What he says goes. The word of God (ὁ λόγος τοῦ θεοῦ) That which God speaks through any medium. A thistle or two gone to seed can ruin a whole garden in no time. Isaac and Jacob did the same, living under the same promise. 25-27 So don’t turn a deaf ear to these gracious words. 8-10 By an act of faith, Abraham said yes to God’s call to travel to an unknown place that would become his home. He’s been through weakness and testing, experienced it all—all but the sin. “Melchizedek” means “King of Righteousness.” “Salem” means “Peace.” So, he is also “King of Peace.” Melchizedek towers out of the past—without record of family ties, no account of beginning or end. 29 By an act of faith, Israel walked through the Red Sea on dry ground. All rights reserved. Hebrews 4:12 “For the word of God is alive and active. John Piper Sep 8, 1996 350 Shares Sermon. His voice that time shook the earth to its foundations; this time—he’s told us this quite plainly—he’ll also rock the heavens: “One last shaking, from top to bottom, stem to stern.” The phrase “one last shaking” means a thorough housecleaning, getting rid of all the historical and religious junk so that the unshakable essentials stand clear and uncluttered. By an act of faith, he turned his heel on Egypt, indifferent to the king’s blind rage. 14-16 Now that we know what we have—Jesus, this great High Priest with ready access to God—let’s not let it slip through our fingers. 8-10 Or look at it this way: We pay our tithes to priests who die, but Abraham paid tithes to a priest who, the Scripture says, “lives.” Ultimately you could even say that since Levi descended from Abraham, who paid tithes to Melchizedek, when we pay tithes to the priestly tribe of Levi they end up with Melchizedek. Those were the hard times! 8 1-2 In essence, we have just such a high priest: authoritative right alongside God, conducting worship in the one true sanctuary built by God. . It judges the … They won’t go to school to learn about me. When you find yourselves flagging in your faith, go over that story again, item by item, that long litany of hostility he plowed through. 3:16-17, John 1:1,14, James 1:22-27 We live in a day of Data and Knowledge! But this intervening command of God, which came later, appoints the Son, who is absolutely, eternally perfect. If we believe, though, we’ll experience that state of resting. Hebrews 4:12 Message . We'll send you an email with steps on how to reset your password. He, … He said, “I promise that I’ll bless you with everything I have—bless and bless and bless!” Abraham stuck it out and got everything that had been promised to him. Hebrews 4:13 For the word of God is living and active and sharper than any two-edged sword, and piercing as far as the division of soul and spirit, of both joints and marrow, and able to judge the thoughts and intentions of the heart. Scripture: Hebrews 4:14–16. What he says goes. Read verse in The Message Bible When he said, “You don’t want sacrifices and offerings,” he was referring to practices according to the old plan. It also accounts for why, when the real thing takes place, these animal sacrifices aren’t needed anymore, having served their purpose. This hope sheds LIGHT on our thoughts and intentions. He’s there from now to eternity to save everyone who comes to God through him, always on the job to speak up for them. He met Abraham, who was returning from “the royal massacre,” and gave him his blessing. 22-25 So let’s do it—full of belief, confident that we’re presentable inside and out. 6-13 But Jesus’ priestly work far surpasses what these other priests do, since he’s working from a far better plan. But since it didn’t get the job done, there was a change of priesthood, which brought with it a radical new kind of law. He’s actively cleaning house, torching all that needs to burn, and he won’t quit until it’s all cleansed. It’s the child he loves that he disciplines; God is educating you; that’s why you must never drop out. Remember that God said, Exasperated, I vowed,    “They’ll never get where they’re going,    never be able to sit down and rest.”