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Hebrews 1-13
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Hebrews 1 (NKJV™)
1 God, who at various times and in various ways spoke in time past to the fathers by the prophets,
2 has in these last days spoken to us by His Son, whom He has appointed heir of all things, through whom also He made the worlds;
3 who being the brightness of His glory and the express image of His person, and upholding all things by the word of His power, when He had by Himself purged our sins, sat down at the right hand of the Majesty on high,
4 having become so much better than the angels, as He has by inheritance obtained a more excellent name than they.
5 For to which of the angels did He ever say: "You are My Son, Today I have begotten You"? And again: "I will be to Him a Father, And He shall be to Me a Son"?
6 But when He again brings the firstborn into the world, He says: "Let all the angels of God worship Him."
7 And of the angels He says: "Who makes His angels spirits And His ministers a flame of fire."
8 But to the Son He says: "Your throne, O God, is forever and ever; A scepter of righteousness is the scepter of Your Kingdom.
9 You have loved righteousness and hated lawlessness; Therefore God, Your God, has anointed You With the oil of gladness more than Your companions."
10 And: "You, LORD, in the beginning laid the foundation of the earth, And the heavens are the work of Your hands.
11 They will perish, but You remain; And they will all grow old like a garment;
12 Like a cloak You will fold them up, And they will be changed. But You are the same, And Your years will not fail."
13 But to which of the angels has He ever said: "Sit at My right hand, Till I make Your enemies Your footstool"?
14 Are they not all ministering spirits sent forth to minister for those who will inherit salvation?
Hebrews 2 (NKJV™)
1 Therefore we must give the more earnest heed to the things we have heard, lest we drift away.
2 For if the word spoken through angels proved steadfast, and every transgression and disobedience received a just reward,
3 how shall we escape if we neglect so great a salvation, which at the first began to be spoken by the Lord, and was confirmed to us by those who heard Him,
4 God also bearing witness both with signs and wonders, with various miracles, and gifts of the Holy Spirit, according to His own will?
5 For He has not put the world to come, of which we speak, in subjection to angels.
6 But one testified in a certain place, saying: "What is man that You are mindful of him, Or the son of man that You take care of him?
7 You have made him a little lower than the angels; You have crowned him with glory and honor, And set him over the works of Your hands.
8 You have put all things in subjection under his feet." For in that He put all in subjection under him, He left nothing that is not put under him. But now we do not yet see all things put under him.
9 But we see Jesus, who was made a little lower than the angels, for the suffering of death crowned with glory and honor, that He, by the grace of God, might taste death for everyone.
10 For it was fitting for Him, for whom are all things and by whom are all things, in bringing many sons to glory, to make the captain of their salvation perfect through sufferings.
11 For both He who sanctifies and those who are being sanctified are all of one, for which reason He is not ashamed to call them brethren,
12 saying: "I will declare Your name to My brethren; In the midst of the assembly I will sing praise to You."
13 And again: "I will put My trust in Him." And again: "Here am I and the children whom God has given Me."
14 Inasmuch then as the children have partaken of flesh and blood, He Himself likewise shared in the same, that through death He might destroy him who had the power of death, that is, the devil,
15 and release those who through fear of death were all their lifetime subject to bondage.
16 For indeed He does not give aid to angels, but He does give aid to the seed of Abraham.
17 Therefore, in all things He had to be made like His brethren, that He might be a merciful and faithful High Priest in things pertaining to God, to make propitiation for the sins of the people.
18 For in that He Himself has suffered, being tempted, He is able to aid those who are tempted.
Hebrews 3 (NKJV™)
1 Therefore, holy brethren, partakers of the heavenly calling, consider the Apostle and High Priest of our confession, Christ Jesus,
2 who was faithful to Him who appointed Him, as Moses also was faithful in all His house.
3 For this One has been counted worthy of more glory than Moses, inasmuch as He who built the house has more honor than the house.
4 For every house is built by someone, but He who built all things is God.
5 And Moses indeed was faithful in all His house as a servant, for a testimony of those things which would be spoken afterward,
6 but Christ as a Son over His own house, whose house we are if we hold fast the confidence and the rejoicing of the hope firm to the end.
7 Therefore, as the Holy Spirit says: "Today, if you will hear His voice,
8 Do not harden your hearts as in the rebellion, In the day of trial in the wilderness,
9 Where your fathers tested Me, tried Me, And saw My works forty years.
10 Therefore I was angry with that generation, And said, 'They always go astray in their heart, And they have not known My ways.'
11 So I swore in My wrath, 'They shall not enter My rest.'"
12 Beware, brethren, lest there be in any of you an evil heart of unbelief in departing from the living God;
13 but exhort one another daily, while it is called "Today," lest any of you be hardened through the deceitfulness of sin.
14 For we have become partakers of Christ if we hold the beginning of our confidence steadfast to the end,
15 while it is said: "Today, if you will hear His voice, Do not harden your hearts as in the rebellion."
16 For who, having heard, rebelled? Indeed, was it not all who came out of Egypt, led by Moses?
17 Now with whom was He angry forty years? Was it not with those who sinned, whose corpses fell in the wilderness?
18 And to whom did He swear that they would not enter His rest, but to those who did not obey?
19 So we see that they could not enter in because of unbelief.
Hebrews 4 (NKJV™)
1 Therefore, since a promise remains of entering His rest, let us fear lest any of you seem to have come short of it.
2 For indeed the gospel was preached to us as well as to them; but the word which they heard did not profit them, not being mixed with faith in those who heard it.
3 For we who have believed do enter that rest, as He has said: "So I swore in My wrath, 'They shall not enter My rest,'" although the works were finished from the foundation of the world.
4 For He has spoken in a certain place of the seventh day in this way: "And God rested on the seventh day from all His works";
5 and again in this place: "They shall not enter My rest."
6 Since therefore it remains that some must enter it, and those to whom it was first preached did not enter because of disobedience,
7 again He designates a certain day, saying in David, "Today," after such a long time, as it has been said: "Today, if you will hear His voice, Do not harden your hearts."
8 For if Joshua had given them rest, then He would not afterward have spoken of another day.
9 There remains therefore a rest for the people of God.
10 For he who has entered His rest has himself also ceased from his works as God did from His.
11 Let us therefore be diligent to enter that rest, lest anyone fall according to the same example of disobedience.
12 For the word of God is living and powerful, and sharper than any two-edged sword, piercing even to the division of soul and spirit, and of joints and marrow, and is a discerner of the thoughts and intents of the heart.
13 And there is no creature hidden from His sight, but all things are naked and open to the eyes of Him to whom we must give account.
14 Seeing then that we have a great High Priest who has passed through the heavens, Jesus the Son of God, let us hold fast our confession.
15 For we do not have a High Priest who cannot sympathize with our weaknesses, but was in all points tempted as we are, yet without sin.
16 Let us therefore come boldly to the throne of grace, that we may obtain mercy and find grace to help in time of need.
Hebrews 5 (NKJV™)
1 For every high priest taken from among men is appointed for men in things pertaining to God, that he may offer both gifts and sacrifices for sins.
2 He can have compassion on those who are ignorant and going astray, since he himself is also subject to weakness.
3 Because of this he is required as for the people, so also for himself, to offer sacrifices for sins.
4 And no man takes this honor to himself, but he who is called by God, just as Aaron was.
5 So also Christ did not glorify Himself to become High Priest, but it was He who said to Him: "You are My Son, Today I have begotten You."
6 As He also says in another place: "You are a priest forever According to the order of Melchizedek";
7 who, in the days of His flesh, when He had offered up prayers and supplications, with vehement cries and tears to Him who was able to save Him from death, and was heard because of His godly fear,
8 though He was a Son, yet He learned obedience by the things which He suffered.
9 And having been perfected, He became the author of eternal salvation to all who obey Him,
10 called by God as High Priest "according to the order of Melchizedek,"
11 of whom we have much to say, and hard to explain, since you have become dull of hearing.
12 For though by this time you ought to be teachers, you need someone to teach you again the first principles of the oracles of God; and you have come to need milk and not solid food.
13 For everyone who partakes only of milk is unskilled in the word of righteousness, for he is a babe.
14 But solid food belongs to those who are of full age, that is, those who by reason of use have their senses exercised to discern both good and evil.
Hebrews 6 (NKJV™)
1 Therefore, leaving the discussion of the elementary principles of Christ, let us go on to perfection, not laying again the foundation of repentance from dead works and of faith toward God,
2 of the doctrine of baptisms, of laying on of hands, of resurrection of the dead, and of eternal judgment.
3 And this we will do if God permits.
4 For it is impossible for those who were once enlightened, and have tasted the heavenly gift, and have become partakers of the Holy Spirit,
5 and have tasted the good word of God and the powers of the age to come,
6 if they fall away, to renew them again to repentance, since they crucify again for themselves the Son of God, and put Him to an open shame.
7 For the earth which drinks in the rain that often comes upon it, and bears herbs useful for those by whom it is cultivated, receives blessing from God;
8 but if it bears thorns and briars, it is rejected and near to being cursed, whose end is to be burned.
9 But, beloved, we are confident of better things concerning you, yes, things that accompany salvation, though we speak in this manner.
10 For God is not unjust to forget your work and labor of love which you have shown toward His name, in that you have ministered to the saints, and do minister.
11 And we desire that each one of you show the same diligence to the full assurance of hope until the end,
12 that you do not become sluggish, but imitate those who through faith and patience inherit the promises.
13 For when God made a promise to Abraham, because He could swear by no one greater, He swore by Himself,
14 saying, "Surely blessing I will bless you, and multiplying I will multiply you."
15 And so, after he had patiently endured, he obtained the promise.
16 For men indeed swear by the greater, and an oath for confirmation is for them an end of all dispute.
17 Thus God, determining to show more abundantly to the heirs of promise the immutability of His counsel, confirmed it by an oath,
18 that by two immutable things, in which it is impossible for God to lie, we might have strong consolation, who have fled for refuge to lay hold of the hope set before us.
19 This hope we have as an anchor of the soul, both sure and steadfast, and which enters the Presence behind the veil,
20 where the forerunner has entered for us, even Jesus, having become High Priest forever according to the order of Melchizedek.
Hebrews 7 (NKJV™)
1 For this Melchizedek, king of Salem, priest of the Most High God, who met Abraham returning from the slaughter of the kings and blessed him,
2 to whom also Abraham gave a tenth part of all, first being translated "king of righteousness," and then also king of Salem, meaning "king of peace,"
3 without father, without mother, without genealogy, having neither beginning of days nor end of life, but made like the Son of God, remains a priest continually.
4 Now consider how great this man was, to whom even the patriarch Abraham gave a tenth of the spoils.
5 And indeed those who are of the sons of Levi, who receive the priesthood, have a commandment to receive tithes from the people according to the law, that is, from their brethren, though they have come from the loins of Abraham;
6 but he whose genealogy is not derived from them received tithes from Abraham and blessed him who had the promises.
7 Now beyond all contradiction the lesser is blessed by the better.
8 Here mortal men receive tithes, but there he receives them, of whom it is witnessed that he lives.
9 Even Levi, who receives tithes, paid tithes through Abraham, so to speak,
10 for he was still in the loins of his father when Melchizedek met him.
11 Therefore, if perfection were through the Levitical priesthood (for under it the people received the law), what further need was there that another priest should rise according to the order of Melchizedek, and not be called according to the order of Aaron?
12 For the priesthood being changed, of necessity there is also a change of the law.
13 For He of whom these things are spoken belongs to another tribe, from which no man has officiated at the altar.
14 For it is evident that our Lord arose from Judah, of which tribe Moses spoke nothing concerning priesthood.
15 And it is yet far more evident if, in the likeness of Melchizedek, there arises another priest
16 who has come, not according to the law of a fleshly commandment, but according to the power of an endless life.
17 For He testifies: "You are a priest forever According to the order of Melchizedek."
18 For on the one hand there is an annulling of the former commandment because of its weakness and unprofitableness,
19 for the law made nothing perfect; on the other hand, there is the bringing in of a better hope, through which we draw near to God.
20 And inasmuch as He was not made priest without an oath
21 (for they have become priests without an oath, but He with an oath by Him who said to Him: "The LORD has sworn And will not relent, 'You are a priest forever According to the order of Melchizedek'"),
22 by so much more Jesus has become a surety of a better covenant.
23 Also there were many priests, because they were prevented by death from continuing.
24 But He, because He continues forever, has an unchangeable priesthood.
25 Therefore He is also able to save to the uttermost those who come to God through Him, since He always lives to make intercession for them.
26 For such a High Priest was fitting for us, who is holy, harmless, undefiled, separate from sinners, and has become higher than the heavens;
27 who does not need daily, as those high priests, to offer up sacrifices, first for His own sins and then for the people's, for this He did once for all when He offered up Himself.
28 For the law appoints as high priests men who have weakness, but the word of the oath, which came after the law, appoints the Son who has been perfected forever.
Hebrews 8 (NKJV™)
1 Now this is the main point of the things we are saying: We have such a High Priest, who is seated at the right hand of the throne of the Majesty in the heavens,
2 a Minister of the sanctuary and of the true tabernacle which the Lord erected, and not man.
3 For every high priest is appointed to offer both gifts and sacrifices. Therefore it is necessary that this One also have something to offer.
4 For if He were on earth, He would not be a priest, since there are priests who offer the gifts according to the law;
5 who serve the copy and shadow of the heavenly things, as Moses was divinely instructed when he was about to make the tabernacle. For He said, "See that you make all things according to the pattern shown you on the mountain."
6 But now He has obtained a more excellent ministry, inasmuch as He is also Mediator of a better covenant, which was established on better promises.
7 For if that first covenant had been faultless, then no place would have been sought for a second.
8 Because finding fault with them, He says: "Behold, the days are coming, says the LORD, when I will make a new covenant with the house of Israel and with the house of Judah--
9 "not according to the covenant that I made with their fathers in the day when I took them by the hand to lead them out of the land of Egypt; because they did not continue in My covenant, and I disregarded them, says the LORD.
10 "For this is the covenant that I will make with the house of Israel after those days, says the LORD: I will put My laws in their mind and write them on their hearts; and I will be their God, and they shall be My people.
11 "None of them shall teach his neighbor, and none his brother, saying, 'Know the LORD,' for all shall know Me, from the least of them to the greatest of them.
12 "For I will be merciful to their unrighteousness, and their sins and their lawless deeds I will remember no more."
13 In that He says, "A new covenant," He has made the first obsolete. Now what is becoming obsolete and growing old is ready to vanish away.
Hebrews 9 (NKJV™)
1 Then indeed, even the first covenant had ordinances of divine service and the earthly sanctuary.
2 For a tabernacle was prepared: the first part, in which was the lampstand, the table, and the showbread, which is called the sanctuary;
3 and behind the second veil, the part of the tabernacle which is called the Holiest of All,
4 which had the golden censer and the ark of the covenant overlaid on all sides with gold, in which were the golden pot that had the manna, Aaron's rod that budded, and the tablets of the covenant;
5 and above it were the cherubim of glory overshadowing the mercy seat. Of these things we cannot now speak in detail.
6 Now when these things had been thus prepared, the priests always went into the first part of the tabernacle, performing the services.
7 But into the second part the high priest went alone once a year, not without blood, which he offered for himself and for the people's sins committed in ignorance;
