The Epistle to the Hebrews

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So, we must not keep discussing what we first learned about Messiah, things that all believers must learn at first. Some of these things are how to stop doing sinful deeds, those that lead to death, and how to start trusting in God.

There are also important things we teach: Various kinds of baptism, why we often pray while putting our hands on each other; and also about how God will raise us all from the dead and judge everyone in a way that will last forever. Indeed, we will discuss these things again later, if God gives us the chance to do it.

But now we must discuss things that are harder to understand; these are things that will help us to trust in Messiah in all times, no matter what happens.

I will explain why it is important to do this. Some people have at one time understood the message about Messiah. They learned what it was like for God to forgive them and for Messiah to love them, and they received gifts from the Holy Spirit.

They found for themselves that God’s message is good, and they learned how God will work powerfully in the future.

But now, if these people reject Messiah, no one will be able to persuade them to stop sinning and to trust in him again! That is because it is as though these people have nailed the Son of God to his cross again! They are causing people to despise Messiah in front of others.

Think about this: God has blessed land on which rain has frequently fallen and on which plants grow for the farmers.

But what will happen to believers who do not obey God is like what happens to land on which only thorns and thistles grow. Such land is worthless. It has become land that the farmer will curse and whose plants he will burn away.

You can see that I am warning you, dear friends, not to reject Messiah. At the same time, I am certain that you are doing better than that. You are doing the things that are in conformity with the fact that God is saving you.

Since God always acts justly, he will not overlook all you have done for him; he will not overlook how you have loved and helped your fellow believers, and how you are still helping them.

We greatly desire that each of you continue to show the same effort you are showing now, so that to the very end of your lives, you will be sure you will receive all that God promised to give you.

I do not want you to be lazy. Instead, I want you to do what other believers have done, those who are receiving what God promised them, because they trusted in him and were patient.

God’s Unchangeable Promise

When God promised to do great things for Abraham, there was no one greater than himself whom he could ask to force himself to do those things. So he asked himself.

Then he said to Abraham, “I will certainly bless you and I will certainly greatly increase the number of your descendants.”

So after Abraham patiently waited for God to do what he promised, God did for him what he had promised.

Keep in mind that when people promise something, they ask a more important person to punish them if they do not do what they promise. This is how they often settle disputes.

So when God wanted to demonstrate very clearly to us who would receive what he had promised that he would not change what he had planned to do, he said that he would declare himself guilty if he did not do what he promised.

He did that to strongly encourage us, because he has done two things that cannot change: He promised to help us, and he told us that he would declare himself guilty if he did not help us. Now, God cannot lie. That is why we have trusted in him, just as he has encouraged us to do.

Yes, we confidently expect to receive what God has promised to do for us. It is as if we were a ship, whose anchor is holding us firmly in one place. The one we confidently expect to hold us is Jesus, because he has gone into God’s very presence. This is why he is just like the high priests who go behind the curtain into the innermost part of the temple, where God is present.

Jesus went into God’s presence ahead of us to allow us to enter in that same place with God, too. Jesus has become a high priest forever, in the way that Melchizedek was a high priest.

Die Gefahr, nicht voranzukommen

Darum wollen wir die Anfangsgründe der Lehre Christi übergehen und uns zum Vollkommenerem erheben, indem wir nicht wiederum den Grund legen mit der Lehre von der Bekehrung von den toten Werken und dem Glauben an Gott,

von den Taufen, der Handauflegung, der Auferstehung der Toten und dem ewigen Gerichte.

Ja, dies wollen wir tun, wenn anders Gott es gestattet.

Denn es ist unmöglich, dass solche, welche einmal erleuchtet worden und die himmlische Gabe gekostet haben, die des Heiligen Geistes teilhaftig geworden sind,

und das köstliche Wort Gottes und die Kräfte der zukünftigen Welt gekostet haben,

und doch abgefallen sind, wiederum zur Sinnesumkehr erneuert werden, sie, die für sich den Sohn Gottes von neuem kreuzigen und den Schmähungen preisgeben.

Denn ein Land, welches den oftmals darauf herabkommenden Regen einsaugt, und Gewächse trägt zum Nutzen für diejenigen, die es bebauen, empfängt Segen von Gott.

Bringt es aber Dornen und Disteln hervor, so ist es verworfen und dem Fluche nahe, und sein Ende ist Verbrennung.

Eine bessere Schätzung

Von euch aber, Geliebte! versehen wir uns eines Bessern, dessen, was dem Heile näher ist, obgleich wir diese Sprache führen müssen.

Denn Gott ist nicht ungerecht, dass er eures Wirkens und der Liebe vergessen sollte, die ihr gegen seinen Namen bewiesen habt, da ihr den Heiligen dientet und noch dient.

Wir wünschten aber, dass ein jeder von euch denselben Eifer beweise, um volle Hoffnung zu haben bis an´s Ende;

damit ihr nicht träge werdet, sondern Nachahmer derer, welche durch Glauben und Ausdauer die Verheißungen ererben werden.

Gottes unfehlbare Absicht in Christus

Denn als Gott dem Abraham eine Verheißung gab, schwor er, da er keinem Höheren schwören konnte, bei sich selbst

und sprach: Wahrlich, ich will dich reichlich segnen, und dich überaus mehren.

Und da dieser geduldig darauf harrte, erlangte er so das Verheißene.

Menschen nämlich schwören bei dem Höheren; und der Eid, zur Bekräftigung geleistet, macht jeder Widerrede unter ihnen ein Ende.

Deswegen hat Gott, um den Erben der Verheißung die Unwandelbarkeit seines Ratschlusses umso stärker zu zeigen, einen Eid beigefügt,

damit wir, durch zwei unwandelbare Tatsachen, bei denen Gott unmöglich lügen kann, einen festen Trost haben, wir, die wir unsere Zuflucht dazu genommen haben, an der gebotenen Hoffnung festzuhalten,

in der wir einen sicheren und festen Anker für unsere Seele haben, der hineinreicht in das Innere hinter dem Vorhange;

wohin als Vorläufer für uns Jesus eingegangen ist, indem er nach der Ordnung Melchisedechs Hoherpriester ward in Ewigkeit.