Hebrews 2:4-8 Bible Teaching - The Great News Network
Shawn conducted a Bible teaching on Hebrews 2:4-8, focusing on the importance of miracles in validating the words of Jesus and the apostles. He emphasized that while miracles still occur today, the greatest miracles are the transformation of lives through the Word of God. Shawn also delved into...
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Think about it. Christ’s BODY suffered.
His BODY was beaten, scourged, crucified, and even stabbed when dead.
The believing part is just the start. It’s the suffering part where we are made heirs.
Titus 3:7 says “That being justified by his grace, we should be made heirs according to the hope of eternal life.
That line, “should be made heirs” comes from the Greek “Ga- hin-ahmahee” and it
is “a prolongation and middle voice form of a primary verb meaning “to cause to be (“gen”-erate), i.e. to become and to “come into being.”
Doesn’t happen when we are justified. We are made heirs if allowed to tary.
Romans 8:17 says it well:
“And if children, then heirs; heirs of God, and joint-heirs with Christ; if so be that we suffer with Him, that we may be also glorified together.”
Acts 14:22 says, “and that we must through much tribulation enter into the kingdom of God.”
Philippians 1:29 says,
“ For unto you it is given in the behalf of Christ, not only to believe on him, but also to suffer for his sake.”
2nd Timothy 2:11-12 says
“It is a faithful saying: For if we be dead with him, we shall also live with him: If we suffer, we shall also reign with him: if we deny him, he also will deny us.”
2nd Timothy 3:12 says it plainly:
“ Yea, and all that will live godly in Christ Jesus shall suffer persecution.”
(beat)
The suffering comes to each of us from God in ways particular to us.
If it is anger we deal with, we will suffer to control it.
If it is desires for the world, we will suffer to turn from it.
To suffer persecution does not always mean suffering from the hands of other because we are Christian (though if we are living it right it certainly will include this) but the Greek word for persecution literally means “to be pursued after” by something – and while it may be angry mobs because you are so good and loving in Jesus name, I would the pursuers in most Christians lives is their own flesh, the things of this world, and a refusal to let God fully sit on the throne.
