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Studies in the Book of Hebrews HEBREWS Page i STUDIES IN THE BOOK OF HEBREWS By WAYNE E. McMORRAN BEREAN BIBLE CHURCH ARROYO GRANDE, CA 93420 COPYRIGHT ©2004 BY WAYNE E. McMORRAN HEBREWS Page ii TABLE OF CONTENTS CHAPTER ONE ............................................... Page 1 Introduction ............................................. Page 1 God Speaks! ............................................ Page 2 The Son Speaks for He is God! .............................. Page 5 The Son is Better than Angels. .............................. Page 7 The Result of Being Better than the Angels .................... Page 12 CHAPTER TWO .............................................. Page 16 PAY ATTENTION! .......................................Page 16 The Earth Subjected to Man ............................... Page 20 CHAPTER THREE ............................................ Page 33 Jesus and Moses ........................................Page 34 The Hardening of Hearts - Old Testament Style ................ Page 36 The Encouraging of Hearts - New Testament Style ..............Page 38 Warning Regarding Lack of Response ....................... Page 40 CHAPTER FOUR ............................................. Page 45 The Warning to be careful! ................................ Page 45 Those Who Have Entered the Rest ..........................Page 47 When is the Right Time to Enter? ...........................Page 48 Let's Enter this Rest! ..................................... Page 50 CHAPTER FIVE .............................................. Page 59 The Imperfect High Priest ................................. Page 59 The Better Priest ........................................Page 61 Are You a Christian Dullard? ............................... Page 63 CHAPTER SIX ............................................... Page 69 What We Do Not Need to Study ............................Page 69 Why We Need Not Study the Milk of the Word ................. Page 71 The Need for Us to Partake of the Meat of the Word ............Page 73 GOD'S INTEGRITY ......................................Page 77 OUR SURETY ..........................................Page 80 CHAPTER SEVEN ............................................ Page 84 What Kind of Priest was Melchizedek? ....................... Page 84 Why Do We Need a Better Preist? ..........................Page 91 Jesus's Oath of Office .................................... Page 94 Why Christ is the Better High Priest ..........................Page 96 CHAPTER EIGHT ........................................... Page 102 The Difference Between Christ and the Levites ................ Page 102 The Two Sanctuaries .................................... Page 103 What Was Wrong With the Old Sanctuary? .................. Page 105 CHAPTER NINE ............................................. Page 110 The First Tabernacle and its Furnishings ..................... Page 110 The Two Holy Places .................................... Page 114 How Christ Entered the Most Holy Place ..................... Page 117 HEBREWS Page iii Why Christ Entered the Most Holy Place ..................... Page 120 Christ Now Appears in the Most Holy Place for Us .............Page 122 CHAPTER TEN ............................................. Page 127 Christ's Sacrifice for Us is All We Need ...................... Page 127 Christ Our High Priest - a Summary ......................... Page 129 What We Ought to Do "Therefore" ......................... Page 131 The Call to Persevere ................................... Page 140 CHAPTER ELEVEN ..........................................Page 144 Faith Defined ..........................................Page 144 The Universe ..........................................Page 146 Abel's Faith ........................................... Page 147 Enoch's Faith ..........................................Page 148 Noah's Faith ........................................... Page 149 Abraham's Faith ........................................Page 150 Abraham and Sarah's Faith ............................... Page 152 Abraham's Ultimate Faith ................................. Page 156 Isaac's and Jacob's Faith ................................. Page 158 Joseph's Faith .........................................Page 160 Moses' Parents Faith .................................... Page 160 Moses' Faith ........................................... Page 162 Moses' Faith Applied .................................... Page 164 Israel's Faith ........................................... Page 165 Rahab's Faith ..........................................Page 166 The Faith of the Victorious ................................ Page 167 The Faith of the Unfortunate .............................. Page 168 Faith's Conclusion ......................................Page 170 CHAPTER TWELVE .........................................Page 174 The Christian's Run ..................................... Page 174 The Christian's Chastisement ............................. Page 178 Chastisement's Results .................................. Page 181 Avoiding Chastisement .................................. Page 182 Mount Zion is Not Mount Sinai ............................. Page 185 Do Not Refuse the Consuming Fire ......................... Page 189 CHAPTER THIRTEEN ........................................Page 193 Helpful Advice for Christians .............................. Page 193 The Final Comparison ................................... Page 197 The Final Instructions .................................... Page 198 The Benediction ........................................Page 199 The Post Script ........................................Page 200 INDICES ................................................... Page 202 HEBREWS Page 1 CHAPTER ONE Introduction: We shall keep the introduction to this letter short. Like most of the books of the Bible, we can learn about all we need to know from the book itself. We will begin by considering the title of the book. The title various from translation to translation, such as: The Epistle of Paul the Apostle to the HEBREWS KJV The Epistle to the HEBREWS The Open Bible (KJV), NAS The Letter to the HEBREWS RSV, Amplified Bible HEBREWS NIV, Living Bible, Wuest's Expanded Translation The Letter to Jewish Christians Phillips Paraphrase In some cases the term epistle is found and others the more modern English term letter. Since it is obviously a letter, either of these terms is redundant. The Phillips Paraphrase says Jewish Christians rather than Hebrews since that is who they were, but more on this later. Only the KJV has the name of Paul connected with the letter. The name Paul does not appear in any of the Greek texts except the Received Text translated by Stephens in 1550 and revised by Elzevir in 1624. It is also called by its Latin name Textus Receptus. Since 1624 many additional manuscripts (or partial manuscripts) of the Greek New Testament have been unearthed and so the newer Greek translations, based on this better evidence, leaved the name of Paul off and the book is called simply pros hebraious, "to Hebrews". Did Paul write this letter or not? This has been debated for centuries. These are considerable evidence that he may have (we will not some of this as we go through the book) and there are good arguments for his not being the author. What do we do? We follow Paul's good advice... I want you to stress these things, so that those who have trusted in God may be careful to devote themselves to doing what is good. These things are excellent and profitable for everyone. But avoid foolish controversies and genealogies and arguments and quarrels about the law, because these are unprofitable and useless. Titus 03:09-09 It really makes no difference who wrote the letter. The author of the entire Book was the Holy Spirit and, if the Spirit inspired the human author to omit his name, then it was the will of the God that we not know the name - case closed. We need to say a few words about those to whom this book is written, the Hebrews. Who were (or are) they? The term appears in the N.T. three times: In those days when the number of disciples was increasing, the Grecian Jews among them complained against the Hebraic Jews because their HEBREWS Page 2 widows were being overlooked in the daily distribution of food. Acts 06:01 From this passage we find that the Jews, including those who had become Christians, were divided into two groups. There were the Jews who believed that the Hebrew language was God's language and one could worship Him in no other tongue. The Grecian Jews, on the other hand, were more broad minded and were willing to read the Septuagint (or LXX standing for 70) which was the Greek translation of the Old Testament, executed in about 400 BC. They didn't mind worshipping God in the Greek language, which they understood better (especially those not living in the Holy Land). We find Paul saying... Are they Hebrews? So am I. Are they Israelites? So am I. Are they Abraham's descendants? So am I. 2 Corinthians 11:22 circumcised on the eighth day, of the people of Israel, of the tribe of Benjamin, a Hebrew of Hebrews; in regard to the law, a PhariPhilippianssee; 03:05 The Hebrew speaking Jews felt that they were "one cut above" the Grecian Jews (or Helenists) and we see this in Paul's statements. But note the context in which Paul speaks these words, he is not really bragging. It is somewhat of a paradox that this letter is addressed to the "Hebrews" since it is written in Greek! But, this is how the Holy Spirit wanted it and we will let it go at that. We conclude this introduction
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