Part 20 - The Book of Hebrews

OUTLINE:

Learn to See Past the Pain
God uses “localized” suffering to deliver us from “distant” maladies. Although the “localized” pain captures our attention, it’s the “distant” issue God is working on.

How to Approach Holy Scripture
The great error humanists make is interpreting Holy Scripture through a human lens (e.g., a lens even an unbeliever might use to interpret the Bible). The correct starting point must always be God’s sovereign, holy decree (e.g. a lens only a believer can learn and gain proper perspective on).

What is Good? And Who Gets to Define It?
Nov 9, 2017 – Part 1

Pastor Mark Dever
God defines what is good. Goodness or righteousness is not an external standard that God effortlessly and perfectly conforms to; rather, goodness is a way of describing God and all his actions and commands.

Ro 8:28
And we know that for those who love God all things work together for good, for those who are called according to his purpose.

Gen 50:20
As for you, you meant evil against me, but God meant it for good, to bring it about that many people should be kept alive, as they are today.

The Rhetoric in Hebrews
God's Sanctification of the Believer
God always provides His Word (the right scriptures and lessons at the right time); to guide us while we're in the Refiner's fire, if we're listening. He's weaving all things together in our lives, to His glory, as He fulfills His promise to complete His good work in us. Php 1:6, 1Th 5:23-24

Job 42:1-3
Then Job answered the LORD and said: “I know that you can do all things, and that no purpose of yours can be thwarted. ‘Who is this that hides counsel without knowledge?’ Therefore I have uttered what I did not understand, things too wonderful for me, which I did not know.”

The Rhetoric in Hebrews