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Overview
Hebrews
A. The Superiority of Christ (Heb 1:1-10:18)
1. God Has Spoken to Us Through His Son (Heb 1:1-3)
I.) The great salvation (Heb 1:1)
A.) The Son Better Than The Prophets [OR] God's Supreme Revelation [OR] The Son Superior To Angels [OR] God's Final Word In His Son [OR] God Has Spoken By His Son [OR] God Has Spoken To Us Through Christ, His Son (Heb 1:1)
2. God's Son Is Superior to the Angels (Heb 1:4-14)
A.) The Son Better Than The Angels [OR] Who Is Superior To The Angels, As Shown By Seven Passages Of Scripture (Heb 1:4)
1.) The Son Exalted Above Angels [OR] The Son Is Superior To Angels (Heb 1:5)
3. Everything Is Under Christ' Control (Heb 2:1-10)
A.) Parenthesis: Hearers Warned [OR] Do Not Neglect Salvation [OR] Warning To Pay Attention [OR] Give Heed [OR] We Must Guard Against Inattention And Neglect Of God's Message Through His Son (Heb 2:1)
B.) The Earth To Be Put Under The Man Christ Jesus [OR] The Son Made Lower Than Angels [OR] Jesus Made Like His Brothers [OR] Earth Subject To Man [OR] Exaltation Through Abasement [OR] God's New Order And His Gifts To Man (Heb 2:5)
C.) Jesus, Made For A Little Time Lower Than The Angels, Dies For Man That He May Lift Men Above Angels Into The Family Of God [OR] Jesus Briefly Humbled (Heb 2:9)
1.) Bringing Many Sons To Glory (Heb 2:10)
4. Christ Became One of Us to Help Us (Heb 2:11-18)
1.) Christ Shared Man's Mortal Nature, That By His Dying Men Might Be Freed From Death (Heb 2:14)
5. Christ Is Superior to Moses (Heb 3:1-19)
I.) Parenthetic: The rest of God (Heb 3:1)
A.) Christ The Son Better Than Moses The Servant [OR] The Son Was Faithful [OR] Jesus Greater Than Moses [OR] Jesus Our High Priest [OR] Moses A Servant, Christ A Son [OR] The Church Is Shown How Christ Is Above Moses (Heb 3:1)
B.) Exhortation: The Generation That Came Out Of Egypt Did Not Enter The Canaan-Rest Because Of Unbelief [OR] Be Faithful [OR] Warning Against Unbelief [OR] And Warned Against Unbelief (Heb 3:7)
1.) The Peril Of Unbelief [OR] By The Example Of Those Who Fell In The Wilderness (Heb 3:12)
2.) Failure Of The Wilderness Wanderers (Heb 3:16)
6. We Will Enter God's Place of Rest (Heb 4:1-13)
A.) But There Is A Better Rest For The Believer, Of Which God's Creation-Rest Is The Type [OR] The Promise Of Rest [OR] A Sabbath-Rest For The People Of God [OR] The Believer's Rest [OR] The Rest That God Promised [OR] God's Promise Of A Sabbath Rest Remains Today (Heb 4:1)
B.) The Believer Rests In A Perfect Work Of Redemption, As God Rested From A Perfect Work Of Creation (Heb 4:9)
1.) The Word Discovers Our Condition (Heb 4:11)
2.) The Power Of God's Word (Heb 4:12)
7. Christ Is Superior to Other Chief Priests (Heb 4:14-5:10)
A.) The Believer Is Kept In Perfect Rest By Mercy And Grace, Through The Son Of God [OR] Our Compassionate High Priest [OR] Jesus The Great High Priest [OR] Jesus, Our High Priest (Heb 4:14)
1.) Understands And Sympathizes With Our Weaknesses, For He Has Been Tempted As We Have (Heb 4:15)
I.) Our great High Priest (Heb 5:1)
A.) The Office Of High Priest [OR] Qualifications For High Priesthood [OR] The Perfect High Priest [OR] God Appointed His Son To Be High Priest And Saviour, As Shown In The Scriptures (Heb 5:1)
B.) Christ A High Priest After The Order Of Melchisedec [OR] A Priest Forever [OR] Warning Against Falling Away [OR] The Truth Of This Should Be Understood By Mature Christians (Heb 5:5)
