Hebrews 5:5-11

⁵ So also Christ did not glorify Himself to become High Priest, but it was He who said to Him: “You are My Son, Today I have begotten You.” ⁶ As He also says in another place: “You are a priest forever According to the order of Melchizedek”; ⁷ who, in the days of His flesh, when He had offered up prayers and supplications, with vehement cries and tears to Him who was able to save Him from death, and was heard because of His godly fear, ⁸ though He was a Son, yet He learned obedience by the things which He suffered. ⁹ And having been perfected, He became the author of eternal salvation to all who obey Him, ¹⁰ called by God as High Priest “according to the order of Melchizedek,” ¹¹ of whom we have much to say, and hard to explain, since you have become dull of hearing.

Commentary

Vs. 5 So also Christ did not glorify Himself to become High Priest, but it was He who said to Him: “You are My Son, Today I have begotten You.”

Just as Aaron and his sons did not glorify themselves in serving God as high priests, since it was God who called them alone to serve Him in that capacity until the time of reformation (see Heb. 9:6-10). So also Christ did not glorify Himself to become High Priest, for it was God who said to Him alone, “You are My Son, Today I have begotten You.” (Psalm 2:7). Therefore if the Aaron and his sons alone were to serve God as His high priests, since God called them alone, how much more is the Lord Jesus Christ who is the Person the Scriptures declare to be His Son and foretold He would be His High Priest. For the Lord Jesus Christ alone having accomplished eternal salvation for us all who believe in Him, is now alone called by God the Father to serve and intercede for us as His High Priest. 

Vs. 6 As He also says in another place: “You are a priest forever According to the order of Melchizedek”;

Melchizedek' priesthood was unique in that it was without beginning and end (Heb 7:3), thus it is here distinguished from Aaron's which came into being with the giving of the Law. And so the Lord Jesus Christ being the Author of eternal salvation did not have His High Priesthood come according to the order of Aaron, for Christ did not come to reestablish the Old Covenant and it's priesthood but to fulfill it, so as to make way for the New Covenant, and thus establish His own High Priesthood which is according to the order of Melchizedek, whose person is without beginning and without end, who alone served God in that capacity, and as such he then signifies all that God planned to do through His Son the Lord Jesus Christ and His Everlasting Priesthood (consider Heb 9:6-14). 

Vs. 7 "who, in the days of His flesh, when He had offered up prayers and supplications, with vehement cries and tears to Him who was able to save Him from death, and was heard because of His godly fear" 

The Lord Jesus Christ when He became a Man was fully human, fully capable of experiencing all the fears and pains and even death that we can and do, yet He alone is without sin. As well as a Man Jesus Christ in laying aside all of His Privileges as the Son of God, was just like us in another way, and that is He was faced with a reality that He was now totally dependent on God. Yes Jesus could do miracles and such as a Man, but everything that He now did was fully dependent upon God. Even His very life which is the point being made here, was fully subject too and dependent upon the Will of God (consider John 19:10-11). And so when in Gethsemane, (and likely at other times), when Jesus offered up prayers and supplications and vehement cries to God who was able to save Him from death, Jesus was heard because of His Godly fear. Therefore God did not give Jesus over to the graves corruption, rather Jesus Christ three days after His Crucifixion death rose to new and everlasting life, so that He might be the Author of eternal salvation for all who now obey Him (Heb. 5:9)

Vs. 8 "though He was a Son, yet He learned obedience by the things which He suffered."

Though Jesus Christ was a Son, the Son of God, yet He learned obedience by the things which He suffered. That is Jesus learned obedience as a Man comes at a cost, for there is always resistance and opposition in this sinful world to anyone doing the Will of God. Therefore Jesus had to experience in the flesh the very things that make for obedience: the risks (Matt 10:34-42, vs. 36), the self denial's (Matt. 16:24), the "losses" (Mark 8:35), the facing of ones own fears (Matt 10:27-28; 2 Cor 7:5-7; 1 Peter 4:14-19; Heb 13:12-14 etc.). Therefore don't confuse this passage with any notion that Jesus ever had any inclination to disobey God the Father, because He never has (John 8:29). 

Vs. 9 "And having been perfected, He became the author of eternal salvation to all who obey Him" 


Perfection here pertains not to Christ's Person per-say, but what He has accomplished as our Lord and Savior, and specifically as our High Priest, as all of this pertains to our salvation. Therefore Perfection for Christ came through suffering, suffering for His obedience to God the Father and obeying His Will even to the point of death on a cross, Jesus Christ alone then has become the author of eternal salvation to all who obey Him. 

