For Our God Is a Consuming Fire For those who know the Lord, this reinforces why we persevere. While we still live on this side of eternity, we have come to Mt. Zion, to the heavenly Jerusalem. When our eyes are fixed here and on Jesus, this world loses its attractions.   For those who … [Read More...] Hebrews 12:18-29

Strengthen Your Weak Knees F.F. Bruce: If it is the grace of God that sets people’s feet at the entrance of the pathway of faith, it is equally the grace of God that enables them to continue and complete that pathway.   Lesson Audio https://moodyaudiobucket.s3.us-east-2.amazonaws.com/wp-content/uploads/audios/2021/07/19213848/Heb12.12-17_071821.mp3   Right Click / Save to download lesson audio: Heb12.12-17_071821 Hebrews … [Read More...] Hebrews 12:12-17

The Lord Disciplines the One He Loves A.W. Pink: God’s chastenings instead of being retributive are corrective. They are sent to empty us of self-sufficiency and self-righteousness: they are given to discover to us hidden transgressions, and to teach us the plague of our own hearts. Lesson Audio https://moodyaudiobucket.s3.us-east-2.amazonaws.com/wp-content/uploads/audios/2022/04/21213700/Heb12.4-11_071121.mp3   Right Click / Save to … [Read More...] Hebrews 12:4-11

Let Us Run with Endurance Horatio Bonar: The road is rugged, and the sun is hot. How can we be but weary? Here is grace for the weariness – grace which lifts us up and invigorates us; grace which keeps us from fainting by the way; grace which supplies us with manna from heaven, and … [Read More...] Hebrews 12:1-3

Of Whom the World Was Not Worthy D.L. Moody: The longer I live the more I am convinced that godly men and women are not appreciated in our day. But their work will live after them, and there will be a greater work done after they are gone, by the influence of their lives, than when … [Read More...] Hebrews 11:29-40

For He Was Looking to the Reward Charles Haddon Spurgeon: [Moses] did not say, "Yes, there is a God undoubtedly and these are God's people and there is an end of it." But he said, "There is a God for me to worship, for me to trust, for me to obey. Here are God's people. … [Read More...] Hebrews 11:23-31

They Desire a Better Country J.C. Ryle: We must endeavor to pass through the world like people who are not yet at home, and are not so troubled about the fare they meet with on the road and at the inn. Blessed are they who feel like pilgrims and strangers in this life, and whose best … [Read More...] Hebrews 11:13-22

Strangers and Exiles Robert Leighton: At the best, a Christian is but a stranger here, set him where you will. And when he thinks not so, he forgets himself, and descends far below his quality, when he is much taken with anything in this place of his exile. But this is the wisdom of a … [Read More...] Hebrews 11:8-16

By Faith Matthew Henry: Faith is a firm persuasion and expectation that God will perform all that He has promised to us in Christ; and this persuasion is so strong that it gives the soul a kind of possession and present fruition of those things, gives them a subsistence in the soul by the firstfruits … [Read More...] Hebrews 11:1-7

A Fearful Expectation of Judgment G. Campbell Morgan: If this great way of salvation, this mightiest sacrifice of all is refused, no other sacrifice remains. The work of Jesus is God's uttermost possible for the salvation of man. If this be rejected, by such rejection man deliberately chooses for himself the only possible alternative, which is … [Read More...] Hebrews 10:26-39