I. Review
A. This book is written to encourage and persuade Jewish Christians tempted to go back toJudaism.

II. Chapters 10:19-13:25
A. Therefore brothers … The following are admonitions from the author in light of Christ’s saving work.
1. V. 22 – “let us draw near with a true heart in full assurance of faith, with our hearts sprinkled clean from an evil conscience and our bodies washed with pure water.”
2. V. 23- “Let us hold fast the confession of our hope without wavering, for he who promised is faithful.”
3. V. 24 – “Let us consider how to stir up one another to love and good works.”
4. V. 25 – “Not neglecting to meet together.”
5. V. 25 – “Encouraging one another, and all the more as you see the Day drawing near.”
6. V. 26 – “Do not go on sinning deliberately.”
7. V. 35 – “Do not throw away your confidence…”
8. 12:1 – “Let us also lay aside every weight…”
9. 12:1 – “Let us run with endurance.”
10. 12:3 – “Consider Him.”
11. 12:12 – “Lift your drooping hands and strengthen your weak knees.”
12. 12:13 – “Make straight paths for your feet.”
13. 12:14 – “Strive for peace with everyone.”
14. 12:15 – “Do not fail to obtain the grace of God.”
15. 12:16 – “Do not be sexually immoral.”
16. 12:16 – “Do not be unholy.”
17. 12:28 – “Be grateful.”
18. 12:28 – “Offer to God acceptable worship.”
19. 13:1 – “Let brotherly love continue.”
20. 13:2 – “Do not neglect to show hospitality.”
21. 13:3 – “Remember those in prison.”
22. 13:4 – “Let marriage be held in honor; let the marriage bed be undefiled.”
23. 13:5 – “Keep your life free from the love of money; be content with what you have.”
24. 13:7 – “Remember your leaders; imitate their faith.”
25. 13:9 – “Do not be led away by diverse and strange teachings.”
26. 13:13 – “Let us go to him outside the camp and bear the reproach he endured.”
27. 13:14 – “For here we have no lasting city, but we seek the city that is to come.”
28. 13:15 – “Let us continually offer up a sacrifice of praise to God.”
29. 13:16 – “Do not neglect to do good and to share what you have, for such sacrifices are pleasing to God.”
30. 13:17 – “Obey your leaders and submit to them.”
31. 13:18 – “Pray for us.”
32. 13:22 – “Bear with my word of exhortation.”
33. 13:24 – “Greet all you leaders and all the saints.”

III. Hebrews Chapter 11
A. Hebrews 10:32-29: Prelude
B. Hebrews 11: Literary device: Anaphora – Repetition of a word or expression at the beginning of successive phrases, clauses, sentences, or verses for poetic effect. By faith is repeated 19 times.
C. Definition of faith: Hebrews 11:1
1. Assurance=Hypostasis.
Objective sense = Substance, real essence.
Subjective sense = Assurance, definiteness, certainty.
2. Conviction = Elenchos.
Subjective sense when holding something to be absolutely true.
3. Things hoped for, things not seen. Contrast with temple and physical blood, etc.
Physical eyesight produces conviction or evidence of visible things; faith is the organ which enables people to see the invisible order.
4. Examples:
Abraham: Hebrews 11: 8-19
V.16 “But as it is, they desire a better country, that is, a heavenly one. Therefore God is notashamed to be called their God, for he has prepared for them a city.”
V. 14 “For people who speak thus make it clear that they are seeking a homeland.”
Moses: Hebrews 11:26-27
V.26 – “He considered the reproach of Christ greater wealth than the treasures of Egypt, for he was looking to the reward.”
V. 27 – “By faith he left Egypt, not being afraid of the anger of the king, for he endured asseeing him who is invisible.”

IV. Hebrews Chapter 12
A. Hebrews 12:2: The ultimate witness of faith: Jesus Christ.

1. Author: All faith exercised in chapter 11 came from one source, Jesus Christ.Hebrew 11 patriarchs saw Jesus Christ and His city and Faith was produced.

2. Perfecter: “It was sheer faith in God, unsupported by any visible or tangibleevidence, that carried him through the taunting, the scourging, the crucifying, andthe more bitter agony of rejection, desertion, and dereliction. “Come down fromthe cross, and we will believe,” they said. Had he come down, by some gesture ofsupernatural power, he would never have been hailed as the “perfecter of faith”                                     nor would he have left any practical example for others to follow.” F.F. Bruce

B. Reason for their hardships: Discipline from the Father
Hebrews 12: 7-11 “It is for discipline that you have to endure. God is treating you as sons. For what son is there whom his father does not discipline? If you are leftwithout discipline, in which all have participated, then you are illegitimate childrenand not sons. Besides this, we have had earthly fathers who disciplined us and we respectedthem. Shall we not much more be subject to the Father of spirits and live? For theydisciplined us for a short time as it seemed best to them, but he disciplines us for our good,that we may share his holiness. For the moment all discipline seems painful rather thanpleasant, but later it yields the peaceful fruit of righteousness to those who have been trainedby it.”

C. A kingdom that cannot be shaken
Hebrews 12:18-29
1. V.18 – “For you have not come to what may be touched …”
Contrast with old covenant order which could be touched but worshippers were ordered not to upon penalty of death.
2. But you have come to Mount Zion, the city of the living God, the heavenly Jerusalem…”
3. V. 27 – “This phrase, “Yet once more,” indicates the removal of things that are shaken—that is, things that have been made—in order that the things that cannot be shaken mayremain.”