Hebrews Review

Review

I will attempt to summarize some of the things that we have learned from the book of Hebrews.  First, we know that there was a time when God spoke in many different ways to His people, but He finally spoke through the life of Christ, Who fulfilled all the law of God.  We will never have another thing said by God about how we may be restored to Him.  Christ is the final word of salvation.  This does not mean that God will not still speak to us, but He will no longer speak about another way to salvation.  Next, we are called on to be honest in our relationship to God.  It is not enough to just say the words, but we must honestly accept the truth of what God teaches us.  Going through the motions is not enough.  If we accept the truth of God as the Creator and Sustainer of the universe, Who provides a way for salvation for all who accept Christ as Savior and Lord, then we need to take our relationship to Him seriously.  We are also told of Christ's superiority to the angels.  Angels do not have the power to deliver us from death.  Christ alone was given this power, and this power was given to Him as a seed of Abraham.  Christ did not deliver us by His position as God, but He delivered us by His position as a man.  Christ's power on earth came from being obedient to the will of His heavenly Father.  That is the same place that our power comes from today.  We may sometimes wish that God would send an angel to help us in a particular situation, and it is possible that He may and we never know it, but He sent Someone greater than an angel.  God our Father, if we are followers of Christ, sent the Holy Spirit to indwell us.  As Christians, we are never without the power of God in our lives unless we choose to be.