Hebrews 12:3 - For consider him that endured such contradiction of sinners against himself, lest ye be wearied and faint in your minds.
It says, for consider him that endured such contradiction of sinners against himself. The word consider (ANALOGISASTHE) is a Greek word where we get our English word analog or analyze from. It is an educational term for what a student does with their books and materials as they are preparing for a test.
So don't just look at Jesus, let's analyze Him, the one who endured the cross. He endured such contradiction of sinners against Himself, lest you be wearied and faint in your minds. He's introducing us to the fact that while we're running the race, we're going to become weary. If you've ever participated in a sporting event, after a while, you're going to get weary. No matter what athletic event you're doing, you're going to experience some tiredness, weary.
So, analyze Jesus, His suffering that He experienced by sinners against Himself, lest you be wearied. And it is interesting because there's really only one statement here instead of two, lest you be wearied by fainting in your minds. The last phrase is what is called a Modal Participle. It describes what wearied means. Lest you be wearied by becoming faint in your minds. It's the word PSEUCHE, which means Psyche. So, let's analyze Him. Let's look to Jesus!
The term brotherly love is the word PHILADELPHIA, love for family, family love. And the word continue means let it remain. Let it continue on. Let the love for the family of God remain and continue on with you.
Interesting, Paul says in 2 Timothy 4:6, I have run the race, I have finished the course. And Paul ran. He didn't walk. He teaches believers how to walk, but he ran. And the writer of Hebrews is also speaking of running that race set before him.
But Jesus in John 13:35, says by this shall all men know that you are my disciples if you have love one to another. You see, the love that is not only commanded, but described, is when Christians have the love of Christ for other Christians, not towards non-believers. Jesus says everybody will know you're my disciples when they see that you have love to one another.
And so, he says let brotherly love, let love for family, continue on.
Hebrews 12:14 - Follow peace with all men, and holiness, without which no man shall see the Lord:
It says follow peace with all people, and the term follow is literally continually be pursuing.
If I were to have the Lord's permission to insert a little note here, it would be "Now concerning your relationship with your fellow teammates, continually pursue peace with your brethren, the one's you are running the race with."
Follow after peace, and then it says, and holiness, without which no man shall see the Lord: Who are you supposed to be seeing? The Lord! If you get off the track, you get out of running the race, your eyes are no longer on Jesus.
Hebrews 12:25 - See that ye refuse not him that speaketh. For if they escaped not who refused him that spake on earth, much more shall not we escape, if we turn away from him that speaketh from heaven:
The word "see" means be continually watching. Be continually watching that you refuse not him that speaks.
The certainty of the condemnation or judgment:
For if they escaped not who refused him that spake on earth, much more shall not we escape, if we turn away from him that speaks from heaven:
The term "turn away" in the Greek text is a Present Tense, meaning those who are turning away. It's not a warning to you that if you're a believer and you turn away; you can lose your salvation. He's talking to people who are in the process of turning away. If you are one of those who are in the process of turning away from Him that speaks from heaven, you will not escape.
Hebrews 12:11 - Now no chastening for the present seemeth to be joyous, but grievous: nevertheless afterward it yieldeth the peaceable fruit of righteousness unto them which are exercised thereby.
Now no chastening for the present seems to be joyous, but grievous:
That's why I don't understand why some Christians say "I'm just so full of joy all the time!" It is very grievous to be out practicing and running the race, no matter how you put it. It is painful!
The production of chastisement: nevertheless afterward it yields the peaceable fruit of righteousness unto them which are exercised thereby. Exercised is a Perfect Participle, those who have been exercised, who have been a part of the disciplinary process. It's where we get our word gymnasium from, exercise. It will produce the peaceable fruit of righteousness in the end.
Hebrews 12:12 - Wherefore lift up the hands which hang down, and the feeble knees;
Now it sounds like he's talking about someone that's old in age. But first of all, this is a Perfect Tense again. It's the hands which have been hanging down, and the feeble knees. The word feeble means paralyzed. I hope you understand what he's talking about? It's when the track coach says you've been dogging it all day. You can take another lap.
