Hebrews

Everything Good Through Jesus Christ

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Thanks for tuning into Redeemer Al Ain’s online service. Our church is currently meeting in person with restrictions on Thursdays from 6:30–7:30pm at the Al Ain Evangelical Church Centre. (For more information about the restrictions click here). As pastors, we also understand that different people have different circumstances and comfort levels for in-person gatherings. We do not want to pressure anyone to attend who would not feel comfortable. We will continue to post the service online so that people can participate digitally. 

In this service, we’re completing our study through the book of Hebrews. Pastor John Norris is preaching on Hebrews 13:20–25, Everything Good Through Jesus Christ.

August 14 Online Service
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Worship Through Singing
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Jesus Shall Reign – Enfield

Man of Sorrows – Shane & Shane

Bible Reading
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 20 Now may the God of peace who brought again from the dead our Lord Jesus, the great shepherd of the sheep, by the blood of the eternal covenant, 21 equip you with everything good that you may do his will, working in us that which is pleasing in his sight, through Jesus Christ, to whom be glory forever and ever. Amen. 

22 I appeal to you, brothers, bear with my word of exhortation, for I have written to you briefly. 23 You should know that our brother Timothy has been released, with whom I shall see you if he comes soon. 24 Greet all your leaders and all the saints. Those who come from Italy send you greetings. 25 Grace be with all of you.

Hebrews 13:20–25

Sermon
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Everything Good Through Jesus Christ
John Norris

Study Questions

  1. Why is God called “the God of peace”?

  2. Why is Jesus called “the great shepherd of the sheep”?

  3. What is “the eternal covenant”? Why is it called that?

  4. What is the author of Hebrews asking God to do in verses 20 and 21?

  5. In light of verses 20 and 21, when we do God’s will, who gets the credit? Why?

 

Song Credits

Jesus Shall Reign
Performed By: Enfield
Words: Isaac Watts, 1719, alt.; and Ryan Foglesong
Music: John Hatton, 1793, and Ryan Foglesong

Man of Sorrows
Performed By: Shane & Shane
Written By: Brooke Ligertwood / Matt Crocker
© 2013 Hillsong Worship

Under Leadership in the Grace of Christ

Welcome
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Thanks for tuning into Redeemer Al Ain’s online service. Our church is currently meeting in person with restrictions on Thursdays from 6:30–7:30pm at the Al Ain Evangelical Church Centre. (For more information about the restrictions click here). As pastors, we also understand that different people have different circumstances and comfort levels for in-person gatherings. We do not want to pressure anyone to attend who would not feel comfortable. We will continue to post the service online so that people can participate digitally. 

In this service, we’re continuing our study through the book of Hebrews. Pastor John Norris is preaching on Hebrews 13:7–19, Under Leadership in the Grace of Christ.

August 7 Online Service
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Worship Through Singing
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Jesus Shall Reign – Enfield

Jesus Thank You – Sovereign Grace Music

Bible Reading
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7 Remember your leaders, those who spoke to you the word of God. Consider the outcome of their way of life, and imitate their faith. 8 Jesus Christ is the same yesterday and today and forever. 9 Do not be led away by diverse and strange teachings, for it is good for the heart to be strengthened by grace, not by foods, which have not benefited those devoted to them. 10 We have an altar from which those who serve the tent have no right to eat. 11 For the bodies of those animals whose blood is brought into the holy places by the high priest as a sacrifice for sin are burned outside the camp. 12 So Jesus also suffered outside the gate in order to sanctify the people through his own blood. 13 Therefore let us go to him outside the camp and bear the reproach he endured. 14 For here we have no lasting city, but we seek the city that is to come. 15 Through him then let us continually offer up a sacrifice of praise to God, that is, the fruit of lips that acknowledge his name. 16 Do not neglect to do good and to share what you have, for such sacrifices are pleasing to God.

17 Obey your leaders and submit to them, for they are keeping watch over your souls, as those who will have to give an account. Let them do this with joy and not with groaning, for that would be of no advantage to you.

18 Pray for us, for we are sure that we have a clear conscience, desiring to act honorably in all things. 19 I urge you the more earnestly to do this in order that I may be restored to you the sooner.

Hebrews 13:7–19

Sermon
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Under Leadership in the Grace of Christ
John Norris

Study Questions

  1. What is the connection between verse 8 and verse 9?

  2. How is the heart strengthened by grace (verse 9)? Why doesn’t food strengthen the heart?

  3. What does it mean to “go to Jesus outside the camp, and bear the reproach He endured” (verse 13)?

  4. What do church leaders do according to this passage?

  5. What does it mean to obey your leaders and submit to them (verse 17)? When should you submit? When should you not?

 

Song Credits

Jesus Shall Reign
Words: Isaac Watts, 1719, alt.; and Ryan Foglesong
Music: John Hatton, 1793, and Ryan Foglesong

Jesus Thank You
Music and Words by Pat Sczebel
© 2003 Integrity’s Hosanna! Music (ASCAP)/Sovereign Grace Worship (ASCAP)

Practical Love and Pure Living

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Thanks for tuning into Redeemer Al Ain’s online service. Our church is currently meeting in person with restrictions on Thursdays from 6:30–7:30pm at the Al Ain Evangelical Church Centre. (For more information about the restrictions click here). As pastors, we also understand that different people have different circumstances and comfort levels for in-person gatherings. We do not want to pressure anyone to attend who would not feel comfortable. We will continue to post the service online so that people can participate digitally. 

