Okay, Shalom everyone. We want today, by the grace of God, to complete the last portion of the book of Hebrews. So I'd like you please to turn to Hebrews chapter 13. And we are going to read actually the last verses of this book. The verses that I want to read today is verses 10 to 25. We are finished in our last meeting the first nine verses of Hebrews chapter 13. And so we are going to just see what the conclusion of this book and what the writer have been speaking about or challenging the Hebrew believers of first century. And we can see the conclusion here. And really, the theme of this chapter is the evidence of faith.

You say you believe in Yeshua. We say we believe in Yeshua. They said that they believe in Yeshua. Well, there got to be an evidence. And if you remember that in the first nine verses, he have already told them some evidence that ought to be proof in the life of the believer. If he or she believe in the Lord Yeshua the Messiah, there should be brotherly love. There should be remembering those that are in bonds. There should be honor in a marriage union. There should be one of those things. Covetousness should not be characterized by the believer and so on. There should be recognition that Yeshua the Messiah is the same yesterday, today, and forever.

And he will never leave his people nor forsake them. And so he continues now in verse 10. And he's telling them right now. We have an altar, whereof they have no right to eat which serves the tabernacle. For the bodies of those beasts, whose blood is brought into the sanctuary by the high priest for sin, are burnt without a camp. Wherefore, Yeshua also, that he might sanctify the people with his own blood suffered without the gate. Let us go forth therefore unto him without the camp bearing his reproach. For here have we no continuing city, but we seek one to come. By him therefore let us offer the sacrifice of praise to God continually.

That is the fruit of our lips giving thanks to his name. But to do good and to communicate, forget not, for with such sacrifices God is well pleased. Obey them that have a rule over you. Submit yourselves, for they watch for your souls, as they that must give an account, that they may do it with joy and not with grief. For that is unprofitable for you. Pray for us. For we trust. We have a good conscience in all things, willing to live honestly. But I beseech you that rather to do this, that I may be restored to you the sooner. Now the God of Shalom, the God of peace.

That brought again from the dead our Lord Jesus, our Lord Yeshua, that great shepherd of the sheep. Through the blood of the everlasting covenant. Make you perfect in every good work. To do his will, working in you that which is well pleasing in his sight. Through Yeshua the Messiah, to whom be glory forever and ever. Amen. And I beseech you, brethren. Suffer the word of exhortation, for I have written a letter unto you in few words. Know ye that our brother Timothy is set at liberty, with whom, if he comes shortly, I will see you. Salute them that have the rule over you. And all the saints, they of Italy, salute you.

Grace be with you all. Amen. Beautiful conclusion to the letter that the apostle wrote to the Hebrew believers of first century. Now remember, beloved brothers and sisters, in our last session together, we talked about the importance of spiritual life that believers are to have. You see, God saved us. God saved those Hebrews. He brought them to himself. And he wanted them now to live a life that is pleasing to him. A spiritual life. A life that is in fellowship with our Lord Yeshua the Messiah. So in the first nine verses, he have told those believers that all believers, number one, have to have spiritual fellowship with each other and with the Lord.

Verses one to six. Secondly, in verses seven to nine, the old believers should submit to spiritual leaders. God had given us leaders in our lives. Every one of us had received, somehow the Lord had given us spiritual leaders. And we have to be so thankful to them. While we are not idolizing them, we are to honor them. We are to respect them. And that's what he's teaching here in verses seven to nine. Remember them that have a rule over you, who have spoken unto you the word of God, whose faith follow, considering the end of their conversation. Look at their life, and see what an example they have been in your life, and learn from them, and therefore remember them which have a rule over you.

And then he told them that while people do change, Yeshua the Messiah never change. Jesus the Messiah, the same yesterday, today, and forever. And so those are the first nine verses. And now I want to move on to verses 10, all the way to verse 19. Believers should share spiritual worship. You know, it is important to have an attitude of worship in our lives as believers. And we do that individually, but we also do that collectively. And look what he is leading them now in these verses. In verse 10, he is telling them something that is very interesting. He says to them, we have an altar, whereof they have no right to eat which serve the tabernacle.

