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The Only Way Forward Is Back by Jackson TerKeurst

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1 + 2 Peter | Reading Plan + Study Questions

After the Cross

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         <div class="label">1</div><div class="s1"><span class="heading">God&#8217;s Final Word: His Son</span></div><div class="p"><span class="content">  </span><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="HEB.1.1"><span class="label">1</span><span class="content">In the past God spoke to our ancestors through the prophets at many times and in various ways, </span></span><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="HEB.1.2"><span class="label">2</span><span class="content">but in these last days he has spoken to us by his Son, whom he appointed heir of all things, and through whom also he made the universe. </span></span><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="HEB.1.3"><span class="label">3</span><span class="content">The Son is the radiance of God&#8217;s glory and the exact representation of his being, sustaining all things by his powerful word. After he had provided purification for sins, he sat down at the right hand of the Majesty in heaven. </span></span><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="HEB.1.4"><span class="label">4</span><span class="content">So he became as much superior to the angels as the name he has inherited is superior to theirs.</span></span></div><div class="s1"><span class="heading">The Son Superior to Angels</span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="HEB.1.4"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="HEB.1.5"><span class="label">5</span><span class="content">For to which of the angels did God ever say,</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="HEB.1.5"><span class="content">&#8220;You are my Son;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="HEB.1.5"><span class="content">today I have become your Father&#8221;</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">1:5 </span><span class="ft">Psalm 2:7</span></span></span><span class="content">?</span></span></div><div class="m"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="HEB.1.5"><span class="content">Or again,</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="HEB.1.5"><span class="content">&#8220;I will be his Father,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="HEB.1.5"><span class="content">and he will be my Son&#8221;</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">1:5 </span><span class="ft">2 Samuel 7:14; 1 Chron. 17:13</span></span></span><span class="content">?</span></span></div><div class="m"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="HEB.1.5"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="HEB.1.6"><span class="label">6</span><span class="content">And again, when God brings his firstborn into the world, he says,</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="HEB.1.6"><span class="content">&#8220;Let all God&#8217;s angels worship him.&#8221;</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">1:6 </span><span class="ft">Deut. 32:43 (see Dead Sea Scrolls and Septuagint)</span></span></span></span></div><div class="m"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="HEB.1.6"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="HEB.1.7"><span class="label">7</span><span class="content">In speaking of the angels he says,</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="HEB.1.7"><span class="content">&#8220;He makes his angels spirits,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="HEB.1.7"><span class="content">and his servants flames of fire.&#8221;</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">1:7 </span><span class="ft">Psalm 104:4</span></span></span></span></div><div class="m"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="HEB.1.7"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="HEB.1.8"><span class="label">8</span><span class="content">But about the Son he says,</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="HEB.1.8"><span class="content">&#8220;Your throne, O God, will last for ever and ever;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="HEB.1.8"><span class="content">a scepter of justice will be the scepter of your kingdom.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="HEB.1.8"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="HEB.1.9"><span class="label">9</span><span class="content">You have loved righteousness and hated wickedness;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="HEB.1.9"><span class="content">therefore God, your God, has set you above your companions</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="HEB.1.9"><span class="content">by anointing you with the oil of joy.&#8221;</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">1:9 </span><span class="ft">Psalm 45:6,7</span></span></span></span></div><div class="m"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="HEB.1.9"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="HEB.1.10"><span class="label">10</span><span class="content">He also says,</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="HEB.1.10"><span class="content">&#8220;In the beginning, Lord, you laid the foundations of the earth,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="HEB.1.10"><span class="content">and the heavens are the work of your hands.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="HEB.1.10"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="HEB.1.11"><span class="label">11</span><span class="content">They will perish, but you remain;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="HEB.1.11"><span class="content">they will all wear out like a garment.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="HEB.1.11"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="HEB.1.12"><span class="label">12</span><span class="content">You will roll them up like a robe;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="HEB.1.12"><span class="content">like a garment they will be changed.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="HEB.1.12"><span class="content">But you remain the same,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="HEB.1.12"><span class="content">and your years will never end.&#8221;</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">1:12 </span><span class="ft">Psalm 102:25-27</span></span></span></span></div><div class="m"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="HEB.1.12"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="HEB.1.13"><span class="label">13</span><span class="content">To which of the angels did God ever say,</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="HEB.1.13"><span class="content">&#8220;Sit at my right hand</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="HEB.1.13"><span class="content">until I make your enemies</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="HEB.1.13"><span class="content">a footstool for your feet&#8221;</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">1:13 </span><span class="ft">Psalm 110:1</span></span></span><span class="content">?</span></span></div><div class="m"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="HEB.1.13"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="HEB.1.14"><span class="label">14</span><span class="content">Are not all angels ministering spirits sent to serve those who will inherit salvation?</span></span></div>
