The Theme of Hebrews | Clip from The Jaw-Dropping Beauty of Jesus

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We're going to be looking at a number of times at the book of Hebrews. So we'll take three looks at Hebrews and This time we're going to be looking at what

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Jordan has called the jaw -dropping Beauty of Jesus in Hebrews chapter 1

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Which is certainly a chapter that we could spend many months on but we just want to whet your appetite

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So Jordan, why don't you get us started by giving us kind of the backdrop of Hebrews? Yeah, so Hebrews is a you know, sometimes an intimidating book there's some challenging themes, but it's really

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Got one main aim and before I even say the aim. Let me say I Personally take it as one sermon the end of the letter says

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Hebrews 1325 I urge you to bear with this brief word

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So he calls it brief after 13 chapters, but brief word singular of Exhortation sermon

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So I take Hebrews to be representative of what a New Testament Church sermon would sound like well that alone should

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Lead us to ask some really important questions. Well if a New Testament average sermon

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Was it takes me about an hour to read Hebrews aloud? Was about an hour and had this much

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Christocentric density Then, you know, I would like for a few hundred of my sermons to vanish forever

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Never be remembered again. So first off it's one sermon But the theme is as you said

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The beauty of Christ really his all superiority He's better than anything and everything.

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Yeah, that's a simple Yeah, and really in Hebrews is so practical for the particularly for the modern evangelical church

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Because it gives us some very concrete ways to take the superiority of Christ and to apply it

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In all areas of the Christian life, you know, so if if you have the question on your heart Well as I'm getting to know

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Christ better through the scriptures and and he's ever expanding before my heart Well, how do

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I what do I do with that? And it's so practical. Yeah. Yeah, it is I mean just speaking of practical it's written to Converted Jews, so so completed you

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Jews who found Christ to be the Messiah hence Hebrews and Once they came to Christ the

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Messiah they started to Realize that there's some cost and so chapter 10 talks about some of the the physical challenges your properties plundered

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Your friends are put in prison you go identify with them. So there's cost so Hebrews is written because I Think the letter is pretty clear

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People were being tempted to trade on Jesus like embrace all his saving benefits eschew some of the

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Fidelity and faithfulness so if I can get Jesus minus the persecution What compromises do

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I need to make to retain Christ and not have so much cost involved? So this letter is

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Let me show you the superiority of Christ over anything and everything In order to enhance

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Your fidelity to him no matter what and you know, you're gonna meet the king of the ages one day really soon

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So to trade on Christ is a really foolish compromise at the end of the day