Outline of Book of Hebrews

 

 

I. God and His plan for salvation is revealed to men.
1.  God revealed Himself to men.
A. Heb 1:1	God spoke to our forefathers through the prophets							God chooses how He initiates contact with man, but no prophet had the complete message.
B. Heb 1:2	He has spoken to us in His Son							God sent His Son as the supreme divine revelation.
1. Heb 1:2	Heir of all things							The Son-King will receive His kingdom in the future.
2. Heb 1:2	Through whom He made the world							God sent the one through whom He made the world to save the world.
3. Heb 1:3	The Son is the radiance of God’s glory and the exact representation of His being, sustaining all things by His powerful word.							The Son, being the identical image of God and the One through whom God made the world, also sustains everything.
4. Heb 1:3	He had made purification of sins							To be in God’s presence, all of our sins must be cleansed away from us.
5. Heb 1:4	He has inherited a more excellent name than they.							The Son, being God, is higher than the angels.
6. Heb 1:5	YOU ARE MY SON							God called Christ His Son, which is proof that Christ is God’s Son.
7. Heb 1:6	Firstborn							Like in Psalms 89:27, Christ is the preeminent King. The firstborn.
8. Heb 1:8	YOUR THRONE, O GOD, IS FOREVER AND EVER.							Christ will rule eternally.
9. Heb 1:9	YOU HAVE LOVED RIGHTEOUSNESS							The only truly righteous thing is to do what is necessary to maintain a relationship with God, love and trust in Christ.
10. Heb 1:10-12	LORD							In quoting Psalms 102:25-27, the personal name of God, Yahweh, is applied to Christ.
11. Heb 1:13	SIT AT MY RIGHT HAND UNTIL I MAKE YOUR ENEMIES A FOOTSTOOL FOR YOUR FEET							Christ sits at the Father’s right hand, waiting for the time when He will rule the coming kingdom.
2. God revealed His plan of salvation to men.
A. Heb 1:14	Will inherit salvation							Those who believe will receive in the future the inheritance promised us in the past.
B. Warning is given to heed what is taught.
1. Heb 2:1-2	We must pay much close attention to what we have heard							Hearing is insufficient, one has to heed the message.
2. Heb 2:3	How will we escape if we neglect so great a salvation?							If we do not do what is needed, believe in Christ, to receive the purification of our sins, which is part of our receiving eternal life, we will not escape the punishment due us because of our sins.
C. God announced and confirmed the plan.
1. Heb 2:3	Salvation first announced through the Lord and confirmed by those who heard							Christ Jesus spoke of the salvation of being able to live eternally that we could receive by belief in Christ, and his disciples affirmed this teaching.
2. Heb 2:4	God also testifying with them							God also confirmed, with the use of miracles and gifts from the Holy Spirit, what Christ taught – salvation through belief in Him.
II. God’ plan for men’s salvation has been initiated.
1. Christ will reign in the coming kingdom.
A. Heb 2:5	The world to come							The coming new heavens and new earth, are where believers will dwell.
B. Heb 2:6	The son of man that you care for him?							Christ was fully human.
C. Heb 2:7	CROWNED HIM WITH GLORY AND HONOR							Christ has received His crown, but does not yet rule over the coming kingdom.
D. Heb 2:8	We do not yet see all things subject to Him							There is a temporal emphasis, indicating we will see all things subject to Him.
E. Heb 2:9	Jesus							This is the first time the human name of the Messiah has been given.
F. Heb 2:9	Taste death for everyone							Christ died to pay the penalty of sin for everyone, so believers could have eternal life.
2. God will make believers like Christ.
A. Believers will be made mature like Christ
1. Heb 2:10	Bringing many sons to glory							God will make many to be like Christ.
2. Heb 2:10	Perfect the author of their salvation through sufferings							God made Christ, the one who made salvation possible, mature through suffering.
B. Believers will be brothers of Christ.
1. Heb 2:11	Of the same family							As brothers with Christ, we are full heirs to the promised inheritance
2. Heb 2:12	I WILL PROCLAIM YOUR NAME TO MY BRETHREN							Christ is not ashamed to call believers brother.
3. Heb 2:13	THE CHILDREN WHOM GOD HAS GIVEN ME							God is the one who gave us to Christ.
C. Believers will live eternally.
1. Heb 2:14	Render powerless him who had the power of death.							Christ died so that the adversary could no longer force everyone to die.
2. Heb 2:15	Free those who through fear of death were subject to slavery							His death can free men from their fear of death and slavery.
3. Heb 2:16	He gives help to the descendant of Abraham							Christ died to help humans live eternally, not angels.
4. Heb 2:17	Make propitiation for the sins of the people							Christ turned the wrath of God from those who believe in Him, and put us in His good pleasure. As such, we have the promise of eternal life.
5. Heb 2:18	For since He Himself was tempted in that which He has suffered, He is able to come to the aid of those who are tempted.							Christ’s humanity was tempted when He bore 100% of the temper’s temptation, so  He understands the force of temptation and is merciful and faithful to forgive us.