It is weary running this race. Life is agony. It is wearisome. And our hands begin to droop. And going back to the track, you're supposed to have your arms bent and moving opposite of your legs and get your body going in cadence.
But you know when you get tired, forget that, right? You can't even hold your arms up anymore. And the leg, they don't move anymore. They're paralyzed. You can't move another step. But he says lift up those hands, those feeble knees!
Hebrews 12:4 - Ye have not yet resisted unto blood, striving against sin.
The word striving is ANTAGONIZOMENOI, ANTE which means against, and agony, where we get our term antagonist from. Our striving against sin, and again, that is an athletic term. In our battle against conditioning, in our battle against discipline, in out battle against all these things that we must do to participate as an athlete on the track and field, we haven't resisted unto blood.
We're whiners. We're here in America, and we think that a bad day is when you don't get to buy the expensive car that you wanted, and you have to settle for something else. It's like "Nobody knows the trouble I've seen, no way!" But as I consider Jesus, He shed His blood at the hands of sinners. None of us have had to do that! I don't know of any of us who have ever been dragged out of your homes, or church, and been beaten and left for dead just because you're a Christian.
I heard several years back of a man in Yemen who was shot and killed. He was an English teacher in one of the schools, and they accused him of spreading Christianity. They just dragged him out of his classroom and killed him because they accused him of teaching Christianity.
We haven't experienced that here in America. So, lest we grow weary by fainting in our minds, look to Jesus. We haven't resisted yet to blood in our striving against sin, our struggle against sin.
Hebrews 12:5 - And ye have forgotten the exhortation which speaketh unto you as unto children, My son, despise not thou the chastening of the Lord, nor faint when thou art rebuked of him:
He says and ye have forgotten the exhortation. The word forgotten is what is called the Perfect Tense, which means at this present moment, over a period of time, they forgot this exhortation and should have known about it.
Hebrews 12:3 - For consider him that endured such contradiction of sinners against himself, lest ye be wearied and faint in your minds.
It says, for consider him that endured such contradiction of sinners against himself. The word consider (ANALOGISASTHE) is a Greek word where we get our English word analog or analyze from. It is an educational term for what a student does with their books and materials as they are preparing for a test.
So don't just look at Jesus, let's analyze Him, the one who endured the cross. He endured such contradiction of sinners against Himself, lest you be wearied and faint in your minds. He's introducing us to the fact that while we're running the race, we're going to become weary. If you've ever participated in a sporting event, after a while, you're going to get weary. No matter what athletic event you're doing, you're going to experience some tiredness, weary.
So, analyze Jesus, His suffering that He experienced by sinners against Himself, lest you be wearied. And it is interesting because there's really only one statement here instead of two, lest you be wearied by fainting in your minds. The last phrase is what is called a Modal Participle. It describes what wearied means. Lest you be wearied by becoming faint in your minds. It's the word PSEUCHE, which means Psyche. So, let's analyze Him. Let's look to Jesus!
Hebrews 13:1 - Let brotherly love continue.
The term brotherly love is the word PHILADELPHIA, love for family, family love. And the word continue means let it remain. Let it continue on. Let the love for the family of God remain and continue on with you.
Interesting, Paul says in 2 Timothy 4:6, I have run the race, I have finished the course. And Paul ran. He didn't walk. He teaches believers how to walk, but he ran. And the writer of Hebrews is also speaking of running that race set before him.
But Jesus in John 13:35, says by this shall all men know that you are my disciples if you have love one to another. You see, the love that is not only commanded, but described, is when Christians have the love of Christ for other Christians, not towards non-believers. Jesus says everybody will know you're my disciples when they see that you have love to one another.
And so, he says let brotherly love, let love for family, continue on.
Hebrews 12:14 - Follow peace with all men, and holiness, without which no man shall see the Lord:
It says follow peace with all people, and the term follow is literally continually be pursuing.
