Short posts which study the entire book of Hebrews. If you’ve ever wanted to know more about this fascinating New Testament book, these posts will help you!
Our study of Hebrews has shown us a group of Christians pressured to renounce Christ instead of confessing him. The persecution brought onto Jewish Christians by their fellow Jews was severe (Hebrews 10:32-36; 12:3-12). So confessing Christ back then was not a simple, one-time admission of faith in an air-conditioned church building surrounded by approving friends. … Read More Hebrews: Holding Fast To Our Confession
What “sprinkles” our hearts “clean” is the blood of Christ, which the Hebrew writer would later bring out when he writes of “the sprinkled blood” of Jesus (12:24). Peter would teach that Christians are “elect” (i.e., chosen) “for sprinkling with his blood” (1 Peter 1:1-2). It is the blood of Christ that redeems us and forgives us of our trespasses (Ephesians 1:7). In like manner, the mention of “our bodies washed with pure water” is a reference to baptism in water, which “washes away our sins” (Acts 22:16; cf. 8:38-39; 10:47). One comes into contact with the cleansing blood of Christ which sprinkles one’s heart clean from an evil conscience and brings redemption and forgiveness through baptism. … Read More Hebrews: How To Have Your Hearts Sprinkled Clean
Why do followers of God no longer offer animal sacrifices like they did in the Old Testament? Because there is no longer any need to do so. Jesus’ death on the cross took care of that.… Read More Hebrews: Why The Cross Beats Animal Sacrifices
Burnt offerings and animal sacrifices did not meet God’s standards, and so God provided the only things which could: himself in the form of “a body have you prepared for me”…his own Son in human form (cf. John 1:1, 14).… Read More Hebrews: The Problem With Animal Sacrifices
To briefly sum up, we each have a singular appointment with death. After death, we will go to a place the Bible calls Hades. If we die in a saved state, we will be in the section of Hades known as Paradise. If we die in an unsaved state, we will be in the part of Hades which is torment. At judgment we will leave Hades and be judged by God, and then enter either heaven or hell for eternity.… Read More Hebrews: What Happens After Death?
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