JESUS IS THE SAME YESTERDAY, TODAY AND FOREVER, Ron Ward
JESUS, THE SAME FOREVER
Passage: Hebrews 13:1~8  
Key verse: 8
Concluding Exhortations
13 Keep on loving one another as brothers and sisters.(A) 2 Do not forget to show hospitality to strangers,(B) for by so doing some people have shown hospitality to angels without knowing it.(C) 3 Continue to remember those in prison(D) as if you were together with them in prison, and those who are mistreated as if you yourselves were suffering.
4 Marriage should be honored by all,(E) and the marriage bed kept pure, for God will judge the adulterer and all the sexually immoral.(F) 5 Keep your lives free from the love of money(G) and be content with what you have,(H) because God has said,
6 So we say with confidence,
7 Remember your leaders,(K) who spoke the word of God(L) to you. Consider the outcome of their way of life and imitate(M) their faith. 8 Jesus Christ is the same yesterday and today and forever.(N)
Footnotes
- Hebrews 13:5 Deut. 31:6
- Hebrews 13:6 Psalm 118:6,7
Cross references
- Hebrews 13:1 : S Ro 12:10
- Hebrews 13:2 : Job 31:32; Mt 25:35; S Ro 12:13
- Hebrews 13:2 : Ge 18:1-33; 19:1-3
- Hebrews 13:3 : Mt 25:36; Col 4:18; Heb 10:34
- Hebrews 13:4 : Mal 2:15; 1Co 7:38; 1Ti 4:3
- Hebrews 13:4 : Dt 22:22; 1Co 6:9; Rev 22:15
- Hebrews 13:5 : S 1Ti 3:3
- Hebrews 13:5 : Php 4:11; 1Ti 6:6, 8
- Hebrews 13:5 : Dt 31:6, 8; Jos 1:5
- Hebrews 13:6 : Ps 118:6, 7
- Hebrews 13:7 : ver 17, 24; 1Co 16:16
- Hebrews 13:7 : S Heb 4:12
- Hebrews 13:7 : Heb 6:12
- Hebrews 13:8 : Ps 102:27; Heb 1:12
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1. Keep on loving each other (1-6)
Human love grows cold when it is not reciprocated, but Jesus' love is forever. He commands us to keep on loving each other--and he helps us to do so. We must welcome strangers and feel pain with those who suffer. Marriage commitments must be honored by all. If Jesus is in our hearts we can be faithful. We can overcome the two great temptations that Satan uses to make us his slaves--money and sex. We can be content.
2. Jesus is the same (7-8)
The men and women who have overcome the world and lived by faith are an encouragement to us. But the greatest encouragement is Jesus, who is the same forever. The Jesus of the Gospels who was patient and compassionate, who taught God's word with authority, who called and trained his disciples is the same Jesus who is our Good Shepherd. His promises and commands are for us. He was with us in the past, he is with us now, and he will be with us forever. He is faithful, so we must be faithful.
Prayer: Lord, help me to keep on loving others, for your love for me never changes.
One Word: Jesus is the same forever