Hebrews With A Hebrew – Part 23
We Have Need of Endurance For if we go on sinning deliberately after receiving the knowledge of the truth, there no longer remains a sacrifice for sins, but a fearful expectation of judgment, and a fury of fire that will consume the adversaries. Anyone who has set...
Why This Hatred?
What's behind this present surge of Antisemitism? The one question I have been asked repeatedly since Hamas terrorists brutally attacked Israel almost a month ago is, ‘Why are the Jewish people so hated?’ Whether it’s on college campuses where protests against...
Hebrews With A Hebrew – Part 22
Therefore, brothers, since we have confidence to enter the holy places by the blood of Jesus, by the new and living way that he opened for us through the curtain, that is, through his flesh, and since we have a great priest over the house of God, let us draw near...
Hebrews With A Hebrew – Part 21
Redemption Through the Blood of Christ But when Christ appeared as a high priest of the good things that have come, then through the greater and more perfect tent (not made with hands, that is, not of this creation), he entered once for all into the holy places,...
Hebrews With A Hebrew – Part 20
Now, even the first covenant had regulations for worship and an earthly place of holiness. For a tent was prepared, the first section, in which were the lampstand and the table and the bread of the Presence. It is called the Holy Place. Behind the second curtain...
Hebrews With A Hebrew – Part 19
For he finds fault with them when he says: "Behold, the days are coming, declares the Lord, when I will establish a new covenant with the house of Israel and with the house of Judah, not like the covenant that I made with their fathers on the day when I took them...
Hebrews With A Hebrew – Part 18
Now the point in what we are saying is this: we have such a high priest, one who is seated at the right hand of the throne of the Majesty in heaven, a minister in the holy places, in the true tent that the Lord set up, not man. For every high priest is appointed to...
Hebrews With A Hebrew – Part 16
Unable to Lay Foundations Twice (6:1-8) In the previous blog, we examined the closing paragraph of chapter five. Scarcely had the writer introduced them to the fact that the Messiah is a priest after the order of Melchizedek when the writer realizes the spiritual...
Hebrews With A Hebrew – Part 15
About this we have much to say, and it is hard to explain, since you have become dull of hearing. For though by this time you ought to be teachers, you need someone to teach you again the basic principles of the oracles of God. You need milk, not solid food, for...
Hebrews With A Hebrew – Part 14
For every high priest chosen from among men is appointed to act on behalf of men in relation to God, to offer gifts and sacrifices for sins. He can deal gently with the ignorant and wayward, distance he himself is beset with weakness. Because of this, he is...
Hebrews With A Hebrew – Part 13
Since then, we have a great high priest who has passed through the heavens, Jesus, the Son of God, let us hold fast to our confession. For we do not have a high priest who is unable to sympathize with our weaknesses, but one who in every respect has been tempted as...
Hebrews With A Hebrew – Part 12
Therefore, while the promise of entering his rest still stands, let us fear lest any of you should seem to have failed to reach it. For good news came to us just as to them, but the message they heard did not benefit them, because they were not united by faith with...