Teaching on Hebrews (Page 2)
To display to a Jewish audience of both genuine Christians and Jews interested in the gospel message the superiority of Jesus Christ over the old, Levitical system. The epistle contrasts the incomplete, temporal provisions of the old covenant with the perfect, once-for-all provisions of the new covenant established through the death, resurrection, and ascension of
Christ.
Christ Saves His People
Hebrews 2:14-15 Well, good evening. Tonight will be part one of, it’s a single sermon needs to go together, but I don’t have that kind of time tonight. So you get the first part today, second part next week. Turn to Hebrews chapter 2, end of the chapter, Hebrews 2:14 through 18. I have in my past had people come up to me, students come up to me, younger Christians come up to me and ask why it is that…
Our Pioneer Through Suffering to Glory
Hebrews 2:10-13 Well, good evening, turn in your Bibles to Hebrews chapter 2 as we are continuing our study of a pastor’s exhortation to his church. And as we have seen, obviously this is not just any pastor, not just any exhortation. It’s not a typical sermon for a Sunday morning. This pastor is making use of a prophetic gift to write this word of exhortation, and this one is superintended by the Holy Spirit to guarantee its inerrancy, its…
What We Know, See, and Believe
Hebrews 2:5-9 All right, good evening, everyone. We are in Hebrews chapter 2, so you could turn in your Bibles to Hebrews 2:5 through 9. And we’ll continue our study of this pastor’s exhortation to some in his congregation, or even maybe perhaps many in his congregation, who were feeling weak and discouraged, facing difficult, a difficult season in their lives, and they were in need of strengthening. Last time we looked at the exhortation section, which was Hebrews 2:1…
How to Pay Closer Attention
Hebrews 2:1-4 Well, we are starting the second chapter of Hebrews, so you’ll want to turn there in your Bibles tonight. And when we were last in the text, we were tracking with the author’s argument that the son is superior to the angels, as he has inherited a more excellent name than they. After saying that in Hebrews 1:4, he brings forward evidence of that from Scripture, Old Testament proof texts. He roots his argument in Scripture and then…
The Son and the Angels, Part 2
Hebrews 1:7-14 Good evening, everyone and welcome back. Well, look, we are in Hebrews chapter 1, so if you would turn in your Bibles to Hebrews first chapter. And we started out last time in this section from verses 5 to 14, we’re looking at the pastor’s justification for his thesis statement in verse 4 where he says, “The Son has become as much better than the angels as He has inherited a more excellent name than they.” And after…
The Son and the Angels, Part 1
Hebrews 1:5-6 We return to our study of Hebrews. You can turn to Hebrews chapter 1, verses 5 to 14, and I will read the section. We’ll make some observations and then tackle a couple verses. The thesis of this opening section is in verse 4, Hebrews 1:4, which says that, “The son has become as much better than the angels as He has inherited a more excellent name than they.” And the pastor then turns to defend that with…
A Brief Primer on Angelology
Hebrews 1:5-14 I want to welcome you back as we return to our study of Hebrews. We have covered the introductory section, verses 1 to 4, and we are now looking at the first argument that the pastor makes here in Hebrews that Christ is superior to all of God’s servants. The pastor starts in his argument that Christ is superior to all God’s servants by speaking of Christ’s superiority over the angels in chapter 1, verse 5 all the…
The Supremacy of the Son
Hebrews 1:3-4 I want to invite you to turn in your Bibles to the book of Hebrews. We’re going to finish up that opening section, the introductory section in verses 1 to 4 of Hebrews chapter 1. Let me go ahead and read that. Just to start us off. Hebrews 1:1 to 4. “God, having spoken long ago to the fathers in the prophets in many portions and in many ways, in these last days, spoke to us in His…
God’s Final Word
Hebrews 1:1-2 Greetings everyone. We’re just at the cusp of this study of Hebrews, Hebrews chapter 1, and you can think of chapter 1, verses 1 through 4 as opening salvo, as he enters into this theme of the supremacy of Christ in all things. Could really put that as a title for the book of Hebrews, the supremacy of Christ in all things. And if we kind of want to put this in its larger context, we can kind…
Encouraging a Discouraged Church
Hebrews 1-13 Go ahead and take your Bibles and turn right over to Hebrews for what we’re going to do together, move through the entire book of Hebrews. I just want to give you a little bit of a running introduction. Over the past couple weeks, we’ve introduced the book of Hebrews and we’ve covered it, some matters of introduction. So it’s genre, authorship, recipients, occasion, even took a stab at the date of Hebrews, and here’s what we’ve come…