Hebrews: Consider Jesus

We tend to consider ourselves and how worthless we are or how awesome we are. In the book of Hebrews, God wants us to consider who we really are, consider what life is really about, and most importantly Consider Jesus. Join us, as we encourage one another through the book of Hebrews, to Consider Jesus. #hebrews #2021

Starter

• What do you struggle to place your FAITH in others to do? Why?

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Study Questions

"BY FAITH”

The book of Hebrews was written to exhort believers and specifically Israelites to consider Jesus in the face of their culture. Some believers were turning back to practicing the sacrificial system of the Old Testament that Jesus fulfilled so they could escape being persecuted. As the writer walks the hearers and readers through much of the Old Testament ideas and systems, his desire is to clearly show them how to Consider Jesus in their life now.

If we are honest, the entire world runs BY FAITH. We are all looking for who and what we can trust. We are all being sold belief and trust (faith) asking us to respond BY FAITH. God makes it clear that He designed the world BY FAITH so that we might choose Him BY FAITH and after we chose HIM continue to live BY FAITH.

READ: Hebrews 11:1-3

1. Discuss how verses 1-3 define FAITH. Who or what is the object of FAITH in this passage?
2. In the message, Mat explained how the world is built and designed by God to run BY FAITH. How do we see this illustrated in our everyday lives?
3. We have been taught that FAITH and science are at odds. Discuss how that statement is far from “the reality of what is hoped for, the proof of what is not seen.”

READ: Hebrews 11:4-31, Revelation 21:1-5, Luke 14:25-27

1. Pick one of the people listed who lived BY FAITH and explain why you picked them as your representation of a life lived BY FAITH?
2. Revelation 21 is a picture of FAITH. How does the promise of a heavenly home/country help us to keep living dialy BY FAITH, even when we don’t see our hopes fulfilled (v.13-16)?

READ: Hebrews 11:32-12:3, Matthew 10:34-39, Galatians 2:17-21, Ephesians 2:1, 4-9

1. The lives of those who have lived and are living BY FAITH may or may not turn out how they think they should or want. How can the reality and truth of their outcomes, like we read in these passages, help us live BY FAITH not by sight?
2. How can 11:39-40 put a life lived BY FAITH into perspective for us as believers?
3. How do these other verses help us to have a healthy perspective of the reality of living BY FAITH?