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HEBREWS By Donald Townsley

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HEBREWS Lesson One INTRODUCTION: 1. AUTHOR: There is no name mentioned in the book as to who the author is, but many think the Apostle Paul wrote it. 2. DATE: about 66 or 67 A.D. 3. PURPOSE: The primary purpose of the author of Hebrews was to persuade his Hebrew brethren in Christ to persevere to the end in the course they had begun as Christians, and not to fall back again to Judaism ( Heb. 10: 35 - 39). 4. These Hebrew Christians had to face the same spirit of envy and malice which had moved the unbelieving Jews to put to death the Lord ( Heb. 10:34; Gal. 4:29). 5. This persecution was very discouraging to the Hebrew Christians ( Heb. 12: 12 - 13). 6. This letter was to help those Christians who were about to fall away from the faith ( Heb. 3: 12 - 13; 6: 4 - 6; 10: 24 - 31). a. This letter is "the word of exhortation" ( Heb. 13:22). 7. In this epistle the writer clearly demonstrates the superiority of the new covenant over the old covenant. 8. The writer shows that the gospel plan is really the only plan by which any sinner can be saved. 9. The book of Hebrews is preeminently a book of motives: a. "Motive" defined: that which incites to action. b. There are many things in Hebrews to motivate us to do our duty. 10. There are key words used that we need to study in order to better understand the book: a. The word "better" b. The admonition "let us" I. WE WILL FIRST STUDY THE WORD "BETTER". 1. Christ is a better spokesman than angels (Heb. 1:4). a. The law was spoken by angels (Heb. 2:2; Gal. 3:19; Acts 7:53). (1) Moses was the mediator of the law ( Gal. 3:20). (2) God spoke to angels, angels spoke to Moses, and Moses gave the law to Israel. b. The gospel was spoken by Christ, God's Son (Heb. 1:2).

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(1) God spoke to Christ (Heb. 1:2), Christ spoke to the Holy Spirit (John 16:13), and the Holy Spirit to the apostles and prophets ( Eph. 3:5) who wrote this revelation down for us today ( I John 5:13; Eph. 3: 3 - 4). 2. "We are persuaded better things of you" (Heb. 6:9). a. The writer had warned them about not growing and bearing fruit and apostasy ( Heb. 6: 1 - 8). 3. We have a better High Priest ( Heb. 7:7). a. Christ is a priest after the order of Melchisedec ( Heb. 7:17). b. He lived a sinless life ( Heb. 4:15). c. He has an endless life ( Heb. 7: 16 - 17). d. Aaron was made priest "without an oath", but Christ was made priest "with an oath" (Heb. 7:12; Psa. 110: 4). e. The Levites offered daily sacrifices for themselves first and then for the people (Heb. 7:27); Christ did not have to offer sacrifices for Himself -- He had no sin (Heb. 4:15). He was once offered "to put away sin by the sacrifice of Himself" ( Heb. 9: 26; 7: 26 - 27). 4. We have a better hope (Heb. 7: 19). 5. We "have in heaven a better and an enduring substance" (Heb. 10:34; I Pet. 1:4; Matt. 6: 19 - 21). 6. We have a "better testament" ( Heb. 7: 22); a "better covenant" ( Heb. 8: 6). 7. We have a "better sacrifice" ( Heb. 9: 23). 8. We are going to a "better country" (Heb. 11:16; John 4: 1 - 6). 9. A "better resurrection" (Heb. 11: 35; John 5: 28 - 29; I Cor. 15: 50 - 57). 10. God has provided some "better thing for us" (Heb. 11:40; Heb. 8:6). 11. Better blood (Heb. 12: 24). a. Abel's blood cried for vengeance (Gen. 4:10). b. Christ's blood calls for mercy (Heb. 2:9; Eph. 1:7).

II. WE WILL NOW LOOK AT THE ADMONITION, "LET US".

1. "Let us therefore fear, lest, a promise being left us of entering into his rest, any of you should seem to come short of it" ( Heb. 4:1). 2. "Let us labour therefore to enter into that rest, lest any man fall after the same example of unbelief" (Heb. 4:11). 3. "Let us hold fast our profession" (confession, Heb. 4:14). 4. "Let us therefore come boldly unto the throne of grace, that we may obtain mercy, and find grace to help in time of need" (Heb. 4:16).

