We will see Peter begins to encourage those who are going through trials and suffering. We will look at rejoicing in trials which is not our natural fleshly reaction.

We will see have God dealt with rebellion and sin

we will see Peter encouraging the church in the hope that we have in Jesus even in the midst of trials and persecution.

We will finish up this book of Hebrews and the writer goes back to his original point as we began this book. We are to follow Jesus and not go back to the law or religious practices where nothing remains for us there. We cannot find our hope here in this world, but our lives are found in the eternal, which is to come.

We are going into the section of this book where mostly the text is speaking of the land distribution. If we were doing an expositional teaching on why the geographical map was important, then we would break down each of these territories in more detail, and while this would be interesting to some, to others it would be just information that they may not be interested in. My point in this study is to bring application so we will not be reading all of these chapters regarding the territories but summarize them. God showed Abraham early on the land that would be given to his descendants through His son Isaac.

We will see the importance of remaining under sound biblical teaching. Again biblical foundational truths that show we serve an unchanging God and we need to guard ourselves against false teaching and false teachers who are not teaching the word which always points to Jesus, but rather their own words that gather people to themselves.

In this study we will focus on nourishing one another as well as an exhortation to remain true to the foundations of our biblical truth.

In our last study we took a pause in progressing into Hebrews 12, taking time to focus on self- examination and training for endurance regarding our faith walk.

We looked at;

T: Test

R: Require

A: Arm

I: Involve

N: Nourish

Primarily focusing on the T for testing ourselves to actually know what we profess to believe. We touched on the R which causes us to set a higher standard or raising the bar to really dive into the word, which requires discipline and resolve to meditate upon God’s word and ask the Holy Spirit for wisdom and discernment. Through this process, we learn to become doers of the word not hearers only as James tells us. These first two steps in training are foundational for us to move to the next step which is A for arming ourselves. The church today does little to arm themselves for spiritual battle. We go to church, hear the preacher give a message but for the most part, that is the only spiritual food we get until the next week. Couple that with how so many are not preaching the full counsel of God’s word, it’s easy to find ourselves oblivious to the fact that we are in a spiritual war.