Hebrews 13:1-6
August 10, 2025
preached by Pastor Doug Cooper
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Time of Reflection Quotations

“Christians are no different from the rest in their nationality, language or customs… They live in their own countries, but as sojourners. They fulfill all their duties as citizens, but they suffer as foreigners. They find their homeland wherever they are, but their homeland is not in any one place… They are in the flesh, but do not live according to the flesh. They live on earth, but are citizens of heaven. They obey all laws, but they live at a level higher than that required by the law. They love all, but all persecute them.”

~ from To Diognetus, a letter from one early Christian to another (c. A.D. 130 to 180)

“Hospitality is not so much a task, as a way of living our lives and of sharing ourselves…Hospitality is not first a duty and responsibility; it is first a response of love and gratitude of God’s love and welcome to us.”

~ Christine D. Pohl (1950-2023), American professor and author

“Money cannot save you from tragedy, or give you control in a chaotic world. Only God can do that. What breaks the power of money over us is not just redoubled effort to follow the example of Christ. Rather, it is deepening your understanding of the salvation of Christ, what you have in him, and then living out the changes that that understanding makes in your heart.”

~ Timothy Keller (1950-2023), American pastor, writer

“This rather improbable message that the Son of God has come to earth and been crucified, in human form, and risen from the dead … appealed to a lot of perfectly ordinary people, or so they appear to us, in such a way that they were willing to change their lives and to become initiated into a group which brought them only hostility, estrangement from their families and neighbors, and the possibility of persecution to the point of death.”

~ Wayne Meeks (1932-2023), American New Testament scholar

Sermon Passage

Hebrews 13:1-6 (NASB)

¹ Let love of the brothers and sisters continue. ² Do not neglect hospitality to strangers, for by this some have entertained angels without knowing it. ³ Remember the prisoners, as though in prison with them, and those who are badly treated, since you yourselves also are in the body. ⁴ Marriage is to be held in honor among all, and the marriage bed is to be undefiled; for God will judge the sexually immoral and adulterers. ⁵ Make sure that your character is free from the love of money, being content with what you have; for He Himself has said, “I will never desert you, nor will I ever abandon you,” ⁶ so that we confidently say, “The Lord is my helper, I will not be afraid. What will man do to me?”