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Click here to listen to this post! The law is only a shadow of the good things that are coming not the realities themselves (Hebrews 10:1). It's Monday, and we begin this third week of our journeying together towards Easter. A sermon series entitled Jesus the Radiance of God's Glory is going to dive into some very deep waters. And you may be finding the Letter to the H...
Keep ReadingClick here to listen to this post! That's why he had to enter into every detail of human life. Then, when he came before God as high priest to get rid of the people's sins, he would have already experienced it all himselfall the pain, all the testingand would be able to help where help was needed.Hebrews 2: 17,18 (The Message) In 2010 a new reality show came on the scene...
Keep ReadingClick here to listen to this post! Since the children have flesh and blood, he too shared in their humanity so that by his death he might destroy him who holds the power of death that is, the devil and free those who all their lives were held in slavery by their fear of death. For surely it is not angels he helps, but Abraham's descendants. (Hebrews 2:14-16) BREAKING N...
Keep ReadingClick here to listen to this post! Both the one who makes men holy and those who are made holy are of the same family.So Jesus is not ashamed to call them brothers (Hebrews 2:11). Jesus isn't ashamed of you. Jesus isn't ashamed of you. Jesus, the radiance of God's glory and the exact representation of his being, is not ashamed of you. Jesus does not approach you dress...
Keep ReadingClick here to listen to this post! So we must listen very carefully to the truth we have heard, or we may drift away from it (Hebrews 2:1). Only in this way (by becoming a human being and dying as a human being) could he (Jesus) deliver those who have lived all their lives as slaves to the fear of death (Hebrews 2:15). We're in the anniversary monthif we can bear to use ...
Keep ReadingClick here to listen to this post! "Jesus shared in their humanity." Hebrews 2:14 Anyone who studies Greek and Roman mythology learns "deities" frequently deigned to come down to earth from Mt. Olympus. Those trips were almost always self-serving though. Key motivations included romancing a human or seeking revenge upon a perceived rival. Never would they have considered...
Keep ReadingClick here to listen to this post! We must pay more careful attention, therefore, to what we have heard, so that we do not drift away how shall we escape if we ignore such a great salvation" (Hebrews 2:1-3). We got a new car about a year ago, and it comes with all kinds of cool safety features. Among them is a "drift alert" warning: if we start to drift across the cente...
Keep ReadingClick here to listen to this post! In bringing many sons and daughters to glory, it was fitting that God, for whom and through whom everything exists, should make the pioneer of their salvation perfect through what he suffered (Hebrews 2:10). A new week, and into a new section of Hebrews (chapter 2), as we continue to explore Jesus the Radiance of God's Glory. I became ...
Keep ReadingClick here to listen to this post! In the past God spoketo our ancestors through the prophetsat many times and in various ways,but in these last dayshe has spoken to us by his Son,whom he appointed heirof all things,and through whomalso he made the universe (Hebrews 1:1-2). Several months ago I was dying to do something normal. So when a favorite movie director of mine h...
Keep ReadingClick here to listen to this post! But to the Son He Says,"Your throne, O God, is forever and ever;a scepter of righteousness is the scepter of Your Kingdom. You have loved righteousnessand hated lawlessness; therefore God, Your God has anointed You with the oil of gladness more than Your companions (Hebrews 1: 8-9 NKJV). One of my fondest memories from my early childhoo...
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