Don W

The guarantor or surety is the one who has the ultimate responsibility to fulfill the obligation or covenant by law, and if the one owing on the legal contract (or covenant) is unable to pay the obligation off, the guarantee must pay it off instead. It

Because our God is our refuge or the Rock of our salvation, when we have fled to Him in His salvation for us, we have fled and are entirely safe in Him and not anything nor anyone can remove us from our Savior

Our need to exercise both faith and patience for the long haul (or the long race) before us has the effect of being with the Lord Jesus from day one of our being born-again to throughout eternity with Him. He has us in the palm of His hand so we need to be more and more conformed to His likeness as we grow in Him every day and as we keep our eyes and our hearts on Him and loving and obeying Him daily in our Christian lives, then we have the proper perspective towards our Lord God through His only begotten Son, the Lord Jesus Christ. We need to resist the subtle temptation of thinking that our salvation comes because of anything we do or say; rather, it is totally on Christ

Apostasy is the turning of one

I find only one difference between this and that is, that the description in verses 4-5 of Hebrews 6 describes those who pretend (

A person becomes more and more mature in God

Christ Jesus, being

Our Lord Jesus was already perfect in His humanity as well as in His being God The Son, but He learned perfect obedience to God His Father from all the passion and sufferings He went through during His whole life; but particularly in the Garden of Gethsemane where He learned to be perfectly and completely submitted to His Father

We should approach the throne of grace with boldness and confidence because the Lord Jesus Christ, the King of kings and Lord of lords, has invited us to do so because we belong to Him and thus can call His Father,

The Holy Bible states that Jesus, in His humanity, shared all of our weaknesses and so He was tempted in every way we are tempted, but without ever giving into the temptation and without ever sinning against His Father in heaven. No, it wasn

By confessing our faith in the Lord Jesus before other people, we (and they) know that we are indeed saved and are Christians; thus we are

These two verses are directly related to the whole passage for a couple of reasons: one being that if a person ignores the Word of God, especially about the salvation the Lord Jesus offers to them by the grace of God, then they are in deep trouble as the Word of God (the Holy Bible) will someday expose them for who they really are as unbelievers at the Day of Judgment. Another thing God

I believe that this promise of

We who are true Christians must put our faith and trust in Christ Jesus in order to belong to Him and be a part of His forever family so it

The readers of this Book of Hebrews were tempted to return to their Old Testament practices, including the animal sacrifices, instead of totally believing and giving of themselves to Christ Jesus, and believing in Him that He was indeed the final, last sacrifice they would ever need to return to a relationship with God and to have all of their sins forgiven by Him so they needed to believe, trust and to

Jesus has to become human, in God

The purpose of Christ

This is exactly what the Lord Jesus Christ did when He lovingly died on the cross for us as His people and then was resurrected from the dead to return to heavenly glory; so we who believe and trust in Him will go to glory as His

Just as the First Adam, as representative of the human race, tasted death upon his act of sinful rebellion against the Lord God and became a curse upon all of mankind to follow him; the Second Adam became a curse for us when He went to the cross to be put to death to be substituted for us who believe upon Him for the wrath of the Lord God upon all of our sins; thus He tasted death for us by His death upon the cross as our representative of God

These are really tough questions to answer and many books have been written on suffering by both Christians and non Christians, so I am sure not one of us understands the depths of suffering that our Lord went through nor what some of us go through in suffering, but I

The truth of salvation has been confirmed in me in numerous ways, but it all boils down to the fact that the Lord has brought me to Himself through His Holy Spirit to be born-again into the forever family of God, and He has changed me (and will continue to change or transform me daily into the likeness of the Lord Jesus Christ. The miracles of this happening to little old me are that He chose me to be saved before the foundations of the world were established and will continue His wonderful work in me until it is perfectly completed when I go home to heavenly glory to be with Him and to be like Him forever in His glory! I believe that Christians still see signs and wonders today, mostly in seeing the salvation of many people around them and their changed lives as a result, but also in healings by the Lord Jesus (as well as by the Holy Spirit using the hands and means of doctors to heal people) sometimes, but I also believe that the picture of the early church of the apostles

We must first remember the historical reason why this was written

What, if any human being

The author (whom I still believe is the Apostle Paul) uses the Son as the second Person of the Triune Godhead since God

Jesus Christ, The Messiah, totally fulfilled the Mosaic Law entirely, in all three aspects of it (moral, ceremonial and civil) by His life lived here on earth totally without sin, spot nor blemish, and upon His death at Calvary, He completely demolished the ceremonial laws of the Aaronic priesthood when the thick curtain was torn in two from the top down to the bottom (Matt. 27:51), thus permitting the way now for believers to go into the inner Holy of Holies to meet with God there at the mercy seat anytime they desired to do so (instead of just once per year under the Mosaic Law and only the high priest at that time could do so without being put to death). This is the significance for us of what Jesus did for us when He totally fulfilled the Mosaic Law in its entirety for us to be totally forgiven for all of our sins and to be brought into fellowship now with God our heavenly Father at all times and places. For the Jew, it didn