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5. "Let us go on unto perfection;" (Heb. 6:1) 6. "Let us draw near" (to God -- Heb. 10:22). 7. "Let us hold fast the profession of our faith without wavering" (Heb. 10:23). 8. "Let us consider one another to provoke unto love and to good works;" (Heb. 10:24). 9. "Let us lay aside every weight, and the sin which doth so easily beset us" (Heb. 12:1). 10. "Let us run with patience the race that is set before us" (Heb. 12:1). 11. "Let us have grace whereby we may serve God acceptably with reverence and fear:" (Heb.12:1). 12. Let us go forth therefore unto Him without the camp, bearing His reproach" (Heb. 13: 13). 13. "Let us offer the sacrifice of praise to God continually, that is, the fruit of our lips giving thanks to His name" (Heb. 13:15).

QUESTIONS: HEBREWS, CHAPTER ONE 1. Who wrote the book of Hebrews? _____________________________________________________________________________ 2. Who was the first Hebrew? ( Gen. 14:13) ____________________________________________________________________ 3. Who were the Hebrews? ( Gen 39:14; Ex. 1:15; Acts 6:1; II Cor. 11: 22; Phil. 3:5). _______________________ ________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ 4. How do we know this book was to Hebrew Christians? _____________________________________________________ ________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ 5. What is the main topic (theme) of the Hebrew letter? ______________________________________________________ ________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ 6. The letter begins with whom? _________________________________________________________________________________ 7. What book in the Old Testament begins the same way? ____________________________________________________ 8. Give the two great periods in which God has spoken to man ( Heb. 1: 1, 2): ______________________________ ________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ 9. Name the two dispensations in "time past": __________________________________________________________________ 10. HOW and BY WHOM did God speak "unto the fathers" in time past? _____________________________________ ________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ 11. How does God speak to us in "these last days"? ____________________________________________________________ 12. Give the meaning of "these last days": _______________________________________________________________________ ________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ 13. When did the "last days" begin? (Acts 2: 16 - 17) __________________________________________________________ ________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

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14. How do we know the Old Testament is NOT our standard in religion today? (Heb. 1: 1 - 2) ___________ ________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ 15. How were "the worlds" made? (Heb. 1: 2; John 1:3) _______________________________________________________ ________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ 16. Is Christ the "express image" of God's person? (John 14:9; Gen. 1:26; Heb. 1:3) ________________________ ________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ 17. Who upholds all things? ( Heb. 1:3) _________________________________________________________________________ 18. How are all things upheld ? ( Heb. 1:3; II Pet. 3:7) _________________________________________________________ ________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ 19. Tell how Christ "purged out sins" ( Heb. 1:3; I Pet. 2:24): ________________________________________________ ________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ 20. List eight reasons why Christ is "better than the angels": (1) Verse 4: ________________________________________________________________________________________________ (2) Verse 5: ________________________________________________________________________________________________ (3) Verse 6: ________________________________________________________________________________________________ (4) Verse 7 - 8: ____________________________________________________________________________________________ (5) Verse 9: ________________________________________________________________________________________________ (6) Verse 10 -12: __________________________________________________________________________________________ (7) Verse 13: ______________________________________________________________________________________________ (8) Verse 14: ______________________________________________________________________________________________ 21. God used angels (Gal. 3:19; Acts 7: 53) to give the Law to Moses; Christ is better than angels, so when the Law is compared to the gospel of Christ, which is better (superior)? ____________________________ ________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

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HEBREWS Lesson Two QUESTIONS, HEBREWS, CHAPTER TWO

1. We ought to give "the more earnest heed" to what? (vs. 1) _________________________________________________ ________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ 2. Why should we give "the more earnest heed " to these things? (vs. 1) ____________________________________ ________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ 3. What does "the tings which we have heard" refer to? (vs. 1) _______________________________________________ ________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ 4. What does "the word spoken by angels" refer to? (vs. 2) ___________________________________________________ ________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ 5. What did "every transgression and disobedience" receive under the "word spoken by angels"? (vs. 2) ________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ 6. Will there be any escape from punishment if one neglects the "so great salvation"? _____________________ ________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ 7. Tell how we know there will be no escape from punishment for us if we neglect the "so great salvation" ( vs. 2, 3): ________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ ________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ 8. The "so great salvation" was first spoken by whom? (vs. 3) ________________________________________________ ________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ 9. By whom was this "so great salvation" confirmed unto us? (vs. 3) _________________________________________ ________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ 10. How did God bear them witness? (vs. 4) ____________________________________________________________________ ________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ 11. When did such miracles cease? ( I Cor. 13: 8 - 10) _________________________________________________________ ________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ 12. Tell what the "so great salvation" is: ________________________________________________________________________ 13. The "world to come" (the present age, the gospel age) is not subject to whom? (vs. 5) ________________ ________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

