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Study Section 15: Entertaining Angels

15.1 Connect

I had a friend who was in a very serious automobile accident. He was driving at a high
speed and went off the road and ran into a tree. He was thrown from the vehicle and hit
his head on the payment of the road. As he laid there, he remembers someone coming to
him and lifting his head up off the road, and comforting him. Within a few minutes, be
became unconcious and was rushed to the hospital and was in a comma for several weeks.

No one at the accident sight saw anyone assisting my friend. When the authorities arrived on the
screen, only my friend was laying there. But the only thing he remembers after he woke up was that
someone in white appearal was holding him and comforting him right after the accident. He thinks that
the person who was there was an angel.

Hebrews tells us to show hospitality to strangers, because perhaps one day a stranger may come to you
and may be an angel without you knowing it. Wouldn’t that be crazy? Evidently angels can take on the
form of a person and come to minister to you without you even being aware that they are angels. Let’s
find out more about this....

15.2 Objectives

1. The student should be able to share some of the closing commandments of the author to
demonstrate Christian behavior.

2. The student should be able to explain how Christ is our ultimate example of how we should
live.

3. The student should be able to explain how important it is for every person to have someone to whom
they are accountable in submission.

BEFORE YOU BEGIN, Read Hebrews Chapter 13 from your Bible...

15.3 Chapter 13

CONTEXTUAL GUIDE

A. Several things do not fit the "supposed" historical setting.
1. Christian leaders
2. Admonishment apparently to pagans, not Jews

B. This last chapter has several Pauline features.

WORD AND PHRASE STUDY

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