There is something sharp enough to penetrate through the deception and lies of the world. 3:16-17, John 1:1,14, James 1:22-27 We live in a day of Data and Knowledge! By an act of faith, he turned his heel on Egypt, indifferent to the king’s blind rage. Study how he did it. Peeler, Preaching This Week, WorkingPreacher.org, 2015. Find Top Church Sermons, Illustrations, and Preaching Slides on Hebrews 4:12-13. You were sure of yourselves then. Since that old “law plan” wasn’t complete in itself, it couldn’t complete those who followed it. Hebrews 4:12, KJV: "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 Sep 8, 1996 350 Shares Sermon. The “curtain” into God’s presence is his body. It shows what we really want. My dear child, don’t shrug off God’s discipline. Moses said to the people, “This is the blood of the covenant God has established with you.” Practically everything in a will hinges on a death. It means we’d better get on with it. 25-27 So don’t turn a deaf ear to these gracious words. Because he never lost sight of where he was headed—that exhilarating finish in and with God—he could put up with anything along the way: Cross, shame, whatever. 18-20 We who have run for our very lives to God have every reason to grab the promised hope with both hands and never let go. Psalm 119,Heb. STAY UNDER THE KNIFE HEBREWS 4:12-13 (The Message) God means what he says. Browse Sermons on Hebrews 4:12-13. Don’t drag your feet. 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. . Somewhere it’s written, “God rested the seventh day, having completed his work,” but in this other text he says, “They’ll never be able to sit down and rest.” So this promise has not yet been fulfilled. . 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. His powerful Word is sharp as a surgeon’s scalpel, cutting through everything, whether doubt or defense, laying us open to listen and obey. When they heard the words—“If an animal touches the Mountain, it’s as good as dead”—they were afraid to move. After all these centuries, that belief continues to catch our notice. But there’s so much more. So let’s keep at it and eventually arrive at the place of rest, not drop out through some sort of disobedience. If some enemies broke in and seized your goods, you let them go with a smile, knowing they couldn’t touch your real treasure. He brought together God and his people in this new way. So don’t throw it all away now. When he added, “I’m here to do it your way,” he set aside the first in order to enact the new plan—, carving it on the lining of their hearts.”. 4:12, 2 Tim. What he says goes. 11-14 If the priesthood of Levi and Aaron, which provided the framework for the giving of the law, could really make people perfect, there wouldn’t have been need for a new priesthood like that of Melchizedek. God himself is at rest. Watch out for the Esau syndrome: trading away God’s lifelong gift in order to satisfy a short-term appetite. What he says goes. He was warned about something he couldn’t see, and acted on what he was told. 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. 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. Paul told Timothy to "bring books", parchments John spoke of books, etc. Take the mercy, accept the help. 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. In the midst of adversity, believers are to fix their eyes on Jesus, live by faith, and run the race that is marked out for them. Scripture: Hebrews 4:12–13. His powerful Word is sharp as a surgeon's scalpel, cutting through everything, whether doubt or defense, laying us open to listen and obey. The message of Hebrews for the global church is that Jesus is better than every other thing believers are tempted to fall back into, such as their formers ways of sin, culturally comfortable patterns of thinking or living, or non-Christian ethical codes. 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. But you need to stick it out, staying with God’s plan so you’ll be there for the promised completion. 32-38 I could go on and on, but I’ve run out of time. His powerful Word is sharp as a surgeon’s scalpel, cutting through everything, whether doubt or defense, laying us open to listen and obey. 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! Scripture quoted by permission. 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. "A.I." Hebrews 4:12 Message . If we believe, though, we’ll experience that state of resting. We’ll stay with it and survive, trusting all the way. The result? 28-29 Do you see what we’ve got? I have better things in mind for you—salvation things! Verse Concepts. 4-11 In this all-out match against sin, others have suffered far worse than you, to say nothing of what Jesus went through—all that bloodshed! "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. They must hear the word and believe in it. 19-21 So, friends, we can now—without hesitation—walk right up to God, into “the Holy Place.” Jesus has cleared the way by the blood of his sacrifice, acting as our priest before God. At the time, discipline isn’t much fun. Keep your eyes on Jesus, who both began and finished this race we’re in. He chose a hard life with God’s people rather than an opportunistic soft life of sin with the oppressors. It cuts between our soul and our spirit. In order to enter into that rest they must claim the promises of God which are found in His Word. 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. The Word is a mysterious and powerful force. It’s not fragrance and smoke from the altar. 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. 8-11 And so this is still a live promise. 39-40 Not one of these people, even though their lives of faith were exemplary, got their hands on what was promised. Dr. Mickey Anders. Sharper than any double-edged sword, it pierces even to dividing soul and spirit, joints and marrow. The Word of God is always an issue in our lives. 