விரிவுரை தற்போது ஆங்கிலத்தில் மட்டுமே கிடைக்கிறது. தமிழ் மொழிபெயர்ப்பு நடைபெறுகிறது.
Hebrews 4 — The Word of God Is Quick, and Powerful, and Sharper Than Any Twoedged Sword
Let us fear, lest a promise being left us of entering into His rest, any of you should seem to come short of it. For we who have believed do enter into rest. There remaineth therefore a rest to the people of God. Let us labour to enter into that rest, lest any man fall after the same example of unbelief. The Word of God is quick, and powerful, sharper than any twoedged sword. Seeing then that we have a great high priest, Jesus the Son of God, let us hold fast our profession. We have not a high priest which cannot be touched with the feeling of our infirmities; but was in all points tempted like as we are, yet without sin. Let us therefore come boldly unto the throne of grace.
“Let us therefore come boldly unto the throne of grace, that we may obtain mercy, and find grace to help in time of need.”
— Hebrews 4:16
- v.1-10 A rest remaining for the people of God
- v.11-13 The living word of God
- v.14-16 A sympathetic high priest; boldness at the throne
Quick — alive. The Bible is not a dead book; it acts upon the reader. Powerful — effective; it does the work it announces. Sharper than any twoedged sword — cuts through to the deepest layers of the inner life.
Discerner of the thoughts and intents of the heart. Scripture diagnoses. The reader who handles it honestly is handled by it — exposed, separated, weighed.
Touched with the feeling. The high priest who handles us has felt our temptations from inside. He is not a distant theologian of suffering; He has known it.
Yet without sin. He felt the pressure without the yielding. He is therefore qualified — His sinlessness preserves Him as Saviour; His suffering qualifies Him as sympathizer.
Boldly. Not cringing. The believer has access purchased; he comes confidently. Timidity at the throne of grace dishonors the One who opened it.
In time of need. The throne is for the worst moments. Obtain mercy — for what is past. Grace to help — for what is now. Both available; both adequate.
Verse 16 is the most pastoral verse in Hebrews. Come boldly. When the day has gone wrong, when you have failed, when the need is large — come. The throne is named of grace for a reason. The cringing visitor is not the model; the confident child is.
Hebrews 4 hands you the great high priest. The same Jesus who tasted death (2:9), who is Son over the house (3:6), is the One who feels your weakness and welcomes you boldly. The chapter's climax — let us therefore come — is the practical theology of the whole book in one sentence.
Rest. Not idleness — completed labor, settled in God. The believer enters the rest by faith now and will enter it fully then. Christianity is the religion of work-finished, not work-still-anxious.
A particular Greek word — sabbatismos, a sabbath-keeping. The believer's rest in Christ is the true Sabbath the weekly day pointed toward.