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Verse Hebrews 12:29. _FOR OUR GOD_ is _a consuming fire._] The
apostle quotes Deuteronomy 4:24, and by doing so he teaches us this
great truth, that sin under the Gospel is as abominable in God's sig...
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FOR OUR GOD IS A CONSUMING FIRE - This is a further reason why we
should serve God with profound reverence and unwavering fidelity. The
quotation is made from Deuteronomy 4:24. “For the Lord thy God i...
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CHAPTER 12
_ 1. Looking away unto Jesus (Hebrews 12:1)_
2. The Contradiction of sinners (Hebrews 12:3)
3. Chastened as sons (Hebrews 12:5)
4. Exhortations ...
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The theme of the epistle has been the contrast of the old and the new
covenants, and this contrast is now summed up in a splendid closing
passage. The first covenant was established on a mount that mi...
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THE RACE AND THE GOAL (Hebrews 12:1-2)...
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See that you do not refuse to listen to his voice; for if they who
refused to listen to the one who brought the oracles of God upon earth
did not escape, how much more shall we not escape if we turn a...
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CONSUMING FIRE. From Deuteronomy 4:24. Compare Exodus 21:17; Psalms
50:3; Psalms 97:3;...
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_for our God is a consuming fire_. The reference is to Deuteronomy
4:24, and the special application of the description to one set of
circumstances shews that this is not like "God is light" and "God...
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ΚΑῚ ΓΆΡ. Comp. Hebrews 4:2.
ΠΥ͂Ρ ΚΑΤΑΝΑΛΊΣΚΟΝ. The reference is to Deuteronomy
4:24, and the special application of the description to one set of
circumstances shews that this is not—like “God is ligh...
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CH. 12. An exhortation to faithful endurance (1–3) and a reminder
that our earthly sufferings are due to the fatherly chastisement of
God (4–13). The need of earnest watchfulness (14–17). Magnificent...
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THE MERCY AND SUBLIMITY OF THE NEW COVENANT AS CONTRASTED WITH THE OLD
(18–24) ENHANCE THE GUILT AND PERIL OF THE BACKSLIDER (25–29)...
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_RUN TILL THE RACE IS OVER -- HEBREWS 12:23-29:_ The great motivation
to run is that we are: (a) A part of the general assembly, (b) Members
of the church of the firstborn, (c) Part of an immovable ki...
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ΠΫ́Ρ (G4442) огонь,
ΚΑΤΑΝΑΛΊΣΚΟΝ _praes. act. part. от_
ΚΑΤΑΝΑΛΊΣΚΩ (G2654) полностью поглощать.
Предложное сочетание перфектно....
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DISCOURSE: 2341
GOD TO BE SERVED WITH REVERENTIAL FEAR
Hebrews 12:28. _Wherefore we receiving a kingdom which cannot be
moved, let us have grace, whereby we may serve God acceptably with
reverence an...
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WHEREFORE, WE RECEIVING A KINGDOM, &C.— _"As therefore we have
received such an unshaken kingdom,_ which shall never be removed to
make way for any different establishment, and which gives to the
fait...
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D.
_Warning. Hebrews 12:25-29_.
_TEXT_
Hebrews 12:25-29
Hebrews 12:25 See that ye refuse not Him that speaketh. For if they
escaped not when they refused Him that warned them
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THE FINAL WARNING
(Hebrews 12:28, Hebrews 12:29)
"Wherefore we receiving a kingdom which cannot be moved, let us have
grace whereby we may serve God acceptably, with reverence and godly
fear. For our...
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For our God is a consuming fire.
[ Kai (G2532) gar (G1063)] 'For even;' 'For also:' an additional
incentive to diligence. From Deuteronomy 4:24.
OUR GOD - in whom we hope, is also to be feare...
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22 There is a studied contrast here between the scene presented to the
physical eye at Mount Sinai and the prospect of faith in connection
with the new covenant. Mount Sinai itself is suggestive of an...
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12:29 fire. (h-8) See Deuteronomy 4:24 ; Deuteronomy 9:3 ....
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A CONSUMING FIRE] cp. Deuteronomy 4:24. A solemn wraning against
presumption....