. By this time you ought to be teachers yourselves, yet here I find you need someone to sit down with you and go over the basics on God again, starting from square one—baby’s milk, when you should have been on solid food long ago! 11-18 Every priest goes to work at the altar each day, offers the same old sacrifices year in, year out, and never makes a dent in the sin problem. Even Moses was terrified. Kicked around in public, targets of every kind of abuse—some days it was you, other days your friends. There is no way of understanding this in terms of the old Levitical priesthood, which is why there is nothing in Jesus’ family tree connecting him with that priestly line. By that single offering, he did everything that needed to be done for everyone who takes part in the purifying process. Salem Media Group. Under this system, the gifts and sacrifices can’t really get to the heart of the matter, can’t assuage the conscience of the people, but are limited to matters of ritual and behavior. 4:12, 2 Tim. The invisible Jerusalem is populated by throngs of festive angels and Christian citizens. A Well-Timed Help Sunday Evening Message. God doesn’t miss anything. He had his eye on the One no eye can see, and kept right on going. New Living Translation Update. WHAT TO DO WITH GOD'S WORD! 9-12 I’m sure that won’t happen to you, friends. Later, of course, it pays off handsomely, for it’s the well-trained who find themselves mature in their relationship with God. Copyright © 1993, 2002, 2018 by Eugene H. Peterson, The Message (MSG). Commentary, Hebrews 4:12-16, Amy L.B. He’s done it, once and for all: offered up himself as the sacrifice. We’ll stay with it and survive, trusting all the way. God had a better plan for us: that their faith and our faith would come together to make one completed whole, their lives of faith not complete apart from ours. Even more than a sword, God's message goes very deep into us. 16-17 Like a will that takes effect when someone dies, the new covenant was put into action at Jesus’ death. 28-29 Do you see what we’ve got? They must hear the word and believe in it. Because he honored God, God answered him. It’s our handle on what we can’t see. Fields like that are burned, not harvested. He also bypassed the sacrifices consisting of goat and calf blood, instead using his own blood as the price to set us free once and for all. And now he’s there, in the place of honor, right alongside God. And now I want each of you to extend that same intensity toward a full-bodied hope, and keep at it till the finish. An unshakable kingdom! What he says goes. He was quite explicit: “Vengeance is mine, and I won’t overlook a thing” and “God will judge his people.” Nobody’s getting by with anything, believe me. 27-28 Everyone has to die once, then face the consequences. So don’t throw it all away now. 26-31 If we give up and turn our backs on all we’ve learned, all we’ve been given, all the truth we now know, we repudiate Christ’s sacrifice and are left on our own to face the Judgment—and a mighty fierce judgment it will be! . If they were homesick for the old country, they could have gone back any time they wanted. God helping us, we’ll stay true to all that. You don’t want sacrifices and offerings year after year; you’ve prepared a body for me for a sacrifice. It’s still a sure thing! While we were children, our parents did what seemed best to them. 26-28 So now we have a high priest who perfectly fits our needs: completely holy, uncompromised by sin, with authority extending as high as God’s presence in heaven itself. Not only thankful, but brimming with worship, deeply reverent before God. We received the same promises as those people in the wilderness, but the promises didn’t do them a bit of good because they didn’t receive the promises with faith. It shows what we really want. The law appoints as high priests men who are never able to get the job done right. 14-17 Work at getting along with each other and with God. He’s called to it by God, as Aaron was. But not if we don’t have faith. This was the Holy Spirit’s way of showing with a visible parable that as long as the large tent stands, people can’t just walk in on God. Nothing they did bothered you, nothing set you back. “They looked all over and couldn’t find him because God had taken him.” We know on the basis of reliable testimony that before he was taken “he pleased God.” It’s impossible to please God apart from faith. The author of Hebrews in chapters three and four has been admonishing his readers to be diligent to enter into God's rest. It always feels like it’s going against the grain. It’s an unbreakable spiritual lifeline, reaching past all appearances right to the very presence of God where Jesus, running on ahead of us, has taken up his permanent post as high priest for us, in the order of Melchizedek. The act of faith is what distinguished our ancestors, set them above the crowd. 