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March 1, 2020 Scripture: Hebrews 2:14-18 I. Jesus wins for you by becoming a human high priest. A. What leaps off the page in verse 14 is that Jesus is fully human. Jesus also had flesh and blood, just like you do. Jesus is both fully human and fully God. If you believe that Jesus is…
February 23, 2020 Scripture: Hebrews 2:5-13 I. God’s plan for humanity was for them to be greater than angels. A. Hebrews chapter 2 beginning at verse 5 returns to the subject of angels. The author says that it was not to angels that God subjected the world to come. Well, if it’s not angels who will…
February 16, 2020 Scripture: Hebrews 2:1-4 I. You need to pay attention because we tend to drift. A. The author of Hebrews begins chapter 2 by saying, “Therefore we must pay closer attention to what we have heard.” What had this church of Jewish Christians heard? They had heard according to Hebrews 2:3 a message about…
February 9, 2020 Scripture: Hebrews 1:4-14 I. Jesus has a better name than angels. A. In Hebrews 1:4 we read that Jesus has “become as much superior to angels as the name he has inherited is more excellent than theirs.” In speaking about the name here, the author is referring to the title of the angels…
February 2, 2020 Scripture: Hebrews 1:1-3 I. God used to speak through the prophets. A. We see in verse 1 that in the past God spoke to our fathers by the prophets. The fathers in this verse refers to the Hebrew Christians’ Jewish ancestors. God would speak to these ancestors through intermediaries, through prophets. We have…
January 26, 2019 Scripture: Psalm 31 I. You keep serving by surrendering to our faithful God. A. Look at some of the difficulties that King David was facing in his service to God in Psalm 31:1: “In you, O LORD, do I take refuge; let me never be put to shame; in your righteousness deliver me.”…
January 12, 2020 Scripture: Psalm 29 I. You worship God because He is King. A. Psalm 29:1 reads, “Ascribe to the LORD, O heavenly beings, ascribe to the LORD glory and strength.” Who are these heavenly beings? We find an answer in Exodus 15:11 where the same Hebrew word that is translated with the words heavenly…
December 29, 2019 Scripture: John 1:1-5, 14 I. Jesus is God, yet distinct from God. A. In the first verse of his Gospel, John echoes the first verse in the whole Bible. Genesis 1:1: “In the beginning, God created the heavens and the earth.” But John says, “In the beginning was the Word.” Okay, then.…
December 22, 2019 Scripture: Isaiah 42:1-9 I. Jesus is better because He brings God’s truth to the world. A. While the idols are a delusion (Isa. 41:29), a lie, the servant brings God’s truth to the nations. Three times in verses 1 through 4 we read about the servant bringing justice. In verse 4 we…
December 15, 2019 Scripture: Micah 5:1-6 I. God is up to sending Jesus to rule on your behalf. A. Israel at this time had indeed gone down to nothing. The events of Micah 5 take place in 701 BC. Twenty years earlier, the northern tribes of Israel were defeated and destroyed by the Assyrians. And now…
