Why Don't We Have Priests?
The perfect Christ has established for us perfect access to the Father; a perfect and lasting priestly act that was accomplished without Levites, but in the order of Melchizedek.
Series: Christ Changed Everything
Our Radically Altered Relationship with God
October 15, 2006
• Hebrews 7:1-10:18
This six-part series from Hebrews 7-10 looks at how Christ radically altered our relationship with God from the Old Covenant to the New Covenant.
Why Don't We Have A Temple?
Hebrews 8:1-5
The OT tabernacle & temples were only representative of God’s dwelling in Heaven. Today there is no “representative house of God”, but only God “dwelling” in the members of his Church by the Person of the Holy Spirit.
Why Did We Need a New Covenant Anyway?
Hebrews 8:6-13
The work of Christ provided for us Gentiles a revolutionary opportunity to know God intimately and experience his perfect forgiveness.
Why Don't We Have to Keep All Those Old Testament Ceremonies?
Hebrews 9:1-11
Because Christ fulfilled every Old Covenant ceremony we should now approach these Old Testament “parables” by seeing the anticipation of Christ in them and gleaning any moral parallels without adhering to them or requiring them of others.
What's With All Those Animal Sacrifices, and Why No More?
Hebrews 9:12-28
The animal sacrifices of the Old Testament didn’t save anyone, but they symbolized something that did – the substitutionary death of the sinless Lamb of God.
Should We Be Expecting a Newer Testament?
Hebrews 10:1-18
The Christ of the New Testament has provided and communicated all we need, not only to secure our perfect redemption, but for all the problems we & our world face!