HEBREW
DISCUSSANT: CASSANDRA ROMANO
"Let us hold fast the confession of our
hope without wavering, for he who
promised is faithful. And let us
consider how to stir up one another to
love and good works,"
HEBREW 10:23-24
THEMES AND RELEVANCE
1. God’s word is of primary significance in the life of every
Christian believer. Christ that essential revelation of God’s
nature became a personified word (1:2-3).
2. We are directed to the work of Christ in Hebrews 7–10,
contrasting the priesthood and sacrifices of the old covenant
with Christ.
3. Jesus came into this world as the perfect revelation of God’s
mind and message (1:2-3). He came from God determined to
pursue the Father’s will (10:5-7).
THEMES AND RELEVANCE
4. In an age of religious pluralism this letter directs us to the
uniqueness of Christ’s redemptive work.
5. Hebrews has a vigorous doctrine of the Christian life, dealing
with apostasy (falling away, chapters 3–4) and the need to
persevere (e.g. 10:10, 14).
PURPOSE
The general purpose of the Letter to the Hebrews is to
convince Christ's followers that left Jewish Temple worship not
to fall back to their old Jewish religious practice.
The purpose of the book of Hebrews is to show Israel that the
“New Covenant” was God’s plan from the very beginning.
DATE
The early church father Clement quoted from the Book of
Hebrews in A.D. 95. However, internal evidence such as the fact
that Timothy was alive at the time the epistle was written and the
absence of any evidence showing the end of the Old Testament
sacrificial system that occurred with Jerusalem’s destruction in
A.D. 70 indicates the book was written around A.D. 65.
AUTHOR
The author of the letter to the Hebrews remains shrouded in
mystery. Even early in the church’s history, a Christian as learned
as Origen had to admit his ignorance of the true author of
Hebrews. Several theories regarding the author’s identity have
been proposed over the years, but all of them contain significant
problems.
OUTLINE OF HEBREWS
l. The Superiority of the Person of Christ, 1:1-4:16
A. Christ Is Superior to the Prophets, 1:1-4
B. Christ Is Superior to the Angels, 1:5-2:18
1. In His divine person, 1:5-14
2. In His saving proclamation, 2:1-4
3. In His delivering purpose, 2:5-18
C. Christ Is Superior to Moses, 3:1-6
D. Christ Is the Supreme Object of Faith, 3:7-4:16
1. The catastrophe of unbelief, 3:7-19
2. The consequences of unbelief, 4:1-10
3. The cure for unbelief, 4:11-16
ll. The Superiority of the Priesthood of Christ, 5:1-10:39
A. Christ Is Superior in His Qualifications, 5:1-10
B. Parenthetical Warning: Don’t Degenerate from Christ, 5:11-6:20
C. Christ Is Superior in the Order of His Priesthood, 7:1-8:13
1. The portrait of Melchizedek, 7:1-3
2. The preeminence of the Melchizedek priesthood, 7:4-8:13
D. Christ Is Superior in His Priestly Ministry,
1. The earthly priesthood, 9:1-10
2. Christ’s priesthood, 9:11-14
3. Christ’s fulfillment of the promise, 9:15-10:18
E. Parenthetical Warning: Don’t Despise Christ, 10:19-39
III. The Superiority of the Power of Christ, 11:1-13:19
A. The Power of Faith in Christ, 11:1-40
1. The description of faith, 11:1-2
2. The examples of faith, 11:3-40
B. The Power of Hope in Christ, 12:1-29
1. The debatable things of life, 12:1-3
2. The disciplines of life, 12:4-11
3. The direction of life, 12:12-17
4. The drive of life, 12:18-24
5. The duty of life, 12:25-29
C. The Power of the Love of Christ, 13:1-19
1. In relation to social duties, 13:1-6
2. In relation to spiritual duties, 13:7-19
IV. Concluding Benedictions, 13:20-25
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