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So we’re going to talk about substitutionary atonement today. I’m going to give you four aspects of that concept.
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Hebrews Lesson 18: Guarantor of a Better Covenant 7:20-28
And today is really just an introduction to this person, Melchizedek. Today, we’re just going to get everyone up to speed on who Melchizedek is, and I also what to cover who Melchizedek isn’t. More on that in a second.
The author of Hebrews wants his audience to have hope. And he wants them to have faith. And he wants them to have patience. In fact, he wants them to imitate those who have had faith and patience in inheriting promises.
The author wants to give them assurance in this passage, and also give them the practical signs of a genuine believer that feeds assurance.
today’s message is about pressing on towards maturity as a follower of Christ. Today’s message is about not getting stuck in kindergarten with your Christian faith, when by now you should be in graduate school.
Instead of solid food, you are still gulping down milk. It’s an amazing metaphor that he uses here. And it’s as vivid as it is insulting.
Here’s your outline for today. The title of today’s message is “High Priest Par Excellence.” And I want to show you three ways that Christ is a better high priest than any other.
And the argument is essentially that Jesus is a true and better priest, truer and better than any priest that has ever served in Israel. This is a concept, Jesus’s high priesthood, that has been teased already twice in Hebrews (2:17; 3:1). But now the author expounds on it in great depth.
“What does that word ‘fear” mean in Greek, Pastor Tony?” Well brace yourselves for this. That word “fear” means “fear.” It’s the verb φοβέομαι which we derive our word “phobia” from. And as we see throughout Scripture there is good fear and there is bad fear.
In today’s passage, the overarching message is “Do Not Harden Your Hearts.” That’s the message the writer of Hebrews is trying to convey to his original audience, this group of Jewish Christians who are waffling in their commitment to Christ.
The church must have had an overly elevate view of Moses. Or they were tempted to go back to a Moses-before-Jesus religion. And they needed a reminder that there’s only one Messiah, and his name isn’t Moses.
We are continuing our series today, “Christ Supreme in All Things.” And we come to the last of what you might call the “Jesus is greater than the angels” texts of Hebrews. But what we really have in this passage, Hebrews 2:10-18, is a theological exploration of Jesus’s incarnation.
Up to this point, the author has spoken about Jesus, the second person of the Trinity. But he hasn’t used his name. He’s used the designation “The Son.” So you have those repeated statements in chapter 1 about the Son being better than the angels.
Jesus is far greater, far better, far more powerful than the angelic hosts that Jesus himself created. The angels themselves think it’s ridiculous that people would try to bring Jesus down to the level of an angelic being.
Let’s take our Bibles together and turn to Hebrews 1:5-14. There is a massive corrective that this author gives his audience in this chapter concerning angels.
Let’s turn in our Bibles to the passage just read, Hebrews 1:1-4. Some have called Hebrews 1:1-4 the greatest, Greek sentence in the NT. It is a glorious piece of writing.
In terms of size (word count), Hebrews is the thirty first largest book out of sixty-six books. The only books that are longer than Hebrews in the NT are Matthew, Mark, Luke, John, Acts, Romans, and 1 Corinthians. So this is a lengthier book in the NT, but it’s only about a quarter of the size of the longest book in the NT, Luke.
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