Hebrews Devotionals
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- Hebrews 1: The Final Word Is a Son
Hebrews begins with a God who speaks. In the past he spoke through the prophets, at many times and in many ways (1:1). Now he has spoken by his Son (1:2). Then the chapter piles…
- Hebrews 2: Made Like Us to Free Us
Hebrews 2 opens with a warning. If the message given through angels carried real penalties, there is no escape for those who neglect a salvation this great (2:1-3). The danger…
- Hebrews 3: Hearts Kept Soft Together
Hebrews 3 sets Jesus beside Moses. Moses served God's house faithfully as a servant; Jesus rules over it faithfully as the Son, just as a builder deserves more honor than the…
- Hebrews 4: Exposed and Still Welcomed
Hebrews 4 holds together two things that might seem to pull apart. First, God's word is alive and cuts deeper than any blade, laying bare the heart's thoughts and motives. No…
- Hebrews 5: The Priest Who Prayed with Tears
Every high priest in Israel was taken from among the people, so that he could deal gently with the ignorant and the wayward, since he was weak himself (5:1-2). No one took that…
- Hebrews 6: An Anchor That Holds
Hebrews 6 contains one of the hardest warnings in the New Testament. It speaks of people who have been enlightened, tasted the heavenly gift, and shared in the Holy Spirit, and…
- Hebrews 7: A Priest Who Never Dies
Hebrews 7 lingers over Melchizedek, the king of righteousness and king of peace, a priest who blessed Abraham and received a tenth from him (7:1-4). His priesthood did not come…
- Hebrews 8: Written on the Heart
Hebrews 8 states its main point plainly: believers have a high priest seated at God's right hand in heaven, serving in the true tabernacle that the Lord set up, not any human…
- Hebrews 9: A Conscience Made Clean
Hebrews 9 walks through the old tabernacle room by room: the lampstand and bread in the Holy Place, the ark and the mercy seat behind the second curtain (9:2-5). Only the high…
- Hebrews 10: Confidence to Come In
Hebrews 10 contrasts two kinds of priests. The old priests stood day after day offering the same sacrifices, which could never take sin away (10:11). Christ offered one sacrifice…
- Hebrews 11: Strangers Looking for a City
Hebrews 11 is a long roll call of people who trusted God, from Abel to Rahab and beyond. Faith is described at the start as being sure of what is hoped for and convinced of what…
- Hebrews 12: A Father Who Trains His Children
Hebrews 12 turns from the long list of the faithful to the one they all point to. Believers are to run with endurance, throwing off entangling sin and keeping their eyes on Jesus,…
- Hebrews 13: Steadied by a Changeless Christ
Hebrews ends with practical instructions: keep loving one another, welcome strangers, remember prisoners, honor marriage, and refuse to be ruled by the love of money (13:1-5).…