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Hebrews 4 Bible study: Living and active
Hebrews 4 opens with "Let’s fear therefore" (4:1), and its last verse begins "Let’s therefore draw near with boldness to the throne of grace" (4:16). On the way it gives chapter 3's Today again (4:7), and it names the high priest: "Jesus, the Son of God" (4:14).
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“Let’s therefore draw near with boldness to the throne of grace, that we may receive mercy and may find grace for help in time of need.”
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What's really going on
A promise of entering
Chapter 4's first verse goes on from chapter 3 with therefore. Chapter 3 has just ended, "We see that they weren’t able to enter in because of unbelief." (3:19), and the letter goes on, "Let’s fear therefore, lest perhaps anyone of you should seem to have come short of a promise of entering into his rest." (4:1). It sets its readers beside those who did not enter: "For indeed we have had good news preached to us, even as they also did, but the word they heard didn’t profit them, because it wasn’t mixed with faith by those who heard." (4:2), and "For we who have believed do enter into that rest" (4:3). Then it gives again words it gave in chapter 3, "As I swore in my wrath, they will not enter into my rest" (4:3) and "They will not enter into my rest." (4:5), with words it gives "about the seventh day" (4:4): "God rested on the seventh day from all his works" (4:4). Hebrews names no passage for any of them. It introduces them with "even as he has said" (4:3), "he has said this somewhere" (4:4) and "in this place again" (4:5). Then it speaks of a day, and gives again words from chapter 3: "he again defines a certain day, “today”, saying through David so long a time afterward (just as has been said), “Today if you will hear his voice, don’t harden your hearts.”" (4:7). Favor's Psalm 95 has a go-deeper, The psalm, and the psalm in Hebrews, which quotes 4:5 and names 4:3, and the lines that land in this chapter are named in Lines that land here.
Where the Old Testament leads here
The rest that remains
Genesis 2:2leads toHebrews 4:4-10
Hebrews quotes this verse: “God rested on the seventh day from all his works” (Hebrews 4:4). It speaks of “a promise of entering into his rest” (4:1), says “we who have believed do enter into that rest” (4:3), and concludes, “There remains therefore a Sabbath rest for the people of God” (4:9).
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The Greek word behind it
κατάπαυσιςkatapausissay kat-AP-ow-sis
Strong's gives its English as "rest". "They will not enter into my rest." (4:5): behind rest is this noun, as it is in "For we who have believed do enter into that rest" (4:3), and in "a promise of entering into his rest" (4:1). Favor's Hebrews 3 studies it and counts it in the letter.
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Hebrews 4 Bible study questions
- 1"but the word they heard didn’t profit them, because it wasn’t mixed with faith by those who heard" (4:2). What do you think it looks like for what we hear to be mixed with faith?
- 2"There is no creature that is hidden from his sight" (4:13). Does that verse comfort you, unsettle you, or both? Why?
- 3"that we may receive mercy and may find grace for help in time of need" (4:16). What makes it easier, or harder, for you to come to God for help?
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