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- 22:58, 30 December 2018 (diff | hist) . . (+1,275) . . N 1:2-4 How can believers be expected to rejoice in sufferings? (Created page with "==1:2-4 How can believers be expected to rejoice in sufferings?== Divers temptations (KJV), are trials - testing situations in life which include persecutions, afflictions and...") (current)
- 22:58, 30 December 2018 (diff | hist) . . (+779) . . N 1:1 Who is James? (Created page with "==1:1 Who is James?== James is the half-brother of Jesus (CP Mt 13:55). James did not believe Jesus was Messiah during Jesus' lifetime. He thought Jesus was just a religious f...") (current)
- 22:57, 30 December 2018 (diff | hist) . . (-25,503) . . James:-
- 22:40, 30 December 2018 (diff | hist) . . (+1,328) . . N 13:17 What does it mean exactly that Christians are to obey those that have the rule over them? (Created page with "==13:17 What does it mean exactly that Christians are to obey those that have the rule over them?== The writer here is exhorting believers to maintain a yielding disposition a...") (current)
- 22:39, 30 December 2018 (diff | hist) . . (+795) . . N 13:14 What is the city that believers seek to come? (Created page with "==13:14 What is the city that believers seek to come?== This city is New Jerusalem, the city of God which God promised to the Old Testament saints, and Jesus promised to the N...") (current)
- 22:38, 30 December 2018 (diff | hist) . . (+1,235) . . N 13:11-13 What are we to understand from what is said here? (Created page with "==13:11-13 What are we to understand from what is said here?== Here the writer of Hebrews compares the sacrifice of animals in the Old Testament and that of Christ in the New...") (current)
- 22:37, 30 December 2018 (diff | hist) . . (+744) . . N 13:10 What is the altar referred to here? (Created page with "==13:10 What is the altar referred to here?== In this context the altar is a place of sacrifice. It speaks metaphorically of Jesus Christ as the true altar of every believer (...") (current)
- 22:37, 30 December 2018 (diff | hist) . . (+452) . . N 13:8 What does it mean here that Jesus Christ is the same yesterday, today, and forever? (Created page with "==13:8 What does it mean here that Jesus Christ is the same yesterday, today, and forever?== In this context it means that because Christ never changes, there has to also be a...") (current)
- 22:36, 30 December 2018 (diff | hist) . . (+1,513) . . N 13:5-6 How are we to understand what is said here? (Created page with "==13:5-6 How are we to understand what is said here?== This is teaching that godliness with sufficient material blessings to meet our everyday needs should make us content wit...") (current)
- 22:36, 30 December 2018 (diff | hist) . . (+1,120) . . N 13:4 What does it mean that the marriage bed is undefiled? (Created page with "==13:4 What does it mean that the marriage bed is undefiled?== The physical and emotional pleasure of sexual intimacy within marriage is ordained by God and held in honour by...") (current)
- 22:35, 30 December 2018 (diff | hist) . . (+626) . . N 13:3 What is this telling us to do? (Created page with "==13:3 What is this telling us to do?== This is exhorting believers to identify with those in prison who are being persecuted for their witness for Christ, remembering that th...") (current)
- 22:35, 30 December 2018 (diff | hist) . . (+650) . . N 12:26-29 What is the writer referring to here and when will it take place? (Created page with "==12:26-29 What is the writer referring to here and when will it take place?== The writer is quoting the Old Testament prophet Haggai here (CP Hag 2:6-7). We learn from this...") (current)
- 22:34, 30 December 2018 (diff | hist) . . (+938) . . N 12:24 What blood of Abel is referred to here? (Created page with "==12:24 What blood of Abel is referred to here?== There are two views among Christians concerning this scripture. One view holds to the blood being that which Abel shed when...") (current)
- 22:34, 30 December 2018 (diff | hist) . . (+881) . . N 12:18-24 What does "the mount that might be touched" refer to and how do we define Mt. Zion? (Created page with "==12:18-24 What does "the mount that might be touched" refer to and how do we define Mt. Zion?== The mount that might be touched is Mt. Sinai, where God manifested Himself to...") (current)
- 22:33, 30 December 2018 (diff | hist) . . (+793) . . N 12:16-17 What is the story behind what the writer says here about Esau? (Created page with "==12:16-17 What is the story behind what the writer says here about Esau?== (CP Gen 25:27-34; 27:30-40). The reason why Esau was rejected is because "he found no place of repe...") (current)
- 22:32, 30 December 2018 (diff | hist) . . (+1,428) . . N 12:12-15 What is the teaching here? (Created page with "==12:12-15 What is the teaching here?== Christians are being exhorted here to reinvigorate themselves spiritually and walk in the way God has ordained for them to be partakers...") (current)
