The Epistle to the Hebrews
Cover -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Dedication -- Contents -- Editor's Preface -- Author's Preface -- Abbreviations -- Bibliography -- Introduction -- I. Hebrews in Its Environment -- A. The Pastor Who Wrote Hebrews -- 1. Authorship and Canonicity -- 2. Candidates for Authorship-A Rev...
| Summary: | Cover -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Dedication -- Contents -- Editor's Preface -- Author's Preface -- Abbreviations -- Bibliography -- Introduction -- I. Hebrews in Its Environment -- A. The Pastor Who Wrote Hebrews -- 1. Authorship and Canonicity -- 2. Candidates for Authorship-A Review -- B. The Pastor's Sermon -- C. The Pastor's Congregation -- 1. What the Sermon Reveals about Its Hearers -- 2. Were These Hearers Jewish or Gentile in Background? -- D. The Pastor's Worldview -- 1. The Pastor's Dependence on the Christian Tradition -- 2. The Pastor and the Heavenly/Futuristic Eschatology of Apocalyptic Writings -- 3. The Pastor and the Influence of Neo-Platonism -- E. When Did the Pastor Write This Sermon? -- II. The Message of Hebrews -- A. The Sermon's Use of the Old Testament -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Fundamental Assumptions -- 3. The Psalms and Related Passages-"God Has Spoken" -- 4. The Pentateuch-Moses Bears "Witness to the Things That Would Be Spoken" -- 5. The Historical Books (Joshua through Nehemiah) -- 6. Hebrews 3:7-4:11 -- 7:1-10 -- and 12:18-24 -- 7. Continuity and Typology -- 8. Hebrews and Contemporary Jewish Use of the Old Testament -- 9. Contemporary Relevance -- B. The Sermon's Rhetorically Effective Structure -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Hebrews 1:1-2:18 and 12:4-29: God Has Spoken from the Mountain -- 3. Hebrews 3:1-4:13 and 10:19-12:3: On Pilgrimage to the Promised Home -- 4. Hebrews 1:1-4:13 and 10:19-12:29: The Disobedient and the Faithful -- 5. Hebrews 13:1-25: The Peroration (and Letter Ending) -- 6. Hebrews 4:14-10:18: Entering the Most Holy Place -- 7. The Rhetorical Shape of Hebrews and Its Use of the Old Testament -- 8. The Rhetorical Shape of Hebrews and Ancient Rhetoric -- C. The Sermon's Abiding Message -- D. The Sermon's Outline -- Text, Exposition, and Notes I. A Very Short History of the Disobedient People of God (1:1-4:13) -- A. Sinai Revisited: God Has Spoken in the Eternal, Incarnate, Now Exalted Son (1:1-2:18) -- 1. God Has Spoken through His Son (1:1-4) -- 2. The Incomparable Majesty of the Eternal, Exalted Son (1:5-14) -- 3. The Urgency of Attending to God's Son-Mediated Revelation (2:1-4) -- 4. The Crucial Importance of the Incarnate, Suffering Son (2:5-18) -- B. Tested at Kadesh-Barnea: Avoid the Congregation of the Disobedient (3:1-4:13) -- 1. Consider Jesus, A Son over the House of God (3:1-6) -- 2. Avoid the Company of the Faithless Generation (3:7-19) -- 3. Pursue the Blessing Lost by the Faithless Generation (4:1-11) -- 4. You Are Accountable before the Word of God (4:12-13) -- II. The Son's High Priesthood-Resource and Urgency for Perseverance (4:14-10:18) -- A. The Life of Faith and the High Priesthood of the Son (4:14-5:10) -- 1. Embrace This Great High Priest (4:14-16) -- 2. The New High Priest and the Old (5:1-10) -- B. Don't Be Unresponsive but Grasp What Christ Has Provided (5:11-6:20) -- 1. Reverse Your Unnatural Regression (5:11-6:3) -- 2. Avoid the Danger of Apostasy (6:4-8) -- 3. Shun Apostasy and Embrace the Community of the Faithful (6:9-12) -- 4. Trust God's Promise Verified by God's Oath (6:13-20) -- C. Our High Priest's Legitimacy and Eternity (7:1-28) -- 1. Melchizedek Is Greater than Levi (7:1-10) -- 2. The Priest in "the Likeness of Melchizedek" Displaces Aaron (7:11-25) -- 3. This Priest Is Exactly the Kind of Priest We Need (7:26-28) -- D. Our High Priest's All-Sufficient Sacrifice: A Symphony in Three Movements (8:1-10:18) -- 1. First Movement: The New Promised (8:1-13) -- a. A Minister of the Sanctuary and True Tent (8:1-2) -- b. A Different Sacrifice (8:3-6) -- c. A Better Covenant (8:7-13) -- 2. Second Movement: The Old Antiquated -- the New Foreshadowed (9:1-22) a. Limitations of the Earthly Sanctuary (9:1-10) -- b. The All-Sufficiency of Christ's Sacrifice (9:11-15) -- c. Freed from the Condemnation of a Broken Covenant (9:16-22) -- 3. Third Movement: The New Explained (9:23-10:18) -- a. Sanctuary: "In the Presence of God for Us" (9:23-24) -- b. Sacrifice-"Once for All" (9:25-10:4) -- c. Sacrifice-"To Do Your Will, O God" (10:5-10) -- d. Sacrifice-"He Sat Down Forever" (10:11-14) -- e. Covenant-"Where There Is Release" (10:15-18) -- III. A History of the Faithful People of God from Creation to Consummation (10:19-12:29) -- A. The Life of Persevering Faith and the High Priesthood of the Son (10:19-39) -- 1. Avail Yourselves of This Great Priest (10:19-25) -- 2. You Are More Accountable Because of This High Priest (10:26-31) -- 3. Pursue the Blessing Promised the Faithful (10:32-39) -- B. The Past History of the People of God until the Coming of Jesus (11:1-12:3) -- 1. Join the Company of the Faithful of Old (11:1-40) -- a. From Creation to Noah: The Foundations of Faith (11:1-7) -- b. Abraham, Faith at Its Best: Perseverance in an Alien World (11:8-22) -- c. Moses, Faith under Stress: A Story of Resistance and Triumph (11:23-31) -- d. The Rest of the Story-A "Better Resurrection" (11:32-38) -- e. "They without Us …" (11:39-40) -- 2. Keep Your Eyes on Jesus, Seated at God's Right Hand (12:1-3) -- C. The Present History of the People of God until the Consummation (12:4-29) -- 1. God's True Sons and Daughters Endure the Discipline of Suffering (12:4-13) -- 2. Don't Sell Your Birthright, as Esau Did (12:14-17) -- 3. God's Firstborn Enter His Presence through the Exalted Jesus (12:18-24) -- 4. God Will Speak "Once More" at the Final Judgment (12:25-29) -- IV. Instructions for the Life of Gratitude and Godly Fear (13:1-25) -- A. The Community of the Faithful and the Life of Gratitude and Godly Fear (13:1-6) B. The Unbelieving World and the Life of Gratitude and Godly Fear (13:7-17) -- C. A Sermon Sent as a Letter (13:18-25) -- Notes -- Subjects -- Names -- Scripture and Other Ancient Texts |
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| ISBN: | 1467423580 |