Vs. 10-11¹⁰ called by God as High Priest “according to the order of Melchizedek,” ¹¹ of whom we have much to say, and hard to explain, since you have become dull of hearing.

Since Jesus Christ alone has been called by God as High Priest, called according to the order of Melchizedek, and thus called into an everlasting priesthood from which He alone serves as God's sole Mediator between God and sinful humanity (1 Tim 2:5), there is much more that needs to be stated about Melchizedek, and will be stated in chapter seven so as to enlighten and enrich us all as to the nature of Christ's Priesthood, which is being exalted way higher and far above Aaron's in both it's nature and it's scope in what it is able to accomplish for us all who believe In the Lord Jesus Christ. That all said there is a slight rebuke here of the original audiences dullness of hearing in that in learning such things as pertaining to both the nature of the Law and it's sacrifices and priesthood, as well as the priesthood which performed all such things prescribed within; which again is only being stated so as to show the superiority of the Lord Jesus Christ's Person, salvation, and priesthood all which has provided the everlasting atonement and redemption for everyone who repents and believes in His Person and calls upon His Name (Rom 10:9-10,13, Eph. 2:8-9); some had become dull of hearing, something which can happen to you too if don't believe and receive the Word of God's truths for yourself, so that you may also be a partaker of God's gift of new and everlasting life by faith in the Lord Jesus Christ, "For the promise is to you and to your children, and to all who are afar off, as many as the Lord our God will call.” Acts. 2:39 Therefore don't become dull of hearing instead receive the Lord Jesus Christ who will bring all the life and love and fullness of God deep inside you, for it is He alone who will fully satisfy and justify and sanctify you and keep your whole person and life until this redemption work and glory concludes with all our journeys home in heaven.

Scripture Quotations
The New King James Version. Nashville: Thomas Nelson, 1982.

Additional Resources Consulted
Vs. 8 Vincent, Marvin Richardson. Word Studies in the New Testament. New York: Charles Scribner’s Sons, 1887.

Hebrews 5:1-4

¹ For every high priest taken from among men is appointed for men in things pertaining to God, that he may offer both gifts and sacrifices for sins. ² He can have compassion on those who are ignorant and going astray, since he himself is also subject to weakness. ³ Because of this he is required as for the people, so also for himself, to offer sacrifices for sins. ⁴ And no man takes this honor to himself, but he who is called by God, just as Aaron was.

Commentary

Vs. 1 "For every high priest taken from among men is appointed for men in things pertaining to God, that he may offer both gifts and sacrifices for sins."

Under the Old Covenant the high priest was taken from among men so that He could present on behalf of the individual, as well as the nation of Israel, all their gifts, and the commanded sacrifices for sins according to the law. It was a solemn duty that was assigned by God to the sons (i.e. male descendants) of Aaron. They alone then were to officiate at the altar of God (Numbers 3:10). 

Vs. 2 "He can have compassion on those who are ignorant and going astray, since he himself is also subject to weakness."

And so though they were chosen, set apart, and sanctified by God for such a solemn duty, they were still just men, subject to all of the weakness (gr. ἀσθένεια) that is the human condition. Therefore they could have compassion on those who were ignorant and going astray, because they themselves being daily required to keep all the righteous requirements of the law, (that is all the moral and priestly and ceremonially aspects of it), they knew first hand both their own inability, as well those they were officiating for, inabilities too live it all out without fault or transgression before God, all that the law required of them all. (For a brief N.T. exposition of this dilemma, and the Apostle Peters rebuking those Jews who wanted to return the believing Gentiles back to the Law, see Acts 15:6-11, vs. 10). Therefore the high priest could have compassion (gr. συνπαθεο) on those who were ignorant and going astray, since he himself was also subject to weakness. That is the high priest knew that he himself was also capable of sin and error, and thus *he was to be tender in his dealings and moderate in his judgment; being neither to severe or tolerant; with those who are ignorant and going astray.  

Vs. 3 "Because of this he is required as for the people, so also for himself, to offer sacrifices for sins."

