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NT Theology

NT Theology. Hebrews. Overall Theme of Hebrews. Christ is superior to . . . . Hebrews Outline. Christ is superior to the previous revelation (1:1-3 Christ is superior to the angels (1:4-2:18) Christ is superior to Moses (3:1-19) Christ is superior to Joshua (4:1-13)

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NT Theology

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  1. NT Theology Hebrews

  2. Overall Theme of Hebrews • Christ is superior to . . .

  3. Hebrews Outline • Christ is superior to the previous revelation (1:1-3 • Christ is superior to the angels (1:4-2:18) • Christ is superior to Moses (3:1-19) • Christ is superior to Joshua (4:1-13) • Christ is superior to the OT (Aaronite) Priesthood (4:14-7:28) • Christ is superior in his priestly work (8:1-10:18)

  4. Hebrews Outline • Exhortations based on these arguments (10:19-13:19) • 1-Warnings against apostasy (10:19-39) • 2-Encouragement from OT heroes of faith (11:1-40) • 3-The greatest example of all is Christ Jesus (12:1-11) • 4-Warning against apostasy with the example of Esau (12:12-29)

  5. Hebrews Outline • Practical results must follow from these considerations (13:1-19) • Conclusion (13:20-25)

  6. Summary of Hebrews • 1. Christ • He was human and why -2:14ff • He was God’s son-1:2, 5, 8; 3:6; 5:5 • He is God himself, the creator, and is worshiped by Angels- 1:8, cf. 1:3, 6, 10 • He is a permanent and eternal high priest and a priest of the new living way-5:6; 7:17; Chap. 7-10 • He offers a once for all sacrifice-9:26, 28 (note `apax )

  7. Summary of Hebrews • He reigns in heaven as a sympathetic high priest who knows our weaknesses and interceeds for us. 4:15, 16 • Jesus and his work fulfills Scripture which has prophesied about him. Almost every chapter of Hebrews quotes from or alludes to the OT. See the lists in the back of the GNT or the new Commentary on the NT use of the OT

  8. Summary of Hebrews • 2. Christians • Hebrews was written to encourage believers to stand true in a faith that would hold fast to the promises of God and to the blessings that have already come in Christ • Faith is laying hold of the promise of God for his ultimate solution whether this life brings physical blessings or evils (Ladd, NTT)

  9. Summary of Hebrews • There are warnings against Christian’s apostasy • 2:1-4 “lest we drift away” • 3:7-19 “take care … lest there be … a falling away from the living God.” • 4:11-16 “lest anyone fall through . . . disobedience” • 5:11-6:20 “those who have tasted the word of God … it is impossible to renew them again to repentance

  10. On These Warning Passages • See the Parable of the Sower (or the different soils) Matt 13 esp. v. 12 and 21; the parable of the Pounds and Talents Matt 25:14ff., and Luke 19:11ff; notice Jesus’ warnings about denying him. Matt. 10:33 is echoed by Paul in 2 Tim. 2:12. • See Hughes Commentary on Hebrews • See Reymond’s Systematics

  11. The Warning Passages • Hebrews 6:4-6  4     For in the case of those who have once been enlightened and have tasted of the heavenly gift and have been made partakers of the Holy Spirit, •      5     and have tasted the good word of God and the powers of the age to come, •      6     and then have fallen away, it is impossible to renew them again to repentance, since they again crucify to themselves the Son of God and put Him to open shame.

  12. What does this Passage Teach? • What then do these passages teach, if they do not teach that Christians may fall away from the state of salvation and be lost? They teach that there is such a thing as “temporary faith” which is not true faith in Christ at all. The Westminster Confession of Faith speaks of some who “may be called by the ministry of the Word, and may have some common operations of the Spirit,” yet who “never truly come unto Christ, and therefore cannot be saved” • Reymond, R. L. (1998). A new systematic theology of the Christian faith. (789). Nashville: T. Nelson.

  13. How Do We Know? • It needs to be stressed that those persons who have only this temporary faith were never God’s elect and were never regenerated, and are therefore not true believers. The greatest single piece of evidence that this is so is the fact that they fall away from the faith. • Reymond, R. L. (1998). A new systematic theology of the Christian faith. (790). Nashville: T. Nelson.

  14. How Then Does One Have Assurance? • That leads us to the book of James.

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