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Hebrews 10:1-4 – A Reminder of Sins Every Year
Seeking Our God - June 17, 2021 11:00 - 14 minutes ★★★★★ - 17 ratingsKEY TAKEAWAYS: Sin is our greatest problem. By nature, we are a sinner; and by choice, we prove that our nature is sinful. Ultimately animals could not deal with the sin problem. The sacrifice of animals could not deal finally, completely, and ultimately with the sin problem. There was a desp...
Hebrews Chapter 9 Overview
Seeking Our God - June 14, 2021 11:00 - 10 minutes ★★★★★ - 17 ratingsPRINCIPLES The regular routine of sacrificing to God reminded the worshipers that they were in need of forgiveness The influence of Christ’s death produces in His followers a desire to serve God. Christ’s death removes the stain of sin. It is not just the external, but all of us is cleansed b...
Hebrews 9:23-28 – The superiority and permanence of Christ's sacrifice
Seeking Our God - June 10, 2021 11:00 - 17 minutes ★★★★★ - 17 ratingsKEY TAKEAWAYS: Christ now appears for us in God’s presence. He has constant access to God. Christ represents us, prays for us, and accomplishes what we could never do. You have the great High Priest ministering on your behalf We are not depending on a high priest on earth who annually visits t...
Interpretation Issue in Hebrews 9:16-17: Is it Will or Covenant
Seeking Our God - June 07, 2021 11:00 - 6 minutes ★★★★★ - 17 ratingsRegarding this particular issue in Hebrews 9, I was asked to write on it a little while back and provide my own viewpoint as to what is being said. While I typically do not like to provide my certain viewpoint on interpretation issues and leave it to you the audience to weigh the options, today ...
Hebrews 9:15-22 – Eternal Redemption through the Blood of Christ
Seeking Our God - June 03, 2021 11:00 - 13 minutes ★★★★★ - 17 ratingsKEY TAKEAWAYS: The New Covenant provides two gifts to a believer: redemption and inheritance. Since Christ has accomplished an eternal redemption, we are able to share in an eternal inheritance. By practicing faith and patience, believers are assured that they will inherit the marvelous promi...
Hebrews 9:11-14 – Christ cleanses our sins
Seeking Our God - May 31, 2021 11:00 - 11 minutes ★★★★★ - 17 ratingsKEY TAKEAWAYS: Jesus offered Himself without blemish for the purpose of cleansing our sins and conscience from the dead works and to serve the living God. The sacrifice of the animals cleansed the flesh, but the sacrifice of Christ and His blood cleanses both the external and internal. If the ...
Hebrews 9:6-10 - The Ineffective Ceremonies
Seeking Our God - May 26, 2021 11:00 - 12 minutes ★★★★★ - 17 ratingsKey takeaways: The daily repetition of these ministries showed that they never resulted in access to God. The fact that the high priest could enter the Most Holy Place only once a year indicates the failure of the Mosaic covenant to bring believers into the presence of God Only the high priest...
Hebrews 9:1-5 - The Furniture of the Tabernacle
Seeking Our God - May 24, 2021 11:00 - 17 minutes ★★★★★ - 17 ratingsKey Takeaways: Hebrews 9 presents a detailed contrast between the Old Covenant sanctuary (the tabernacle) and the New Covenant heavenly sanctuary where Jesus Christ now ministers. This contrast makes it clear that the New Covenant sanctuary is superior. This section of Hebrews reminds readers ...
Hebrews 8 Chapter Summary
Seeking Our God - May 19, 2021 11:00 - 13 minutes ★★★★★ - 17 ratingsMain Themes in Hebrews 8: Jesus is the Superior High Priest at the right hand of God: Author makes it clear by saying the “main point” of previous discussion: “we have such a high priest, who has taken His seat at the right hand of the throne of the Majesty in the heavens, a minister in the sa...
Hebrews 8:7-13 – A New Covenant
Seeking Our God - May 18, 2021 11:00 - 17 minutes ★★★★★ - 17 ratingsKey Takeaways: We can have a fresh start. Bondage to old, seemingly unbreakable patterns can be broken and replaced. We can live in the grace and freedom of Christ. The problems is not the original covenant or God Himself. The problem is the people. The people are at fault. The New Covenant i...
