Is the Word of God Really Living and Active?

Nearly every translation of Hebrews 4:12 tells us that, “the word of God is living and active, sharper than any two-edged sword, piercing to the division of soul and of spirit, of joints and of marrow, and discerning the thoughts and intentions of the heart” (esv). The phrase “the word of God” is widely understood to be referring here to the written word of God—the Scriptures. Therefore, the author is providing commentary on the living, powerful nature of that word. This is what is universally taught… and yet, it is totally wrong. Though the Bible is indeed God’s awesome, powerful, written word, the author of Hebrews is actually teaching us about something completely different.
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Holding Fast to Your Faith in Yeshua

Israel had just been mightily redeemed and delivered from Egypt. The God of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob had done as He had promised: He saved his people from slavery, brought them safely through the Red Sea, and soundly destroyed their enemy through powerful signs and wonders. Yet in no time, barely started on their desert journey, the people found themselves unable to trust in their self-evident Savior. Already, they were threatening and grumbling against God’s man Moses because they were without water. So God instructed Moses to strike a rock with his staff, producing a miraculous outpouring from which the people could drink. Moses then called that place Massah and Meribah (Exodus 17:7)—meaning “testing” and “provoking”—because they had tested and provoked God through their unbelief of His presence and power.
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How a Perfect Yeshua Did What God Could Not

The awesome and deeply profound book of Hebrews (Iv’riym) begins with a revelation of the Son—not only of His divine preeminence, but of His Deity. In other words, the Son of God—Yeshua—is God. Yet it is not the Son’s deity alone which makes Yeshua perfect. Surprisingly, as we learn in Hebrews chapter 2, there was something that at one time even God couldn’t do. That’s why the Son’s perfection comes through His humanity.
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The Most Excellent Son

Perhaps one of the most awe-inspiring pieces of writing in all of Scripture—and more than worthy of this new series—is the anonymous letter to a group of Messianic Jews, commonly known as the book of Hebrews (Iv’riym). The letter is believed to have been written in 69 AD, shortly before the destruction of the Temple and during a time of continuing oppression and persecution of the believers. In it, the author aims to encourage and strengthen his fellow Jewish believers who were having difficulty staying true to their brand-new, Messianic faith, and does this by expertly building a case for having complete trust in the author and perfecter of that faith: Yeshua.
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