- 22:32, 30 December 2018 (diff | hist) . . (+1,614) . . N 12:5-11 Where is this exhortation found in scripture and how does the Lord chasten Christians? (Created page with "==12:5-11 Where is this exhortation found in scripture and how does the Lord chasten Christians?== This exhortation is found in Proverbs (CP Pr 3:11-12). The object of God's c...") (current)
- 22:31, 30 December 2018 (diff | hist) . . (+705) . . N 12:2 What does it mean exactly that Jesus is the author and the finisher of our faith? (Created page with "==12:2 What does it mean exactly that Jesus is the author and the finisher of our faith?== Jesus is the originator of faith, as distinct from simply being the cause. Of the...") (current)
- 22:31, 30 December 2018 (diff | hist) . . (+1,113) . . N 12:1 (B) How is "every weight and the sin which doth so easily beset us" (KJV) defined? (Created page with "==12:1 (B) How is "every weight and the sin which doth so easily beset us" (KJV) defined?== Every weight here means everything that gets in the way of our Christians walk. If...") (current)
- 22:30, 30 December 2018 (diff | hist) . . (+519) . . N 12:1 (A) How are we to regard these witnesses - are they looking down on us from heaven as some teach? (Created page with "==12:1 (A) How are we to regard these witnesses - are they looking down on us from heaven as some teach?== This is referring to the Old Testament saints of Ch 11 who died in f...") (current)
- 22:30, 30 December 2018 (diff | hist) . . (+2) . . 11:39-40 What does this mean? (→11:39-40 What does this mean?) (current)
- 22:29, 30 December 2018 (diff | hist) . . (+589) . . N 11:39-40 What does this mean? (Created page with "==11:39-40 What does this mean?== All the Old Testament saints died in faith without receiving the final promised blessings of the new covenant in Christ (CP V13). But they...")
- 22:29, 30 December 2018 (diff | hist) . . (+418) . . N 11:35 Who were the women who received their dead raised to life again? (Created page with "==11:35 Who were the women who received their dead raised to life again?== There are two women of faith named in the Old Testament who received their dead raised to life again...") (current)
- 22:28, 30 December 2018 (diff | hist) . . (+29,640) . . N 11:1 How are we to understand what is said here? (Created page with "==11:1 How are we to understand what is said here?== We understand from this that faith is the confident assurance of receiving that which we ask for and being certain of thin...") (current)
- 22:26, 30 December 2018 (diff | hist) . . (+647) . . N 10:38 What does it mean that the just shall live by faith? (Created page with "==10:38 What does it mean that the just shall live by faith?== The just are those whom God has justified upon the basis of, and in answer to, their faith in the Lord Jesus Chr...") (current)
- 22:25, 30 December 2018 (diff | hist) . . (+632) . . N 10:35-37 How are we to understand this passage of scripture? (Created page with "==10:35-37 How are we to understand this passage of scripture?== Here the author of Hebrews is admonishing the Jewish Christians not to give up on God after having endured so...") (current)
- 22:25, 30 December 2018 (diff | hist) . . (+765) . . N 10:26-31 Does this mean that once-saved Christians can lose their salvation if they wilfully sin? (Created page with "==10:26-31 Does this mean that once-saved Christians can lose their salvation if they wilfully sin?== Yes, contrary to what some Christians believe, once-saved believers can a...") (current)
- 22:24, 30 December 2018 (diff | hist) . . (+1,535) . . N 10:24-25 How are we to understand this? (Created page with "==10:24-25 How are we to understand this?== Here Christians are being exhorted to remain in fellowship with each other in their local assembly as the day of Christ - His comin...") (current)
- 22:23, 30 December 2018 (diff | hist) . . (+941) . . N 10:22 What water is referred to here? (Created page with "==10:22 What water is referred to here?== The water referred to here is symbolic. It is used figuratively of our bodies having been cleansed by the word of God. God's word i...") (current)
- 22:23, 30 December 2018 (diff | hist) . . (+916) . . N 10:19-20 What is the new and living way by which one can enter into the holiest by the blood of Jesus? (Created page with "==10:19-20 What is the new and living way by which one can enter into the holiest by the blood of Jesus?== By His sacrificial death Jesus has opened up a way for believers int...") (current)
- 22:22, 30 December 2018 (diff | hist) . . (+791) . . N 10:17-18 How are we to understand this passage of scripture? (Created page with "==10:17-18 How are we to understand this passage of scripture?== This passage continues on from V15-16 where the author quoted Jeremiah's Old Testament prophecy (V15-17 with J...") (current)
- 22:22, 30 December 2018 (diff | hist) . . (+694) . . N 10:14 What does it mean that Christ has perfected forever them that are sanctified? (Created page with "==10:14 What does it mean that Christ has perfected forever them that are sanctified?== The writer here is contrasting the completeness of Christ's sacrificial death under the...") (current)
- 22:18, 30 December 2018 (diff | hist) . . (+230) . . Template:Featured
