Question:

Why should we love others?

John 13:34,35: “A new commandment I give to you, that you love one another, even as I have loved you, that you also love one another. By this all men will know that you are My disciples, if you have love for one another.”   By loving others we are a good testimony to the world and are a shining light for the Lord, and by following His commandments for us we are loving the Lord.  We can show that love to others by putting them before ourselves as in Philippians 2:3: “Do nothing from selfishness or empty conceit, but with humility of mind regard one another as more important than yourselves.” We also talked a lot about walking in the light rather than darkness so that we can have fellowship with the Lord. 1 John 1:7: “But if we walk in the Light as He Himself is in the Light, we have fellowship with one another, and the blood of Jesus His Son cleanses us from all sin.”     We are supposed to do as it says in Romans 12:1,2 – present our bodies to God as a sacrifice, and as in 1 John 1:9 –  confess our sins before Him in order to have that fellowship restored.

Question:
Why do we love the Lord?

Answer:

Romans 5:1: “Therefore, having been justified by faith, we have peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ.” Romans 5:8: “But God demonstrates His own love toward us, in that while we were yet sinners, Christ died for us.”  We love the Lord because He has given us this peace, and we know that we are made right with God through the blood of His Son.   Some other references were Ephesians 2:4-8; 1 John 3:1; and 1 John 4:19.

Question:
Why should we love God and where do we read about our love for God?

Answer:

Deuteronomy 6:5: “You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your might.” The Lord should come first in our life just as He put us before Himself.

Verses that were given as to why we should love God were:  Psalm 139:14: “I will give thanks to You, for I am fearfully and wonderfully made; Wonderful are Your works,” and John  3:16: “For God so loved the world, that He gave His only begotten Son, that whoever believes in Him shall not perish, but have eternal life.”   Some reasons that we should love the Lord are because He made us, and He gave His Son to die for us.  The ultimate reason that we should love the Lord is 1 John 4:19: “We love, because He first loved us.”

Question:

Why was the book of Hebrews written to Jewish Christians?

To encourage those who were being persecuted; because things that had been taught in the Old Testament had now passed away; to show the Excellency of Christ to Old Testament law, prophets, Moses, and angels; and to establish Christ’s superior priesthood and sacrifice.

Question:

Who wrote the book of Hebrews?

Some think that Barnabas wrote it.  Some say Timothy.  Some say Paul. Hebrews 13:23 and 2 Peter 3:15 may be good clues that Paul wrote it. We know that the Lord really wrote this book (2 Timothy 3:16, 17).

The fact that the human writer is not mentioned shows that the attention is be on the Lord and the Holy Spirit who guided that person to write it. (Edited).