In this service, we’re continuing our study through the book of Hebrews. Pastor John Norris is preaching on Hebrews 13:1–6, Practical Love and Pure Living.

July 31 Online Service
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Worship Through Singing
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Hallelujah for the Cross – Newsboys

What a Savior – Sovereign Grace Music

Bible Reading
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1 Let brotherly love continue. 2 Do not neglect to show hospitality to strangers, for thereby some have entertained angels unawares. 3 Remember those who are in prison, as though in prison with them, and those who are mistreated, since you also are in the body. 4 Let marriage be held in honor among all, and let the marriage bed be undefiled, for God will judge the sexually immoral and adulterous. 5 Keep your life free from love of money, and be content with what you have, for he has said, “I will never leave you nor forsake you.” 6 So we can confidently say, “The Lord is my helper; I will not fear; what can man do to me?”

Hebrews 13:1–6

Sermon
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Practical Love and Pure Living
John Norris

Study Questions

  1. Verses 2–6 contain commands, each connected with reasons that the author is giving to help us obey those commands. What are those commands and what are the reasons given that help us obey?

  2. How do these reasons given for obedience work to motivate us.

  3. How should Christians feel about the warning given in verse 4

  4. How are these commands related to each other?

  5. How do you think this passage relates to the rest of the book?

  6. How do you need to apply these verses to your life now?

 

Song Credits

Hallelujah for the Cross
Written By: Ross King & Todd Wright
© 2014 Captol CMG

What a Savior
Verses by Philip Paul Bliss (1875). Music and chorus by Devon Kauflin. 
© 2008 Sovereign Grace Praise (BMI).

Worship in Joy-Filled Fear

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Thanks for tuning into Redeemer Al Ain’s online service. Our church is currently meeting in person with restrictions on Thursdays from 6:30–7:30pm at the Al Ain Evangelical Church Centre. (For more information about the restrictions click here). As pastors, we also understand that different people have different circumstances and comfort levels for in-person gatherings. We do not want to pressure anyone to attend who would not feel comfortable. We will continue to post the service online so that people can participate digitally. 

In this service, we’re continuing our study through the book of Hebrews. Pastor John Norris is preaching on Hebrews 12:18–29, Worship in Joy-Filled Fear.

July 24 Online Service
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Worship Through Singing
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Jesus My Only Hope – Sovereign Grace Music

The Power of the Cross – Keith & Kristyn Getty

Bible Reading
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18 For you have not come to what may be touched, a blazing fire and darkness and gloom and a tempest 19 and the sound of a trumpet and a voice whose words made the hearers beg that no further messages be spoken to them. 20 For they could not endure the order that was given, “If even a beast touches the mountain, it shall be stoned.” 21 Indeed, so terrifying was the sight that Moses said, “I tremble with fear.” 22 But you have come to Mount Zion and to the city of the living God, the heavenly Jerusalem, and to innumerable angels in festal gathering, 23 and to the assembly of the firstborn who are enrolled in heaven, and to God, the judge of all, and to the spirits of the righteous made perfect, 24 and to Jesus, the mediator of a new covenant, and to the sprinkled blood that speaks a better word than the blood of Abel.

25 See that you do not refuse him who is speaking. For if they did not escape when they refused him who warned them on earth, much less will we escape if we reject him who warns from heaven. 26 At that time his voice shook the earth, but now he has promised, “Yet once more I will shake not only the earth but also the heavens.” 27 This phrase, “Yet once more,” indicates the removal of things that are shaken—that is, things that have been made—in order that the things that cannot be shaken may remain. 28 Therefore let us be grateful for receiving a kingdom that cannot be shaken, and thus let us offer to God acceptable worship, with reverence and awe, 29 for our God is a consuming fire.

Hebrews 12:18–29

Sermon
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Worship in Joy-Filled Fear
John Norris

Study Questions

  1. What are the differences between Mount Sinai in verses 18–21 and Mount Zion in verses 22–24?

  2. Why does the author of Hebrews compare these two mountains?

  3. What does it mean that Jesus’ blood speaks a better word than the blood of Abel (vs. 24)?

  4. What does the author mean by “things that are shaken” in verse 27?

  5. Why does God being “a consuming fire” make Christians worship “with reverence and awe” (vs. 29)?

 

Song Credits

Jesus My Only Hope
Music and words by Mark Altrogge. © 2002 Sovereign Grace Praise (BMI). Sovereign Grace Music, a division of Sovereign Grace Churches. All rights reserved. Administrated worldwide at www.CapitolCMGPublishing.com, excluding the UK which is adm. by Integrity Music, part of the David C Cook family. www.SovereignGraceMusic.org

The Power of the Cross
Words and Music by Keith Getty and Stuart Townend
© 2005 ThankYou Music/Adm. by worshiptogether.com songs

The Race, the Life, and the Community

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Thanks for tuning into Redeemer Al Ain’s online service. This week was our first week that we were able to gather in person at the Al Ain Evangelical Church Centre, but the restrictions placed upon gathering meant that all of our members and attendees will not be able to attend at once. (For more information about the restrictions click here). As pastors, we also understand that different people have different circumstances and comfort levels for in-person gatherings. We do not want to pressure anyone to attend who would not feel comfortable. We will continue to post the service online so that people can participate digitally. 

