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Today, If You Hear His Voice, Do Not Harden Your Heart | Hebrews 3:7-19

https://youtu.be/qoK_PupL7b8 Therefore, as the Holy Spirit says, “Today, if you hear his voice,do not harden your hearts as in the rebellion,            on the day of testing in the wilderness,where your fathers put me to the test            and saw my works for forty years.Therefore I was provoked with that generation,and said, ‘They always go astray in …

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The Apostle and High Priest of Our Confession | Hebrews 3:1-6

https://youtu.be/-XZ_GEv48wc Therefore, holy brothers, you who share in a heavenly calling, consider Jesus, the apostle and high priest of our confession, who was faithful to him who appointed him, just as Moses also was faithful in all God’s house. For Jesus has been counted worthy of more glory than Moses—as much more glory as the …

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Bringing Many Sons to Glory | Hebrews 2:5-18

https://youtu.be/pWg2x93tU0Q For it was not to angels that God subjected the world to come, of which we are speaking. It has been testified somewhere, “What is man, that you are mindful of him,            or the son of man, that you care for him?You made him for a little while lower than the angels;            you have …

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How Shall We Escape If We Neglect Such a Great Salvation? | Hebrews 1:4-2:4

https://youtu.be/zkKESODPEDE having become as much superior to angels as the name he has inherited is more excellent than theirs. For to which of the angels did God ever say, “You are my Son,            today I have begotten you”? Or again, “I will be to him a father,            and he shall be to me a son”? …

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The Radiance of the Glory of God | Hebrews 1:1-3

https://youtu.be/O5nsAB__A68 Long ago, at many times and in many ways, God spoke to our fathers by the prophets, but in these last days he has spoken to us by his Son, whom he appointed the heir of all things, through whom also he created the world. He is the radiance of the glory of God …

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Consider Jesus: An Orientation to Hebrews

You may notice that this sermon is rather short. That's because I read Hebrews in its entirety, only giving these brief thoughts before and after that reading. Since Hebrews is a written sermon, I felt it was necessary to hear it read during our gathering for worship on the Lord's Day, as its original recipients …

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Let Us Celebrate the Festival | 1 Corinthians 5:6-8

This Good Friday sermon was preached in 2022. Your boasting is not good. Do you not know that a little leaven leavens the whole lump? Cleanse out the old leaven that you may be a new lump, as you really are unleavened. For Christ, our Passover Lamb, has been sacrificed. Let us therefore celebrate the …

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Background on Hebrews

Author The author of Hebrews is anonymous, and unlike the Gospels (which are also anonymously written), there is no longstanding tradition that supports any particular figure. This has left theologians throughout church history to make their guesses. The most popular suggestion is Paul, which is why Hebrews is placed alongside Paul’s epistles, and despite what …

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The LORD Descends | Exodus 19:9-25

https://youtu.be/Rv12UsHMNJU In their album based on the epistle of Hebrews, Psallos has a song about the tabernacle and the old covenant that was made with Israel at Sinai. In that song, they call it a come-but-stay-away covenant, and our present text will display how true that description is. At the very heart of our passage …

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A Kingdom of Priests | Exodus 19:1-8

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7EIqBskLLmc Licentiousness is not liberty. Much infernal schemes have made that statement quite difficult to believe, but it is true nonetheless. Freedom is not the ability to do whatever pleases you because a life dictated by pleasure is a life of slavery, a life dominated by momentary desires. Such a life is nothing more than …

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