This document discusses key passages from Hebrews 13:7 and 17 regarding remembering and obeying leaders. It encourages remembering past leaders who spoke God's word and considering how their faithful conduct resulted in suffering, including imprisonment and martyrdom. It instructs to obey current leaders who keep watch over souls and will give an account to God, in a way that brings joy rather than grief.

1. Key words
Hebrews 13:7;17

2. Remember those who led you, who spoke the word of
God to you; and considering the result of their conduct,
imitate their faith.
Hebrews 13:7

3. Obey your leaders and submit to them, for they keep
watch over your souls as those who will give an
account. Let them do this with joy and not with grief,
for this would be unprofitable for you.
Hebrews 13:17

4. Key words
Hebrews 13:7;17

5. Key word
Remember
those who
led you…
to think of
and feel
Not just a
casual
remember
when

6. What it really means
Result of their conduct
Euphemism for “end of
their lives”

7. Leadership lives
Imprisoned-Heb. 13:3
Imprisoned and forfeiture-
Heb. 10:34
Flogged-Acts 5:40-41
The Apostles were beaten,
imprisoned and martyred.
Paul was frequently
beaten and imprisoned.
Died a martyr
Stephen was stoned to
death

8. But remember the former days, when, after being
enlightened, you endured a great conflict of sufferings,
partly by being made a public spectacle through
reproaches and tribulations, and partly by becoming
sharers with those who were so treated. For you
showed sympathy to the prisoners and accepted
joyfully the seizure of your property, knowing that you
have for yourselves a better possession and a lasting
one. Therefore, do not throw away your confidence,
which has a great reward. For you have need of
endurance, so that when you have done the will of
God, you may receive what was promised.
Hebrews 10:32–36

9. Simple command
imitate their faith.
To paint (artistic), engrave,
imitate

10. imitate their faith.
To paint (artistic), engrave,
imitate
so that you will not be
sluggish, but imitators of
those who through faith
and patience inherit the
promises.
Hebrews 6:12
Duplicate command

11. If anyone serves Me, he must follow Me; and where I
am, there My servant will be also; if anyone serves Me,
the Father will honor him.
John 12:26

12. Choose wisely
Be imitators of me, just as I also am of Christ.
1 Corinthians 11:1

13. Your leader
And they overcame him because of the blood of the
Lamb and because of the word of their testimony, and
they did not love their life even when faced with death.
Revelation 12:11

14. The second half
Obey your leaders and submit to them, for they keep
watch over your souls as those who will give an
account. Let them do this with joy and not with grief,
for this would be unprofitable for you.
Hebrews 13:17

15. Remember the old, obey the new
Obey-to submit to authority or reason by obeying
Submit-to submit to the orders or directives of
someone, to yield to authority and admonition

16. Leaders are workers
that you also be in subjection to such men and to
everyone who helps in the work and labors.
1 Corinthians 16:16

17. Request also
But we request of you, brethren, that you appreciate
those who diligently labor among you, and have charge
over you in the Lord and give you instruction, and that
you esteem them very highly in love because of their
work. Live in peace with one another.
1 Thessalonians 5:12–13

18. It’s lonely at the top
they keep watch over your souls as those who
will give an account.

19. Appointed
Son of man, I have appointed you a
watchman to the house of Israel; whenever
you hear a word from My mouth, warn
them from Me.
Ezekiel 3:17

20. On your walls, O Jerusalem, I have appointed
watchmen; All day and all night they will never keep
silent. You who remind the LORD, take no rest for
yourselves;
Isaiah 62:6

21. Judgement
‘But if the watchman sees the sword coming and does
not blow the trumpet and the people are not warned,
and a sword comes and takes a person from them, he is
taken away in his iniquity; but his blood I will require
from the watchman’s hand.’
Ezekiel 33:6

22. This is how it should be
Let them do this with joy and not with grief, for this
would be unprofitable for you.
Hebrews 13:17b

23. Leadership
Where there is no vision, the people are unrestrained,
But happy is he who keeps the law.
Proverbs 29:18

24. What ministries?
‘For I was hungry, and you gave Me something to eat; I
was thirsty, and you gave Me something to drink; I was
a stranger, and you invited Me in; naked, and you
clothed Me; I was sick, and you visited Me; I was in
prison, and you came to Me.’
Matthew 25:35–36

25. Key words
Hebrews 13:7;17