“ For our God is a consuming fire. ”
For our God is a consuming fire - This is a further reason why we should serve God with profound reverence and unwavering fidelity. The quotation is made from Deuteronomy 4:24 . “For the Lord th...
The theme of the epistle has been the contrast of the old and the new covenants, and this contrast is now summed up in a splendid closing passage. The first covenant was established on a mount that m...
consuming fire . From Deuteronomy 4:24 . Compare Exodus 21:17 ; Psalms 50:3 ; Psalms 97:3 ; 2 Thessalonians 1:8 . &c. consuming . Greek. katanalisko. Only here. Intensive of analisko...
29. For our God, etc. As he had before kindly set before us the grace of God, so he now makes known his severity; and he seems to have borrowed this sentence from the Deuteronomy 4:24 o...
DISCOURSE: 2341 GOD TO BE SERVED WITH REVERENTIAL FEAR Hebrews 12:28-29 . Wherefore we receiving a kingdom which cannot be moved, let us have grace, whereby we may serve God acceptably with reve...
For our God is a consuming fire. For our God is a consuming fire - The apostle quotes Deuteronomy 4:24 , and by doing so he teaches us this great truth, that sin under the Gospel is as abominable...
Wherefore, we receiving a kingdom, &c.— "As therefore we have received such an unshaken kingdom, which shall never be removed to make way for any different establishment, and which gives to t...
For our God is a consuming fire. х Kai ( G2532 ) gar ( G1063 )] 'For even;' 'For also:' an additional incentive to diligence. From Deuteronomy 4:24 . Our God - in whom we hope, i...
The Contest. Endurance, Holiness, and Divine Communion proposed to the Sons of God Inspired by the example of those victorious heroes of faith who now encompass us, we ought to run our race patien...
(18-29) The exhortation to faithfulness is most impressively enforced by means of a comparison between the earlier revelation and that which is given in Christ. The mount that might be touched. —...
CHAPTER XV. MOUNT ZION. "For ye are not come unto a mount that might be touched, and that burned with fire, and unto blackness, and darkness, and tempest, and the sound of a trumpet, and the voic...
Hearken to God's Latest Word Hebrews 12:18-29 Sinai rocked with earthquake and burned with fire. None might touch it without incurring the death penalty. How much better our Christian heritage!...
After this rapid survey of the past, the writer makes his great appeal. It is that we "consider Him" who is "the Author and Perfecter of faith." The final appeals of the Epistle fall into four secti...
(28) Wherefore we receiving a kingdom which cannot be moved, let us have grace, whereby we may serve God acceptably with reverence and godly fear: (29) For our God is a consuming fire. In relation t...
For our God is a consuming fire. Either God personally considered, God in the person of Christ; so the Shechinah, with the Jews, is called a consuming fire n. Christ is truly God, and he is our God...
For our God is a consuming fire. Ver. 29. A consuming fire ] viz. To profligate professors, ungirt Christians, Isaiah 33:14 . And whereas the apostle saith Our God, he means the God of Christi...
Wherefore we Who believe in Christ; receiving Or having received , through the gospel; a kingdom which cannot be moved A dispensation (frequently called the kingdom of God) which shall never b...
How rightly now Chapter 12 admonishes the saints of God to act by faith; for where faith is in godly exer\-cise, every honorable and true responsibility will be willingly assumed, with the confidence...
Nature of the Christian Economy. A. D. 62. 18 For ye are not come unto the mount that might...
The motive enforcing this duty is no less terrible than that given to Israel under the law, obliging their obedience to that covenant dispensation, Deuteronomy 4:23,24 : The Lord thy God is a con...
‘Wherefore, receiving a kingdom that cannot be shaken, may we have grace, whereby we may offer service well-pleasing to God with reverence and awe, for our God is a consuming fire.' At Sinai Israel...
CRITICAL AND EXEGETICAL NOTES Hebrews 12:29 . Consuming fire. — Deuteronomy 4:24 . Not intended as in any sense a description of God, but “an anthropomorphic way of expressing His hatred of apo...
Hebrews 12:18-29 Mount Sinai and Mount Zion. In this passage are mentioned seven great and solemn heavenly realities. I. Mount Zion. Mount Sinai represents the law. It manifests the majesty of G...
l, 2. Wherefore seeing we also are compassed about with so great a cloud of witnesses, let us lay aside every weight, and the sin which doth so easily beset us, and let us run with patience the ra...
Hebrews 12:1 . Wherefore, seeing we also are compassed about with so great a cloud of witnesses. Confessors and martyrs of the ancient church are here supposed to be the spectators of our course,...
EXPOSITION The exhortation, begun at Hebrews 10:19 , but interrupted at Hebrews 11:1-58 . I by the chapter on faith, is now taken up again with increased force from the array of examples that...
The need of reverence and godly fear:
2 Thessalonians 1:8 ; Daniel 7:9 ; Deuteronomy 4:24 ; Deuteronomy 9:3 ; Exodus 24:17 ; Hebrews 10:27 ; Isaiah 66:15 ; Numbers 11:1 ; Numbers 16:35 ; Psalms 50:3 ; Psalms 97:3
For our God is a consuming fire — in the strictness of his justice, and purity of his holiness.