Teaching by Travis Allen (Page 4)
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 Pinnacle of Christ’s Supremacy
Colossians 1:17-18 Well, you can open your Bibles to Colossians chapter 1, as it is our great privilege and joy to study in Colossians 1:15-20, this crystal clear teaching on the true nature of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ. Before we look at our text, I want to pose a question to you, give you something to think about as we consider the verses that we’re going to look at today. And here’s the question: What narrative has 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…
The Divine Agent of Creation
Colossians 1:15-16 Well, you can open your Bibles to Paul’s letter to the Colossians, and we’re coming into what is the defining passage of Colossians, what Colossians is known for. It’s the most comprehensive and yet condensed teaching on Christology really in all the New Testament, which is Colossians 1:15 through 20. We’re just going to get into the first couple of verses for our exposition this morning, but I can tell you it’s going to be theologically deep, christologically…
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…
God’s Will to Save Us
Colossians 1:12-14 Well, we are in the opening chapter of Paul’s letter to the Colossians, and I invite you to turn there. Open, there, in your Bibles as we consider just a few verses this morning along this same theme of redemption. Colossians 1:12 to 14 will be our text and that will prepare our hearts to celebrate the Lord’s table. The theme this morning is redemption, or we could say gratitude for our redemption, just as we heard in…
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…
What a Worthy Walk Looks Like
Colossians 1:10-12 Well, as we turn to God’s Word this morning, you can open your Bibles to Colossians 1, which is Paul’s prayer report for the Colossians. So encouraging, strengthening, aspirational, and really, it’s worth reflecting on the power of giving prayer reports like Paul has done here. It’s a good, profitable, deeply encouraging thing, when more mature Christians tell less mature Christians that they are praying for them and how they are praying for them. Now, if some Christian…
Who Are These Hebrews
All right. We are starting into, as you know, a study of Hebrews and just getting started with some introductory matters, such as who wrote this letter to the Hebrews, to whom he wrote, when he wrote it, for what reason. And so we’re going to get into that more tonight, four points in total. So two last week and two more for tonight. I’m going to, just going to review very quickly the two we covered last week, starting…
Five Steps to Walk Worthy
Colossians 1:9-10 All right, open your Bibles to Colossians. We’ve started into a study of this short little letter, but make no mistake, though it’s short, it punches far above its weight and delivers to the church of all the ages the first of several New Testament treatises on the supremacy of Christ. The, the other two treatises that deal with this same subject, on the supremacy of Christ, Hebrews, but also John’s Gospel, both Hebrews and John’s Gospel are…