It is better for you to enter life maimed or crippled than to have two hands or two feet and be thrown into eternal fire.

It is better for you to enter life maimed or crippled than to have two hands or two feet and be thrown into eternal fire.

Mt 18:8

⁸ If your hand or your foot causes you to stumble, cut it off and throw it away. It is better for you to enter life maimed or crippled than to have two hands or two feet and be thrown into eternal fire.

Mt 19:16

¹⁶ Just then a man came up to Jesus and asked, “Teacher, what good thing must I do to get eternal life?”

¹⁷ “Why do you ask me about what is good?” Jesus replied. “There is only One who is good. If you want to enter life, keep the commandments.”

¹⁸ “Which ones?” he inquired.

Jesus replied, “‘You shall not murder, you shall not commit adultery, you shall not steal, you shall not give false testimony, ¹⁹ honor your father and mother,’^[c] and ‘love your neighbor as yourself.’^[d]”

Mt 19:29

²⁹ And everyone who has left houses or brothers or sisters or father or mother or wife^[e] or children or fields for my sake will receive a hundred times as much and will inherit eternal life.

Mk 3:29

²⁸ Truly I tell you, people can be forgiven all their sins and every slander they utter, ²⁹ but whoever blasphemes against the Holy Spirit will never be forgiven; they are guilty of an eternal sin.”

We learn the following from the above verses

1)    It is better for you to enter life maimed or crippled than to have two hands or two feet and be thrown into eternal fire.

2)    Keep God’s commandments to enter eternal life

3)    You shall not murder, you shall not commit adultery, you shall not steal, you shall not give false testimony, honor your father and mother,’^[c] and ‘love your neighbor as yourself.’

4)    Everyone who has left houses or brothers or sisters or father or mother or wife^[e] or children or fields for my sake will receive a hundred times as much and will inherit eternal life.

5)    People can be forgiven all their sins and every slander they utter,  but whoever blasphemes against the Holy Spirit will never be forgiven; they are guilty of an eternal sin.

We do have such a high priest who serves in the sanctuary, the true tabernacle set by the Lord

We do have such a high priest who serves in the sanctuary, the true tabernacle set by the Lord  

Heb 8:2

Now the main point of what we are saying is this: We do have such a high priest, who sat down at the right hand of the throne of the Majesty in heaven, ² and who serves in the sanctuary, the true tabernacle set up by the Lord, not by a mere human being.

Heb 8:6, 10

⁶ But in fact the ministry Jesus has received is as superior to theirs as the covenant of which he is mediator is superior to the old one, since the new covenant is established on better promises.

¹⁰ This is the covenant I will establish with the people of Israel
    after that time, declares the Lord.
I will put my laws in their minds
    and write them on their hearts.
I will be their God,
    and they will be my people.

1 Cor 9:18

¹⁷ If I preach voluntarily, I have a reward; if not voluntarily, I am simply discharging the trust committed to me. ¹⁸ What then is my reward? Just this: that in preaching the gospel I may offer it free of charge, and so not make full use of my rights as a preacher of the gospel.

We learn the following from the above verses

1)    We do have such a high priest who serves in the sanctuary, the true tabernacle set by the Lord

2)    The new covenant is established on better promises

3)    This is the covenant I will establish with the people of Israel
    after that time, declares the Lord.
I will put my laws in their minds
    and write them on their hearts.
I will be their God,
    and they will be my people.

4)    If I preach voluntarily, I have a reward; if not voluntarily, I am simply discharging the trust committed to me.  What then is my reward? Just this: that in preaching the gospel I may offer it free of charge, and so not make full use of my rights as a preacher of the gospel.

God will bless us more through which we will know that He is our Lord

God will bless us more through which we will know that He is our Lord

Eze 36:11

¹¹ I will increase the number of people and animals living on you, and they will be fruitful and become numerous. I will settle people on you as in the past and will make you prosper more than before. Then you will know that I am the Lord.

Eze 37:26

²⁶ I will make a covenant of peace with them; it will be an everlasting covenant. I will establish them and increase their numbers, and I will put my sanctuary among them forever. ²⁷ My dwelling place will be with them; I will be their God, and they will be my people. ²⁸ Then the nations will know that I the Lord make Israel holy,when my sanctuary is among them forever.

Amos 9:12

¹¹ “In that day

“I will restore David’s fallen shelter—
    I will repair its broken walls
    and restore its ruins—
    and will rebuild it as it used to be,
¹² so that they may possess the remnant of Edom
    and all the nations that bear my name,^[e]”
declares the Lord, who will do these things.

