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OBEDIENCE COMES WITH A REWARD
TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 24
Hebrews 12:14-29
Genesis 4:2-4
 
“And the LORD had respect unto Abel
and to his offering.”
 
OBEDIENCE COMES WITH A REWARD
 
The new path, with endurance, leads to that desired destiny. Jesus Christ is the Mediator of this new covenant. Abel had offered the prescribed sacrifice to God and was accepted while his brother’s sacrifice was rejected. The offering of bloody sacrifices continued from then until the true Lamb of God was offered. Jesus declared that it was finished. As this epistle affirmed, that sacrifice was all sufficient and there is no more need for any other. It was perfect and needed to be offered only once.
 
The writer exhorted that we “refuse not him that speaketh” (Heb 12:25). Those who refuse Him will not escape. Likewise, he said that we shall not escape if we refuse Him. Obedience to God is all important. This may refer to the rejection of Christ by the Jews. Their official position was contrary to the revelation of God in His Son. If they rejected Him when He spoke on earth they would also reject any message from heaven. It is said that His voice shook the earth, and He has promised that He will not shake the earth only but also heaven. God is the Creator of heaven and earth and everything in them. He has power over them. In this instance He would shake them only by His voice.
 
When Jesus spoke, nobody could withstand His speech. The Apostles who went out to preach in His name had the reputation of having “turned the world upside down” (Acts 17:6). It was not their words but the words of Christ that shook the world. This shaking would result in the removal of those things which were shaken. The things which cannot be shaken will remain. The writer added, “Wherefore we receiving a kingdom which cannot be moved, let us have grace, whereby we may serve God acceptably with reverence and godly fear” (Heb 12:28). This must be the way forward for the believer. “For our God is a consuming fire” (Heb 12:29).
 
THOUGHT: Endurance clothed with godly fear is acceptable.
PRAYER: Father, lead me to follow Thy steps with endurance.

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