3. Just as Christ was faithful, men are to be faithful.
A. Christ was faithful to God.
1. Heb 3:1	Partakers of a heavenly calling, consider Jesus							People who share the call from God in heaven are to focus on Christ Jesus
2. Heb 3:2	He was faithful to the one who appointed Him							Jesus was faithful to God.
3. Heb 3:3	He has been counted worthy of more glory than Moses, by just so much as the builder of the house has more honor than the house.							The House of God was built on Moses and his faith, but Christ, the builder, was more worthy of glory than Moses.
4. Heb 3:4	The builder of all things is God.							If the builder of all things is God, and Christ was due more glory than Moses because the builder has more honor than what is built, then Christ is God.
5. Heb 3:5	Moses was faithful as a servant in all God’s house, testifying to what would be said in the future.							Moses told of what would come.
6. Heb 3:6	We are His house if we hold on to confidence and hope to the end.							Those who truly believe will hold on to their confidence, and it is those people who are of God’s house – those who will inherit the promised eternal life.
B. Warning of consequences of not being faithful to God.
1. Not being faithful prevents one from entering God’s Rest.
a. Heb 3:7	The Holy Spirit says, “TODAY IF YOU HEAR HIS VOICE,”							Today is the day the offering is made to enter God’s rest, and God says those who hear His voice should pay attention.
b. Heb 3:8-10	Do not harden your hearts							Continue to believe.
c. Heb 3:11	THEY SHALL NEVER ENTER MY REST							Those who do not believe will not enter God’s Rest.
2. Encourage one another to stand firm in faith so all can enter God’s Rest.
a. Heb 3:12	Take care, brethren, that there not be in any one of you an evil, unbelieving heart that falls away from the living God.							Do to not neglect the salvation offered and turn away from God, having learned the truth, to pursue the Kingdom in the wrong way.
b. Heb 3:13	Encourage one another day after day, as long as it is still called “Today” so that none of you will be hardened by the deceitfulness of sin.							Believers should encourage each other daily to prevent disbelief, as long as it is still ‘Today,’ the day the offer of salvation is made.
c. Heb 3:14	Partakers of Christ, if we hold fast							Those who believe in Christ at the end of life are those who truly believe Christ. And it is those people who will share in what Christ has.
d. Heb 3:15	TODAY IF YOU HEAR HIS VOICE, DO NOT HARDEN YOUR HEARTS							As long as the offer of salvation is made, do not ignore it.
3. By hearing and not believing God after knowing the full truth, the Israelites were unable to enter His Rest.
a. Heb 3:16	Who were they who heard and rebelled?							The Israelites had the opportunity to believe, but rebelled.
b. Heb 3:17	With who was He angry for forty years? Was it not with those who sinned, whose bodies fell in the desert?							By hearing, and rebelling, they sinned and it angered God.
c. Heb 3:18	And to whom did God swear they would never enter His rest if not to those who disobeyed?							Those who heard but did not trust, and so disobeyed God, will never enter His Rest.
d. Heb 3:19	We see that they were not able to enter because of disbelief							The action of the Israelites was proof of their lack of faith.
III. God’s plan of salvation is in progress.
1. The promise of faithful believers entering God’s Rest remains in effect.
A. Heb 4:1	a promise remains of entering His rest							The promise of entering into where God dwells has not, and will not, be revoked, and it has not yet been fulfilled.
B. Heb 4:2	Good news							The good news is the knowledge of how to live eternally, but it must be combined with faith
C. Heb 4:3	We who have believed enter that rest							Those who believe in Christ will enter into where God dwells.
D. Heb 4:4	GOD RESTED ON THE SEVENTH DAY FROM ALL HIS WORKS							It is this rest believers will enter into.
E. Heb 4:5	NOT ENTER MY REST							Those who do not believe in Christ will not enter into where God dwells
2. Some have failed to enter God’s Rest, but the offer to enter His Rest stands as long as it is ‘Today.’
A. Heb 4:6	It remains for some to enter it, and those who formerly had good news preached to them failed to enter because of disobedience							In the future, believers will enter into God’s dwelling place, His rest. But those who disobey and do not believe will fail to enter into it.
B. Heb 4:7	He again fixes a certain day, “Today,”							There was a generation offered Rest, but they did not enter in, so ‘Today’ is not the day of rest, but the day the offer of salvation is made.
C. Heb 4:8	If Joshua had given them rest, He would not have spoken of another day after that							Joshua did not give the Israelites rest.
D. Heb 4:9	There remains a Sabbath day for the people of God.							Those who believe in Christ are the people of God and will enter into the rest.
E. Heb 4:10	The one who has entered His rest							Christ has entered God’s rest, His dwelling place.
F. Heb 4:11	Be diligent to enter that rest							If one does not disobey and disbelieve, one will enter into God’s rest.
3. The Great High Priest paid the full price for our sins to glorify God and save believers for all eternity.
A. All are sinners whom God judges.
1. Heb 4:12	The word of God is living and active and sharper than any two-edged sword, and piercing as far as the division of soul and spirit, of both joints and marrow, and able to judge the thoughts and intentions of the heart.							The word of God exposes and is able to judge the thoughts and intents of the people.