23-26 That accounts for the prominence of blood and death in all these secondary practices that point to the realities of heaven. That’s what God noticed and approved as righteous. Grow up in Christ. When he said, “You don’t want sacrifices and offerings,” he was referring to practices according to the old plan. But not if we don’t have faith. 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. Why, they’ve re-crucified Jesus! 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. And because his word cannot change, the promise is likewise unchangeable. John Piper Nov 18, 1990 4 Shares Sermon. A large outer tent was set up. Take the mercy, accept the help. 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. He always keeps his word. 6-10 After this was set up, the priests went about their duties in the large tent. 11-14 I have a lot more to say about this, but it is hard to get it across to you since you’ve picked up this bad habit of not listening. Help each other out. His act of faith drew a sharp line between the evil of the unbelieving world and the rightness of the believing world. Salem Media Group. 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. But we’re not quitters who lose out. His powerful Word is sharp as a surgeon’s scalpel, cutting through everything, whether doubt or defense, laying us open to listen and obey. The days are coming    when I’ll set up a new plan    for dealing with Israel and Judah.I’ll throw out the old plan    I set up with their ancestors    when I led them by the hand out of Egypt.They didn’t keep their part of the bargain,    so I looked away and let it go.This new plan I’m making with Israel    isn’t going to be written on paper,    isn’t going to be chiseled in stone;This time I’m writing out the plan in them,    carving it on the lining of their hearts.I’ll be their God,    they’ll be my people.They won’t go to school to learn about me,    or buy a book called God in Five Easy Lessons.They’ll all get to know me firsthand,    the little and the big, the small and the great.They’ll get to know me by being kindly forgiven,    with the slate of their sins forever wiped clean. The message of God which promises the rest and urges to seek it, is no dead, formal precept, but is instinct with living energy. Upgrade to Bible Gateway Plus, and take your Bible knowledge to a new level this year! 7 1-3 Melchizedek was king of Salem and priest of the Highest God. We respect our own parents for training and not spoiling us, so why not embrace God’s training so we can truly live? 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. If they were homesick for the old country, they could have gone back any time they wanted. Make sure no one gets left out of God’s generosity. 27-28 Everyone has to die once, then face the consequences. Because he honored God, God answered him. It was a perfect sacrifice by a perfect person to perfect some very imperfect people. He knows perfectly well all the love you’ve shown him by helping needy Christians, and that you keep at it. . 18-21 Unlike your ancestors, you didn’t come to Mount Sinai—all that volcanic blaze and earthshaking rumble—to hear God speak. 10 1-10 The old plan was only a hint of the good things in the new plan. Nothing they did bothered you, nothing set you back. 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. “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. By coming up with a new plan, a new covenant between God and his people, God put the old plan on the shelf. They’ll get to know me by being kindly forgiven. You’ve come to Jesus, who presents us with a new covenant, a fresh charter from God. 23 By an act of faith, Moses’ parents hid him away for three months after his birth. 13-18 When God made his promise to Abraham, he backed it to the hilt, putting his own reputation on the line. And why? Hebrews 4:12 King James Version (KJV). No extra spiritual fat, no parasitic sins. 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. When people make promises, they guarantee them by appeal to some authority above them so that if there is any question that they’ll make good on the promise, the authority will back them up. It was then that God said, “Be careful to do it exactly as you saw it on the Mountain.”. 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. 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. Scripture: Hebrews 4:14–16. 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. We can’t get away from it—no matter what. Romans 1:16 tells us that The Gospel is the power of God for salvation to all those who believe. 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. 7 By faith, Noah built a ship in the middle of dry land. We don’t have a priest who is out of touch with our reality. Please enter your email address associated with your Salem All-Pass account, then click Continue. 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. The Holy Spirit confirms this: This new plan I’m making with Israel    isn’t going to be written on paper,    isn’t going to be chiseled in stone;This time “I’m writing out the plan in them,    carving it on the lining of their hearts.”. 13-16 Each one of these people of faith died not yet having in hand what was promised, but still believing. 12 God means what he says. “Cut that out!” can be a stern word of judgment uttered by parents correcting rowdy children. Kicked around in public, targets of every kind of abuse—some days it was you, other days your friends. You don’t want sacrifices and offerings year after year; you’ve prepared a body for me for a sacrifice. 