Hebrews Verse by Verse

R. Osborne Grant

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The letter to the Hebrews is unique in the New Testament for its focus on the priesthood of Jesus and its interaction with the Old Testament. But beyond this deep theology, Hebrews is a practical book that addresses the very real challenges believers face when life gets difficult.In Hebrews Verse by Verse, the late Grant R. Osborne, with George H. Guthrie, shows readers how this beautifully crafted letter encourages believers to endure in faithfulness to Jesus. By using Scripture and theology to lay the foundation for these exhortations, the central message of Hebrews continues to be relevant for the church today. Osborne's commentary delves into the grand implications of Christ's identity and its importance for our spiritual lives.

Sujets

• Philosophie et théologie
• Christianity

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• Publié par: Lexham Press
• Date de parution: 28 septembre 2021
• Nombre de lectures: 0
• EAN13: 9781683595380
• Langue: English
• Poids de l'ouvrage: 2 Mo

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HEBREWS
Verse by Verse
GRANT R. OSBORNE
WITH
GEORGE H. GUTHRIE

LEXHAM PRESS
Hebrews: Verse by Verse
Osborne New Testament Commentaries
Copyright 2021 Grant R. Osborne
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CONTENTS
Series Preface
Preface to This Commentary
Introduction to Hebrews
1:1–14 The Superiority of the Son
2:1–18 Focusing on the Suffering Messiah
3:1–18 The Danger of Losing God’s Rest
4:1–13 The Promise of a Sabbath Rest
4:14–5:10 The Superior Priesthood of Christ
5:11–6:20 The Danger of Spiritual Lethargy
7:1–28 Jesus’ Eternal Melchizedekian Priesthood
8:1–13 Priesthood and Covenant
9:1–28 The Sanctuary and the New Covenant
10:1–18 The Levitical System and the New Order
10:19–39 Exhortation to Worship and Persevere
11:1–22 Heroes of the Faith, Part 1
11:23–40 Heroes of the Faith, Part 2
12:1–29 A Call to Disciplined Action
13:1–25 Practical Instructions and Prayer
Glossary
Bibliography
Subject and Author Index
Index of Scripture and Other Ancient Literature
SERIES PREFACE
T here are two authors of every biblical book: the human author who penned the words and the divine Author who revealed and inspired every word. While God did not dictate the words to the biblical writers, he did guide their minds so that they wrote their own words under the influence of the Holy Spirit. If Christians really believed what they said when they called the Bible “the word of God,” a lot more would be engaged in serious Bible study. As divine revelation, the Bible deserves, indeed demands, to be studied deeply.
This means that when we study the Bible, we should not be satisfied with a cursory reading in which we insert our own meanings into the text. Instead, we must always ask what God intended to say in every passage. But Bible study should not be a tedious duty we have to perform. It is a sacred privilege and a joy. The deep meaning of any text is a buried treasure; all the riches are waiting under the surface. If we learned there was gold deep under our backyard, nothing would stop us from getting the tools we needed to dig it out. Similarly, in serious Bible study, all the treasures and riches of God are waiting to be dug up for our benefit.
This series of commentaries on the New Testament is intended to supply these tools and help the Christian understand more deeply the God-intended meaning of the Bible. Each volume walks the reader verse-by-verse through a book with the goal of opening up for us what God led Matthew or Paul or John to say to their readers. My goal in this series is to make sense of the historical and literary background of these ancient works—to supply the information that will enable the modern reader to understand exactly what the biblical writers were saying to their first-century audience. I want to remove the complexity of most modern commentaries and provide an easy-to-read explanation of the text. I have read nearly all the recent literature and have tried to supply a commentary that sums up the state of knowledge attained to date on the meaning and background for each biblical book.
But it is not enough to know what the books of the New Testament meant back then; we need help in determining how each text applies to our lives today. It is one thing to see what Paul was saying to his readers in Rome or Philippi, and quite another thing to see the significance of his words for us. So at key points in the commentary, I will attempt to help the reader discover areas in our modern lives that the text is addressing.
I envision three main uses for this series:
1. Devotional Scripture reading. Many Christians read rapidly through the Bible for devotions in a one-year program. That is extremely helpful to gain a broad overview of the Bible’s story. But I strongly encourage another kind of devotional reading—namely, to study deeply a single segment of the biblical text and try to understand it. These commentaries are designed to enable that. The commentary is based on the NIV and explains the meaning of the verses, enabling the modern reader to read a few pages at a time and pray over the message.
2. Church Bible studies. I have written these commentaries also to serve as guides for group Bible studies. Many Bible studies today consist of people coming together and sharing what they think the text is saying. There are strengths in such an approach, but also weaknesses. The problem is that God inspired these scriptural passages so that the church would understand and obey what he intended the text to say . Without some guidance into the meaning of the text, we are prone to commit heresy. At the very least, the leaders of the Bible study need to have a commentary so they can guide the discussion in the direction God intended. In my own church Bible studies, I have often had the class read a simple exposition of the text so they can all discuss the God-given message, and that is what I hope to provide here.
3. Sermon aids. These commentaries are also intended to help pastors faithfully exposit the text in a sermon. Busy pastors often have too little time to study complex thousand-page commentaries on biblical passages. As a result, it is easy to spend little time in Bible study and thereby to have a shallow sermon on Sunday. As I write this series, I am drawing on my own experience as a pastor and interim pastor, asking myself what I would want to include in a sermon.
Overall, my goal in these commentaries is simple: I would like them to be interesting and exciting adventures into New Testament texts. My hope is that readers will discover the riches of God that lie behind every passage in his divine word. I hope every reader will fall in love with God’s word as I have and begin a similar lifelong fascination with these eternal truths!
PREFACE TO THIS COMMENTARY
I had the great privilege of knowing Grant Osborne as my professor, my friend, and a longtime colleague on the board of an international ministry to Asian house church pastors. When Grant died in November of 2018, he had made it through almost all of his commentary on Hebrews, lacking only a few summary/application sections in chapters 10–13, commentary on the final verses of chapter 13, and the commentary’s introduction. At Grant’s request, Lexham Press asked if I would be willing to finish this book, and it has been a great honor to do so.
I first met Grant in the fall of 1985. I had moved to Trinity Evangelical Divinity School in Deerfield, Illinois, to work with Robert Coleman in the area of Christian discipleship, while my academic work centered on a ThM degree in New Testament. Grant, a respected professor at Trinity, served as the supervisor for my thesis and thus became my academic mentor right from the start. I remember a moment early in my first semester when we were both doing research in the library and were sitting side by side using the resources in front of us on the table. With a big smile, Grant turned and said something to the effect of, “I can’t think of anything better than this!” I smiled back and responded, “Well, I can think of a few things!” He laughed out loud, and our friendship took off from there. Grant loved studying the Bible and had great joy in God’s word. From the start, I was impressed with Grant’s deep devotion to Christ, his integration of Christian faith with scholarship, and his generous posture of encouragement toward students. In fact, for the next three-and-a-half decades, Grant would be a consistent source of encouragement to me personally.
It was in working on my master’s thesis that our paths first intersected in the pages of Hebrews. The previous year, while translating an article for a German class, I had become intrigued with the use of the Psalms in Hebrews and decided to write my master’s thesis on the use of Psalm 110:1 in the book