The Epistle to the Hebrews part CCCVI

Hebrews 13:5
"Let your conversation (the word here is manner of living. Let your manner of living) be without covetousness; (in other words, we’re not to live by keeping up with the Joneses) and be content with such things as ye have; for he hath said 'I will never leave thee, nor forsake thee.'"
Many take this with a grain of salt. but Paul does not say, "Just throw your worries to the wind and don’t worry about where your next day’s bread comes from." He doesn’t say that. In Timothy he admonishes the parents to take care of their families. "Lay up for the children," so that children don’t have to take care of the parents. So always remember that you have to look at more than one portion. When he says here, "Just be content with what you have," and he says, "I’ll never leave you or forsake you," that doesn’t mean that you can just carelessly say, "I don’t have to worry about tomorrow, God will take care of me." That’s not the name of the game in this Age of Grace. We are to work (Genesis 3:19), Paul says, if you don’t want to work, you don’t eat! That’s plain and simple. But on the other hand, we have the promise that He (God in Christ) will never leave us nor forsake us. Now verse 6. When we enter into this kind of a relationship with the Lord, constantly meeting our needs, Our needs are not of material things but rather our knowledge of Him and our active receptivity of all that He and the Father of spirit's want to do within and then through us. Remember at the cross all was changed to the spiritual no longer the external and material. Remember also that we're in something New a relationship where we each have our parts to do God in Christ does His and we in ours do ours. Sit under God listening waiting on Him to do and complete the good thing within us. Then we can speak boldly,

Hebrews 13:6
"So that we may boldly say, The Lord is my helper, I will not fear what man shall do unto me."
Now let’s take a verse again out of Romans. Go back to Romans chapter 8, and you’ll see this is in the same vein or light.

Romans 8:31-32
"What shall we then say to these things? If God be for us, (and Hebrews just told us that He will never leave us nor forsake us.) who can be against us? He that spared not his own Son, but delivered him up for us all, how shall he not with him also freely give us all things?"
See, that’s the promise. That’s what we have - that God will see to our every spiritual need but not in the material or earthy realm as before with Israel. For someplace it says that He worked first in the earthy then in the Heavenly or (who can accuse) of God’s elect? It is God that justifieth. Who is he that cspiritual realm.(1 Corinthians 15:46) Then verse 33:

Romans 8:33-34
"Who shall lay any thing to the charge (who can condemneth? (Satan is no longer before the throne as an accuser) It is Christ that died, yea rather, that is risen again, who is even at the right hand of God, (which is where? In the heavenlies!! See, we come right back full circle every time. All of these things fit.) who also maketh intercession for us."
I like to show that Scripture fits; it dovetails from one end to the other. Alright, back to Hebrews again, chapter 13, and verse 7. Now of course, this was especially applicable to these Hebrew-Christians who were under the priesthood first, and then came under the authority of the Twelve, especially back there in the early half of Acts. So this is especially appropriate to the Hebrew-Christians.

Hebrews 13:7
"Remember them which have the rule over you, who have spoken unto you the word of God: whose faith follow, considering the end of their conversation." (or their manner of living.) Now if you want to bring that on into the local church, I won’t object to that. But since he is still talking to the Hebrew-Christians, I prefer to think he’s still talking to the leadership of the Jerusalem church in particular, and to some of the other Jewish congregations, which of course, these people were a part of. Now verse 8:

Hebrews 13:8
"Jesus Christ the same yesterday, and to day, and for ever."
In other words, He never changes, He’s immutable. You know if people have an argument with us, they don’t like the fact that we separate Paul from Peter and the Church from the Hebrews (Judaism). And they’ve now picked it up in the word dispensationalism. I didn’t use that word very much, but now they don't understand this word “dispensation”. It makes a few people up tight. And this is my main point or obstacle when somebody opposes this word. Their first argument is, "Well, he’s dispensational." Well, of course I am not. But I make no apology for the use of it. Because God has chosen to deal with us differently than He did the Hebrews in Judaism. What they (those in religion) don't know or want to acknowledge is the fact that God judged Judaism and indeed all religions be they occult, or Judaism, or what ever label we may call them on the cross as dead and good for nothing in His eyes. This is the hidden under current of the scriptures and which Revelation so pointedly points out.