Study of Hebrews: Hebrews 13

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Study Questions for Hebrews 13

1. What is to continue? (13:1) (A) Who are the brethren? Who are your brethren?

2.  Why should you not neglect to show hospitality to strangers? (13:2)

3.  Who should you remember? Why? (13:3)

4.  How are you to regard marriage and the marriage bed? Who will God judge? (13:4)

5.  Why should you make sure that your character is free from the love of money, being content with what you have? (13:5-6) (A) How are you encouraged by:

Deut. 31:6, 8

Psalm 118:6

6.  Who else should you remember? What should you imitate? (13:7)

           

7.  What phrase describes Jesus? (13:8) How does this prevent you from being carried away by varied and strange teachings? (13:9) (A) What are some modern beliefs about Jesus that would be considered “varied and strange teachings”?

8. Who does not have the right to eat from the altar that we have? Where are the bodies of those animals whose blood is brought into the holy place by the high priest burned? Where did Jesus suffer? Where should we go out to Him? What should we bear? (13:10-13) (D) What does the presence of the temple and continuing sacrifices by the high priests reveal about the dating of Hebrews?

9.  What are we seeking rather than the present city? (3:14)

10. What should we continually offer up through Jesus? To Whom? What should you not neglect to do because such sacrifices are pleasing to God? (13:15)
(A) Evaluate how much time you spend praising and thanking God through Jesus. Is it continually, occasionally or rarely?

11.  Why should you obey your leaders and submit to them? Why should you let them do this with joy and not with grief? (13:17)

12.  Why did the author of Hebrews solicit prayer? Why were they urged to pray all the more? (13:18-19) (A) What does this teach you about prayer?

13.  How is the God of peace described? How does the author pray for the readers? To Whom does the author pray? Through whom does the Author pray? (A) Is this how you pray? For whom could you commit to pray Heb 13:21?

14.  Who is the author addressing? What are they to bear? (13:22) (A) How has this letter to the Hebrews exhorted you to think and/or act differently?

15. Who has been released? Who plans to travel with Timothy to see the Hebrews? (13:23)

16.  Whom are they to greet?

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Who sent the readers greetings? (C) What does this reveal about the location of the writing of this letter?

17.  What is the final benediction? (A) Define grace. How is grace with you today?

18.  What do you learn about God? How could you apply this truth to your life?

Write a prayer response to Heb 13:1-25 and to the book of Hebrews.

TEXT (NASB):

Heb. 13:1   Let  love of the brethren continue. ² Do not neglect to  show hospitality to strangers, for by this some have  entertained angels without knowing it. ³  Remember  the prisoners, as though in prison with them, and those who are ill-treated, since you yourselves also are in the body. ⁴  Marriage is to be held in honor among all, and the marriage bed is to be undefiled;  for fornicators and adulterers God will judge. ⁵ Make sure that your character is  free from the love of money,  being content with what you have; for He Himself has said, “ I WILL NEVER DESERT YOU, NOR WILL I EVER FORSAKE YOU,”

⁶  so that we confidently say, 

“ THE LORD IS MY HELPER, I WILL NOT BE AFRAID. 

WHAT WILL MAN DO TO ME?”

Heb. 13:7   Remember  those who led you, who spoke  the word of God to you; and considering the  result of their conduct,  imitate their faith. ⁸  Jesus Christ is the same yesterday and today and forever. ⁹  Do not be carried away by varied and strange teachings; for it is good for the heart to  be strengthened by grace, not by  foods,  through which those who  were so occupied were not benefited. ¹⁰ We have an altar  from which those  who serve the  tabernacle have no right to eat. ¹¹ For  the bodies of those animals whose blood is brought into the holy place by the high priest as an offering for sin, are burned outside the camp. ¹² Therefore Jesus also,  that He might sanctify the people  through His own blood, suffered  outside the gate. ¹³ So, let us go out to Him outside the camp,  bearing His reproach. ¹⁴ For here  we do not have a lasting city, but we are seeking  the city which is to come. ¹⁵  Through Him then, let us continually offer up a  sacrifice of praise to God, that is,  the fruit of lips that  give thanks to His name. ¹⁶ And do not neglect doing good and  sharing, for  with such sacrifices God is pleased.

Heb. 13:17    Obey your leaders and submit to them, for  they keep watch over your souls as those who will give an account.  Let them do this with joy and not  with grief, for this would be unprofitable for you.

Heb. 13:18    Pray for us, for we are sure that we have a  good conscience, desiring to conduct ourselves honorably in all things. ¹⁹ And I urge you all the more to do this,  so that I may be restored to you the sooner.

Heb. 13:20   Now  the God of peace, who  brought up from the dead the  great Shepherd of the sheep  through  the blood of the  eternal covenant, even Jesus our Lord, ²¹  equip you in every good thing to do His will,  working in us that  which is pleasing in His sight, through Jesus Christ,  to whom be the glory forever and ever. Amen.

Heb. 13:22   But  I urge you,  brethren,  bear with  this  word of exhortation, for  I have written to you briefly. ²³  Take notice that  our brother Timothy has been released, with whom, if he comes soon, I will see you. ²⁴ Greet  all of your leaders and all the   saints. Those from  Italy greet you.

Heb. 13:25    Grace be with you all.

Study of Hebrews: Hebrews 12

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Study Questions for Hebrews 12

1. Since we have so great a cloud of witnesses surrounding us, what should we do? (12:1)

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2.  Upon Whom should we fix our eyes? How is He described? For the joy set before Him, what did He endure? Where did He sit down? (12:2) (A) Upon what/whom are your eyes fixed? Why?

