November 24, 2025 - Hebrews 13

What wonderful concluding instructions on how to live in this world!  Toward fellow believers = brotherly love.  Toward strangers = show hospitality.  Regarding those in prison = remember them.  About marriage = honor it.  Concerning money = keep free from the love of money and be content with what we have for the Lord has said, “I will never leave you nor forsake you” (13:5). Remember leaders, especially in the church and follow their good examples.  About the future = Be strong and hopeful because “Jesus Christ is the same yesterday and today and forever” (13:8). Regarding truth and the gospel = do not be led astray by false teachings that lead to dead works.  Do good.  Pray for leaders.  These are not merely idle or empty platitudes.  In Jesus, the great shepherd of the sheep, by his blood, we are equipped to live in this manner.  He is “working in us that which is pleasing in [God’s] sight, through Jesus Christ, to whom be glory forever and ever” (13:21).  We can then answer Francis Shaefer’s famous question – “How shall we then live?” – “We shall live thusly.”

Savior, like a shepherd lead us,

Much we need Thy tender care;

In Thy pleasant pastures feed us,

For our use Thy folds prepare:

Blessed Jesus, blessed Jesus,

Thou hast bought us, Thine we are;

Blessed Jesus, blessed Jesus,

Thou hast bought us, Thine we are.   -- Dorothy A. Thrupp & Henry F. Lyte (1836)