Hebrew 12 – A race to be Run.

These are just simply pointers I highlight from Hebrew 12. While reading the passages:
It’s interesting to know that:

God’s presence surrounds us as a cloud of witness, so we can throw everything that hinders us and sin that so easily entangles us out.
with perseverance the race marked for us to run we can fix our eyes on Jesus; the pioneer and perfecter of our faith.

His (Jesus) words of encouragement:
1) We can endure hardship as discipline, as God treats us as his children. For what children are not disciplined by their father? Everyone undergoes discipline (whether from our ways or by God). Then you are not legitimate, not the sons and daughters at all.

2) If human fathers discipline us and we respected them for it. How much more should we submit to the Father of spirits and Live!

They (Our parents) disciplined us for a little while they thought best; but God disciplines us for our good, in order that we may share in his HOLInESS.

3) no discipline seems pleasant at the time, but painful. So, we can produce a harvest of righteousness and peace, when we have been trained by it.

4) God strengthens our feeble arms and weak knees. He makes level path for our feet, so the lame may not be disabled, but rather healed.
5) we have the grace to live in peace with everyone and be holy as our heavenly father is.

6) we can fall short of the grace of God when bitterness or roots of it grows to cause trouble in us that may defile us.

7) Sexually immoral and Godless persons like Esau who for a single meal sold his inheritance exist.

I have come to God, the judge of all, to the spirit of righteousness made perfect, to Jesus the mediator of the new covenant and to the sprinkled blood that speaks better than the blood of Abel over our lives.

We ought to see to it that we do not refute him/her who speaks. If they do not escape when they refused him who warned them on earth, how much less will we, if we turn away from him who warns us from heaven?

Therefore, we receive a kingdom that cannot be shaken, so be thankful and worship God acceptably with Reverence and AWE, for our God is an All-Consuming FIRE.