Part 17 - The Book of Hebrews

OUTLINE:

2 Most Recent BlogsSuffering and Sanctification
Any time God sanctifies one of His children, He is glorified, regardless of how He accomplishes it.

My Message to So-called “Christianity” Today
STOP trying to rationalize God with your human mind!
God is in no way bound to your definition of “fair”. God does whatever He wills, whenever He wills, however He wills, with whomever He wills…and that’s the end of it. PERIOD.

“consigned”
from sugkleio – means to enclose, shut in, make subject to; Strongs: to shut up on all sides, shut up completely; so to deliver one up to the power of a person or thing that he is completely shut in, as it were, without means of escape.

Ro 11:32 [Amplified]
For God has imprisoned all in disobedience so that He may show mercy to all [Jew and Gentile alike].

Ro 11:32 [Young’s Literal]
for God did shut up together the whole to unbelief, that to the whole He might do kindness.

Ro 11:32 [Message]
In one way or another, God makes sure that we all experience what it means to be outside so that he can personally open the door and welcome us back in.

The Purpose, Plan and Genre of Hebrews
The overarching theme of the Book of Hebrews is parenetic (persuasive). Biblical and theological exposition was subordinate to the writer’s parenetical “word of exhortation”, which was meant to induce an emotional response. It is a homily (sermon), laced with rhetorical language, from a shepherd to a group of well-known sheep for the sake of encouragement. (Heb 13:22; 1:1-4; 1:5-4:16; 5-6; 7:1-10:18; 10:19-13:25)


Rev 3:15-16
I know your works: you are neither cold nor hot. Would that you were either cold or hot! So, because you are lukewarm, and neither hot nor cold, I will spit you out of my mouth.

The Rhetoric in Hebrews