8 the Holy Spirit indicating this, that the way into the Holiest of All was not yet made manifest while the first tabernacle was still standing.
9 It was symbolic for the present time in which both gifts and sacrifices are offered which cannot make him who performed the service perfect in regard to the conscience--
10 concerned only with foods and drinks, various washings, and fleshly ordinances imposed until the time of reformation.
11 But Christ came as High Priest of the good things to come, with the greater and more perfect tabernacle not made with hands, that is, not of this creation.
12 Not with the blood of goats and calves, but with His own blood He entered the Most Holy Place once for all, having obtained eternal redemption.
13 For if the blood of bulls and goats and the ashes of a heifer, sprinkling the unclean, sanctifies for the purifying of the flesh,
14 how much more shall the blood of Christ, who through the eternal Spirit offered Himself without spot to God, cleanse your conscience from dead works to serve the living God?
15 And for this reason He is the Mediator of the new covenant, by means of death, for the redemption of the transgressions under the first covenant, that those who are called may receive the promise of the eternal inheritance.
16 For where there is a testament, there must also of necessity be the death of the testator.
17 For a testament is in force after men are dead, since it has no power at all while the testator lives.
18 Therefore not even the first covenant was dedicated without blood.
19 For when Moses had spoken every precept to all the people according to the law, he took the blood of calves and goats, with water, scarlet wool, and hyssop, and sprinkled both the book itself and all the people,
20 saying, "This is the blood of the covenant which God has commanded you."
21 Then likewise he sprinkled with blood both the tabernacle and all the vessels of the ministry.
22 And according to the law almost all things are purified with blood, and without shedding of blood there is no remission.
23 Therefore it was necessary that the copies of the things in the heavens should be purified with these, but the heavenly things themselves with better sacrifices than these.
24 For Christ has not entered the holy places made with hands, which are copies of the true, but into heaven itself, now to appear in the presence of God for us;
25 not that He should offer Himself often, as the high priest enters the Most Holy Place every year with blood of another--
26 He then would have had to suffer often since the foundation of the world; but now, once at the end of the ages, He has appeared to put away sin by the sacrifice of Himself.
27 And as it is appointed for men to die once, but after this the judgment,
28 so Christ was offered once to bear the sins of many. To those who eagerly wait for Him He will appear a second time, apart from sin, for salvation.
Hebrews 10 (NKJV™)
1 For the law, having a shadow of the good things to come, and not the very image of the things, can never with these same sacrifices, which they offer continually year by year, make those who approach perfect.
2 For then would they not have ceased to be offered? For the worshipers, once purified, would have had no more consciousness of sins.
3 But in those sacrifices there is a reminder of sins every year.
4 For it is not possible that the blood of bulls and goats could take away sins.
5 Therefore, when He came into the world, He said: "Sacrifice and offering You did not desire, But a body You have prepared for Me.
6 In burnt offerings and sacrifices for sin You had no pleasure.
7 Then I said, 'Behold, I have come--In the volume of the book it is written of Me--To do Your will, O God.'"
8 Previously saying, "Sacrifice and offering, burnt offerings, and offerings for sin You did not desire, nor had pleasure in them" (which are offered according to the law),
9 then He said, "Behold, I have come to do Your will, O God." He takes away the first that He may establish the second.
10 By that will we have been sanctified through the offering of the body of Jesus Christ once for all.
11 And every priest stands ministering daily and offering repeatedly the same sacrifices, which can never take away sins.
12 But this Man, after He had offered one sacrifice for sins forever, sat down at the right hand of God,
13 from that time waiting till His enemies are made His footstool.
14 For by one offering He has perfected forever those who are being sanctified.
15 But the Holy Spirit also witnesses to us; for after He had said before,
16 "This is the covenant that I will make with them after those days, says the LORD: I will put My laws into their hearts, and in their minds I will write them,"
17 then He adds, "Their sins and their lawless deeds I will remember no more."
18 Now where there is remission of these, there is no longer an offering for sin.
19 Therefore, brethren, having boldness to enter the Holiest by the blood of Jesus,
20 by a new and living way which He consecrated for us, through the veil, that is, His flesh,
21 and having a High Priest over the house of God,
22 let us draw near with a true heart in full assurance of faith, having our hearts sprinkled from an evil conscience and our bodies washed with pure water.
23 Let us hold fast the confession of our hope without wavering, for He who promised is faithful.
24 And let us consider one another in order to stir up love and good works,
25 not forsaking the assembling of ourselves together, as is the manner of some, but exhorting one another, and so much the more as you see the Day approaching.
26 For if we sin willfully after we have received the knowledge of the truth, there no longer remains a sacrifice for sins,
27 but a certain fearful expectation of judgment, and fiery indignation which will devour the adversaries.
28 Anyone who has rejected Moses' law dies without mercy on the testimony of two or three witnesses.
29 Of how much worse punishment, do you suppose, will he be thought worthy who has trampled the Son of God underfoot, counted the blood of the covenant by which he was sanctified a common thing, and insulted the Spirit of grace?
30 For we know Him who said, "Vengeance is Mine, I will repay," says the Lord. And again, "The LORD will judge His people."
31 It is a fearful thing to fall into the hands of the living God.
32 But recall the former days in which, after you were illuminated, you endured a great struggle with sufferings:
33 partly while you were made a spectacle both by reproaches and tribulations, and partly while you became companions of those who were so treated;
34 for you had compassion on me in my chains, and joyfully accepted the plundering of your goods, knowing that you have a better and an enduring possession for yourselves in heaven.
35 Therefore do not cast away your confidence, which has great reward.
36 For you have need of endurance, so that after you have done the will of God, you may receive the promise:
37 "For yet a little while, And He who is coming will come and will not tarry.
38 Now the just shall live by faith; But if anyone draws back, My soul has no pleasure in him."
39 But we are not of those who draw back to perdition, but of those who believe to the saving of the soul.
Hebrews 11 (NKJV™)
1 Now faith is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen.
2 For by it the elders obtained a good testimony.
3 By faith we understand that the worlds were framed by the word of God, so that the things which are seen were not made of things which are visible.
4 By faith Abel offered to God a more excellent sacrifice than Cain, through which he obtained witness that he was righteous, God testifying of his gifts; and through it he being dead still speaks.
5 By faith Enoch was taken away so that he did not see death, "and was not found, because God had taken him"; for before he was taken he had this testimony, that he pleased God.
6 But without faith it is impossible to please Him, for he who comes to God must believe that He is, and that He is a rewarder of those who diligently seek Him.
7 By faith Noah, being divinely warned of things not yet seen, moved with godly fear, prepared an ark for the saving of his household, by which he condemned the world and became heir of the righteousness which is according to faith.
8 By faith Abraham obeyed when he was called to go out to the place which he would receive as an inheritance. And he went out, not knowing where he was going.
9 By faith he dwelt in the land of promise as in a foreign country, dwelling in tents with Isaac and Jacob, the heirs with him of the same promise;
10 for he waited for the city which has foundations, whose builder and maker is God.
11 By faith Sarah herself also received strength to conceive seed, and she bore a child when she was past the age, because she judged Him faithful who had promised.
12 Therefore from one man, and him as good as dead, were born as many as the stars of the sky in multitude--innumerable as the sand which is by the seashore.
13 These all died in faith, not having received the promises, but having seen them afar off were assured of them, embraced them and confessed that they were strangers and pilgrims on the earth.
14 For those who say such things declare plainly that they seek a homeland.
15 And truly if they had called to mind that country from which they had come out, they would have had opportunity to return.
16 But now they desire a better, that is, a heavenly country. Therefore God is not ashamed to be called their God, for He has prepared a city for them.
17 By faith Abraham, when he was tested, offered up Isaac, and he who had received the promises offered up his only begotten son,
18 of whom it was said, "In Isaac your seed shall be called,"
19 concluding that God was able to raise him up, even from the dead, from which he also received him in a figurative sense.
20 By faith Isaac blessed Jacob and Esau concerning things to come.
21 By faith Jacob, when he was dying, blessed each of the sons of Joseph, and worshiped, leaning on the top of his staff.
22 By faith Joseph, when he was dying, made mention of the departure of the children of Israel, and gave instructions concerning his bones.
23 By faith Moses, when he was born, was hidden three months by his parents, because they saw he was a beautiful child; and they were not afraid of the king's command.
24 By faith Moses, when he became of age, refused to be called the son of Pharaoh's daughter,
25 choosing rather to suffer affliction with the people of God than to enjoy the passing pleasures of sin,
26 esteeming the reproach of Christ greater riches than the treasures in Egypt; for he looked to the reward.
27 By faith he forsook Egypt, not fearing the wrath of the king; for he endured as seeing Him who is invisible.
28 By faith he kept the Passover and the sprinkling of blood, lest he who destroyed the firstborn should touch them.
29 By faith they passed through the Red Sea as by dry land, whereas the Egyptians, attempting to do so, were drowned.
30 By faith the walls of Jericho fell down after they were encircled for seven days.
31 By faith the harlot Rahab did not perish with those who did not believe, when she had received the spies with peace.
32 And what more shall I say? For the time would fail me to tell of Gideon and Barak and Samson and Jephthah, also of David and Samuel and the prophets:
33 who through faith subdued kingdoms, worked righteousness, obtained promises, stopped the mouths of lions,
34 quenched the violence of fire, escaped the edge of the sword, out of weakness were made strong, became valiant in battle, turned to flight the armies of the aliens.
35 Women received their dead raised to life again. And others were tortured, not accepting deliverance, that they might obtain a better resurrection.
36 Still others had trial of mockings and scourgings, yes, and of chains and imprisonment.
37 They were stoned, they were sawn in two, were tempted, were slain with the sword. They wandered about in sheepskins and goatskins, being destitute, afflicted, tormented--
38 of whom the world was not worthy. They wandered in deserts and mountains, in dens and caves of the earth.
39 And all these, having obtained a good testimony through faith, did not receive the promise,
40 God having provided something better for us, that they should not be made perfect apart from us.
Hebrews 12 (NKJV™)
1 Therefore we also, since we are surrounded by so great a cloud of witnesses, let us lay aside every weight, and the sin which so easily ensnares us, and let us run with endurance the race that is set before us,
2 looking unto Jesus, the author and finisher of our faith, who for the joy that was set before Him endured the cross, despising the shame, and has sat down at the right hand of the throne of God.
3 For consider Him who endured such hostility from sinners against Himself, lest you become weary and discouraged in your souls.
4 You have not yet resisted to bloodshed, striving against sin.
5 And you have forgotten the exhortation which speaks to you as to sons: "My son, do not despise the chastening of the LORD, Nor be discouraged when you are rebuked by Him;
6 For whom the LORD loves He chastens, And scourges every son whom He receives."
7 If you endure chastening, God deals with you as with sons; for what son is there whom a father does not chasten?
8 But if you are without chastening, of which all have become partakers, then you are illegitimate and not sons.
9 Furthermore, we have had human fathers who corrected us, and we paid them respect. Shall we not much more readily be in subjection to the Father of spirits and live?
10 For they indeed for a few days chastened us as seemed best to them, but He for our profit, that we may be partakers of His holiness.
11 Now no chastening seems to be joyful for the present, but painful; nevertheless, afterward it yields the peaceable fruit of righteousness to those who have been trained by it.
12 Therefore strengthen the hands which hang down, and the feeble knees,
13 and make straight paths for your feet, so that what is lame may not be dislocated, but rather be healed.
14 Pursue peace with all people, and holiness, without which no one will see the Lord:
15 looking carefully lest anyone fall short of the grace of God; lest any root of bitterness springing up cause trouble, and by this many become defiled;
16 lest there be any fornicator or profane person like Esau, who for one morsel of food sold his birthright.
17 For you know that afterward, when he wanted to inherit the blessing, he was rejected, for he found no place for repentance, though he sought it diligently with tears.
18 For you have not come to the mountain that may be touched and that burned with fire, and to blackness and darkness and tempest,
19 and the sound of a trumpet and the voice of words, so that those who heard it begged that the word should not be spoken to them anymore.
20 (For they could not endure what was commanded: "And if so much as a beast touches the mountain, it shall be stoned or shot with an arrow."
21 And so terrifying was the sight that Moses said, "I am exceedingly afraid and trembling.")
22 But you have come to Mount Zion and to the city of the living God, the heavenly Jerusalem, to an innumerable company of angels,
23 to the general assembly and church of the firstborn who are registered in heaven, to God the Judge of all, to the spirits of just men made perfect,
24 to Jesus the Mediator of the new covenant, and to the blood of sprinkling that speaks better things than that of Abel.
25 See that you do not refuse Him who speaks. For if they did not escape who refused Him who spoke on earth, much more shall we not escape if we turn away from Him who speaks from heaven,
26 whose voice then shook the earth; but now He has promised, saying, "Yet once more I shake not only the earth, but also heaven."
27 Now this, "Yet once more," indicates the removal of those things that are being shaken, as of things that are made, that the things which cannot be shaken may remain.
28 Therefore, since we are receiving a kingdom which cannot be shaken, let us have grace, by which we may serve God acceptably with reverence and godly fear.
29 For our God is a consuming fire.
Hebrews 13 (NKJV™)
1 Let brotherly love continue.
2 Do not forget to entertain strangers, for by so doing some have unwittingly entertained angels.
3 Remember the prisoners as if chained with them--those who are mistreated--since you yourselves are in the body also.
4 Marriage is honorable among all, and the bed undefiled; but fornicators and adulterers God will judge.
5 Let your conduct be without covetousness; be content with such things as you have. For He Himself has said, "I will never leave you nor forsake you."
6 So we may boldly say: "The LORD is my helper; I will not fear. What can man do to me?"
7 Remember those who rule over you, who have spoken the word of God to you, whose faith follow, considering the outcome of their conduct.
8 Jesus Christ is the same yesterday, today, and forever.
9 Do not be carried about with various and strange doctrines. For it is good that the heart be established by grace, not with foods which have not profited those who have been occupied with them.
10 We have an altar from which those who serve the tabernacle have no right to eat.
11 For the bodies of those animals, whose blood is brought into the sanctuary by the high priest for sin, are burned outside the camp.
12 Therefore Jesus also, that He might sanctify the people with His own blood, suffered outside the gate.
13 Therefore let us go forth to Him, outside the camp, bearing His reproach.
14 For here we have no continuing city, but we seek the one to come.
15 Therefore by Him let us continually offer the sacrifice of praise to God, that is, the fruit of our lips, giving thanks to His name.
16 But do not forget to do good and to share, for with such sacrifices God is well pleased.
17 Obey those who rule over you, and be submissive, for they watch out for your souls, as those who must give account. Let them do so with joy and not with grief, for that would be unprofitable for you.
18 Pray for us; for we are confident that we have a good conscience, in all things desiring to live honorably.
19 But I especially urge you to do this, that I may be restored to you the sooner.
20 Now may the God of peace who brought up our Lord Jesus from the dead, that great Shepherd of the sheep, through the blood of the everlasting covenant,
21 make you complete in every good work to do His will, working in you what is well pleasing in His sight, through Jesus Christ, to whom be glory forever and ever. Amen.
22 And I appeal to you, brethren, bear with the word of exhortation, for I have written to you in few words.
23 Know that our brother Timothy has been set free, with whom I shall see you if he comes shortly.
24 Greet all those who rule over you, and all the saints. Those from Italy greet you.
25 Grace be with you all. Amen.

