Joining the Wrong Team, Part 1 (Hebrews 6:4-6; Matthew 21:33-44)
/In crucifying the Son of God, national Israel (as defined by the Old Covenant) made their apostasy irreversible and cannot be restored to repentance.
Discerning Good from Evil (Hebrews 5:11-6:3; Genesis 2:15-17; 3:6)
/To return to the Old Covenant after the coming of Christ is to repeat the sin of Adam and choose earthly gain over heavenly.
Two Priesthoods (Hebrews 5:1-10; Psalm 110:1-7)
/Christ, as the high-priest of the new covenant, offers a better ministry than Aaron and is, thus, able to save those who trust in him.
Two Priests (Hebrews 4:11-16; Genesis 2:25-3:10, 22-24; Matthew 4:1-11)
/You have two options, place your confidence in disobedient Adam and
meet with judgment, or place your confidence in obedient Jesus and meet with
God.
There Remains a Sabbath Rest (Hebrews 4:1-11; Genesis 2:1-3)
/The Promised Land was a picture of heaven, which can only be obtained by faith.
They Shall Never Enter My Rest (Hebrews 3:7-19; Psalm 95)
/To return to the Old Covenant is to deny the sufficiency of Christ and is the path of destruction.
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.