Grace Church Teaching

The resurrection gives us a living hope and an inheritance that is imperishable.

Hebreos 5:11-6:12

La Fidelidad de Dios

God’s faithfulness is on display throughout history. Although we can lack belief that God will truly fulfill His promises, the writer of Hebrews reminds us that God will not back out and He will not change His mind; He will stay faithful to His people. As we place our hope in His faithfulness and wait for the fulfillment of His promises on earth or in Heaven, we can rest in the truth that we have a sure and steady anchor for our souls.

The author of Hebrews continues to warn us in Chapters five and six to check our souls to make sure we are not deceiving ourselves. We need to acknowledge that there is something at stake and that we always need to be progressing, growing, and moving towards the cross. If we are not responding to truth and moving forward, we are drifting away from God. The Christian life is about persevering and enduring through life’s battles and our war against our own flesh.

In Hebrews 4:14-5:10, the author is describing to us how Jesus is our “mega” high priest. Jesus was made high priest by God and He charted a path to God that was marked by His suffering, sacrifice, and obedience. Jesus is like us in all of our weaknesses, yet without sin. Since He is able to sympathize with our weakness and is our source of eternal salvation, we can hold on to our confession of faith and approach the throne of grace with boldness.

As believers, we can rest in the truth that we do not have to work to prove or earn our salvation. We need only to do the work of examining and exposing our souls. We are free from exhausting ourselves with good works, because our faithful God has made rest ready for us in eternity.

The author of Hebrews warns his audience to inspect their souls and be able to care for others. As believers, we are susceptible to hardening our own hearts and living in disobedience to God. It begins with drifting from our faith, and if we are not careful to examine our hearts and heed the warnings of other believers, we will become blinded and deceived by sin.

As believers, we have direct access to God’s messenger and our High Priest, Jesus. However, we often settle for “good” things when we have access to the Greatest. We focus on and place our hope in the things of this world rather than the One who created all of these things. We focus on the house, when our attention, praise, and worship should be directed to the builder. All the good things in our lives should only serve as a means to glorify Jesus in the end.

Sometimes we get stuck. Our faith becomes a list of dos and don’ts, and without even realizing it, walking with Christ has boiled down to following a set of rules. Over time, our hearts harden, and when our response to the gospel is apathetic at best, we drift away from its message of hope and reconciliation. The book of Hebrews is our wake-up call. It’s a reminder that the Christian faith is about submitting our lives to One who is greater—One who radiates glory, who sustains creation with His boundless power, who infinitely exceeds the capacity of our imaginations, One who has cleansed us from our sins. What would it look like for our lives to be captivated by the One who is greater, Jesus Christ, instead of ourselves? Join us as we explore the book of Hebrews to find out.

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