Hebrews
Jesus is Greater
All of Scripture points to Jesus and faith in him. The entire Old Testament served as a shadow of the greater realities found in Christ. In that sense, Jesus is greater than all things, even the glorious things found under the Old Covenant. He is greater than Moses, the Sabbath, the priesthood, and the sacrifices. This has every implication for the believer’s faith and living. There simply is no life apart from Christ and Christians of every generation must worship him as the greatest of all.
Jesus is Greater
Hebrews 1:1-4
Abraham Cremeens
January 2, 2022
The book of Hebrews lays everything next to Jesus in comparison and offers a resounding, “Jesus is greater!” God spoke and made himself known. These first four verses celebrate seven wonderful truths about Jesus that provide fuel for a life that is all about him.
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Jesus is Greater as God the Son
Hebrews 1:5-15
Chad Moore
January 9, 2022
The letter of Hebrews is a sermon written to a church during a time of great persecution both from the government and from family because of their faith in Christ. Quite often in times of persecution, we are tempted to compromise what we believe to lessen the persecution or attempt to fit in better. If the people to whom this sermon was given could find a way to rationalize that Jesus was just another angel, perhaps even a great angel, then they would be welcome back home again, back to their jobs, gain their inheritance back, and even back to the synagogue. But friends there is no compromise to be made, the question we must ask is, do we trust the love of God to sustain us when the world is against us and our family is too?
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Jesus is the Greater Savior
Hebrews 2:1-18
Chad Moore
January 16, 2022
Jesus has come to bring restoration where there is brokenness, Jesus has come not to just be part of life, but as our King and champion. Where access to the King and the Kingdom was seemingly lost in Genesis 3:24, the King has come to restore full access.
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Jesus is the Greater Moses pt 1
Hebrews 3:1-6
Abraham Cremeens
January 23, 2022
Our next comparison is between Moses and Jesus. The passage celebrates Moses’ faithfulness in serving God. But that serves to point to the faithfulness of Christ in God’s redemptive plan. This week we will concentrate on Moses and next week, Lord willing, we will celebrate the wonders of Christ as the greater Moses.
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Jesus is the Greater Moses pt 2
Hebrews 3:1-6
Abraham Cremeens
January 30, 2022
As we take another pass through these six verses, we focus explicitly on the faithful person and work of Jesus. Moses pointed to him as the greater Savior, the greater Builder, with a greater role as God the Son. Consider him and consider him often. Only then will you be prepared to hold fast to him amid the storms.
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Jesus is the Greater Rest pt 1
Hebrews 3:7-4:13
Abraham Cremeens
February 13, 2022
God desires his people to experience his rest. He formed it in the fabric of creation. He included it in the Ten Commandments. He offers it eternally in Jesus Christ. But rest comes on the back end of daily commitment to Jesus. You can reject his rest or receive it. Consider the warning of Numbers 14 and the opportunity of Genesis 2 as you pursue a life with Jesus as the greater rest.
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Jesus is the Greater Rest pt 2
Hebrews 3:7-4:13
Abraham Cremeens
February 20, 2022
God desires his people to experience his rest and he supplies everything they need to receive it. It is a daily invitation to press in and enjoy. But it requires a certain bent in life that is influenced by the voices we hear. You will need to guide your heart to hear his voice in his Word and you will need his people to come alongside you. All of this helps you strive to enter his rest today and in the eternal tomorrow.
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Jesus is the Greater High Priest (part 1)
Hebrews 4:14-5:10
Abraham Cremeens
February 27, 2022
God is holy and sin is a very big deal. God is gracious to pursue us at all. Yet he has always paved a way for his people to know and worship him. Under the old covenant, God appointed the High Priest to lead the way in worship. It was a role that pointed to both God’s holiness and his grace. But that role also served to point to the greater high priest, Jesus Christ, who would give himself as the perfect sacrifice for sinners.
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Jesus is the Greater High Priest (part 2)
Hebrews 4:14-5:10
Abraham Cremeens
March 6, 2022
Last week we experienced the heaviness of sin that we might celebrate the weight of grace. God is holy and sin is a very big deal. But while our sins are many, his mercy is more. We continue that theme but with a view of the work of Jesus as the greater High Priest. He led the way to God and cleansed the way to God in a greater way than any priest before him. Run to him, therefore, and receive his grace.
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Jesus is the Greater Hope
Hebrews 5:11-6:20
Abraham Cremeens
March 13, 2022
We now come to a pastoral checkpoint after considerable attention to the person of Jesus in the first five chapters. It’s time to look inside and evaluate just how tight your hold is on Jesus. There is a deep challenge and warning regarding the destruction of falling away from him. There simply is no pilgrimage apart from Jesus. It is a call to persevere in the faith as you depend on his grace.
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Jesus is the Greater Melchizedek
Hebrews 7
Jeremiah Stevens
March 20, 2022
The author of Hebrews draws on the Old Testament character of Melchizedek to show Jesus as a priest from a new order than the Levitical priesthood. As such, he ushers in a new covenant, new law, new way to relate to God - through him who is continually interceding on our behalf.
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Jesus is the Greater High Priest (part 3)
Hebrews 7:26-8:5
Chad Moore
March 27, 2022
Not only does Jesus identify with us in our humanity as high priest. He is also sitting down at the right hand of the Father, indicating that his work is complete, his sacrifice sufficient. As God in the flesh, completely perfect and holy, his sacrifice is not like those of priests who had to first atone for their sins. For both reasons, we can have complete confidence as we approach him.
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Jesus brings the Greater Covenant
Hebrews 8:6-13
Chad Moore
April 3, 2022
The old covenants are conditional, pointing us forward to fulfillment. Jesus Christ obeyed the covenant and earned the blessing, but then, at the end of his life, took the curse of the covenant that we deserved. He took the conditional covenant of old and made it unconditional for those who would believe in Him.
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Jesus is the Greater Life part 1
Hebrews 9:1-14
Abraham Cremeens
May 1, 2022
The Old Covenant tabernacle carried rich spiritual meaning in its elements and protocols. The whole experience reminded God’s people that he is holy, and that sin is a very big deal. Christ fulfilled that entire tabernacle experience and reframed it for the lives of his new covenant people. By faith in Jesus, you are called to live a tabernacle life.
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Jesus is the Greater Life part 2
Hebrews 9:15-28
Abraham Cremeens
May 8, 2022
As we continue to unpack Christ’s work of redemption, we now come to a future dynamic. Jesus did so much in history as the greater High Priest and Savior. But we also long for the day of his return at which we will fully participate in the eternal inheritance he provides. If you are discouraged today, take heart because Jesus is coming and will complete the work he started in you.
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