2. Heb 4:13	There is no creature hidden from His sight							God sees all and is able to judge.
B. God provided a high priest, Jesus Christ, to make the sacrifice for our sins so we can draw near to God’s throne.
1. Heb 4:14	Since we have a great high priest who has passed through the heavens, Jesus the Son of God, let us hold fast our confessions.							The great high priest Jesus offered the ultimate sacrifice and paid the full price for our redemption, so do not give up the confession of belief.
2. Heb 4:15	We do not have a high priest who can not sympathize							Christ sympathizes with us.
3. Heb 4:16	Draw near with confidence to the throne of grace							So we should trust in Christ, which will bring us near the Throne of God.
C. Jesus Christ made the necessary sacrifice and  paid the full price.
1. Heb 5:1	Every high priest taken from among men is appointed on behalf of men in things pertaining to God to offer both gifts and sacrifices for sins							Jesus was human, and so is qualified to be the high priest to make the same offering.
2. Heb 5:2	He can deal gently with the ignorant and misguided, since he himself is also beset with weakness.							Jesus, being fully human, can give a measured response to ignorant and misguided people.
3. Heb 5:3	He is obligated to offer sacrifices for sins							The high priest offers sacrifices for sin.
D. The sacrifice was made to glorify God.
1. Heb 5:4	No one takes the honor to himself, but receives it when he is called by God							Not even Christ claimed honor in being made high priest.
2. Heb 5:5	Christ did not glorify Himself so as to become a high priest							Christ glorified God the Father when he became high priest.
E. Having paid the full price, Christ became the source of eternal salvation.
1. Heb 5:7	To the one who was able to save Him from death							God saves people from death.
2. Heb 5:8	Although He was a Son, He learned obedience from the things which He suffered.							Jesus suffered to become mature in faith.
3. Heb 5:9	Source of eternal salvation							Christ became the source of eternal salvation, eternally living in God’s house
4. Heb 5:10	Being designated by God as a high priest according to the order of Melchizedek							God appointed Jesus high priest of the Melchizedek order, not of the Arronic order.
4. There is a process to becoming spiritually mature.
A. People start off immature, like a seed.
1.  Heb 5:11-13	Everyone who partakes only of milk is not accustomed to the word of righteousness, for he is an infant.							Babies of the faith, being immature, can not understand everything that is needed to live a life of righteousness.
2.  Heb 5:14	Solid food is for the mature, who by constant use have trained themselves to distinguish good from evil.							Believers who constantly practice distinguishing good from evil become mature and are able to live a life of righteousness.
3. Heb 6:1	Therefore leaving the elementary teaching about the Christ, let us press on to maturity, not laying again a foundation of repentance from dead works and of faith towards God							As difficult as it may be to comprehend for some, turning away from works and trusting in God for salvation is an elementary teaching.
4. Heb 6:2-3	Of instruction about washings and laying on of hands, and the resurrection of the dead and eternal judgement							Christ’s resurrection and the eternal judgement all people face are elementary teachings.
B. Not all seeds become plants.
1. Heb 6:4	Those who have once been enlightened and tasted of the heavenly gift and have been made partakers of the Holy Spirit							This speaks of those who have been shown the truth, and partnered with the Holy Spirit.
2. Heb 6:5	And have tasted the good word of God and the powers of the age to come							These same people have also been exposed to the Word, and authorities of the world to come.
3. Heb 6:6	And then have fallen away, it is impossible to renew them again to repentance, since they again crucify to themselves the Son of God and put Him to open shame.							Anyone who has fully understood the Gospel and worked with the Holy Spirit, but still chooses to put that knowledge aside and not believe will be unable to believe.
4. Heb 6:7	Land that drinks in the rain often falling on it and that produces a crop useful to those for whom it is farmed receives the blessing of God.							Belief, coupled with what is necessary for growth, produces maturity.
5. Heb 6:8	But land that produces thorns and thistles is worthless and is in danger of being cursed. In the end it will be burned.							People to whom knowledge has been given but belief does not produce fruit will not enter God’s Rest.
C. Those that do grow do so by being diligent in one’s faith, which will cause one to enter the kingdom.
1. Heb 6:9	But, beloved, we are convinced of better things concerning you, and things that accompany salvation, though we are speaking in this way.							Better things than being cursed and burned accompany eternal life
2. Heb 6:11	Show the same diligence so as to realize the full assurance of hope until the end							Be diligent in belief until you physically die, and receive the promised salvation.
3. Heb 6:12	Inherit the promises							Those who believe until the end will receive the promised eternal life.
4. Heb 6:13-17	The promises are certain							God ensures what He promises will occur.
5. Heb 6:18	Take hold of the hope set before us							If one believes in Christ, one has taken hold of what has been promised.
6. Heb 6:19	A hope both sure and steadfast and one which enters within the veil							This belief allows us to enter into God’s presence.
6. Men can enter the kingdom because Jesus paved the way.
A. Jesus, in heaven, became what Melchizedek was on earth.
1. Heb 6:20	Jesus has entered as a forerunner for us, having become a high priest forever according to the order of Melchizedek.							Jesus became our high priest and made the sacrifice for our sins.
2. Heb 7:1	FOR this Melchizedek, king of Salem, priest of the Most High God, who met Abraham as he was returning from the slaughter of the kings and blessed him,							Melchizedek was both a king and a priest of God.
