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Lesson No. 21
HEBREWS
KEY WORD—“SUPERIOR.”
KEY VERSE—Hebrews 1:1-2.
KEY PHRASE—“THE GOSPEL IS
SUPERIOR TO THE LAW.”
WRITER—Most probably Paul,
although scholars are divided on the
question of authorship, and some think
that Apollos or someone else wrote it.
DATE—About 65 A.D., before the
destruction of the temple.
TO WHOM WRITTEN—To the
converts from Judaism, probably in the
church at Alexandria in Egypt, which
was founded by Mark.
OCCASION—These Jewish
Christians were subject to severe
persecutions and to constant arguments
and contempt from the non-Christian
Jews. This so weakened their
resistance and faith that they were in
danger of abandoning their allegiance
to Jesus Christ, and of going back into
Judaism.
PURPOSE—
1. To prove that the Old Covenants
and Ceremonial Laws of Moses came
to an end in Christ.
2. To warn against the leaving of the
substance of the gospel and the going
back to the shadow of the Law.
Great Fact I -- Christ Is Superior
to Prophets and Angels.
Great Fact II -- Christ Is Superior
to Moses.
Great Fact III -- Christ Is
Superior to the Old Testament
Priesthood.
Great Fact IV -- The New
Covenant Is Superior to the Old.
Great Fact V -- The Superiority
of Faith.
Great Fact VI -- The Superiority
of the Christian’s Privileges and
Duties.