HEBREWS

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Theme: Spiritual Maturity in the context that Christ’s Priesthood

Author: Probably Paul

Time: 60-70AD

  • The substance of the book is very Pauline, starts with the theoretical and gets into the practical.

  • Romans and Hebrews are pillars of Christian theology

  • Hebrews deals with the charge after justification takes place. What it looks like to live in the day-to-day as a believer. And the value of spiritual growth.

  • We were saved, being saved, and will be saved - spiritual maturity. We are called to grow in Christ and press toward Jesus.

Key Words:

Priest 37

Faith 32

Blood 22

Heaven 16

Perfect 14

Key Scripture:

Hebrew 3:12-13 ESV

12 Take care, brothers, lest there be in any of you an evil, unbelieving heart, leading you to fall away from the living God. 13 But exhort one another every day, as long as it is called “today,” that none of you may be hardened by the deceitfulness of sin.

  • It warns us about departing… leaving God. We shrink and stay immature through unbelief.

  • This book is to exhort us and help us to remember that we need to get back on track

Structure:

Chapters 1-4: Superiority of Jesus

  • Who Jesus is, the cornerstone of our faith, greater than any historical religious figure

Chapters 4-10: Jesus’s Priestly Office and Work

  • Greater than any person that represents us before God.

Chapters 11-13: Encouragement to Draw Near, Hold Fast, Believe, and Love

Purpose of the Book:

1. To wean Hebrew Christians from Judaism to Christianity and to warn them against apostasy

2. To present the Lord Jesus in His absolute pre-eminence as the complete revelation of God

3. To set forth the promises, sacrifice, priesthood, and sanctuary of the new covenant in Christ.

Message of the Book:

1. The cure to spiritual relapse and apostasy is a right conception of the Glory and work of Christ

  • If we want to stop drifting away we need to understand who and what Jesus did for us. The gospel

2. Faith in the blood of our eternal perfect and heavenly priest Lord Jesus Christ is better than that which was foreshadowed forth in the Old Covenant.

  • We don’t need the Old Covenant but we still use the typology/ symbolism of the old covenant because it was a shadow of Jesus.

  • So we refer to the Old Covenant because it was a shadow of the New. Everything in Jesus is better

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