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14. Who is "the world to come" subject to? (Matt. 28;18; Eph. 1: 22 , 23; Heb. 1:3) _________________________ 15. Give the scripture from which the Hebrew writer is quoting: _____________________________________________ ________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ 16. Was David amazed that God in all His greatness and glory would condescend to be mindful of man and supply his numerous wants? (vs. 6; Psa. 8: 1 - 4) ___________________________________________________________ ________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ 17. Describe man's dominion over the work of God's hands (Heb. 2: 6 - 8; Psa. 8: 4 - 8; Gen. 1: 26): ______ ________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ 18. Did man lose the rule over death through sin? (Heb. 2:8; Gen. 2: 16 - 17; Gen. 3: 22 -24) ______________ ________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ 19. For whom did Christ taste death? ( vs. 9) __________________________________________________________________ 20. Did Christ have to become flesh to do this? (vs. 9) ________________________________________________________ 21. What is meant by "bringing many sons unto glory"? ( vs. 10) (II Thess. 2: 14; I Pet. 5:10) _____________ ________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ 22. Who is the "captain" (or author) of our salvation? (vs. 10; 5:9) __________________________________________ 23. Christ was made perfect through what? (vs. 10) ___________________________________________________________ 24. Is the Saviour and the saved "all of one"? (Vs. 11) __________________________________________________________ 25. Is Christ ashamed to call the saved His brethren? (vs. 11) ________________________________________________ 26. Where would Christ "declare the name of God" unto His brethren? (vs. 12) ____________________________ ________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ 27. What does Christ and the children which God has given Him (Christ) do? (vs. 13) _____________________ ________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ 28. Did Christ partake of flesh and blood the same as the "children"? (vs. 14) _______________________________ 29. Christ had to partake of flesh and blood to destroy the power of whom? (vs. 14) _______________________ 30. Who has delivered man from the fear of death? (vs. 15) __________________________________________________ 31. Christ came as a fleshly descendant of whom? (vs. 16) ____________________________________________________ 32. Why was Christ made "like unto his brethren" and tempted as they are? (vs. 17 - 18) _________________ ________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ ________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

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HEBREWS Lesson Three QUESTIONS, HEBREWS, CHAPTER THREE

1. How does the Hebrew writer address Christians in verse one? ____________________________________________ 2. How is Christ referred to? (vs. 1) ______________________________________________________________________________ ________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ 3. What is the meaning of the word "Apostle"? _________________________________________________________________ ________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ 4. Christ was faithful to whom? (vs. 2) __________________________________________________________________________ 5. Why was Christ counted worthy of more glory than Moses? (vs. 3) _______________________________________ ________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ 6. Who built "all things"? ( vs. 4) _________________________________________________________________________________ 7. Moses was a servant in whose house? (vs. 2, 5) ______________________________________________________________ 8. Christ , as a Son, is over whose house? (vs. 6) ________________________________________________________________ 9. What is the Lord's house? (vs. 6; I Tim. 3:15) ________________________________________________________________ 10. What had their fathers done in the wilderness? (vs. 7 - 9 ) ________________________________________________ ________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ ________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ 11. What was God's attitude toward that generation? (vs. 10) ________________________________________________ ________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ 12. What did God "sware in His wrath" concerning them? (vs. 11) ___________________________________________ ________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ 13. What rest were these forbidden to enter? __________________________________________________________________ 14. This implies that Christians may become hardened and fail to enter where? ____________________________ ________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ 15. What danger must we all guard against? (vs. 12) __________________________________________________________

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16. When and why should we exhort one another? (vs. 13) __________________________________________________ ________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ 17. Discuss the "deceitfulness of sin": ___________________________________________________________________________ ________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ ________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ 18. What does it mean to be "partakers of Christ"? (vs. 14) __________________________________________________ ________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ 19. On what condition are we made partakers of Christ? (vs. 14) _____________________________________________ ________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ 20. Has the writer already given this warning in this chapter? ______________________________ Give the verse: ________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ 21. Who provoked the Lord in the wilderness? (vs. 16) _______________________________________________________ ________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ 22. With whom was God grieved forty years? (vs. 17) _________________________________________________________ 23. Why did they not enter the land of promise? (vs. 18, 19) __________________________________________________ ________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

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HEBREWS Lesson Four QUESTIONS, HEBREWS, CHAPTER FOUR