12 1-3 Do you see what this means—all these pioneers who blazed the way, all these veterans cheering us on? What he says goes. 11-15 But when the Messiah arrived, high priest of the superior things of this new covenant, he bypassed the old tent and its trappings in this created world and went straight into heaven’s “tent”—the true Holy Place—once and for all. Be like those who stay the course with committed faith and then get everything promised to them. Abraham in turn gave him a tenth of the spoils. Isaac and Jacob did the same, living under the same promise. What he says goes. . Acting in faith, he was as ready to return the promised son, his only son, as he had been to receive him—and this after he had already been told, “Your descendants shall come from Isaac.” Abraham figured that if God wanted to, he could raise the dead. 14-17 Work at getting along with each other and with God. New Living Translation Update. His powerful Word is sharp as a surgeon's scalpel, cutting through everything, whether doubt or defense, laying us open to listen and obey. Let’s see how inventive we can be in encouraging love and helping out, not avoiding worshiping together as some do but spurring each other on, especially as we see the big Day approaching. 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 basic foundational truths are in place: turning your back on “salvation by self-help” and turning in trust toward God; baptismal instructions; laying on of hands; resurrection of the dead; eternal judgment. If those who ignored earthly warnings didn’t get away with it, what will happen to us if we turn our backs on heavenly warnings? How did they do it? Fields like that are burned, not harvested. God helping us, we’ll stay true to all that. By an act of faith he lived in the country promised him, lived as a stranger camping in tents. 4 By an act of faith, Abel brought a better sacrifice to God than Cain. 12 For the word of God is alive and powerful. It was what he believed, not what he brought, that made the difference. Only the high priest entered the smaller, inside tent, and then only once a year, offering a blood sacrifice for his own sins and the people’s accumulated sins. God himself is Fire! with the slate of their sins forever wiped clean. They didn’t keep their part of the bargain. They are created and put out there free for all to use with no strings attached. ◄ Hebrews 4:12 ► For the word of God is living and active. 12-13 So don’t sit around on your hands! 9-12 I’m sure that won’t happen to you, friends. 4-7 You realize just how great Melchizedek is when you see that Father Abraham gave him a tenth of the captured treasure. And at the end of the journey we’ll surely rest with God. The word of God (ὁ λόγος τοῦ θεοῦ) That which God speaks through any medium. 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. A new covenant. And now I want each of you to extend that same intensity toward a full-bodied hope, and keep at it till the finish. Those earlier ones never did get to the place of rest because they were disobedient. 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. Commentary, Hebrews 4:12-16, Amy L.B. Milk is for beginners, inexperienced in God’s ways; solid food is for the mature, who have some practice in telling right from wrong. Strip down, start running—and never quit! That’s why blood, the evidence of death, is used so much in our tradition, especially regarding forgiveness of sins. This is the GOOD NEWS. All rights reserved. It judges the … 12:4 says that! If the first plan—the old covenant—had worked out, a second wouldn’t have been needed. Then he sat down right beside God and waited for his enemies to cave in. Neither did Christ presume to set himself up as high priest, but was set apart by the One who said to him, “You’re my Son; today I celebrate you!” In another place God declares, “You’re a priest forever in the royal order of Melchizedek.”. 20-22 The old priesthood of Aaron perpetuated itself automatically, father to son, without explicit confirmation by God. So I said, “I’m here to do it your way, O God, When he said, “You don’t want sacrifices and offerings,” he was referring to practices according to the old plan. And so, when he next appears, the outcome for those eager to greet him is, precisely, salvation. Copyright © 1993, 2002, 2018 by Eugene H. Peterson, The Message (MSG). This is the word of God. He is living, active, and moving. We don’t ask for anything in exchange for our FREE Children’s Sermons. This is no light matter. 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. WHAT TO DO WITH GOD'S WORD! There are so many more—Gideon, Barak, Samson, Jephthah, David, Samuel, the prophets. 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. Once sins are taken care of for good, there’s no longer any need to offer sacrifices for them. The earsplitting words and soul-shaking message terrified them and they begged him to stop. 12-13 God means what he says. They were protected from lions, fires, and sword thrusts, turned disadvantage to advantage, won battles, routed alien armies. He’s actively cleaning house, torching all that needs to burn, and he won’t quit until it’s all cleansed. 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. 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. Hebrews 4:12-13-14-16 MSG God means what he says. But instead he sacrificed himself once and for all, summing up all the other sacrifices in this sacrifice of himself, the final solution of sin. If that animal blood and the other rituals of purification were effective in cleaning up certain matters of our religion and behavior, think how much more the blood of Christ cleans up our whole lives, inside and out. He’s treating you as dear children. God's message shows what we are really thinking. Hebrews 4:12. It is like a sharp knife that can cut deep into our body between our bones. 