Now, interesting here, he is saying we. First of all, he says we, he is speaking of himself, and the Hebrews to whom he wrote, those Jewish believers. And you notice, he could not say we, if they were not believers. If they were not believers in the Lord Yeshua the Messiah, he could not say we, because those who do not belong to the Lord are really not part and parcel of this company of redeemed people. So the we, it is the writer, whoever it was, and the recipients, those first century Hebrew believers. And he said to them, we have an altar. Now, when you just meditate on the thought, an altar, an altar in Hebrew, the Hebrew word for altar is Mizbeach.

An altar, the Mizbeach, that God have instructed Israel to establish, upon the Mizbeach is the place upon which a sacrifice is being placed. The first time in the Bible that we have the word Mizbeach, the first time in the Bible that we have the word Mizbeach is found in Genesis chapter 8. And the first Mizbeach that we read in scripture is when Noah came out of the ark, and the first thing he did, he built an altar. He built a Mizbeach, upon which he placed the sacrifice. And so, he is telling them, we have an altar. You and I, you, the Hebrew believers, me, the writer who writes to you this letter, we have an altar.

And why is an altar? Sometimes we ask the question, why do we need an altar? Well, an altar is a place upon which a sacrifice is being placed, and through the altar, the believer can approach God. No one could ever approach God without the altar, and upon the altar a sacrifice is being laid, and no one can draw near to God without having, first of all, going through the altar. If you look at the tabernacle, historically, when Israel built the tabernacle, the first thing that you see as you enter the gate, the door, is an altar. The brazen altar is right before you. You could never move forward.

You could never be drawn near, unless you pass, first of all, through the altar. And the altar is where the sacrifice laid. And remember, he's writing to Hebrews. They knew altars, what altars are all about. It was Abraham who built an altar in Genesis chapter 12. It was Isaac who built an altar in Genesis chapter 26. It was Jacob, Jacob, who built an altar in Genesis chapter 35. It was Israel who built an altar in Exodus chapter 27. No altar, no approach to God. No altar, no sacrifice, no sacrifice, no approach to God. Even the word sacrifice in Hebrew means korban. Korban means to draw near, lehitkarev. You could never draw near.

Unless you have an altar. Unless you have a sacrifice. Unless the blood was shed. And unless your sins are forgiven. That's what he's telling them. And so what he's telling those Hebrew believers, he says, look, remember that the subject here is writing to Jewish, Hebrew, Israeli believers who were somehow, they've accepted the Messiah, but they had an inclination to go back to the temple to offer sacrifices while they have already accepted Yeshua, the Messiah. That's what the conflict that they have had. And so he's telling them, listen, you cannot go and offer sacrifices at the temple which had been a picture of the Messiah. You believe in Yeshua.

Once you believe in Yeshua, in the Lord Jesus, the Messiah, you cannot go and offer sacrifices again. Because what you are saying when you do so, that the value of the work of the Messiah is really not complete. And therefore he's telling them, we have an altar. You, Hebrews, I, and then he continues in verse 10b, he says, whereof they have no right to eat which serve the tabernacle. You cannot serve the tabernacle, reject the Messiah, and then have participation in the altar that belonged to the Lord Yeshua, the Messiah. You cannot do that. You are either worshipping the true Redeemer, the Messiah, or you are going back to the tabernacle, or to the temple, offering the sacrifices which could no more avail any longer, because Christ, the Mashiach, the Messiah, have come.