If I were to have the Lord's permission to insert a little note here, it would be "Now concerning your relationship with your fellow teammates, continually pursue peace with your brethren, the one's you are running the race with."
Follow after peace, and then it says, and holiness, without which no man shall see the Lord: Who are you supposed to be seeing? The Lord! If you get off the track, you get out of running the race, your eyes are no longer on Jesus.
Hebrews 12:25 - See that ye refuse not him that speaketh. For if they escaped not who refused him that spake on earth, much more shall not we escape, if we turn away from him that speaketh from heaven:
The word "see" means be continually watching. Be continually watching that you refuse not him that speaks.
The certainty of the condemnation or judgment:
For if they escaped not who refused him that spake on earth, much more shall not we escape, if we turn away from him that speaks from heaven:
The term "turn away" in the Greek text is a Present Tense, meaning those who are turning away. It's not a warning to you that if you're a believer and you turn away; you can lose your salvation. He's talking to people who are in the process of turning away. If you are one of those who are in the process of turning away from Him that speaks from heaven, you will not escape.
Hebrews 12:11 - Now no chastening for the present seemeth to be joyous, but grievous: nevertheless afterward it yieldeth the peaceable fruit of righteousness unto them which are exercised thereby.
Now no chastening for the present seems to be joyous, but grievous:
That's why I don't understand why some Christians say "I'm just so full of joy all the time!" It is very grievous to be out practicing and running the race, no matter how you put it. It is painful!
The production of chastisement: nevertheless afterward it yields the peaceable fruit of righteousness unto them which are exercised thereby. Exercised is a Perfect Participle, those who have been exercised, who have been a part of the disciplinary process. It's where we get our word gymnasium from, exercise. It will produce the peaceable fruit of righteousness in the end.
Hebrews 12:12 - Wherefore lift up the hands which hang down, and the feeble knees;
Now it sounds like he's talking about someone that's old in age. But first of all, this is a Perfect Tense again. It's the hands which have been hanging down, and the feeble knees. The word feeble means paralyzed. I hope you understand what he's talking about? It's when the track coach says you've been dogging it all day. You can take another lap.
It is weary running this race. Life is agony. It is wearisome. And our hands begin to droop. And going back to the track, you're supposed to have your arms bent and moving opposite of your legs and get your body going in cadence.
But you know when you get tired, forget that, right? You can't even hold your arms up anymore. And the leg, they don't move anymore. They're paralyzed. You can't move another step. But he says lift up those hands, those feeble knees!
Hebrews 12:4 - Ye have not yet resisted unto blood, striving against sin.
The word striving is ANTAGONIZOMENOI, ANTE which means against, and agony, where we get our term antagonist from. Our striving against sin, and again, that is an athletic term. In our battle against conditioning, in our battle against discipline, in out battle against all these things that we must do to participate as an athlete on the track and field, we haven't resisted unto blood.
We're whiners. We're here in America, and we think that a bad day is when you don't get to buy the expensive car that you wanted, and you have to settle for something else. It's like "Nobody knows the trouble I've seen, no way!" But as I consider Jesus, He shed His blood at the hands of sinners. None of us have had to do that! I don't know of any of us who have ever been dragged out of your homes, or church, and been beaten and left for dead just because you're a Christian.
I heard several years back of a man in Yemen who was shot and killed. He was an English teacher in one of the schools, and they accused him of spreading Christianity. They just dragged him out of his classroom and killed him because they accused him of teaching Christianity.
We haven't experienced that here in America. So, lest we grow weary by fainting in our minds, look to Jesus. We haven't resisted yet to blood in our striving against sin, our struggle against sin.
Hebrews 12:5 - And ye have forgotten the exhortation which speaketh unto you as unto children, My son, despise not thou the chastening of the Lord, nor faint when thou art rebuked of him:
He says and ye have forgotten the exhortation. The word forgotten is what is called the Perfect Tense, which means at this present moment, over a period of time, they forgot this exhortation and should have known about it.
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