New King James Version®, Copyright © 1982, Thomas Nelson, Inc. All rights reserved.

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The Bible from 30,000 Feet-- Soaring Through the Scripture from Genesis to Revelation.

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--just in case any of them would be joining us, we want to welcome everyone. Let's have a word of prayer. Father, how thankful we are, as Paul the apostle said from a prison cell, the word of God is not bound. There is a freedom to it. It takes wings. It penetrates, goes into hospital rooms and cars and churches around the world and people's devices. And we thank You, Lord, that as truth is being heard, which is found in Your word that lives are being set free, for you said, Lord Jesus, that you will know the truth, and the truth will make you free.

Lord, we pray that we would experience a little more freedom, as we gather around the text of the book of Hebrews in Jesus' name.

Amen.

Amen. Now, it is true when you go through the book of Hebrews, you immediately discover it is different from other books in a number of ways. It has a completely different form than anything we have read up to this point in the Epistles of Paul or outside of the Epistles of Paul.

For example, in the Book of Hebrews, there is no salutation. It doesn't say who it's from. It doesn't say who it's to. It doesn't say grace and peace, et cetera. That is completely missing. There's no address at the beginning or at the end. Those particulars are gone.

The ending part of the book is not a typical ending from the epistles that we have read, the letters that we have read. An epistle is not a wife of an apostle. Epistle is just a letter. So the letters that we have read of Paul and the book of Hebrews-- there is a marked difference between the style of these two things.

Hebrews reads less like a letter and more like a sermon, more like an essay, more like a treatise or what was called in ancient times a homily, a short sermon. And I say short. It's 13 chapters, and yet, the author, whoever it is of this book, will say at the end, you see how few words I wrote to you, which I always laugh at, because there's 13 chapters here. It's not a short little letter at all.

The theme of the book of Hebrews is set forth very logically, pointedly. And he stays with that theme for a long period of time. Now, who wrote the book of Hebrews? You saw how that little video ended, because no one knows who wrote the book of Hebrews. It is not stated. There is no name given. It doesn't say who it's from. It doesn't say who it's to.