Hebrews 8:4-6 – A More Excellent Ministry
Seeking Our God - May 13, 2021 14:26 - 12 minutes ★★★★★ - 17 ratingsKey Takeaways: The writer provided two pieces of evidence of the superiority of the New Covenant: it is ministered by a superior Priest, Jesus Christ; and it is ministered in a superior place, heaven itself The earthly priesthood and sanctuary seemed quite real and stable, and yet they were bu...
Hebrews 8:1-3 – It all led up to this
Seeking Our God - May 10, 2021 11:00 - 8 minutes ★★★★★ - 17 ratingsKey Takeaways: Jesus is at the right hand of God and has taken the place of glory, power, and excellence as a result of His faithful work The words "the main point" have the idea of the climactic or crowning point. This crowning point is the place where the Lord Christ ministers Jesus had ac...
Hebrews Chapter 7 Review
Seeking Our God - May 05, 2021 11:00 - 12 minutes ★★★★★ - 17 ratingsPRINCIPLES In Jesus, God has given us a great and powerful representative in His presence. In Jesus God provided struggling sinners better access to Him than Old Testament believers ever had. The ministry of Old Testament priests did not produce godly people. Jesus’ ministry for us is effecti...
Hebrews 7:11-19 – Christ Replaces the Old Priesthood part 2
Seeking Our God - May 03, 2021 11:00 - 15 minutes ★★★★★ - 17 ratingsKEY TAKEAWAYS: The priesthood of Aaron was temporary, while the priesthood according to Melchizedek was forever and superseded Aaron's. Hebrews designated Jesus as a priest even though no one who served as a priest had ever come from Jesus’ tribe, the tribe of Judah. Jesus’ priesthood is supe...
Hebrews 7:11-19 – Christ Replaces the Old Priesthood part 1
Seeking Our God - April 28, 2021 11:00 - 14 minutes ★★★★★ - 17 ratingsKEY TAKEAWAYS: The priesthood of Aaron was temporary, while the priesthood according to Melchizedek was forever and superseded Aaron's. Hebrews designated Jesus as a priest even though no one who served as a priest had ever come from Jesus’ tribe, the tribe of Judah. Jesus’ priesthood is supe...
Hebrews 7:4-10 – The Proof of Melchizedek's Greatness
Seeking Our God - April 26, 2021 11:00 - 12 minutes ★★★★★ - 17 ratingsKEY TAKEAWAYS: Melchizedek received tithes from Abraham (vv. 4-6). Notice that Abraham not only tithed but he gave the best he had. Melchizedek blessed Abraham (vv. 6-7). The greater blesses the lesser Melchizedek lives on and had an eternal priesthood (in the sense no record of his death h...
Hebrews 7:1-3 – Who is Melchizedek
Seeking Our God - April 21, 2021 11:00 - 17 minutes ★★★★★ - 17 ratingsKEY TAKEAWAYS: Jesus is a priest that is far superior to Aaron. Melchizedek, whose name means king of righteousness, remains a priest forever. In the timelessness of his priesthood, Melchizedek resembled the Son of God. In the case of Christ, His nature guaranteed His perpetuity. The fulfillm...
Hebrews Chapter 6 Summary
Seeking Our God - April 19, 2021 11:00 - 12 minutes ★★★★★ - 17 ratingsCheck out my children's book here: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B08FP9NZNK PRINCIPLES Professing believers who produce no evidence of conversion face God’s judgment. Let me clarify this a bit more: The warning for all time is that God rejects the show of piety without the fruit of righteousness....
Hebrews 6:16-20 – The Oath of God and Our Hope
Seeking Our God - April 14, 2021 11:00 - 9 minutes ★★★★★ - 17 ratingsKEY TAKEAWAYS: Jesus is our forerunner so that one day we may follow It is impossible for God to lie. We have strong encouragement to hold firmly to the hope set before us. Our hope in Christ is like an anchor for the soul God provides hope to help us endure in our faith commitment to Jesus. ...
Hebrews 6:11-15 – Diligence and Hope
Seeking Our God - April 12, 2021 11:00 - 12 minutes ★★★★★ - 17 ratingsKEY TAKEAWAYS: May we be examples of growth and maturity in our Christianity by showing visible examples of our faith, serving others, being bold, and enduring and persevering through all hardships Reflect on your life and activities regularly. See if there are areas where you are drifting or ...