In this service, we’re continuing our study through the book of Hebrews. Pastor Drew Remke is preaching on Hebrews 12:12–17, The Race, the Life, and the Community.

July 17 Online Service
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Worship Through Singing
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O Church Arise – Keith & Kristyn Getty

Man Of Sorrows – Hillsong

Stronger – Hillsong

Bible Reading
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12 Therefore lift your drooping hands and strengthen your weak knees, 13 and make straight paths for your feet, so that what is lame may not be put out of joint but rather be healed. 14 Strive for peace with everyone, and for the holiness without which no one will see the Lord. 15 See to it that no one fails to obtain the grace of God; that no “root of bitterness” springs up and causes trouble, and by it many become defiled; 16 that no one is sexually immoral or unholy like Esau, who sold his birthright for a single meal. 17 For you know that afterward, when he desired to inherit the blessing, he was rejected, for he found no chance to repent, though he sought it with tears.

Hebrews 12:12–17

Sermon
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The Race, the Life, and the Community
Drew Remke

Study Questions

  1. How does this passage relate to the verses that came before it?

  2. Practically, how can Christians strive for peace with everyone? (vs. 14)?

  3. What does it mean to strive for “the holiness without which no one will see the Lord?” (vs. 14)

  4. What role does the community of the church play in our pursuit of holiness?

  5. How are we to understand what this passage teaches about Esau in vs. 16–17? What implications does this have upon our lives?

 

The Kind Discipline of a Heavenly Father

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Thanks for tuning into Redeemer Al Ain’s online service. Due to the outbreak of covid-19 our regular corporate worship services have been suspended until further notice. We’d encourage you to participate in the online service with your family, roommates, or by yourself.

In this service, we’re continuing our study through the book of Hebrews. Pastor Luke Humphrey will be preaching on Hebrews 12:3–11, The Kind Discipline of a Heavenly Father.

July 10 Online Service
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Welcome & Prayer
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John Norris


Worship Through Singing
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Jesus, Thank You – Sovereign Grace Music

Come Thou Fount of Every Blessing – Norton Hall Band


Bible Reading
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3 Consider him who endured from sinners such hostility against himself, so that you may not grow weary or fainthearted. 4 In your struggle against sin you have not yet resisted to the point of shedding your blood. 5 And have you forgotten the exhortation that addresses you as sons?

“My son, do not regard lightly the discipline of the Lord,
nor be weary when reproved by him.
6  For the Lord disciplines the one he loves,
and chastises every son whom he receives.”

7 It is for discipline that you have to endure. God is treating you as sons. For what son is there whom his father does not discipline? 8 If you are left without discipline, in which all have participated, then you are illegitimate children and not sons. 9 Besides this, we have had earthly fathers who disciplined us and we respected them. Shall we not much more be subject to the Father of spirits and live? 10 For they disciplined us for a short time as it seemed best to them, but he disciplines us for our good, that we may share his holiness. 11 For the moment all discipline seems painful rather than pleasant, but later it yields the peaceful fruit of righteousness to those who have been trained by it.

Hebrews 12:3–11

Sermon
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The Kind Discipline of a Heavenly Father
Luke Humphrey

Study Questions

  1. What does it mean that Christians “struggle against sin”? 

  2. What does God’s discipline refer to in this passage? 

  3. What is the purpose for God’s discipline? 

  4. Why is it so important that we share in God’s holiness? 

  5. What are some ways that you can actively resist sin this next week? 

 

Song Credits

Jesus, Thank You
Music and words by Pat Sczebel. 
© 2003 Integrity's Hosanna! Music (ASCAP)/Sovereign Grace Worship (ASCAP). Sovereign Grace Music, a division of Sovereign Grace Churches. All rights reserved. 
Administrated worldwide at www.CapitolCMGPublishing.com, excluding the UK which is adm. by Integrity Music, part of the David C Cook family. www.SovereignGraceMusic.org

Come, Thou Fount of Every Blessing
Norton Hall Band
Words: Robert Johnson, 1735-1790
Music: Wyeth's Repository of Sacred Music, 1813

The Founder and Perfecter of Faith

Welcome
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Thanks for tuning into Redeemer Al Ain’s online service. Due to the outbreak of covid-19 our regular corporate worship services have been suspended until further notice. We’d encourage you to participate in the online service with your family, roommates, or by yourself.

In this service, we’re continuing our study through the book of Hebrews. Pastor John Norris will be preaching on Hebrews 12:1–2, The Founder and Perfecter of Faith

July 3 Online Service
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Welcome & Prayer
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Drew Remke


Worship Through Singing
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Crown Him with Many Crowns – Norton Hall Band

O Praise the Name – Shane & Shane


Bible Reading
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1 Therefore, since we are surrounded by so great a cloud of witnesses, let us also lay aside every weight, and sin which clings so closely, and let us run with endurance the race that is set before us, 2 looking to Jesus, the founder and perfecter of our faith, who for the joy that was set before him endured the cross, despising the shame, and is seated at the right hand of the throne of God.