3. Heb 7:2	to whom also Abraham apportioned a tenth part of all the spoils, was first of all, by the translation of his name, king of righteousness, and then also king of Salem, which is king of peace.							Like Christ, he was king of righteousness and peace.
4. Heb 7:3	Without father, without mother, without genealogy, having neither beginning of days nor end of life, but made like the Son of God, he remains a priest perpetually.							He had no genealogy and no known date of birth or death, so was considered a perpetual priest.
5. Heb 7:4-10	Now observe how great this man was to whom Abraham, the patriarch, gave a tenth of the choicest spoils.							He was so great Abraham, who is the father of many nations, paid tithe to him.
B. With the change in priesthood comes a change in law.
1. Heb 7:11	Now if perfection was through the Levitical priesthood (for on the basis of it the people received the Law), what further need was there for another priest to arise according to the order of Melchizedek and not be designated according to the order of Aaron?							One could not become perfect through following the Law given by the Levitical priesthood, which is why Jesus was appointed as a high priest of the Melchizedek order, instead of Aaronic order.
2. Heb 7:12-17	When the priesthood is changed, of necessity there takes place a change of Law also.							There has been a change in Law because there is a new priesthood.
3. Heb 7:18	There is a setting aside of a former commandment because of its weakness and uselessness							The Law was set aside, as it convicted of sin rather than brought one to trust in God.
4. Heb 7:19	A better hope, through which we draw near to God							The better hope is that through faith in Christ, we will enter into God’s dwelling place and live forever.
C. God made Jesus Christ the eternal High Priest.
1. Heb 7:20-21	for they indeed became priests without an oath, but He with an oath through the One who said to Him, THE LORD HAS SWORN AND WILL NOT CHANGE HIS MIND, “YOU ARE A PRIEST FOREVER”							Jesus became priest forever because God said it.
2. Heb 7:22	Jesus has become the guarantee of a better covenant							Because we have Christ, we have an assurance for the fulfillment of the better covenant – salvation through belief in Christ.
D. The new High Priest is better than any humanly high priest.
1. Heb 7:23	The former priests, on the one hand, existed in greater numbers because they were prevented by death from continuing,							Previous high priests were mortal, so there had to be more of them.
2. Heb 7:24	Jesus, on the other hand, because He continues to live forever, holds His priesthood permanently.							Since Jesus lives eternally, He will be the eternal high priest and the sacrifice He made is sufficient for all time.
3. Heb 7:25	He is able also to save those who draw near to God through Him, since He always lives to make intercession for them.							This High Priest cleanses and gives eternal life through their belief in Christ so believers may enter God’s presence.
4. Heb 7:26	For it was fitting for us to have such a high priest, holy, innocent, undefiled, separated from sinners and exalted above the heavens;							This High Priest is better than any other: holy, separate, innocent and undefiled.
5. Heb 7:27	who does not need daily, like those high priests, to offer up sacrifices, first for His own sins and then for the sins of the people, because this He did once for all when He offered up Himself.							This High Priest made the sacrifice once for all.
6. Heb 7:28	or the Law appoints men as high priests who are weak, but the word of the oath, which came after the Law, appoints a Son, made perfect forever.							This High Priest is forever perfect.
E. The new High Priest operates in different ways than previous high priests.
1. Where this High Priest ministers is different than where previous high priests ministered.
a. Heb 8:1	Now the main point in what has been said is this: we have such a high priest, who has taken His seat at the right hand of the throne of the Majesty in the heavens,							This High Priest sits at the right hand of God.
b. Heb 8:2	a minister in the sanctuary and in the true tabernacle, which the Lord pitched, not man.							This High Priest ministers in the sanctuary in Heaven.
2. What this High Priest ministers is better than what previous high priests.
a. Heb 8:3-6	He has obtained a more excellent ministry, by as much as He is also the mediator of a better covenant, which has been enacted on better promises							Christ is the one who puts into effect the better covenant, which was built on heavenly promises.  Thus we see where faith in Christ brings eternal life.
b. Heb 8:7	If the first covenant had been faultless, there would have been no occasion sought for a second.							The first covenant was replaced with the new covenant to allow people access to God.
c. Christ ministers the new covenant God created to replace the old.
1. Heb 8:8		For finding fault with them, He says, BEHOLD, DAYS ARE COMING, SAYS THE LORD, WHEN I WILL EFFECT A NEW COVENANT WITH THE HOUSE OF ISRAEL AND WITH THE HOUSE OF JUDAH;						New way to gain access to God’s rest.
2. Heb 8:9		NOT LIKE THE COVENANT WHICH I MADE WITH THEIR FATHERS ON THE DAY WHEN I TOOK THEM BY THE HAND TO LEAD THEM OUT OF THE LAND OF EGYPT; FOR THEY DID NOT CONTINUE IN MY COVENANT, AND I DID NOT CARE FOR THEM, SAYS THE LORD.						The Israelites of old did not keep the old covenant.
3. Heb 8:10		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 INTO THEIR MINDS, AND I WILL WRITE THEM ON THEIR HEARTS, AND I WILL BE THEIR GOD, AND THEY SHALL BE MY PEOPLE.						Those whom God has taught his laws so they are internalized are the ones who believe in Him and The Son He sent and call Him God. These are the ones He calls His people, the true House of Israel.
