| › PREFACE - This Epistle bears no name of author, or designation of church. But it needs neither. In every sentence we can detect the Authorship of the Holy Spiri ...read |
| › 10: THE GOSPEL OF REST - "There remains therefore a rest to the people of God." - (HEBREWS 4.9)
THE keynote of this chapter is Rest. In the second verse it is spoken of as ...read |
| › 1: THE WORD OF GOD - GOD, Who at sundry times and in divers manners spoke in time past to the fathers by the prophets, has in these last days spoken to us by His Son." (He ...read |
| › 2: THE DIGNITY OF CHRIST - "Who being the brightness of His glory, and the express image of His person, and upholding all things by the word of His power, when He had by Himself ...read |
| › 3: THE GLORY OF CHRIST'S OFFICE - "He has by inheritance obtained a more excellent name." (Hebrews 1.4).
Apart from Scripture, we would have been disposed to infer the existence of ...read |
| › 4: DRIFTING - "We ought to give the more earnest heed to the things which we have heard, lest at any time we should let them slip." - (HEBREWS 2. 1).
SALVATION i ...read |
| › 5: "WHAT IS MAN?" - "We see Jesus, ... crowned with glory and honour." {HEBREWS 2.5-9).
IN the first great division of this treatise, we have seen the incomparable sup ...read |
| › 6: "PERFECT THROUGH SUFFERINGS" - "It became Him, for Whom are all things, and by Whom are all things, in bringing many sons unto glory, to make the Captain of their salvation perfect ...read |
| › 7: THE DEATH OF DEATH - "Forasmuch then as the children are partakers of flesh and blood, He also himself likewise took part of the same; that through death He might destroy ...read |
| › 8: CHRIST'S MERCIFUL AND FAITHFUL HELP - "We have a merciful and faithful high-priest in things pertaining to God." (HEBREWS 2.17).
DO you wonder that your Lord was tempted and sorrowful? ...read |
| › 9: A WARNING AGAINST UNBELIEF - "Take heed, brethren, lest there be in any of you an evil heart of unbelief, in departing from the living God." - HEBREWS 3.12.
THE contrast betwee ...read |
| › 11: THE WORD OF GOD AND ITS EDGE - "The Word of God is quick and powerful, and sharper than any two-edged sword, piercing even to the dividing asunder of soul and spirit, and of the joi ...read |
| › 12: TIMELY AND NEEDED HELP - "Let us therefore come boldly to the throne of grace, that we may obtain mercy, and find grace to help in time of need." (HEBREWS 4.16).
NEED! Time ...read |
| › 13: GETHSEMANE - "Who in the days of his flesh, when he had offered up prayers and supplications with strong crying and tears unto him that was able to save him from d ...read |
| › 14: IMPOSSIBLE TO RENEW TO REPENTANCE - "It is impossible for those who were once enlightened, and have tasted of the heavenly gift, and were made partakers of the Holy Ghost, and have taste ...read |
| › 15: THE ANCHORAGE OF THE SOUL - "Be followers of them who through faith and patience inherit the promises." (HEBREWS 6.12).
THE PROMISES OF GOD! That is a keyword here. Inherit th ...read |
| › 16: THE PRIESTHOOD OF CHRIST - "You are a Priest forever after the order of Melchizedek." (HEBREWS 7.17).
VARIOUS fancies have gathered around the person of Melchizedek, investin ...read |
| › 17: THE SUPERLATIVE GREATNESS OF CHRIST - "Able to save them to the uttermost that come unto God by Him, seeing He ever lives to make intercession for them." (HEBREWS 7.25).
THIS chapter ne ...read |
| › 18: THE TRUE TABERNACLE - "According to the pattern showed to you in the mount." (HEBREWS 8.5).
THERE were three stages by which Moses, the man of God, ascended into the Mou ...read |
| › 19: THE TWO COVENANTS - "I will be to them a God, and they shall be to me a people." (HEBREWS 8.10).
A NEW word comes into this marvellous treatise which may repel some, a ...read |
| › 20: THE HEAVENLY THINGS THEMSELVES - "For there was a tabernacle made." HEBREWS 9.2.
THE eye is quicker than the ear. And there is therefore no language so expressive as the language o ...read |
| › 21: TEACHING BY CONTRAST - "How much more shall the blood of Christ, who through the Eternal Spirit offered Himself without spot to God, purge your conscience from dead works to ...read |
| › 22: THE BLOOD OF CHRIST - "Without shedding of blood is no remission." -HEBREWS 9.22.
Round and round this ancient window into the past (verses 15-28) is bound the red cord ...read |
| › 23: "ONCE" - "Once in the end of the world has He appeared, to put away sin by the sacrifice of Himself." (HEBREWS 9.26).
THERE is a word here which recurs, lik ...read |
| › 24: AN ANCIENT HEBREW CUSTOM - "Sacrifice and offering you desire not, but a body you have prepared me." (HEBREWS 10.5).
In that old Hebrew world that lies now so far back in the ...read |
| › 25: DRAWING BACK - "The just shall live by faith, but if any man draw back, My soul shall have no pleasure in him." (HEBREWS 10.38).
The Epistle has been for some tim ...read |
| › 26: FAITH AND ITS EXPLOITS - "Now faith is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen." (HEBREWS 11.1).
SOCIETY rests on the faith which man has in man. ...read |
| › 27: STRIPPING FOR THE RACE - "Wherefore, seeing we also are compassed about with so great a cloud of witnesses, let us lay aside every weight, and the sin which does so easily bes ...read |
| › 28: CHASTISEMENT - Whom the Lord loves He chastens, and scourges every son whom He receives." (HEBREWS 12.6).
It is hardly possible to suppose that any will read thes ...read |
| › 29: THE IDEAL LIFE - "Follow peace with all men, and holiness, without which no man shall see the Lord, looking diligently lest any man fail of the grace of God, lest any ...read |
| › 30: SINAI AND SION - "YOU are come to Mount Sion, and to the city of the living God, . . . and to an innumerable company of angels, to the general assembly and church of t ...read |
| › 31: THE THINGS THAT CANNOT BE SHAKEN - "This word, 'Yet once more', signifies the removing of those things that are shaken, as of things that are made, that those things which cannot be sha ...read |
| › 32: GOD A CONSUMING FIRE - "Our God is a consuming fire." (HEBREWS 12.29.)
THIS is one of the shortest texts in the Bible. It takes rank with those other three brief sentence ...read |
| › 33: THE UNCHANGING SAVIOUR - "Jesus Christ, the same yesterday, and today, and forever." (HEBREWS 13.8).
THREE times over in this chapter, the closing chapter of an Epistle the ...read |
| › 34: THE ESTABLISHED HEART - "It is a good thing that the heart be established with grace, not with meats, which have not profited those who have been occupied therein." (HEBREWS ...read |
| › 35: THE CLOSING PRAYER - "Now the God of peace, that brought again from the dead our Lord Jesus, that great Shepherd of the sheep, through the blood of the everlasting covenan ...read |