3.  What should you do in order to not grow weary or lose heart? (12:3)

4.  What have you not yet resisted? What have you forgotten? What should you not regard lightly? Whom does the Lord discipline and scourge? (12:4-6)

5.  Whom does God discipline? What are those who are without discipline? (12:7-8)

6.  How did we regard the discipline of our earthly fathers? Why did they discipline us? Why does God discipline us? How does discipline seem for the moment? What does discipline yield to those who have been trained by it? (12:9-11  (A) How have you benefitted from the Father’s discipline?

           

7.  In response to the discipline of the Father, what should we do? Why? (12:12-13)

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8. What should we pursue with all men?

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What is necessary to see the Lord? (12:14)

9.  What are three things that you should “see to it”? (12:15-16)

10. What happened to Esau after he sold his own birthright for a meal? What could he not find though he sought it with tears? (12:17)

11.  To what have you NOT come? (12:18-19)

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12.  What could they not bear? (12:20)

13.  How did Moses respond to the terrible sight? (12:21)

14.  To what have you come? Briefly describe each. (12:22-24)

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15. Who should you not refuse? Why? (12:25)

16.  Though His voice shook the earth then, what has He now promised? (12:26) What does the expression, “Yet once more,” denote? What will remain? (12:27)

17.  What should we do in response to receiving a kingdom which cannot be shaken? With what should we offer to God an acceptable service? How is our God described? (12:28-29) (A)

18.  What do you learn about God? How could you apply this truth to your life?

Write a prayer response to Heb 12:1-29.

TEXT (NASB):

Heb. 12:1   Therefore, since we have so great a cloud of witnesses surrounding us, let us also lay aside every encumbrance and the sin which so easily entangles us, and let us run with endurance the race that is set before us, ² fixing our eyes on Jesus, the author and perfecter of faith, who for the joy set before Him endured the cross, despising the shame, and has sat down at the right hand of the throne of God.

Heb. 12:3   For consider Him who has endured such hostility by sinners against Himself, so that you will not grow weary and lose heart. ⁴ You have not yet resisted to the point of shedding blood in your striving against sin; ⁵  and you have forgotten the exhortation which is addressed to you as sons, 

“MY SON, DO NOT REGARD LIGHTLY THE DISCIPLINE OF THE LORD, 

NOR FAINT WHEN YOU ARE REPROVED BY HIM;

⁶  FOR THOSE WHOM THE LORD LOVES HE DISCIPLINES, 

AND HE SCOURGES EVERY SON WHOM HE RECEIVES.”

⁷ It is for discipline that you endure; God deals with you as with sons; for what son is there whom his father does not discipline? ⁸ But if you are without discipline, of which all have become partakers, then you are illegitimate children and not sons. ⁹ Furthermore, we had earthly fathers to discipline us, and we respected them; shall we not much rather be subject to the Father of spirits, and live? ¹⁰ For they disciplined us for a short time as seemed best to them, but He disciplines us for our good, so that we may share His holiness. ¹¹ All discipline for the moment seems not to be joyful, but sorrowful; yet to those who have been trained by it, afterwards it yields the peaceful fruit of righteousness.

Heb. 12:12   Therefore, strengthen the hands that are weak and the knees that are feeble, ¹³ and make straight paths for your feet, so that the limb which is lame may not be put out of joint, but rather be healed.

Heb. 12:14   Pursue peace with all men, and the sanctification without which no one will see the Lord. ¹⁵ See to it that no one comes short of the grace of God; that no root of bitterness springing up causes trouble, and by it many be defiled; ¹⁶ that there be no immoral or godless person like Esau, who sold his own birthright for a single meal. ¹⁷ For you know that even afterwards, when he desired to inherit the blessing, he was rejected, for he found no place for repentance, though he sought for it with tears.

Heb. 12:18   For you have not come to a mountain that can be touched and to a blazing fire, and to darkness and gloom and whirlwind, ¹⁹ and to the blast of a trumpet and the sound of words which sound was such that those who heard begged that no further word be spoken to them. ²⁰ For they could not bear the command, “IF EVEN A BEAST TOUCHES THE MOUNTAIN, IT WILL BE STONED.” ²¹ And so terrible was the sight, that Moses said, “I AM FULL OF FEAR and trembling.” ²² But you have come to Mount Zion and to the city of the living God, the heavenly Jerusalem, and to myriads of angels, ²³ to the general assembly and church of the firstborn who are enrolled in heaven, and to God, the Judge of all, and to the spirits of the righteous made perfect, ²⁴ and to Jesus, the mediator of a new covenant, and to the sprinkled blood, which speaks better than the blood of Abel.

Heb. 12:25   See to it that you do not refuse Him who is speaking. For if those did not escape when they refused him who warned them on earth, much less will we escape who turn away from Him who warns from heaven. ²⁶ And His voice shook the earth then, but now He has promised, saying, “YET ONCE MORE I WILL SHAKE NOT ONLY THE EARTH, BUT ALSO THE HEAVEN.” ²⁷ This expression, “Yet once more,” denotes the removing of those things which can be shaken, as of created things, so that those things which cannot be shaken may remain. ²⁸ Therefore, since we receive a kingdom which cannot be shaken, let us show gratitude, by which we may offer to God an acceptable service with reverence and awe; ²⁹ for our God is a consuming fire.

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