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Chapter 5 and chapter six work together
5:10 all of 6 is like a parenthetical warning…
You could read 5.9 and move directly into 7.1
5.1-9 introduces Jesus as a high priest, not like the sons of Aaron (from the tribe of Levi), but after the order of Melchizedek.
Jesus was high pries through divine choice, not through genealogical connection with Levi.
5.11-14 The preacher laments that the people have become dull of hearing and are not able to understand the significance of what he just said..
Ox - Priest - dull of hearing v.11
Lion - King - distinguishing good from evil
Eagle - Prophet - You ought to have been teachers
Chapter six began with the call to move beyond the elementary doctrines of Christ and go on to maturity...
He then warns them about what can happen if you don’t move on from the milk to the meat, what happens if you don’t build on the foundation given to them.
Danger of Apostasy
The warning comes in vv.4-6
where the author warns that it is impossible for the one who had
Once been enlightened
tasted the heavenly gift
Shared in the Holy Spirit
Tasted the goodness of the word of God
and the power of the age to come
And then falls away to be restored again to repentance.
He then gives them the analogy of the rain and the crops
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The author then offers some encouraging words for these Christians
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Beloved - agapetoi - a term of affection which appears only here in hebrews
We feel sure of better things - things that belong to salvation
What are these better things that belong to salvation?
the community is like the good soil of the agricultural image which produces a fruitful crop.
and receives the blessing of God v. 7
The motif of “better” or “superior” is prominent in Hebrews referring to:
Christ being better than the angels 1.4
We have a better access to God 7.19
Jesus is the guarantor of a better covenant 7.22
Jesus is a better sacrifice 9.23
A better inheritance 10:34
A better resurrection 11.35
So why does the preacher have confidence for these better things for the Hebrews?
Earnestness = diligence or eagerness
to have full assurance of hope until the end
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May not be sluggish
May not be sluggish
this is the same word for “Dull” of hearing in 5.11
Rather than being the sluggish, dull of hearing, milk drinking, bad priest that has not built anything upon the foundation of given to them....
He wants them to...
be imitators of those who through faith and patience inherit the promises.
What are the promises?
And what does it mean to Inherit the promises.
Rest 4.1
What is the promise of rest?
Sabbath
New Creation
Kingdom of God
He wants us, rather than being sluggish thus lacking full assurance, to imitate those who through faith and patience inherit the promise.
Abraham is the example he goes too for them to imitate.
Do you remember this story?
when God made this oath to Abraham?
Abraham and Isaac
Abraham laid the wood on Isaac
Abraham took the fire and the knife in his hands
God provides the substitute Ram
God promises, by swearing an oath, “by myself I have sworn”
He swore to keep his promises to Abraham…
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And what did Abraham do?
God spoke made an oath with Abraham, and what did Abraham do? he patiently waited, and obtained the promise.
Remember what he said in verse 12
Abraham is
The author then gives the cultural human purpose for oaths
Philo talks about oaths as supporting a claim that is lacking evidence.
oaths are used to convince people of something
And for an oath to be effective, you need to swear by something greater than yourself.
Something that has more credibility than you.
So why would God make this sort of oath?
Isn’t this sort of thing below God?
So God, wanting to show more convincingly to the heirs of the promise the unchangeable character of his purpose...
God swore an oath not because he was lacking or not trustworthy, rather he swore an oath so that we might better understand his trustworthiness.
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What are these two unchangeable things?
Promise - God’s word - Enter my rest
Oath - God’s person - Jesus is the Eternal priest
The promise given is found in 4.1 (ps95)
The oath is found in 5.6; 7.21 (ps 110)
And what is the purpose of these two unchangeable things (God and his word, promise and oath)?
For if we have this hope that God will not fail us.
He is our rest, he is our high priest.
Jesus will bring us to God.
He will no fail.
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