation be
without covetousness;
and be content with such
things as ye have:
for he hath said,
I will never leave thee,
nor forsake thee.

59. Ephesians 5:3 But among
you there must not be even
a hint of sexual immorality,
or of any kind of impurity,
or of greed, because these
are improper for God's holy
people.

60. 1 Kings 6:13 And I will live
among the Israelites
and will not abandon
my people Israel

61. Matthew 6:25 Therefore I
say unto you, Take no
thought for your life, what
ye shall eat, or what ye
shall drink; nor yet for
your body, what ye shall
put on. Is not the life
more than meat, and the
body than raiment?

62. I will never leave thee, nor
forsake thee - These
words were, in sum, spoken
to Joshua, Joshua 1:5 :
"As I was with Moses, so
will I be with thee; I will
not fail thee, nor forsake
thee."

63. There are no less than five
negatives in this short
sentence, and these
connected with two verbs
and one pronoun twice
repeated.

64. 5 Let your character or moral
disposition be free from love of
money [including greed, avarice,
lust, and craving for earthly
possessions] and be satisfied
with your present [circumstances
and with what you have];

65. ...for He [God] Himself has
said, I will not in any way fail
you nor give you up nor leave you
without support. [I will] not, [I
will] not, [I will] not in any
degree leave you helpless nor
forsake nor [e]let [you] down
(relax My hold on you)!
[Assuredly not!]

66. 6 So that we may boldly
say,
The Lord is my helper,
and I will not fear
what man shall do unto me.

67. Covetousness is the
opposite of contentment.
Often covetousness and
greed are excused or even
admired in today’s culture,
and are simply called
“ambition.”

68. Philippians 4:11-13: Not that I
speak in regard to need, for I
have learned in whatever state I
am, to be content: I know how
to be abased, and I know how to
abound. Everywhere and in all
things I have learned both to be
full and to be hungry, both to
abound and to suffer need. I
can do all things through Christ
who strengthens me

69. 7 Remember them which
have the rule over you,
who have spoken unto you
the word of God:
whose faith follow,
considering the end of
their conversation.

70. We are told to recognize
and follow godly leadership
in the body of Christ,
leadership that is shown to
be legitimate by
faithfulness to the word of
God and by godly conduct.

71. Paul advised Timothy along
the same lines: Take heed
to yourself and to the
doctrine. Continue in
them, for in doing this you
will save both yourself and
those who hear you.
(1 Timothy 4:16)

72. Such leaders should be
recognized (remember
those) and followed. Just
as much as a church needs
godly leaders, it also needs
godly followers.

73. 8 Jesus Christ
the same yesterday,
and to day,
and for ever.

74. 9 Be not carried about with
divers and strange
doctrines. For it is a good
thing that the heart be
established with grace; not
with meats, which have not
profited them that have
been occupied therein.

75. 10 We have an altar,
whereof they have no right
to eat
which serve the tabernacle.

76. 11 For the bodies of those
beasts, whose blood is
brought into the sanctuary
by the high priest for sin,
are burned without
[outside] the camp.

77. 12 Wherefore Jesus also,
that he might sanctify the
people with his own blood,
suffered without the gate.

78. 13 Let us go forth
therefore
unto him without the camp,
bearing his reproach.
14 For here have we no
continuing city,
but we seek one to come.

79. 15 By him therefore
let us offer the sacrifice
of praise to God
continually,
that is, the fruit of our
lips
giving thanks to his name.

80. 16 But to do good
and to communicate
forget not:
for with such sacrifices
God is well pleased.

81. 17 Obey them that have the
rule over you, and submit
yourselves: for they watch
for your souls, as they that
must give account, that they
may do it with joy, and not
with grief: for that is
unprofitable for you.

82. 18 Pray for us:
for we trust we have
a good conscience,
in all things willing
to live honestly.

83. 19 But I beseech you the
rather to do this, that I
may be restored to you the
sooner

84. 20 Now the God of peace,
that brought again from
the dead our Lord Jesus,
that great shepherd of the
sheep, through the blood
of the everlasting
covenant,

85. 21 Make you perfect in
every good work to do his
will, working in you that
which is wellpleasing in his
sight, through Jesus
Christ; to whom be glory
for ever and ever. Amen.

86. 22 And I beseech you,
brethren,
suffer the word of
exhortation:
for I have written a letter
unto you
in few words.

87. 23 Know ye that our
brother Timothy
is set at liberty;
with whom, if he come
shortly,
I will see you.

88. 24 Salute all them
that have the rule over
you,
and all the saints.
They of Italy salute you.

89. 25 Grace be with you all.
Amen.