Hebrews for EveryoneEnlarged print edition now available! Writing in an approachable and anecdotal style, Tom Wright helps us to find our way around the letter to the Hebrews, one of the most challenging writings in the New Testament. He acknowledges that people often find it difficult, because some of the ideas it contains are strange to us. Yet, like meeting a new friend, Wright helps us to find Hebrews full of interest and delight, with a powerful message that comes home to the church of today and tomorrow just as much as it did to the church of yesterday. Tom Wright has undertaken a tremendous task: to provide guides to all the books of the New Testament, and to include in them his own translation of the entire text. Each short passage is followed by a highly readable discussion with background information, useful explanations and suggestions, and thoughts as to how the text can be relevant to our lives today. A glossary is included at the back of the book. The series is suitable for group study, personal study, or daily devotions. |
Contents
The Sacrifice of the Messiah | 93 |
The Purpose of the Blood | 97 |
The Messiahs Work in the Heavenly Sanctuary | 101 |
The Stopping of the Sacrifices | 105 |
The Finished Achievement of the Messiah | 109 |
HEBREWS 101925 So Come to Worship | 114 |
HEBREWS 102631 Warning of Judgment | 118 |
HEBREWS 103239 Suffering in Hope | 122 |
Getting through to the Sabbath Rest | 34 |
Danger Gods Word at Work | 38 |
The Sympathetic High Priest | 42 |
The Son Becomes the Priest | 47 |
Are You Ready for Solid Food? | 51 |
HEBREWS 618 No Way Back | 55 |
HEBREWS 6912 Keep Up the Good Work | 60 |
HEBREWS 61320 Gods Unchangeable Promise | 64 |
HEBREWS 7110 Melchizedek the Great PriestKing | 68 |
A New Order of Priesthood | 73 |
The Permanent Priesthood of Jesus | 77 |
Better Ministry Better Covenant | 81 |
The Promise of a New Covenant | 85 |
The Old Tabernacle Points Forward to the New | 89 |
What Faith Really Means | 126 |
Faith and the Future Noah Abraham Sarah | 130 |
HEBREWS 111322 Faith that Looks Beyond Death | 135 |
Faith and the Future Moses and the Exodus | 139 |
HEBREWS 1213 Looking to Jesus | 147 |
Christian Suffering Is Gods Discipline | 150 |
HEBREWS 121217 Watch Out for Dangers | 154 |
From Mount Sinai to Mount Sion | 158 |
The Kingdom that Cannot Be Shaken | 163 |
The Practical Life of Gods People | 167 |
Outside the Old City Seeking the New | 171 |
HEBREWS 131725 The God of Peace Be with You | 176 |
GLOSSARY | 181 |
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Page 93 - Not with the blood of goats and calves, but with His own blood He entered the Most Holy Place once for all, having obtained eternal redemption.
Page 68 - For this Melchizedek, king of Salem, priest of the most high God, who met Abraham returning from the slaughter of the kings, and blessed him; to whom also Abraham gave a tenth part of all; first being by interpretation "King of righteousness," and after that also King of Salem, which is, "King of peace...
Page 143 - David and Samuel and the prophets: who through faith subdued kingdoms, wrought righteousness, obtained promises, stopped the mouths of lions, quenched the power of fire, escaped the edge of the sword, from weakness were made strong, waxed mighty in war, turned to flight armies of aliens.
Page 42 - For we have not a high priest that cannot be touched with the feeling of our infirmities ; but one that hath been in all points tempted like as we are, yet without sin. Let us therefore draw near with boldness unto the throne of grace, that we may receive mercy, and may find grace to help us in time of need.
Page 42 - For we do not have a high priest who is unable to sympathize with our weaknesses, but we have one who has been tempted in every way, just as we are— yet was without sin.
Page 185 - real' exile lasting not for 70 years but for 70 weeks of years, ie, 490 years. Longing for the real 'return from exile', when the prophecies of Isaiah, Jeremiah, etc. would be fulfilled, and redemption from pagan oppression accomplished, continued to characterize many Jewish movements, and was a major theme in Jesus' proclamation and his summons to repentance. Exodus The Exodus from Egypt took place, according to the book of that name, under the leadership of Moses, after long years in which the...
Page 47 - In the days of his flesh, Jesus offered up prayers and supplications, with loud cries and tears, to the one who was able to save him from death, and he was heard because of his reverent submission.
Page 101 - Place yearly with blood not his own; for then he would have had to suffer repeatedly since the foundation of the world. But as it is, he has appeared once for all at the end of the age to put away sin by the sacrifice of himself.
Page 159 - But you have come to Mount Zion, to the heavenly Jerusalem, the city of the living God. You have come to thousands upon thousands of angels in joyful assembly, to the church of the firstborn, whose names are written in heaven.