Welcome friends to
"Books of the Book."
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The program that
studies the Bible,
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one book at a time just
as the word of God reads.
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The more you watch or
the more you listen by radio,
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as the case may
be, the more deeply,
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personally and intimately
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acquainted you will
become with the word of God
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and the more
acquainted you will become
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with the character of God
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is the central
theme of Scripture.
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Today we're going to be
considering the Book of Hebrews
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and I have my co-host
with me here, James Rafferty.
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And we're going to
launch into the Book of Hebrews
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and so we want to
invite you to get your Bible
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and pull up a
chair, get comfortable
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somewhere there in your house,
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and open into
the Book of Hebrews.
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And James we're
gonna began by exploring
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the authorship of
the Book of Hebrews.
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Because as you open
the Book of Hebrews,
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it doesn't have
these beginning salutations
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that we have come to expect
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from the writings
of the Apostle Paul
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and the other
Apostles in the New Testament.
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It just begins
rather a breathily,
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just launching right
into the subject matter
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and because of
that, some people,
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many people in
fact, have questioned
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whether or not the
Apostle Paul is the author.
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Well, at the same time
there are a numbers of scholars
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and Bible
students who do believe
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that Paul is the
author of the Book of Hebrews
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and we take that position
and we'd like to just flush out,
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first of all here as we
launching the Book of Hebrews,
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why it is that
we believe that Paul
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is in fact the
author of Hebrews.
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And you know, Ty
this is a major thing.
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I mean this is something we can
talk about but it is not major.
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We were talking on
the plane over here
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and the real emphasis that
we want to emphasize that--
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we want to make
emphasis we want to make here is
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the Bible is a
life changing book.
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And we were
talking on the plane,
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you remember about
how, we were just wondering,
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where would our lives be
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if we had never
accounted the word of God?
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Yeah, I shutter
to think of it. Yes.
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And so to us and to our viewers
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we want to make
sure that they understand
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as we study this and
our listeners out there
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that the core emphasis of
what we gonna be looking at
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is the life changing
power the word of God
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can have a upon us
as we read and study.
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Yeah, and James,
we need to remember
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that as Peter tell us that
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"Holy men of old spoke
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as they were moved
upon by the Holy Spirit."
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So there is the sense in
which we need to understand
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that when we take
the word of God in hand,
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we are
encountering the word of God,
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the word of God, not
the word of any Apostle
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or Prophet in a primary sense.
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Of course they are the channels
through which God is speaking.
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But the Holy Spirit is
working through these authors.
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But the fact is that
there are some good insights
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that we can gain
from recognizing that Paul
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was the channel through
whom the Holy Spirit worked
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for the composition
of the Book of Hebrews.
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Yeah and sometimes,
there are the reasons
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why perhaps the authorship needs
to be a little bit mysterious.
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For example,
one of the struggles
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or problems that we have
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as we look at Paul
being the author of Hebrews
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is that he
consistently introduces himself
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and every other
epistle and every other letter
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that he basically writes
to these different churches,
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he introduced himself,
an apostle of Jesus Christ.
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Paul, an apostle, a
prisoner of the Lord et cetera.
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We don't see any introduction
in the Book of Hebrews.
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Now one of the
reasons for that I believe
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is because Paul in
most of his letters
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and most of his epistles
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is writing to the
gentile believers.
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In the Book of Hebrews,
he's writing specifically
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to the Hebrews, the Israelites,
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his kinsmen
according to the flesh.
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And I think what Paul is seeking
to do here is divert himself.
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In other words, divert
attention from himself.
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Diverse himself and focus
here and get right to God.
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Right to the Old
Testament Prophets
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which is how he
introduces the Book of Hebrews
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so that he doesn't need to
be the one that is focused upon
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and he definitely doesn't
want to direct people to himself
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being the Apostle of Christ
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because there is a
little bit of prejudice there
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about Christ being
the Messiah et cetera
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and he wants to move past that.
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There is also prejudice
as we look at the history
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in the New Testament
especially the Book of Acts.
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There is a
prejudice against Paul
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from the Jewish standpoint
because the Apostle Paul
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can converted to Christianity.
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He has become one of
the foremost champions
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of the Christian faith.
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He's a turncoat in many
of the Hebrew people minds.
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And so he is not wanting
to make himself prominent
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and while there is a
not an opening salutation,
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there is a closing salutation
that is very interesting
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in Book of Hebrews
that very clearly indicates
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that the Apostle
Paul is the person
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that is addressing us here.
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James in Chapter 13:23 and 24
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it's very clear
we read these words.
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"Know that our brother
Timothy has been set free,
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with whom I shall see
you if he comes shortly."