Mic 4:1

In the last days

the mountain of the Lord’s temple will be established
    as the highest of the mountains;
it will be exalted above the hills,
    and peoples will stream to it.

 
We learn the following from the above verses

1)    God will bless us more through which we will know that He is our Lord

2)    God makes covenant and peace with us and will establish us and increase us

3)    God restores our fallen shelter and repairs the broken walls so that nations will bear His name

4)    In the last days the mountain of the Lord’s temple will be established
    as the highest of the mountains

In love a throne will be established and faithfulness of a man will sit on it

In love a throne will be established and faithfulness of a man will sit on it 

Isa 16:5

⁵ In love a throne will be established;
    in faithfulness a man will sit on it—
    one from the house^[a] of David—
one who in judging seeks justice
    and speeds the cause of righteousness.

Isa 2:2

² In the last days

the mountain of the Lord’s temple will be established
    as the highest of the mountains;
it will be exalted above the hills,
    and all nations will stream to it.

Isa 44:6

⁶ “This is what the Lord says—
    Israel’s King and Redeemer, the Lord Almighty:
I am the first and I am the last;
    apart from me there is no God.

Isa 51:4

⁴ “Listen to me, my people;
    hear me, my nation:
Instruction will go out from me;
    my justice will become a light to the nations.

We learn the following from the above verses

1)    In love a throne will be established and faithfulness of a man will sit on it

2)    In the last days the mountain of the Lord’s temple will be established
    as the highest of the mountains;

3)    This is what the Lord says—
    Israel’s King and Redeemer, the Lord Almighty:
I am the first and I am the last;
    apart from me there is no God.

4)    God’s justice will become a light to the nations

God established His statues to last forever

God established His statues to last forever

Psalm 119:152

¹⁵¹ Yet you are near, Lord,
    and all your commands are true.

¹⁵² Long ago I learned from your statutes
    that you established them to last forever.

Pro 3:19

¹⁹ By wisdom the Lord laid the earth’s foundations,
    by understanding he set the heavens in place;

²⁰ by his knowledge the watery depths were divided,
    and the clouds let drop the dew.

Pro 8:28

²⁷ I was there when he set the heavens in place,
    when he marked out the horizon on the face of the deep,

²⁸ when he established the clouds above
    and fixed securely the fountains of the deep,

²⁹ when he gave the sea its boundary
    so the waters would not overstep his command,
and when he marked out the foundations of the earth.

Pro 30:4

⁴ Who has gone up to heaven and come down?
    Whose hands have gathered up the wind?
Who has wrapped up the waters in a cloak?
    Who has established all the ends of the earth?
What is his name, and what is the name of his son?
    Surely you know!

⁵ “Every word of God is flawless;
    he is a shield to those who take refuge in him.

We learn the following from the above verses

1)    God established His statues to last forever

2)    By God’s knowledge the watery depths were divided,
    and the clouds let drop the dew.

3)    when he established the clouds above
    and fixed securely the fountains of the deep

4)    God has established all the ends of the earth

5)    Every word of God is flawless;
    he is a shield to those who take refuge in him.

God established the law so that next generation would follow them and would tell their children

God established the law so that next generation would follow them and would tell their children

Psalm 78:5

⁵ He decreed statutes for Jacob
    and established the law in Israel,
which he commanded our ancestors
    to teach their children,

⁶ so the next generation would know them,
    even the children yet to be born,
    and they in turn would tell their children.

⁷ Then they would put their trust in God
    and would not forget his deeds
    but would keep his commands.

Psalm 89:2, 4

² I will declare that your love stands firm forever,
    that you have established your faithfulness in heaven itself.

³ You said, “I have made a covenant with my chosen one,
    I have sworn to David my servant,

⁴ ‘I will establish your line forever
    and make your throne firm through all generations.’”

Psalm 103:19

¹⁹ The Lord has established his throne in heaven,
    and his kingdom rules over all.

²⁰ Praise the Lord, you his angels,
    you mighty ones who do his bidding,
    who obey his word.

Psalm 104:5

⁵ He set the earth on its foundations;
    it can never be moved.
⁶ You covered it with the watery depths as with a garment;
    the waters stood above the mountains.

We learn the following from the above verses

1)    God established the law so that next generation would follow them and would tell their children

2)    God established the law so that we would put our trust in Him and would keep His commands

3)    God has established His faithfulness

4)    God set the earth on its foundations;
    it can never be moved.