- 21:00, 30 December 2018 (diff | hist) . . (+1,069) . . N 10:5-7 When did Christ say this? (Created page with "==10:5-7 When did Christ say this?== This is quoted from Psa 40:6-8 (CP Psa 40:6-8). This is not teaching that God wants obedience before sacrifice, as some think, although sa...") (current)
- 21:00, 30 December 2018 (diff | hist) . . (+379) . . N 9:28 What does it mean here that Christ shall appear the second time without sin unto salvation? (Created page with "==9:28 What does it mean here that Christ shall appear the second time without sin unto salvation?== This refers to Christ's second coming, not as a sin-offering to die again...") (current)
- 21:00, 30 December 2018 (diff | hist) . . (+3,407) . . N 9:27 What do we learn from this? (Created page with "==9:27 What do we learn from this?== We learn from this that there is no further opportunity for salvation after death. As someone is when they die, that is how they will rema...") (current)
- 20:58, 30 December 2018 (diff | hist) . . (+609) . . N 9:16-17 What does it mean that where a testament is there must also be the death of the testator? (Created page with "==9:16-17 What does it mean that where a testament is there must also be the death of the testator?== This teaches that a will or testament becomes effective only when the one...") (current)
- 20:58, 30 December 2018 (diff | hist) . . (+426) . . N 9:15 What do we learn from this? (Created page with "==9:15 What do we learn from this?== This teaches that Christ died not only to save sinners under the new covenant, but under the old covenant as well (CP Ac 17:30-31; Ro 3:24...") (current)
- 20:58, 30 December 2018 (diff | hist) . . (+1,140) . . N 9:14 Who is the "eternal spirit" referred to here? (Created page with "==9:14 Who is the "eternal spirit" referred to here?== Most Christians believe this is the Holy Spirit, but there are also many who believe it refers to Christ's own "eternal...") (current)
- 20:57, 30 December 2018 (diff | hist) . . (+1,075) . . N 9:2 What is the significance of the showbread here? (Created page with "==9:2 What is the significance of the showbread here?== It is not known for sure what the showbread represents - the bible does not say, but there are two views held by Christ...") (current)
- 20:56, 30 December 2018 (diff | hist) . . (+2,686) . . N 9:1-10 What do we learn from this? (Created page with "==9:1-10 What do we learn from this?== This is a brief description of the earthly tabernacle Moses built as a representation or type of the true heavenly tabernacle into which...") (current)
- 20:55, 30 December 2018 (diff | hist) . . (-1) . . 8:10-11 What does it mean here that no man will teach his neighbour or brother? (→8:10-11 What does it mean here that no man will teach his neighbour or brother?) (current)
- 20:55, 30 December 2018 (diff | hist) . . (+1,171) . . N 8:10-11 What does it mean here that no man will teach his neighbour or brother? (Created page with "==8:10-11 What does it mean here that no man will teach his neighbour or brother?== This is quoted from the Old Testament prophet Jeremiah (CP V8-13 with Jer 31:31-34). It m...")
- 20:54, 30 December 2018 (diff | hist) . . (+777) . . N 8:6 Why is the New Testament better than the old? (Created page with "==8:6 Why is the New Testament better than the old?== The New Testament is superior to the old and replaces it because the Old Testament was faulty (CP V7-13). The Old Testa...") (current)
- 20:54, 30 December 2018 (diff | hist) . . (+1,287) . . N 8:1-2 What does the true tabernacle which the Lord pitched and not man refer to here? (Created page with "==8:1-2 What does the true tabernacle which the Lord pitched and not man refer to here?== This refers to heaven itself, God's dwelling place. Heaven is designated in scripture...") (current)
- 20:53, 30 December 2018 (diff | hist) . . (+776) . . N 7:25 What does this teach? (Created page with "==7:25 What does this teach?== This teaches that Christ, as the high priest of the new covenant, can save completely everyone who comes to God through Him. He lives forever fo...") (current)
- 20:53, 30 December 2018 (diff | hist) . . (+807) . . N 7:20-21 What was God's purpose in making Jesus a high priest with an oath? (Created page with "==7:20-21 What was God's purpose in making Jesus a high priest with an oath?== The proposition put forward here is that since God established Jesus' eternal priesthood with an...") (current)
- 20:52, 30 December 2018 (diff | hist) . . (+1,018) . . N 7:18-19 What does this mean exactly? (Created page with "==7:18-19 What does this mean exactly?== This teaches that the Old Testament law has been completely abolished. Christ abrogated it by fulfilling it (CP Mt 5:17; Ro 10:4). U...") (current)
- 20:52, 30 December 2018 (diff | hist) . . (+370) . . N 7:14-17 What is the underlying teaching here? (Created page with "==7:14-17 What is the underlying teaching here?== The underlying teaching here is that Jesus' priesthood is eternal, not on the basis of His ancestry, but, as V16 teaches, bec...") (current)
- 20:51, 30 December 2018 (diff | hist) . . (0) . . Hebrews:- (→HEBREWS)
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