And so he's saying to them, they have no right. Right. And beloved brothers and sisters, for you and I, the altar today is found in a person. The Lord Jesus, the Lord Yeshua, he is our altar. He is the, not only the altar, he is the priest who offered the sacrifice, and he is the sacrifice as well. He is the priest, he is the altar, and he is the sacrifice at the same time. Let me read you a verse that is very interesting in Hebrews chapter 9, just a couple of verses back. Look what we read about the Messiah in chapter 9 and verse 11. "But the Messiah became a high priest of good things to come, by a greater and more perfect tabernacle, not made with hand, that is to say, not of this building, neither by the blood of goats and calves, but by his own blood he entered in once into the holy place, having obtained eternal redemption for us." You see what he is saying in Hebrews chapter 9, that we have an altar, we have the sacrifice of the Messiah, he has offered himself, and he has accomplished an eternal redemption for us.

And so, I am back in Hebrews chapter 13 and verse 10 where it says, "Wherefore, they have no right which eat the sacrifice which served the tabernacle, they cannot participate in that." And that is why it is important to understand, a believer and an unbeliever are on two sides of this truth in which we are learning in this letter to the book of Hebrews. You are either a child of Hebrews. You are either a child of God or not. You are either saved or you are lost. And a person who does not belong to the Lord Jesus, the Messiah, have no right to eat of this." And so, that is what he is saying in verse 10.

In verse 11, he continues and he says this, he explained to us about this altar and he is teaching us about those who could not participate in that. And he tells us, he gives us now an illustration from the Tanakh, from the Old Testament. He says in verse 11, "The bodies of the sacrifices were burned outside the camp." You see, he is telling them, "For the bodies of those beasts whose blood is brought into the sanctuary are by the high priest for sin are burned without the camp." He is saying that they are burned without the camp. And you see, in this verse, he takes us really to Leviticus 16 in the Day of Atonement, the sin offering.

You see, the sin offering, the priest could not participate and have any feeding on that. When the sin offering was offered, then the bodies of those animals had to be burned outside the camp. That's what he is saying. You see, in a burnt offering that Israel have offered, the priest fed on the animal that was killed. But when it comes to the sin offering, they could not feed on it. The animal had to be cast and sent outside the gate, outside the camp. It speaks of the removal of the sin. And so what happened here, after he is telling them that we have an altar, he is telling them that the bodies of those animals that the blood was brought into the sanctuary had to be burned outside of the sanctuary, outside of the camp.

See, the blood came in, but the bodies went out. The blood dealt with the sin problem, the bodies of those animals had to be burned outside the camp. In verse 11. And that takes us, of course, you remember this beautiful passage in Leviticus 16, Yom HaKippurim, the Day of Atonement, where God is dealing with the national sin of Israel. And how God is instructing Israel what to do with the sacrifice, and how they had to take it outside the camp, completely away, because those bodies could not remain in. They had to be burned and consumed without the camp of the people of Israel. And so, now he is telling them, making exactly the illustration of the work of Yeshua, the Messiah, what the Lord Jesus, the Messiah, have done.

In verse 12, he is telling them, Well for, Yeshua, also, that he might set apart the people with his own blood, suffered without the gate. See, speaking to Jewish believers, they were still participating, or at least had an inclination to participate in the sacrificial system in the temple in Jerusalem. But they were believers. But they were believers. They have accepted Yeshua, the Messiah. And so, what they were inclined to go in between, what should we do? How should we behave? He is telling them, listen, look, the bodies of those animals have been sacrificed, have been cast and burned outside the gate, outside the camp. Now, Yeshua, the Messiah himself, in verse 12, he also, that he might set apart the people, he himself, what happened with him, he suffered without the gate.

Remember, those sacrifices are type of the Messiah. All the animal sacrifices that God has given our people of all are spoke about the Messiah. So, the way that they had to be dealt with, he eventually had been dealt with, because he fulfilled all the types that were given to us in the Tanakh, in the Old Testament. So, he suffered, shed his blood, but actually, as it says here, he suffered without the gate, outside the gate. And that tells us what people thought of him, rejection, and persecution, and suffering. Because really, the nation, as a nation, the nation of Israel, did not accept him as a nation.

