Part 18 - The Book of Hebrews

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Suffering and Sanctification
Any time God sanctifies one of His children, He is glorified, regardless of how He accomplishes it.

God is GOD!!!
God, and God alone, is the Supreme Controller of the universe, and He can and will do, or allow, whatever He sees fit, often for reasons we just don't know about and can't understand, yet. Ro 9, 1Co 13:12

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.

Godly Perspective
We don’t read the Bible to try to find out how God fits into our preconceptions of Him… we read it to see how He fits in to His own perception of Himself.

Ro 9:15-16
“I will have mercy on whom I have mercy, and I will have compassion on whom I have compassion.” So then it depends not on human will or exertion, but on God, who has mercy.

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.