ST. PAUL SCHOOL OF LEADERSHIP

"Be ye followers of me as I also am of Christ." (I Corinthians 11:1)

(With Frank Eiklor, Christopher Lucey, Walter and Cecilia Contreras

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."