From: "Phil Rembleski" <PHIl@rescuechurchofchrist.org>
To: "1111RESCUEMEMBERS"
Sent: Wed, Oct 27, 2021 at 5:37 AM
Subject: 10-27-21 THOUGHTS
10-27-21 THOUGHTS
There’s a beautiful section of scripture in Hebrews 6 that I suspect is underused by most of us. I use the Message Bible this morning, but I ask you to read the area also from a good literal translation. The terminology below, “ We who have run for our very lives to God have every reason to grab the promised hope with both hands and never let go.” is refrigerator worthy! Pause and think...
Key words: RUN, REASON, GRAB, BOTH HANDS, NEVER LET GO!
Heb 6:9-20 MB I’m sure that won’t happen to you, friends. I have better things in mind for you—salvation things! 10 God doesn’t miss anything. He knows perfectly well all the love you’ve shown him by helping needy Christians, and that you keep at it. 11 And now I want each of you to extend that same intensity toward a full-bodied hope, and keep at it till the finish. 12 Don’t drag your feet. Be like those who stay the course with committed faith and then get everything promised to them. 13 When God made his promise to Abraham, he backed it to the hilt, putting his own reputation on the line. 14 He said, "I promise that I’ll bless you with everything I have— bless and bless and bless!" 15 Abraham stuck it out and got everything that had been promised to him. 16 When people make promises, they guarantee them by appeal to some authority above them so that if there is any question that they’ll make good on the promise, the authority will back them up. 17 When God wanted to guarantee his promises, he gave his word, a rock-solid guarantee— 18 God can’t break his word. And because his word cannot change, the promise is likewise unchangeable. We who have run for our very lives to God have every reason to grab the promised hope with both hands and never let go. 19 It’s an unbreakable spiritual lifeline, reaching past all appearances right to the very presence of God 20 where Jesus, running on ahead of us, has taken up his permanent post as high priest for us, in the order of Melchizedek.
Ps 42:5 Why are you in despair, O my soul? And [why] have you become disturbed within me? Hope in God, for I shall again praise Him [For] the help of His presence.
Isa 28:16 Therefore thus says the Lord GOD, "Behold, I am laying in Zion a stone, a tested stone, A costly cornerstone [for] the foundation, firmly placed. He who believes [in it] will not be disturbed.
Rom 8:31-32 What then shall we say to these things? If God is for us, who is against us? 32 He who did not spare His own Son, but delivered Him over for us all, how will He not also with Him freely give us all things?
My Prayer:
We exalt your name and praise you our Most High God! It is right, for you have promised and fulfilled. Salvation is ours, you freely give us all things that have to do with life and godliness.
Help us to abide in your Son, The Vine. Enable us and spur our resolve to tell the good news of Jesus. Give us love and joy as we become light and salt to our world. Help us, O God, to grab the most important with both hands and never let go. In the name of our Lord Amen