4. Heb 8:11		AND THEY SHALL NOT TEACH EVERYONE HIS FELLOW CITIZEN, AND EVERYONE HIS BROTHER, SAYING, “KNOW THE LORD,” FOR ALL WILL KNOW ME, FROM THE LEAST TO THE GREATEST OF THEM.						Everyone will know God.
5. Heb 8:12		FOR I WILL BE MERCIFUL TO THEIR INIQUITIES, I WILL REMEMBER THEIR SINS NO MORE						Ours sins had to be atoned for so God’s wrath could be turned away from us we can enter into His dwelling place. Christ did this for us. We have showed our acceptance of it by our belief in Him.
6. Heb 8:13-9:10		When He said, A new covenant, He has made the first obsolete. But whatever is becoming obsolete and growing old is ready to disappear.						The Contract God made with the House of Israel to save all the nations replaced the previous contract.
3. How this High Priest ministers is different.
a. Heb 9:11		But when Christ appeared as a high priest of the good things to come, He entered through the greater and more perfect tabernacle, not made with hands, that is to say, not of this creation;						Christ entered the heavenly tabernacle.
b. Heb 9:12		and not through the blood of goats and calves, but through His own blood, He entered the holy place once for all, having obtained eternal redemption.						Christ used His own blood sacrifice to enter into God’s dwelling place that one time, and in so doing, He redeemed all who believe in Him for all time.
c. Heb 9:13		For if the blood of goats and bulls and the ashes of a heifer sprinkling those who have been defiled sanctify for the cleansing of the flesh,						The former high priests would use blood of goats and bulls to cleanse flesh.
d. Heb 9:14		how much more will the blood of Christ, who through the eternal Spirit offered Himself without blemish to God, cleanse your conscience from dead works to serve the living God?						But Christ used His blood to cleanse believers so they can serve God.
F. Why this High Priest had to die to minister.
1. Covenants are put into effect with the death of the person whose will it is.
a. Heb 9:15		For this reason He is the mediator of a new covenant, so that, since a death has taken place for the redemption of the transgressions that were committed under the first covenant, those who have been called may receive the promise of the eternal inheritance.						Christ’s death occurred to pay the price for man’s transgressions, including those done by the House of Israel under the first covenant. In this way, He is the one who puts into effect the better covenant. And because of His death, those who have been called have the ability to receive the promise of eternal life.
b. Heb 9:16		For where a covenant is, there must of necessity be the death of the one who made it.						For a covenant to be put into effect, the person who made it must be proven to be dead.
c. Heb 9:17		For a covenant is valid only when men are dead, for it is never in force while the one who made it lives.						Only once that person is dead can his will be put into effect.
2. Even the first covenant was put into effect with blood.
a. Heb 9:18		Therefore even the first covenant was not inaugurated without blood.						Which is why the first covenant needed blood to be put into effect.
b. Heb 9:19		For when every commandment had been spoken by Moses to all the people according to the Law, hetook the blood of the calves and the goats, with water and scarlet wool and hyssop, and sprinkled both the book itself and all the people,						When Moses spoke the commandments, calves and goats had to die and their blood was sprinkled on everyone and thing.
c. Heb 9:20		saying, THIS IS THE BLOOD OF THE COVENANT WHICH GOD COMMANDED YOU.						The blood was that of the covenant.
d. Heb 9:21		And in the same way he sprinkled both the tabernacle and all the vessels of the ministry with the blood.						The earthly tabernacle and things used to minister there were sprinkled with the blood.
e. Heb 9:22		And according to the Law, one may almost say, all things are cleansed with blood, and without shedding of blood there is no forgiveness.						Without the shedding of blood, there is no forgiveness.
3. The new covenant was put into effect with blood.
a. Heb 9:23		Therefore it was necessary for the copies of the things in the heavens to be cleansed with these, but the heavenly things themselves with better sacrifices than these.						The earthly copies were cleansed with blood of animals, but the heavenly things had to be cleansed with something better.
b. Heb 9:24		For Christ did not enter a holy place made with hands, a mere copy of the true one, but into heaven itself, now to appear in the presence of God for us;						Christ entered the heavenly tabernacle, not an earthly one.
c. Heb 9:25		nor was it that He would offer Himself often, as the high priest enters the holy place year by year with blood that is not his own.						While the earthly high priests entered the holy place year by year, Christ entered once, for all.
d. Heb 9:26		Otherwise, He would have needed to suffer often since the foundation of the world; but now once at the consummation of the ages He has been manifested to put away sin by the sacrifice of Himself.						Christ took on human flesh to suffer and die for those who believe in Him could be justified and receive eternal life.
e. Heb 9:27		And inasmuch as it is appointed for men to die once and after this comes judgment,						God’s design is for men to die one time and then be judged.
f. Heb 9:28		So Christ also, having been offered once to bear the sins of many, will appear a second time for salvation without reference to sin, to those who eagerly await Him.						Christ died one physical death to pay the price of the sin of believers and redeem believers. He will return to bring actual salvation to those who look forward to His return.
4. Why the new covenant needed a different sacrifice then the old covenant.
a. The law and animal sacrifice can not remove sin.
