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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)
(a)
(b)
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)
(a)
(b)
8. What should we pursue with all
men?
(a)
(b)
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)
(a)
(b)
(c)
(d)
(e)
(f)
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)
(a)
(b)
(c)
(d)
(e)
(f)
(g)
(h)
(i)
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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