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Its effect on our Christian life is that we should not become lazy or passive, but we should become deligent or active in learning His word and seeking His will, and keep busy working for God. Its effect on our perspective is that we should follow what Paul did: forgetting what is behind and strainning toward what is ahead, pressing on toward the goal to win the prize..(Philipians 3:13-14). Or, we should do what the writer of Hewbrews say: throwing off everything that hinder and the sin that so easily entangles, and running with perseverance tha race marked out for us, looking to Jesus (Hebrews 12:1,2) We can resit it in a way that we keep believing that by grace we have been saved through faith, and that not of ourselves (Ep. 3:8). But we have to hold firmly till the end the confidence we had at first (Hebrew3:14). We can lose our faith or confidence because of our heart hardened by sin's deceitfulness (Hebrews 3:13).

Apostasy is, as characterized by A.M. Stibbs, nothing less than a conscious, deliberate and persistent abandonment of the Christian way of salvation. It is impossible from a practical standpoint to restore apostates to Christian faith and practice because it is very difficult for those who have shared the convenant privileges of the people of God, and then deliberately renounce them, to reclaim for the faith. The Point Jesus was making in his Parable of the Sower (Matthew 13:1-9, 18-23) is there are four possible types of a person's response to the God's word that he or she receive, one of them is of receiving God's word with joy but then falling away because of trouble or persecution. So Jesus is telling that there is possible for a person that have received his word and enjoyed his goodness to commit apostacy. Jesus' point of the Parable of the Tares or Weeds (Matthew 13:24-30) is that there are two types of people that live together in this world, that is, the sons of God, who receive His word and do His commands, and the sons of the devil, who receive the devil's word and do evil.

The difference between the description in verses 4-5 and a Spirit-filled Christian today is none. The writer's point in forming this description is that it is possible for a person or a Christian who have once been enlightened, tasted the heavenly gift, shared in Holy Spirit, tasted the goodness of the word of God and the powers of the coming age to fall away or commit apostasy and lose his or her salvation.

A person become mature in God's Word in a way that by constant use he trains himself to distinguish good and evil. To grow in maturity I can seriously, continuously, and openly learn God's Word, and then do what His Word tells me to do.

Made perfect refers to made perfect be the source or author of eternal salvation for and and the high priest on behalf of us. The result of Jesus's obdience to God through his sufferings and death he was made perfect be our eternal salvation and high priest on behalf of us.

Jesus “learn obedience from what he suffered” in a sense that in his obedience to God he did not avoid sufferings which are God's will for him to have, but he walked the path of sufferings. Sufferings were an integral part of his obedience. Jesus's learning process is first he set out from the start on the path of obedience to God and then to keep in obedience he did a continuous and progressive making God' will his own although he had to suffer in consequences of it. Our learning process is that we often learn by bearing the consequences of our disobidiences.

We approach the

Jesus shared our weaknesses in a way that, as human like us, he had incapacity for something or experience of limitation; he also had ability to be tempted; he entered fully into our experience of temptation. Jesus was tempted in a way that he was persuade to improper behavior. For example, he was tempted to love the world raher than the Word of God (case: forty days of testing in the wliderness). He was tempted to recoil to suffering (case: in the Garden of Gethsemanehis, recoiling from bearing sin on the cross) He didn't sin not caused that his temptations were easier than us. His temptation were more difficult than ours. No, we don't have any temptations he didn't have. That he can sympathize with our temptations and weaknesses comforts us because when we are tempted we can feel what we experience by his human feeling, and he will give us his mercy and help based on that his human feeling not his divine feeling.

"Holding fast to our confession" is so important because we can take hold our eternal life if we hold fast to our confession. Our confession or profession of faith is that Jesus is our Lord and our Savior. Maintaining this confession is vital because if we abandon this confession, we will lose our eternal life. This continual confession is that makes our relationship with God still exist and makes Holy Spirit keep living in us.

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During his life Jesus as human suffered temptation and persecution. During his death he suffered death. We are also likely to suffer temptation and persecution because of concious of God. Yes, suffering has any value. The suffering come to us in order to prove the genuineness of our faith and make our faith perfect so that it results in praise, glory, and honor for us when Christ come back again. When we live in such a way to avoid all suffering, we live not according to his purpose and plan, so that when his second coming happen we may get none of rewards and even we lose our salvation, our eternal life.

