1. Lesson No. 21 HEBREWS

2. KEY WORD—“SUPERIOR.” KEY VERSE—Hebrews 1:1-2. KEY PHRASE—“THE GOSPEL IS SUPERIOR TO THE LAW.”

3. WRITER—Most probably Paul, although scholars are divided on the question of authorship, and some think that Apollos or someone else wrote it.

4. DATE—About 65 A.D., before the destruction of the temple.

5. TO WHOM WRITTEN—To the converts from Judaism, probably in the church at Alexandria in Egypt, which was founded by Mark.

6. 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.

7. 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.

8. Great Fact I -- Christ Is Superior to Prophets and Angels.

9. Great Fact II -- Christ Is Superior to Moses.

10. Great Fact III -- Christ Is Superior to the Old Testament Priesthood.

11. Great Fact IV -- The New Covenant Is Superior to the Old.

12. Great Fact V -- The Superiority of Faith.

13. Great Fact VI -- The Superiority of the Christian ’ s Privileges and Duties.