And that's why he suffered without the gate. The nation, as a nation, have not received him, though all the first believers were Jewish. Hebrews, Israelis, Israelis, who believed on him and followed after him. But the vast majority of the nation have not accepted him, and he suffered without the gate, without the camp. So, now, he's telling to these Hebrews, you claim that you believe in Yeshua, and you are a child of God. You have to identify with the sufferings of the Messiah. And you know, brothers and sisters, one of the hardest things for us to do is to identify with a rejected Messiah. It's easy to identify with the glory of the King, with the power of the King, with his authority and his superiority.

It's easy to identify with him when he's going to come here in his glory. It's another thing to identify with him at his rejection, when he is despised and rejected of men. And that's what he's telling to these Hebrews. They needed to learn that they need to identify with a rejected Messiah by their very own brethren. And so, he's telling them now, in verse 12, after he told them that he suffered outside the gate. I want you to notice just a verse that I think needs to be read in 1 Peter 1:18-20. Look what Peter said to those early Jewish believers as well. He says, "For as much as you know that you were not redeemed with corruptible things as silver and gold from your vain conversation received by tradition from your fathers.

But you have been redeemed, in verse 19, with the precious blood of Christ, of the Mashiach, as of a lamb without blemish and without spot, who verily was foreordained before the foundation of the world, but was manifest in these last times for you." Peter also writes, by the way, to Hebrew believers of 1st century. And Peter had to remind them, "Brethren, you were not redeemed with corruptible things as silver and gold. You didn't purchase your redemption. You didn't buy it with gold or with silver or with your vain conversation or your way of life. You didn't earn your salvation. You received your salvation through the precious blood of the Messiah." Remember that.

We all need to remember that our salvation, we received it through the precious blood of Yeshua, the Messiah. If we received it, and if we have been redeemed, not by anything that someone else has done for us, by the precious blood of the Messiah, it should move the hearts of them and our hearts to follow him at his rejection, when he is despised and rejected of men." And so now he is telling them in verses 13 and 14 of Hebrews chapter 13, "Listen, you need to go forth outside of the camp. Namely, the camp then was outside of the nation as a nation who did not accept the Messiah.

You could not identify with a nation who do not want the Messiah while you are a believer in the Messiah, in the Lord Jesus the Messiah. If you identify with the nation, continuing with the sacrifice, you are actually what you are saying that the value of the work of the Messiah is not sufficient. And you don't identify with his rejection." And that's why he is telling them in verse 13, "Let us." Notice that? "Let us, you, Hebrews, and me, the writer, let us go forth therefore unto him without the camp, bearing his reproach." Now, let me say that 2,000 years of church history have passed by. The professing church have established all kinds of camps as well.

But in its initial, in the beginning, the camp really speak to us of the nation as a nation and the sacrifices which had continued at the Temple Mount. He is telling them, "Therefore," he says in verse 13, "Let us go forth therefore unto him outside of the camp." Notice that he is telling them unto him. He doesn't say unto a church. He doesn't say unto a certain group of Christians. He doesn't say unto a certain pastor or spiritual leader. He doesn't say unto a cult. He says unto him. It is him that he had in mind. Who is the him here? It's none else but the Lord Yeshua, the Messiah.

It's nobody else except the Lord Yeshua, the Messiah himself. And we always have to bear in mind that we are not to go out unto a preacher or out unto a certain cult, unto a certain group of people. We are to go out of the religious system unto a person. And that person is the Lord Yeshua, the Messiah. There is one nice verse in Matthew 18:20 which we should all memorize. Where Yeshua said to the disciples in Jerusalem. For where two or three are gathered together unto my name. There am I in the midst of them. He said this to them already in Jerusalem, in Israel.

To the Hebrew believers there. To the disciples. He says where two or three are gathered together unto me. And unto my name. Not unto a religious system. Not unto a certain group with a name and a title. But unto the person of the Lord Yeshua, the Messiah. That is the gathering center. He is the center. He is the object. He is the leader. He is the Lord. He is in charge. Not us. Not the church. The church is to submit to the lordship of the Messiah. The church is not to tell the Messiah what to do. He is the one who is in charge. The leader.

