Over the course of the upcoming weeks and months, I will be doing a specific walk through bible study of the book of Hebrews.
Hebrews .. Let us Draw Near To God
The Overall theme behind Hebrews comes out of Hebrews 10: 19-23
And so, dear brothers, now we may walk right into the very holy of holies where God is, because of the blood of Jesus. This is the fresh, new, life-giving way which Christ has opened up for us by tearing the curtain – his human body – to let us into the holy presence of God. And since this great high priest of ours rules over God’s household, let us go right in, to God himself, with true hearts fully trusting him to receive us, because we have been sprinkled with Christ’s blood and make us clean, because our bodies have been washed with pure water. Now we can look forward to the salvation God has promised us there is no longer any room for doubt, and we can tell others that salvation is ours. For there is no question that he will do what he says.
Hebrews 1 versus one – three from the living Bible
1.Long ago God spoke in many different ways to our fathers through the prophets and visions, dreams, and even face-to-face, telling them little by little about his plans.
2.But now in these days he has spoken to us through his son to whom he has given everything, and through whom he made the world and everything there is.
3.God’s son shines out with God’s glory, and all that God’s son is and does marks him as God. He regulates the universe by the mighty power of his command. He is the one who died to cleanse us and clear our record of all sin, and then sat down in highest honor beside the great God of heaven.
In the Old Testament God spoke to men in various ways. Typically it was any practical application pertaining to directly what was happening in that man’s life that could be used by God to teach people. However it was difficult to put all the pieces of the puzzle together.
With Jesus we see the completeness of God in truth and light.
In studying this section of Scripture, I would like to reference C.J.Vaughn and the six things that he pointed out about Jesus through the Scripture.
- The original glory of God belongs to him. He is a wonderful spot. Jesus is God’s glory; therefore, we see with amazing clarity that the glory of God consists not in crushing men and reducing them to abject servitude, but in serving them and loving them and in the end dying for them. It is not the glory of shattering power of the glory of suffering love.
- The destined empire belongs to Jesus. The New Testament writers never doubted his ultimate triumph. Think of it. They were thinking of a collation carpenter who was crucified as a criminal on a cross on a hill outside the city of Jerusalem. They themselves faced savage persecution and were the humblest of people. As Sir William Watson said of them, “so to the wild wolf hate were sacrificed – the painting, huddled flock, whose crime was Christ.” And yet they never doubted the eventual victory. They were quite certain that God’s love was backed by his power and that in the end the kingdoms of the world would be the kingdoms of the Lord and of his Christ.
- The creative action belongs to Jesus. The early church held that the son had been God’s agent in creation, that In Some Way, God had originally created the world through him. They were filled with the thought that the one who had created the world would also be the one who redeemed it.
- The sustaining power belongs to Jesus. Those early Christians had a tremendous grip of the doctrine of providence. They did not think of God as creating the world and then leaving it to itself. Somehow and somewhere they saw a power that was carrying the world in each life on 28 destined and. They believed, “that nothing walks with aimless feet; that not one light shall be destroyed, or cast as rubbish to the void, when God hath made the pile complete.”
- To Jesus belongs the redemptive work. By his sacrifice he paid the price of sin; by his continual presence he liberates from sin.
- Jesus belongs the meditorial exultation. He has taken his place on the right hand of glory; but the tremendous thought of the writer to the Hebrews is that he is there, not as our judge that is one who makes intercession for us so that, when we enter into the presence of God, we go, not to hear his justice prosecute us but his love plead for us.
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