This is why it's so-- one of the reasons why it's so different from Paul's letters. See, it's really easy to say, well, it's Paul, because we have been reading Paul's letters. And so we read another letter and whether it says he wrote it or not, we just assume, because it's in the lineup of Pauline literature, that it must be Paul that wrote it.

But if Paul wrote it, it's very non-typical, because Paul always signed his letters. He would sign the end of it, even if they were dictated by an-- to an amanuensis, the secretary. He would say who it's from, who it's to, and then he would sign the end of it. That does not appear here. So it doesn't seem to fit something that Paul wrote.

Here's something else. And I know I'm probably just going to confuse you through all this, because I'm not going to really answer the question, who wrote it. But let's work our way through the logic.

Whenever the writer of Hebrews quotes an Old Testament text, he always quotes from the Greek translation of the Old Testament, called the Septuagint version, which was considered a more modern version, translated down in Alexandria, Egypt.

And so every quotation in the book of Hebrews comes from the Greek translation of the Old Testament from Hebrew into Greek, whereas whenever Paul the Apostle quotes from the Old Testament, he most often quotes from the Hebrew text of the Old Testament.

Also, the style of the book of Hebrews is completely different from the letters of Paul. Though Paul was a very educated person-- he was a very passionate person-- and though he was very logical, as so is this book, the style of Hebrews is a higher level of Greek.

If you've ever studied the Greek language, especially Greek biblical literature, the easiest writings by far are the writings of John the Apostle-- John, 2 John, 3 John, Gospel of John. Those are easy. That's why beginning Greek students-- we always study those books first, to get a handle on it. It's easy to parse. It's easy to translate.

When you get into the writings of Paul, they're a little more difficult. He's giving to you lots of the usage of Greek participles, where he hangs thoughts on a participle. When you get to the book of Hebrews, it's a higher level still-- very, very polished, very precise in its use of the Greek language.

So who wrote the book of Hebrews? Don't know-- whoever wrote the book of Hebrews knew Timothy, because the last chapter of the book of Hebrews mentions Timothy, but mentions him not as my son or my true son in the faith, but our brother Timothy.

So there's a lot of contenders for it. You heard in the video a few of them. Some say it's Paul. Some say it's Barnabas. Some say it's Silas. Some say it was Luke. Some say it was Aquila. Some say it was Clement of Rome, because whoever wrote this book, it's obvious that he wrote from somewhere in Italy, because he says, the Saints in Italy greet you, probably Rome.

But if I had to pick-- if somebody forced me up against the wall and said, OK, right now you have to pick one person, who wrote the book of Hebrews my guess would be Apollos. And that is because of the description of Apollos-- he fits all the criterion that I just mentioned to you of knowing Timothy and the fact that he quoted the Septuagin version, which comes from Alexandria, Egypt. He himself came from Alexandria, Egypt.

In Acts, chapter 18, we're introduced to a Jew named Apollos. So I know one of them said in the video that, well, Apollos was Greek. Well, he spoke Greek, but he was Jewish, his background. So he was a Jew born at Alexandria, an eloquent man and mighty in the scriptures. This man had been instructed in the way of the Lord. Being fervent in Spirit, he spoke and taught accurately the things of the Lord.

That description, though I can't be dogmatic, seems to fit the author of this book in my view closer than all the others. There have been different times throughout church history, where somebody leans on this person to that person. If you care for Martin Luther to weigh in on it, Martin Luther was probably the first one who said, I believe it was Apollos who wrote this book. So not that I'm siding with Luther, but if I had to pick one, I would probably pick him.

Something else-- whoever it was, it was someone to whom the gospel came not firsthand, but secondhand-- that is, he didn't hear it himself directly from the Lord. But somebody who heard it directly from the Lord told it to him. That's told us in chapter 2, but I cannot remember the-- I think it's around verse 3, I think. Let's see. Yeah, here it is.

How shall we escape if we neglect so greater salvation, which at first began to be spoken by the Lord and was confirmed to us by those who heard him. So that indicates that whoever this was didn't hear it firsthand, but secondhand-- very different from Paul the Apostle, who made us aware that Paul, an apostle of God, not by man nor through men, but by revelation of the Lord Jesus Christ and God the Father through the resurrection of the dead-- Galatians, chapter 1, verse 1. Paul made a big deal of the fact that he heard it firsthand. So I would weigh in and say it is not Paul the Apostle, though it is easy and convenient to say that. You can say whatever you want. But I won't agree with you.

Now, I want to get through this. So I'm going to attempt to cover the book of Hebrews in totality with you tonight in summary fashion. And I know I've barely gotten started, because I'm still in an introduction. Who was it written to? Hebrews-- where do they live? We don't know-- could be Jerusalem. Most people think it was Jerusalem, a letter written from Rome to Jerusalem, the Hebrews in Jerusalem.

We do know that the earliest converts of Christianity were all Jewish in Jerusalem. On the day of Pentecost, 3,000 souls were saved. When there was the healing of the lame man at the gate beautiful through Peter and John in chapter 3, another 5,000 came to faith. So it was a burgeoning massive group of Jewish believers in some place. I'm guessing Jerusalem, though it is not stated.

It is written to Jewish converts in the Messiah. They believe Jesus is the Messiah, though some may have been unbelievers, who were toying with and investigating the claims of Christ, but had not made a full commitment to him yet. We know it's written to Hebrews, because the entire book is bathed in the motif of sacrifice and the priesthood and the imagery that comes to us from the Book of Exodus and the Book of Leviticus. In fact, the author assumes that you have a working knowledge of the Book of Exodus and the Book of Leviticus, because he draws from that throughout the book.

And by the way, there is no mention of gentiles in this book. So it's safe to say, though it doesn't-- the title says Hebrews. Nowhere else does it say that. We can assume it is written to Jewish people, either converts or unbelievers, who are investigating it.

Here's the theme of the book. Jesus is all you need. Now, I'm going to flesh that out a little bit. The theme of the book of Hebrews is that Jesus Christ is the full and final and best expression of God in history. There is a word that is used in this book 13 times-- the word better. Jesus is better than this. Jesus is better than that. Jesus is better than the other thing. And so that is the theme.

And the sub-theme-- Jesus is all you need. Jesus is the full, final, and complete expression of God. The sub-theme is that because of Jesus, we have full and unrestricted access to God. This is important. In Judaism, there was not full and complete instant access to God. You had to go through courts. You had to go through gates. You had to go through priests.

You had to go through moderators of the law, like Moses, et cetera, et cetera. You had to go through different stages. And only certain people were allowed, especially into the presence of God. The high priest could only go once a year under certain very strict conditions. All that is gone now. And Jesus is all you need, the full and final complete expression of God. And you have complete and unrestricted access.

Book is divided into two sections-- chapters 1 through 10, chapters 11 through 13-- 1 through 10, doctrinal instruction; chapters 11 through 13, practical exhortation. Now, Paul uses this kind of format. So that could tend perhaps for some people thinking it's very Pauline in its approach. But that's not an uncommon approach to writing a letter or writing an essay.

So we begin in chapter 1, verse 1 again. We're just going to touch on a few verses. And I'm going to make summaries of this section, because we're going through the whole book. This is, after all, The Bible from 30,000 Feet, although I've been at 3 feet level for the last 10 minutes. I apologize for that. OK.

The theme of the next few chapters in this doctrinal instruction is that Jesus is better. He is superior. He is a better messenger, first of all. Chapter 1 and 2-- he's a better messenger. Chapter 1 verse 1, God-- oh, by the way, how about we start there?

We're wondering, well, who wrote the book of Hebrews? I suggest the first word gives you the answer. God is the author of the book. Whomever it came through is irrelevant. Typically, it says Paul, an apostle. Here it says, God. So I like to think of it as an inspired book of God, given through probably Apollos, but maybe Barnabas or Paul or Luke or Clement. God, who at various times and in various ways, spoke in times past to the fathers by the prophets has in these last days

Spoken to us by his son, whom he has appointed heir of all things, through whom also he made the worlds, who, being the brightness of His glory, and the express image of His person, and upholding all things by the word of His power when he had himself purged our sins, sat down at the right hand of the Majesty on High, having become so much better than the angels, as he has by inheritance obtained a more excellent name than they.

God spoke, the author says, in different ways at different times through different messengers. In the book of Genesis, God spoke through angels. God spoke directly. But then God used an angel to guard the entrance to the Garden of Eden. God used the Angel of the Lord to speak to Abram, later on Abraham. In the Book of Exodus, God used angels in the giving of the Law. God promised He would send his angel with him. But also in the Book of Exodus, God spoke through Moses.

And then also in that section of Exodus, Leviticus, Numbers, God spoke through the priests, through the high priest. He had these two stones called an Urim and a Thummim, which would discern the voice of God in a positive or negative way. So God spoke through that way-- angels, Moses, high priests with the Urim and Thummim-- and then much later on prophets. The Old Testament has 17 different prophets. Some of them were just straightforward. Some of them were in your face. Some of them were quite colorful and weird.

Isaiah walked naked and barefoot for three years. That would get your attention-- guys streaking through the streets of Judah. Jeremiah took a pot in front of the priesthood and busted it on the ground. Ezekiel played war with a clay tablet, besieging a model of Jerusalem.

Some of these guys were just quite odd to get people's attention, but God spoke through them in a variety of ways. But ultimately, God speaks through His Son. He has, in these last days, spoken to us by His Son, whom He has appointed heir of all things through whom also He made the world. Jesus is the full and final expression of God. You might say after Jesus, God put a period or an exclamation point.

Verse 4-- having become so much better than the angels-- we covered that. Verse 5-- for to which of the angels did He ever say, you are my Son? Today I have begotten you. And again, I will be to Him a Father. And He shall be to me a Son. And when He brings the first born into the world, he says, let all the angels of God worship Him.

Angels were prominent in the Old Testament, in the Old Covenant, in the Garden of Eden, as I mentioned. Two angels guarded the way so that Adam and Eve couldn't get back in and eat of the tree of life and live forever in their sinful condition.

Angels were embroidered into the veil in the tabernacle. Angels were affixed above the Ark of the Covenant on the mercy seat. The motif of angels were used even then. In the Book of Isaiah, where he gets the vision of the Lord high and lifted up, he hears angelic beings, seraphim, a classification of angels, saying, holy, holy, holy is the Lord God Almighty. The whole Earth is filled with His glory. But Jesus is better than the angels, he writes to these Jewish believers and seekers.

That was important, because there were communities in Israel like the Essene community, who almost worshipped angels. In the Essene communities, those Essectic people, who lived down by the Dead Sea, they taught, they believed, and they promulgated the idea that the archangel, Michael, had the same authority, or even in some cases, superseded the authority of the coming Messiah so that the Messiah was obscured by the presence of angels.

It's interesting when you go into the Sistine Chapel, and you see that great work of Michelangelo. It's pretty cool. I mean, it's pretty-- he was awesome. But on a theological level, though God is there in the center and touching mankind, He's obscured. There's so many other beings and cherubs and angels around. It's just like the ceiling is cluttered with angels. It's as if the main character is obscured by lesser beings.