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         <div class="label">2</div><div class="s1"><span class="heading">Warning to Pay Attention</span></div><div class="p"><span class="content">  </span><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="HEB.2.1"><span class="label">1</span><span class="content">We must pay the most careful attention, therefore, to what we have heard, so that we do not drift away. </span></span><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="HEB.2.2"><span class="label">2</span><span class="content">For since the message spoken through angels was binding, and every violation and disobedience received its just punishment, </span></span><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="HEB.2.3"><span class="label">3</span><span class="content">how shall we escape if we ignore so great a salvation? This salvation, which was first announced by the Lord, was confirmed to us by those who heard him. </span></span><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="HEB.2.4"><span class="label">4</span><span class="content">God also testified to it by signs, wonders and various miracles, and by gifts of the Holy Spirit distributed according to his will.</span></span></div><div class="s1"><span class="heading">Jesus Made Fully Human</span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="HEB.2.4"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="HEB.2.5"><span class="label">5</span><span class="content">It is not to angels that he has subjected the world to come, about which we are speaking. </span></span><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="HEB.2.6"><span class="label">6</span><span class="content">But there is a place where someone has testified:</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="HEB.2.6"><span class="content">&#8220;What is mankind that you are mindful of them,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="HEB.2.6"><span class="content">a son of man that you care for him?</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="HEB.2.6"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="HEB.2.7"><span class="label">7</span><span class="content">You made them a little</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">2:7 </span><span class="ft">Or </span><span class="fqa">them for a little while</span></span></span><span class="content"> lower than the angels;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="HEB.2.7"><span class="content">you crowned them with glory and honor</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="HEB.2.7"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="HEB.2.8"><span class="label">8</span><span class="content">and put everything under their feet.&#8221;</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">2:6-8 </span><span class="ft">Psalm 8:4-6</span></span></span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">2:7,8 </span><span class="ft">Or </span><span class="fv">7 </span><span class="fqa">You made him a little lower than the angels; / you crowned him with glory and honor / </span><span class="fv">8 </span><span class="fqa">and put everything under his feet.&#8221;</span></span></span></span></div><div class="m"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="HEB.2.8"><span class="content">In putting everything under them,</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">2:8 </span><span class="ft">Or </span><span class="fqa">him</span></span></span><span class="content"> God left nothing that is not subject to them.</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">2:8 </span><span class="ft">Or </span><span class="fqa">him</span></span></span><span class="content"> Yet at present we do not see everything subject to them.</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">2:8 </span><span class="ft">Or </span><span class="fqa">him</span></span></span><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="HEB.2.9"><span class="label">9</span><span class="content">But we do see Jesus, who was made lower than the angels for a little while, now crowned with glory and honor because he suffered death, so that by the grace of God he might taste death for everyone.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="HEB.2.9"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="HEB.2.10"><span class="label">10</span><span class="content">In bringing many sons and daughters to glory, it was fitting that God, for whom and through whom everything exists, should make the pioneer of their salvation perfect through what he suffered. </span></span><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="HEB.2.11"><span class="label">11</span><span class="content">Both the one who makes people holy and those who are made holy are of the same family. So Jesus is not ashamed to call them brothers and sisters.</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">2:11 </span><span class="ft">The Greek word for </span><span class="fq">brothers and sisters </span><span class="ft">(<span class="tl">adelphoi</span>) refers here to believers, both men and women, as part of God&#8217;s family; also in verse 12; and in 3:1, 12; 10:19; 13:22.</span></span></span><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="HEB.2.12"><span class="label">12</span><span class="content">He says,</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="HEB.2.12"><span class="content">&#8220;I will declare your name to my brothers and sisters;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="HEB.2.12"><span class="content">in the assembly I will sing your praises.&#8221;</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">2:12 </span><span class="ft">Psalm 22:22</span></span></span></span></div><div class="m"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="HEB.2.12"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="HEB.2.13"><span class="label">13</span><span class="content">And again,</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="HEB.2.13"><span class="content">&#8220;I will put my trust in him.&#8221;</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">2:13 </span><span class="ft">Isaiah 8:17</span></span></span></span></div><div class="m"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="HEB.2.13"><span class="content">And again he says,</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="HEB.2.13"><span class="content">&#8220;Here am I, and the children God has given me.&#8221;</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">2:13 </span><span class="ft">Isaiah 8:18</span></span></span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="HEB.2.13"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="HEB.2.14"><span class="label">14</span><span class="content">Since the children have flesh and blood, he too shared in their humanity so that by his death he might break the power of him who holds the power of death&#8212;that is, the devil&#8212; </span></span><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="HEB.2.15"><span class="label">15</span><span class="content">and free those who all their lives were held in slavery by their fear of death. </span></span><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="HEB.2.16"><span class="label">16</span><span class="content">For surely it is not angels he helps, but Abraham&#8217;s descendants. </span></span><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="HEB.2.17"><span class="label">17</span><span class="content">For this reason he had to be made like them,</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">2:17 </span><span class="ft">Or </span><span class="fqa">like his brothers</span></span></span><span class="content"> fully human in every way, in order that he might become a merciful and faithful high priest in service to God, and that he might make atonement for the sins of the people. </span></span><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="HEB.2.18"><span class="label">18</span><span class="content">Because he himself suffered when he was tempted, he is able to help those who are being tempted.</span></span></div>
