Hello, and welcome
back to His Words Are Life.
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I'm Kelly Mowrer, and today
we're going to be reading the
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beautiful chapter
in Hebrews about faith.
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About the men and women of
faith who've gone before us,
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and left for us inspiration and
encouragement, and example of
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how we can serve God
and be pleasing to Him.
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But before we read,
let's pray together.
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Dear Jesus, thank You so much
that You have promised to be
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both the author and
the finisher of our faith.
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We know that without faith it's
not going to be possible to be
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pleasing to You, and that
is what we long most to be.
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You've told us that faith will
come by hearing, and hearing
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will come through Your word.
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And so now we come to Your
word and ask You to take Your
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thoughts to us and plant them
deep in our hearts so they will
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bear fruit
pleasing to Your sight.
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May You be honored and
glorified by the lives that we
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lead for You.
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Thank You so much for loving us.
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We love You, too.
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Amen.
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Again, we're reading
in Hebrews, chapter 11.
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When we last left off we had
just read the opening where it
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says faith is the
substance of things not seen,
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and the evidence
of things hoped for.
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And now we'll begin in
verse 4, and this is the
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King James Version.
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By faith Abel offered unto God
a more excellent sacrifice than
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Cain, by which he obtained
witness that he was righteous,
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God testifying of his
gifts: and by it he being dead
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yet speaketh.
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By faith Enoch was translated
that he should not see death;
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and was not found,
because God had translated him:
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for before his translation
he had this testimony,
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that he pleased God.
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But without faith it is
impossible to please him:
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for he that cometh to
God must believe that he is,
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and that he is a rewarder of
them that diligently seek him.
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By faith Noah, being warned of
God of things not seen as yet,
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moved with fear, prepared an
ark to the saving of his house;
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by the which he condemned the
world, and became heir of the
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righteousness which is by faith.
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By faith Abraham, when he was
called to go out into a place
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which he should after receive
for an inheritance, obeyed;
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and he went out, not
knowing whither he went.
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By faith he sojourned in the
land of promise, as in a strange
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country, dwelling in tabernacles
with Isaac and Jacob,
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the heirs with him of the same
promise: for he looked for a
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city which hath foundations,
whose builder and maker is God.
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Through faith also Sarah herself
received strength to conceive
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seed, and was delivered of
a child when she was past age,
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because she judged him
faithful who had promised.
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Therefore sprang there even
of one, and him as good as dead,
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so many as the stars
of the sky in multitude,
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and as the sand which is
by the seashore innumerable.
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These all died in faith, not
having received the promises,
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but having seen them afar
off, and were persuaded of them,
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and embraced them, and confessed
that they were strangers and
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pilgrims on the earth.
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For they that say such
things declare plainly that they
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seek a country.
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And truly, if they had been
mindful of that country from
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whence they came out,
they might have had opportunity
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to have returned.
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But now they desire a better
country, that is, a heavenly:
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wherefore God is not
ashamed to be called their God:
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for he hath
prepared for them a city.
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By faith Abraham, when he
was tried, offered up Isaac:
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and he that had received
the promises offered up his only
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begotten son, of whom it was
said, That in Isaac shall thy
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seed be called: accounting that
God was able to raise him up,
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even from the dead; from
whence also he received him
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in a figure.
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By faith Isaac blessed Jacob and
Esau concerning things to come.
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By faith Jacob, when he was a
dying, blessed both the sons of
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Joseph; and worshiped, leaning
upon the top of his staff.
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By faith Joseph, when he died,
made mention of the departing
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of the children of
Israel; and gave commandment
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concerning his bones.
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By faith Moses, when he
was born, was hid three months
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of his parents, because
they saw he was a proper child;
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and they were not afraid
of the king's commandment.
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By faith Moses, when he was
come to years, refused to be
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called the son of Pharaoh's
daughter; choosing rather to
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suffer affliction with the
people of God, than to enjoy the
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pleasures of sin for a season;
esteeming the reproach of Christ
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greater riches than the
treasures in Egypt: for he had
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respect unto the
recompense of the reward.
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By faith he forsook Egypt, not
fearing the wrath of the king:
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for he endured, as
seeing him who is invisible.
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Through faith he kept the
Passover, and the sprinkling of
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blood, lest he that destroyed
the firstborn should touch them.
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By faith they passed through
the Red sea as by dry land:
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which the Egyptians
assaying to do were drowned.
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By faith the walls of Jericho
fell down, after they were
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compassed about seven days.
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By faith the harlot
Rahab perished not with them
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that believed not, when she had
received the spies with peace.
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And what shall I more say? for
the time would fail me to tell
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of Gideon, and of Barak,
and of Samson, and of Jephthah;
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of David also, and Samuel,
and of the prophets: who through
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faith subdued
kingdoms, wrought righteousness,
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obtained promises,
stopped the mouths of lions,
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quenched the violence of fire,
escaped the edge of the sword,
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out of weakness were made
strong, waxed valiant in fight,
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turned to flight the
armies of the aliens.
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Women received their dead raised
to life again: and others were
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tortured, not accepting
deliverance; that they might
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obtain a better resurrection:
and others had trial of cruel
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mockings and scourgings,
yea, moreover of bonds
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and imprisonment: they were
stoned, they were sawn asunder,
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were tempted, were slain with
the sword: they wandered about
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in sheepskins and goatskins;
being destitute, afflicted,
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tormented; of whom the world
was not worthy, they wandered
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in deserts, and in
mountains, and in dens and caves
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of the earth.