He is the one who is responsible. He is the one who called and tell what to do. And therefore he says, let us therefore go unto him. Without the camp. And notice he adds here, bearing his reproach. And when you think about the reproach that the Lord Jesus had bore. The reproach that he had to experience in his life. You know the shame that he faced here when he lived here upon this world. The rejection. He was despised, the prophet Isaiah says. He was despised and rejected of men. A man of sorrows which have been acquainted with grief. Now we don't like that, right? It's not easy for us to experience.

We like the people, the stars. The people that are special. The unique people. The people that have authority and power. And the movie stars. The singers. And all the people that are great men on earth. That's the way we are. That's the leaders that we are inclined to be attracted to. That's what we have on the television. That's what we have on the news. That's what we have on the internet. That's what we have on the radio. That's what we have in the newspapers. The great leaders of this world. Well, here's one man that have experienced shame in this world. He was despised and rejected of men.

And so he's saying to the Hebrews. The evident of your faith. The proof is that you identify with a rejected Messiah. And he says, Therefore, just like he went without the camp, let us therefore go unto him without the camp, bearing his reproach. I have a verse that I want to just read in the book of Acts, chapter 5, the last verses. Look at the early believers. When they followed the Messiah. And to him, they agreed. Chapter 5, verse 40. And when they had called the apostles, and they beaten them. They commanded them that they should not speak in the name of Yeshua. And they let them go.

And they departed from the presence of the council. And they rejoiced that they were counted worthy to suffer shame for his name. Then daily in the temple, and in every house, they ceased not to teach and to preach Yeshua the Messiah. This was the early church. The early believers, you know. It says that they rejoiced that they were counted worthy to suffer shame. Here's the word. The same word. The same thought of reproach. There was suffering reproach for the name of Yeshua the Messiah. I tell you, that is something that we don't like at all. That is something that is not on our agenda at all.

We like salvation. We look forward to go to be in heaven. But to suffer shame for the name of the Messiah, it is another story altogether. And those early first century believers had actually experienced that. They were called to suffer reproach for the name of the Messiah. And so he is telling them here in this verse, let us go forth therefore unto him without the camp, bearing his reproach. And he gives them the reason also. Why? In verse 14, he tells them, for here we have no continuing city, but we seek one to come. The city that he is. The city that he is speaking about is the city of Jerusalem, Jerusalem.

The city were going to go under judgment at that time. The Romans were going to come. The Romans were going to come. If you remember, the Lord Yeshua said, Oh, Jerusalem, Jerusalem, how long would I have gathered you as a hand-gatherhead cheeks? But you would not. And then he told them that there will not one stone remain upon another here. And indeed in 70 AD, the Romans came and destroyed the city of Jerusalem. And many Jewish people have died. And by the grace of God, believers in the Messiah have been preserved. And so he's telling here we don't have a continuing city. Really, the world is going to pass away.

This world in which we live in is going to end one day. But we have a continuing city, the city of Jerusalem, which is the city of the great God that we belong to. And that city of Jerusalem is the hope of the believer in this present day. Here we have no continuing city, but we seek one that is to come. And the one that is to come is the one that we have already read earlier. If you remember in chapter 11, and we read in verse 10, For he looked for a city which had a foundation, whose builder and maker is God. And so we are here still in a portion in the area in which he is speaking about that all believers should share in spiritual worship.

Not a physical worship anymore to offer physical sacrifices, go to the altar and offer those physical, kill those animals. No, because they only typify the Messiah. The Messiah came, and now we are to offer spiritual sacrifices. And so look at this. In the next verses, verses 15 and 16, he tells them and he shows them that believers have spiritual sacrifices they can offer. What we can offer to the Lord today, we cannot go and kill an animal today. What we can offer, look, verse 15. The first sacrifice that we can offer to the Lord is the sacrifice of praise. Look, verse 15. By him, this is by Yeshua, let us therefore offer the sacrifice of praise to God continually.