1. What should Christians fear? (vs. 1) __________________________________________________________________________ ________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ 2. What is the "rest" the writer is referring to in verse one? ___________________________________________________ ________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ 3. As long as man is in flesh is he in danger of losing his reward? _____________________________________________ ________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ 4. Give some reasons most Christians go back into the world: ________________________________________________ ________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ 5. Define the word "gospel": ______________________________________________________________________________________ 6. What "gospel" (or good news) was preached to Israel? (vs. 2; Numbers 13: 17 - 33; 14: 1 - 39) ________ ________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ ________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ 7. Why did Israel not profit from the word preached to them? (vs. 2) _______________________________________ ________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ 8. Who has the promise of entering the eternal rest? (vs. 3) __________________________________________________ 9. On what day did God "rest" from all His works? _____________________________________________________________ 10. God's "rest" on the seventh day was a "type" (or emblem) of what rest? ________________________________ ________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ 11. The "rest" in Canaan typified what rest? ( vs. 6-8; Psa. 95: 7 - 11) ________________________________________ ________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ 12. Since the sabbath nor Canaan was the "rest" God originally purposed, what is the conclusion? (vs. 9) ________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

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13. When one enters into God's rest, he ceases from what? (vs. 10) __________________________________________ ________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ 14. What exhortation does the writer give in verse eleven? ___________________________________________________ ________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ 15. The writer warns against falling after whose example? ( vs. 11) _________________________________________ ________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ 16. Give some other passages that show one can "fall from grace" and be lost: _____________________________ ________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ 17. What must a Christian do to prevent falling from grace? (vs. 11; I Cor. 10:12) __________________________ ________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ 18. Is the word of God "alive"? (I Pet. 1:23) _____________________________________________________________________ 19. Can the word of God be destroyed? (I Pet. 1: 24 - 25) ______________________________________________________ 20. Is the word of God "all penetrating" and "searching" in our hearts? ______________________________________ 21. Is the word of God a critical examiner of all our thoughts, intents and actions? ( vs. 12) _______________ ________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ 22. Discuss the power of the word of God: ( Rom. 1:16; I Thess. 2:13; Acts 20:32; I Pet. 2:2; Matt. 8:26; II Pet. 3:7) ________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ ________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ ________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ ________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ 23. Does man hide anything from the eyes of God? ____________________________________________________________ 24. Name our "High Priest": ______________________________________________________________________________________ 25. Where is our High Priest now? _______________________________________________________________________________ 26. What is "our profession"? ( vs. 14: 3:1; 10:23) _____________________________________________________________ 27. Can our High Priest be "touched with the feeling of our infirmities"? (vs. 15) ___________________________

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28. Give the "all points" of temptation ( I John 2: 15 - 16; Matt. 4: 1 - 11): ___________________________________ ________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ ________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ 29. Was our High Priest, Jesus Christ, without sin? _____________________________________________________________ 30. What can we "obtain" at the throne of grace? ______________________________________________________________ 31. One comes to the throne of grace through whom? ( vs. 14; John 14:6) ___________________________________ ________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

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HEBREWS Lesson Five QUESTIONS, HEBREWS, CHAPTER FIVE 1. The Levitical priests were taken from among whom? ( vs. 1) ______________________________________________ ________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ 2. He was "ordained for men" in what "things"? (vs. 1) ________________________________________________________ ________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ 3. What did the priest offer? (vs. 1) ______________________________________________________________________________ ________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ 4. Must the high priest be sympathetic? (vs. 2) _________________________________________________________________ 5. Was the high priest himself beset with his own weaknesses? (vs. 2) ______________________________________ 6. For whose sins did the priest offer sacrifices? (vs. 3) ________________________________________________________ ________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ 7. Tell how a man obtained the position of "high priest": (vs. 4) _____________________________________________ ________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ 8. Did Christ exalt Himself to be made a high priest? ( vs. 5) __________________________________________________ 9. Who made Christ a high priest? (vs. 5, 6) _____________________________________________________________________ 10. What was the miracle that confirmed and guaranteed Christ's priesthood? (vs. 5: Acts 13: 32 - 33) ________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ 11. "In the days of his (Christ's) flesh", what did Christ do? (vs. 7) ___________________________________________ ________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ 12. How did Christ learn obedience? (vs. 8) ____________________________________________________________________ ________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ 13. What was the purpose of Christ's suffering? (vs. 8, 9) _____________________________________________________ ________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ 14. Man's salvation is conditioned upon what? (vs. 9) ________________________________________________________

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15. Heb. 5:10 repeats what fact about Christ? __________________________________________________________________ ________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ 16. About whom did the writer have "many things" to say? (vs. 10 - 11) ____________________________________ ________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ 17. Why were the things the writer had to say "hard to be uttered"? ( vs. 11) _______________________________ ________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ 18. By this time, the writer said, they should be what? (vs. 12) ______________________________________________ ________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ 19. What is meant by "milk" in verse 12? _______________________________________________________________________ ________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ 20. What is meant by "strong meat" in verse 12? ______________________________________________________________ ________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ 21. Tell who is a "babe" (vs. 13; I Pet. 2: 1 - 21) ________________________________________________________________ ________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ 22. To whom does "strong meat" belong? (vs. 14) ____________________________________________________________ ________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ 23. Who is able to "discern both good and evil"? (vs. 14) ______________________________________________________ ________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

