Text: Hebrews 7:1-3 Theme: Jesus is both our King of Justice and our King of Peace. Key verses: “This Melchizedek was king of the city of Salem and also a priest of God Most High. When Abraham was returning home after winning a great battle against the kings, Melchizedek met him and blessed him. Then ...
Text: Hebrews 6:16-20 Theme: Because of God’s unchanging promise and oath, our hope gives us confidence to enter God’s very presence. Key verses: “So God has given both his promise and his oath. These two things are unchangeable because it is impossible for God to lie. Therefore, we who have fled to him for refuge ...
Text: Hebrews 6:9-12 Theme: Our salvation comes packaged with all kinds of potential awesomeness. Key verses: “Though we speak in this way, yet in your case, beloved, we feel sure of better things–things that belong to salvation. For God is not unjust so as to overlook your work and the love that you have shown ...
Text: Hebrews 6:1-8 Theme: We can’t make people repent, so don’t stay where they are–move on. Key verses: “Therefore let us leave the elementary doctrine of Christ and go on to maturity, not laying again a foundation of repentance from dead works…” (v. 1a). “For it is impossible, in the case of those who have ...
Text: Hebrews 6:1-3 Theme: We must choose to grow in our faith and maturity in Christ. Key verses: “So let us stop going over the basic teaching about Christ again and again. Let us go on instead and become mature in our understanding. Surely we don’t need to start again with the fundamental importance of ...
Text: Hebrews 5:5-10 Theme: Jesus needed to be perfected in the reality of human obedience. Key verses: “During the days of Jesus’ life on earth, he offered up prayers and petitions with fervent cries and tears to the one who could save him from death, and he was heard because of his reverent submission. Son ...
Text: Hebrews 5:1-4 Theme: Ministers are chosen by God, not people, to minister to people for God. Key verses: “Every high priest is a man chosen to represent other people in their dealings with God. He presents their gifts to God and offers sacrifices for their sins. And he is able to deal gently with ...
Text: Hebrews 5 Theme: You can’t handle the truth. Key verses: “We have much to say about this, but it is hard to make it clear to you because you no longer try to understand. In fact, though by this time you ought to be teachers, you need someone to teach you the elementary truths ...
Text: Hebrews 4:12-16 Theme: God is both the one who judges us and the one who intercedes for us. Key verses: For the word of God is alive and active. Sharper than any double-edged sword, it penetrates even to dividing soul and spirit, joints and marrow; it judges the thoughts and attitudes of the heart. ...
Text: Hebrews 4:1-11 Theme: God’s promise of rest for His people is for today. Key verses: “God’s promise of entering his rest still stands, so we ought to tremble with fear that some of you might fail to experience it. For this good news–that God has prepared this rest–has been announced to us just as ...