Therefore these high priests though being taken from the sons of Aaron were still just mortal men, they were no in way infallible, they also needed to have atonement made for their sins before they could make atonement and intercession for anyone else (Lev. 9:7; 16:6). The contrast then between these fallible high priests and their temporarily officiating as high priests before God, and the Lord Jesus Christ and His Work and Intercession now as our High Priest is a theme then that runs throughout the Book of Hebrews (consider Hebrews 7:26-28). 

Vs. 4 "And no man takes this honor to himself, but he who is called by God, just as Aaron was."

Because of the exclusive nature of God's priesthood being taken from the sons of Aaron, the position of being a high priest before God is an honor that no man can take to himself (consider Num. 16, vs. 38-40 and what happened to Korah and those with him there). Now this is being reiterate here so as to elevate the Lord Jesus Christ and His Priesthood. Since if the priesthood of God that came exclusively through the sons of Aaron was off limits to anyone but them, as the Scripture warns, "let them be put to death" (Num. 18:7), how much more then is the Lord Jesus Christ's High Priesthood Sanctified and Set apart for Him alone as the Sole Intercessor for us all who believe in Him. Therefore no man can take this honor to himself, that is of now acting as God's high priest, and thus acting as a Mediator between God and man, therefore all who do so now risk coming under the judgment of God in seeking to usurp the Authority of Christ by taking that solemn position unto themselves, for that honor, privilege, and duty belongs to the Lord Jesus Christ alone (1 Tim 2:5-6).

Scripture Quotations
The New King James Version. (1982). (Ac 15:6–11). Nashville: Thomas Nelson.

Additional Resources Consulted 
Vs. 2 *Gleaned from: Wuest, K. S. (1997). Wuest’s word studies from the Greek New Testament: for the English reader (Heb 5:2). Grand Rapids: Eerdmans.

Hebrews 4:14-16

¹⁴ Seeing then that we have a great High Priest who has passed through the heavens, Jesus the Son of God, let us hold fast our confession. ¹⁵ For we do not have a High Priest who cannot sympathize with our weaknesses, but was in all points tempted as we are, yet without sin. ¹⁶ Let us therefore come boldly to the throne of grace, that we may obtain mercy and find grace to help in time of need.

Commentary
Vs. 14 "Seeing then that we have a great High Priest who has passed through the heavens, Jesus the Son of God, let us hold fast our confession."

In the previous section it was revealed that the Word of God reveals our condition to us, so that by repentance towards God and faith in the Lord Jesus Christ we can have remission of all our sins and everlasting life. Having then believed and received the Lord Jesus Christ we are not then just left to ourselves to wrestle with all the temptations and trials that we will have to face in this life. For Jesus Christ is not just our Lord and Savior, He is our High Priest, who unlike the mere mortal high priests of times past who died and then their tenures ended, has past through the heavens, that is Jesus Christ the Son of God when He rose from the dead and then fifty days later ascended back to God the Father in heaven has established for Himself an Everlasting Priesthood, that does not and will not end. Therefore let us hold fast our confession because our High Priest has a Priesthood that does not end. From His Atonement for us, to His ongoing intercession to God for us, Jesus Christ the Son of God is for us all who believe in Him then is the point being made in these verses. 

Vs. 15 "For we do not have a High Priest who cannot sympathize with our weaknesses, but was in all points tempted as we are, yet without sin."

 When God's Son Jesus Christ became a Man He did so not only to provide the Atonement for us all so that by faith in His Person we can be reconciled back to God, but He also did so I believe to answer the age old cry, that is God as Spirit, dwelling high up in heavens cannot possibly understand what we as mortal flesh in all of our physical weaknesses, limitations and fleshly temptations daily face (consider Job's despairing cry's in Job 10). Now I know that such cries are often born out of broken hearts and disenfranchised lives, just as I once was. Yet it was there in all of my darkness and despair that God not only saw me, but He also saved me, when I rejected the lies that I was beyond redemption and I just let my longing heart receive the Lord Jesus Christ as my Lord and Savior, and with that and without hesitation God opened the door of His Kingdom to me, bringing all of His Son's life, love, grace and all that is His salvation into me. And so I also want you to know and believe that the same grace of God is available to you as well, for God is loving and kind and He is Omnipresent and He does see us, and He does care for us in all of circumstances of life. And so Jesus was subject to all of the same temptations and fleshly desires and weaknesses that we as human beings all face (or will ever face), and yet He did so without sin. And so now Jesus Christ as our High Priest can and will sympathize with all us in our of weaknesses and circumstances of life. 