8. You Need Someone to Teach You (Heb 5:11-6:8)
A.) Parenthetic: Appeal And Warning (Heb 5:11)
1.) Spiritual Immaturity (Heb 5:12)
2.) The Peril Of Not Progressing [OR] The Peril Of Falling Away [OR] These Christians Are Warned Against Backsliding (Heb 6:1)
9. God Will Not Forget You (Heb 6:9-20)
1.) A Better Estimate [OR] Better Things For You [OR] We Are Encouraged To Imitate Those Who Have Inherited The Promises Of God (Heb 6:9)
A.) Our High Priest Within The Veil Assures Our Coming There Too [OR] God's Infallible Purpose In Christ [OR] The Certainty Of God's Promise [OR] And Assured That God Is Unchangeable In His Promise (Heb 6:13)
10. Christ Is Superior to Melchizedek (Heb 7:1-28)
A.) The Historic Melchisedec A Type Of Christ [OR] The King Of Righteousness [OR] Melchizedek The Priest [OR] Melchizedek's Priesthood Like Christ's [OR] The Priestly Order Of Melchizedek [OR] The Character Of Melchisedec (Heb 7:1)
B.) Melchisedec High Priesthood Greater Than The Aaronic (Heb 7:4)
1.) Because Aaron In Abraham Paid Melchisedec Tithes [OR] His Priesthood Compared With That Of Levi (Heb 7:4)
2.) Because The Aaronic Priesthood Made Nothing Perfect [OR] Need For A New Priesthood [OR] Jesus Like Melchizedek [OR] Another Priest, Like Melchizedek [OR] A New Law And A New Priesthood (Heb 7:11)
(I.) After The Order Of Melchisedec (Heb 7:15)
(II.) Greatness Of The New Priest (Heb 7:20)
3.) Because The Aaronic Priests Died: Christ Ever Liveth [OR] The Eternal Priesthood Of Christ (Heb 7:23)
11. Christ's Priestly Work Is Superior to Other Priests' Work (Heb 8:1-13)
1.) Because The Aaronic Priests Served The Shadows Of Which Christ Serves The Realities [OR] The New Priestly Service [OR] The High Priest Of A New Covenant [OR] A Better Ministry [OR] Mediator Of A Better Covenant [OR] Christ's Ministry From The Heavenly Tabernacle (Heb 8:1)
2.) Because Christ Mediates A Better Covenant [OR] The New Covenant Foretold By Jeremiah [OR] A New Covenant (Heb 8:6)
I.) The new covenant better than the old (Heb 8:7)
A.) Replaces The Old (Heb 8:13)
12. Christ Offered a Superior Sacrifice (Heb 9:1-28)
A.) The Ordinances And Sanctuary Of The Old Covenant Were Mere Types [OR] The Earthly Sanctuary [OR] Worship In The Earthly Tabernacle [OR] The Old And The New [OR] The Earthly And The Heavenly Sanctuaries [OR] The Earthly Priesthood (Heb 9:1)
1.) Limitations Of The Earthly Service (Heb 9:6)
B.) The Sanctuary, And Sacrifice Of The New Covenant Are Realities [OR] The Heavenly Sanctuary [OR] The Blood Of Christ [OR] Christ's Priesthood And Sacrifice (Heb 9:11)
1.) Fulfill The Promise Of The New Covenant (Heb 9:15)
C.) The New Covenant Is Also The Last Will And Testament Of Christ, Sealed By His Blood [OR] The Mediator's Death Necessary (Heb 9:16)
D.) The Heavenly Sanctuary Purged With A Better Sacrifice [OR] Greatness Of Christ's Sacrifice [OR] Christ's Sacrifice Takes Away Sin (Heb 9:23)
E.) The One Sacrifice Of The New Covenant Is Better Than The Many Sacrifices Of The Old (Heb 9:25)
13. We Can Enter the Most Holy Place Because of Christ's Superior Work (Heb 10:1-23)
1.) Animal Sacrifices Insufficient [OR] Christ's Sacrifice Once For All [OR] One Sacrifice Of Christ Is Sufficient [OR] The Weakness Of Sacrifices Under The Law (Heb 10:1)
2.) Christ's Death Fulfills God's Will (Heb 10:5)
3.) The Sacrifice Of Christ's Body, Offered Once, Was To Cleanse Us Of Our Sins Forever (Heb 10:10)