These two verses have to do with verses of we must continue in our faith and must hold it firmly. Word of God underlie our faith. To receive fulfillment of the promise we have both Word, promise of God, and faith. Word is described in this way: the word of God is living and active so that it can talk to us or we hear it; it is so powerful that it can separate the inseparable and scrutinize the inscrutable. The effect the Word has on us is that the Word can discern our hidden thoughts and intentions of our hearts. It can expose our true motives. We need to continually expose ourselves to the Word of God because firstly,our thoughts, minds, wants, motives in our dayly lives are still influenced by or come from our old self and as long as we live we also continually accept worldly thoughts, teachings coming from people and various media we see and hear so that they all can influence our lives in Christ. Secondly, the objective of our spiritual lives is to be like Christ and God is leading us to that. So we need his word and expose to it to know what God wants and what we must do.

The writer of Hebrew means by this promise of

The importance of faith in our relationship to Christ is that our relationship to Christ exist because we have faith in him. That without faith we are no longer

The writer exhorting his readers to

The truth of salvation has been confirmed to me through a weekly bible study conducted by a student senior that knew Christ first, when I was studying for my undergraduate degree. I think signs and wonders would help establishing the truth of Christ's ministry today. In our era with the very advanced, sophisticated sciences and technologies, which people depend on their lives, people may not believe to or accept the truth of Christ's ministry. We know that the sciences and technologies still unable to solve all of our problems in the world, for example, it is unable to heal some certain diseases. But for Jesus nothing is impossible. In him there is a hope for our needs. Thus, I think we still need signs and wonders to show that Christ's ministry is true. There are no special portions of the Bible from which I have formed your opinion of the value of signs and wonders today. For me all of the contents of the Bible are signs and wonders from God. Each of portions of Bible that I read or studied might have a special value to increase my faith.

We are not immune to drifting away from the gospel in the way that we do not take heed of it and we do not do what the the gospel wants us to do. We can successfully resist the tendency to drift by paying attention to what we have heard about the gospel or the word of God. We do not just hear the word, but also do it. Jesus described this phenomenon of "drift" in the Parable of the Sower in the following way. The phenomenon of

I think the author's description about all of the six characteristics of the Son proves that the Son is himself divine. With him having these six characteristics there is no comparison. Beings' all things are nothing compared to his. The role of the exact representation of his father is the Son has. With this role all of what the Son says, does, acts, wants are the exact representation of what father does.

The author of Hebrews is using the word

Christians should look forward to the events surrounding our resurrection, because those will happen and through which we will have our victory over death the last enemy, and we will have our glory. Those is a very beautiful, wonderful, exciting, and amazing moments, we will see our Lord Jesus and our God. We will see our loved ones, and live together with them all in a New Heaven and a New Earth forever. Looking forward to those may increase our faith and our faithfulness in the work of the Lord. Christians have largely lost this as their active expectation and hope, because the speech, discussion, bible study to deeply, strongly, regularly motivate and encourage this are less, or even none. To reclaim these truth, the speech, discussion, bible study to deeply, strongly, regularly motivate and encourage this should be conducted by the Church and the congregations.

Our resurrection body will be like Jesus' resurrection body. It will be able to relate to the physical world like a normal physical body. But it will be not limited to the physical world. It will be able to enter locked doors, disappear and appear at will. It will be incorruptible, glorified, powerful, and able to navigate in the spiritual realm. It will be no longer mortal. We will be given resurrection bodies, because that is God's plan to give us the victory over death. But God' plan to in our resurrection body is not only that. He may give us some role in the new heaven and the new earth that he will create.

About our resurrection the phrase "redemption of our bodies" (Romans 8:23-24) tell us that Christ's redemption of us is not only spiritual, but holistic, physical. The redemption of our bodies will happen at the Last Day, which we wait eagerly for. The words in 1 Corinthians 15:42-44 that describe our resurrection bodies are imperishable not perishable, in glory not in dishonor, in power not in weakness, and spiritual not natural.

Christians will be with Christ immediately after death. We await the resurrection in heaven, in a place where God is present and we is with Him.

The word used in the Bible instead of

Being steadfast and immovable has to do with the hope of the resurrection Being steadfast and immovable in these. Because of horrendous challenges as we seek to follow Christ in this life or being shaken by the world that is crashing and burning move us, our hope of the resurrection can be not or less steadfast or immovable in terms of we becoming discouraged, despair, weary, and even lost in hope, no longer do the work of the Lord. Therefore Paul exhorts us to be steadfast and immovable of our hope of the resurrection whatever we may be faced or be facing in our lives in following him. Our labor is not in vain in the Lord, because it is his work, not ours. Because it in the Lord, he doesn't forget, although other may discount it.