Not only is Jesus the better covenant and the High priest implementing it, but Hebrews 8:6 goes on to tell us that this covenant “was established on better promises.” The Old laid out through Moses at God’s command was faulty because while giving the standard to live by it did not provide the means to […]
“Now beyond all contradiction the lesser is blessed by the better” Hebrews 7:7. Here in Hebrews 7 we see Abraham, the man the Jewish people look to as their ancestral father, a man God chose out of heathen surroundings, obviously because his heart was open toward God, and thus with whom God could make covenant, […]
Hebrews 1:4 says that Jesus, who because of His position and work, has “become so much better than the angels, as He has by inheritance obtained a more excellent name than they”, and the rest of the chapter contrasts Him with them. God’s angels are “ministering spirits sent forth to minister” to His people, verse […]
Part one Being part of the human race no matter where we stand in life our tendency is to always want something better. We were created in God’s likeness, and for perfection; even though there was nothing better than what He created us to be and to have, we desired what we thought was something […]
Hebrews 13:15 is our final stop on our “let us” tour through Hebrews, “Therefore by Him let us continually offer the sacrifice of praise to God…” Webster says sacrifice is “a giving up, destroying, Etc. of one thing for the sake of another of higher value.” A true sacrifice is costly; in 2 Samuel 24:24 […]
“Therefore let us go forth to Him, outside the camp, bearing His reproach” Hebrews 13:13. Therefore connects us with what has been said previously, verse 12 calling our attention to Leviticus 16 where in verse 27 we learn that the bodies of the sin offering whose blood was used in making atonement in the holy […]
Now having laid aside those things that would impede our Christian race, Hebrews 12:1 continues, “let us run with endurance the race that is set before us”; this is constancy, it is keeping our eyes on the goal, it is not being distracted by surroundings or circumstances, it is standing our ground under the stress […]
“…let us consider one another in order to stir up love and good works” Hebrews 10:24. As Christians we are to live and do those things that glorify God, and we are also responsible to encourage and incite one another to do the same! God has so ordained that we need one another; as Christians […]
The second “let us” in Hebrews is in 4:11, “Let us therefore be diligent”. Here in verses 8-10 God is showing us that the rest of Canaan was not His ultimate rest, for after Joshua had led the people into this rest, another day, another rest, is spoken of which comes to us only through […]
Two little words that pack a powerful punch is “let us” and they are used often throughout scripture, many times in the book in of Hebrews alone. The first of these is in 4:1 where God is reviewing how Israel failed to enter Canaan’s rest because of unbelief and consequently their failure to obey! The […]