HEBREWS

“The writer... encourages them with the assurance that they have everything to lose if they fall back, but everything to gain if they press on.” –F.F. Bruce

HEBREWS Message of Hebrews: Continue following the superior Savior, Jesus Christ.

A More Desirable Faithfulness

Since our Deliverer is superior...

1 Therefore, holy brothers and sisters, partners in a heavenly calling, take note of Jesus, the apostle and high priest whom we confess, 2 who is faithful to the one who appointed him, as Moses was also in God’s house. 3 For he has come to deserve greater glory than Moses, just as the builder of a house deserves greater honor than the house itself! Hebrews 3:1-6 (NET Bible)

4 For every house is built by someone, but the builder of all things is God. 5 Now Moses was faithful in all God’s house as a servant, to testify to the things that would be spoken. 6 But Christ is faithful as a son over God’s house. We are of his house, if in fact we hold firmly to our confidence and the hope we take pride in. Hebrews 3:1-6 (NET Bible)

“Holy Brothers” A More Desirable Faithfulness God Christian HOLYHOLY HOLYHOLY

A More Desirable Faithfulness God Christian Fellow Christians HOLYHOLY HOLYHOLY Brothers “Holy Brothers”

A More Desirable Faithfulness “Apostle and High Priest” Father God Jesus APOSTLEAPOSTLE APOSTLEAPOSTLE

A More Desirable Faithfulness “Apostle and High Priest” Father God Jesus APOSTLEAPOSTLE APOSTLEAPOSTLE HIGHPRIESTHIGHPRIEST HIGHPRIESTHIGHPRIEST

A More Desirable Faithfulness Since our Deliverer is superior...

A More Desirable Faithfulness Since our Deliverer is superior We must be more faithful

7 Therefore, as the Holy Spirit says, “Oh, that today you would listen as he speaks! 8 “Do not harden your hearts as in the rebellion, in the day of testing in the wilderness. 9 “There your fathers tested me and tried me, and they saw my works for forty years. 10 “Therefore, I became provoked at that generation and said, ‘Their hearts are always wandering and they have not known my ways.’ 11 “As I swore in my anger, ‘They will never enter my rest!’” Hebrews 3:7-11 (NET Bible)

“The New Testament bears witness... to a primitive and widespread Christian interpretation of the redemptive work of Christ in terms of a new Exodus.” -F.F. Bruce A More Desirable Faithfulness

Slavery in Egypt First Exodus Wilderness Promised Land

A More Desirable Faithfulness Slavery in Egypt First Exodus Wilderness Promised Land N EW E XODUS P ROMISED L AND S LAVERY TO S IN W ILDERNESS

1 For I do not want you to be unaware, brothers and sisters, that our fathers were all under the cloud and all passed through the sea, 2 and all were baptized into Moses in the cloud and in the sea, 3 and all ate the same spiritual food, 4 and all drank the same spiritual drink. For they were all drinking from the spiritual rock that followed them, and the rock was Christ. 5 But God was not pleased with most of them, for they were cut down in the wilderness. 1 Corinthians 10:1-11 (NET Bible)

6 These things happened as examples for us, so that we will not crave evil things as they did. 7 So do not be idolaters, as some of them were. As it is written, “The people sat down to eat and drink and rose up to play.” 8 And let us not be immoral, as some of them were, and twenty-three thousand died in a single day. 9 And let us not put Christ to the test, as some of them did, and were destroyed by snakes. 1 Corinthians 10:1-11 (NET Bible)

10 And do not complain, as some of them did, and were killed by the destroying angel. 11 These things happened to them as examples and were written for our instruction, on whom the ends of the ages have come. 1 Corinthians 10:1-11 (NET Bible)

A More Desirable Faithfulness Slavery in Egypt First Exodus Wilderness Promised Land N EW E XODUS P ROMISED L AND S LAVERY TO S IN W ILDERNESS

A More Desirable Faithfulness Since our Deliverer is superior We must be more faithful