The New and Living Way

Hebrews 10:19-25

About the Sermon

If Jesus is our great high priest, how then shall we live? The author of Hebrews is a good pastor who knows what his readers need. He has given them a careful argument from the Old Testament concerning the priesthood of Jesus. Now, after so many chapters, he summarizes his argument and moves us to action. But what is this action he calls for? Is it the kind of linear list-like approach to the Christian life we are so accustomed to imagine? We live in an age of factory-like production, from making cars to graduating students, to "getting things done." Jesus has opened for us a new and living way. How then shall we live on our way to him?

About the Series

“I appeal to you, brothers, bear with my word of exhortation, for I have written to you briefly” (13:22). That’s how the author of the book of Hebrews ends his letter. While the book of Hebrews is famous for its exposition of the Old Testament in light of Christ, showing Christ to be our great high priest, all of that teaching is for an urgent exhortation: do not fall away. Or, as he put it in 2:1 , “Therefore we must pay much closer attention to what we have heard, lest we drift away from it.” Jesus is an anchor for our souls. He is anchored in heaven and his work is perfectly fitted to keep us in the midst of every trial and temptation.
“I appeal to you, brothers, bear with my word of exhortation, for I have written to you briefly” (13:22). That’s how the author of the book of Hebrews ends his letter. While the book of Hebrews is famous for its exposition of the Old Testament in light of Christ, showing Christ to be our great high priest, all of that teaching is for an urgent exhortation: do not fall away. Or, as he put it in 2:1 , “Therefore we must pay much closer attention to what we have heard, lest we drift away from it.” Jesus is an anchor for our souls. He is anchored in heaven and his work is perfectly fitted to keep us in the midst of every trial and temptation.

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