Hebrews 12:1–2

Sermon
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The Founder and Perfecter of Faith
John Norris

Study Questions

  1. How does this passage relate to what came before it?

  2. Why must we lay aside weights and sin?

  3. What are weights—i.e. things that may not be sin in themselves—that can keep us from running with endurance?

  4. What does it mean when it says that Jesus is the “founder and perfecter” of faith?

  5. What does it mean that Jesus “despised the shame” of the cross?

  6. How did Jesus think about joy and the cross?

  7. What does looking to Jesus teach us about running the race of faith?

 

Song Credits

Crown Him
Text: Matthew Bridges & Godfrey Thring
Music: George J. Elvey, Arranged by Norton Hall Band
Performed by Norton Hall Band

O Praise the Name (Anástasis) 
The Worship Initiative, Vol 12 
Performed by Shane & Shane
Written By: Dean Ussher / Marty Sampson / Benjamin Hastings 
© Capitol Christian Music Group

Commended by Faith

Welcome
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Thanks for tuning into Redeemer Al Ain’s online service. Due to the outbreak of covid-19 our regular corporate worship services have been suspended until further notice. We’d encourage you to participate in the online service with your family, roommates, or by yourself.

In this service, we’re continuing our study through the book of Hebrews. Pastor John Norris will be preaching on Hebrews 11:29–40, Commended by Faith

June 26 Online Service
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Welcome & Prayer
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Luke Humphrey


Worship Through Singing
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Jesus Shall Reign – Enfield

His Mercy is More – Matt Papa


Bible Reading
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29 By faith the people crossed the Red Sea as on dry land, but the Egyptians, when they attempted to do the same, were drowned. 30 By faith the walls of Jericho fell down after they had been encircled for seven days. 31 By faith Rahab the prostitute did not perish with those who were disobedient, because she had given a friendly welcome to the spies.

32 And what more shall I say? For time would fail me to tell of Gideon, Barak, Samson, Jephthah, of David and Samuel and the prophets— 33 who through faith conquered kingdoms, enforced justice, obtained promises, stopped the mouths of lions, 34 quenched the power of fire, escaped the edge of the sword, were made strong out of weakness, became mighty in war, put foreign armies to flight. 35 Women received back their dead by resurrection. Some were tortured, refusing to accept release, so that they might rise again to a better life. 36 Others suffered mocking and flogging, and even chains and imprisonment. 37 They were stoned, they were sawn in two, they were killed with the sword. They went about in skins of sheep and goats, destitute, afflicted, mistreated— 38 of whom the world was not worthy—wandering about in deserts and mountains, and in dens and caves of the earth.

39 And all these, though commended through their faith, did not receive what was promised, 40 since God had provided something better for us, that apart from us they should not be made perfect.

Hebrews 11:29–40

Sermon
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Commended by Faith
John Norris

Study Questions

  1. What observations can you make about the people mentioned in this passage?

  2. What does the change that happens halfway through the list in verse 35 tell us about living by faith? What can we learn from this shift?

  3. What does it mean that these examples of faith “did not receive what was promised” in verse 39?

  4. What does this passage mean when it says “apart from us [these Old Testament saints] should not be made perfect” in verse 40?

  5. How does this passage add to our understanding of faith?

 

Song Credits

Jesus Shall Reign
Tune: DUKE STREET with chorus
Words: Isaac Watts, 1719, alt.; and Ryan Foglesong
Music: John Hatton, 1793, and Ryan Foglesong

His Mercy Is More
Written by Matt Papa, Matt Boswell
© 2016 Love Your Enemies Publishing, Dayspring Publishing, LLC 
( A Division of Word Music Group, Inc.) CCLI #7065053

The Reality of God and the Reward of Christ

Welcome
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Thanks for tuning into Redeemer Al Ain’s online service. Due to the outbreak of covid-19 our regular corporate worship services have been suspended until further notice. We’d encourage you to participate in the online service with your family, roommates, or by yourself.

In this service, we’re continuing our study through the book of Hebrews. Pastor Luke Humphrey will be preaching on Hebrews 11:23–28, The Reality of God and the Reward of Christ.

June 19 Online Service
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Welcome & Prayer
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Drew Remke


Worship Through Singing
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10,000 Reasons – Matt Redman

Before the Throne of God Above – Sovereign Grace


Bible Reading
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23 By faith Moses, when he was born, was hidden for three months by his parents, because they saw that the child was beautiful, and they were not afraid of the king’s edict. 24 By faith Moses, when he was grown up, refused to be called the son of Pharaoh’s daughter, 25 choosing rather to be mistreated with the people of God than to enjoy the fleeting pleasures of sin. 26 He considered the reproach of Christ greater wealth than the treasures of Egypt, for he was looking to the reward. 27 By faith he left Egypt, not being afraid of the anger of the king, for he endured as seeing him who is invisible. 28 By faith he kept the Passover and sprinkled the blood, so that the Destroyer of the firstborn might not touch them.

Hebrews 11:23–28

Sermon
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The Reality of God and the Reward of Christ
Luke Humphrey

Study Questions

  1. How did Moses’ parents walk by faith? What allowed for them to do this? 

  2. Why did Moses choose to suffer with the people of Israel? What motivated his choice? 

  3. How does looking to the reward help us to walk by faith?

  4. What are ways that we, today, can look to the reward? 

  5. What are some of the fleeting pleasures of sin that we deal with in our lives today?

 

Song Credits

10,000 Reasons (Bless the Lord)
Words and Music: Matt Redman. 
© 2014 sixstepsrecords/Sparrow Records

Before the Throne of God Above
Original Words by Charitie Lees Bancroft (1841-1892) 
Alternate Words and Music by Vikki Cook. 
© 1997 Sovereign Grace Worship (ASCAP). Sovereign Grace Music, a division of Sovereign Grace Churches.

