1. Introduction to Hebrews
God speaks
Introduction to Hebrews

2. Jesus as the Word

3. How do we hear
the word of the Lord to us?

4. In the past, God spoke through the prophets to our ancestors in many times and many ways.
Hebrews 1:1(CEB)

6. Martin Luther King, Jr. & Rabbi Heschel
God as Communicator
Martin Luther King, Jr. & Rabbi Heschel

7. In these final days, though, he spoke to us through a Son.
God made his Son
the heir of everything and
created the world through him.
Hebrews 1:2 (CEB)

8. God, having of old time spoken unto the fathers in the prophets by divers portions and in divers manners, hath at the end of these days spoken unto us in his Son, whom he appointed heir of all things, through whom also he made the worlds;
Hebrews 1:1-2 (ASV)
Greek word for “worlds” here is aionos, from which we get the word eons, conveying a sense of the eras of history.

9. In the past, God spoke through the prophets to our ancestors in many times and many ways. In these final days, though, he spoke to us through a Son. God made his Son the heir of everything and created the world through him. The Son is the light of God’s glory and the imprint of God’s being. He maintains everything with his powerful message.
Hebrews 1:1-3(CEB)

10. When God began to create the heavens and the earth— the earth was without shape or form, it was dark over the deep sea, and God’s wind swept over the waters— God said, “Let there be light.” And so light appeared. God saw how good the light was. God separated the light from the darkness. God named the light Day and the darkness Night. There was evening and there was morning: the first day.
Genesis 1:1-5
In the beginning was the Word and the Word was with God and the Word was God. The Word was with God in the beginning. Everything came into being through the Word, and without the Word nothing came into being. What came into being through the Word was life, and the life was the light for all people. The light shines in the darkness, and the darkness doesn’t extinguish the light. John 1:1-5

11. In the past, God spoke through the prophets to our ancestors in many times and many ways. In these final days, though, he spoke to us through a Son. God made his Son the heir of everything and created the world through him. The Son is the light of God’s glory and the imprint of God’s being. He maintains everything with his powerful message.
Hebrews 1:1-3a(CEB)

12. The Son is the light of God’s glory and the imprint of God’s being
The Son is the light of God’s glory and the imprint of God’s being. He maintains everything with his powerful message. After he carried out the cleansing of people from their sins, he sat down at the right side of the highest majesty.
Hebrews 1:3(CEB)

13. “then God would rather die by violence than commit it
“then God would rather die by violence than commit it. The cross makes this plain. On the cross, Christ not only bore the brunt of human cruelty and bloodlust and fear, he remained faithful to the nonviolence he taught and modeled throughout his ministry…. On the cross, Jesus chose to align himself with the victims of suffering rather than the inflictors of it.”
(Inspired, p. 77)