Hebrews 13

Final Exhortations

Instruction (doctrine) Hebrews 1-10:18

Exhortation (duty) Hebrews 10:19-13

Superior Person of Christ Hebrews 1:1-4:13

Superior Priest in Christ Hebrews 4:14-10:18

Superior Life In Christ Hebrews 10:19-13

BETTER THAN:

Person

Priesthood

Covenant

Sacrifice

LIFE

Majesty of Christ

Ministry of Christ

Ministers of Christ

“Love One Another”

Hebrews 13:1-7

“Live Out The Faith”

Love one another

Honor your marriage

Don’t love money; be content with what you have

Know Who has your back, your front and your side!

Remember your leaders

13:8 - POWERFUL!

Jesus Christ is the same yesterday and today, and forever

Do not be misled by varied and strange teachings; for it is good for the heart to be strengthened by grace, not by foods, through which those who were so occupied were not benefited. Hebrews 13:9

New information introduced about strange teaching - it had to do with food. Even then, people could be consumed about FOOD!

10 We have an altar from which those who serve the tabernacle have no right to eat.

We have an altar - the breakfast of grace was prepared on the altar of the cross where Jesus died for our sins. If you want to be strong in your heart, when your heart is groaning with a sense of sin and failure, before you go to the kitchen to eat food, go to the altar to eat the blood-bought grace of forgiveness and hope. — John Piper

11 For the bodies of those animals whose blood is brought into the Holy Place by the high priest as an offering for sin are burned outside the camp.

12 Therefore Jesus also suffered outside the gate, that He might sanctify the people through His own blood.

And the meaning is: All there was to eat on the Day of Atonement was forgiveness and hope. That's all there is to eat from the altar of Calvary where the body of Jesus was consumed with suffering.

We have an altar. And there is food. And the food is grace - the grace of forgiveness and the grace of hope. The only way to be strong is to come back to this table again and again.