So the writer of Hebrews strips off those lesser beings and says, the angels worship him. Jesus is a better messenger than the angels. Verse 13-- but to which of the angels did He ever say, sit at my right hand until I make your enemies your footstool? Are they that, as angels-- are they not all ministering spirits sent forth to minister to those who will inherit salvation? Therefore-- now, he makes that application-- we must give the more earnest he to the things we have heard, lest we drift away. He's using a nautical term of a ship in a harbor untethered to the dock that drifts out, drifts out, and then crashes, becomes shipwrecked.

For-- now, watch this-- if the word spoken through angels proved steadfast and every transgression and disobedience received a just reward-- now, he's referring there to the giving of the law on Mount Sinai. Deuteronomy 33 mentions that when God spoke and gave the Law to Moses, it was accompanied by 10,000 angelic beings.

So the idea of the law being given through angels-- that's the idea. So if the word spoken through angels proved steadfast and every transgression and disobedience received a just reward, how shall we escape if we neglect so great a salvation, which at first began to be spoken by the Lord and was confirmed to us by those who heard?

Do you get his logic? He's going from lesser to greater. If disobedience to an inferior covenant, like the Law, brought swift retribution and judgment, how are we going to escape if we push away the New Covenant? You see, the danger of these Hebrew believers is, though they had a faith in Christ, most of them, or they at least tasted it and were starting to believe in it, the persecution against them was pushing them back to the comfort of the ritual of Judaism, the ritual of their religion.

I meet so many people like that. They're raised in a religious system. They do it, because it's comfortable. They have a born-again experience. But their family hassles them. How come you left our church, the true church? Don't you know that you have to go through these rituals and this religion? And that kind of hassle and pressure inundates them, and they're tempted to go back to it. Forget the hassle. So one of the key warnings in the book of Hebrews is, don't go back to bondage when you have been emancipated in Christ.

How shall we escape, verse 3, if we neglect so great a salvation? So we have a better messenger. And the next two chapters, three and four, we have a better moderator. Verse 3, therefore, holy brethren partakers of the heavenly calling, consider our apostle and high priest of our confession Jesus Christ, who was faithful to Him, who appointed Him, as Moses also was faithful in all His house.

Now, Moses was the moderator of the Old Covenant, the covenant of the Law. God gave it to the children of Israel through the hand of Moses. Moses is called the great law giver. He was the moderator of it. Verse 3, for to this one that is Jesus has been counted worthy of more glory than Moses inasmuch as he who built the house has more honor than the house, for every house is built by someone. But He who built all things is God.

And Moses, indeed, was faithful in all His house as a servant for a testimony of those things, which would be spoken afterward. But Christ, as a Son over His own house, whose house we are if we hold fast the confidence and rejoicing of the firm hope to the end?

Moses had a very unique position before God. We're told in Exodus 33 that he would go into a special tent called the tent of meeting. And God spoke to Moses face-to-face, as a man would speak to his friend. Moses moderated the Law. Moses taught the people the Law. Moses repeated the Law. That's what the Book of Deuteronomy is. Moses, among the Jews, is considered the great moderator, the great law giver. It's the law of Moses, for goodness sake. And he is highly esteemed.

Just to show you how, there was a book put out not too long ago by a Jewish author, Michael Shapiro, called the Jewish 100, the 100 most influential Jewish people of all time-- number 1 on the list-- Moses, not Jesus, Moses on his list. Moses is number 1, because he is the great law giver. Number 2 on his list was Jesus, followed by Albert Einstein, followed by Sigmund Freud, followed by Abraham. And I think number 6 was Saul of Tarsus. That's how Michael Shapiro wrote it. But to point out that that is the consensus of all Jewish people, the greatest Jewish person of all time in their estimation is Moses.

So Moses, according to the writer of Hebrews, was part of the household of faith, the household of the children of Israel. The house is a reference to humans, because whose house are you, he says, if you keep following it. So Jesus built the house. Moses was part of the household. So Jesus is a better moderator.

Now, after Moses came Joshua. Joshua brought the people into the land. Go down to chapter 4, verse 8. You remember that volume before we get to 4:8. In the wilderness, an entire generation died, right, except for how many people? Two-- Joshua and Caleb-- one of them became the leader of the next generation that survived. But that whole generation died.

So they failed to enter the Promised Land. They failed to enter the land, apart from the enemies, the land of rest, you might say. Verse 8 of chapter 4-- for if Joshua had given them rest, then he would not afterward have spoken of another day. There remains, therefore, a rest for the people of God, for he who has entered His rest has himself also ceased from his works as God did from His.

Even those who entered the Promised Land alive didn't rest for very long. They might have gone, oh, we're in it. But now they have to face Jericho. Then they have to face the battle of Ai, which they lost. Then they have to settle the north and the south and the middle. And that's battle after battle after battle after battle after battle. And then eventually they got kicked out of the land and taken to Babylon, so not much rest. It was very, very temporary. And the idea is there's an eternal rest that is promised. And that rest is found in Christ. So we have a better messenger. We have a better moderator.

Go down to verse 14 of chapter 4. We have a better mediator. Now, who was the mediators of the Old Covenant? Priests, high priests-- they stood before the people to represent God. They stood before God to represent the people. They mediated the Covenant. So we have a better messenger, a better moderator. We have a better mediator. That's chapter 4, verse 14, all the way through chapter 7.

Seeing then, verse 14, seeing then that we have a great high priest, who has passed through the heavens, Jesus, the Son of God, let us hold fast our confession, for we do-- this is one of my favorite passages anywhere-- for we do not have a high priest who cannot sympathize with our weaknesses, but was in all points tempted as we are, yet without sin. Let us, therefore, come boldly to the throne of grace that we may obtain mercy and find grace to help in time of need.

In the Old Covenant, one needed a priest. You couldn't directly come to God. Sin blocked a direct approach to God. You either go to a priest, bring an animal. He'd slaughter the animal. Blood would be sprinkled. The blood would be for the atonement of your sins. And then the priest would represent you before God in the holy place and the holy of holies-- period. You couldn't just say, hey, Mo, Aaron, could you just kind of move over for a minute? I'd like to go into the holy of holies today and hang out with God, just enjoy intimacy with God. You'd be struck dead.

First of all, they wouldn't let you in. There was no direct approach. So the plain teaching of the author of Hebrews is, we have a better messenger, a better moderator. We have a better mediator. Jesus Christ, our great high priest-- he was in all points tempted like we are. That's the purpose of the incarnation. God became flesh. So He knows what it's like to be human.

So when you cry out to God and go, God, I'm in pain, if God never became a man, and he said, oh, God, I'm in pain, God would have to scratch his divine forehead and go, I don't-- I don't even know what pain is. I can't relate to your condition. But because he became a human and suffered, when you say, I'm in pain, God says, I know what that feels like. I know what pain is all about. I've been touched with the feeling of your infirmities. I can sympathize with your weaknesses. He was in all points tempted like we, yet without sin. That's why we come boldly.

Now, in the Old Testament-- I want to keep going. I'm going to keep going, because I could-- listen, I can get tempted to get bogged down. In the Old Covenant, the priest would offer a sacrifice for the people. But here's the problem. The priest himself was a sinner. He was imperfect. So he had to offer sacrifices for himself, as well as the people.

Chapter 5, verse 1, for every high priest taken from among men is appointed for men, and things pertaining to God that he may offer both gifts and sacrifices for sins, he can have compassion on those, who are ignorant and going astray since he himself is also subject to weakness. Because of this, he is required, asked for the people, so for himself to offer sacrifices for sins.

So we have a better mediator, because we have somebody, who is without sin, it says back in chapter 4. So you follow where he's going. Here's the doctrinal instruction-- better messenger, better moderator, better mediator. Now, in chapter 5 and in chapter 6, there's exhortations to maturity. There's application of what he has said. I'm going to take you all the way to chapter 7 now, where he flushes the priesthood out a little bit. But he tweaks it.

Watch this. Verse 1, chapter 7, for this Melchizedek whom he mentions a few verses before, King of Salem, priest of the most high God, who met Abraham returning from the slaughter of the kings and blessed him-- that's Genesis 14. You know the story-- to whom also Abraham gave a tenth part of all being translated the king of righteousness and then also the king of Salem, meaning king of peace, without father or mother, without genealogy, having neither beginning of days or end of life-- go down to verse 11.

Therefore, if perfection were through the Levitical priesthood, for under it, the people receive the law, what further need was there that another priest should arise according to the order of Melchizedek and not to be called according to the order of Aaron. For the priesthood being changed of necessity, there is also a change of the Law, for He of whom these things are spoken belongs to another tribe from which no man has officiated at the altar. What tribe did Jesus come from? Judah-- what tribe was the priesthood from? Levi-- Levi. So you have two different tribes. That's his point.

For it is evident that our Lord chose a rose from Judah, of which tribe Moses spoke nothing concerning the priesthood. And it is yet far more evident if in the likeness of Melchizedek there arises another priest, who has not come according to the law of a fleshly commandment, but according to the power of an endless life, for he testifies, you are a priest forever according to the order of Melchizedek. OK, what's going on here? Let me explain this.

In Genesis 14, there was an international crisis, the first international crisis mentioned in scripture. A coalition of five kings fought a coalition of four kings. The head of the coalition of five was a guy by the name of Chedorlaomer-- fun name. Don't name your son that-- Chedorlaomer. He was the king really of Iran in modern terms. He, for 12 years, kept other kings down by the Dead Sea area under his tribute. They had to pay money to him every year.

In the 13th year, they said, enough of this taxation stuff. I don't want to pay this guy anymore money. So they rebelled against him. So now there were four kings who fought five kings. Chedorlaomer won the fight, then attacked the cities of Sodom and Gomorrah, where Lot lived, took him captive, took spoil of the city.

And then Abraham gets brought into the battle. He happens to have not only a large staff, but he has his own army. And he chases them down all the way up to Damascus, takes the spoil back, frees Lot-- this is all in chapter 14 of the Book of Genesis. It's a weird story.

And then after the battle is all done, a different king, a very unique king, who is not a part of the battle, the King of Salem, comes to meet him. Salem is the early name for Jerusalem. The king of Salem means peace. The king of peace came to meet him.

What's odd about this king, Melchizedek, is his name and his belief system. His name, Melchizedek, means in Hebrew the king of righteousness. So he is the king of righteousness, the king of peace, the king of Salem. And he's monotheistic. All the kings of the area were polytheistic. He was the priest of the most high God elyon.

So he is a king and a priest, or if you will, a high priest. And he comes to meet with Abraham. And Abraham and he have a conversation. Melchizedek blesses Abraham in the name of his God of elyon. And it says, Abraham paid a tithe, a tenth of the spoil that he took back and paid it to the king of righteousness, the king of peace, this monotheistic high priest-- he paid a tithe.