Vs. 16 "Let us therefore come boldly to the throne of grace, that we may obtain mercy and find grace to help in time of need."

Therefore in light of God's love for us, and what Jesus has done to make His grace freely available to us all, let us all come boldly to the throne of grace. For it is from God's throne of grace that Jesus Christ as God's High Priest and Judge of all not only officiates as High Priest, but also makes intercession for us all. The invitation then is to one and to all, to come and have remission of all your sins and new and everlasting life by faith in the Lord Jesus Christ. Therefore be reconciled to God today, receive Christ, and have new and everlasting life and all of the healing and cleansing and transforming of persons and lives that God's salvation freely brings to one and to all.

Scripture Quotations
The New King James Version. Nashville: Thomas Nelson, 1982.

Hebrews 4:11-13

¹¹ Let us therefore be diligent to enter that rest, lest anyone fall according to the same example of disobedience. ¹² For the word of God is living and powerful, and sharper than any two-edged sword, piercing even to the division of soul and spirit, and of joints and marrow, and is a discerner of the thoughts and intents of the heart. ¹³ And there is no creature hidden from His sight, but all things are naked and open to the eyes of Him to whom we must give account.

Commentary

Vs. 11 "Let us therefore be diligent to enter that rest, lest anyone fall according to the same example of disobedience."

The example of the wilderness wandering Israelite's having failed to believe and obey (and thus apprehend God's salvation that was offered to them) are to be an example to us all to be diligent and enter God's commanded rest, which we do by believing and then obeying the Lord Jesus Christ's Gospel (Rom 1:5; 16:26). For again the Israelite's who came out of Egypt did not believe God that He could bring them into the Promised Land when they saw the opposition and difficulties before them, and so rather than walking by faith, they turned away from Him in their hearts and instead they desired to return to Egypt, the very place of their bondage (Num. 14:1-4)! And so when they did so God swore in His wrath "they shall not enter My rest" (Psalm 95:10-11). Therefore let everyone be diligent to enter God's rest by repentance towards God and faith in the Lord Jesus Christ by which we do enter God's rest and find eternal rest for our souls (Matt 11:28-30).  For today is the day of salvation, and tomorrow may not be a day when one can apprehend it for themselves, therefore be diligent and do enter Christ's Rest today! 

Vs. 12-13 ¹² For the word of God is living and powerful, and sharper than any two-edged sword, piercing even to the division of soul and spirit, and of joints and marrow, and is a discerner of the thoughts and intents of the heart. ¹³ And there is no creature hidden from His sight, but all things are naked and open to the eyes of Him to whom we must give account.

Now God's command to enter His rest comes to us all through the Living Word of God, that is the Holy Scriptures, which is sharper than any two-edged sword, piercing even to the division of soul and spirit, and of joints and marrow, and is a discerner of the thoughts and intents of the heart (vs. 12). And so by it God reveals to us all just what we are and where we stand with Him, whether reconciled by faith in the Lord Jesus Christ, or alienated by ones own willful unbelief. The Word of God then not only declares God's unchanging truth, but it also cuts through and exposes all that is false (vs. 12). No liar, no deceiver, then will ever outwit the Word of God (Matt 22:1-14, vs. 13). For the living and powerful and piercing reality of God's Word always reveals the truth about ourselves. It makes us see what God already knows and sees. There is then no creature hidden from His sight, but all things are naked and open to the eyes of Him to whom we must give account (vs. 13). There is a good reason that the sword of the Spirit for us who believe is the Word of God, for it is by it that we discern for ourselves all that has come forth from the Word of God, and all that has not. Conviction of sin is never a bad thing then, especially if it makes one change course and choose a new direction, which happens when anyone repents and believes in the Gospel, therefore don't remain dead in your sins and transgressions, alienated from the life of God, choose Christ, choose life! 

Scripture Quotations 
The New King James Version. Nashville: Thomas Nelson, 1982.

Hebrews 4:1-10

¹ Therefore, since a promise remains of entering His rest, let us fear lest any of you seem to have come short of it. ² For indeed the gospel was preached to us as well as to them; but the word which they heard did not profit them, not being mixed with faith in those who heard it. ³ For we who have believed do enter that rest, as He has said: “So I swore in My wrath, ‘They shall not enter My rest,’ ” although the works were finished from the foundation of the world. ⁴ For He has spoken in a certain place of the seventh day in this way: “And God rested on the seventh day from all His works”; ⁵ and again in this place: “They shall not enter My rest.” ⁶ Since therefore it remains that some must enter it, and those to whom it was first preached did not enter because of disobedience, ⁷ again He designates a certain day, saying in David, “Today,” after such a long time, as it has been said: “Today, if you will hear His voice, Do not harden your hearts.” ⁸ For if Joshua had given them rest, then He would not afterward have spoken of another day. ⁹ There remains therefore a rest for the people of God. ¹⁰ For he who has entered His rest has himself also ceased from his works as God did from His.

