Study Desk

Nothing is hidden from God! He sees through everything, and we will have to tell him the truth.

We have a great high priest, who has gone into heaven, and he is Jesus the Son of God. That is why we must hold on to what we have said about him.

So whenever we are in need, we should come bravely before the throne of our merciful God. There we will be treated with undeserved kindness, and we will find help.

Every high priest is appointed to help others by offering gifts and sacrifices to God because of their sins.

But no one can have the honor of being a high priest simply by wanting to be one. Only God can choose a priest, and God is the one who chose Aaron.

That is how it was with Christ. He became a high priest, but not just because he wanted the honor of being one. It was God who told him, "You are my Son, because today I have become your Father!"

In another place, God says, "You are a priest forever just like Melchizedek."

God had the power to save Jesus from death. And while Jesus was on earth, he begged God with loud crying and tears to save him. He truly worshiped God, and God listened to his prayers.

Jesus is God's own Son, but still he had to suffer before he could learn what it really means to obey God.

This is because God chose him to be a high priest like Melchizedek.

By now you should have been teachers, but once again you need to be taught the simplest things about what God has said. You need milk instead of solid food.

We must try to become mature and start thinking about more than just the basic things we were taught about Christ. We shouldn't need to keep talking about why we ought to turn from deeds that bring death and why we ought to have faith in God.

Let's grow up, if God is willing.

But what about people who turn away after they have already seen the light and have received the gift from heaven and have shared in the Holy Spirit? What about those who turn away after they have received the good message of God and the powers of the future world? There is no way to bring them back. What they are doing is the same as nailing the Son of God to a cross and insulting him in public!

A field is useful to farmers, if there is enough rain to make good crops grow. In fact, God will bless that field.

God is always fair. He will remember how you helped his people in the past and how you are still helping them. You belong to God, and he won't forget the love you have shown his people.

Then you would never be lazy. You would be following the example of those who had faith and were patient until God kept his promise to them.

No one is greater than God. So he made a promise in his own name when he said to Abraham,

Then after Abraham had been very patient, he was given what God had promised.

So when God wanted to prove for certain that his promise to his people could not be broken, he made a vow.