Week 5 Aug. 29, 2020

The reading for this week was 2 Timothy, Titus and Hebrews.

I decided to focus on Hebrews. From the website st-takla.org Matthew Henry said, "The design of this epistle was to persuade and press the believing Hebrews to a constant adherence to the Christian faith, and perseverance in it, notwithstanding all the sufferings they might meet with in so doing. They needed to believe in the transcendent excellency of the gospel above the law. He needed to take them off from the ceremonies of the law, to which they were so wedded, of which they were so fond, that they even doted on them, and those of them who were Christians retained too much of the old leaven, and needed to be purged from it." 

Hebrews 6:1,2 "Therefore leaving the principles of the doctrine of Christ, let us go on unto perfection; not laying again the foundation of repentance from dead works, and of faith toward God, Of the doctrine of baptisms, and of laying on of hands, and of resurrection of the dead, and of eternal judgment."

I also found in my study that they were, some of them, stuck on Moses and the laws that he put forth. I believe this is how we can be sometimes when policy changes in the church. We can't quite let go of how it "was" done

Hebrews 8:10 "For this is the covenant that I will make with the house of Israel after those days, saith the Lord; I will put my ^alaws into their ^bmind, and write them in their ^chearts: and I will be to them a God, and they shall be to me a people:"

Irinna Danielson said on her blog from the church website, "It’s easy to think of “the Church” as a big, global institution. But, really, “the Church” is you and me. It’s the people and their individual acts of love, service, and devotion to God that make all the difference. It’s individuals over institution. When we think of it that way, the responsibility is clear. Our future, as disciples of Jesus Christ, is unprecedented and unparalleled. This is a hinge point in the history of us as individuals to build up what’s ahead—the Savior’s Church for when He returns again."