Now, Abraham, Isaac, Jacob, right-- those are the patriarch. Abraham had a son. Isaac-- Isaac had a Jacob, right? Jacob had how many sons, how many tribes of Israel?

12.

12-- OK, one of them was Levi, right? So the point the author is making is that Abraham, in whose loins and whose body, would eventually come the tribe of Levi since he paid a tenth to Melchizedek-- whenever you pay a tenth in ancient times, you are denoting superiority and honor.

So he was honoring him and saying, you are superior to me. I'm giving you a tenth. So the author of Hebrews say, in a sense, Levi, who is still in the loins of Abraham, tithed to Melchizedek, saying, you are of a superior order than even Levi. OK, so that's-- so you say, OK, OK, OK, that's all confusing.

We know God established a priesthood, the priesthood of Levi. But when we get to Psalm 110-- and the author does quote that-- we get this messianic portrayal, this prediction. Behold, you are a priest forever, Psalm 110 says, after the order of Melchizedek.

And since Melchizedek was seen as higher than Abraham and thus higher than Levi, it's a psalm, a prediction that the Messiah will be not of the order of Levi, because he was from the tribe of Judah. But he'll be from the order of Melchizedek, which is, according to Abraham, a superior-- a superior priestly line. Do you follow? OK, good. You got it. You got it down. So we have a better mediator. He's drilling down on the point that our mediator is much better.

Not only that, but chapter 8, we have a better ministry, verse 1. Now, this is the main point of the things that we are saying. We have such a high priest, who is seated at the right hand of the throne of the Majesty in the heavens, a minister of the sanctuary and of the true tabernacle, which the Lord erected and not man, verse 6.

But now, he has obtained a more excellent ministry inasmuch as he is also the mediator of a better covenant, which was established on better promises, for if the first Covenant-- that's the covenant of the law-- had been faultless, then no place would have been sought for a second, because finding fault with them, he says, behold, the days are coming, says the Lord, when I will make a New Covenant with the house of Israel and with the house of Judah, not according to the Covenant that I made with their fathers in the day that I took them by the hand to lead them out of the land of Egypt, because they did not continue in my Covenant.

And I disregarded them, says the Lord-- for this is the Covenant that I will make with the house of Israel after those days, says the Lord. I will put my laws in their mind and write them on their hearts. I will be their God. They will be my people. None of them shall teach his neighbor and none his brothers, saying, know the Lord, for they shall all know me from the least of them to the greatest, et cetera. He's quoting Jeremiah, chapter 31.

Here's the point. He says, now, here's the main point. We have a better priesthood. We have a better mediator and a better ministry. The Old Covenant wasn't enough. Judaism wasn't enough, because in the Old Covenant, it anticipated the New Covenant. It predicted the New Covenant. In Jeremiah 31, it says, day is coming when the Old Covenant's done, and the New Covenant is coming. So it anticipated that. And then he quotes that section of Jeremiah, chapter 31.

Let me give you some of the differences between the old and the new. Basically, the Old Covenant, the Law, the Law of Moses, was all about trying to control people's conduct. Don't do this. Do that. Do this that many times-- controlling people's conduct. That's why Paul said it's temporary. It can't last.

It's one thing to try to control somebody's conduct. It's another thing to change somebody's character. That's the difference. The old only tried to control your conduct. The New Covenant under Christ, because of Christ, changes your character. You get life change. You get change from the inside out.

Think of it this way if you're a musician. Any musicians? OK, good. Good. So the Old Covenant-- you were given sheet music. You've got cadence. You've got rhythm. But you better follow the dots or the conductor. But in the New Covenant, He gives you the ability to play by ear.

You don't even need the sheet music. The song is in your heart. And you just get on the piano or on the guitar or whatever instrument, probably not the tuba. And you just know it. You just do it. It's intuitive. You don't even have to try that hard. It just comes naturally. You can play it by ear. You don't have to follow the sheet music. You've got the song of God in your heart.

So we have a better messenger in Christ, a better moderator in Christ, a better mediator in Christ, and a better ministry in Christ. Something else is better. We have a better monument. Chapter 9-- then indeed, even the first Covenant had ordinances of divine service and the Earthly sanctuary. What was the Earthly sanctuary? The temple, or at first, the tabernacle, the tabernacle, which then became the temple. In the Book of Exodus, it was the tabernacle.

4 verse 2, a tabernacle was prepared, the first part in which was the lampstand, the table, the show bread, which is called the sanctuary-- that's the holy place-- and behind the second veil, the part of the tabernacle, which is called the holiest of all, which had the golden censor, the Ark of the Covenant overlaid on all sides with gold, in which were the golden pot that had manna Aaron's rod that butted in the tables of the covenant-- that's the Ten Commandments.

And above it were the cherubim, those angels I told you about, cherubim of glory, overshadowing the mercy seat of these things we cannot now speak in detail. Whew! Glad about that. OK, tabernacle was a structure. It was a monument. All it was was a monument.

In the desert-- I'll tell you I've seen in the desert of Sinai and in the desert of Judea a tabernacles that have been erected. So you can go visit them to this day and see exactly what they were like. But when you look at it, it does not look all that great. It's just this cloth-fenced courtyard 75 feet wide by 150 feet deep. That courtyard is where sacrifices were offered. There was an altar of brass out in that courtyard. There was a laver for washing those sacrifice, those parts in the hands of the priest.

And then in the middle of that courtyard, 75 by 150 feet, there was a tent structure toward the west. And it was 15 feet wide by 45 feet deep divided into two-- one room, 15 by 30. That was the holy place. In the holy place when you walk in, if you were a priest, on your left-hand side would be a golden lampstand called the menorah. Right in front of you would be a altar of incense, where you would light and burn. And on the right-hand side was a table with bread on it, show bread, 12 loaves representing the 12 tribes of Israel-- very emblematic. It was a monument.

Beyond that was a veil. And only the high priest could go in that one time a year. That's called the holiest of all. That's where the Ark of the Covenant was. And he sort of details that.

Interesting thing about the tabernacle-- you ready, just because I want you to hear this? There are more chapters in the Bible devoted to the subject of the tabernacle than any other single subject. Now, that should cause interest to a Bible student at least. I mean, think of it.

God spends maybe two chapters talking about creation. We wish He gave 50 chapters on creation, 100 chapter. He gives two, not even quite two. When it comes to the tabernacle, there are 50 detailed chapters of it, which makes us wonder why such detail. I'm glad you asked.

[LAUGHTER]

Verse 11, but Christ came as the high priest of the good things to come with a greater and more perfect tabernacle not made with hands-- that is, not of this creation. Verse 23, therefore, it was necessary that the copies of the things in the heavens should be purified with these, but the heavenly things themselves with better sacrifices than these, for Christ has not entered the holy places made with hands, which are-- here's that word again-- copies of the true, but into heaven itself not to appear in the presence of God for us.

The author of Hebrews is saying that when you walked into the tabernacle, you walked into a model of heaven-- OK, a poor model, but a model. Why is it a model of heaven? Why is it a model of really of Christ in heaven? First of all, there's only one way to get in, one door. Jesus said, I am the way, the truth, the life. I am the door.

To get into that door, you had to approach it, because it was on the east side, you had to approach it through the tribe of Judah to get in. When you got into the holy place, there was a single source of light, the golden candlestick. Jesus said, I am the light of this world. On the right-hand side, table of show bread-- Jesus said, I am the bread of life.

You walk into a court room in the desert approaching God, which is a copy of the true. Now, continuing on in verse 25, because we're running out of time, and I do want to finish the book. It says, not that he should offer himself often, as the high priest enters the most holy place every year with the blood of another.

See, the thing about the Old Testament sacrifices is they just never ended. Every day was a sacrifice. Every month, every year was that day when He walked in. He just kept going. Verse 26, He then would have had to suffer often since the foundation of the world, but now once at the end of the ages He has appeared to put away sin by the sacrifice of Himself.

I grew up with a doctrine called the Continual Sacrifice of the Mass. Anybody ever heard of that doctrine? It's a Catholic doctrine. The idea is that a mass is going on somewhere in the world at all times, because there must needs be a continual sacrifice. That's just Catholic dogma. I grew up on it. I had long discussions with theologians about it.

That follows the Old Testament priesthood and defies the New Testament. The point of the New Testament is that you don't have to do it over and over and over and over again. You do it once. And you don't even do it. Jesus did it once. He offered the right sacrifice at the right time one time. And it's over. It's finished, unlike the Old Covenant-- unlike the Old Covenant.

And as it is appointed for men to die once, but after this, the judgment-- so Christ was offered once to bear the sins of many. To those who eagerly wait for Him, He will appear a second time apart from sin for salvation. Tabernacle, temple-- just monuments-- we have a better monument. We have some-- more than a monument.

We have heaven. Jesus is in the courts of heaven. He appears before the Father in heaven for us, where he's going to take us one day. We're not going to be living in a tabernacle out in the desert. So we have a better monument. Chapter 10, we have a better method.

For the Law, having a shadow of the good things to come, and not the very image of those things, can never, with the same sacrifices, which they offer continually, year by year, make those, who approach perfect. So this is-- what Jesus did is better than all of the animal sacrifices, which were temporary and continual. Go down to verse 11.

Now, he's going to drill down on this, and you'll understand it. Every priest standing, ministering daily and offering a repeatedly the same sacrifices, which can never take away sins, because if they could take away sins, you'd stop doing them. The fact that you have to keep doing them shows they aren't really working to take away sins.

But this Man, after He had offered one sacrifice for sins forever-- watch this-- sat down at the right hand of God. Do you see verse 11? Every priest stands ministering. This Man sat down from that time waiting until His enemies are made His footstool, for by one offering, He has perfected forever those who are being sanctified

When Jesus died on the cross, He said, it is finished. You know what the word is in Greek? You are scholars. What is it?

Tetelestai.

Tetelestai-- look at you guys, you Greek brainiacs.

[LAUGHTER]

You know that word, tetelestai. It's what priests would say after examining an animal and finding that it had no spot or blemish-- tetelestai if he was a Greek-speaking priest or to a Greek merchant-- tetelestai, no blemish. Or an artist would paint something. And if it was completed and up to the par of the mind of the artist, he might say, tetelestai, which is the picture is completed. Certainly Jesus completed the picture the Old Testament started to draw. Now, it's all come together in one.

Also, a merchant, when doing a transaction when the full price was paid, would say tetelestai, or paid in full. Jesus paid by His blood everything necessary to procure your salvation and my salvation. It is tetelestai. It is paid in full.

Now, every priest stood. They didn't sit. There was no chair in the tabernacle. Priests didn't sit in the holy place and go, whew, man, I've had a long day. No, he would be walking around. He'd be moving all the time. His work was never done. Jesus, when He went to heaven and offered His blood to the Father, so to speak, sat down at the right hand. Why? Because when you sit down, you're done. There's no more work to be done. It's finished. That's the indication of it, that he sat down. He didn't have to stay standing.