The Obedience of Faith

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Thanks for tuning into Redeemer Al Ain’s online service. Due to the outbreak of covid-19 our regular corporate worship services have been suspended until further notice. We’d encourage you to participate in the online service with your family, roommates, or by yourself.

In this service, we’re continuing our study through the book of Hebrews. Pastor John Norris will be preaching on Hebrews 11:8–22, The Obedience of Faith.

June 12 Online Service
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Welcome & Prayer
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Luke Humphrey


Worship Through Singing
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May the Peoples Praise You – Keith & Kristyn Getty

Come Behold the Wondrous Mystery – Matt Papa


Bible Reading
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8 By faith Abraham obeyed when he was called to go out to a place that he was to receive as an inheritance. And he went out, not knowing where he was going. 9 By faith he went to live in the land of promise, as in a foreign land, living in tents with Isaac and Jacob, heirs with him of the same promise. 10 For he was looking forward to the city that has foundations, whose designer and builder is God. 11 By faith Sarah herself received power to conceive, even when she was past the age, since she considered him faithful who had promised. 12 Therefore from one man, and him as good as dead, were born descendants as many as the stars of heaven and as many as the innumerable grains of sand by the seashore. 

13 These all died in faith, not having received the things promised, but having seen them and greeted them from afar, and having acknowledged that they were strangers and exiles on the earth. 14 For people who speak thus make it clear that they are seeking a homeland. 15 If they had been thinking of that land from which they had gone out, they would have had opportunity to return. 16 But as it is, they desire a better country, that is, a heavenly one. Therefore God is not ashamed to be called their God, for he has prepared for them a city. 

17 By faith Abraham, when he was tested, offered up Isaac, and he who had received the promises was in the act of offering up his only son, 18 of whom it was said, “Through Isaac shall your offspring be named.” 19 He considered that God was able even to raise him from the dead, from which, figuratively speaking, he did receive him back. 20 By faith Isaac invoked future blessings on Jacob and Esau. 21 By faith Jacob, when dying, blessed each of the sons of Joseph, bowing in worship over the head of his staff. 22 By faith Joseph, at the end of his life, made mention of the exodus of the Israelites and gave directions concerning his bones.

Hebrews 11:8–22

Sermon
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The Obedience of Faith
John Norris

Study Questions

  1. What does it mean that these men and women of faith had not “received the things promised” in vs. 13?

  2. What does it mean that they “were strangers and exiles on the earth” in vs. 13?

  3. According to this passage, what are some ways that these men and women were motivated in their obedience to God?

  4. What is the difference between obeying by faith and obeying without faith? Is it possible to obey without faith?

 

Song Credits

May the Peoples Praise You
Words and Music By Keith Getty, Kristyn Getty, David Zimmer, Stuart Townend and Ed Cash 
© 2016 Getty Music Publishing (BMI) / Townend Songs (PRS) / Alletrop Music (BMI) (Admin By Musicservies.Org)

Come Behold The Wondrous Mystery 
Written by Matt Papa, Matt Boswell, Michael Bleecker, performed by Matt Papa
© 2013 Love Your Enemies Publishing 

The Essence and Energy of Faith

Welcome
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Thanks for tuning into Redeemer Al Ain’s online service. Due to the outbreak of covid-19 our regular corporate worship services have been suspended until further notice. We’d encourage you to participate in the online service with your family, roommates, or by yourself.

In this service, we’re continuing our study through the book of Hebrews. Pastor John Norris will be preaching on Hebrews 11:4–7, The Essence and Energy of Faith.

June 5 Online Service
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Welcome & Prayer
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Drew Remke


Worship Through Singing
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Holy is the Lord – Toronto Mass Choir

Come Thou Fount – Norton Hall Band


Bible Reading
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4 By faith Abel offered to God a more acceptable sacrifice than Cain, through which he was commended as righteous, God commending him by accepting his gifts. And through his faith, though he died, he still speaks. 5 By faith Enoch was taken up so that he should not see death, and he was not found, because God had taken him. Now before he was taken he was commended as having pleased God. 6 And without faith it is impossible to please him, for whoever would draw near to God must believe that he exists and that he rewards those who seek him. 7 By faith Noah, being warned by God concerning events as yet unseen, in reverent fear constructed an ark for the saving of his household. By this he condemned the world and became an heir of the righteousness that comes by faith.

Hebrews 11:4–7

Sermon
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The Essence and Energy of Faith
John Norris

Study Questions

  1. What is the connection between this passage (vs. 4–7) and the previous section (vs. 1–3)?

  2. How are the examples of Abel, Enoch, and Noah similar in these verses? How are they different?

  3. What must you believe to draw near to God? What does this mean?

  4. Why is it important that we believe that God “rewards those who seek him” (vs. 6)?

 

Song Credits

Holy is the Lord
Toronto Mass Choir
Written by: Chris Tomlin & Louie Giglio
© Worshiptogether.com Songs, Sixsteps Music, 
Emi Christian Music Pub Obo Sixsteps Music, Vamos Publishing

Come, Thou Fount of every Blessing
Norton Hall Band
Words: Robert Johnson, 1735–1790
Music: Wyeth’s Repository of Sacred Music, 1813

Seeing What We Cannot See

Welcome
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Thanks for tuning into Redeemer Al Ain’s online service. Due to the outbreak of covid-19 our regular corporate worship services have been suspended until further notice. We’d encourage you to participate in the online service with your family, roommates, or by yourself.

