The Glory of the New Covenant

What the Old Covenant demands, the New Covenant promises to accomplish in God’s unmerited covenant people through Christ’s sacrifice and priestly intercession for them.

Hebrews 8:8-12

Christ the True and Better Deliverer

Jesus the Anointed One fills out the redemptive patterns (or “types”) in Genesis 22, revealing that our salvation rests on Jesus’s perfect, lifelong, patient, vicarious obedience to the point of death a cross and on his vindicating resurrection from the dead.

Hebrews 3:1-6 (ESV)

Submitting To God’s Discipline

Christians, covered by the blood of Christ, can no longer be punished for their sins – but they will be tested and disciplined by their loving Father.

Our Perfectly Righteous Redeemer

Question 23: Why must the Redeemer be perfectly righteous?

The Redeemer must be perfectly righteous so that His obedience and sacrifice in our place will be acceptable to God.

Romans 5:19; Hebrews 2:17; 1 Peter 1:18-19

Redemption Through Christ the True Human

Question 22: Why must the Redeemer be truly human?

The Redeemer must be truly human so that He might fulfill humanity’s obligations to God by completely obeying God’s Law and suffering and dying for human disobedience.

Romans 5:18-19; 1 Corinthians 15:21; Hebrews 2:14-17

Why the God-Man?

Question 21: What sort of Redeemer and Mediator is needed to bring us back to God?

One who is perfectly righteous, truly human and truly God.

Hebrews 4:14–16; Hebrews 7:23–28

The Church – The Persecuted Community of Faith

The Church is the community of those who are God’s people through faith in Christ and are therefore exiles in this world. Consequently, they must persevere through suffering and persecution, knowing God is worth far more than this passing age.

Hebrews 11

The Church – The Communion of Saints

Question 70: What is the Church?
The Church is the communion of the saints, all of those in every age who have been united to Christ in faith and draw their life from Him and who are therefore spiritually united with one another now and in eternity.

John 10:16; Hebrews 12:22-24

God’s Penetrating Word

God’s Word is living and active, and it penetrates to our deepest recesses to expose and judge and to point us to Christ, our Great High Priest.

Hebrews 4:12-13

Greed

Greed is a disordered love that excessively craves created goods and possessions, desiring them more than the Creator Himself.

Hebrews 13:5-6

Shaping A Contented Soul

We are called to shape our souls by putting away greed, embracing contentment, and finding our deepest joy and satisfaction in God.

Hebrews 13:5-6

Enduring To Victory

Spiritual warfare is a lifelong battle, and we must draw strength from Jesus so that we do not grow weary but endure until final victory.

Hebrews 12:1-3

Enjoying Jesus Through Fellowship

God has given us a wonderful gift in fellowship with other believers, and we should not neglect this habit of grace.

Hebrews 10:24-25

All In: The Church As Community

Those who have been reconciled to God by Christ are called to a life of community to help them hold unswervingly to the faith in this fallen world.

Hebrews 10:19-25

All In: A Life of Total Trust

The Christian life is one of faith from beginning to end, calling us to a life willing to risk for God and His kingdom.

Hebrews 11 (Hebrews 11:13-16)

An Anchored Soul

When we find ourselves battered by the storms of this life, when God’s promises in our lives seem at best only partially fulfilled, and when we find ourselves aimlessly adrift through the waters of life, we need to be reminded that we have an unfailing anchor for our souls – Jesus Christ.

Hebrews 6:13-20