Matthew 11:28-30 Come to Me, all who are weary and heavy-laden, and I will give you rest. 29 Take My yoke upon you and learn from Me, for I am gentle and humble in heart, and you will find rest for your souls. 30 For My yoke is easy and My burden is light.”            Having made clear that He has all authority, Jesus gives a universal call to “all who are weary and heavy laden,” or more literally...

Hebrews 4:11 Therefore let us be diligent to enter that rest, so that no one will fall, through following the same example of disobedience.            Throughout chapters 3-4, the author of Hebrews speaks of “rest” as equivalent to salvation, for the “rest” he speaks of is a reference to fully trusting in Jesus Christ. Rest (Gr. katapausis) refers basically to ceasing from any action or work. As i...

Hebrews 4:9-11 So there remains a Sabbath rest for the people of God. 10 For the one who has entered God’s rest has himself also rested from his works, as God did from His. 11 So let us be diligent to enter that rest, so that no one will fall, by following the same example of disobedience.            The Sabbath, or seventh, is used in at least four different ways in the Bible. First, it is a refe...

Hebrews 4:4-8 For He has said somewhere concerning the seventh day: “And God rested on the seventh day from all His works”; 5 and again in this passage, “They shall not enter My rest.” 6 Therefore, since it remains for some to enter it, and those who formerly had good news preached to them failed to enter because of disobedience, 7 He again fixes a certain day, “Today,” saying through David after ...

Hebrews 4:1-3 Therefore, let us fear if, while a promise remains of entering His rest, any one of you may seem to have come short of it. 2 For indeed we have had good news preached to us, just as they also; but the word they heard did not profit them, because it was not united by faith in those who heard. 3 For we who have believed enter that rest, just as He has said, “As I swore in My wrath, The...

Hebrews 3:15-19 While it is said, “Today if you hear His voice, Do not harden your hearts, as when they provoked Me.” 16 For who provoked Him when they had heard? Indeed, did not all those who came out of Egypt led by Moses? 17 And with whom was He angry for forty years? Was it not with those who sinned, whose bodies fell in the wilderness? 18 And to whom did He swear that they would not enter His...

Hebrews 3:14 For we have become partakers of Christ, if we hold fast the beginning of our assurance firm until the end.            The author of Hebrews was not one to sit around and amongst professed Christians who doubted the superiority of Jesus Christ while assuming that since they once made a profession of faith in Christ that they were once saved, always saved. To the author, a true believer...

Hebrews 3:13 But encourage one another day after day, as long as it is still called “Today,” so that none of you will be hardened by the deceitfulness of sin.Now instead of falling away from God, the audience was to “encourage” (Gr. parakaleō) each other day-by-day. To “encourage” is a term used for the Holy Spirit—the Spirit of God who comes alongside another to help, advocating on their behalf l...

Hebrews 3:12 Take care, brethren, that there not be in any one of you an evil, unbelieving heart that falls away from the living God.            The Bible is clear that once salvation is granted to a person, after trusting in Jesus Christ as Lord and Savior, he/she can never lose it. Yet it is also clear there are some who profess to know Christ who do in fact fall away from their faith. Did they ...

Hebrews 3:7-11 Therefore, just as the Holy Spirit says, “Today if you hear His voice, 8 Do not harden your hearts as when they provoked Me, as in the day of trial in the wilderness, 9 Where your fathers tried Me by testing Me, and saw My works for forty years. 10 Therefore I was angry with this generation, and said, ‘They always go astray in their heart, and they did not know My ways’; 11 as I swo...

Hebrews 3:5-6 Now Moses was faithful in all His house as a servant, for a testimony of those things which were to be spoken later; 6 but Christ was faithful as a Son over His house—whose house we are, if we hold fast our confidence and the boast of our hope firm until the end.A quick summary of Jesus’ superiority over Moses is given in vv. 5-6. Whereas Moses was faithful as a servant over God’s pe...

Hebrews 3:2-4 [Jesus] was faithful to [God the Father] who appointed Him, as Moses also was in all His house. 3 For He has been counted worthy of more glory than Moses, by just so much as the builder of the house has more honor than the house. 4 For every house is built by someone, but the builder of all things is God.In defending the command to “consider Jesus” in Hebrews 3:1, the author expoun...

Hebrews 3:1 Therefore, holy brethren, partakers of a heavenly calling, consider Jesus, the Apostle and High Priest of our confession.Having established from the Jewish Scriptures Jesus’ superiority over angels, the author of Hebrews draws another conclusion in 3:1-6 much like the one in 2:1-4 with the word “therefore.” The conclusion he makes draws from his previous discussion in Hebrews, chapters...

Hebrews 2:16-18 For assuredly [God] does not give help to angels, but He gives help to the descendant of Abraham. 17 Therefore, He had to be made like His brethren in all things, so that He might become a merciful and faithful high priest in things pertaining to God, to make propitiation for the sins of the people. 18 For since He Himself was tempted in that which He has suffered, He is able to co...

Hebrews 2:14-15 Therefore, since the children share in flesh and blood, He Himself likewise also partook of the same, that through death He might render powerless him who had the power of death, that is, the devil, 15 and might free those who through fear of death were subject to slavery all their lives.The writer of Hebrews has endeavored to show how God took on human flesh and became a living ma...