In this service, we’re continuing our study through the book of Hebrews. Pastor John Norris will be preaching on Hebrews 11:1–3, Seeing What We Cannot See.

May 29 Online Service
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Welcome & Prayer
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Luke Humphrey


Worship Through Singing
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Stronger – Hillsong

Your Will Be Done – CityAlight


Bible Reading
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1 Now faith is the assurance of things hoped for, the conviction of things not seen. 2 For by it the people of old received their commendation. 3 By faith we understand that the universe was created by the word of God, so that what is seen was not made out of things that are visible.

Hebrews 11:1–3

Sermon
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Seeing What We Cannot See
John Norris

Study Questions

  1. How is “faith” related to “hope” in verse 1?

  2. What is faith? How would you define it?

  3. How does what the author says in verse 3 relate to verse 1?

  4. How is it possible to be convinced of something that you cannot see?

  5. What are ways that faith can grow? What steps do you need to take personally to grow in faith?

 

Song Credits

Stronger
This is Our God
Songwriters: Reuben Morgan & Ben Fielding
© Emi Christian Music Pub Obo Hillsong, Hillsong Music Publishing Australia

Your Will Be Done
CityAlight
Words and music: Jonny Robinson & Rich Thompson
CCLI no. 7149566

Living for the Life to Come

Welcome
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Thanks for tuning into Redeemer Al Ain’s online service. Due to the outbreak of covid-19 our regular corporate worship services have been suspended until further notice. We’d encourage you to participate in the online service with your family, roommates, or by yourself.

In this service, we’re continuing our study through the book of Hebrews. Pastor John Norris will be preaching on Hebrews 10:32–39, Living for the Life to Come.

May 22 Online Service
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Welcome & Prayer
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Drew Remke


Worship Through Singing
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Praise to the Lord, the Almighty – Sovereign Grace Music

How Deep the Father’s Love – Stuart Townend


Bible Reading
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32 But recall the former days when, after you were enlightened, you endured a hard struggle with sufferings, 33 sometimes being publicly exposed to reproach and affliction, and sometimes being partners with those so treated. 34 For you had compassion on those in prison, and you joyfully accepted the plundering of your property, since you knew that you yourselves had a better possession and an abiding one. 35 Therefore do not throw away your confidence, which has a great reward. 36 For you have need of endurance, so that when you have done the will of God you may receive what is promised. 37 For,

“Yet a little while, and the coming one will come and will not delay; 38 but my righteous one shall live by faith, and if he shrinks back, my soul has no pleasure in him.”

39 But we are not of those who shrink back and are destroyed, but of those who have faith and preserve their souls.

Hebrews 10:32–39

Sermon
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Living for the Life to Come
John Norris

Study Questions

  1. What kind of suffering did these people face?

  2. What enabled these people to show compassion and joyfully suffer for it?

  3. Why does knowing we have a better and abiding possession enable compassion and joyful sacrifice?

  4. Why is endurance necessary?

  5. How can we be sure of our salvation is endurance is necessary?

 

Song Credits

Praise to the Lord, the Almighty
Together for the Gospel II
Words by Joachim Neander (1680). Translated by Catherine Winkworth (1863).
Music by Straisund Gesangbuch (1665).
Public Domain. Sovereign Grace Music,

How Deep the Father’s Love
Mission: Worship
Stuart Townend
© 1995 Thankyou Music (Adm. by CapitolCMGPublishing.com excl. UK & Europe, adm. by Integrity Music, part of the David C Cook family)

It is a Fearful Thing to Fall into the Hands of the Living God

Welcome
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Thanks for tuning into Redeemer Al Ain’s online service. Due to the outbreak of covid-19 our regular corporate worship services have been suspended until further notice. We’d encourage you to participate in the online service with your family, roommates, or by yourself.

In this service, we’re continuing our study through the book of Hebrews. Pastor Luke Humphrey will be preaching on Hebrews 10:26–31, It is a Fearful Thing to Fall into the Hands of the Living God.

May 15 Online Service
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Welcome & Prayer
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John Norris


Worship Through Singing
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Lord, I Need You – Matt Maher

O Praise the Name (Anástasis) – Shane & Shane


Bible Reading
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26 For if we go on sinning deliberately after receiving the knowledge of the truth, there no longer remains a sacrifice for sins, 27 but a fearful expectation of judgment, and a fury of fire that will consume the adversaries. 28 Anyone who has set aside the law of Moses dies without mercy on the evidence of two or three witnesses. 29 How much worse punishment, do you think, will be deserved by the one who has trampled underfoot the Son of God, and has profaned the blood of the covenant by which he was sanctified, and has outraged the Spirit of grace? 30 For we know him who said, “Vengeance is mine; I will repay.” And again, “The Lord will judge his people.” 31 It is a fearful thing to fall into the hands of the living God.

Hebrews 10:26–31

Sermon
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It is a Fearful Thing to Fall into the Hands of the Living God
Luke Humphrey

Study Questions

  1. 1. What does it mean that we "go on sinning deliberately after receiving the knowledge of the truth" (vs. 26)?

