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Hebrews
The Epistle to the Hebrews was written to Jewish believers in Jesus who were tempted to turn back to the temple and its sacrifices. Its answer is one word: better. Jesus is better than the angels, better than Moses, better than Aaron; His covenant is better, His sacrifice is better, and the sanctuary where He now ministers is “the true tabernacle, which the Lord pitched, and not man.” Ellen White, with many through the centuries, treats the letter as the work of the apostle Paul.
This series reads Hebrews chapter by chapter, following this site’s studies of Paul’s other letters. No book of the New Testament explains the sanctuary more fully: Christ our great High Priest, “touched with the feeling of our infirmities,” who entered heaven itself “now to appear in the presence of God for us.” Around that centre stand some of the best-loved passages in Scripture: the rest that remains for the people of God, faith’s great roll of honour in chapter 11, and the call to run the race “looking unto Jesus the author and finisher of our faith.”
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Spoken Unto Us By His Son
god's final word in his son — the creator of the worlds, the brightness of his glory and express image of his person, worshipped by all the angels, addressed by the father as god, and lord of the ministering spirits sent to serve the heirs of salvation
Hebrews 1So Great Salvation
how shall we escape if we neglect so great salvation — what is man, but we see jesus made a little lower than the angels, not ashamed to call us brethren, destroying him that had the power of death, a merciful and faithful high priest who succours the tempted
Hebrews 2Harden Not Your Hearts
consider the apostle and high priest of our profession — moses faithful as a servant, christ as a son over his own house, to day if ye will hear his voice, exhort one another daily, and a generation that could not enter in because of unbelief
Hebrews 3There Remaineth Therefore A Rest
a promise of rest still open — god did rest the seventh day from all his works, a sabbath-keeping that remains for the people of god, the living word sharper than any twoedged sword, and a great high priest touched with the feeling of our infirmities
Hebrews 4Learned He Obedience
every high priest taken from among men and called of god as was aaron — christ a priest for ever after the order of melchisedec, praying with strong crying and tears, learning obedience by the things he suffered, and a church still needing milk instead of strong meat
Hebrews 5An Anchor Of The Soul
go on unto perfection — the solemn warning against falling away, god who is not unrighteous to forget your labour of love, his promise and oath to abraham, and a hope sure and stedfast that entereth into that within the veil
Hebrews 6After The Order Of Melchisedec
melchisedec king of righteousness and king of peace — abraham's tithe, a priesthood changed from levi to judah, the power of an endless life, god's oath, and a high priest able to save to the uttermost because he ever liveth to make intercession
Hebrews 7The True Tabernacle
this is the sum — a high priest at god's right hand, minister of the true tabernacle which the lord pitched and not man, the earthly sanctuary as a copy and shadow, and a new covenant with god's law written on the heart and sins remembered no more
Hebrews 8Without Shedding Of Blood Is No Remission
the earthly sanctuary room by room, the daily and yearly services, christ entering by his own blood to obtain eternal redemption, the heavenly things themselves purified with better sacrifices, and his appearing the second time without sin unto salvation
Hebrews 9A New And Living Way
the law a shadow of good things to come, lo i come to do thy will, one offering that perfected for ever, a new and living way through the veil, not forsaking the assembling of ourselves together, and he that shall come will come and will not tarry
Hebrews 10Now Faith Is The Substance Of Things Hoped For
faith's roll of honour — the worlds framed by the word of god, abel, enoch and noah, abraham going out not knowing whither, moses esteeming the reproach of christ, rahab, the martyrs of whom the world was not worthy, all waiting that they without us should not be made perfect
Hebrews 11Looking Unto Jesus
a great cloud of witnesses and a race to run looking unto jesus, the father's chastening for our profit, peace and holiness, esau's lost birthright, sinai and mount sion, and a kingdom which cannot be moved, for our god is a consuming fire
Hebrews 12Jesus Christ The Same Yesterday, And To Day, And For Ever
let brotherly love continue — entertaining angels unawares, marriage honourable, i will never leave thee nor forsake thee, jesus christ the same yesterday and to day and for ever, going forth unto him without the camp, and the god of peace who brought again that great shepherd of the sheep
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