Hebrews Chapter 3 and 4

Chapter 1 of Hebrews established that Jesus is superior in position and power to the angels. Chapter 2 warns us to think about and not drift away from the salvation provided through Christ, then outlines the work of Christ as well as our current and future relationship to him.

1. Is there anything from the previous chapters that you would like to remember or talk about?


Read Hebrews 3:1-6


2. The writer calls the readers "holy." Do you consider yourself in a different situation than these early Christians? Do you consider yourself holy?


3. Through what did the Jews traditionally associate holiness?


4. How might this text reassure and challenge the Hebrew believer then, and the Christian today?


Review in the OT: Numbers, Chapter 14 then follow with the rest of Hebrews, Chapter 3.


5. Between the two text, there is a correlation between "land" and "rest." How would you explain this? What might the NT equivalent of "wandering in the desert" be? (Brownie points for looking up "rest" in the dictionary)


6. Numbers 14:20 says that God forgave the people, yet they suffered consequences. Do you see this in your own life?


7.How well and why do you rest?


Read Hebrews Chapter 4


8. Thinking of "rest" as the promise land, what day are we to enter it?


9. What weapon should be used to enter that rest/promise land, and against whom is that weapon used? (Hebrews 4:12,13)


Read Hebrews 4:14-16 again.


10. Why is it important that Christ sympathize with our weakness while remaining perfect?


Close with Matthew 11:25-30