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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 let us also, seeing we are surrounded by so great a cloud of witnesses, lay aside every weight and the sin which so easily entangles us, and let us run with perseverance the race that is set 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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2looking to Jesus, the author and perfecter of faith, who for the joy that was set before him endured the cross, despising its shame, and has sat down at the right hand 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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3For consider him who has endured such contradiction of sinners against himself, that you don’t grow weary, fainting in your souls.
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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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4You have not yet resisted to blood, striving against sin;
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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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5and you have forgotten the exhortation which reasons with you as with children, “My son, don’t take lightly the chastening of the Lord, nor faint when you are 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 chastens, and scourges every son whom he receives.”
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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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7It is for discipline that you endure. God deals with you as with children, for what son is there whom his father doesn’t 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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8But if you are without discipline, of which all have been made partakers, then are you illegitimate, and not children.
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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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9Furthermore, we had the fathers of our flesh to chasten us, and we paid them respect. Shall we not much rather be in subjection 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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10For they indeed, for a few days, punished us as seemed good to them; but he for our profit, that we may be partakers of 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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11All chastening seems for the present to be not joyous but grievous; yet afterward it yields the peaceful fruit of righteousness to those who have been exercised thereby.
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12So don't sit around on your hands! No more dragging your feet!
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12Therefore lift up the hands that hang down and the feeble 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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13and make straight paths for your feet, so that which is lame may not be dislocated, but rather be 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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14Follow after peace with all men, and the sanctification without which no man 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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15looking carefully lest there be any man who falls short of the grace of God; lest any root of bitterness springing up trouble you, and many be defiled by it;
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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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16lest there be any sexually immoral person, or profane person, like Esau, who sold his birthright for one 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 even when he afterward desired to inherit the blessing, he was rejected, for he found no place for a change of mind though he sought it diligently 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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18For you have not come to a mountain that might be touched, and that burned with fire, and to blackness, darkness, 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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19the sound of a trumpet, and the voice of words; which those who heard it begged that not one more word should be spoken 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 stand that which was commanded, “If even an animal touches the mountain, it shall be stoned” ;
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21Even Moses was terrified.
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21and so fearful was the appearance 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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22But you have come to Mount Zion, and to the city of the living God, the heavenly Jerusalem, and to innumerable multitudes of angels,
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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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23to the festal gathering and assembly of the firstborn who are enrolled in heaven, to God the Judge of all, to the spirits of just men 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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24to Jesus, the mediator of a new covenant, and to the blood of sprinkling that speaks better 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 don’t refuse him who speaks. For if they didn’t escape when they refused him who warned on the earth, how much more will we not escape who turn away from him 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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26whose voice shook the earth then, but now he has promised, saying, “Yet once more I will shake not only the earth, but also the heavens.”
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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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27This phrase, “Yet once more”, signifies the removing of those things that are shaken, as of things that have been made, that those things which are not shaken 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, receiving a Kingdom that can’t be shaken, let us have grace, through which we serve God acceptably, with 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.