Now, chapter 11 is the second part-- 11, 12, and 13, practical exhortation. Now, faith is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen, for by it, the others obtained a good testimony. By faith, we understand so on and so forth. I covered this in depth a few weeks ago when we did this chapter. So I'm not going to really drill down, except to say that He's now giving the practical exhortation that we have a better manner of our approach. It's not by the Law. It is by faith through God's grace and that all the examples of faith-- and there are like 18 different examples of faith in this chapter-- he's trying to show that faith is better than law, better than works, because faith came first.

Before there was a law, there was Abel, who believed God. There was Enoch, who believed God. There was Abram, who believed God. And it was a counter to Him for righteousness. So the highest possible approach to God is not by works, not by law, but by faith. And so He gives example after example after example after example. Then He sums it all up.

Verse 32, what more shall I say, for the time would fail me to tell of Gideon, Barak, Sampson, Jephthah, David, Samuel, the prophets, who through faith subdue kingdoms and did all these cool things that I am not going to read, because we're out of time.

I have so much to say. And I just haven't the time to say it, but that is the bane of my existence.

[LAUGHTER]

When you get to chapter 12, look how practical-- therefore, we also-- since we are surrounded by so great a cloud of witnesses-- he's talking about all the 18 people he just mentioned in chapter 11. They've run before us. They've told us it's possible to live a life of faith. It's desirable to live a life of faith. It might hurt temporarily to live a life of faith on this Earth, but you will be eternally rewarded. And they have, and they are. So that's the great cloud of witnesses.

Let us lay aside every weight in the sin, which so easily ensnares us. And let us run with endurance the race that is set before us. Don't go back to religion. Don't go back to Judaism. Don't go back to the temple sacrifices that you once relied on. Now, you're free in Christ.

Run with endurance. Don't stop-- looking into Jesus, the author and the finisher of our faith, who, for the joy that was set before him endured the cross, despising the shame and has sat down at the right hand of the throne of God, for consider Him, who endured such hostility from sinners against himself, lest you become weary and discouraged in your souls, for you have not yet resisted to bloodshed striving against sin. Jesus sweat gray drops of blood in the garden. Did that happen to you this week? No, it didn't. So He did it. He endured it. So let us keep doing it.

Go down to verse 7, for if you endure chastening, God deals with you as sons, for what son is there whom a father does not chasten? Take you to verse 11. Now, I know chastening seems to be joyful for the present, but painful, nevertheless. Afterwards, it yields the peaceable fruit of righteousness to those, who have been trained by it. Therefore, strengthen the hands, which hang down, the feeble knees. Make straight paths for your feet. So what is lame may not be dislocated, but rather be healed.

OK, he's writing to Jewish believers, who are feeling the brunt of persecution, getting tempted to go back to the ease of their old religion. So their families and friends will think, OK, they're back where they should be. And he says, no, look, Jesus endured by shedding blood. You haven't done that yet.

And know this, that when bad things happen to God's people, they are number 1, provisional-- that is, temporary. Number 2, they are purifying. They're for a purpose. God is going to work this for your good in the future. So strengthen those knees that hang down.

Now, I'm taking you now to chapter 13. He continues the practical exhortation. Let brotherly love continue, et cetera. There's lots of great exhortations here. But I'll take it to the end, verse 20. Now, may the God of peace, who brought up our Lord Jesus from the dead, that great shepherd of the sheep through the blood of the everlasting covenant-- notice the wording-- make you complete in every good word to do, as well working in you what is well pleasing in His sight through Jesus Christ, to whom being glory forever and ever. Amen.

He is summing-- it's one of the most beautiful benediction anywhere, even in scripture. He's summing up in those two versus the entire book of Hebrews in a practical level. All the salient truths are there in that benediction-- make you complete in every good work to do His will. And then there's a few ending remarks, including that about Timothy and people in Rome. Say hi to you. Bye, bye. That's the book.

So Jesus is better than anything the Old Covenant had to offer, better than anything Judaism had to offer. One of my favorite stories is about two soldiers, who were trying to bury their friend during the one of the battles in Europe in World War II. Their friend died. They wanted to give him an honorable burial, not on the battlefield.

They took his body, found a local churchyard, wanted to bury him inside the churchyard. The priest, who kept the church and the churchyard, met them at the gate and said, is your friend a Catholic? And they said, no, he was a Protestant. Priest said, regretfully, he can't be buried inside the fence, because he's not a Catholic. Those are the rules. I'm sorry. I apologize. My condolences, but you're going to have to bury your friend somewhere out there in the sticks.

They dug a grave. They buried their friend on the other side of the fence, just not part of the graveyard and spent the night, came back the next day to pay one last visit and say a few remarks at the grave of their friend. When they went back to the grave, where they buried their friend outside, they noticed the grave was nowhere to be found. They looked on the entire perimeter, did not see the grave, did not see their little cross that they had put up and the name on it. They looked and looked and looked.

Finally, they found the priest, and they said, look, we did what you said. We buried him outside the fence. And we came to find where he is. And we can't find him. And the priest said, well, you know, after our conversation yesterday afternoon I was so touched by your story and so plagued by guilt with those rules and regulations that I got up last night in the middle of the night and I moved the fence--

Oh!

--to include the grave of your friend. He's now buried inside the churchyard. Jesus did what the law could not do. He moved the fence. He said, you're included, man. Before, it's like, you can't come unless you're a Hebrew male or a Hebrew female or a priest or a high priest-- all those courts, all those rule-- regulations, all of that. Jesus moved the fence, tore down the veil, and said, you're all welcome.

[APPLAUSE]

Father, thank you for the message of Hebrews. More than that, thank you for Jesus Christ, who is a better messenger, moderator, mediator with a better ministry. We have a better method in faith. And we have the best monument, which really isn't a monument, because it's not an Earthly tabernacle. It's not a temple. It's not a church. It is heaven itself, which is our home that we look forward to being in. In Jesus' name, amen. Thank you. Let's all stand. Sorry I took four minutes and 30 seconds--

[LAUGHTER]

--of your time.

