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Hebrews

  1. Lesson One
    Overview of Hebrews
    15 Activities
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    1 Assessment
  2. LESSON TWO
    Hebrews' Christology (Hebrews 1–3, 5, 8–9)
    18 Activities
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    1 Assessment
  3. LESSON THREE
    The Old Testament in Hebrews (Hebrews 4, 7, 11)
    20 Activities
  4. LESSON FOUR
    Exhortations in Hebrews
    17 Activities
  5. LESSON FIVE
    Persecution
    14 Activities
  6. Course Wrap-Up
    Course Completion
    1 Activity
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    1 Assessment

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[Record your answers in the workbook provided at the beginning of this course.]

Hebrews’ emphasis on the future inheritance of believers is balanced by its consistent references to the eternal. While we may not yet be able to see or fully experience our inheritance in Christ, it already exists. Many things about Christian faith direct our attention to a future time, but our redemption in Jesus is a reality for us today. The hope that we have is already realized—secured in Him. 

What Hebrews promises is not so much a future reality as it is a heavenly reality that we have yet to fully experience. Because of this emphasis, the word “heavenly” is also important in this book. Read the passages below that allude to the “eternal,” sometimes using “forever,” which has a similar meaning. 

He entered once for all into the holy places, not by means of the blood of goats and calves but by means of his own blood, thus securing an eternal redemption. For if the blood of goats and bulls, and the sprinkling of defiled persons with the ashes of a heifer, sanctify for the purification of the flesh, how much more will the blood of Christ, who through the eternal Spirit offered himself without blemish to God, purify our conscience from dead works to serve the living God.

 

Therefore he is the mediator of a new covenant, so that those who are called may receive the promised eternal inheritance, since a death has occurred that redeems them from the transgressions committed under the first covenant. Hebrews 9:12-15 ESV

 

Now may the God of peace who brought again from the dead our Lord Jesus, the great shepherd of the sheep, by the blood of the eternal covenant, equip you with everything good that you may do his will, working in us that which is pleasing in his sight, through Jesus Christ, to whom be glory forever and ever. Amen. Hebrews 13:20-21 ESV

  1. Referencing these verses, summarize who and what it is that believers can claim today, and eternally, while they wait for a future inheritance.