Hebrews explaination

2. Introduction
THE BOOK OF HEBREWS IS A VERY
CHALLENGING BOOK FOR A CHRISTIAN OF
21ST CENTURY. IT DEALS WITH CERTAIN
CONCEPTS THAT ARE NO LONGER IN
PRACTICE. THERE ARE SOME VERSES WHICH
WE FIND DIFFICULT TO UNDERSTAND.

3. THE AUTHOR
• LET’S START WITH THE AUTHORSHIP OF
HEBREWS .WELL THE ANSWER IS QUITE
SIMPLE “UNKNOWN”.
• MANY PEOPLE CONCLUDED WITH HEBREWS
AUTHOR AS PAUL BECAUSE KING JAMES
VERSION TITLED IT AS EPISTLE OF PAUL
• BUT IT’S NEVER WRITTEN IN THE WHOLE
EPISTLE .

4. THE AUTHOR
• BUT THEN TOO WE HAVE CERTAIN CLUES IN
SCRIPTURES BY WHICH WE CAN CONCLUDE
THE AUTHOR
• THE AUTHOR HAD DEEP KNWOLEDGE OF
JEWISH HISTORY
• HE WAS ALSO FAMILIAR WITH THE DEEPEST
KNOWLEDGE ABOUT OLD TESTAMENT AND
OTHER JEWISH PRACTICES

5. THE AUTHOR
BY THIS SOME WE CAN FIGURE OUT POSSIBLE
CANDIDATES :-
• BARNABAS –
• WAS FROM PRIESTLY TRIBE OF LEVI (ACTS
4:36)
• WAS COMPANION OF PAUL AND WIDELY
RESPECTED. {TRITULLIAN WROTE IN 200 AD
THE HEBREWS UNDER NAME OF BARNABAS

6. THE AUTHOR
• APOLLOS :-
• A NATIVE OF ALEXANDRIA {WE CAN FIND
ALEXANDRIAN CONCEPT OF SHADOWS AND
REALITY AFTER IT.}
• HAD THOROUGH SCRIPTURE OF KNOWLEDGE
• WAS A COMPANION OF PAUL

7. THE AUTHOR
• PAUL :-
• PAUL AT TIMES WROTE IN A DIFFERENT
SECRETIVE STYLE
• HE OFTEN USES HIS COMPANIONS TO WRITE
ON BEHALF OF HIM LIKE TIMOTHY
SO THE SHORT ANWER REMAINS TRUE THAT
WE DON’T KNOW

8. THE AUDIENCE
• THE AUDIENCE OF THE EPISTLE IS VERY CLEAR
BECAUSE ITS CLEARLY WRITTEN :-
• HEBREWS WHO WERE FACING BIG
QUESTIONS ON WHETHER TO CONTINUE THE
OLD CUSTOM OF JEWS OR TO START A NEW
RELATION

9. THE AUDIENCE
• THE MAIN QUESTION WAS SUCH
• HOW HIGHLY WE REGARD OR PLACE JESUS?
• HOW MUCH OF SALVATION DEPENDS ON
JESUS AND HOW MUCH ON OTHER THINGS ?
• SHOULD WE CONTINUE THE JEWISH
CUSTOMS OR GO WITH NEW?
• IS THIS PAIN WORTH SUFFURING FOR ?

10. THE AUDIENCE
• SO THE BOOK OF HEBRWS IS THE ANSWER
WITH EVIDENCE OF MANY OF SUCH
QUESTIONS
• WHICH LEADS TO THE MAIN MESSAGE OF
THE EPISTLE OF HEBREWS:-
JESUS IS GREATER !

11. JESUS IS GREATER
• GREATER THAN PROPHETS (1:1-3)
• GREATER THAN ANGELS (1 :4)
• GREATER THAN MOSES ( 3:1-6)
• GREATER THAN ISRAEL AND SABBATH(3:7)
• GREATER THAN PRIEST (4:14)
• GREATER THAN TABERNACLE (8:1-5)
• GREATER THAN OLD CONVENANT (8:6-13)

12. JESUS IS GREATER
• GREATER SACRIFICE (9:7-10)
• GREATER PUNISHMENT(RECURRING REFRAIN)
• GREATER ERA FOR FAITH (11:1-40)
• GREATER CITY (11:10)
• GREATER INSIGHT IN TRIALS (12:1-14)
• GREATER MOUNTAIN (12:18-24)
• GREATER MEAL AND GREATER ALTAR(13:9-10)

13. GREATER THAN PROPHETS
• In the past God spoke to our ancestors through
the prophets at many times and in various ways,
2 but in these last days he has spoken to us by his
Son, whom he appointed heir of all things, and
through whom also he made the universe. 3 The
Son is the radiance of God’s glory and the exact
representation of his being, sustaining all things
by his powerful word. After he had provided
purification for sins, he sat down at the right
hand of the Majesty in heaven.

14. GREATER THAN ANGELS
• So he became as much superior to the angels
as the name he has inherited is superior to
theirs. (1:4)
• And again, when God brings his firstborn into
the world, he says, "Let all God’s angels
worship him.”(1:6)
• Are not all angels ministering spirits sent to
serve those who will inherit salvation?(1:14)

15. GREATER THAN MOSES
• Jesus has been found worthy of greater honor
than Moses, just as the builder of a house has
greater honor than the house itself. 4 For every
house is built by someone, but God is the builder
of everything. 5 “Moses was faithful as a servant
in all God’s house,”[a] bearing witness to what
would be spoken by God in the future. 6 But
Christ is faithful as the Son over God’s house. And
we are his house, if indeed we hold firmly to our
confidence and the hope in which we glory.