4.) Christ's Death Perfects The Sanctified (Heb 10:11)
B. Practical Applications (Heb 10:19-13:25)
A.) The Believer Worships In The Holiest [OR] Hold Fast Your Confession [OR] A Call To Persevere [OR] A New And Living Way [OR] We Must Hold Fast To Faith (Heb 10:19)
1. Encourage Each Other (Heb 10:24-39)
A.) Parenthetic: The Wavering Warned: The Jewish Sacrifices Had Lost Their Efficacy; It Is Christ Or Judgment [OR] The Just Live By Faith [OR] Christ Or Judgment [OR] And Not Reject Christ's Perfect Sacrifice (Heb 10:26)
2. Faith Directed People's Lives (Heb 11:1-40)
I.) The superiority of the faith way (Heb 11:1)
A.) The Sphere Of Faith [OR] By Faith We Understand [OR] By Faith [OR] The Triumphs Of Faith [OR] The Meaning Of Faith [OR] What Faith Is (Heb 11:1)
B.) Instances Of Faith (Heb 11:4)
1.) Abel [OR] Faith At The Dawn Of History [OR] The Examples Of Abel, Enoch, And Noah (Heb 11:4)
2.) Enoch (Heb 11:5)
(I.) Without Faith We Cannot Please God (Heb 11:6)
3.) Noah [OR] The Worthy Fruits Of Faith Are Seen In Works Of The Early Fathers (Heb 11:7)
4.) Abraham And Sara [OR] Faithful Abraham [OR] The Faith Of Abraham (Heb 11:8)
(I.) The Heavenly Hope (Heb 11:13)
(II.) The Faith Of The Patriarchs [OR] The Faith Of Moses (Heb 11:17)
5.) Isaac And Jacob (Heb 11:20)
6.) Joseph (Heb 11:22)
7.) Moses And His Parents (Heb 11:23)
(I.) The Faith Of Other Israelite Heroes (Heb 11:29)
8.) Joshua And Israel [OR] By Faith They Overcame (Heb 11:30)
9.) Rehab (Heb 11:31)
10.) The Many Heroes Of Faith (Heb 11:32)
3. Faith Directs Our Lives (Heb 12:1-13:21)
I.) The walk and worship of the believer-priest (Heb 12:1)
A.) Jesus The Example [OR] The Race Of Faith [OR] God Discis His Sons [OR] Jesus, The Example [OR] The Example Of Jesus [OR] We Must Persevere In Our Purpose (Heb 12:1)
B.) Parenthetic (Heb 12:3)
1.) The Father's Chastening [OR] The Disci Of God [OR] Submitting To Parental Disci (Heb 12:3)
(I.) A Father's Disci (Heb 12:4)
(II.) Renew Your Spiritual Vitality [OR] The Penalty Of Disobedience (Heb 12:12)
(III.) Warning Against Refusing God [OR] Warnings Against Rejecting God's Grace (Heb 12:14)
2.) Esau A Warning To Professors Lest They Miss The Priesthood (Heb 12:16)
C.) The Believer-Priest Does Not Come To Mount Sinai [OR] The Glorious Company [OR] Contrast Of Sinai And Zion (Heb 12:18)
D.) Warnings And Instructions [OR] Hear The Heavenly Voice [OR] The Unshaken Kingdom [OR] A Warning Not To Reject God's Word (Heb 12:25)
1.) Assurance That We Cannot Be Shaken (Heb 12:28)
2.) Concluding Moral Directions [OR] Concluding Exhortations [OR] The Changeless Christ [OR] Service Well-Pleasing To God [OR] The Spirit Of Christian Love (Heb 13:1)
3.) The Sanctity Of Marriage (Heb 13:4)
4.) Concerning Love Of Money (Heb 13:5)
5.) Concluding Religious Directions [OR] Imitate Your Teachers (Heb 13:7)
6.) False Doctrines (Heb 13:9)
E.) Christian Separation And Worship (Heb 13:10)
1.) Confess Christ (Heb 13:12)
F.) The Believer-Priest's Sacrifice [OR] God-Pleasing Sacrifices [OR] Thanksgiving And Sharing (Heb 13:15)
G.) The Believer-Priest's Obedience [OR] Christian Leadership (Heb 13:17)
H.) Conclusion: The Apostolic Benediction [OR] Prayer Requested (Heb 13:18)
1.) Benediction, Final Exhortation, Farewell [OR] Benediction [OR] A Pastoral Prayer And Personal Greetings (Heb 13:20)
4. Farewell (Heb 13:22-25)
1.) Final Exhortation And Greetings (Heb 13:22)
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