Lesson 9

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Lesson 9

Hebrews 13

November 16, 2017 • Meg Rice

Chapter 13 of Hebrews reminds me of my final instructions to my children as they left for college. I wanted to remind them of all the important things they had been taught and needed to remember. In this chapter, the Holy Spirit is discussing what a life lived in the body of Christ looks like and how that same life should behave in the world. It even talks about how as Christians we are to be in this world but not of it.

Introduction

September 14, 2017 • Meg Rice

The book of Hebrews is a call for us to mature in our faith from milk to the meat of the gospel. Don’t we want all there is in life for us? Don’t we want to live a life in freedom? Then let’s journey together through Hebrews. Let’s leave the milk and Pablum of our faith and start to chew on the meat of the gospel. When we taste the mature faith, we’ll be enthralled with the person of Jesus, and our lives will never be the same.

Lesson 1

September 21, 2017 • Meg Rice

For a Jew living in the time of Jesus, the thought of dispensing with 2,000 years of tradition was traumatic. The prophets of the Old Testament were the lifeblood of Jewish knowledge. The life, death, and resurrection of Jesus spawned a new religion that seemed to be threatening their age-old values.

Lesson 2

September 28, 2017 • Meg Rice • Hebrews 3—4

The next hurdle for the author of Hebrews is to convince the Jews who profess Jesus as their Christ that he is better than Moses. The religious leaders of Jesus’ day continually confronted Jesus with the teachings of Moses to show Jesus was not who he said he was. In chapter 3, the author compares Moses and Jesus to show Jesus is far superior. This is revolutionary thought for a Jew of Jesus’ day. This takes us back to our study of Exodus and the consequences of the ancient Hebrews when they did not believe the promises of the Living God.