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HEBREWS Lesson Six QUESTIONS, HEBREWS, CHAPTER SIX

1. Go back to chapter 5: 12 - 14 and tell the condition of those to whom this is addressed: _________________ ________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ 2. What must these Hebrew Christians "leave"? ________________________________________________________________ ________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ 3. Does the word "leave" in this first verse mean to desert, or does it mean to advance beyond? ________ ________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ 4. Must Christians strive to become of "full age" as they increase in knowledge? ____________________________ 5. Name the foundation-principles of the doctrine of Christ which must be laid first and then built upon: (vs. 1 - 2) (1) ___________________________________________________________________________________________________________ (2) ___________________________________________________________________________________________________________ (3) __________________________________________________________________________________________________________ (4) __________________________________________________________________________________________________________ (5) ___________________________________________________________________________________________________________ (6) ___________________________________________________________________________________________________________ 6. Was the writer determined to "go on unto perfection" (maturity) with the help of God? ________________ 7. List five (5) expressions used to show that the writer is warning Christians about the dangers and consequences of apostasy: ( vs. 4, 5) (1) ___________________________________________________________________________________________________________ (2) ___________________________________________________________________________________________________________ (3) ___________________________________________________________________________________________________________ (4) ___________________________________________________________________________________________________________ (5) ___________________________________________________________________________________________________________

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8. Can a child of God become so hardened by sin that it is impossible to renew him again unto repentance? ( v. 4 - 6; II Pet. 2: 20 - 22; Heb. 3: 12- 13) ________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ 9. Describe the good ground (earth) and what it brings forth (vs. 7): _______________________________________ ________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ 10. Who does the good ground (earth) represent? _____________________________________________________________ ________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ 11. Describe the bad ground (vs. 8): _____________________________________________________________________________ ________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ 12. What is the "end" of the bad ground? ( vs. 8) _______________________________________________________________ ________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ 13. Who does the bad ground represent? _______________________________________________________________________ ________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ 14. What was the Hebrew writer "persuaded" of them? ( vs. 9) ______________________________________________ ________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ 15. What will God not forget concerning Christians? (vs. 10) _________________________________________________ ________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ 16. How was "full assurance of hope" attainable? (vs. 11,12) _________________________________________________ ________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ 17. What promise is referred to, to assure them of hope? (vs. 13, 14) ________________________________________ ________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ 18. When this promise was made, how did God confirm it? (vs. 13, 17) _____________________________________ ________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ 19. Did Abraham have to "endure" before he obtained the promise? (vs. 15) _______________________________ 20. Is the oath among men the "end of all strife"? (vs. 16) ____________________________________________________ 21. Tell why God confirmed His promise by an oath: (vs. 17) ________________________________________________ ________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

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22. What two immutable things did God use that He might give to the "heirs of promise" every possible ground of encouragement? ________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ ________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ 23. Tell what the "anchor" of our soul is: (vs. 19) ______________________________________________________________ ________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ 24. To whom is the "anchor" of our soul fastened? (vs.19) ___________________________________________________ ________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ 25. Tell where Christ is: (vs. 20) _________________________________________________________________________________ 26. Christ is a high priest after the order of whom? (vs. 20) __________________________________________________ 27. Define "hope": _________________________________________________________________________________________________ ________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ ________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

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HEBREWS Lesson Seven QUESTIONS, HEBREWS, CHAPTER SEVEN

1. Who was Melchisedec? ( vs. 1) ________________________________________________________________________________ ________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ 2. Was Melchisedic both priest and king? ( vs. 1) ______________________________________________________________ 3. When Melchisedec met Abraham what did Abraham give him? (vs. 2; Gen. 14) _________________________ ________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ ________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ 4. Did Melchisedec have predecessor or successor in office of priest? (vs. 3) ________________________________ 5. In what was Melchisedec's priesthood like unto the priesthood of the Son of God? (vs. 3) ______________ ________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ ________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ 6. What is the evidence showing that Melchisedec was greater than Abraham? (vs. 4) ____________________ ________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ 7. What shows that Melchisedec was superior to the sons of Levi? (vs. 5 - 8) _______________________________ ________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ 8. Give an explanation of how Levi "paid tithes in Abraham": (vs. 9 - 10) ___________________________________ ________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ 9. Why was it necessary to have a high priest after the order of Melchisedec and not after the order of the Levitical priesthood? (vs. 11) ________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ ________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ 10. The priesthood being changed made it necessary also to change what? (vs. 12) _______________________ ________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ 11. Of what tribe were all the priests under the law of Moses? (vs. 11) ______________________________________

