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I. ENDURE BY CONSIDERING HIM
Hebrews 12:3–4 (ESV) — 3 Consider him who endured from sinners such hostility against himself, so that you may not grow weary or fainthearted.
4 In your struggle against sin you have not yet resisted to the point of shedding your blood.
Jesus is the source of their faith and the one who perfects their faith, but at the same time believers should continue to believe and to keep their eyes on Jesus.
The race won’t last forever, and knowing there is a great reward ahead should motivate them to keep running.[1]
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ENDURE BY REMEMBERING THE EXHORTATION OF SCRIPTURE
Hebrews 12:5–8 (ESV) — 5 And have you forgotten the exhortation that addresses you as sons?
“My son, do not regard lightly the discipline of the Lord, nor be weary when reproved by him.
6 For the Lord disciplines the one he loves, and chastises every son whom he receives.”
7 It is for discipline that you have to endure.
God is treating you as sons.
For what son is there whom his father does not discipline?
8 If you are left without discipline, in which all have participated, then you are illegitimate children and not sons.
Hebrews 12:7 (CSB) — 7 Endure suffering as discipline: God is dealing with you as sons.
For what son is there that a father does not discipline?
(Read endure as an imperative, not an indicative like in ESV)
In verses 1–3 they are summoned to run the race, and the thought is similar here.
They are commanded to endure to the end, recognizing that endurance is a discipline that entails hardship and suffering.[2]
Revelation 3:19 (ESV) — 19 Those whom I love, I reprove and discipline, so be zealous and repent.
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ENDURE BY TRUSTING THE FATHER’S PURPOSE
Hebrews 12:9–11 (ESV) — 9 Besides this, we have had earthly fathers who disciplined us and we respected them.
Shall we not much more be subject to the Father of spirits and live? 10 For they disciplined us for a short time as it seemed best to them, but he disciplines us for our good, that we may share his holiness.
11 For the moment all discipline seems painful rather than pleasant, but later it yields the peaceful fruit of righteousness to those who have been trained by it.
Hebrews 5:7–10 (ESV) — 7 In the days of his flesh, Jesus offered up prayers and supplications, with loud cries and tears, to him who was able to save him from death, and he was heard because of his reverence.
8 Although he was a son, he learned obedience through what he suffered.
9 And being made perfect, he became the source of eternal salvation to all who obey him, 10 being designated by God a high priest after the order of Melchizedek.
Jesus, though fully divine, was also fully human.
he learned obedience through what he suffered.
Though always without sin (4:15; 7:26) and thus always obedient, Jesus nevertheless acquired knowledge and experience by living as a human being (cf.
Luke 2:40, 52), and he especially came to know firsthand what it cost to maintain obedience in the midst of suffering (see notes on Heb.
2:9; 2:10; 2:18; 4:15).
As Jesus “increased in wisdom and stature” (Luke 2:52), successive temptations were no doubt more difficult to deal with (cf.
Luke 4:12), and as he obeyed his Father in the face of each temptation, he “learned obedience,” so that his human moral ability was strengthened.[3]
[1] Schreiner, T. R. (2021).
Hebrews (T.
D. Alexander, T. R. Schreiner, & A. J. Köstenberger, Eds.; p. 380).
Lexham Press.
[2] Schreiner, T. R. (2021).
Hebrews (T.
D. Alexander, T. R. Schreiner, & A. J. Köstenberger, Eds.; p. 385).
Lexham Press.
[3] Crossway Bibles.
(2008).
The ESV Study Bible (p.
2368).
Crossway Bibles.
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