That is the fruit of our lips giving thanks to his name. You know, every time that you and I thank God for what the Messiah Yeshua have done, and the value of his person, and the greatness of his work, and the humility of his life, and the beauty of his behavior. When we mention before God the Father, what his Son have done, we are really offering a sacrifice to God. When we gather together as believers on our meeting, whether it is our Bible studies or our Saturday Shabbat or meeting, where we come around the Lord Yeshua the Messiah, we are singing to him. What's happening?

We are offering a sacrifice of praise. That's why, beloved brothers and sisters, we should sing when we gather together. And when we sing, you don't need to go through classes to learn how to sing. The song comes out of the heart. You might not be 100% in tune with the instrument, but it's irrelevant. Because the music that the guitar or the keyboard or any music instrument, the music itself does not rise beyond the ceiling. What rises above the ceiling is the song that comes out of the heart of the believer. God delighted to hear the words of praise that come from the heart of the believer to the ears of God about his dear Son, the Messiah Yeshua.

And so, the first sacrifice is the sacrifice of praise continually. All the time, you notice that there was in Israel, there was the continual sacrifice, the morning and evening sacrifice. You know what our sacrifice is today? So, morning and evening and at noon and in between, we can thank God for what his Son has done for us. When you get up in the morning, before you speak to anybody else, you and I can talk to the Lord. And we can tell him, Lord, I thank you for what you have provided for me today. I thank you for the night rest, and I pray for the day ahead of me, and I praise you for what you have done for me, Lord.

And during the day, like we have it in scripture, pray or praise without ceasing. During the day, thank God for what he has done for us. Remember the work of the Lord, Yeshua the Messiah. That's what we need to do. Continually thanking God for who he is and what he has done for us. And before you go to sleep, it's so important to go on our knees and say, Lord, another day you preserve me for all the evil that is around. You preserve me from doing my own thing. And if I sin before you, and when I sin, Lord, I confess this before you, and I praise you for the forgiveness that I have through the work and the shed blood of my Messiah, the Lord Jesus.

That's what we need to do. That's what the sacrifice that the believers, the Hebrew believers had and have. And that's what you and I have today. And we can praise God for that. But it's not only that. Another sacrifice he's teaching us here in the next verse. In verse 16. Not only that we have sacrifices of praise. We also have sacrifices of good works that we can offer to God. Look what he says. Verse 16. But to do good and to communicate, don't forget. For with such sacrifices, God is well pleased. You see, to do good and to communicate. What does that mean to communicate? To help people who are in need.

To give to the needy. To be an encouragement to somebody else. To do the right thing. Don't forget to do good things. By the way, good things don't save us. Good things come out of the heart of the believer who is already saved. You see, we are not saved by works. We are saved by grace. Works come because of our salvation. Not in order to earn salvation. And so he's telling them, listen. You don't need to go to the temple to offer sacrifices anymore. Because they have been fulfilled in the coming of the Messiah. But what you do need to do. Is to offer sacrifice of praise.

To do good and to communicate. Because from such sacrifices or with such sacrifices. God is well pleased. This is very, very important. That the believers will understand that. And that's what the Hebrews are here encouraged by the writer. And then, of course, in the next verses here. In verses 17 and 18 and 19. Look at verse 17. And we have talked about it already before. In verse 17 he says, "Obey them that have the rule over you." You know, obedience is very important. And we are to obey the spiritual leaders that God has placed in our lives. We are to obey them because he says in verse 17. "Submit yourself to them for they watch over your souls.

As they that must give an account that they may do it with joy and not with grief. For that is unprofitable for you." You know, if we give a hard time to our spiritual leaders, we don't realize that we give a hard time to ourselves. It's not profitable for us not to submit to our God-given spiritual leaders. I'm not talking about those who force themselves and those who are claiming certain things and asking for things that are illegitimate and not right. I'm talking about godly leaders that God has entrusted in our lives. It's so important to submit to them, to obey them. Why? Because they watch over our souls.