16. GREATER THAN ISRAEL
• Who were they who heard and rebelled?
Were they not all those Moses led out of
Egypt?(3:16)
• And to whom did God swear that they would
never enter his rest if not to those who
disobeyed?(3:18)

17. GREATER THAN SABBATH
• For if Joshua had given them rest, God would
not have spoken later about another day.
9 There remains, then, a Sabbath-rest for the
people of God; 10 for anyone who enters God’s
rest also rests from their works,[a] just as God
did from his. 11 Let us, therefore, make every
effort to enter that rest, so that no one will
perish by following their example of
disobedience.(4:8-12)

18. GREATER THAN PRIEST
• Such a high priest truly meets our need—one
who is holy, blameless, pure, set apart from
sinners, exalted above the heavens. 27 Unlike
the other high priests, he does not need to
offer sacrifices day after day, first for his own
sins, and then for the sins of the people. He
sacrificed for their sins once for all when he
offered himself.

19. GREATER TABERNACLE
• We do have such a high priest, who sat down
at the right hand of the throne of the Majesty
in heaven, 2 and who serves in the sanctuary,
the true tabernacle set up by the Lord, not by
a mere human being………
• They (the priest) serve at a sanctuary that is a
copy and shadow of what is in heaven(8:1-5)

20. GREATER CONVENANT
• Because of this oath, Jesus has become the
guarantor of a better covenant (7:20)
• But in fact the ministry Jesus has received is as
superior to theirs as the covenant of which he is
mediator is superior to the old one, since the new
covenant is established on better promises.
• For if there had been nothing wrong with that
first covenant, no place would have been sought
for another. (8:6-7)

21. GREATER SACRIFICE
• Otherwise Christ would have had to suffer
many times since the creation of the world.
But he has appeared once for all at the
culmination of the ages to do away with sin by
the sacrifice of himself.(9:26)
• And by that will, we have been made holy
through the sacrifice of the body of Jesus
Christ once for all. (10:10)

22. GREATER PUNISHMENT
• For since the message spoken through angels
was binding, and every violation and
disobedience received its just punishment,
3 how shall we escape if we ignore so great a
salvation? This salvation, which was first
announced by the Lord, was confirmed to us
by those who heard him. (2:2-3)

23. GREATER PUNISHMENT
• Anyone who rejected the law of Moses died
without mercy on the testimony of two or
three witnesses.(10:28)
• How much more severely do you think
someone deserves to be punished who has
trampled the Son of God underfoot, who has
treated as an unholy thing the blood of the
covenant that sanctified them, and who has
insulted the Spirit of grace?(10:29)

24. GREATER ERA FOR FAITH
• These were all commended for their faith, yet
none of them received what had been
promised, 40 since God had planned
something better for us so that only together
with us would they be made perfect.(11:39-
40)

25. GREATER CITY
• For he was looking forward to the city with
foundations, whose architect and builder is
God.(11:10)
• And so Jesus also suffered outside the city gate to
make the people holy through his own blood.
13 Let us, then, go to him outside the camp,
bearing the disgrace he bore. 14 For here we do
not have an enduring city, but we are looking for
the city that is to come.(13:12-14)

26. GREATER INSIGHT IN TRIALS
• Son though he was, he learned obedience
from what he suffered (5:8)
• Endure hardship as discipline; God is treating
you as his children. For what children are not
disciplined by their father?(12:7)
• They disciplined us for a little while as they
thought best; but God disciplines us for our
good, in order that we may share in his
holiness.(12:10)

27. GREATER MOUNTAIN
• You have not come to a mountain that can be
touched and that is burning with fire; to
darkness, gloom and storm
• But you have come to Mount Zion, to the city of
the living God, the heavenly Jerusalem. You have
come to thousands upon thousands of angels in
joyful assembly, 23 to the church of the firstborn,
whose names are written in heaven. You have
come to God, the Judge of all, to the spirits of the
righteous made perfect, 24 to Jesus the mediator
of a new covenant (12:18-24)

28. GREATER MEAL AND GREATER ALTAR
• Do not be carried away by all kinds of strange
teachings. It is good for our hearts to be
strengthened by grace, not by eating
ceremonial foods, which is of no benefit to
those who do so. 10 We have an altar{THE
CROSS} from which those who minister at the
tabernacle have no right to eat.(13:9-10)

29. REALITY REPLACES SHADOW
• It was necessary, then, for the copies of the
heavenly things to be purified with these
sacrifices, but the heavenly things themselves
with better sacrifices than these.(9:23)
• The law is only a shadow of the good things that
are coming—not the realities themselves. For this
reason it can never, by the same sacrifices
repeated endlessly year after year, make perfect
those who draw near to worship.(10:1)

30. ONCE FOR ALL
• Unlike the other high priests, he does not
need to offer sacrifices day after day, first for
his own sins, and then for the sins of the
people. He sacrificed for their sins once for all
when he offered himself.(7:27)
• He did not enter by means of the blood of
goats and calves; but he entered the Most
Holy Place once for all by his own blood, thus
obtaining[a] eternal redemption.(9:12)

31. ONCE FOR ALL
• Otherwise Christ would have had to suffer
many times since the creation of the world.
But he has appeared once for all at the
culmination of the ages to do away with sin by
the sacrifice of himself.(9:26)
• And by that will, we have been made holy
through the sacrifice of the body of Jesus
Christ once for all.(10:10)