Offering a Sacrifice of Praise – Hebrews 13:15-16
As a royal priesthood, let’s offer to God the sacrifices of praise and of doing good to others. God is well pleased with these sacrifices.
Encouraging, comforting and urging you to live lives worthy of God, who calls you into his kingdom and glory. (1 Thess. 2:12 NIV)
Studies from the letter to the Hebrews
As a royal priesthood, let’s offer to God the sacrifices of praise and of doing good to others. God is well pleased with these sacrifices.
Faith is believing that God exists and that he rewards those who earnestly seek him. Don’t just believe he exists. Seek after him.
Think about how to be an encourager today for other believers you come into contact with. Let us consider how to “spur one another on toward love and good deeds.” If you struggle with how to do that, start by growing in live and good deeds yourself, and then encourage others to join you.
2000 years ago Christ came to earth to be a sacrifice for our sin. When he left, it was with a promise that he would return. There are many things in life that we look forward to. But which of them are better than Christ’s return for those who are his own.
The promises of the new covenant, of which Jesus is the mediator, are superior. Under the new covenant there is no promise of earthly possessions. Instead we have the promise of eternal life (1 John 2:25) as God’s children (Rom 8:14-17). I am so thankful for the promises of the new covenant, and for my great high priest who makes that possible.
Our greatest need is to be brought into right standing with God. And in Jesus, our exalted high priest, that need is fully met.
Are you eating the solid food of the Word, or are you still drinking milk? Don’t remain a spiritual infant. Dive deeply into God’s word.
All of my thoughts, attitudes, secret activities as well as the more public stuff will be uncovered and laid bare before God. And I can just picture him saying “so what about this time when you . . . ? How did that glorify me?”
Could it be that only those who are faithful to the end are ever actually saved? That salvation is not based on how you start the journey, but on how you finish it?
Jesus was made human in every way. In some way he was 100% God as well as 100% human. He was just like me, yet was without sin.
As you live your life in Christ, be encouraged by the great cloud of witnesses who came before you, and who are now cheering you on.
Change is an inevitable part of life. But when it disrupts your life, do you have an anchor that will hold you in the midst of that change?