“He can have compassion on those who are ignorant and going astray, since he himself is also subject to [entangled -encompassed about by] weakness.” Hebrews 5:2 NKJV.
“And all these, having obtained a good testimony through faith, did not receive the promise, God having provided something better for us, that they should not be made perfect apart from us.” Hebrews 11:39-40 NKJV.
“Therefore, since we also have such a great cloud of witnesses surrounding us, let’s rid ourselves of every obstacle and the sin which so easily entangles us, and let’s run with endurance the race that is set before us.” Hebrews 12:1 NASB.
The phrase “so easily entangled by sin” is what caught my eye and my heart. We are living in a time of great deception and duplicity. As our Elohim outlined in Scriptures, He had guidelines for how our communities or assemblies were to function…and operating within that framework provided protection for those who honored His ways as well as those who had yet to come to a personal understanding and choice to walk in His ways. Today, paraphrasing as Dr. James Dobson used to say, all the doors on the hallway of life that led to dangerous things were firmly closed to us during childhoo ...