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And these all, having obtained
a good report through faith,
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received not the promise:
God having provided some better
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thing for us, that they without
us should not be made perfect.
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Continuing to read
in Hebrews, chapter 12.
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Wherefore, seeing we also are
compassed about with so great a
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cloud of witnesses, let us lay
aside every weight, and the sin
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which doth so easily beset
us, and let us run with patience
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the race that is set before us,
looking unto Jesus the author
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and finisher of our faith;
who for the joy that was set
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before him endured the
cross, despising the shame,
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and is set down at the
right hand of the throne of God.
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For consider him that endured
such contradiction of sinners
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against himself, lest ye be
wearied and faint in your minds.
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Ye have not yet resisted unto
blood, striving against sin.
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And ye have forgotten the
exhortation which speaketh
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unto you as unto children,
My son, despise not thou the
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chastening of the Lord,
nor faint when thou art rebuked
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of him: for whom the
Lord loveth he chasteneth,
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and scourgeth every
son whom he receiveth.
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If ye endure chastening, God
dealeth with you as with sons;
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for what son is he whom
the father chasteneth not?
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But if ye be without
chastisement, whereof all are
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partakers, then are ye
bastards, and not sons.
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Furthermore, we have had fathers
of our flesh which corrected us,
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and we gave them reverence:
shall we not much rather be in
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subjection unto the
Father of spirits, and live?
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For they verily for a few days
chastened us after their own
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pleasure; but he for our profit,
that we might be partakers
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of his holiness.
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Now no chastening for the
present seemeth to be joyous,
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but grievous: nevertheless,
afterward it yieldeth
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the peaceable fruit of
righteousness unto them
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which are exercised thereby.
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Wherefore lift up the hands
which hang down, and the feeble
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knees; and make straight paths
for your feet, lest that which
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is lame be turned out of
the way; but let it rather
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be healed.
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Follow peace with all men, and
holiness, without which no man
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shall see the Lord: looking
diligently lest any man fail of
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the grace of God; lest any
root of bitterness springing up
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trouble you, and thereby many
be defiled; lest there be any
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fornicator, or profane person,
as Esau, who for one morsel of
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meat sold his birthright.
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For ye know how that afterward,
when he would have inherited the
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blessing, he was rejected:
for he found no place of
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repentance, though he
sought it carefully with tears.
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For ye are not come unto
the mount that might be touched,
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and that burned with
fire, nor unto blackness,
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and darkness, and tempest,
and the sound of a trumpet,
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and the voice of words; which
voice they that heard entreated
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that the word should not
be spoken to them any more:
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(For they could not
endure that which was commanded,
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And if so much as a
beast touch the mountain,
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it shall be stoned, or
thrust through with a dart:
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and so terrible was the sight,
that Moses said, I exceedingly
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fear and quake:) but ye
are come unto mount Zion,
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and unto the city of the living
God, the heavenly Jerusalem,
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and to an innumerable company of
angels, to the general assembly
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and church of the firstborn,
which are written in heaven,
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and to God the Judge of all,
and to the spirits of just men
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made perfect, and to Jesus the
mediator of the new covenant,
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and to the blood of sprinkling,
that speaketh better things
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than that of Abel.
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See that ye refuse
not him that speaketh.
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For if they escaped not who
refused him that spake on earth,
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much more shall not we escape,
if we turn away from him that
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speaketh from heaven: (whose
voice then shook the earth:
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but now he hath promised,
saying, Yet once more I shake
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not the earth
only, but also heaven.
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And this word, Yet once more,
signifieth the removing of those
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things that are shaken,
as of things that are made,
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that those things which
cannot be shaken may remain.
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Wherefore we receiving a
kingdom which cannot be moved,
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let us have grace, whereby
we may serve God acceptably
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with reverence and godly fear:
for our God is a consuming fire.
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We're continuing to
read in Hebrews, chapter 13,
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and this is the
King James Version.
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Let brotherly love continue.
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Be not forgetful to entertain
strangers: for thereby some
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have
entertained angels unawares.
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Remember them that are in
bonds, as bound with them;
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and them which suffer adversity,
as being yourselves also
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in the body.
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Marriage is honorable in
all, and the bed undefiled:
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but whoremongers and
adulterers God will judge.
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Let your conversation be without
covetousness; and be content
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with such things as ye
have: for he hath said,
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I will never leave
thee, nor forsake thee.
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So that we may boldly
say, The Lord is my helper,
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and I will not fear
what man shall do unto me.
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Remember them which have the
rule over you, who have spoken
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unto you the word of
God: whose faith follow,
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considering the end
of their conversation.
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Jesus Christ the
same yesterday, and today,
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and for ever.
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Be not carried about with
divers and strange doctrines.
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For it is a good thing that the
heart be established with grace;
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not with meats, which have
not profited them that have been
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occupied therein.
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We have an alter, whereof they
have no right to eat which serve
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the tabernacle.
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For the bodies of those beasts,
whose blood is brought into the
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sanctuary by the high
priest for sin, are burned
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without the camp.
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Wherefore Jesus also, that he
might sanctify the people with
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his own blood,
suffered without the gate.
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Let us go forth therefore
unto him without the camp,
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bearing his reproach.
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For here have we no continuing
city, but we seek one to come.
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