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THE CONTEST. ENDURANCE, HOLINESS, AND DIVINE COMMUNION PROPOSED TO THE
SONS OF GOD
Inspired by the example of those victorious heroes of faith who now
encompass us, we ought to run our race patiently,...
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HOW CAN I GET TO HEAVEN?
HEBREWS
_IAN MACKERVOY_
CHAPTER 12
THE RIGHT WAY TO LIVE 12:1-29
JESUS IS OUR EXAMPLE 12:1-3 V1 Like a great cloud, there are a lot of
*witnesses round us. Let us then...
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A quotation from Deuteronomy 4:24. There these words follow a solemn
warning against idolatry. This passage then belongs to the same class
as Hebrews 10:27; Hebrews 10:30. (See the Notes.)...
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(18-29) The exhortation to faithfulness is most impressively enforced
by means of a comparison between the earlier revelation and that which
is given in Christ.
THE MOUNT THAT MIGHT BE TOUCHED. — It a...
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CHAPTER XV.
MOUNT ZION.
"For ye are not come unto a mount that might be touched, and that
burned with fire, and unto blackness, and darkness, and tempest, and
the sound of a trumpet, and the voice of...
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In this paragraph we have the climax of the Epistle. Its doctrine and
its exhortation alike culminate here. The great aim of the writer has
been to persuade the Hebrews to hearken to the word spoken b...
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A final appeal. The readers are warned against being deaf to God's
final revelation, for if even the revelation at Sinai could not with
impunity be disregarded, much less can the revelation which has...
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HEARKEN TO GOD'S LATEST WORD
Hebrews 12:18
Sinai rocked with earthquake and burned with fire. None might touch it
without incurring the death penalty. How much better our Christian
heritage! Not a lo...
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After this rapid survey of the past, the writer makes his great
appeal. It is that we "consider Him" who is "the Author and Perfecter
of faith."
The final appeals of the Epistle fall into four sectio...
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REFLECTIONS
READER hear what God the Spirit saith to the Churches! Behold, what
animating prospects are opened to New Testament saints, in the
contemplation of Old Testament believers. And while we ar...
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(28) Wherefore we receiving a kingdom which cannot be moved, let us
have grace, whereby we may serve God acceptably with reverence and
godly fear: (29) For our God is a consuming fire.
In relation to...
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The apostle now resumes his great theme, Christ called a Priest of God
for ever after the order of Melchisedec. He alludes, in the beginning
of our chapter, to the historical facts of Genesis. We must...
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29._For our God, etc. _As he had before kindly set before us the grace
of God, so he now makes known his severity; and he seems to have
borrowed this sentence from the Deuteronomy 4:24 of Deuteronomy....
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The epistle now enters on the practical exhortations that flow from
its doctrinal instruction, with reference to the dangers peculiar to
the Hebrew Christians - instruction suited throughout to inspir...
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FOR OUR GOD IS A CONSUMING FIRE. Either God personally considered, God
in the person of Christ; so the Shechinah, with the Jews, is called a
consuming fire n. Christ is truly God, and he is our God an...
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The discourse from hence unto the end of the chapter is of great
weight, and accompanied with sundry difficulties, of which expositors
do scarcely so much as take notice. Hence many different
interpre...
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For our God _is_ a consuming fire.
Ver. 29. _A consuming fire_] viz. To profligate professors, ungirt
Christians, Isaiah 33:14. And whereas the apostle saith Our God, he
means the God of Christians a...
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HEB. 12:29. FOR OUR GOD (IS) A CONSUMING FIRE.
"God is a consuming fire" was a sermon preached by Edwards sometime
between August and December 1731, before the first awakening in
Northampton.
A deca...
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_Wherefore we_ Who believe in Christ; _receiving_ Or _having
received_, through the gospel; _a kingdom which cannot be moved_ A
dispensation (frequently called the kingdom of God) which shall never
be...
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Now follows an exhortation which contains, first, and encouragement
drawn from the gracious character of the Christian dispensation, as
contrasted with the severity of the Mosaic law; secondly, a warn...
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A CONSUMING FIRE; DEUTERONOMY 4:24. He is such to all rejecters of our
Lord Jesus Christ, especially those who have apostatized from him.