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1 Kings 1-22
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After years of being a powerful unified nation under King David, Israel, because of their disobedience, became a divided nation under many different kings. This book reveals a story of good kings and bad kings, true prophets and false prophets, and faithfulness and disobedience to God.
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2 Kings 1-25
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Despite the many kings who took control of Israel, the nation still lacked true leadership. Second Kings continues the history of a divided Israel, and we see what happens when a nation passes from affluence and influence to poverty and paralysis.
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1 Chronicles 1-29
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The book of 1 Chronicles recounts the lineage of King David as well as God's promise that He would establish His reign on earth through this man after His own heart. As we see how God fulfilled His promises to David, we discover how that presents a witness of His faithfulness to us today.
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2 Chronicles 1-36
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After King Solomon's reign and death, the nation of Israel went on a spiritual roller coaster ride that ended with the division of the kingdom and the people's exile. From the temple's building to its decline and destruction, we see a parallel to 1 and 2 Kings from a spiritual viewpoint.
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Ezra 1-10
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The book of Ezra begins with King Cyrus' decree for the children of Israel to rebuild the temple at Jerusalem. Ezra tells of two different returns: the first led by Zerubbabel to rebuild the temple, and the second by Ezra to bring reformation to the people. In this flight, we see God's faithfulness in keeping His promise to return His people to their homeland.
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Nehemiah 1-13
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At the end of Ezra, the temple in Jerusalem had been rebuilt and dedicated, but the city walls were still in ruins. After gaining permission from the king of Persia, Nehemiah led a group to repair and rebuild the walls. Though he was met with hostility and conflict, we see how Nehemiah gathered his spiritual strength from God during trialing times.
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Esther 1-10
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Esther reads almost like a fairy tale: A Jewish maiden becomes queen of Persia. The villain launches an attack to destroy the Jews. In the end, his plot is thwarted by the hero and the brave maiden, who risks her life to save her people. Though the name of God isn't mentioned once in this short book, we clearly see God's providence and faithfulness in dealing with His people.
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Job 1-42
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The book of Job opens in the throne room of heaven with a conversation between God and Satan regarding the faithfulness of a man named Job. God allowed Satan to test Job, and Satan caused Job to lose his health, wealth, and even his beloved family. But in the midst of Job's tragic circumstances, God revealed His sovereignty and faithfulness, and Job's steadfast faith prevailed.
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Psalms 1-150
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The book of Psalms is a collection of songs, prayers, and poetry that express the deepest of human emotions. These artistic masterpieces were compiled over a period of roughly 1,000 years from the time of Moses to the time of Ezra and the return from the Babylonian exile. As we fly over the Psalms, we'll see beautiful writings of gladness and grief, pleading and prayers, and reverence and worship—all with one overarching theme: a complete dependence on the love and power of God.
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Proverbs 1-31
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Known for the wisdom it contains, the book of Proverbs reveals how to deal with everyday situations. But more than just good advice, it is God's words of wisdom, which we need in order to live righteously. These proverbs are universal principles that apply to all people for all times, because they speak of the character of God and the nature of man—both of which remain constant.
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Ecclesiastes 1- 12
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The book of Ecclesiastes records King Solomon's intense search to find meaning and fulfillment in life. In this flight, we discover some significant truths—namely, that all worldly things are empty and that life's pursuits only lead to frustration. After tasting all that this world has to offer, Solomon ultimately concluded that life without God is meaningless.
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Song of Solomon 1-8
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The Song of Solomon portrays a moving love story between King Solomon and a shepherdess. The story reveals the intimacy, love, and passion that a bridegroom and his bride share in a marriage relationship. Even more than the fulfillment found in the love between a husband and wife, we'll discover that the spiritual life finds its greatest joy in the love God has for His people and Christ has for His church.
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Isaiah 1-27
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The prophet Isaiah's ministry lasted around fifty years and spanned the reigns of four kings in Judah. His prophecies are quoted in the New Testament more often than any other prophet's. In this first flight over Isaiah, we focus on his prophecies of condemnation that pulled no punches and pointed out Israel's need for God.
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Isaiah 28-66
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Of all the Old Testament prophets, Isaiah is thought by many to be the greatest, in part because of his clear prophecies about the Messiah. In this second flight over his book, we see his continued work and how God used his prophecies of both condemnation and comfort to generate change in the individuals he encountered.
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Jeremiah 1-20
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The book of Jeremiah is a series of oracles written in the southern kingdom of Judah over a period of fifty-plus years. It speaks of judgment, the promise of restoration, and the protective hand of God over those He loves. In this flight, we catch a glimpse of the man behind the prophecies as he allowed God to speak through him in unusual ways to open the eyes of the people of Israel.
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Jeremiah 21-52; Lamentations 1-5
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The prophet Jeremiah allowed God to speak through him in unusual ways to open the eyes of the people of Israel. As we complete our flight over his book, we find the prophet reinvigorated by God's promises as he continued to prophesy Babylon's impending invasions and, ultimately, Judah's captivity. Then our flight continues over the poetic book of Lamentations, which Jeremiah wrote as he wept and grieved over Jerusalem's destruction, ending the book with a prayer for Israel's restoration from captivity.
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Ezekiel 1-48
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Written by Ezekiel the priest, this book takes place during the second Babylonian captivity and documents the fulfillment of several prophecies from previous Old Testament books. In this flight, we see God continue to offer promises of restoration through Ezekiel, bringing the nation hope despite their tribulations.
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Daniel 1-8
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Chronologically, the book of Daniel links the time of the kings in 2 Chronicles to the restoration of Jerusalem in the book of Ezra. It begins with the first Babylonian captivity and ends with Daniel's vision of seventy weeks. In it, we witness both prophetic history and the four prophetic visions of Daniel, as well as powerful stories that reveal a faithful man of God who was unwilling to compromise his beliefs.
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Daniel 9-12
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Midway through the book of Daniel, the focus shifts from the historic to the prophetic. Daniel's four prophetic visions reveal the stunning accuracy of biblical prophecy, as well as Daniel's uncompromising faith in God's fulfillment. From the rise and fall of human kingdoms to the Messiah and the day of judgment, Daniel's visions drove him to his knees in fervent prayer for the people of Israel.
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Hosea 1-14
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Hosea prophesied to the northern kingdom of Israel during the reign of King Jeroboam II, and he had a clear message to deliver: Israel had rejected God, so they would be sent into exile and become wanderers in other nations. On this flight, we see a clear parallel between Hosea's adulterous wife—whom God had instructed Hosea to marry—and Israel's unfaithfulness. But even as Hosea endured a rocky marriage, he continued to share God's plan that He would bring His people back to Himself.
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Joel 1-3; Amos 1-9; Obadiah
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Through three ordinary men—Joel, Amos, and Obadiah—God delivered extraordinary messages to His people, warning them against greed, injustice, false worship, and self-righteousness. On this flight, we witness God's patience and love for Israel, and we see how He stands ready to forgive and restore all who turn away from their sin.
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Jonah 1-4
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Rather than focusing on prophecy, the book of Jonah narrates a prophet's story. Jonah was blatantly disobedient to God's call, but despite his defiance, God redirected his path through a unique situation. The resulting revival in Nineveh shows us that God's grace reaches beyond the boundaries of Israel to embrace all nations.
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Micah 1-7; Nahum 1-3; Habakkuk 1-3
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God used three prophets—Micah, Nahum, and Habakkuk—to criticize, comfort, and inspire: Micah encouraged social justice and the authentic worship of God. Nahum prophesied against the Assyrians for returning to their evil practices. And though Habakkuk didn't address Israel directly, his message assured them that evil does not endure forever. Through these prophets, God's people confessed their sins and grew confident in His salvation.
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Zephaniah 1-3; Haggai 1-2
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The prophet Zephaniah addressed the social injustice and moral decay of Judah and her neighbors, proclaiming the coming day of the Lord and His wrath upon the nations—both an immediate judgment and a future end-times judgment. God sent Haggai the prophet to preach to the restored community of Jews in Jerusalem after their return from exile in Babylonia. Haggai encouraged the nation to set aside their selfishness and finish rebuilding the temple, an act of obedience that would align their desire with God's desire.
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Zechariah 1-14; Malachi 1-4
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As we fly over the last books of the Old Testament, we first look at the expanded message of rebuilding the temple when Zechariah encouraged Israel to anticipate their ultimate deliverance and the Messiah's future reign. One hundred years after the temple was rebuilt, the book of Malachi revealed that God's chosen people had once again slid back into their sinful practices. Malachi declared God's promise of a coming messenger, John the Baptist, and a coming Messiah.
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Intertestamental Period
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In between the Old and New Testaments lies 400 years of history. During this intertestamental period, God chose not to speak to His people through prophets as He orchestrated people, politics, and events in preparation of the coming Messiah. Scholars have come to call these four centuries the silent years. Remarkably, the silence would be broken by a newborn baby's cry in Bethlehem.
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Matthew 1-28; Mark 1-16; Luke 1-24
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These three Synoptic Gospels give us our first glimpses of Jesus' life and death here on earth. Matthew, Mark, and Luke present Jesus Christ as the promised Messiah, the Servant of the Lord, and the Son of Man, respectively. On this flight, we'll see the service, sermons, sacrifices, and sovereignty of Jesus as we witness the fulfillment of many Old Testament prophecies.
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John 1-21
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The spiritual depth of John sets it apart from the other Gospels, with one-third of its content dedicated to the last week of Jesus' life. Rather than focusing on what Jesus did, John focused on who Jesus is, presenting Him as God incarnate and highlighting His deity. On this flight, we'll see seven miraculous signs of Jesus, as well as seven statements that He used to identify Himself as God.
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Acts 1-28
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The book of Acts presents the history of a dynamic, growing community of believers that started in Jerusalem and went on to spread the gospel throughout the known world. In this book, the gospel writer Luke also recorded how the early church received the Holy Spirit, who enabled them to witness, love, and serve with boldness and courage, even when faced with persecution.
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Romans 1-16
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The book of Romans is the apostle Paul's letter to the church in Rome, and it focuses on God's plan of salvation for all humankind. Romans is the most systematic of Paul's letters, reading more like an elaborate theological essay rather than a letter. On this flight, we look at Paul's strong emphasis on Christian doctrine as well as his concern for Israel.
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1 Corinthians 1-16
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In 1 Corinthians, Paul confronted the problems that had infiltrated the influential church at Corinth and defended his position as an apostle of Christ. He later rejoiced over their repentance and acceptance of his God-given authority. On this flight, we discover the power of a new life in Jesus as we see how Paul shared the heart of the gospel with his fellow believers.
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2 Corinthians 1-13
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After Paul wrote 1 Corinthians, false teachers began spreading opposition to him in the Corinthian church. Paul sent Titus as his representative to deal with them, and most of the church repented. Paul wrote this epistle to express his joy at the turnaround and to appeal to them to accept his authority, which was confirmed by the many hardships he suffered for the gospel. On this flight, we find beautiful truths to carry with us through our own times of suffering.
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Galatians 1-6
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Galatians is a firm statement of the doctrine of justification by grace through faith. When Paul wrote this letter, the false doctrine of legalism and faith by works had infiltrated the church throughout Galatia. As a result, believers had traded their freedom in Christ for bondage to the old Jewish law that had been fulfilled by Jesus. On this flight, we discover the differences between law and grace as well as the practical application and results of the proper doctrine of grace.
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Ephesians 1-6
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Who are we in Christ? In Paul's letter to the church in Ephesus, he answered that very question as he addressed a group of believers who were ignorant of their spiritual wealth in Jesus. He explained how the Christian is the bride of Christ, a temple in the Lord, and a soldier for the gospel. On this flight, we see how Paul also emphasized unity among believers, describing the church as a body that works together for a common goal.
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Philippians 1-4
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Referred to as the epistle of joy, Philippians contains the message that joy is possible in all of life's circumstances, including suffering. Paul wrote this very personal letter while in prison, and despite his trials, he rejoiced over the caring and generous church in Philippi and encouraged them in unity, humility, and prayer.
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Colossians 1-4
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On this flight, we see how the young church in Colossae became the target of a heretical attack that included angel worship, the depreciation of Christ, and reliance on human wisdom. In Paul's letter to this church, he refuted the heresy by exalting Christ as the very image of God, the preexistent sustainer of all things, the head of the church, and the first to be resurrected.
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1 Thessalonians 1-5; 2 Thessalonians 1-3
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The apostle Paul wrote 1 and 2 Thessalonians in response to a report that some errors and misunderstandings about his teaching had crept into the church at Thessalonica. But Paul also used the opportunity to encourage the believers there, exhorting them in the Word, warning them against pagan immorality, and urging them to remain steadfast in God's truth in the face of persecution.
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1 Timothy 1-6; 2 Timothy 1-4
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These loving letters to Timothy, a young pastor in Ephesus, reveal Paul's true love for his brother in Christ. Timothy was facing a heavy burden of responsibility, so Paul not only instructed him about the conduct of the church and its ministers but also encouraged him to stand strong for the faith against false teachings, to endure hardship, and to preach the Word.
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Titus 1-3; Philemon
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Paul's brief letter to Titus focuses on Titus' role and responsibility in the organization and supervision of the churches in Crete. Throughout the letter, Paul also stressed the importance of sound doctrine and church order. In Philemon, on the other hand, the apostle took a more personal approach and spoke on the application of the great principles of Christian brotherhood to social life.
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James 1-5
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While it's vital for Christians to understand that salvation comes by faith, the book of James emphasizes an active faith, characterized by good deeds that flow from salvation. In this unmistakably Jewish epistle, the author encourages believers to live out and grow in their faith by embracing trials, carefully controlling their speech, and letting God's love flow through them to others.
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1 Peter 1-5; 2 Peter 1-3
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The apostle Peter wrote these letters to encourage persecuted Christians and to defend the authenticity of God's Word against false teaching that had infiltrated the church. He called on believers to grow in their faith so they might detect and combat the spreading apostasy. On this flight, we see how these letters uniquely encourage us as we live in conflict with our culture, giving us incentive for holy living as we look forward to Jesus' second coming.
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1 John 1-5
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In this letter, John lived up to his nickname—the apostle of love—as he urged the church to continue living a life of faith in Christ. He defended the nature of Jesus against heretical teachings and warned his readers about those who taught such things. John not only addressed the preeminence of God's love for us but also emphasized our duty to love others in return. This flight shows you how God can transform your life when you follow Him wholeheartedly.
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7/29/2020
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Flight JJU01
2 John, 3 John; Jude
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These three epistles were written to encourage the church to keep a strong biblical foundation. The authors exhorted believers to walk in love but to be discerning in their expression of love, to have and enjoy fellowship with other Christians, and to stay strong in the faith. On this flight, you'll discover why it's so vital to balance love and truth to reach a lost world with the gospel of Jesus.
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8/5/2020
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Revelation 1-11
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Considered to be one of the most powerful books in Scripture, Revelation is a direct vision from God to the apostle John. It's both a warning to the world of a coming tribulation and a source of hope for believers as we anticipate Jesus' return. The book is filled with prophecies of future judgment, but in it, we find a glimpse of heaven and the glories awaiting Jesus' bride, the church.
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8/12/2020
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Flight REV02
Revelation 12-22
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In the second half of Revelation, we read some of the most thrilling text in the entire Bible, getting a preview of a future judgment, Jesus' thousand-year reign on earth, the eventual fate of unbelievers, and the church's eternal destination in the new heaven and earth. As we conclude our journey at 30,000 feet over the Scriptures, we discover how the history of the world culminates as we look to Jesus in all His splendid glory.
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8/19/2020
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Visit to the Cockpit Q&A with Pastor Skip
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Our midweek series The Bible from 30,000 Feet came to a close with a final Visit to the Cockpit Q & A session. In the last message of our series, Pastor Skip answers questions from the congregation on topics throughout the Bible, from creation to the end times.
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There are 58 additional messages in this series.
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