Hebrews 6:7-10 – An Agricultural Illustration About Producing Good Fruit
Seeking Our God - April 07, 2021 11:00 - 14 minutes ★★★★★ - 17 ratingsKEY TAKEAWAYS: A field proves its worth by bearing fruit; and a true believer, as she/he makes spiritual progress, bears fruit for God’s glory Not every believer bears the same amount of fruit (“some a hundred, some sixty, some thirty,” Matt. 13:23); but every believer bears the same kind of f...
The Controversy of Hebrews 6:4-6
Seeking Our God - April 05, 2021 11:00 - 17 minutes ★★★★★ - 17 ratingsTwo questions surround this passage: who are the people and what does “falling away” mean? These two questions will be examined as well as the various interpretations to determine which understanding best fits this passage in its context. It will be shown that Hebrews 6:4-6 is a warning to genu...
Hebrews 6:4-6 - Falling Away
Seeking Our God - March 31, 2021 11:00 - 16 minutes ★★★★★ - 17 ratingsKEY TAKEAWAYS: As a Christian, remember what God has given you. You have been enlightened – had some revelation of Christ or whose mind has been opened to Christ You have tasted the heavenly gift - meaning experiencing a vital relationship with Jesus Christ You have been made partakers of th...
Hebrews 6:1-3 – The Solution to the Problem
Seeking Our God - March 29, 2021 11:00 - 11 minutes ★★★★★ - 17 ratingsDon't forget to check out my children's book: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B08FP9NZNK KEY TAKEAWAYS: Believers must move beyond the basic spiritual practices to grow closer to God and have a deeper relationship with Him We must escape the mindset of halfhearted commitment and must be fully commi...
Hebrews Chapter 5 Summary and Review
Seeking Our God - March 24, 2021 11:00 - 9 minutes ★★★★★ - 17 ratingsPRINCIPLES: Jesus offers compassionate understanding to inexperienced believers. Jesus learned the value of obedience by enduring suffering and living in obedience to God throughout His life. Jesus received a divine call to represent us before God. Christians who do not grow toward God slip ...
Chapter 5 Summary and Review
Seeking Our God - March 24, 2021 11:00 - 9 minutes ★★★★★ - 17 ratingsPRINCIPLES: Jesus offers compassionate understanding to inexperienced believers. Jesus learned the value of obedience by enduring suffering and living in obedience to God throughout His life. Jesus received a divine call to represent us before God. Christians who do not grow toward God slip ...
Hebrews 5:11-14 – The Problem of Immaturity
Seeking Our God - March 22, 2021 11:00 - 17 minutes ★★★★★ - 17 ratingsKEY TAKEAWAYS: Spiritual immaturity hinders effectiveness in serving Jesus The writer of Hebrews was concerned that their readers should be showing signs of Christian maturity. Think back on your life. Are there signs of maturity and growth? Or is there a pattern of stagnations? Or even of bac...
Hebrews 5:5-10 – The Son’s Call to Priesthood
Seeking Our God - March 17, 2021 11:00 - 21 minutes ★★★★★ - 17 ratingsKey Takeaways: Unlike Aaron’s priesthood, nothing about Christ’s priesthood required improvement or change. It would last eternally. Verses 7-10 show that Christ developed His ability to sympathize as He passed through testing and suffering. This happened during His days on earth and guarantee...
Hebrews 5:1-4 – The Requirements for a High Priest
Seeking Our God - March 15, 2021 11:00 - 10 minutes ★★★★★ - 17 ratingsIn this short section of verses, the writer explains what it means to be a high priest. In this paragraph, two prerequisites are given for the priesthood: (1) he must participate in human feelings and weaknesses (vv. 1-3) and (2) he must be divinely appointed (vv. 4-6). The second requirement, ...
Hebrews Chapters 3 and 4 Overview
Seeking Our God - March 12, 2021 12:00 - 17 minutes ★★★★★ - 17 ratingsChapter 3 Principles and Applications: PRINCIPLES Jesus was faithful to follow every task which the Father delegated to Him. Jesus deserves more honor and attention than any other competitor for our attention. Jesus’ commandments and promises in Scripture provide direction for victorious liv...
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