I’ve always liked the letter to the Hebrews. It’s a letter, which clearly tells us that the old covenant was a shadow of the new covenant. A new covenant that was bought into existence by Jesus’ life, death and resurrection.
The title, for this July/August edition of Every Day with Jesus, is ‘The Perfect One’. ['The Son is the radiance of God's glory ... sustaining all things by his powerful word.' Hebrews 1:3]
Selwyn captures the theme of Hebrews, very simply; ‘the superiority of Christ over every other person and religious system in the universe. … (Hebrews) is the clearest and most systematic presentation of Christ’s adequacy and uniqueness.’
His conclusion, leaves us in no doubt about Selwyn’s views on the truth of Jesus’ complete superiority: “In the New Testament, especially the Gospels, you find a new voice that gathers up the syllables and phrases in which God spoke in the Old Testament and merges them into one complete and final discourse. God’s Word and message to humanity has been fully uttered in and through His Son.”
Consequently, we find the same truth expressed in today’s prayer: “Father, when my eyes fall on Christ, You own beloved Son, I know that all else is relative. He and He alone is absolute. May His supremacy become more real to me day by day. In Christ’s name I ask it.”
The one, single verse for meditation, is the first verse of Hebrews: “Long ago God spoke many times and in many ways to our ancestors through the prophets.”
As I mentioned at the start – I like Hebrews; I think that the next two months will be most rewarding – I pray, that at the end of this study, you too will have enjoyed the journey.
Speech ‘without a stutter’
I’ve always liked the letter to the Hebrews. It’s a letter, which clearly tells us that the old covenant was a shadow of the new covenant. A new covenant that was bought into existence by Jesus’ life, death and resurrection.
The title, for this July/August edition of Every Day with Jesus, is ‘The Perfect One’. ['The Son is the radiance of God's glory ... sustaining all things by his powerful word.' Hebrews 1:3]
Selwyn captures the theme of Hebrews, very simply; ‘the superiority of Christ over every other person and religious system in the universe. … (Hebrews) is the clearest and most systematic presentation of Christ’s adequacy and uniqueness.’
His conclusion, leaves us in no doubt about Selwyn’s views on the truth of Jesus’ complete superiority: “In the New Testament, especially the Gospels, you find a new voice that gathers up the syllables and phrases in which God spoke in the Old Testament and merges them into one complete and final discourse. God’s Word and message to humanity has been fully uttered in and through His Son.”
Consequently, we find the same truth expressed in today’s prayer: “Father, when my eyes fall on Christ, You own beloved Son, I know that all else is relative. He and He alone is absolute. May His supremacy become more real to me day by day. In Christ’s name I ask it.”
The one, single verse for meditation, is the first verse of Hebrews: “Long ago God spoke many times and in many ways to our ancestors through the prophets.”
As I mentioned at the start – I like Hebrews; I think that the next two months will be most rewarding – I pray, that at the end of this study, you too will have enjoyed the journey.