Part 22 - The Book of Hebrews

OUTLINE:

We Always Focus on the Victim Instead of the Perpetrator
Blog – 4/1/23

Where Are Your Eyes??
Freedom from our own pain and suffering comes from focusing on others, and on God Himself, His mission for us, even. Lk 23:34, Heb 12:2

Godly Perspective on Suffering
Suffering is a necessary aspect of spiritual growth (analogous to growing pains, physically). Suffering is not the end goal, nor is it a “right of passage” or “badge of honor”. Suffering is like fire in that it burns off impurities – the end goal being sanctification (aka, being more like Christ).

The essence of discipline is maintaining the perspective that God is sovereign, holy, and in control.

The Rhetoric in Hebrews
Theology:  Types vs. Antitypes
A type is a symbol of something future and distant, or an example prepared and evidently designed by God to prefigure that future thing. What is thus prefigured is called the antitype.

Php 3:20
But our citizenship is in heaven, and from it we await a Savior, the Lord Jesus Christ,

Jn 19:30
When Jesus had received the sour wine, he said, "It is finished," and he bowed his head and gave up his spirit.

The Rhetoric in Hebrews
1Jn 5:4-5
For everyone who has been born of God overcomes the world. And this is the victory that has overcome the world— our faith. 5 Who is it that overcomes the world except the one who believes that Jesus is the Son of God?