Commentary

Vs. 1 "Therefore, since a promise remains of entering His rest, let us fear lest any of you seem to have come short of it."

The Holy Scripture having already given us a strong warning in chapter three by drawing it's lesson from those Israelite's who did not enter the Promised land because of their rebellion and disobedience and ultimately it was their unbelief that kept them out of the Promised land; therefore having shown us by their example of what not to do we are all to fear lest anyone now who professes faith in the Lord Jesus Christ likewise comes short of it, because a promise remains of entering His rest. Therefore no one should presume upon the grace of God, or play flippant with the faith in the Lord Jesus Christ, because God is not mocked, whatever a person sows that they shall also reap! (Gal 6:7) 

Vs. 2 "For indeed the gospel was preached to us as well as to them; but the word which they heard did not profit them, not being mixed with faith in those who heard it." 

The gospel here means the Word of the Lord; the Promise of His giving and taking the Israelite's into the Promised Land (also consider Rev. 14:6). Yet as the Word of the Lord declares here the Word which they heard did not profit them because it was not mixed with faith in those who heard it. And so those who did not believe the gospel spoken to them did not enter the Promised land, instead they all perished in their own sins in the wilderness. The warning to us all is that hearing the Gospel and not believing it will likewise only end in ones own eternal condemnation (John 3:16-21). 

Vs. 3 "For we who have believed do enter that rest, as He has said: “So I swore in My wrath, ‘They shall not enter My rest,’ ” although the works were finished from the foundation of the world."

Now that is not the state which we who believe in the Lord Jesus Christ are in, or will ever be in, since the Holy Scripture states here we who have believed do enter that rest, for having been sealed by the Holy Spirit of God the moment we believed our eternal fate is settled (Eph. 1:13-14). Therefore in quoting Psalm 95:11 the Holy Scripture is making it clear that unbelief is the cause of God's wrath falling on any individual who does not believe His Word, and thus that is what excluded those unbelieving Israelite's from entering the Promised Land, and that is what will now exclude those who do not believe the Gospel from entering the Kingdom of heaven (John 3:35-36). Now that the works were finished from the foundation of the world is stating that the works needed for our eternal redemption were settled from the foundation of the world. For God already knew what would happen when He created the world and humanity on it, and so He also knew what He was going to do (and when He was going to do it) to redeem us from sin, Satan, death. And so the point being made and will be made in the upcoming verses is that salvation is not based on what we do, or have done or not done, (whether good or bad), it is based solely on what God has done through the Crucifixion death and ressurection from the dead of His Son Jesus Christ and ones faith in Him (Rom 9:11). Anything that anyone then tries to do to add to that finished work completed and accomplished by God's Son for our eternal redemption is not counted as grace, but rather is charged as debt against them (Rom. 4:4-5). And so just as God rested from His works on the seventh day, so we who believe in Christ are to rest from ours, that is from every work (whether according to the law or not) that is only an attempt by us to try to earn salvation for ourselves by our own works and not by faith in God's. For the works were finished from the foundation of the world, and as it will be made clear in the following verses God is commanding us all to enter His Rest by faith in His Son the Lord Jesus Christ. 

Vs. 4-5 ⁴ For He has spoken in a certain place of the seventh day in this way: “And God rested on the seventh day from all His works”; ⁵ and again in this place: “They shall not enter My rest.”

And so to bring this point home to us the Holy Scripture now recalls God resting from His works on the seventh day, that is having completed everything He needed to do to bring us and all of creation into being, God rested from His works. For it was a settled issue God had completed everything that needed to be done. Therefore if God Himself rested from His works when they were completed so now should we rest from ours, because as we will also see in the following verses those who did not obey God did not enter God's rest. And God has commanded that we rest from our works, having used the seventh day, and then the Sabbath under the law, to reveal this Spiritual reality to us all, that He has through His Son the Lord Jesus Christ already accomplished everything that is needed to be done for our eternal redemption.