Hence all who have set out in the way to heaven should perseve...
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FOR OUR GOD IS A CONSUMING FIRE.
On the basis of the truths brought out in the last paragraph, of the
fact that the Gospel with the fullness of God's mercy in Christ is now
preached to the world and h...
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The need of reverence and godly fear:...
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How rightly now Chapter 12 admonishes the saints of God to act by
faith; for where faith is in godly exer\-cise, every honorable and
true responsibility will be willingly assumed, with the confidence...
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18-29 Mount Sinai, on which the Jewish church state was formed, was a
mount such as might be touched, though forbidden to be so, a place
that could be felt; so the Mosaic dispensation was much in out...
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The motive enforcing this duty is no less terrible than that given to
Israel under the law, obliging their obedience to that covenant
dispensation, DEUTERONOMY 4:23,24: THE LORD THY GOD IS A CONSUMING...
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Origen Against Celsus Book VI
Nor is the Spirit, in our opinion, a "body," any more than fire is a
"body," which God is said to be in the passage, "Our God is a
consuming fire."[362]
Hippolytus Refu...
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Hebrews 12:29 For G2532 G1063 our G2257 God G2316 consuming G2654
(G5723) fire G4442...
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‘Wherefore, receiving a kingdom that cannot be shaken, may we have
grace, whereby we may offer service well-pleasing to God with
reverence and awe, for our God is a consuming fire.'
At Sinai Israel re...
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A CONSUMING FIRE
(πυρ καταναλισκον). From Deuteronomy 4:24. Present
active participle of καταναλισκω, old compound verb, here
only in the N.T. This verse is to be coupled with Hebrews 10:31....
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Hebrews 12:29
I. In the word "fire" there is the idea of purity, which belongs as an
essential quality to the element itself. It is not possible to
conceive of flame as impure. The material which is b...
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Hebrews 12:28
The Religion of the Day.
In every age of Christianity, since it was first preached, there has
been what may be called a religion of the world, which so far imitates
the one true religio...
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Hebrews 12:18
Mount Sinai and Mount Zion.
In this passage are mentioned seven great and solemn heavenly
realities.
I. Mount Zion. Mount Sinai represents the law. It manifests the
majesty of God abov...
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L, 2. _Wherefore seeing we also are compassed about with so great a
cloud of witnesses, let us lay aside every weight, and the sin which
doth so easily beset us, and let us run with patience the race...
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CONTENTS: The Father's chastening of believers and its purpose. The
difference between living under law and under grace.
CHARACTERS: God, Christ, Esau, Moses, Abel.
CONCLUSION: Christians have a race...
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Hebrews 12:1. _Wherefore, seeing we also are compassed about with so
great a cloud of witnesses._ Confessors and martyrs of the ancient
church are here supposed to be the spectators of our course, and...
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BECAUSE OUR GOD. Deuteronomy 4:24. Love must be our motivation, not
fear of punishment (1 John 4:18). But all who refuse to worship God in
a way that pleases Him, have reason to be afraid. This must b...
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HEBREWS—NOTE ON HEBREWS 12:28 ACCEPTABLE WORSHIP includes showing
REVERENCE AND AWE for God’s holiness. It also includes respecting
God as a king and a judge to whom alone worship is due (see the
cont...
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_CRITICAL AND EXEGETICAL NOTES_
Hebrews 12:29. CONSUMING FIRE.— Deuteronomy 4:24. Not intended as in
any sense a description of God, but “an anthropomorphic way of
expressing His hatred of apostasy an...
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EXPOSITION
The exhortation, begun at Hebrews 10:19, but interrupted at Hebrews
11:1. I by the chapter on faith, is now taken up again with increased
force from the array of examples that have been add...
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Shall we turn now to Hebrews, chapter 12.
Wherefore, seeing we are also compassed about with so great a cloud of
witnesses (Hebrews 12:1),
What this does not mean is that the Old Testament saints, wh...
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2 Thessalonians 1:8; Daniel 7:9; Deuteronomy 4:24; Deuteronomy 9:3;...
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For our God is a consuming fire — in the strictness of his justice,
and purity of his holiness....