We Are Convinced of Better Things (Hebrews 6:9-12; Deuteronomy 31:24-29)
/Today we will see that the author of Hebrews is confident that his hearers
have embraced the New Covenant because of the fruit that has been born in their lives.
Today we will see that the author of Hebrews is confident that his hearers
have embraced the New Covenant because of the fruit that has been born in their lives.
The lesson to be learned from national Israel sharing in Adam’s curse is that any substitute for Christ meets with the same consequences.
In crucifying the Son of God, national Israel (as defined by the Old Covenant) made their apostasy irreversible and cannot be restored to repentance.
To return to the Old Covenant after the coming of Christ is to repeat the sin of Adam and choose earthly gain over heavenly.
Christ, as the high-priest of the new covenant, offers a better ministry than Aaron and is, thus, able to save those who trust in him.
You have two options, place your confidence in disobedient Adam and
meet with judgment, or place your confidence in obedient Jesus and meet with
God.
The Promised Land was a picture of heaven, which can only be obtained by faith.
To return to the Old Covenant is to deny the sufficiency of Christ and is the path of destruction.
To return to the Old Covenant is to choose the servant over the Son and to abandon your (heavenly) inheritance.
Jesus, the Son, is not ashamed to call us brothers, but became like us in order that he might call us out of the our old reality and lead the way to a new reality and share his inheritance in the world to come with us.
Christ’s death was a act of substitution intended not to satisfy Satan, but to satisfy God’s own righteousness.
The cultural mandate, given to Adam at creation, has been completed by Christ in his death and resurrection, the effects of which will be fully revealed in the world come.
To neglect the message of Jesus (the New Covenant) leaves you without eternal hope on the Last Day and guarantees you divine wrath and judgment for all eternity.
The author of Hebrews demonstrates the superiority of Christ over the angels in order to establish the superiority of the New Covenant over the Old.
Jesus does not just bring revelation about God, Jesus is the revelation of God because he is God.
What you have as a new covenant believer surpasses that which any previous age had, but your (sinful) temptation will always be to long for the elementary, the shadowy, the earthly, the temporal - this longing must be exposed and brought into submission to the word of God.
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