1. Heb 10:1			FOR the Law, since it has only a shadow of the good things to come and not the very form of things, can never, by the same sacrifices which they offer continually year by year, make perfect those who draw near.					The law can not make people mature or perfect.
2. Heb 10:2			Otherwise, would they not have ceased to be offered, because the worshipers, having once been cleansed, would no longer have had consciousness of sins?					If the sacrifices required by the law could make someone perfect, they would no longer be sinful.
3. Heb 10:3			But in those sacrifices there is a reminder of sins year by year.					But the sacrifices have to continue every year.
4. Heb 10:4			For it is impossible for the blood of bulls and goats to take away sins.					Because blood of created things can not remove sin.
b. Christ came to do God’s will.
1. Heb 10:5				Therefore, when He comes into the world, He says, SACRIFICE AND OFFERING YOU HAVE NOT DESIRED, BUT A BODY YOU HAVE PREPARED FOR ME;				God prepared a body for Christ.
2. Heb 10:6				IN WHOLE BURNT OFFERINGS AND sacrifices FOR SIN YOU HAVE TAKEN NO PLEASURE				God took no pleasure in burnt offerings.
3. Heb 10:7				THEN I SAID, “BEHOLD, I HAVE COME (IN THE SCROLL OF THE BOOK IT IS WRITTEN OF ME)TO DO YOUR WILL, O GOD.”				So Christ came to do God’s will.
4. Heb 10:8				After saying above, SACRIFICES AND OFFERINGS AND WHOLE BURNT OFFERINGS AND sacrifices FOR SIN YOU HAVE NOT DESIRED, NOR HAVE YOU TAKEN PLEASURE in them» (which are offered according to the Law),				God did not desire sacrifices even for sin.
5. Heb 10:9				then He said, BEHOLD, I HAVE COME TO DO YOUR WILL. He takes away the first in order to establish the second.				Christ came to do God’s will and remove the first covenant to establish the second.
6. Heb 10:10				By this will we have been sanctified through the offering of the body of Jesus Christ once for all.				Those who believe in Christ have been set apart and made holy and are being made like Christ through the sacrificial death of Christ once for all. It is Christ’s death that paid the price of all sins for all people who believe.
c. Christ offered the one offering for all sin for all time.
1. Heb 10:11				Every priest stands daily ministering and offering time after time the same sacrifices, which can never take away sins;				Earthly priests continually make sacrifices for sin.
2. Heb 10:12				He, having offered one sacrifice for all, SAT DOWN AT THE RIGHT HAND OF GOD.				Since Christ was God, He only had to make the one sacrifice for all people who would believe and all the believers’ sins. This sacrifice was sufficient to save all people for all time.
3. Heb 10:13				waiting from that time onward UNTIL HIS ENEMIES BE MADE A FOOTSTOOL FOR HIS FEET.				He now waits until His enemies are under his feet.
4. Heb 10:14				By one offering He has perfected for all time those who are sanctified.				By his one sacrifice, He has made perfect those who were set aside and made holy and were being made perfect.
d. There is no further need for sacrifices.
1. Heb 10:15				And the Holy Spirit also testifies to us; for after saying,				The Holy Spirit testified about the new covenant.
2. Heb 10:16				THIS IS THE COVENANT THAT I WILL MAKE WITH THEM AFTER THOSE DAYS, SAYS THE LORD: I WILL PUT MY LAWS UPON THEIR HEART, AND ON THEIR MIND I WILL WRITE THEM, He then says,				The Holy Spirit said that God the Father would put His laws upon their heart and mind.
3. Heb 10:17				”AND THEIR SINS AND THEIR LAWLESS DEEDS I WILL REMEMBER NO MORE.”				God’s will give people the knowledge His laws in their minds and hearts. This lets them know they have sinned and that God is gracious in forgiving and not remembering any believer’s sins so they can enter into His rest.
4. Heb 10:18				Now where there is forgiveness of these things, there is no longer any offering for sin.				Because there is forgiveness for sin, there is no longer a need for sacrifice for sin.
G. Since we have a new and living way to enter the holy place, we must be sure to remain faithful through any suffering.
1. Our High Priest, Jesus Christ, gave us a new and living way to enter the holy place.
a. Heb 10:19				Therefore, brethren, since we have confidence to enter the holy place by the blood of Jesus,				The blood of Christ is what gives us the ability to enter into the holy place.
b. Heb 10:20				by a new and living way which He inaugurated for us through the veil, that is, His flesh,				Christ gave us a new way to enter the holy place.
c. Heb 10:21				and since we have a great priest over the house of God,				Christ is our high priest.
2. Things believers can do to help ensure faithfulness.
a. Heb 10:22				Let us draw near with a sincere heart in full assurance of faith				Believers can enter into god’s presence since we have faith in Christ.
b. Heb 10:23				Hold fast the confession of our hope without wavering, for He who promised is faithful.				God is faithful in keeping His promises, so believers can rest assured that He will save them, as He promised.
c. Heb 10:24				and let us consider how to stimulate one another to love and good deeds,				We must encourage one another to emulate Christ.
d. Heb 10:25				not forsaking our own assembling together, as is the habit of some, but encouraging one another; andall the more as you see the day drawing near.				Believers should gather together and encourage one another.
