The Son and the Servant (Hebrews 3:1-6; Numbers 12:1-16)
/To return to the Old Covenant is to choose the servant over the Son and to abandon your (heavenly) inheritance.
Philadelphia (Hebrews 2:10-18)
/Jesus, the Son, is not ashamed to call us brothers, but became like us in order that he might call us out of the our old reality and lead the way to a new reality and share his inheritance in the world to come with us.
Paid in Full (Hebrews 2:10-18; Genesis 2:15-17)
/Christ’s death was a act of substitution intended not to satisfy Satan, but to satisfy God’s own righteousness.
Subjugating the World to Come (Hebrews 2:5-9; Psalm 8)
/The cultural mandate, given to Adam at creation, has been completed by Christ in his death and resurrection, the effects of which will be fully revealed in the world come.
How Shall We Escape? (Hebrews 2:1-4; Deuteronomy 4:32-40)
/To neglect the message of Jesus (the New Covenant) leaves you without eternal hope on the Last Day and guarantees you divine wrath and judgment for all eternity.
The Lord and the Servants (Hebrews 1:5-14; Acts 7:44-53)
/The author of Hebrews demonstrates the superiority of Christ over the angels in order to establish the superiority of the New Covenant over the Old.
The Fullness of God (Hebrews 1:1-4; Exodus 33:7-11)
/Jesus does not just bring revelation about God, Jesus is the revelation of God because he is God.
But In These Last Days (Hebrews 1:1-4, 12:18-29)
/What you have as a new covenant believer surpasses that which any previous age had, but your (sinful) temptation will always be to long for the elementary, the shadowy, the earthly, the temporal - this longing must be exposed and brought into submission to the word of God.
Ham, Shem and Japheth (Genesis 9:20-27; 3:6-15, 21)
/Jesus came into this world and was made man in order to conquer Satan, sin and death and to clothe us in his righteousness.
Theology and Practice (Acts 2:42-47; 20:7)
/The early church followed the pattern set by the Risen Lord of having the communion meal each Sunday when they gathered, which is fully consistent with, and expected by, the theology behind the Lord’s Supper.
The Supper of Lordship (1 Corinthians 11:17-22; Revelation 1:9-20)
/The Lord’s Supper may properly be referred to as the Dominion Supper or the Judgment Supper dividing the believers from the unbelievers (as a preview of the Last Day when the sheep will be separated from the goats) and serves as a call to the nonbeliever to repent and believe in Jesus Christ.
Examine Yourselves (1 Corinthians 11:17-34)
/Paul's instruction to examine yourself is not a call to endless introspection but a call to come as one body (without divisions or factions) and, together, declare absolute dependence upon the grace of Jesus Christ.
One Loaf, One Body (1 Corinthians 10:14-22)
/The sharing of a loaf of bread and a cup of wine demonstrates that the church is one body, made one through belonging to Christ.
Eating with Sinners (Matthew 9:9-13; Exodus 24:1-11)
/In the Lord’s Supper we have both the image of communion between the Holy God and sinful man as well as a picture of the price that was paid to obtain that communion - the death of Christ.
Flesh and Blood (John 6:52-65; Deuteronomy 8:3)
/The Lord’s Supper teaches what it means to receive Jesus Christ by faith, through the ministry of the Holy Spirit - signifying and sealing this reality to us.
My Memorial (Luke 22:7-23)
/The Lord’s Supper is a memorial where we not only remember what Christ has done for us, but we call upon the Father to remember the work of Christ on our behalf and bless us because of it.
Signs and Seals (Romans 4:1-12)
/Through the sacraments, God represents the gospel of grace (salvation through faith alone) to us and guarantees us that he irrevocably stands behind his promise to save all who come to him in faith.