23-25 Earlier there were a lot of priests, for they died and had to be replaced. As a result, Noah became intimate with God. 15-19 But the Melchizedek story provides a perfect analogy: Jesus, a priest like Melchizedek, not by genealogical descent but by the sheer force of resurrection life—he lives!—“priest forever in the royal order of Melchizedek.” The former way of doing things, a system of commandments that never worked out the way it was supposed to, was set aside; the law brought nothing to maturity. "In a passage that sets a chilling warning immediately before a great comfort, it is God and the audience’s relationship with him that unites the disparate sections. He is living, active, and moving. Please enter your email address associated with your Salem All-Pass account, then click Continue. Dr. Mickey Anders. They saw the child’s beauty, and they braved the king’s decree. What he says goes. Clear the path for long-distance runners so no one will trip and fall, so no one will step in a hole and sprain an ankle. Or have you forgotten how good parents treat children, and that God regards you as his children? However, it is helpful to view Hebrews 4:12 in its broad context. Would you prefer an irresponsible God? They’ve repudiated him in public! You’ve come to Mount Zion, the city where the living God resides. 22 By an act of faith, Joseph, while dying, prophesied the exodus of Israel, and made arrangements for his own burial. You can see why God is so proud of them, and has a City waiting for them. There is something sharp enough to penetrate through the deception and lies of the world. It’s not fragrance and smoke from the altar. God means what he says. His powerful Word is sharp as a surgeon's scalpel, cutting through everything, whether doubt or defense, laying us open to listen and obey. 22-24 No, that’s not your experience at all. In this way he is like the Son of God, one huge priestly presence dominating the landscape always. Because anyone who wants to approach God must believe both that he exists and that he cares enough to respond to those who seek him. STAY UNDER THE KNIFE HEBREWS 4:12-13 (The Message) God means what he says. NIV and The Message Side-by-Side Bible, Large Print: for Study and Comparison, Imitation Leather, Brown, The Message Deluxe Gift Bible, Black/Slate Leather-Look, The Message Large-Print Deluxe Gift Bible--soft leather-look, teal, The Message Deluxe Gift Bible--soft leather-look, amethyst gem, NIV and The Message Side-by-Side Bible: Two Bible Versions Together for Study and Comparison. He chose a hard life with God’s people rather than an opportunistic soft life of sin with the oppressors. God keeps renewing the promise and setting the date as today, just as he did in David’s psalm, centuries later than the original invitation: Today, please listen,    don’t turn a deaf ear . His powerful Word is sharp as a surgeon’s scalpel, cutting through everything, whether doubt or defense, laying us open to listen and obey. His powerful Word is sharp as a surgeon's scalpel, cutting through everything, whether doubt or defense, laying us open to listen and obey. 4 1-3 For as long, then, as that promise of resting in him pulls us on to God’s goal for us, we need to be careful that we’re not disqualified. Take the mercy, accept the help. "A.I." We can’t get 3-7 God made that vow, even though he’d finished his part before the foundation of the world. But then God intervened and called this new, permanent priesthood into being with an added promise: God gave his word;    he won’t take it back:“You’re the permanent priest.”. Study how he did it. Sharper than any double-edged sword, it penetrates even to dividing soul and spirit, joints and marrow; it judges the thoughts and attitudes of the heart.” Explanation and Commentary on Hebrews 4:22. It won’t be long now, he’s on the way;    he’ll show up most any minute.But anyone who is right with me thrives on loyal trust;    if he cuts and runs, I won’t be very happy. What he says goes. This trouble you’re in isn’t punishment; it’s training, the normal experience of children. His family was saved. That will shoot adrenaline into your souls! 12 For the word of God is alive and powerful. Hebrews 4:12-13 MSG God means what he says. 13-18 When God made his promise to Abraham, he backed it to the hilt, putting his own reputation on the line. 3-5 The assigned task of a high priest is to offer both gifts and sacrifices, and it’s no different with the priesthood of Jesus. Through acts of faith, they toppled kingdoms, made justice work, took the promises for themselves. Nov 18, 1990. Scripture: Hebrews 4:14–16. 