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12. The Son of God, our High Priest, is of what tribe? (vs. 13, 14) ____________________________________________ 13. Could Christ have been a high priest under the law of Moses? (vs. 14) __________________________________ 14. How is Christ's priesthood like that of Melchisedec? (vs. 15 - 17) ________________________________________ ________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ ________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ 15. Why was the law of Moses disannulled (done away with)? (vs. 18 - 19) ________________________________ ________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ 16. The new law brought a better ___________________________________________________. (vs. 19) 17. Who was made a priest with an oath? ________________________________; and who were made priests without an oath? (vs. 20,21) ________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ 18. Jesus was made "a surety" of what? (vs. 22) _______________________________________________________________ 19. Why were there many priests under the law of Moses? (vs. 23) _________________________________________ ________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ 20. How is Christ's priesthood unchangeable? (vs. 24) ________________________________________________________ ________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ 21. What is the difference in the two priesthoods in the ability to "save"? (vs. 11, 25) _____________________ ________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ ________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ 22. Describe Christ as High Priest: (vs. 26) (1) __________________________________________________________________________________________________________ (2) __________________________________________________________________________________________________________ (3) __________________________________________________________________________________________________________ (4) __________________________________________________________________________________________________________ (5) __________________________________________________________________________________________________________

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23. State how the sacrifices that Christ made differs from the sacrifices of the Levitical priesthood: (vs. 27) ________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ ________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ ________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ 24. What kind of priests were appointed by the law? (vs. 28) ________________________________________________ ________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ 25. What kind of priest was appointed by the "word of the oath"? (vs. 28) _________________________________ ________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ 26. Give a summary of what is taught in this chapter: _________________________________________________________ ________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ ________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ ________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ ________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ ________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ ________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

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HEBREWS Lesson Eight QUESTIONS, HEBREWS, CHAPTER EIGHT

1. What is the sum (the main point) of the things the writer was saying? (vs. 1) ___________________________ ________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ ________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ 2. Of what is Christ the minister? (vs. 2) ________________________________________________________________________ ________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ 3. Who set up ("pitched") the true tabernacle? (vs. 2) _________________________________________________________ 4. Did man have anything to do with setting up the true tabernacle? (vs. 2) ________________________________ 5. Where does Christ, our High Priest, carry on His work? (Heb. 8:1; 4: 14 - 16; 6: 19 - 20) _______________ ________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ 6. What is every high priest appointed to do? (vs. 3) __________________________________________________________ ________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ 7. Was it necessary for Christ to have something to offer? (vs. 3) ____________________________________________ 8. What did Christ, our High Priest, offer? (Heb. 9:14; 7:27) __________________________________________________ ________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ 9. Tell why Christ could not be high priest on earth: (vs. 4; Heb. 7:14) ______________________________________ ________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ 10. The tabernacle, under the law, served as what? (vs. 5) ___________________________________________________ 11. What admonition did God give Moses when he was about to build the tabernacle? (vs. 5; Ex. 25: 40) ________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ 12. Are we to "make all things according to the pattern" today? (vs. 5) ______________________________________ 13. What did Christ, our High Priest, obtain? (vs. 6) ____________________________________________________________ ________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

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14. Christ is the mediator of what? (vs. 6) _______________________________________________________________________ ________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ 15. Define "mediator": ____________________________________________________________________________________________ ________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ 16. The "better covenant" was established upon what? (vs. 6) _______________________________________________ ________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ 17. What if the old covenant had been faultless? (vs. 7) _______________________________________________________ ________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ 18. Give some of the faults of the old covenant: (1) Rom. 8:3 : ______________________________________________________________________________________________ _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________ (2) Heb. 10: 1 - 4 : ________________________________________________________________________________________ _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________ (3) Heb. 9: 7 - 9 : __________________________________________________________________________________________ _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________ 19. Did the Lord prophesy of a new covenant through Jeremiah? (Jer. 31: 31 - 34) ________________________ 20. Would the new covenant include every Jew? ( vs. 8) ______________________________________________________ 21. Does the new covenant include every Gentile? (Isa. 62: 1, 2; 60:3; Matt. 28 : 18 - 20) _______________ ________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ 22. Was the new covenant to be different from the old covenant? (vs. 9) ___________________________________ 23. Did Israel fail to continue in the old covenant? (vs. 9) _____________________________________________________ 24. Where did God say He would put His laws of the new covenant? (vs. 10) _______________________________ ________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ 25. Where would God write them? (vs. 10) _____________________________________________________________________ ________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ 26. Can people who will not obey His covenant today claim to be His people? (vs. 10) ____________________

