Rain Clouds? Hebrews 13:8-14

Hebrews 13:8–148 Jesus Christ is the same yesterday and today and forever. 9 Do not be carried away by varied and strange teachings; for it is good for the heart to be strengthened by grace, not by foods, through which those who were so occupied were not benefited. 10 We have an altar from which those who serve the tabernacle have no right to eat. 11 For the bodies of those animals whose blood is brought into the holy place by the high priest as an offering for sin,

are burned outside the camp. 12 Therefore Jesus also, that He might sanctify the people through His own blood, suffered outside the gate. 13 So, let us go out to Him outside the camp, bearing His reproach. 14 For here we do not have a lasting city, but we are seeking the city which is to come.

Familiar Verse

Jesus Christ is the same yesterday and today and forever.

Hebrews 13:8

Who was the book written to?

A little more Jewish pleaseChrist is from the Greek “Christos” which means “anointed”This is the word in Hebrew which means “Messiah”

Jesus is Messiah, yesterday and today the same and forever.

That is, the Yahweh of the Old Testament is the Jesus of Nazareth of the New. And that Person is the Messiah, the unchangeable One. Those who had the rule over the recipients of this letter, those who had spoken the Word of God to them, they were the ones who had lived and died in the faith that Jesus is the Messiah.

Statement of Faith

Not Western but EasternNot the unchangeableness of Jesus.

Declaration statement that Jesus is Yahweh.

Unchangeableness BUT YOU ARE THE SAME, AND YOUR YEARS WILL NOT COME TO AN END.” Hebrews 1:12b

“for I, the LORD, do not change; Malachi 3:6a

…Father of lights, with whom there is no variation or shifting shadow. James 1:17b

A warningDo not be carried away by varied and strange teachings; for it is good for the heart to be strengthened by grace, not by foods, through which those who were so occupied were not benefited.

Hebrews 13:9

Carried Away, Drift Away, Shrink Back• Denial of the

Messiahship of Jesus.• Judaism superseding

Messianic sacrifice.• Ceremonial observances

vs Inward change• Gnosticism-Philosophy

combined with the truth• Worship of angels

Kosher eating

Food for thoughtColossians 2:16 (NASB95) 16 Therefore no one is to act as your judge in regard to food or drink or in respect to a festival or a new moon or a Sabbath day—

Romans 14:14–15 (NASB95) 14 I know and am convinced in the Lord Jesus that nothing is unclean in itself; but to him who thinks anything to be unclean, to him it is unclean. 15 For if because of food your brother is hurt, you are no longer walking according to love. Do not destroy with your food him for whom Christ died.

It’s irrelevantActs 15:19–20 (NASB95) 19 “Therefore it is my judgment that we do not trouble those who are turning to God from among the Gentiles, 20 but that we write to them that they abstain from things contaminated by idols and from fornication and from what is strangled and from blood.

A ReminderWe have an altar from which those who serve the tabernacle have no right to eat.

Hebrews 13:10

Jesus the better high priest, of the heavenly sanctuary, offering the better sacrifice, continually before God at His right hand

What our savior did

Therefore Jesus also, that He might sanctify the people through His own blood, suffered outside the gate.

Hebrews 13:12

New Info!

Ex 29:14; Lev 16:27;

Our Response So, let us go out to Him outside the camp, bearing His reproach.

Hebrews 13:13

Last restatementFor here we do not have a lasting city, but we are seeking the city which is to come.

Hebrews 13:14

Varied And Strange TeachingsThese are the men who are hidden reefs in your love feasts when they feast with you without fear, caring for themselves; clouds without water, carried along by winds; autumn trees without fruit, doubly dead, uprooted;

Jude 12

Varied and strange teachingsPositive Confession-Death and life are in the power of the tongue: And they that love it shall eat the fruit thereof. Proverbs 18:21 (KJV 1900)

Declaration becomes our realitySpeak into existence Our words have power just like God. All words have power

Negative confession“See, God knows the power of our words. He knows we prophesy our future, and He knew Zacharias' own negative words would stop His plan.”

“But let me encourage you: don’t make the mistake of verbalizing those thoughts. The moment you speak something out it takes on a whole new meaning. See, one of the main ways we release our faith is through our words. That’s how we give life to our faith.”

Varied and strange teachingsSubstance of FaithNow faith is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen. Hebrews 11:1 (KJV 1900)

Actual substanceFaith in faithGod has to react

Varied and strange teachingsLittle gods Doctrine-Christians are “little gods” All things reproduce after their kind. God can only produce little ‘g’ gods.

The fall occurred because man desired to be like God.

Satan tried to exalt himself above God

Varied and strange teachingsThe Fall

Adam was an exact duplicate of God

Adam sinned

Adam’s “godhood” was transferred to Satan.

God lost His legal right to earth and was banished.

Satan is the legal god of earth

We gain our godhood back at salvation

Varied and strange teachingsSoftening of Sin

Not achieving your bestChange the way we thinkDisappointing God

Varied and strange teachingsJesus Christ

Jesus did not come as GodJust a man, he discovered himself in the wordJesus is not the only begotten son, we are also

Varied and strange teachingsThe spiritual death of Jesus Christ

The physical death of Jesus did not atoneA spiritual death had to occurs Jesus was tortured for 3 daysFreed himself with a word of power