Saturday, December 7, 2019

Acts - The Unstoppable Church - Hebrews 1-4


Homiletics                                             Study – Acts & Letter of Apostles
Lesson     13                                                     Passage: Hebrews 1-4

Content (List of Topics or Events)

Salvation comes through God’s Son superior to Angels  (Hebrews 1-2)
a. God spoke about His Son; heir of all things (1:1-2)
b. The Son is like the Father; superior to the angels  (1:3-4)
c. God’s angels worship Him and are His servants (1:5-7)
d. About the Son; he is just, righteous, from the beginning laying the foundations of the earth, everlasting (1:8-12)
e. Son is at God’s right hand with enemies under-foot and ministering angels (1:13-14)
f. Pay attention to message of Salvation in Jesus (2:1-9)
e. Jesus is bringing many to glory in the same family (2:10-13)
g. Jesus atoning high priest for sins of people (2:14-18)
Don’t rebel; fix thoughts and hold firmly on Jesus (Hebrews 3)
a. Fix thoughts on Jesus our High Priest (1)
b. Christ is faithful Son over God’s house  (2-6)
c. Don’t harden your hearts as ancestors – No rest for wicked (7-11)
d. Encourage each other daily that none will be hardened by sin’s deceitfulness  (12-14)
e. Don’t rebel as Children of Israel in unbelief (15-19)

Make every effort to enter into God’s rest; He knows your heart (Hebrews 4)
a. Entering into God’s rest remains to those who obey;  God’s anger and no entry to rest for disobedient (1-5)
b. Effort to enter into rest so that no one would perish (6-11)
c. God’s word is alive and active everything is exposed to God’s sight  to whom we’ll give account (12-13)

Divisions (Main Blocks of Thought)

Salvation comes through God’s Son superior to Angels 
Hebrews 1-2
Don’t rebel; fix thoughts and hold firmly on Jesus
Hebrews 3
Make every effort to enter into God’s rest; He knows your heart
Hebrews 4

Subject Sentence (Summarizes the contents of the Divisions – No more than 10 words

Great salvation, bringing many to glory through, the faithful Jesus.

Aim (Main Teaching Point of the Passage)

CTATLT Jesus is exact representation of God from the beginning; God is looking for faithful followers to bring into eternal rest.

Specific Application Questions

1
Who do you say and believe Jesus is?  Have to trusted (really trusted) Him for salvation?
2
What do you fix your thoughts on?  In what specific ways are you holding onto Jesus?
3
Where do you find comfort and how can you encourage others in their faith walk and bring others to glory?

Principles to Remember

1
Jesus is the radiance of God’s glory.
2
Fix our thoughts and hold onto Jesus.
3
Eternal Rest is in Jesus
Characteristic of God
Righteous God
Theme
Jesus is salvation; He has been from beginning and the Holy Spirit testifies to us about Him.

God’s Word  - What’s happening?
God’s Heart – What does God care about?
Today’s World – How does this connect to what is happening in my world today?

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