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27. Explain the statement: "They shall not teach every man his neighbor and every man his brother" ( 8:11) ________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ ________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ ________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ 28. Under the new covenant, when sins are forgiven will they be remembered by God anymore? (vs. 12) ________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ 29. Is the Old Testament old because of age, or is it old because it was replaced by the new covenant? (vs. 13) ________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ ________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

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HEBREWS Lesson Nine QUESTIONS, HEBREWS, CHAPTER NINE

(Please read Exodus chapters 25 - 40 for the background of this chapter.) 1. Tell what the first covenant had: ( vs. 1) ______________________________________________________________________ ________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ 2. Name the two main divisions of the tabernacle: (vs. 2 - 3; Ex. 26:33) _____________________________________ ________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ 3. Name what was in the first part of the tabernacle (the Holy Place): (vs. 2; Ex. 26:35) ___________________ ________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ ________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ 4. Name what was in the second part of the tabernacle (the "holiest of all"): (vs. 3 - 5) ____________________ ________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ ________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ 5. Who routinely ("always") went into the first part (the Holy Place)? (vs. 6) _______________________________ ________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ 6. Who was permitted to go into the second part ( Most Holy Place)? (vs. 7) ________________________________ ________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ 7. How often did the high priest go into the Most Holy Place? (vs. 7; Lev. 16:34) ___________________________ ________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ 8. Does the expression "once every year" mean only one time, or does it mean one day with more than one entrance on that day? (vs. 7; Lev. 16: 6 - 15) ________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ 9. Why did the high priest go into the Most Holy Place? ( vs. 7) ______________________________________________ ________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

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10. What did all of this signify? (vs. 8) __________________________________________________________________________ ________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ 11. Were these things "a figure" (or types) of things in the gospel age? (vs. 9 - 10) ________________________ 12. Why could not these gifts and sacrifices of the law of Moses make the worshipper "perfect"? (vs. 9 - 10) ________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ 13. Christ has become a High Priest of what? (vs. 11) _________________________________________________________ ________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ 14. By what did Christ enter the Most Holy Place? (vs. 12) ___________________________________________________ ________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ 15. Who built this "perfect tabernacle"? ( vs. 11; Heb. 8:2) ___________________________________________________ ________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ 16. Who built the tabernacle of the law of Moses? (Ex. 25:40) ________________________________________________ 17. Contrast the high priest of the law of Moses and Christ, our High Priest, as to the number of entrances into the Most Holy Place: (vs. 7 ,12) ________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ ________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ 18. Under the law of Moses the blood of bulls and goats could cleanse the flesh, but the blood of Christ could cleanse (purge) the " ________________________________________________________________________________________ ______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________". 19. Tell what Christ's death did for those under the law (the "first testament"): (vs. 15) __________________ ________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ 20. What was necessary for the New Testament to be in force? (vs. 15 - 17) ________________________________ ________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ 21. How was the first testament (the old covenant) dedicated? (vs. 18 - 21) ________________________________ ________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ 22. What was required to have the remission of sins? (vs. 22) _______________________________________________ ________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

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23. The "pattern of things" in the Old Testament had to be purified with the blood of animal sacrifices; what did the cleansing of "heavenly things" require? (vs. 23) ________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ 24. Contrast the "places" where the blood was offered in the Old and New Testaments: (vs. 24) _________ ________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ 25. Contrast the number of times the sacrifices were offered in the Old Testament with the sacrifice of Christ: (vs. 25 , 26) _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ ________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ 26. All men are "appointed" to do what once? (vs. 27) ________________________________________________________ 27. What will follow death? (vs. 27) _____________________________________________________________________________ 28. How many times was Christ offered to bear the sins of all men? (vs. 28; Isa. 53: 4 - 6) ________________ 29. Why is Christ coming the second time? (vs. 28; John 14: 1 - 3) __________________________________________ ________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

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HEBREWS Lesson Ten QUESTIONS, HEBREWS, CHAPTER TEN 1. The law of Moses contained "shadows" of what? (vs. 1) ____________________________________________________ ________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ 2. Could the sacrifices of the law make those who would draw near to worship perfect? (vs. 1)___________ 3. If the sacrifices of the law could have made them perfect, what would they have done? (vs. 2) ________ ________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ 4. Did they continue to have "conscience of sins" under the law? (vs. 2) ____________________________________ 5. In those sacrifices, how often is there a "remembrance of sins"? (vs. 3) ___________________________________ 6. Why could the law of Moses not make those under that law perfect? (vs. 4) _____________________________ ________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ 7. Why did God prepare Christ a body? (vs. 5, 10; Heb. 9: 26) ________________________________________________ ________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ 8. God had "no pleasure" in what? (vs. 6, 8) ____________________________________________________________________ ________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ 9. Jesus came into the world to do what? (vs. 7, 10) ___________________________________________________________ ________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ 10. Why did Christ take away the first covenant? (vs. 9) ______________________________________________________ ________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ 11. Tell how men are "sanctified" today: (vs. 10) ______________________________________________________________ ________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ 12. What did every priest do daily under the law? (vs. 11) ___________________________________________________ ________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ 13. Could these sacrifices take away sins? (vs. 11) ____________________________________________________________

