Download Audio Download Text “A Final Word” Hebrews 3:1-15 February 17, 2019 The Rev. Dr. Robert S. Rayburn As you might imagine, I spent some time thinking about the last sermon I would preach as the pastor of this congregation. Such sermons are not as frequent as you might think. When a minister’s […]
Download sermon Hebrews 13:17-25 This evening’s study in Hebrews is our 26th and last in this great sermon on the necessity of a persevering faith in Christ. Text Comment v.17 When you think about the argument of the letter and work back to the spiritual situation that is addressed in it, knowing what we know […]
Download sermon Hebrews 13:7-16 We are in a sort of postscript to the sermon of Hebrews. Following the final main section of exposition and application, that ended at 12:29, our preacher added some general exhortations to brotherly love, to sexual purity, and to financial contentment. We considered these last time. Now he moves on and […]
Download sermon Hebrews 13:1-6 It was the intention of the Puritans to “reduce to practice” – that was their own phrase – reduce to practice everything that God taught them in the Word. [Packer, Quest for Godliness, 29] They also spoke of “breaking up grace small.” Following the practice of Scripture, they would work out […]
Download sermon Hebrews 12:14-29 Our preacher is in the midst of another of his sections of application and exhortation. He has been telling them to run the race as generations of the faithful have before them, and to take their difficulties for what they are, the discipline of their heavenly father, by which their faith […]
Download sermon Hebrews 12:1-13 The preacher has just set before his hearers the long line of faithful saints who have persevered in faith in defiance of not having received in their lifetime what God had promised them. Do what they did, he is telling them as chapter 12 begins. Keep believing; your faith will in […]
Download sermon Hebrews 11:8-40 Text Comment Remember where we are now. In the last half of chapter 10 our author, our preacher really, had turned from his exposition of the superior priesthood of Jesus Christ to another sustained passage of exhortation or application. That has been his tactic throughout the sermon, to alternate exposition with […]
Hebrews 11:1-7 Download sermon We begin tonight our consideration of the one of the great chapters of the New Testament and, indeed, of the Bible. Our preacher has just concluded a great exhortation to keep faith with the Lord Jesus Christ; not to shrink back but to continue to believe. As a stronger, persevering faith […]
Download sermon Hebrews 10:19-39 Review Now remember that this preacher characteristically alternates, as good preachers will, between exposition and application. He has completed a long exposition of the priesthood of Jesus Christ and now is going to complete that section with another section of application. What he is going to say, of course, he has […]
Download sermon Hebrews 10:1-18 Review v.1 There is no question about the text here as there was at 9:11. He speaks of the “good things that are coming.” The Levitical sacrifices only foreshadowed the future salvation which Christ has guaranteed by his death and resurrection and which will some day come in its completion. And […]