1. GROUP QUESTIONS 1.What does salvation mean to you? 2.What do you understand by the statement “Jesus is the Son of God”? 3.Why is sin a problem? 4.Should humans fear death? 5.What is the future, God’s goal, for humans like us?

2. THE CENTRALITY OF CHRIST HEBREWS 1-2

3. THE HUMAN CALLED JESUS OF NAZARETH 1:4-14 SUPERIOR TO ANGELS NAME RELATES TO POSITION 7 OT QUOTES – NEVER APPLIED TO ANGELS, BUT TO JESUS PSALM 2:7 CORONATION FORMULA 1 CHRONICLES 17:13 FATHER-SON PSALM 45:6-6 SUPREME RULER PSALM 110:1 GOD’S CEO

4. SALVATION IS IMPORTANT 1:14 ANGELS SERVE THOSE WHO ARE ABOUT TO INHERIT [OBTAIN A SHARE IN] SALVATION 2:1-4 IT IS IMPERATIVE THAT WE CONCENTRATE ON WHAT WE HAVE HEARD/LEARNED LEST WE SLIP AWAY, DRIFT AWAY THIS WILL HAPPEN IF WE NEGLECT [NOT THE MESSAGE] BUT THE SALVATION ITSELF

5. SALVATION WHAT IS IT? 1:8 CLEANSING FROM SIN CLEANSING IS FROM SOMETHING [SIN] FOR SOMETHING ……. SIN WILL PREVENT US REALISING THE PURPOSE OF OUR CREATION

6. HUMAN DESTINY 2:5 THE PLANNED HUMAN DESTINY IS TO RULE THE COMING INHABITED EARTH WE WERE CREATED LOWER THAN THE ANGELS ULTIMATELY TO EXERCISE UNIVERSAL LORDSHIP THIS LIFE IS PROBATIONARY AN APPRENTICESHIP FOR THE WORLD TO COME

7. REACHING THE DIVINE GOAL ACHIEVED BY A TRAIL BLAZER 1.THE INCARNATION 2.THE MINISTRY OF A HIGH PRIEST

8. THE INCARNATION 2:9-10, 14-17 HE BECAME ONE OF US AS HUMAN AS WE ARE SUFFERED LIKE US, EVEN EXPERIENCED DEATH HIS SUFFERING WAS BENEFICIAL GOD USED IT TO MAKE HIM COMPLETE, USEFUL TO COMPLETE HIS APPRENTICESHIP

9. THE TRAIL BLAZER V9 HE IS NOW EXALTED ACHIEVED HUMAN DESTINY HE REPRESENTED US IN HIS DEATH HE REPRESENTS US BEFORE GOD NOW OUR MEDIATOR BEFORE GOD OUR HIGH PRIEST THE ONE WHO ENABLES US TO ACHIEVE OUR POTENTIAL

10. REACHING OUR POTENTIAL WE NEED TO RELATE TO GOD BUT THERE IS A PROBLEM e.g. ISAIAH 6 FEAR JEWS - FEAR OF GOD’S JUDGEMENT FEAR OF DEATH BECAUSE OF SIN

11. PROBLEM SUFFERING/STRESS TEMPTATION SIN JUDGEMENT DEATH WE NEED SOMEONE TO REMOVE THE SIN AND ITS CONSEQUENSES AND ENABLE US TO HANDLE TEMPTATION

12. A HIGH PRIEST IS NEEDED 2:17-18 MADE JUST LIKE HIS BROTHERS SUFFERED WHEN TEMPTED ABLE TO HELP MERCIFUL AND FAITHFUL CONTINUALLY MAKING ATONEMENT FOR THE SINS OF HIS PEOPLE

13. A REAL HUMAN JESUS UNDERSTANDS HE SUFFERED JUST LIKE US HE CAN EMPATHISE THEREFORE HE IS MERCIFUL AND CAN BE TRUSTED TO GET US TO THE GOAL HE IS THE ONLY ONE WHO CAN