Have confidence in your leaders and submit to their authority, because they keep watch over you as those who must give an account. Do this so that their work will be a joy, not a burden, for that would be of no benefit to you.
Hebrews 13:17//
I need to have a positive attitude toward church leadership. If they are not joyful because of my actions, all will be miserable.
Isaiah 6:9 He said, “Go and tell this people…”//
We have a call from God to “go” and “tell.”
See to it that no one falls short of the grace of God and that no bitter root grows up to cause trouble and defile many.
Hebrews 12:15//
Bitterness is like a weed. Is starts small, grows quickly, and ruins the plants around it. Lord, keep me from being bitter.
And without faith it is impossible to please God, because anyone who comes to him must believe that he exists and that he rewards those who earnestly seek him.//Women received back their dead, raised to life again. There were others who were tortured, refusing to be released so that they might gain an even better resurrection. Some faced jeers and flogging, and even chains and imprisonment. They were put to death by stoning; they were sawed in two; they were killed by the sword. They went about in sheepskins and goatskins, destitute, persecuted and mistreated— the world was not worthy of them. They wandered in deserts and mountains, living in caves and in holes in the ground. These were all commended for their faith, yet none of them received what had been promised, since God had planned something better for us so that only together with us would they be made perfect.
Hebrews 11:6,35-40//
God does not promise us health and wealth.
For by one sacrifice he has made perfect forever those who are being made holy.
Hebrews 10:14//
We are currently “being made holy.” Thus, what God puts me through will ultimately cause me to be holy in His sight, but only if I have accepted the gift of salvation through faith in Jesus Christ.
Isaiah 6:8 Then I heard the voice of the Lord saying, “Whom shall I send? And who will go for us? ” And I said, “Here am I. Send me!”//
The Godhead is looking for available people who are willing to be God’s representative.
Just as people are destined to die once, and after that to face judgment, so Christ was sacrificed once to take away the sins of many; and he will appear a second time, not to bear sin, but to bring salvation to those who are waiting for him.
Hebrews 9:27-28//
Thank You, Father, for the salvation You have given me through Your son, Jesus Christ!!!!!
For I will forgive their wickedness and will remember their sins no more. ”
Hebrews 8:12//
When God forgives us, He does not forget our sins. Instead, He chooses to “remember them no more.” May I choose to do the same for people I have forgiven.
Unlike the other high priests, he does not need to offer sacrifices day after day, first for his own sins, and then for the sins of the people. He sacrificed for their sins once for all when he offered himself.
Hebrews 7:27//
I am thankful and greatly humbled that Jesus sacrificed His life for me, and is able to forgive my sins once and for all.
Isaiah 6:7-8 With it he touched my mouth and said, “See, this has touched your lips; your guilt is taken away and your sin atoned for. ” Then I heard the voice of the Lord….//
When I confess and am forgiven, I am in a position to hear the voice of God more clearly.