  2. How should Christians respond to the warning that is mentioned in vs. 27?

  3. Why is the judgment for deliberate sin against the New Covenant worse than setting aside the law of Moses (vs. 28–29)?

  4. What are ways that we can guard against deliberately sinning?

  5. What role does the fear of God have in the Christian life?

 

Song Credits

Lord, I Need You
All the People Said Amen
Performed by Matt Maher
Written By: Christy Nockels / Daniel Carson / Jesse Reeves / Kristian Stanfil / Matt Maher
© Universal Music Publishing Group, Capitol Christian Music Group

O Praise the Name (Anástasis)
The Worship Initiative, Vol 12
Performed by Shane & Shane
Written By: Dean Ussher / Marty Sampson / Benjamin Hastings
© Capitol Christian Music Group

Living through the New and Living Way

Welcome
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Thanks for tuning into Redeemer Al Ain’s online service. Due to the outbreak of covid-19 our regular corporate worship services have been suspended until further notice. We’d encourage you to participate in the online service with your family, roommates, or by yourself.

In this service, we’re continuing our study through the book of Hebrews. Pastor John Norris will be preaching on Hebrews 10:19–25, Living through the New and Living Way.

May 8 Online Service
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Welcome & Prayer
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Luke Humphrey


Worship Through Singing
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O, Church Arise – Keith & Kristyn Getty

The Power of the Cross – Keith & Kristyn Getty


Bible Reading
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19 Therefore, brothers, since we have confidence to enter the holy places by the blood of Jesus, 20 by the new and living way that he opened for us through the curtain, that is, through his flesh, 21 and since we have a great priest over the house of God, 22 let us draw near with a true heart in full assurance of faith, with our hearts sprinkled clean from an evil conscience and our bodies washed with pure water. 23 Let us hold fast the confession of our hope without wavering, for he who promised is faithful. 24 And let us consider how to stir up one another to love and good works, 25 not neglecting to meet together, as is the habit of some, but encouraging one another, and all the more as you see the Day drawing near.

Hebrews 10:19–25

Sermon
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Living through the New and Living Way
John Norris

Study Questions

  1. What is the connection between verse 19 and what came before it?

  2. What is the connection between “the curtain” and Jesus’s “flesh” in verse 20?

  3. What does it mean to draw near to God (v22)?

  4. How might you stir up others to love and good works (v24)?

  5. What are reasons we neglect to meet together (v25)?

  6. Why encourage one another more as we see the Day drawing near (v25)?

 

Song Credits

O, Church Arise
In Christ Alone
Written by Keith Getty and Stuart Townend
Performed by Keith and Kristyn Getty
© 2005 Thankyou Music

The Power of the Cross
Sing! Live at the Getty Music Worship Conference
Words and music by Keith Getty and Stuart Townend
©2005 ThankYou Music(PRS) ADM Worldwide at CapitolCMGpublishing.com
Exclusing Europe which is ADM by IntegrityMusic.com

The Seated Priest

Welcome
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Thanks for tuning into Redeemer Al Ain’s online service. Due to the outbreak of covid-19 our regular corporate worship services have been suspended until further notice. We’d encourage you to participate in the online service with your family, roommates, or by yourself.

In this service, we’re continuing our study through the book of Hebrews. Pastor John Norris will be preaching on Hebrews 10:11–19, The Seated Priest.

May 1 Online Service
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Welcome & Prayer
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Drew Remke

Worship through Singing
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His Mercy is More - Matt Papa

My Hope is Built on Nothing Less - Sovereign Grace Music

Bible Reading
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11 And every priest stands daily at his service, offering repeatedly the same sacrifices, which can never take away sins. 12 But when Christ had offered for all time a single sacrifice for sins, he sat down at the right hand of God, 13 waiting from that time until his enemies should be made a footstool for his feet. 14 For by a single offering he has perfected for all time those who are being sanctified.

15 And the Holy Spirit also bears witness to us; for after saying,

16 “This is the covenant that I will make with them after those days, declares the Lord: I will put my laws on their hearts, and write them on their minds,”

17 then he adds,

“I will remember their sins and their lawless deeds no more.”

18 Where there is forgiveness of these, there is no longer any offering for sin.

Hebrews 10:11–18

sermon
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The Seated Priest
John Norris

Study Questions
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  1. What does “perfected” mean when verse 14 says that Christ “has perfected for all time those being sanctified”?

  2. What does “being sanctified” mean in verse 14?

  3. What does it mean that God will no longer remember our sins and lawless deed in verse 17?

  4. Most of us are not sacrificing animals for our sins, but are there ways we try to present an additional offerings to God for our sins? If so, what are they?

 

Song Information

His Mercy is More
Church Songs
Written by Matt Papa, Matt Boswell
© 2016 Love Your Enemies Publishing,
Dayspring Publishing, LLC ( A Division of Word Music Group, Inc.)

My Hope is Built on Nothing Less
Together for the Gospel Live
Words by Edward Mote (1834). Music by William B. Bradbury (1863). Public Domain.
Sovereign Grace Music, a division of Sovereign Grace Churches. All rights reserved.
Administrated worldwide at www.CapitolCMGPublishing.com, excluding the UK which is adm. by Integrity Music, part of the David C Cook family.

Right Worship

Welcome
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Thanks for tuning into Redeemer Al Ain’s online service. Due to the outbreak of covid-19 our regular corporate worship services have been suspended until further notice. We’d encourage you to participate in the online service with your family, roommates, or by yourself.

