BIBLICAL CONCEPT: Hebrews Highlights
1. The name "Hebrew”means "to pass over" (Gen. 14:13).
2. The Son: superior to angels (1:4-14), but lower for a little while (2:5-18). The humility of God.
3. Six warning contexts about faith, hearing, and application: 2:1-4; 3:7-19; 4:1-16; 5:11-6:20; 10:19-39; 12:18-29.
4. The Son: superior to Hebrew (i.e. religious) things: Moses (3:16), Levitical Priests (5:1-I0), Abraham (7:4-7), and Old Covenant (8:6-10:18).
5. Verses (concepts) to remember:
1:8,
The Son is God: superior as God.
2:1, CWL
(Christian Way of Life): attention or drifting.
2:4, Signs,
wonders, and miracles for the first generation.
2:5, Human
history: subject to angels.
2:11, Brother's
of Christ before the Father.
2:18, CWL:
Temptation aid.
3:6b, Christians:
Hopeful or homeless.
3:7-11,
The example of the wilderness generation: A spiritual heart attack.
3:7-8,
Hearing prevents hardening and spiritual heart attack .
3:10, Exodus
Generation: Fearful complainers - Ex. 13:17; 14:10-15; 14:31; 15:24;
16:2, 7, 12; Nu. 14:1-10, 24.
4:1-16,
Warning: hearing + faith = rest.
4:1, CWL
Disaster: Short of rest. The relationship between fear and rest.
4:12-13, A
warning related to obedience: God's omniscience.
4:12, The
scriptures: God Reveals the Inner Man.
4:13, Omniscience
and Accountability.
4:14-16,
Christ + holding fast = confidence and help.
4:16, Faithful
confidence activates grace help.
5:11-14,
The relationship between spiritual hearing and spiritual maturity.
6:10a,
CWL works: unforgettable to God.
7:25, Eternal
security.
10:29,
Judgment worse than death: wasted eternal reward.
10:32,
The good old days: enlightened suffering.
10:35-39,
Confidence, endurance, and faith = eternal reward.
10:35,
Spiritual speaking = mega reward.
10:36,
Accurate endurance and eternal reward.
11:1, Faith:
vision for eternity.
11:3, Faith
understands creation.
11:4, Faith
speaks over death.
11:8, Faith
over place.
11:9, Faith
over comfort: camping.
11:13,
Faith, eternal perspective and patience.
11:23,
Opposites: faith and fear.
11:24-26,
Faith = eternal riches and reward.
11:27b,
Faith: seeing the unseen.
12:3b,
The living lost.
12:4, Resist:
strive against the sin of CWL unbelief
12:6a,
Love = discipline.
12:14,
Pursue the salvation of others.
12:15,
Grace or bitterness and defilement.
12:28a,
Gracious because of our eternal status.
12:28b,
Saved to serve.
12:29,
Warning: fear God cf. 10:30-31.
13:5a,
Money: a matter of character.
13:5b,
Money: a matter of contentment.
13:9, Strange
doctrine: foods (religion) instead of grace.
13:9a,
The delusion of religion.
13:9b,
Heart food: grace not religion.
13:9c,
Strange doctrine (9a) = no benefit.
13:9a,c;
Carried away and occupied by religion.
13:16b,
Impact God with spiritual sacrifices.
13:17c,
The joy of authority orientation.
13:20,
The peace through the death, the blood, and the covenant.
13:21c,
Glory for the Superior Son.
13:25,
A hopeful conclusion: grace for all.