IT’S ALL ABOUT JESUS—AND HIS LOVE FOR YOU (A Brief Study of the Book of Hebrews)

LESSON 56

INTRODUCTION

The book of Hebrews gives such a beautiful portrait of Jesus, our Messiah and Savior. Jesus the Creator of the universe. Jesus the suffering servant. Jesus the intercessor. Jesus the author and finisher of our faith. Jesus the coming King. This book is all about Jesus—and His love for you. It should motivate you and me to want His perfect will in our lives as much as we want our next breaths. 

We shall only look at one beautiful part of Jesus from each of the thirteen chapters in Hebrews. Ready?

1. HIS POWER TO SAVE YOU 

    Hebrews 1:1-3 “God, who at various times and in different ways spoke in time past to the 

    fathers by the prophets, has in these last days spoken to us by His Son, whom He has

    appointed heir of all things, through whom also He made the worlds; who being the bright-

    ness of His glory and express image of His person and upholding all things by the word of His

    power, when He had by Himself purged our sins, sat down at the right hand of the       

   Majesty on high.”

2. HIS LOVE TO YOU  

    Hebrews 2:9 “But we see Jesus, who was made a little lower than the angels for the suffering

    of death, crowned with glory and honor, that He, by the grace of God, might taste death for

    everyone.”   

3. HIS INVITATION TO YOU. 

    Hebrews 3:6-8a “But Christ as a Son over His own house, whose house we are if we hold

    fast the confidence and the rejoicing of the hope firm to the end. Therefore, as the Holy Spirit

    says: ‘Today, if you will hear His voice, Do not harden your hearts as in the day of

    rebellion…’”

4. HIS SYMPATHY TOWARD YOU

    Hebrews 4:13-15 “And there is no creature hidden from His sight, but all things are naked    

    and open to the eyes of Him to whom we must give account. Seeing then that we have a great

    High Priest who has passed through the heavens, Jesus the Son of God, let us hold fast our

    confession. For we do not have a High Priest who cannot sympathize with our weaknesses,

    but was in all points tempted as we are, yet without sin.”

5. HIS SUFFERING FOR YOU 

    Hebrews 5:8 “…though He was a Son, yet He learned obedience by the things which He 

    suffered.”

6. HIS ANCHOR OF HOPE TO KEEP YOU THROUGH THE STORMS OF LIFE

    Hebrews 6:19, 20 “This hope we have as an anchor of the soul, both sure and steadfast, and 

    which enters the Presence behind the veil, where the forerunner has entered for us, even 

    Jesus, having become High Priest forever according to the order of Melchizedek.”

7. HIS INTERCEDING FOR YOU

    Hebrews 7:25 “Therefore He is also able to save to the uttermost those who come to God 

    through Him, since He ever lives to make intercession for them.”

8. HIS FORGIVENESS OF YOUR SINS

    Hebrews 8:12 “For I will be merciful to their unrighteousness, and their sins and their law-

    less deeds I will remember no more.”

9. HIS BLOOD TO TRANSFORM YOUR LIFE

    Hebrews 9:14 “…how much more shall the blood of Christ, who through the eternal Spirit

    offered Himself without spot to God, purge your conscience from dead works to serve the 

    living God?” 

10. HIS PROMISE TO RETURN FOR YOU

      Hebrews 10:35-37 “Therefore do not cast away your confidence, which has great reward. 

      For you have need of endurance, so that after you have done the will of God, you may

      receive the promise: For yet a little while, And He who is coming will come and will not 

      tarry.”

11. HIS HEAVENLY COUNTRY THAT AWAITS YOU

      Hebrews 11:16 “But now they desire a better, that is, a heavenly country. Therefore God is

      not ashamed to be called their God, for He has prepared a city for them.”

12. HIS FAITHFULNESS TO SEE YOU THROUGH TO THE END

      Hebrews 12: 1, 2 “Therefore, we also, since we are surrounded by so great a cloud of 

      witnesses, let us lay aside every weight, and the sin that so easily ensnares us, and let us 

      run with endurance the race that is set before us, looking unto Jesus the author and finisher

      of our faith, who for the joy that was set before Him endured the cross, despising the shame

      and is now sat down at the right hand of God.”

13. HIS WORKING OUT HIS WILL IN YOUR LIFE

      Hebrews 13:20, 21 “Now may the God of peace who brought up our Lord Jesus from the

      dead, that great Shepherd of the sheep, through the blood of the everlasting covenant, make 

      you complete in every good work to do His will, working in you what is well pleasing in His

      sight, through Jesus Christ, to whom be glory forever and ever. Amen.”