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HEBREWS
CHAPTER ONE
TABLE
OF CONTENTS
I)
INTRODUCTION
A)
OPENING NOTE
B)
ORIGINAL LANGUAGE OF THE LETTER
C)
DESTINATION OF THE LETTER
D)
OCCASION AND PURPOSE OF THE LETTER
E)
DATE
F)
AUTHORSHIP
1)
INTRODUCTION
2)
LUKE PROPOSED AS THE AUTHOR
3)
APOLLOS PROPOSED AS THE AUTHOR
4)
PAUL PROPOSED AS AUTHOR
5)
BARNABAS PROPOSED AS THE AUTHOR
6)
PRISCILLA (WITH AQUILLA) PROPOSED AS THE AUTHOR
a)
[Heb 11:32]:
II)
PROLOGUE
A)
INTRODUCTION
B)
[Heb 1:1]:
1)
IN THE PAST REFERS TO WHAT GOD HAD DONE IN THE PAST IN A UNIQUE WAY
2)
GOD HAS BEEN ACTIVE IN THE PAST FROM THE BEGINNING
3)
GOD SPOKE IN THE PAST SINCE THE BEGINNING TO BELIEVERS THROUGH THE
PROPHETS - IN THEIR LIVES AND IN WHAT THEY SAID
4)
GOD HAS BEEN ACTIVE SINCE THE BEGINNING AND AT MANY TIMES AND IN VARIOUS
WAYS
C)
[Heb 1:1-3]:
1)
THE LAST DAYS OF THE CHURCH AGE ARE IN VIEW
2)
IN THESE LAST DAYS OF THE CHURCH AGE GOD HAS SPOKEN TO US 'IN SON'
3)
SEVEN GREAT POINTS ABOUT THE SON OF GOD
a)
INTRODUCTION
b)
POINT #1: GOD APPOINTED THE SON HEIR OF ALL THINGS
i)
[Compare Phil 2:5-9]:
c)
POINT #2: THROUGH THE SON GOD ALSO MADE THE UNIVERSE - THE SON IS
CREATOR
i)
for ever, an unbroken age, perpetuity of time, eternity
ii)
the worlds, universe
iii)
period of time, age
iv)
[Compare Col 1:14-20]:
d)
POINT #3: BEING THE RADIANCE OF GOD'S GLORY
i)
THE GLORY OF GOD DEFINED
i_a)
[Ez 10:4]:
ii)
CERTAIN MEN AT CERTAIN TIMES HAVE REFLECTED THE GLORY OF GOD
ii_a)
[Compare Ex 34:33-35]:
iii)
THE SON IS THE RADIANCE OF GOD'S GLORY
iii_a)
[Compare Lk 9:26-32]:
iii_b)
[Compare Mt 16:28-17:2]:
iii_d)
[Compare Mt 25:31]:
e)
POINT #4: BEING THE EXACT REPRESENTATION OF THE ESSENCE OF GOD, I.E.,
BEING GOD HIMSELF, GOD THE SON
i)
[Compare Phil 2:5-6]:
f)
POINT #5: SUSTAINING ALL THINGS BY THE WORD OF HIS POWER
i)
[Compare Gen 1:1]:
ii)
[Compare Col 1:15-17]:
g)
POINT #6: HAVING MADE PURIFICATION FOR OUR SINS
i)
[Compare 1 Jn 2:2]:
ii)
[Compare Ro 3:25]:
h)
POINT #7: HE SAT DOWN AT THE RIGHT HAND OF THE MAJESTY IN HEAVEN
i)
[Col 3:1]:
ii)
[Compare 1 Ch 29:11]:
iii)
[Ps 104:1]:
iv)
[Ps 104:4-5]:
D)
[Heb 1:3-4]:
1)
THE SON'S SUPERIORITY TO ANGELS ESTABLISHES OUR LORD'S ABSOLUTE
SUPREMACY & ELIMINATES ANY REASON FOR ANGEL WORSHIP
2)
SO OUR LORD IN HIS HUMANITY BECAME MUCH SUPERIOR TO THE ANGELS AS THE
NAME HE HAS INHERITED IS SUPERIOR TO THEIRS
III)
GOD'S KING-SON IS SUPERIOR TO ALL
A)
INTRODUCTION
B)
THE KING-SON EXALTED ABOVE EVEN THE ANGELS (1:5-14)
1)
[Heb 1:3-5]:
a)
THE DAY THE SON IN HIS HUMANITY ASCENDED TO THE RIGHT HAND OF THE
MAJESTY, THE FATHER DECLARED 'YOU ARE MY SON; TODAY I HAVE BECOME YOUR
FATHER'
i)
[Compare Psalms 2:1-9]:
i_a)
AT OTHER TIMES IN SCRIPTURE GOD DECLARED JESUS CHRIST TO BE HIS SON BUT
WITH DIFFERENT EMPHASES
i_ai)
[Compare Mt 3:13-17]:
ii_aii)
[Compare Mt 17:1-5]:
iii_aiii)
[Compare Rev 19:15-16]:
iii_aiv)
[Compare Heb 5:1-5]:
b)
THE PROMISE OF THE EVERLASTING DAVIDIC COVENANT IS THROUGH THE SON: 'I
WILL BE HIS FATHER AND HE WILL BE MY SON'
i)
[Compare 2 Sam 7:11-14]:
2)
[HEB 1:6]:
a)
THE SON IS THE FIRSTBORN OF GOD WHO IS TO BE WORSHIPPED BY ANGELS
b)
[Compare Ps 97:1-9]:
c)
[Ex 20:4-5]:
d)
[Mt 4:10]:
e)
[Compare Deut 32:43]:
3)
[Heb 1:7]:
a)
[Compare Ps 104:4]:
4)
[Heb 1:8-9]:
a)
[Compare Ps 45:6-7]:
5)
[Heb 1:10-12]:
6)
[Heb 1:13-14]:
Hebrews
Chapter 2: 