3. Why believers should remain faithful.
a. Warning of what will occur if believers do not remain faithful.
1. Heb 10:26					For if we go on sinning willfully after receiving the knowledge of the truth, there no longer remains asacrifice for sins,			Once someone knows the full truth and rejects it, there is not further sacrifice to atone for one’s sins.
2. Heb 10:27					but a terrifying expectation of judgment and THE FURY OF A FIRE WHICH WILL CONSUME THE ADVERSARIES.			Rejecting the Truth of Christ will bring judgement and fire.
3. Heb 10:28					Anyone who has set aside the Law of Moses dies without mercy on the testimony of two or three witnesses.			The old covenant required that people who put aside the Law of Moses to die.
4. Heb 10:29					How much severer punishment do you think he will deserve who has trampled under foot the Son of God, and has regarded as unclean the blood of the covenant by which he was sanctified, and has insulted the Spirit of grace?			It will be more sever if someone ignores the new covenant.
5. Heb 10:30					For we know Him who said, VENGEANCE IS MINE, I WILL REPAY. And again, THE LORD WILL JUDGE HIS PEOPLE.			God will judge any who put aside the new covenant.
6. Heb 10:31					It is a terrifying thing to fall into the hands of the living God.			Be warned that it is a terrible thing for that to occur.
b. Reminder that these Hebrew believers had been persecuted when they first believed and persevered in their belief.
1. Heb 10:32-33					But remember the former days, when, after being enlightened, you endured a great conflict of sufferings,			The Hebrew believers came to an understanding of the Truth and endured suffering.
2. Heb 10:34					Accepted joyfully seizure of your property, knowing that you have for yourselves a better possession and a lasting one.			The better and lasting possession is the promised salvation – everlasting life.
c. Encouragement to continue to endure in faith.
1. Heb 10:35					Do not throw away your confidence, which has a great reward			Perseverance in faith is true saving faith and will be rewarded with eternal life.
2. Heb 10:36					You have need of endurance, so that when you have done the will of God, you may receive what was promised.			Once you do the will of God, to believe until you die, you will be rewarded with what was promised.
3. Heb 10:37					FOR YET IN A VERY LITTLE WHILE, HE WHO IS COMING WILL COME, AND WILL NOT DELAY.			Because Christ is coming.
4. Heb 10:38					BUT MY RIGHTEOUS ONE SHALL LIVE BY FAITH; AND IF HE SHRINKS BACK, MY SOUL HAS NO PLEASURE IN HIM.			Those who believe will continue to live by faith.
5. Heb 10:39					We are not of those who shrunk back to destruction, but of those who have faith to the preserving of the soul.			Again, perseverance in faith will preserve the soul in that those who believe will have eternal life.
d. Explanation of what faith is and what it does.
1. Heb 11:1					Faith is the assurance of things hoped for, the conviction of things not seen.			We can not see the eternal life believers have been promised, but believers look forward to it in faith, trusting God will do as He said He would.
2. Faith is required to please God.
A. Heb 11:2						For by it the men of old gained approval.		Please have always gained approval by faith.
B. Heb 11:3						By faith we understand that the worlds were prepared by the word of God, so that what is seen was not made out of things which are visible.		Faith tells us that God spoke the universe into existence.
C. Examples of ancient people who lived by faith.
1. Heb 11:4							By faith Abel offered to God a better sacrifice than Cain, through which he obtained the testimony that he was righteous, God testifying about his gifts, and through faith, though he is dead, he still speaks.	Faith allowed Abel to offer a better sacrifice to God than Cain.
2. Heb 11:5							By faith Enoch was taken up so that he would not see death; AND HE WAS NOT FOUND BECAUSE GOD TOOK HIM UP; for he obtained the witness that before his being taken up he was pleasing to God.	Enoch’s faith pleased God to where He took him up.
D. Heb 11:6							And 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 seek Him.	Without faith, we can not please God.
3. God will raise the faithful from the dead and let them enter the kingdom.
A. Heb 11:7-16							They desire a better country, that is, a heavenly one. Therefore God is not ashamed to be called their God; for he has prepared a city for them.	People who live by faith desire a heavenly country, which is the future Jerusalem. that God prepared in Heaven and will come to earth.
B. Heb 11:19							God is able to raise people even from the dead	God raised Christ from the dead, and we too will be raised, as part of our salvation.
C. Heb 11:20-35							Women received back their dead by resurrection; and others were tortured, not accepting their release, so that they might obtain a better resurrection;	Some were raised form the dead, others were tortured so they might obtain the better resurrection.
D. Heb 11:35-39							And all these, having gained approval through their faith, did not receive what was promised,	These people pleased God but still have not receive what was promised.
E. Heb 11:40							because God had provided something better for us, so that apart from us they would not be made perfect.	They will receive the promise when we receive the promise.
4. Encouragement to remain faithful.
a. Heb 12:1							Run with endurance the race that is set before us.	Believers should continue to live in faith, so as to receive the promised salvation in the future.
b. Christ was faithful to the end.