22 By an act of faith, Joseph, while dying, prophesied the exodus of Israel, and made arrangements for his own burial. This makes Jesus the guarantee of a far better way between us and God—one that really works! However, it is helpful to view Hebrews 4:12 in its broad context. Then, having arrived at the full stature of his maturity and having been announced by God as high priest in the order of Melchizedek, he became the source of eternal salvation to all who believingly obey him. A Well-Timed Help Sunday Evening Message. That’s how it happened that from one man’s dead and shriveled loins there are now people numbering into the millions. Proud member After Moses had read out all the terms of the plan of the law—God’s “will”—he took the blood of sacrificed animals and, in a solemn ritual, sprinkled the document and the people who were its beneficiaries. Would you prefer an irresponsible God? An unshakable kingdom! 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. 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. Nothing and no one is impervious to God’s Word. Vincent's Word Studies. We can’t get Though he was God’s Son, he learned trusting-obedience by what he suffered, just as we do. He’s been through weakness and testing, experienced it all—all but the sin. It is the city where God is Judge, with judgments that make us just. 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. Hebrews 4:12 is often cited in our publications to show that the Bible has power to change lives, and it is perfectly proper to make that application. Hebrews 4:16 So let's walk right up to him and get what he is so ready to give. 6 1-3 So come on, let’s leave the preschool fingerpainting exercises on Christ and get on with the grand work of art. It’s the child he loves that he disciplines; God is educating you; that’s why you must never drop out. He valued suffering in the Messiah’s camp far greater than Egyptian wealth because he was looking ahead, anticipating the payoff. What he says goes. 23-25 Earlier there were a lot of priests, for they died and had to be replaced. They’ve repudiated him in public! Hebrews 4:12-13 the Power of God's Word . We have stories of those who were stoned, sawed in two, murdered in cold blood; stories of vagrants wandering the earth in animal skins, homeless, friendless, powerless—the world didn’t deserve them!—making their way as best they could on the cruel edges of the world. 22-25 So let’s do it—full of belief, confident that we’re presentable inside and out. The Word of God becomes an issue because it tests a person's life and sets the standards of acceptable behavior and attitudes. The lampstand, the table, and “the bread of presence” were placed in it. 5-6 By an act of faith, Enoch skipped death completely. Hebrews 4:12 “For the word of God is alive and active. He, … The law appoints as high priests men who are never able to get the job done right. No more dragging your feet! (, California - Do Not Sell My Personal Information. And there it stays, gathering dust. Priests descended from Levi are commanded by law to collect tithes from the people, even though they are all more or less equals, priests and people, having a common father in Abraham. Not only thankful, but brimming with worship, deeply reverent before God. 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. 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. 18-22 Even the first plan required a death to set it in motion. the little and the big, the small and the great. 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. But God is doing what is best for us, training us to live God’s holy best. The murder of Jesus, unlike Abel’s—a homicide that cried out for vengeance—became a proclamation of grace. 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. This was called “the Holy of Holies.” In it were placed the gold incense altar and the gold-covered ark of the covenant containing the gold urn of manna, Aaron’s rod that budded, the covenant tablets, and the angel-wing-shadowed mercy seat. 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. What he says goes. They saw the child’s beauty, and they braved the king’s decree. By that single offering, he did everything that needed to be done for everyone who takes part in the purifying process. While we were children, our parents did what seemed best to them. Aug 26, 1985. The act of faith is what distinguished our ancestors, set them above the crowd. When God wanted to guarantee his promises, he gave his word, a rock-solid guarantee—God can’t break his word. Hebrews 4:12 is often cited in our publications to show that the Bible has power to change lives, and it is perfectly proper to make that application. All rights reserved. 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. 11 1-2 The fundamental fact of existence is that this trust in God, this faith, is the firm foundation under everything that makes life worth living. 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. But Jesus’ priesthood is permanent. They won’t go to school to learn about me. These priests provide only a hint of what goes on in the true sanctuary of heaven, which Moses caught a glimpse of as he was about to set up the tent-shrine. Oh, no! 30 By faith, the Israelites marched around the walls of Jericho for seven days, and the walls fell flat. In acts of blessing, the lesser is blessed by the greater. Parched ground that soaks up the rain and then produces an abundance of carrots and corn for its gardener gets God’s “Well done!” But if it produces weeds and thistles, it’s more likely to get cussed out. But we don’t have time to comment on these now. God doesn’t miss anything. God has warned us that he’ll hold us to account and make us pay. 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