God initiates, establishes, sets conditions, and preserves His relationship with His people.
When we see Jesus' thoughts on the religious leaders of the day, we see two road signs - Danger, Falling Hypocrites Ahead and Do Not Pass.
Faith is a confident assurance in God, based on His promises, that seeks His promised good.
To ways to persevere in the faith are to consider the consequences of turning away and to consider the confidence you had at first.
While the law was given to show sin, Christ came to make perfect those who trust in Him.
Whereas the Old Covenant was a shadow of things to come, Christ is the reality. He entered a greater Holy Place by the greater blood of a greater sacrifice to save His people for God.
Jesus, serving in a greater Priesthood and Tabernacle, provides what the Old Covenant cannot by mediating the New Covenant.
As our Messiah-Priest, Jesus is the fulfillment of of the prophecies found in Genesis 14 and Psalm 110.
God's unchanging faithfulness to His promise assures us that we can hold fast to the hope.
Those who are sinfully sluggish in their Christian walk stand in an extremely dangerous position. Hebrews gives them a warning to wake them up from their dullness.
Hold fast to your confession as you boldly approach the throne in trouble - because Jesus, your holy and sympathetic high priest is there to give you grace and mercy.
While Joshua brought the people into physical rest in the promised land, Jesus offers a greater rest for all who trust Him.
In showing the great faithfulness of Moses, the author of Hebrews points us to one greater than him - Jesus Christ.
Mankind was created to rule and reign for God, yet through our sin, we have become slaves of death and the devil. This passage teaches that Christ, who is greater than mankind, helps the children of Abraham (not angels) by forgiving sin and thus defeating death and the devil.
Pay close attention to the message you heard about Jesus, for neglecting its truth will certainly escort you to judgment.
In this text the author says that Jesus is superior to angels. Our text is part of a lesser to greater argument that runs Hebrews 1:5-2:18. The argument's thrust is this: if you reject the revelation about Jesus and from Jesus, you will not escape the just retribution of God.
While God had previously spoken in many times and many ways, He definitively revealed Himself through His Son. This text lists at least 10 reasons why the Son is worthy to be praised.
The theme of Hebrews is Jesus is better, therefore persevere.
In this first Sunday School lesson, Dan gives an overview of the book in preparation for our upcoming year of Sunday School.