In this service, we’re continuing our study through the book of Hebrews. Pastor Drew Remke will be preaching on Hebrews 10:1–10, Right Worship.

April 24 Online Service
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Welcome & Prayer
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John Norris

Worship Through Singing
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Behold Our God – Sovereign Grace Music

All I Have Is Christ – Sovereign Grace Music

Bible rEading
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1 For since the law has but a shadow of the good things to come instead of the true form of these realities, it can never, by the same sacrifices that are continually offered every year, make perfect those who draw near. 2 Otherwise, would they not have ceased to be offered, since the worshipers, having once been cleansed, would no longer have any consciousness of sins? 3 But in these sacrifices there is a reminder of sins every year. 4 For it is impossible for the blood of bulls and goats to take away sins. 

5 Consequently, when Christ came into the world, he said, 

“Sacrifices and offerings you have not desired, but a body have you prepared for me; 6 in burnt offerings and sin offerings you have taken no pleasure. 7 Then I said, ‘Behold, I have come to do your will, O God, as it is written of me in the scroll of the book.’ ” 

8 When he said above, “You have neither desired nor taken pleasure in sacrifices and offerings and burnt offerings and sin offerings” (these are offered according to the law), 9 then he added, “Behold, I have come to do your will.” He does away with the first in order to establish the second. 10 And by that will we have been sanctified through the offering of the body of Jesus Christ once for all.

Hebrews 10:1–10

Sermon
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Right Worship
Drew Remke

Study Questions
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  1. What is the good news that came?

  2. Why did people have to continually offer sacrifices in the Old Testament

  3. How can verse 7 apply to both Jesus and David?

  4. What does God take pleasure in?

  5. How does one become sanctified?

 

Song Information

Behold Our God
Risen
Music and Words by Jonathan Baird, Meghan Baird, Ryan Baird, and Stephen Altrogge
© 2011 Sovereign Grace Worship (ASCAP)/Sovereign Grace Praise (BMI). 

All I Have Is Christ
The Gathering
Music and words by Jordan Kauflin.
© 2008 Sovereign Grace Praise (BMI). 

Heirs by Blood

Welcome
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Thanks for tuning into Redeemer Al Ain’s online service. Due to the outbreak of covid-19 our regular corporate worship services have been suspended until further notice. We’d encourage you to participate in the online service with your family, roommates, or by yourself.

In this service, we’re resuming our study through the book of Hebrews, picking up where we left off at the beginning of March. Pastor John Norris will be preaching on Hebrews 9:15–28, Heirs by Blood.

April 17 Online Service
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Welcome & Prayer
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Luke Humphrey


Worship through Singing
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Jesus Thank You – Sovereign Grace Music

The Power of the Cross — Keith & Kristen Getty


Bible Reading
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15 Therefore he is the mediator of a new covenant, so that those who are called may receive the promised eternal inheritance, since a death has occurred that redeems them from the transgressions committed under the first covenant. 16 For where a will is involved, the death of the one who made it must be established. 17 For a will takes effect only at death, since it is not in force as long as the one who made it is alive. 18 Therefore not even the first covenant was inaugurated without blood. 19 For when every commandment of the law had been declared by Moses to all the people, he took the blood of calves and goats, with water and scarlet wool and hyssop, and sprinkled both the book itself and all the people, 20 saying, “This is the blood of the covenant that God commanded for you.” 21 And in the same way he sprinkled with the blood both the tent and all the vessels used in worship. 22 Indeed, under the law almost everything is purified with blood, and without the shedding of blood there is no forgiveness of sins. 

23 Thus it was necessary for the copies of the heavenly things to be purified with these rites, but the heavenly things themselves with better sacrifices than these. 24 For Christ has entered, not into holy places made with hands, which are copies of the true things, but into heaven itself, now to appear in the presence of God on our behalf. 25 Nor was it to offer himself repeatedly, as the high priest enters the holy places every year with blood not his own, 26 for then he would have had to suffer repeatedly since the foundation of the world. But as it is, he has appeared once for all at the end of the ages to put away sin by the sacrifice of himself. 27 And just as it is appointed for man to die once, and after that comes judgment, 28 so Christ, having been offered once to bear the sins of many, will appear a second time, not to deal with sin but to save those who are eagerly waiting for him.

(Hebrews 9:15–28)

Sermon
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Heirs by Blood
John Norris

Study Questions
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  1. How is the New Covenant like a will?

  2. What does it mean that the elements of Old Covenant worship were “copies” (verses 18–23)?

  3. How is Christ’s sacrifice different than the priests sacrifices in the Old Covenant?

  4. Why is there no forgiveness without the shedding of blood (verse 22)?

  5. What would it look like for us to be “eagerly waiting” for Christ’s return (verse 28)?

 

Song Information:

Jesus, Thank You
Together for the Gospel IV (Live)
Music and words by Pat Sczebel
©2003 Integrity's Hosanna! Music (ASCAP)/Sovereign Grace Worship (ASCAP)

The Power of the Cross
Sing! Live at the Getty Music Worship Conference
Words and music by Keith Getty and Stuart Townend
©2005 ThankYou Music(PRS) ADM Worldwide at CapitolCMGpublishing.com
Exclusing Europe which is ADM by IntegrityMusic.com