Hebrews: Christ Is Greater and Better预览

Being Sure Read Hebrews 6:13-20 The writer of Hebrews now brings to the centre of his letter, topics that will occupy the next four chapters of the epistle, before he closes with his final exhortations. He has presented the Son as superior and spelled out how essential it is we receive and pursue our faith. But can we be really sure we are right? There are ‘two unchangeable things’ we are told, ‘in which it is impossible for God to lie’. They are not named in the next sentence, but if we read carefully asking what these are, we see they are: i) the oath (promise) ii) the blood of sacrifice (seal). This passage is the beginning of the argument and we do not see yet how the oath, or blood of sacrifice, applies to Jesus but we are told here about the certainty of God’s promises. He made a promise to Abraham and it was fulfilled. This was deep in the Hebrew soul. Even before there was the Law that came through Moses, the Hebrews had their origin in the promise to Abraham. About that they were sure. When we study the Scriptures, we too will be fully convinced that the God who made the Covenant with Abraham is, and always will be, trustworthy and faithful. It is upon the very nature of the God, who has revealed Himself and spoken by an oath, that we can be and are sure. In Christ we have this hope as an anchor for the soul, firm and secure (v 19). Do we face skeptics and doubters who shake our faith? Identify these issues and seek the answer to give to 'everyone who asks you to give the reason for the hope that you have' (1 Peter 3:15).