11-12 By faith, barren Sarah was able to become pregnant, old woman as she was at the time, because she believed the One who made a promise would do what he said. 4 1-3 For as long, then, as that promise of resting in him pulls us on to God’s goal for us, we need to be careful that we’re not disqualified. 31 By an act of faith, Rahab, the Jericho harlot, welcomed the spies and escaped the destruction that came on those who refused to trust God. All rights reserved. Hebrews 4:12-13 the Power of God's Word . When they heard the words—“If an animal touches the Mountain, it’s as good as dead”—they were afraid to move. He doesn’t do this every year as the high priests did under the old plan with blood that was not their own; if that had been the case, he would have to sacrifice himself repeatedly throughout the course of history. 21 By an act of faith, Jacob on his deathbed blessed each of Joseph’s sons in turn, blessing them with God’s blessing, not his own—as he bowed worshipfully upon his staff. Sharper than any double-edged sword, it penetrates even to dividing soul and spirit, joints and marrow; it judges the thoughts and attitudes of the heart. 12-13 God means what he says. 7 By faith, Noah built a ship in the middle of dry land. 32-39 Remember those early days after you first saw the light? You well know how Esau later regretted that impulsive act and wanted God’s blessing—but by then it was too late, tears or no tears. Then he sat down right beside God and waited for his enemies to cave in. In his message just before being stoned to death, Stephen, a man filled with the Spirit (Acts 6:5, 8, 7:55) ... Hebrews 4:12 For the word of God is living and active and sharper than any two-edged sword, and piercing as far as the division of soul and spirit, of both joints and marrow, and able to judge the thoughts and intentions of the heart. Upgrade to Bible Gateway Plus, and take your Bible knowledge to a new level this year! Grow up in Christ. It wasn’t canceled at the time of Joshua; otherwise, God wouldn’t keep renewing the appointment for “today.” The promise of “arrival” and “rest” is still there for God’s people. 18-22 Even the first plan required a death to set it in motion. when I led them by the hand out of Egypt. . His powerful Word is sharp as a surgeon's scalpel, cutting through everything, whether doubt or defense, laying us open to listen and obey. And there it stays, gathering dust. They’ll get to know me by being kindly forgiven. Don’t drag your feet. 4 By an act of faith, Abel brought a better sacrifice to God than Cain. Hebrews 4:12 For the word of God is living and active and sharper than any two-edged sword, and piercing as far as the division of soul and spirit, of both joints and marrow, and able to judge the thoughts and intentions of the heart. 4-6 No one elects himself to this honored position. Make sure no one gets left out of God’s generosity. By an act of faith, he kept the Passover Feast and sprinkled Passover blood on each house so that the destroyer of the firstborn wouldn’t touch them. Nothing and no one is impervious to God’s Word. What he says goes. 12:4 says that! Though he was God’s Son, he learned trusting-obedience by what he suffered, just as we do. It means we’d better get on with it. But Jesus’ priesthood is permanent. 20 By an act of faith, Isaac reached into the future as he blessed Jacob and Esau. His death marked the transition from the old plan to the new one, canceling the old obligations and accompanying sins, and summoning the heirs to receive the eternal inheritance that was promised them. The context shows that the apostle Paul was referring to the message, or expression of God’s purpose, such as we find in the Bible. 