(Hebrews )The Book of Better Things 1

Описание: Hebrews: The Book of Better Things(Ang Basahon sa Mas Maayong mga Butang)
Chapter 1
The book of Hebrews is "the book of better things". The central theme of the entire book is to show how much better the new covenant of Christ is than the old covenant of Moses.
-With scriptural proof and strong logic, the writer of Hebrews proves beyond the shadow of a doubt,
-even to where the most orthodox scribe or pharisee cannot refute it, how much better the Gospel of Grace is than the Jewish Law.
Continually, throughout the book, we are faced with the truth that the old order is dead and ready for burial. God has replaced it with a new and living way that takes us,
by the blood of Christ, through the veil, into the very presence of God where the law could never take us.
This book was written because of the problem of Jewish Christians trying to mix the
two orders,
a) law and grace,
and some even leaving the new order to go back to Moses’ law because of problems that arose in the early church.
Many scholars believe that the apostle Paul was the author of Hebrews,
-due to internal evidence,
the style of writing,
-the revelation of grace,
-and the pattern of his logic.
Paul, who was once the most - - orthodox of Jews,
-blameless in the matters of the law,
-has had a vision of Christ and a revelation of the Gospel of the grace of God.
He now is the strongest opponent of the Law of Moses - with it’s rituals,
-ceremonies,
-and animal sacrifices.
He will not succeed in destroying the old order completely,
-nor will he be able to convince all the Jews to leave that dead system (it still has millions of followers today).
But he is sounding a clarion call to those Christians who have tasted the reality of Christ,
-and want to follow Jesus into full Sonship.
The message is that they will have to turn loose of the past and rid themselves of every remaining garment of the Jew’s religion.
We have a better way.
The shadows are gone, we have arrived at the substance.
How About Today?
Christians in our day are not very concerned about the controversy of Paul’s day between law and grace.
Yes! For today we are faced with an old order that is passing away,
-and a new order is coming in, bringing means :
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a revelation of sonship, a higher order. The revelation of this high calling was given to the apostles in the early church, and they faithfully wrote it down.
But it becomes obvious that the early church, the earnest or firstfruits of God’s order for His Body, did not fully reach that maturity and perfection of our generation.
They certainly did not attain during the dark ages, even up to our present time.
But the work of God is ever progressive, and gaining momentum continually.
And today we see the need for a new understanding of the book of Hebrews.
It is the New Testament book of Sonship,
1.first of all the Sonship of Christ,
2.and finally the revelation of the body of Christ,
-the corporate, many-membered son that inherits the Melchisedec priesthood order by virtue of being in Him.
While the blind still leads the blind, and the masses still stagger along in a dying system of Churchianity and religion, we see a great company of sons breaking forth into the glorious light of God’s new day.