Hebrews 12:28-29

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 12:28

28 Wherefore we receiving a kingdom which cannot be moved, let us have grace, whereby we may serve God acceptably with reverence and godly fear: Ver. 28. A kingdom which cannot be moved ] As the mighty monarchies of the world could; for those had their times and their turns, their ruin as well as their rise, so that now they live but by fame only. Not so the kingdom of heaven. You may write upon it the Venetian motto, Nec fluctu, nec flatu movetur; Neither winds nor waves can stir it. We... 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 12:28

a kingdom: Isaiah 9:7, Daniel 2:44, Daniel 7:14, Daniel 7:27, Matthew 25:34, Luke 1:33, Luke 17:20, Luke 17:21, 1 Peter 1:4, 1 Peter 1:5, Revelation 1:6, Revelation 5:10 have: or, hold fast, Hebrews 3:6, Hebrews 10:23 we may: Psalms 19:14, Isaiah 56:7, Romans 12:1, Romans 12:2, Ephesians 1:6, Ephesians 5:10, Philippians 4:18, 1 Peter 2:5, 1 Peter 2:20 with reverence: Hebrews 4:16, Hebrews 5:7, Hebrews 10:19, Hebrews 10:22, Leviticus 10:3, Psalms 2:11, Psalms 89:7, Proverbs 28:24, Romans... 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 12:28

Wherefore we receiving a kingdom which cannot be moved, let us have grace, whereby we may serve God acceptably with reverence and godly fear:Therefore let us, receiving — By willing and joyful faith.A kingdom — More glorious than the present heaven and earth.Hold fast the grace, whereby we may serve God — In every thought, word, and work.With reverence — Literally, with shame. Arising from a deep consciousness of our own unworthiness.And godly fear — A tender, jealous fear of offending,... 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

Daniel Whedon

Whedon's Commentary on the Bible - Hebrews 12:28

28. Receiving a kingdom That kingdom, once underlying Mosaicism, now underlies Christianity. We stand, therefore, upon an immutable basis. On that basis we may serve God acceptably. Yet not with unmingled joy. A godly fear yet remains, not as to the trueness of our basis, not as to the faithfulness of God, but as to our own faithfulness. Our Hebrews may relapse from the true basis of Christianity to the false foundations of old Judaism from Zion to Sinai. read more

Daniel Whedon

Whedon's Commentary on the Bible - Hebrews 12:29

29. For Before this for the Greek has a most pregnant and. Its meaning is, And all this fear is right, for, etc. God… fire Quoted from Deuteronomy 4:24, “For the Lord thy God is a consuming fire, even a jealous God.” It was a fearful reason given by Moses to warn them from forsaking the old covenant and apostatizing to idolatry; it is now repeated to warn these Hebrews against relapsing into obsolete Judaism. We might place the emphasis on our, and then the meaning would be, that the... read more

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