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And then these
words in verse 24,
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"Greet all those who rule
over you, and all the saints.
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Those from Italy greet you.
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Grace and peace be
with you all. Amen."
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So there is a
couple of points here
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concerning the
authorship of Hebrews.
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Number 1 in verse
23, Timothy is mentioned.
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So it's very clear
that the author of Hebrews
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is a companion of Timothy.
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With Timothy,
right. That's right.
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And it's clear in
the other epistles
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of Paul in the New Testament.
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The Timothy was in fact
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a traveling
companion of the Apostle Paul.
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The second point
that we know here
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is that he is
writing from Italy.
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Where Paul was in
prison for a couple of days.
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And Romans 16:21, tell
us that and Philippians,
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Philemon,
Colossians, 2 Corinthians,
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Thessalonians first and second,
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all tell us
that Timothy and Paul
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were traveling companions.
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That's right. That's right.
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So from Italy this letter
is issued to the Jewish people,
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to the Jewish believers
and obviously an effort
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to convert more Jews to Messiah
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and this person is
traveling with Timothy
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and will be coming with
Timothy when he is set free.
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Clearly this is
the Apostle Paul.
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But there are other evidences
that Paul is the author, James.
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Absolutely, that's
the powerful one though.
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I think when you look at
the writing style of Hebrews
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even though you see a little
bit of different of approach
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and we will look at
that some more as we go on.
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We also recognize a
lot of illustrations
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that we used that
we used to Hebrews
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that are very
compatible with it,
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and almost identical
to other illustrations
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that are used by Paul
and others of his writings.
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For example, he
refers to running a race
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in Hebrews Chapter 12,
that's the same illustration
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that we find in 1
Corinthians Chapter 9.
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He talks about the wilderness
experience of God's people
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and then failing to enter into
rest and fearing lest we do.
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He uses those
illustrations in Hebrews 3 and 4
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and uses the same
illustrations that he talks
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about the Israelites
in Romans Chapter 11.
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He, in fact in Romans Chapter 9,
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we see Paul
ardently, fervently desiring
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to reach his kids when
according to the flesh.
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Want to do
anything and everything
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he can to reach them.
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In First Corinthians he talks
about being babies in Christ
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and he uses that
same illustration
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in Hebrews Chapters 5 and 6.
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So we have a lot of
these similar illustrations
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that are used in
the Book of Hebrews
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that we find in
other of Paul's writings.
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Not only that
James, but it's very clear
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that if you'd look
at all the characters
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that we encounter
in the New Testament,
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Peter, James, John,
all of them, Timothy even.
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You would very much
conclude that the person
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who would be best qualified
to write the Book of Hebrews
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just from a pure educational
background standpoint,
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scholarship
standpoint, the Apostle Paul
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is best qualified to address
the Jews on these levels.
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Pharisees. Yeah.
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He was born of
the tribe of Benjamin,
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circumcised on the eight day.
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According to the
law he was blameless.
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He knew, he
understood the Jewish economy.
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He was very familiar with
the Old Testament Scriptures.
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He was very familiar
with the sacrificial system.
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He was an educated Hebrew
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and we find that whoever
wrote the Book of Hebrews
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as you read it through
really knows their stuff.
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Yes, of all the
Apostles, of all the disciples
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he is the most qualified.
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He is the one that
uses illustrations,
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here that you like
his other writings.
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He is the one that was traveling
companion with Timothy.
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So we see a lot of
evidence point toward Paul.
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There is another thing
that I find fascinating James
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regarding Paul is
the author of Hebrews.
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One of the reasons
why some people have said,
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no, Paul couldn't possibly
be the author of Hebrews
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is because Hebrews has
a slightly or may be even
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a strong different flavor
then much of the other epistles,
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many of the other
epistles that Paul
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has written in
the New Testament,
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there is in the Book of
Hebrews an intimate feel.
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Paul in Hebrews is
speaking to the heart
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to reach the mind
more than reaching
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into the heart through the mind.
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The other epistles are clearly
addressing gentile believers
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and they need to be
persuaded intellectually
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and their hearts
reached through their intellect,
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but here the
Hebrews their familiar with
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the Jewish economy and so on.
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So Paul is
appealing to their hearts.
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And why is he doing that?
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Because he was a Jew who
is intellectually persuaded
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of the trues of
the Old Testament,
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however he did not have
disbelieve in Jesus Christ.
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How was he converted to Jesus?
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It was personal
encounter with Christ
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that converted him
on the road to Damascus.
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And so he is appealing
to the Jews in the same way
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that he was brought to Christ.
