On Hebrews 13:20, 21
This is one of the green pastures, and the provendor is thick, sweet, and nourishing. Every word is weighted with intrinsic worth and holy wealth.
1. Personal Title of God. “The God of Peace.” The God of Peace proclaims the calm of His holiness, the quiet of His love, the stillness of His rest, the power of His Word, the resources of His grace, the steadiness of His purpose, the harbour of His care, the beauty of His character, and the glory of His nature.
2. Powerful Act of God. “That brought again from the dead our Lord Jesus.” Without disturbing swathing bands, weight of spices, heavy stone, God brought Christ through them all. Hades could not hold Him, nor the grave detain Him, nor Hell hinder Him. The resurrection of Christ proclaims the greatness of God’s power, and also its might.
3. Pastoral Character of Christ. “That great Shepherd of the sheep.” His sheep are blood-bought, hand-kept, spirit-led, grace-guarded, word-sanctified, divinely-marked, and promise-fed. He is great to do all these things, and loves to serve them. He lives to bless them, as He died to purchase them.
4. Propitiating Blood of the Covenant. “Through the blood of the everlasting covenant.” By means of (as “through” signifies) Christ’s Blood, Heaven is satisfied, justice is magnified, law is gratified, Hell is stultified, saints are sanctified, sinners are vivified, Christian workers are intensified, and believers will be glorified. The covenant was made between Father and Son, and we get the benefit, and that benefit is eternal in its blessing.
5. Perfecting of the Saints. “Make you perfect in every good work to do His will.” To answer to God’s will by being thoroughly adjusted to His Word, is to be perfect. For this perfection we need the Perfect One. The will of God, nothing less, nothing more, nothing else. When God has His way with us we get our way with Him, because we only want what He gives. To be God-made is to be God-stayed.
6. Performance of the Lord. “Working (margin, “doing”) in you.” Mark the present tense, “working.” Not “did work” nor “will work,” but is “working.” When the Lord puts His hand to the plough He never looks back. There is no looking back with Jehovah. When He takes up, He never gives up. When He begins He completes.
7. Pleasing to the Lord. “That which is well-pleasing in His sight.” The consciousness of the Lord’s presence is the soul of consecration. To please the Lord always produces a pleasure to the one who does it. Here again the Lord is the end, as well as the beginning and centre. The Leviticus of His pleasure is reached by the Exodus of His redemptive leading; and the Genesis of His grace.
8. Preposition of Grace. “Through Jesus Christ.” The preposition “through” means, by means of the active agency of our Lord. His activities did not cease at the Cross; they began there with a new purpose and power. He is still the active agent by means of whom all blessing flows to us. We never can get beyond the sphere of His grace. Any and everything we need as saints and servants, as well as sinners, is “through Jesus Christ” our Lord.
9. Praise to the Lord. “To whom be glory for ever and ever, Amen.” We may well bless Him with our praises, since He has blessed us with His mercies. A thankless man is a disgrace and a dishonour, but a thankful man is a delight and an honour.
I HOPE YOU FOUND THIS QUICK STUDY OF HELP TO YOU.
PASTOR ANDRA HIGGINBOTHAM
EVERLASTING SALVATION CHURCH OF GOD MINISTRIES
PayPal.me/donatetochurch
Church link:
Everlastingsalvationchurchofgod.com