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Hebreus 12 — Bíblia The Message, 2002 | Gospelmais
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1Do you see what this means—all these pioneers who blazed the way, all these veterans cheering us on? It means we'd better get on with it. Strip down, start running—and never quit! No extra spiritual fat, no parasitic sins.
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1Therefore, since we are surrounded by so great a cloud of witnesses, let us rid ourselves of every burden and sin that clings to us and persevere in running the race that lies before us
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2Keep your eyes on Jesus, who both began and finished this race we're in. Study how he did it. Because he never lost sight of where he was headed—that exhilarating finish in and with God—he could put up with anything along the way: cross, shame, whatever. And now he's there, in the place of honor, right alongside God.
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2while keeping our eyes fixed on Jesus, the leader and perfecter of faith. For the sake of the joy that lay before him he endured the cross, despising its shame, and has taken his seat at the right of the throne of God.
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3When you find yourselves flagging in your faith, go over that story again, item by item, that long litany of hostility he plowed through. That will shoot adrenaline into your souls!
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3Consider how he endured such opposition from sinners, in order that you may not grow weary and lose heart.
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4In this all-out match against sin, others have suffered far worse than you, to say nothing of what Jesus went through—all that bloodshed!
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4In your struggle against sin you have not yet resisted to the point of shedding blood.
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5So don't feel sorry for yourselves. Or have you forgotten how good parents treat children, and that God regards you as his children? My dear child, don't shrug off God's discipline, but don't be crushed by it either.
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5You have also forgotten the exhortation addressed to you as sons:"My son, do not disdain the discipline of the Lord or lose heart when reproved by him;
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6It's the child he loves that he disciplines; the child he embraces, he also corrects.
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6for whom the Lord loves, he disciplines;he scourges every son he acknowledges."
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7God is educating you; that's why you must never drop out. He's treating you as dear children. This trouble you're in isn't punishment; it's training,
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7Endure your trials as "discipline"; God treats you as sons. For what "son" is there whom his father does not discipline?
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8the normal experience of children. Only irresponsible parents leave children to fend for themselves. Would you prefer an irresponsible God?
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8If you are without discipline, in which all have shared, you are not sons but bastards.
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9We respect our own parents for training and not spoiling us, so why not embrace God's training so we can truly live?
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9Besides this, we have had our earthly fathers to discipline us, and we respected them. Should we not submit all the more to the Father of spirits and live?
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10While we were children, our parents did what seemed best to them. But God is doing what is best for us, training us to live God's holy best.
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10They disciplined us for a short time as seemed right to them, but he does so for our benefit, in order that we may share his holiness.
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11At the time, discipline isn't much fun. It always feels like it's going against the grain. Later, of course, it pays off handsomely, for it's the well-trained who find themselves mature in their relationship with God.
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11At the time, all discipline seems a cause not for joy but for pain, yet later it brings the peaceful fruit of righteousness to those who are trained by it.
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12So don't sit around on your hands! No more dragging your feet!
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12So strengthen your drooping hands and your weak knees.
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13Clear the path for long-distance runners so no one will trip and fall, so no one will step in a hole and sprain an ankle. Help each other out. And run for it!
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13Make straight paths for your feet, that what is lame may not be dislocated but healed.
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14Work at getting along with each other and with God. Otherwise you'll never get so much as a glimpse of God.
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14Strive for peace with everyone, and for that holiness without which no one will see the Lord.
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15Make sure no one gets left out of God's generosity. Keep a sharp eye out for weeds of bitter discontent. A thistle or two gone to seed can ruin a whole garden in no time.
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15See to it that no one be deprived of the grace of God, that no bitter root spring up and cause trouble, through which many may become defiled,
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16Watch out for the Esau syndrome: trading away God's lifelong gift in order to satisfy a short-term appetite.
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16that no one be an immoral or profane person like Esau, who sold his birthright for a single meal.
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17You well know how Esau later regretted that impulsive act and wanted God's blessing—but by then it was too late, tears or no tears.
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17For you know that later, when he wanted to inherit his father's blessing, he was rejected because he found no opportunity to change his mind, even though he sought the blessing with tears.
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18Unlike your ancestors, you didn't come to Mount Sinai—all that volcanic blaze and earthshaking rumble—
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18You have not approached that which could be touched and a blazing fire and gloomy darkness and storm
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19to hear God speak. The earsplitting words and soul-shaking message terrified them and they begged him to stop.
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19and a trumpet blast and a voice speaking words such that those who heard begged that no message be further addressed to them,
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20When they heard the words—"If an animal touches the Mountain, it's as good as dead"—they were afraid to move.
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20for they could not bear to hear the command: "If even an animal touches the mountain, it shall be stoned."
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21Even Moses was terrified.
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21Indeed, so fearful was the spectacle that Moses said, "I am terrified and trembling."
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22No, that's not your experience at all. You've come to Mount Zion, the city where the living God resides. The invisible Jerusalem is populated by throngs of festive angels
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22No, you have approached Mount Zion and the city of the living God, the heavenly Jerusalem, and countless angels in festal gathering,
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23and Christian citizens. It is the city where God is Judge, with judgments that make us just.
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23and the assembly of the firstborn enrolled in heaven, and God the judge of all, and the spirits of the just made perfect,
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24You've come to Jesus, who presents us with a new covenant, a fresh charter from God. He is the Mediator of this covenant. The murder of Jesus, unlike Abel's—a homicide that cried out for vengeance—became a proclamation of grace.
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24and Jesus, the mediator of a new covenant, and the sprinkled blood that speaks more eloquently than that of Abel.
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25So don't turn a deaf ear to these gracious words. If those who ignored earthly warnings didn't get away with it, what will happen to us if we turn our backs on heavenly warnings?
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25See that you do not reject the one who speaks. For if they did not escape when they refused the one who warned them on earth, how much more in our case if we turn away from the one who warns from heaven.
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26His voice that time shook the earth to its foundations; this time—he's told us this quite plainly—he'll also rock the heavens: "One last shaking, from top to bottom, stem to stern."
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26His voice shook the earth at that time, but now he has promised, "I will once more shake not only earth but heaven."
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27The phrase "one last shaking" means a thorough housecleaning, getting rid of all the historical and religious junk so that the unshakable essentials stand clear and uncluttered.
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27That phrase, "once more," points to removal of shaken, created things, so that what is unshaken may remain.
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28Do you see what we've got? An unshakable kingdom! And do you see how thankful we must be? Not only thankful, but brimming with worship, deeply reverent before God. For God is not an indifferent bystander.
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28Therefore, we who are receiving the unshakable kingdom should have gratitude, with which we should offer worship pleasing to God in reverence and awe.
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29He's actively cleaning house, torching all that needs to burn, and he won't quit until it's all cleansed. God himself is Fire!
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29For our God is a consuming fire.