They care for the spiritual welfare of the child of God. If we give them hard time and we make it difficult for them, we actually make it difficult for ourselves. Because they are watching over our souls. And thank God for every spiritual leader that God has placed in our lives. We have to honor them, to thank the Lord for them, to respect them, and to seek to be submissive, to make things easier for them. He says, "For they watch over your souls as they must give an account that they may do it with joy and not with grief." How many times have we have given grief to the spiritual leaders?

You see, spiritual leaders were not placed in leadership in order that they will lord over the sheep. But no, they have been placed in leadership so they can care for the sheep that God has given unto them to take care of. You remember what Peter wrote? Peter wrote to the believers, to the leaders. He says, "The elders which are among you," in 1 Peter 5:1, "I exhort, who am also an elder, and a witness of the sufferings of the Messiah, and a partaker of the glory that shall be revealed, feed the flock of God, which is among you, taking the oversight, not by constraint, but willingly, not for filthy looker, but with a ready mind, neither being lords over God's heritage, but being an example to the flock." You see, Peter said the same thing to the elders.

Don't lord yourself over people, but feed the people. Take care of them. Encourage them. Lead them. Be an example to them. Because that is the way that it is pleasing to the Lord. Now, in the next verses, verses 18 and 19 of Hebrews chapter 13, he is telling the writer is requesting for them to pray for him. You notice that he, the writer, some suggest it is the Apostle Paul. We do not know that. Some might give us some hints why it may be the Apostle Paul, but we do not know that. Therefore, we assume only. It's best to leave it as it is because the Spirit of God did not give us this in the Scripture.

Nevertheless, it seems like those Hebrews knew this person. Because he says in verse 18 and 19, first of all, he asks for them to pray. He says, "Listen, pray for us." Why? For we trust that we have a good conscience. In all things, we are willing to live honestly. Pray for us. You know, it is so important to see an example here. That here is a man. Here is a leader. Here is a person that received the Spirit of God uses him to write this letter. And he is asking them to pray for him. You see, a leader, an inspired writer, is not without dependence upon God and the Spirit of God guidance.

So, he is asking to pray for us. It shows us the humility of that writer. Pray for us. He is saying to them, "Because we want to have a good conscience in all things. We want to live honestly." He knows his own heart. He knows the failure of himself. And we all can say that of ourselves. And he says, "Listen, pray for us." He believed in the power of prayer. When the saints are praying for their leaders. When the saints are praying for those that God has entrusted in leadership. That is valuable. Most valuable. And therefore, he says, "Pray for us." In verse 19, he says, "But I beseech you the rather to do this." In other words, to pray.

I beseech you to pray. Why? That I may be restored unto you sooner." Apparently, he was already with them in the past. And so, he had been away. And he wanted to be restored to the Hebrew believers. Sooner, rather than later. So, the Hebrews knew the writer himself. And he asked for them to pray for him. And you know, brothers and sisters. We need to ask for each other. To pray for each other. When you have an issue in your life. A problem. A situation. It's good to pray for one another. And to ask. Pray for me. I'm going to do this thing. Please pray for me.

That the Lord will help me in this situation. And we can, in our own time. As we remember. We can pray for one another. And so, with these verses. After verse 19. He dealt with the fact that all believers should share in spiritual worship. And now the conclusion. Verses 20 to 25. All believers should also experience spiritual lordship. That's the conclusion of the book of Hebrews. In verse 20. In verse 20. Look at the beautiful statement about the Lord Jesus. Now the God of peace. The God of shalom. That brought again from the dead. Our Lord Yeshua. That great shepherd of the sheep. Through the blood of the everlasting covenant.

Make you perfect. In every good work. In every good work. To do his will. Working in you. That which is well pleasing in his sight. Through Yeshua the Messiah. To whom be glory forever and ever. Amen. What he is saying here. What he is saying here. Listen. The God of peace. The God of shalom. He is wishing. That the God of shalom. The God of peace. That raised our Lord Jesus the Messiah. From among the dead. He raised him. You remember. He was raised. By the power of God. Then he tells them. Who is Jesus the Messiah? He is the great shepherd of the sheep.

