Daily Inspirations

  Good morning. OK, so let us now consider Jesus: He was faithful to Him who appointed Him, as Moses also was in all His house. That’s a pretty good compliment. Moses was one of the most faithful human beings that God used. For He has been counted worthy of more glory than Moses, by just so much as the builder of the house has more glory than the house. For every house is built by someone, but the builder of all things is God. Then probably the biggest difference between Moses and Jesus: now Moses was faithful in all His house as a servant, for a testimony of those things which were to be spoken later; but Christ was faithful as a Son over His house – whose house we are, if we hold fast our confidence and the boast of our hope firm until the end. No matter how diligent you are to take care of something that does not belong to you, it’s normally not as diligent as one who actually owns it. Father continue to go with the reader and his/her family, helping him/her to see each day as a...

  Good morning. For since He Himself was tempted in that which He has suffered, He is able to come to the aid of those who are tempted. As the song says about Jesus being tempted in the garden of Gethsemane: “He could have called 10,000 angels.“ He even asked the Father that if possible, the cup would be taken away from Him. When something ominous is years, months, weeks, maybe even days away from us, it’s easy to put it in the back of our mind, and to pretend it’s not going to happen. When it is in just a few hours, it’s impossible to think of anything but that. We think we have it bad; but nothing compares to what Jesus was going to go through shortly. As He trusted the Father, so should we. Therefore (because of Jesus’ resistance to temptation), holy brethren, partakers of a heavenly calling, consider Jesus, the Apostle and High Priest of our confession. And we will consider Him next time. Father thank You that Jesus did not yield to temptation; but trusted completely in You tha...

  Good morning. For assuredly He does not give help to angels (back to the superiority of Christ to angels), but He gives help to the descendent (singular, so he is talking about Jesus, not all Jews) of Abraham. Therefore, He had to be made like His brethren in all things (remember we just said yesterday that He had to face death and trust in God to be resurrected, just like we do), so that He might become a merciful and faithful high priest in things pertaining to God, to make propitiation for the sins of the people. Once a year, the high priest would bring the blood of a slain animal into the holy of holies and put some of it on the mercy seat (propitiatory). This was to make propitiation (to cause God to change His mind about bringing death to all who sinned that previous year). Father thank You that we don’t have to rely on the blood of a slain animal to make us righteous in Your eyes – we have the precious blood of Jesus that did that for all time.

  Good morning. Continuing with Jesus being perfected through sufferings: therefore, since the children share in flesh and blood, He Himself likewise also partook of the same, that through death He might render powerless him who had the power of death, that is, the devil, and might free those who through fear of death were subject to slavery all their lives. If God had not come to earth in the form of a man, Jesus, we could say, “You don’t really know how it is to be a man and live according to Your laws“. Remember that the devil mainly controls people by fear; and in this case the author of Hebrews is talking about fear of dying. Jesus faced that same fear in the garden of Gethsemane; but He came through in the end. Jesus was fully man. He had to face that same possibility that there would be no resurrection, just like we do. He had to trust the Father. Father thank You that while we have no desire to die; we have no fear of it either.

  Good morning. For it was fitting for Him, for whom are all things, and through whom are all things, in bringing many sons to glory, to perfect the author of their salvation through sufferings . It wasn’t that Jesus was not perfect within Himself; He had not finished (or perfected) His mission to take our place in suffering what we deserved by His dying on the cross. Just like the author of a novel writes the story of a character in the novel, Jesus wrote our “story“ by taking our place on the cross. For both He who sanctifies and those who are sanctified are all from one Father; for which reason He is not ashamed to call them brethren. Father thank You that Jesus “Wrote“ our salvation story by dying on the cross for us, so that we might become Your sons and daughters, and He might become our brother.

  Good morning. To whom did He subject the world to come? From Psalm eight – what is man, that You remember him? Or the Son of Man (title used to refer to the Messiah), that You are concerned about Him? You have made Him for a little while lower than the angels; You have crowned Him with glory and honor, and have appointed Him over the works of Your hands ; You have put all things in subjection under His feet. He was definitely not referring to angels. But in subjecting all things to Him, He left nothing that is not subject to Him. But now we do not yet see all things subjected to Him. But we do see Him who was made for a little while lower than the angels (confirming that the scripture quoted was referring to the Messiah), namely Jesus, because of the suffering of death crowned with glory and honor, so that by the grace of God He might taste death for everyone. Father continue to minister healing to the reader and his/her family.

  Good morning. OK, so they had all these people telling them what the Lord supposedly said when He was on earth. How did they know that these people were telling the truth? God also testified with them, both by signs and wonders and various miracles and by gifts of the Holy Spirit according to His own will. At the end of Mark (which part of is in serious doubt of being in the original gospel and not added later), it says that the disciples went out and preached everywhere, while the Lord worked with them, and confirmed the word by the signs that followed. Even though it may not have been in the original document written by Mark, it was a true statement. People won’t come from miles around just to hear words, but they will come to see signs and wonders confirming the word. Again deemphasizing angels: for He did not subject to angels the world to come, concerning which we are speaking. Then to whom did He subject the world to come? Stay tuned… Father thank You that we don’t have jus...