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         <div class="label">3</div><div class="s1"><span class="heading">Jesus Greater Than Moses</span></div><div class="p"><span class="content">  </span><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="HEB.3.1"><span class="label">1</span><span class="content">Therefore, holy brothers and sisters, who share in the heavenly calling, fix your thoughts on Jesus, whom we acknowledge as our apostle and high priest. </span></span><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="HEB.3.2"><span class="label">2</span><span class="content">He was faithful to the one who appointed him, just as Moses was faithful in all God&#8217;s house. </span></span><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="HEB.3.3"><span class="label">3</span><span class="content">Jesus has been found worthy of greater honor than Moses, just as the builder of a house has greater honor than the house itself. </span></span><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="HEB.3.4"><span class="label">4</span><span class="content">For every house is built by someone, but God is the builder of everything. </span></span><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="HEB.3.5"><span class="label">5</span><span class="content">&#8220;Moses was faithful as a servant in all God&#8217;s house,&#8221;</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">3:5 </span><span class="ft">Num. 12:7</span></span></span><span class="content"> bearing witness to what would be spoken by God in the future. </span></span><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="HEB.3.6"><span class="label">6</span><span class="content">But Christ is faithful as the Son over God&#8217;s house. And we are his house, if indeed we hold firmly to our confidence and the hope in which we glory.</span></span></div><div class="s1"><span class="heading">Warning Against Unbelief</span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="HEB.3.6"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="HEB.3.7"><span class="label">7</span><span class="content">So, as the Holy Spirit says:</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="HEB.3.7"><span class="content">&#8220;Today, if you hear his voice,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="HEB.3.7"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="HEB.3.8"><span class="label">8</span><span class="content">do not harden your hearts</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="HEB.3.8"><span class="content">as you did in the rebellion,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="HEB.3.8"><span class="content">during the time of testing in the wilderness,</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="HEB.3.8"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="HEB.3.9"><span class="label">9</span><span class="content">where your ancestors tested and tried me,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="HEB.3.9"><span class="content">though for forty years they saw what I did.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="HEB.3.9"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="HEB.3.10"><span class="label">10</span><span class="content">That is why I was angry with that generation;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="HEB.3.10"><span class="content">I said, &#8216;Their hearts are always going astray,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="HEB.3.10"><span class="content">and they have not known my ways.&#8217;</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="HEB.3.10"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="HEB.3.11"><span class="label">11</span><span class="content">So I declared on oath in my anger,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="HEB.3.11"><span class="content">&#8216;They shall never enter my rest.&#8217;&#8198;&#8221;</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">3:11 </span><span class="ft">Psalm 95:7-11</span></span></span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="HEB.3.11"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="HEB.3.12"><span class="label">12</span><span class="content">See to it, brothers and sisters, that none of you has a sinful, unbelieving heart that turns away from the living God. </span></span><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="HEB.3.13"><span class="label">13</span><span class="content">But encourage one another daily, as long as it is called &#8220;Today,&#8221; so that none of you may be hardened by sin&#8217;s deceitfulness. </span></span><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="HEB.3.14"><span class="label">14</span><span class="content">We have come to share in Christ, if indeed we hold our original conviction firmly to the very end. </span></span><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="HEB.3.15"><span class="label">15</span><span class="content">As has just been said:</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="HEB.3.15"><span class="content">&#8220;Today, if you hear his voice,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="HEB.3.15"><span class="content">do not harden your hearts</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="HEB.3.15"><span class="content">as you did in the rebellion.&#8221;</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">3:15 </span><span class="ft">Psalm 95:7,8</span></span></span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="HEB.3.15"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="HEB.3.16"><span class="label">16</span><span class="content">Who were they who heard and rebelled? Were they not all those Moses led out of Egypt? </span></span><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="HEB.3.17"><span class="label">17</span><span class="content">And with whom was he angry for forty years? Was it not with those who sinned, whose bodies perished in the wilderness? </span></span><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="HEB.3.18"><span class="label">18</span><span class="content">And to whom did God swear that they would never enter his rest if not to those who disobeyed? </span></span><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="HEB.3.19"><span class="label">19</span><span class="content">So we see that they were not able to enter, because of their unbelief.</span></span></div>
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