Summary of Hebrews Chapter 13 Presented by: John Hanes

Summary of Hebrews 11-12

Our age, fertile in its wickedness, has first defiled the marriage bed, our offspring, and homes: disaster’s stream has flowed from this source through the people and the fatherland. The young girl early takes delight in learning Greek dances, in being dressed with all the arts, and soon meditates sinful affairs, with every fibre of her new being: later at her husband’s dinners she searches for younger lovers, doesn’t mind to whom she grants all her swift illicit pleasures when the lights are far removed, but she rises, openly, when ordered to do so, and not without her husband’s knowledge, whether it’s for some peddler, or Spanish ship’s captain, an extravagant buyer of her shame. -Horace, The Odes, Book III, Ode VI: Moral Decadence Commentary on Hebrews 13:4

"It is not the critic who counts: not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles or where the doer of deeds could have done better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood, who strives valiantly, who errs and comes up short again and again, because there is no effort without error or shortcoming, but who knows the great enthusiasms, the great devotions, who spends himself for a worthy cause; who, at the best, knows, in the end, the triumph of high achievement, and who, at the worst, if he fails, at least he fails while daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who knew neither victory nor defeat." Theodore (Teddy) Roosevelt Citizenship in a Republic Speech at the Sorbonne, Paris, April 23, 1910 Commentary on Hebrews 13:9-10

Gal 6:6 Nevertheless, the one who receives instruction in the word should share all good things with their instructor. Commentary on Hebrews 13:7

Lev 16:3-5 3 “This is how Aaron is to enter the Most Holy Place: He must first bring a young bull for a sin offering and a ram for a burnt offering. 4 He is to put on the sacred linen tunic, with linen undergarments next to his body; he is to tie the linen sash around him and put on the linen turban. These are sacred garments; so he must bathe himself with water before he puts them on. 5 From the Israelite community he is to take two male goats for a sin offering and a ram for a burnt offering. Commentary on Hebrews 13:11-14

Lev 16: “Aaron is to offer the bull for his own sin offering to make atonement for himself and his household. 7 Then he is to take the two goats and present them before the Lord at the entrance to the tent of meeting. 8 He is to cast lots for the two goats—one lot for the Lord and the other for the scapegoat. 9 Aaron shall bring the goat whose lot falls to the Lord and sacrifice it for a sin offering. 10 But the goat chosen by lot as the scapegoat shall be presented alive before the Lord to be used for making atonement by sending it into the wilderness as a scapegoat. Commentary on Hebrews 13:11-14

Lev 16: “When Aaron has finished making atonement for the Most Holy Place, the tent of meeting and the altar, he shall bring forward the live goat. 21 He is to lay both hands on the head of the live goat and confess over it all the wickedness and rebellion of the Israelites—all their sins—and put them on the goat’s head. He shall send the goat away into the wilderness in the care of someone appointed for the task. 22 The goat will carry on itself all their sins to a remote place; and the man shall release it in the wilderness. Commentary on Hebrews 13:11-14

Lev 16: “The man who releases the goat as a scapegoat must wash his clothes and bathe himself with water; afterward he may come into the camp. 27 The bull and the goat for the sin offerings, whose blood was brought into the Most Holy Place to make atonement, must be taken outside the camp ; their hides, flesh and intestines are to be burned up. 28 The man who burns them must wash his clothes and bathe himself with water; afterward he may come into the camp. Commentary on Hebrews 13:11-14

Psalm 103:11-12 For as high as the heavens are above the earth, so great is his love for those who fear him; as far as the east is from the west, so far has he removed our transgressions from us. Commentary on Hebrews 13:11-14

1 Pet 2:24 “He himself bore our sins” in his body on the cross, so that we might die to sins and live for righteousness; “by his wounds you have been healed.” Commentary on Hebrews 13:11-14

Deut 21:22-23 “If someone guilty of a capital offense is put to death and their body is exposed on a pole, you must not leave the body hanging on the pole overnight. Be sure to bury it that same day, because anyone who is hung on a pole is under God’s curse. You must not desecrate the land the Lord your God is giving you as an inheritance.” Commentary on Hebrews 13:11-14

Rom 6:6-7, 11, 14 “For we know that our old self was crucified with him so that the body ruled by sin might be done away with, that we should no longer be slaves to sin— because anyone who has died has been set free from sin…. count yourselves dead to sin but alive to God in Christ Jesus…. sin shall no longer be your master, because you are not under the law, but under grace. Commentary on Hebrews 13:11-14

Col 3:22-24 “Whatever you do, work at it with all your heart, as working for the Lord, not for human masters, since you know that you will receive an inheritance from the Lord as a reward. It is the Lord Christ you are serving.” Commentary on Hebrews 13:16

"I am sending you out like sheep among wolves. Therefore be as shrewd as snakes and as innocent as doves." -Jesus (Mt 10:16) Commentary on Hebrews

"Speak softly and carry a big stick; you will go far." -Teddy Roosevelt Commentary on Hebrews

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