Hebrews With A Hebrew – Part 10
Messiah Superior to Moses Therefore, holy brothers, you who share in a heavenly calling, consider Jesus, the apostle and high priest of our confession, who was faithful to him who appointed him, just as Moses also was faithful in all God’s house. For Jesus has been...
Hebrews With A Hebrew – Part 9
In Bringing Many Sons to Glory For it was fitting that he, for whom and by whom all things exist, in bringing many sons to glory, should make the founder of their salvation perfect through suffering. For he who sanctifies and those who are sanctified all have one...
Hebrews With A Hebrew – Part 8
Made Like His Brethren For it was not to angels that God subjected the world to come, of which we are speaking. It has been testified somewhere, “What is man, that you are mindful of him, or the son of man, that you care for him? You made him for a little while...
Hebrews With A Hebrew Part 7
Therefore we must pay much closer attention to what we have heard, lest we drift away from it. For since the message declared by angels proved to be reliable, and every transgression or dis- obedience received a just retribution, how shall we escape if we neglect...
Hebrews With A Hebrew – Part 6
Therefore we must pay much closer attention to what we have heard, lest we drift away from it. For since the message declared by angels proved to be reliable, and every transgression or disobedience received a just retribution, how shall we escape if we neglect...
Hebrews With A Hebrew – Part 5
“After making purification for sins, he sat down at the right hand of the Majesty on high, having become as much superior to angels as the name he has inherited is more excellent than theirs.” Hebrews 1:3-4 In the previous blog, we looked at how the writer of...
Hebrews With A Hebrew – Part 4
Today we will examine the remaining four glorious truths about our wonderful Lord. In the previous blog, we looked at the first three in-depth statements with which the writer of Hebrews opens his letter. Together, these seven in-depth statements describe the...
Hebrews With A Hebrew – Part 3
We saw in our previous blog how in both covenants, God spoke. In the Old Covenant, God “spoke to our fathers by the prophets at many times and in many ways” (1:1),” (Hebrews 1:1), but now “in these last days he has spoken to us by his Son” (1:2). The author follows...
Hebrews With A Hebrew – Part 2
“Long ago, at many times and in many ways, God spoke to our fathers by the prophets, but in these last days, he has spoken to us by his Son.” Hebrews 1:1 The letter to the Hebrews opens with no mention of who the author is nor those to whom the letter addresses....
Hebrews With A Hebrew Part 1
“For since the law has but a shadow of the good things to come instead of the true form of these realities.” Hebrews 10:1 Today, I begin a new blog series on what I believe to be the greatest piece of literature in the entire Bible. On more than one...
The Feast of Dedication (Festival of Lights)
"At that time the Feast of Dedication took place at Jerusalem" (John 10:22). Chanukah (Festival of Lights) is a celebration of events that occurred during the Intertestamental Period—the four hundred years known as the Silent Years between the closing of the Old...
Learning How to Pray – Part 4
This is the final part of our series entitled “Learning How to Pray” based on Matthew 7:7-11. Using the acrostic ASK, we have seen that Jesus taught the varying attitudes we must have to receive the treasures of the kingdom of God. He dispenses some treasure based...