You're looking for a leader. You're looking for a shepherd to lead you. Do we look. Those Hebrews. Did they look for a shepherd to lead them. They were maybe outcast. By their own brethren. Maybe they had to make a decision. That they could no longer continue certain things. That they could have done. And they had been rejected by their own brethren. He says. Listen. There is a great shepherd. Of the sheep. He is the one. That is going to lead you. You know. There are three statements about the Lord Jesus. In the Bible. As a shepherd. John. Tells us that he is the good shepherd.

John 10 11. First Peter 5 verse 4. Tells us that he is the chief shepherd. And Hebrews chapter 13. And Hebrews chapter 13. Tells us that he is the great shepherd. Every one of them. Have a different aspect. Of the person. And the work of the Lord Jesus. The Messiah. As the good shepherd. John 10 11. The good shepherd laid down his life. For the sheep. He died for our sins. As the chief shepherd. He is going to come one day. One day. When the chief shepherd shall appear. He is going to come one day back. To take us to be with him. But as the great shepherd. He is leading us. Right now.

One of them had the reference to the past. The good shepherd. Another one had the reference to the future. The chief shepherd. And another one had the reference to the present. The great shepherd. Many shepherd. He is the greatest. There are many who led. He is the greatest. He is beyond all others. He is the great shepherd of the sheep. He is able to lead us. Ahead. He is able to lead those Hebrews. And help them. So. The great shepherd of the sheep. Through the blood of the everlasting covenant. He makes you perfect. In every good work. To do his will. Working in you. That which is well pleasing.

Well pleasing. On the sight of God. Through Jesus the Messiah. To whom be glory forever and ever. In other words. The Lord Jesus can work. In our lives now. He is in heaven. But he can work. In your life. And in mine. Right. Now. As the great shepherd. He can mature us. He can perfect us. Let us. Help us to grow. Spiritually. And that. He have done that. In the life of those Hebrews people as well. And I am going to close. The book here. In verses 22 to 25. The conclusion. The consummation. He says. I beseech you brethren. To suffer this word. Of exhortation. For I have written.

This letter unto you. In a few words. Well that's. When you read the 13 chapters. It's not a few words. I mean. He has written a whole. Megillah. As we say it in Hebrew. He has written such a long. Letter. But he is saying to them. Listen. Suffer. Allow me to write you those. A few words. Accept this from me. Brethren. Hebrew believers. My brethren. And then he says. Know ye. That are brethren. Timothy. Is set at liberty. With whom. If he comes shortly. I will. See you. He is. Mentioning Timothy. You remember. Timothy was. Partly Jewish. You remember. He had to be. Circumcised. We read about.

Timothy. And Timothy. Also. He identified. With his brethren. With his people. And so. He is saying here. Our brother Timothy. Is set at liberty. With whom. When he is coming shortly. I am going to see you. He was hoping. That he is going to see. Those Hebrew believers. And be with them. And he is concluding. He says. Salute them. Which have the rule. Rule. Over you. And all the saints. They which are of Italy. Salute. You. And so. He is telling them. To salute the rulers. As well. Again. This is the third time. That he is speaking. About the leaders. The rulers. Those that were in charge.

He says. Salute them. Obey them. And remember them. He is telling them. Here. In this. Chapter. And he closed. The whole letter. With saying. Grace. Be. With you all. Amen. And they did need grace. Like you and I need grace. To continue to follow the Lord. In a time. Of his rejection. And with these brothers and sisters. We have concluded. This short. Or long. Letter. That is called. The letter. To the Hebrews. May the Lord bless those thoughts. To all of us. And will help us. And will help us. As we move on. In our lives. Following the Lord. Yeshua the Messiah. Can you say amen.

Thank you very much.