Len's Mens Fellowship

Christmas is about hope. "Long lay the world in sin and error pining. Till He appeared and the soul felt its worth. A thrill of hope the weary world rejoices, For yonder breaks a new and glorious ... Continue reading →

Jesus Christ is the same yesterday and today and foreverLet& 39;s contextualize the messages of the past few weeks by emphasizing what the author of Hebrews is saying to us: He is telling us how ... Continue reading →

"Keep your lives (character, lifestyle) free from the love of money (from covetousness) and be content with what you have, because God has said, "Never (never, certainly not, not at all, by no ... Continue reading →

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GREATER PRIVILEGE (THE GOSPEL VERSUS THE LAW) CALLs FOR GREATER RESPONSIBILITYThe Lord warned His people to fear Him and keep His commandments with an awesome display of His power at Mt. Sinai when ... Continue reading →

RECEIVING AND GIVING GOD& 39;S LOVE & TRUTH BY HIS GRACE  The author of Hebrews continues his exhortation to these suffering (10:32-34) and weary believers whom God is training in ... Continue reading →

Joni Eareckson Tada, after suffering 43 years as a quadriplegic, is now "in the fight of my life."  Recently she has suffered "jaw-splitting pain" for several years and just as it let up she ... Continue reading →

"Therefore, since we have so great a cloud of witnesses surrounding us, let us also lay aside every encumbrance and the sin which so easily entangles us, and let us run with endurance (perseverance) ... Continue reading →

"He considered that God is able to raise people even from the dead." As we continue our study of Hebrews 11 and particularly the faith of Abraham, we learn a valuable and essential lesson in ... Continue reading →

  "For you have need of endurance (patience) so that when you have done the will of God, you may receive what was promised." Heb.10:36"Do not, therefore, fling away your fearless ... Continue reading →

  ‘If there is true faith, there will be consequent actions. The writer now launches on a lengthy section in which he shows the variety of actions that can accompany faith, depending on ... Continue reading →

Biblical faith is not just theology but the power of God to create a new life (a born again person) and to give us power over sin to know, love and obey God. In the first ten Chapters of ... Continue reading →

 See Hebrews 10:26-31- The commentary below by Dr. Bing and the web-site address for the other commentary (see in following paragraph) is about this difficult passage in Hebrews (similar to ... Continue reading →

 Hebrews 10:1-18- "The failure of the Law (vv. 1-5), Christ& 39;s final sacrifice, and the forgiveness of sins (vv. 5-18) are summarized and emphasized. The Law, as "a shadow," anticipates ... Continue reading →

 ARE YOU READY FOR YOUR APPOINTMENT WITH GOD - THE SUPERIOR AND ONLY ACCEPTABLE SACRIFICE? "I do not set aside the grace of God, for if righteousness could be gained through the law, Christ ... Continue reading →

 "NOW EVEN the first covenant had its own rules and regulations for divine worship, and it had a sanctuary but one of this world."  Of this world simply means that it was made from ... Continue reading →

"I WILL MAKE A NEW COVENANT WITH THE HOUSE OF ISRAEL AND WITH THE HOUSE OF JUDAH.  IT WILL NOT BE LIKE THE COVENANT I MADE WITH THEIR FOREFATHERS." "These are the numbers of the men armed ... Continue reading →

 HEBREWS 7:25-8:7The book of Hebrews ties the OT and NT together like no other book in the Bible. Under the old covenant the priesthood was the most central point, because the priest ... Continue reading →

 Interpreting and applying Hebrews 7 and the passages related to it (Gen. 14:17-20; Psalm 110:4; Hebrews 4:14-16; Hebrews 5:1-10 and Zechariah 6:9-15) is difficult but yields a rich message of ... Continue reading →

Without faith in the one true God our hopes are false, fleeting and will let us down sooner of later (maybe on our death bed). True faith (in God) comes from reading and reviewing God acting in ... Continue reading →

 These Christians (and many were Jewish Christians) were being persecuted for their faith (see Heb. 10:32-34) and were tempted to go back to Judaism and drop out of the faith race, so the ... Continue reading →

 THE POINT OF NO RETURN - Disqualified for further service (See 1 Cor. 9:24- 27) - "It is impossible for those who have once been enlightened, who have tasted the heavenly gift, who have shared ... Continue reading →

"(Jesus) was designated by God to be high priest in the order of Melchizedek. Concerning him (and His priesthood) we have much to say, and it is hard to explain, since you have become dull of ... Continue reading →

 The writer of Hebrews is writing to Jewish believers in Jesus who are being persecuted for their faith and tempted to revert back to Judaism and exhorting them to press on to maturity in ... Continue reading →

 "Seeing then that we have a great High Priest who has passed through the heavens, Jesus the Son of God, let us hold fast our confession. For we do not have a High Priest who cannot sympathize ... Continue reading →

 Our last lesson from chapter 3:7-16 spoke of a believer losing God& 39;s promised rest (not salvation) through hardening his heart by disobeying His Word and chapter four continues this by ... Continue reading →

 This is the second warning of five (see 2:1 for first- drifting because of neglect of God& 39;s Word) to these Jewish believers to exhort them to remain faithful to the end so they may ... Continue reading →

"SO THEN, brethren, consecrated and set apart for God, who share in the heavenly calling, thoughtfully and attentively consider Jesus, the Apostle and High Priest Whom we confessed as ours when we ... Continue reading →

 The writer of Hebrews continues to show how Jesus is better than angels and especially since Jesus became a man. Mankind suffers and dies and angels don& 39;t suffer or die, so how can ... Continue reading →

 "It is not angels who will control (rule over) the future world we are talking about" (Heb 2:5 NLT). The writer of Hebrews continues his argument that Jesus is superior to angels (which some OT ... Continue reading →

 The problem seen in the book of Hebrews: Jewish Christians were digressing in following Jesus as Lord because of persecution and going from drifting (2:1-4), to doubting/unbelief (3:7-4:13), to ... Continue reading →

 Although today we as believers are not tempted to worship angels we may be we if we saw one like the apostle John did (Rev 19:10, 22:9). Yet in the OT, Jewish people exalted angels and some ... Continue reading →

 “Fix your eyes on Jesus” (Heb.12:2) - The problem seen in the book of Hebrews: Jewish Christians were digressing in following Jesus as Lord because of persecution and going from ... Continue reading →

The author of Hebrews is like a doctor in an emergency room. He skips over polite introductions and greetings and gets right to work. He sees a serious problem and addresses it quickly. And the ... Continue reading →

The primary purpose of prophetic teaching seen here in 2 Peter 3, in the book of Revelation and many other places in Scripture (appx. 25-30 of Scripture is prophecy) is to prepare us to be ready to ... Continue reading →

"Dear friends, this is now my second letter to you. I have written both of them as reminders to stimulate you to wholesome thinking.  I want you to recall the words spoken in the past by the ... Continue reading →

"Behold, I am coming soon! Blessed is he who keeps the words of the prophecy in this book.... the time is near. Behold, I am coming soon! My reward is with me, and I will give to everyone according ... Continue reading →

"Since you have been raised to new life with Christ, set your sights on the realities of heaven, where Christ sits in the place of honor at God& 39;s right hand. Think about the things of heaven, ... Continue reading →

"One of the two pilgrims says to the other, "When do you find yourself in the most wholesome and most vigorous spiritual state?" To which the other pilgrim says, "When I think of the place to which I ... Continue reading →