Hebrews 12:14-24

Point 1

Hebrews 12:14 ESV

14 Strive for peace with everyone, and for the holiness without which no one will see the Lord.

Strive for peace with everyone - This includes people who don’t like, includes those with different polictics than us.

Peace will takee two parties, but we can strive for it.

the holiness - peace with other are connected to holiness. You can’t see God when you are living with strife with others.

Hebrews 12:15 ESV

15 See to it that no one fails to obtain the grace of God; that no “root of bitterness” springs up and causes trouble, and by it many become defiled;

Sin that clings closely - verse 2 . Here is one of those roots. Bitterness. Originally meant sharp, peircing.

Bitterness will cause us to fail to obtain the grace of God.

Hebrews 12:16 ESV

16 that no one is sexually immoral or unholy like Esau, who sold his birthright for a single meal.

Hebrews 12:17 ESV

17 For you know that afterward, when he desired to inherit the blessing, he was rejected, for he found no chance to repent, though he sought it with tears.

Hebrews 12:18 ESV

18 For you have not come to what may be touched, a blazing fire and darkness and gloom and a tempest

Hebrews 12:19 ESV

19 and the sound of a trumpet and a voice whose words made the hearers beg that no further messages be spoken to them.

Hebrews 12:20 ESV

20 For they could not endure the order that was given, “If even a beast touches the mountain, it shall be stoned.”

Hebrews 12:21 ESV

21 Indeed, so terrifying was the sight that Moses said, “I tremble with fear.”