20/20 Focus on JESUS

20/20 Focus on JESUS
Each day we need to keep our eyes focused on JESUS - 20/20! I am sorry that I did not continue this blog into the beginning of 2021. Nine months passed by before I was convicted to return to this blog and encourage us to look at JESUS, with clear vision, via a daily scripture reading. Yellow highlights are names/descriptions of JESUS that we'll add to the list on the right.

Friday, November 12, 2021

20/20 for JESUS - Blogpost #403 for 11/12/2021: JESUS, THE ORIGINATOR AND PERFECTOR OF THE FAITH… FOR THE JOY SET BEFORE HIM ENDURED THE CROSS, DESPISING THE SHAME… HAS SAT DOWN AT THE RIGHT HAND OF THE THRONE OF GOD... ENDURED SUCH HOSTILITY BY SINNERS AGAINST HIMSELF… THE LORD… WHOM THE LORD LOVES HE DISCIPLINES… HE PUNISHES EVERY SON (CHILD) WHOM HE ACCEPTS… RIGHTEOUSNESS… PEACE… THE GRACE OF GOD… THE LIVING GOD… GOD, THE JUDGE OF ALL… JESUS, THE MEDIATOR OF A NEW COVENANT… OUR GOD IS A CONSUMING FIRE…

 



Hebrews 12

Jesus, the Example

Therefore, since we also have such a great cloud of witnesses surrounding us, let’s rid ourselves of every obstacle and the sin which so easily entangles us, and let’s run with endurance the race that is set before us, 

looking only at JESUS, THE ORIGINATOR AND PERFECTOR OF THE FAITH,

WHO FOR THE JOY SET BEFORE HIM ENDURED THE CROSS, DESPISING THE SHAME,

and

 HAS SAT DOWN AT THE RIGHT HAND OF THE THRONE OF GOD.  

For consider HIM WHO has ENDURED SUCH HOSTILITY BY SINNERS AGAINST HIMSELF, so that you will not grow weary ]and lose heart.

A Father’s Discipline

You have not yet resisted [to the point of shedding blood in your striving against sin; 

and you have forgotten the exhortation which is addressed to you as children,

“My children, do not regard lightly the discipline of THE LORD,

Nor faint when you are punished by HIM;

 

For WHOM THE LORD LOVES HE DISCIPLINES, and

HE PUNISHES EVERY SON (CHILD) WHOM HE ACCEPTS.”

It is for discipline that you endure; GOD deals with you as with sons; for what son is there whom his father does not discipline? 

But if you are without discipline, of which all have become partakers, then you are illegitimate children and not sons. 

Furthermore, we had earthly fathers to discipline us, and we respected them; shall we not much more be subject to THE FATHER of spirits, and live? 

10 For they disciplined us for a short time as seemed best to them, but HE DISCIPLINES US FOR OUR GOOD, SO THAT WE MAY SHARE IN HIS HOLINESS.   

 11 For the moment, all discipline seems not to be pleasant, but painful; yet to those who have been trained by it, afterward it yields the peaceful fruit of RIGHTEOUSNESS.

12 Therefore, strengthen the hands that are weak and the knees that are feeble, 

13 and make straight paths for your feet, so that the limb which is impaired may not be dislocated, but rather be healed.

14 Pursue PEACE with all people, and the holiness without which no one will see THE LORD. 


15 See to it that no one comes short of THE GRACE OF GOD;

that no root of bitterness springing up causes trouble, and by it many become defiled; 

16 that there be no sexually immoral or godless person like Esau, who sold his own birthright for a single meal. 

17 For you know that even afterward, when he wanted to inherit the blessing, he was rejected, for he found no place for repentance, though he sought for it with tears.

Contrast of Sinai and Zion

18 For you have not come to a mountain that can be touched and to a blazing fire, and to darkness and gloom and whirlwind, 

19 and to the blast of a trumpet and the sound of words, which sound was such that those who heard begged that no further word be spoken to them. 

20 For they could not cope with the command,

‘If even an animal touches the mountain, it shall be stoned.’

 21 And so terrible was the sight, that Moses said,

‘I am terrified and trembling.’

 22 But you have come to Mount Zion and to the city of THE LIVING GOD, the heavenly Jerusalem, and to myriads of [h]angels, 

23 to the general assembly and church of the firstborn who are enrolled in heaven, and to GOD, THE JUDGE OF ALL, and to the spirits of the righteous made perfect, 

24 and to JESUS, THE MEDIATOR OF A NEW COVENANT, and to the sprinkled blood, which speaks better than the blood of Abel.

The Unshaken Kingdom

25 See to it that you do not refuse HIM WHO is speaking. For if those did not escape when they refused him who warned them on earth, much less will we escape who turn away from HIM who warns us from heaven. 

26 And HIS voice shook the earth then, but now HE has promised, saying,

‘Yet once more I will shake not only the earth, but also the heaven.’

27 This expression, ‘Yet once more,’ denotes the removing of those things which can be shaken, as of created things, so that those things which cannot be shaken may remain. 

28 Therefore, since we receive a kingdom which cannot be shaken, let’s [show gratitude, by which we may offer to GOD an acceptable service with reverence and awe; 

29 for OUR GOD IS A CONSUMING FIRE. "



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