12 For the word of God is quick, and powerful, and sharper than any twoedged sword, piercing even to the dividing asunder of soul and spirit, and of the joints and marrow, and is a discerner of the thoughts and intents of the heart. John Piper Nov 18, 1990 4 Shares Sermon. Vincent's Word Studies. The “curtain” into God’s presence is his body. Why, they’ve re-crucified Jesus! Thanksgiving in Suffering Celebration of Thanksgiving at Maranatha Hall. God is educating you; that’s why you must never drop out. But this man, a complete outsider, collected tithes from Abraham and blessed him, the one to whom the promises had been given. Abraham did it by keeping his eye on an unseen city with real, eternal foundations—the City designed and built by God. It is sharper than the sharpest two-edged sword, cutting between soul and spirit, between joint and marrow. Let’s keep a firm grip on the promises that keep us going. The lampstand, the table, and “the bread of presence” were placed in it. We don’t ask for anything in exchange for our FREE Children’s Sermons. Hebrews 4:12. The greatest gift a human being can be given is to hear this message, the Gospel Message, because around it our belief system is to be conformed. 30 By faith, the Israelites marched around the walls of Jericho for seven days, and the walls fell flat. How did they do it? It is the city where God is Judge, with judgments that make us just. Originally published by NavPress in English as THE MESSAGE: The Bible in Contemporary Language copyright 2002 by Eugene Peterson. I’ll forever wipe the slate clean of their sins. Nothing and no one is impervious to God's Word. When he left he had no idea where he was going. It is like a sword that has two sharp edges. He is the Mediator of this covenant. But that also means that he has to offer sacrifices for his own sins as well as the peoples’. 6-10 After this was set up, the priests went about their duties in the large tent. 12-13 So don’t sit around on your hands! If some friends went to prison, you stuck by them. What he says goes. Others braved abuse and whips, and, yes, chains and dungeons. If the penalty for breaking the law of Moses is physical death, what do you think will happen if you turn on God’s Son, spit on the sacrifice that made you whole, and insult this most gracious Spirit? His act of faith drew a sharp line between the evil of the unbelieving world and the rightness of the believing world. But God is doing what is best for us, training us to live God’s holy best. Sharper than any double-edged sword, it pierces even to dividing soul and spirit, joints and marrow. Another way—Jesus!—a way that does work, that brings us right into the presence of God, is put in its place. 4-7 You realize just how great Melchizedek is when you see that Father Abraham gave him a tenth of the captured treasure. Hide Verse Numbers 12 God means what he says. Published by permission. Milk is for beginners, inexperienced in God’s ways; solid food is for the mature, who have some practice in telling right from wrong. For Christ didn’t enter the earthly version of the Holy Place; he entered the Place Itself, and offered himself to God as the sacrifice for our sins. Be like those who stay the course with committed faith and then get everything promised to them. It is like a sharp knife that can cut deep into our body between our bones. The context shows that the apostle Paul was referring to the message, or expression of God’s purpose, such as we find in the Bible. When God wanted to guarantee his promises, he gave his word, a rock-solid guarantee—God can’t break his word. That’s what God noticed and approved as righteous. The result? So let’s keep at it and eventually arrive at the place of rest, not drop out through some sort of disobedience. We received the same promises as those people in the wilderness, but the promises didn’t do them a bit of good because they didn’t receive the promises with faith. Hebrews 4:12-13 “Indeed, the word [Logos] of God is living and active, sharper than any two-edged sword, piercing until it divides soul from spirit, joints from marrow; it is able to judge the thoughts and intentions of the heart. They are created and put out there free for all to use with no strings attached. Nothing and no one is impervious to God’s Word. 4-8 Once people have seen the light, gotten a taste of heaven and been part of the work of the Holy Spirit, once they’ve personally experienced the sheer goodness of God’s Word and the powers breaking in on us—if then they turn their backs on it, washing their hands of the whole thing, well, they can’t start over as if nothing happened. He always keeps his word. There are so many more—Gideon, Barak, Samson, Jephthah, David, Samuel, the prophets. My dear child, don’t shrug off God’s discipline,    but don’t be crushed by it either.It’s the child he loves that he disciplines;    the child he embraces, he also corrects. In order to enter into that rest they must claim the promises of God which are found in His Word. 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