Text: Hebrews 8:1-2 Theme: Jesus is our High Priest in the true place of worship in heaven. Key verses: “Here is the main point: We have a High Priest who sat down in the place of honor beside the throne of the majestic God in heaven. There he ministers in the heavenly Tabernacle, the true ...
Text: Hebrews 7:4-28 Theme: A better hope in Jesus should give us confidence to draw near to God. Key verses: “In addition, we might even say that these Levites–the ones who collect the tithe–paid a tithe to Melchizedek when their ancestor Abraham paid a tithe to him” (v. 9). “Jesus became a priest, not by ...
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 ...
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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 ...
I woke up early this morning with a clear conviction in my spirit that I’m quite sure is from the Lord. It’s not a condemning voice; yet, it is stern and clear and, I have to admit, painfully accurate. We arrived in Louisville on Sunday evening. What I suddenly realized this morning is that the ...