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He is actually
wanting to introduce
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them to a personal
encounter with Christ.
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So immediately he
totally sets himself aside,
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doesn't even
introduces himself as the author
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and goes directly from
the Prophets to Jesus Christ.
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He's spoken by the
Prophets in his last days.
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He's spoken was
through Jesus Christ
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and goes right into
who the Son of God is?
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Yeah, so some
people have thought, well,
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Paul's other
writings are so intellectual,
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there are so
propositional, so factual.
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It doesn't seem
like the same characters
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right in the Book of Hebrews
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because when we go
to the Book of Hebrews
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the open to the book
is immediately introducing
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God on a personal
level through Jesus Christ.
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And then he's launching
into all of this language
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that is
directed-- it's irrational,
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it's irrational language.
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It's come to God
boldly, draw near to the Lord,
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enter into His rest,
enter into the presence
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behind the veil in chapter 6.
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It's a call to relationship.
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Which takes us
right into another theme
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and that is the
theme of something better.
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This theme is really
in essence is contrasting
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religion with relationship.
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Paul had religion,
he always had religion.
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But now he wants to
move to relationship.
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He moved to a
relationship when he saw Christ.
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And he wants to move
the Hebrews to relationship
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because he knows
that's the last hope
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to reach them for the Messiah.
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And anybody who's
spent time in the word of God
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and has had a
Christian experience
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for any length of
time and has gone through
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the experimental
process of navigating
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through
Christianity knows that rules
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and religion
without relationship
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result in rebellion.
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The fact is that the
Bible is not just about
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communicating doctrinal facts.
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The Bible is about introducing
God as a personal being,
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who as it is very
clearly communicated in Hebrews,
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wants to enter into
personal relationship with us.
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Relationship is the essence,
not only of Christianity
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but of family, of
marriage, of community.
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Relationship is the
essence of everything
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we're about as a human family.
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And so Paul here is
directing us to relationship
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as the essence of how we
can enter into this experience
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that we are supposed
to have with Jesus Christ.
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And that highlights what
Paul was trying to communicate
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in his usage of this word
better over and over again.
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Thirteen times in
the Book of Hebrews,
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so obviously is the
theme, the Apostle Paul
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uses the word "better."
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And this word is
very interesting James.
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It is the Greek word, Crichton,
and literally means stronger,
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more powerful or
superior in strength.
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Everything that we
encounter in Jesus Christ
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is superior in
strength, in power,
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than everything
that has gone before him
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precisely because
it is a relationship
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that transcends
anything that can be attained
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through the
typical symbolic systems
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of the Hebrew economy
and the sacrificial service.
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We have to be careful Ty.
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When you advocate
a book, a Bible book,
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or anything as better,
as superior, as stronger,
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we want to be careful
that we don't come across
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as being a hardy
and I don't think
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that's what the
idea is here with Paul
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or even with our emphasis.
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The point here is this world
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is full of pain
and sorrow and misery.
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And God has something better.
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He had something better for you.
He had something better for us.
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Something that is superior
to the evil and the suffering
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that we experience in
this present world. Amen.
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Let's just move
through the better things
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that Paul delineates
through the Book of Hebrews
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because this is kind of
overview as we launch in
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to our study of the
Book chapter by chapter.
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In Hebrews 1:4 for example,
"Paul uses the word "better"
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for the first time, and
he says that Jesus is better
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than the angels which
is just gonna come alive
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in a future study."
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In Chapter 6:9,
"There are better things,
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superior things that
accompany salvation."
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In 7:7, "The
Melchizedek priesthood
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of which Jesus
is the fulfillment
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is better than the
Levitical priesthood.
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So Jesus is the
superior high priest."
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In Chapter 7:19.
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"There is a better hope by
which we can draw near to God."
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In verse 22 of Chapter 7.
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"There is a better
covenant, a superior covenant."
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In Chapter 8:6,
"There is a mediator
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of a better covenant."
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In Chapter 9:23,
"There is a better sacrifice,
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even the Lord Jesus Christ."
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Chapter 10:34,
"There is a better
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and more enduring possession."
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Chapter 11:16, "A better, even
in heavenly country or city."
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Amen. Chapter 11:35.
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"There is a better
resurrection through Jesus."
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In verse 40, "There
is just something better,
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a better
experience through Jesus
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for all who come to him."
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In Chapter 13:12,
"There is a mediator
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of the better
covenant," repeated again.
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And in verse 24,
finally Paul summarizes
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all this better stuff by saying
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there are better
things, my friends,
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better things
through the Lord Jesus Christ
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than is
available apart from him.
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Let's take a break
and we'll be right back.
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