1. Heb 12:2							Fixing our eyes upon Jesus, the author and perfecter of faith, who for the joy set before Him endured the cross, despising the shame, and has sat down at the right hand of the throne of God.	Christ creates and builds our faith. Which is necessary to believe in Him, which in turn is needed to be saved. Christ paid the price with His death on the cross one time and then rested with God. This one sacrifice was sufficient to redeem believers from death once for all.
2. Heb 12:3							For consider Him who has endured such hostility by sinners against Himself, so that you will not grow weary and lose heart.	Remember what Christ did so you will not grow weary and lose heart.
c. Suffering believers go through is discipline.
1. Heb 12:4-5							and you have forgotten the exhortation which is addressed to you as sons, MY SON, DO NOT REGARD LIGHTLY THE DISCIPLINE OF THE LORD, NOR FAINT WHEN YOU ARE REPROVED BY HIM;	God disciplines His children.
2. Reasons for suffering.
A. Heb 12:6							FOR THOSE WHOM THE LORD LOVES HE DISCIPLINES, AND HE SCOURGES EVERY SON WHOM HE RECEIVES.	Everyone child he loves, he disciplines.
B. Heb 12:7							It is for discipline that you endure; God deals with you as with sons; for what son is there whom his father does not discipline?	Suffering is discipline.
C. Heb 12:8							But if you are without discipline, of which all have become partakers, then you are illegitimate children and not sons.	Anyone who calls himself a child of God but is not disciplined is not truly a son of God.
D. Heb 12:9							Furthermore, we had earthly fathers to discipline us, and we respected them; shall we not much rather be subject to the Father of spirits, and live?	Our earthly fathers disciplined us so would become who they wanted us to become. God disciplines us for the same reason. We should willingly submit ourselves to His discipline and have eternal life.
E. Heb 12:10							He disciplines us for our own good, so that we may share His holiness.	God disciplines us so we can become more like Christ.
F. Heb 12:11-13							All discipline for the moment seems not to be joyful, but sorrowful; yet to those who have been trained by it, afterwards it yields the peaceful fruit of righteousness.	Discipline is painful while you endure it, but it produces the fruit of righteousness, faith.
H. Do not reject God.
1. Pursue what God offers.
a. Heb 12:14							Pursue peace with all men, and the sanctification without which no one will see the Lord.	No one will see God without having Christ’s sanctification, which requires that we believe in Him.
b. Heb 12:15-21							See to it that no one comes short of the grace of God; that no root of bitterness springing up causestrouble, and by it many be defiled;	Ensure no one rejects God.
2. Listen to God.
a. Heb 12:22-23							But you have come to Mount Zion and to the city of the living God, the heavenly Jerusalem, and to myriads of angels,	You have come to the heavenly Jerusalem.
b. Heb 12:24							Jesus, the mediator of a new covenant	Believers have come to faith in Christ and so look forward to the fulfillment of the new covenant, eternal life.
c. Heb 12:25							See to it that you do not refuse Him who is speaking. For if those did not escape when they refused him who warned them on earth, much less will we escape who turn away from Him who warns from heaven.	Do not refuse God because there is no escape.
3. Be thankful.
a. Heb 12:28							Therefore, since we receive a kingdom which cannot be shaken, let us show gratitude, by which we may offer to God an acceptable service with reverence and awe;	Part of our salvation is the promise of living in the heavenly kingdom, so show gratitude.
b. Heb 12:29							For our God is a consuming fire.	Because God can consume all.
IV. Jesus suffered for us, we should live like it.
A. Encouragement to live right.
1. Heb 13:1							LET love of the brethren continue.	Love is evidence of belief.
2. Heb 13:2							Do not neglect to show hospitality to strangers, for by this some have entertained angels without knowing it.	Further evidence of being God’s child.
3. Heb 13:3							Remember the prisoners, as though in prison with them, and those who are ill-treated, since you yourselves also are in the body.	What one suffers, all suffer.
4. Heb 13:4							Marriage is to be held in honor among all, and the marriage bed is to be undefiled; for fornicators and adulterers God will judge.	Do not live unrighteously.
5. Heb 13:5-8							Make sure that your character is free from the love of money, being content with what you have; for He Himself has said, I WILL NEVER DESERT YOU, NOR WILL I EVER FORSAKE YOU,	Trust God in all things, even money.
B. Heb 13:9-10							Do not be carried away by varied and strange teachings; for it is good for the heart to be strengthened by grace, not by foods, through which those who were so occupied were not benefited.	Do careful to not follow false teachings.
C. Trust Jesus.
1. Heb 13:11-12							Jesus also, that He might sanctify the people through His own blood, suffered outside the gate	Jesus suffered and was crucified that his blood would sanctify believers, which was necessary to receive the inheritance of the promised eternal life.
2. Heb 13:14-19							We are seeking the city which is to come	Believers seek the heavenly Jerusalem which will come in the future, and is part of the promise.
3. Heb 13:20							Now the God of peace, who brought up from the dead the great Shepherd of the sheep through the blood of the eternal covenant, even Jesus our Lord,	The promise of eternal life in the dwelling place of God is what believers will inherit.
4. Heb 13:21							Equip you in every good thing to do His will, working in us that which is pleasing in His sight,through Jesus Christ, to whom be the glory forever and ever. Amen.	God will equip you to do His will, for His glory.

 

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