Search The Scriptures —Study 5— Hebrews 4:14 – 5:10

Study 5 From The Book of Hebrews Is: Hebrews 4:14 – 5:10

1.   4:14-16.  What truths concerning our Christian High Priest are we here exhorted to confess, and what consequents privileges open to our enjoyment are we here exhorted fully to possess?

2.   5:1-10.  What qualifications for high priesthood are set forth in verses 1:4?  How are these possessed by Christ as a higher level and a fuller way than could ever be true of a Levitical priest? What benefit can He consequently make ours, and on what condition?

Notes

1.   The order of treatment in 5:1-4 is reversed in 5:5-10.  The three points dealt with are (a) function, (b) understanding sympathy, (c) appointment to office.

2.   5:3. Every Jewish high priest was ‘bound to offer sacrifice for his own sins’.  Contrast 4:15. Jesus was sinless.

3.   5:7-9.  These verses give an amazing insight into our Lord’s true humanity and earthly humility.

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Search The Scriptures —Study 4 — Hebrews 3:7 – 4:13

    

Study 4 From The Book of Hebrews Is: Hebrews 3:7 – 4:13

1.    3:7-4:2. What is the danger against which we are here warned?  Why were the Israelites overtaken by it in the wilderness? How may we avoid similar disaster?

2.    4:1-13. In what ways does God use His Word in His dealing with us? What promise of His still stands open for our enjoyment? What are the conditions of obtaining its fulfilment in our experience? Can any avoid having dealing with Him? 

Note. 3:12, 13; 4:1.  In each of these verses an exhortation is addressed in the plural to the many, exhorting them all to take care lest any single one of their number fall away.

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Search The Scriptures —Study 3 — Hebrews 3:1-6

Study 3 From The Book of Hebrews Is: Hebrews 3:1-6

1.    Verses 1, 6.  Christians are here described as those who confess Christ and respond to His call.  If these activities are to be fully meaningful, we must ‘consider Jesus’s as our apostle and high priest. What, then can Christ do for us, and what does He demand from us as (a) our Apostle, and (b) our High Priest?

2.    Verses 2-5.  Find three ways in these verses in which Christ is said to excel Moses.

Notes

1.    Verse 1. As ‘Apostle’ Jesus was sent from God to men to revel; as ‘High Priest” He offered Himself for men to God to redeem and to reconcile. C.f. 1:1, 2a, 3b; 2:3, 17; 4:14; 5:1; 8:1.

2.    Verses 2-6. ‘God’s house’: this refers to God’s people or household, not to the Tabernacle or Temple.  Now it is we Christians who are God’s house. Our heavenly calling makes us ‘holy brethren’ in God’s family (verse 1).

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Search The Scriptures —Study 2— Hebrews 2

Study 2 From The Book of Hebrews Is: Hebrews 2

1.    Verses 1-4.  Why ought we to ‘pay the closer attention to what we have heard’ (verse 1)?  Sort out the reasons here stated. Against what practical dangers is this warning directed?

2.    What, according to the Scriptures (e.g., Ps. 8), is man’s divinely intended destiny? How do we here see God’s purpose for man being brought to its fulfilment? What path did the Son of God have to tread to make it possible for sinful men to share in this fulfilment? What, in consequence, can He now do for us?

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Search The Scriptures —Study 1— Hebrews 1

Study 1 From The Book of Hebrews Is: Hebrews 1 

1.    Verses 1:4. List the statements made about Christ in verses 2 and what ways is He greater than prophets and angels

2.    How do the scriptures quoted in verses 5:14 confirm the statement of verse 4?  Define for yourself the ways in which what God says of Christ is different from what He says of angels.

Notes

1.    The emphasis laid upon Christ’s superiority to angels, which to us seems obvious, is explained by the fact that, to the Jews, one of the chief glories of the Old Testament revelation was that it was given through angels.  See 2:2.

2.    Verse 7.  Angels are created beings; they are God’s servants; and their form and appearance suffer change and transformation at God’s pleasure.  Contrast the royal dominion and unchanging being of the Son (verses 8-12).

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Search The Scriptures —Study 0— Introduction of the book of Hebrews

Study 0 From The Book of Hebrews Is: Introduction of the book of Hebrews 

The epistle is an exhortation and warning to Jewish believers to continue in the faith of Christ and not to fall back into Judaism. Christ is set forth as the fulfilment of Old Testament type and prophecy, and the faith and endurance of the Old Testament saints are held up as examples to believers.  Needless to say, the teaching of the Epistle has a scope and value far beyond what was of immediate concern to Jewish believers of the first century. It shows the new covenant, of which Jesus, the Son of God, is Mediator, to be not only far superior to the first covenant, but the final and perfect religion, both as regards revelation (1:1-2:18) and redemption (3:1-18:18). The Epistle also contains practical teaching concerning life under the new covenant.  It constitutes a divine call to all who have professed themselves Christians to see that their faith is a reality, and to continue in it, and a very definite challenge to those who have not yet put their faith in Christ. It sets forth Christ very fully in His capacity as our High Priest, shows His divine nature, and yet points out the reality of His humility and suffering as man in a way no other book does in the whole Bible, the Gospels not excepted. 

Search The Scriptures —Study 20 — Leviticus 27

Study 20 From The Book of Leviticus Is: Leviticus 27

With this lesson we end the book of Leviticus. Tomorrow we will delve into the Hebrews book.

Introduction as to what is to be done where and offering has been made to the Lord and the giver wants to redeem it; also a regulation about tithes.

1.    What can be redeemed and what cannot be redeemed?  What does this teach us about the seriousness of vows made to God? Is there any exception to the statement in verse 29? Cf. Ps. 49:7-9, 15; Mk. 10:45.

2.    What does this chapter show of the Lord’s character? What does He require in His people?

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Search The Scriptures —Study 19 — Leviticus 26

Study 19 From The Book of Leviticus Is: Leviticus 26 

1.    What spiritual blessings are promised to obedient Christians, corresponding to these promised here to an obedient Israel?

2.    What are the reasons for punishment and the conditions for restoration given here? How do these apply in the Christian life?

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Search The Scriptures —Study 18 — Leviticus 25

Study 18 From The Book of Leviticus Is: Leviticus 25

1.    How was the year of Jubilee reckoned, and what was its gener a purpose?  Are there any corresponding spiritual blessings in Christ? And how may we enjoy them? Cf. Gal. 2:4; 5:1, 13.

2.    What light is shed in this chapter on the principles governing our relationship to God and to one another in Christ?  See especially verses 17, 23, 35, 36, 38, 42, 43, 55.

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Search The Scriptures —Study 17 — Leviticus 24

Study 17 From The Book of Leviticus Is: Leviticus 24

1.    Consider the significance of the words ‘pure’ and ‘continually’ which recur in verses 1-9.  Apply these words to your own worship and Christian service.

2.    What attributes of God’s character are set side by side in this chapter? Cf. Heb. 10:19-31. What constraint should such awareness put upon us?

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