Hebrews – A Call to Commitment:

                             Essential Christian Qualities
                                          Hebrews 13:1-6

Five Essential Qualities:

1.         Family Love (Brotherly Love)

• Notice, Keep on: Don’t stop! Lit. let brotherly love continue
• Present tense/Continuous Action.
• Jesus gave us this command: John 13:34-35
• This is not mere sentiment: 1 John 3:16-18
• True love results in action.

 

2.       Hospitality

• Inn’s were filthy, expensive and full of vice.
• Some are called to be missionaries.
• Where do they lodge?
• The house church: 3 John 5-8
• He thinks back to the book of Genesis: Gen. 18:2-3
• There are angels among us.
• Angels are ministering spirits: Heb 1:14

 

3.        Empathy  (put ourself in their shoes)

•  Continue to do what you have done in the past.
• Brings us back to Acts 18:1-2
• Heb 10:32-34; Their response
• What we do to others; we do to Christ: Mt. 25:37-40
• When one suffers we all suffer: 1 Cor. 12:26

 

4.         Purity

• God has a problem with sexual immorality. 1 Cor. 6:18-20
• God is a “Consuming fire.” Heb 12:29

 

5.            Contentment

•  This is critical to grasp for our consumer society.
• Money loving leads to division: Mt. 6:24
• Contentment comes from trusting God: Phil 4:11-13
• Don’t act like a pagan: Mt. 6:31-33
• Contentment comes from being confident in God’s promises.
• Our author goes to the well of scripture: Psalm 118:6-7

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