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INTRODUCTION
Authorship
Audience & Context
The voice of the prophet - encouragement and exhortation
Major passages of exhortation
Various words of exhortation
The voice of the prophet - glorifying Jesus Christ
1. The way he speaks about Jesus - his verbal style
2. The way he calls people to Jesus
3. His use of titles to speak of Christ
4. His clear progression from the Person of Christ to the Work of Christ
5. The structure and argument of Hebrews reveals Jesus' greatness best of all
Sin, Sacrifice and Priesthood
Jesus, Greater than the Prophets (1:1-3)
JESUS, GREATER THAN THE ANGELS (1:4-2:18)
Jesus the Son, fully Divine (1:4-14)
The First Exhortation (2:1-4)
Jesus our brother, fully man (2:5-18)
Summary
JESUS, OUR APOSTLE AND HIGH PRIEST (3:1-4:12)
Looking at Jesus (3:1-2)
1. Fix your eyes on Jesus.
2. Fix your eyes on Jesus
3. Jesus, our Apostle and High Priest
Jesus and Moses - Jesus and Joshua
Jesus is greater than Moses (3:2-6)
Be warned about your response (3:7-19)
Jesus is greater than Joshua, be warned about your response (4:1-11)
Be Nailed! (4:12-13)
JESUS OUR GREAT HIGH PRIEST (4:14-6:12)
Jesus the sympathetic High Priest (4:14-16)
High Priestly qualifications (5:1)
1. Is there complete identification? (5:2-3, 7-8)
2. Is there proper ordination? (5:4-6)
3. Is there true representation? (5:9-10)
The problem with Christians who are spiritually dead (5:11-6:12)
Stunted Christians (5:11-14)
The basics (6:1-2)
The apostate (6:4-8)
Who are these people?
What do they do?
What is their status?
The Rigorist Interpretation
The Theoretical Interpretation
Eaton's Interpretation
What the text says
An encouraging word (6:9-12)
A BETTER PRIESTHOOD (6:13-7:28)
The anchor of hope (6:13-20)
Promise (6:13, 15, 17)
Oath (6:13, 16, 17)
Blessing (6:14)
Hope (6:18)
Encouragement (6:18)
Security ("anchor" 6:19)
Christ's Pioneering Work ("went before us ... on our behalf" 6:20)
Introducing Melchizedek (7:1-3)
Melchizedek is greater than Abraham and his descendents (7:4-10)
The superior Priesthood of Melchizedek totally replaces the old priesthood (7:11-19)
The New Covenant and its guarantee (7:20-22)
A permanent priesthood (7:23-25)
A perfect priesthood (7:26-28)
A BETTER COVENANT (8:1-13)
The central point (8:1-2)
Heaven, not earth (8:3-5)
New, not old (8:6-13)
A BETTER TABERNACLE (9:1-28)
The Israelite tabernacle system (9:1-7)
The symbolic (typological) meaning of the tabernacle system (9:8-10)
The breakthrough of Jesus Christ (9:11-14)
The breakthrough leads to a new relationship (9:15)
The New Covenant is actually a New Testament or will (9:16-22)
Jesus, the High Priest as testator and executor of his will (9:23-28)
A BETTER SACRIFICE (10:1-31)
The old dispensation (10:1-4)
The Saviour comes (10:5-10)
The old dispensation (10:11)
The Saviours work (10:12-18)
1. Christ's sacrifice is "once for all"
2. His sacrifice is "for ever"
3. His sacrifice "makes holy"
4. His sacrifice "makes perfect"
5. Jesus "sat down at the right hand of God"
6. His work is completed but not yet consummated
The work of Christ applied by the Holy Spirit (10.15-18)
The benefits of the cross and the Christian's response (10:19-25)
The brief summary (10:19-21)
Three consequences of the cross (10:22-24)
1. Worship
2. Confession
3. Fellowship
The enormity of apostasy (10:26-31)
FAITH IN JESUS (10:32-12:4)
THE LIFE OF FAITH (12:5-29)
The Father's discipline (12:5-11)
The defense of the community (12:12-17)
The two mountains (12:18-24)
The final word (12:25-29)
FINAL GREETINGS AND EXHORTATIONS (13:1-24)
AUTHORSHIP
Pauline authorship
Clement of Rome
Luke
Stephen
Apollos
Barnabas
RECOGNITION
PLACING HEBREWS IN ITS NEW TESTAMENT CONTEXT
HEBREWS AND MIDRASH
The characteristics of midrash
HEBREWS AND RHETORIC
Stephen
The Literary Genre
HEBREWS AND THE PROPHETIC
DEFINING HEBREWS
BIBLIOGRAPHY
FOOTNOTES
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