Hebrews 12:29

Sermon Bible Commentary - Hebrews 12:28-29

Hebrews 12:28-29 The Religion of the Day. In every age of Christianity, since it was first preached, there has been what may be called a religion of the world, which so far imitates the one true religion as to deceive the unstable and unwary. The world does not oppose religion as such. It has in all ages acknowledged, in one sense or other, the Gospel of Christ, fastened on one or other of its characteristics, and professed to embody this in its practice; while, by neglecting the other parts... read more

William Nicoll

Sermon Bible Commentary - Hebrews 12:29

Hebrews 12:29 I. In the word "fire" there is the idea of purity, which belongs as an essential quality to the element itself. It is not possible to conceive of flame as impure. The material which is being consumed may be impure, the smoke which proceeds from the flame may be thick and black and suffocating, but the flame itself, freely and fully burning, is pure, taintless, without trace of corruption or uncleanness. Who can tell the purity of God, whose symbol is a flame? II. Fire is a... read more

Charles Simeon

Charles Simeon's Horae Homileticae - Hebrews 12:28-29

DISCOURSE: 2341GOD TO BE SERVED WITH REVERENTIAL FEARHebrews 12:28-29. Wherefore we receiving a kingdom which cannot be moved, let us have grace, whereby we may serve God acceptably with reverence and godly fear: for our God is a consuming fire.THE Christian world are little aware how much we are indebted to the holy Apostles, or rather to God, by whose inspiration they wrote, for the light which they have thrown upon the prophecies of the Old Testament. To this hour should we have been almost... read more

Chuck Smith

Chuck Smith Bible Commentary - Hebrews 12:1-29

Shall we turn now to Hebrews, chapter 12.Wherefore, seeing we are also compassed about with so great a cloud of witnesses ( Hebrews 12:1 ),What this does not mean is that the Old Testament saints, which are spoken of in chapter 11, are sitting there in heaven watching the activities on the earth. It doesn't mean that they are just watching us to see how we are going to react and respond and we've got this big gallery up here of Old Testament saints. It does mean that their life of faith and... read more

Joseph Sutcliffe

Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments - Hebrews 12:1-29

Hebrews 12:1 . Wherefore, seeing we also are compassed about with so great a cloud of witnesses. Confessors and martyrs of the ancient church are here supposed to be the spectators of our course, and we are here called upon to follow these veterans of the faith. Their number is such that they are said to be a cloud, like the assembled multitudes seen on special occasions to witness some extraordinary spectacle. Nor is it the celestial host only that are interested in this contest; we are... read more

Joseph Exell

The Biblical Illustrator - Hebrews 12:25-29

Hebrews 12:25-29Refuse not Him that speakethThe voice of God in the vicissitudes of humanityI.THE VOICE OF GOD IS VARIOUSLY UTTERED IN DIFFERENT AGES OF THE WORLD. God speaks to rational beings on earth in two general ways1. Natural. Everything around and within us is a book; all these are materials of knowledge--the soul alone is the reader, the student, the philosopher, the interpreter; a world is spread out by God, impressed with principles and laws for man, that he may look through them to... read more

Joseph Exell

The Biblical Illustrator - Hebrews 12:29

Hebrews 12:29Our God is a consuming fireThe fire of GodI.THE FACT. It is doubly certified. Science and revelation attest it with concordant voices. The testimony of Nature, as interpreted by science, affirms the working upon a prodigious scale of a law of destruction, ever since life first appeared upon the globe. The scientific formula of this law is in the familiar phrase, “the survival of the fittest.” For countless ages there has been going on throughout the domain of physical life, a... read more

John Trapp

John Trapp Complete Commentary - Hebrews 12:29

29 For our God is a consuming fire. Ver. 29. A consuming fire ] viz. To profligate professors, ungirt Christians, Isaiah 33:14 . And whereas the apostle saith Our God, he means the God of Christians also (as well as of Jews) is a consuming fire, see Exodus 23:20 , with the note. As he is Pater miserationum, a Father of mercies to the penitent, so he is Deus ultionum, a God of vengeance to the rebellious. And as there is a legal and evangelical repentance, so also faith, to be exercised... read more

Samuel Bagster

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge - Hebrews 12:29

Hebrews 10:27, Exodus 24:17, Numbers 11:1, Numbers 16:35, Deuteronomy 4:24, Deuteronomy 9:3, Psalms 50:3, Psalms 97:3, Isaiah 66:15, Daniel 7:9, 2 Thessalonians 1:8 Reciprocal: Genesis 18:30 - General Exodus 15:11 - fearful Exodus 19:21 - break Exodus 19:24 - but let Exodus 20:26 - thy nakedness Exodus 30:20 - die not Exodus 34:7 - that will by no means clear the guilty Leviticus 10:3 - I will be Numbers 16:21 - that I may Deuteronomy 5:25 - this great Deuteronomy 28:58 - fear this glorious... read more

John Wesley

Wesley's Explanatory Notes - Hebrews 12:29

For our God is a consuming fire.For our God is a consuming fire — in the strictness of his justice, and purity of his holiness. read more

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