Vs. 6-7  ⁶ Since therefore it remains that some must enter it, and those to whom it was first preached did not enter because of disobedience, ⁷ again He designates a certain day, saying in David, “Today,” after such a long time, as it has been said: “Today, if you will hear His voice, Do not harden your hearts.”

The Holy Scripture now reminds us that the promised rest was not just preached to the O.T. Israelite's and then ended, but it is open to one and all who repent and believe in the Gospel of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ. Now to those whom it was first preached; that is the Old Covenant Israelite's who did not enter God's rest; they did not enter because of their disobedience, that is in refusing to believe and obey God they instead tried to return to Egypt, and thus return to their state of bondage which He had delivered them from. Therefore it was their own disobedience, again being born out of their own unbelief in not believing God could bring them into the Promised land, that they themselves shut themselves out of the Promised Land. So today both Jew and Gentile must beware that they too do not follow that same example of disobedience by not believing the Gospel (vs. 6). For God's Promise is not limited by or linked to time, for even in David's generation God was still extending His Promise to one and to all who would repent and believe, saying, “Today, if you will hear His voice, Do not harden your hearts.” And so He does so even now not wanting any to perish but rather that all would come to repentance (2 Peter 3:9). 

Vs. 8 "For if Joshua had given them rest, then He would not afterward have spoken of another day."

Therefore the Promised rest did not come through Joshua, "For if Joshua had given them rest, then He would not afterward have spoken of another day." Joshua then was not the Savior and Canaan was not the Promised Land through whom we find salvation and have eternal rest for our persons and souls. For that day of salvation is the day that God is always alluding to throughout the Scriptures so that both the Old Covenant Israelite's and every generation of humanity since would diligently look forward too and wait on the Day of the Lord Jesus Christ when He would accomplish and fulfill all that is required for our (and all of creations) redemption from sin and death, and thus Jesus has brought and He will usher in that Glorious Rest to us all who believe in Him (Matt. 11:28-30; 1 Peter 1:10-12). 

Vs. 9 "There remains therefore a rest for the people of God. 

Therefore the rest spoken of and often alluded too in the O.T. Scriptures is not then found through the Old Covenant which required diligent and constant and ongoing observance to all of its statutes and decrees, rather the Promised rest foretold and spoken of in the Holy Scriptures comes to one and to all through faith in the Lord Jesus Christ (Matt. 11:28-30; also see Acts 15:7-11). And so there remains a rest for the people of God which God Himself will usher in when He has gathered together all the people of God through Christ to Himself. And so though we have entered that rest by faith in the Lord Jesus Christ Person we will not fully and eternally experience it completely and uninterrupted eternally until we are all gathered together in the Kingdom of heaven.

Vs. 10 "For he who has entered His rest has himself also ceased from his works as God did from His."

Having then entered God's Rest through faith in the Lord Jesus Christ, we who believe (and thus are trusting in the Lord Jesus Christ and Him alone for our salvation), have likewise ceased from our works as God did from His. Now works here is anything and everything that ones tries to do to atone for ones sins and transgressions whether done under or according to the Law or not. Therefore we who believe having ceased from our works as God did from His is not saying that we cease from serving the Lord, or doing good towards others; works here is trying to earn forgiveness or salvation by doing something. And so maybe for some of us before we knew God personally through Christ we were motivated by a sense of guilt or shame, or religious duty, rather than being motivated by the grace of God which not saves us, but also frees us to be all we can be. Therefore this is critically important for some us to understand because trying to earn salvation for oneself whether by observance of the Law or some other means (observing the doctrines and commandments of men which are not found in the Holy Scriptures, or are a perversion or misapplication of what is stated there) will not end with one receiving the grace of God, but rather the wrath of God for trying to supplant His Works with ones own (Rom 4:4-5). Therefore if you have not yet believed and thus received the Lord Jesus Christ by faith, placing all of your faith and hope on Him and what He has done out of God's love for you, by suffering Crucifixion death for you (John 3:16), then please don't delay receive Jesus Christ the Lord today! By a simple prayer of faith confess your need for Him and desire to have Him come into your heart and life and He will just as He Promises, "Behold, I stand at the door and knock. If anyone hears My voice and opens the door, I will come in to him and dine with him, and he with Me." Revelation 3:20 Therefore invite Jesus into your heart and life today!

Scripture Quotations
The New King James Version. Nashville: Thomas Nelson, 1982.