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14. "This man" (Christ) offered how many sacrifices to take away sins forever? (vs. 12) _________________ 15. When Christ had made His sacrifice, where did He sit down? (vs. 12) ___________________________________ ________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ 16. How long is He expecting to remain on the right hand of God? (vs. 13; I Cor. 15: 25, 26; Psa. 110: 1) ________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ ________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ 17. What did Christ accomplish by one sacrifice ? (vs. 14) ___________________________________________________ ________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ 18. Where in the Old Testament is the record of the Holy Spirit witnessing this to us? (vs. 15 - 18) ______ ________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ 19. By the blood of Christ, what may we enter? (vs. 19) _______________________________________________________ 20. The way into heaven is called what? (vs. 20) ______________________________________________________________ 21. What does "the veil" refer to in verse 20? __________________________________________________________________ ________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ 22. This "way" was consecrated by whom? (vs. 20) ___________________________________________________________ 23. Under the new covenant, who is the High Priest over the "house of God"? (vs. 21) ____________________ ________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ 24. What is the "house of God"? (I Tim. 3:15) __________________________________________________________________ ________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ 25. Since the Christian has these blessings, what should he do? (vs. 22) ____________________________________ ________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ 26. To what does "our bodies washed with pure water" refer? (vs. 22) _____________________________________ ________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ 27. To what are we to "hold fast"? (vs. 23) _____________________________________________________________________ ________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ 28. We are to provoke (stir up) one another to what? (vs. 24) _______________________________________________ ________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

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29. What are we not to forsake? (vs. 25) ________________________________________________________________________ ________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ 30. Tell what remains for those who "sin willfully" -- those who deliberately renounce Christ and the church: (vs. 26 -29) ________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ 31. Who does judgment and vengeance belong to? (vs. 30) _________________________________________________ 32. Tell why it is fearful for one who has renounced Christ and His church to fall into the hands of the living God: (vs. 31) ________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ 33. What does the writer want them to remember? ( vs. 32) __________________________________________________ ________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ 34. List the "afflictions" they had endured: (vs. 33 - 34) ______________________________________________________ ________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ 35. Why do you believe these former "sufferings" are mentioned? (Think about when you first became a Christian in giving your answer): ________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ ________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ 36. What are we warned not to do in verse 35? ________________________________________________________________ ________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ 37. Do we need patience (perseverance) to endure to the end that we might receive the promise? (vs. 36 - 37) ________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ 38. How do the "just" live? (vs. 38) ______________________________________________________________________________ 39. Is this a working, obedient faith? ____________________________________________________________________________ 40. What about the man who "draws back" from his service to God? (vs. 38) _______________________________ ________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ 41. What about those who are faithful to the end? (vs. 39) ____________________________________________________ ________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

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HEBREWS Lesson Eleven QUESTIONS, HEBREWS, CHAPTER ELEVEN

1. How does faith come? (Rom. 10:17; John 17:20; John 20: 30 - 31; Acts 15: 7) ___________________________ ________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ 2. Can there be any faith without the testimony of the word of God? _________________________________________ 3. What is faith? (vs. 1) ____________________________________________________________________________________________ ________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ 4. By what did the elders obtain a good report? ( vs. 2) _______________________________________________________ ________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ 5. Through faith we understand that the worlds were framed by what? _____________________________________ ________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ 6. Was the visible creation made out of pre-existing materials or just spoken into existence by God? ( vs. 3; Psa. 33: 6 - 9; Gen. 1: 3, 6, 9, 11, 14, 20) ________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ 7. Why was Abel's offering accepted and Cain's offering rejected? (vs.4) ____________________________________ ________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ 8. Does the phrase "by faith" in this chapter (and in other places) mean an obedient faith or "faith only"? ________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ 9. How did God reward Enoch for his faithfulness? (vs. 5) _____________________________________________________ ________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ 10. What testimony did Enoch have before his "translation"? (vs. 5) ________________________________________ ________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ 11. Who else in the Old Testament did not experience death? (II Kings 2: 1 -11) ___________________________ ________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ 12. Can one please God without faith? (vs. 6) ________________________________________________________________

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13. What must one believe in order to please God? (vs. 6) ____________________________________________________ ________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ 14. What did Noah do "by faith"? (vs.7) _________________________________________________________________________ ________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ 15. Tell of Abraham's faith in his departure from Ur of the Chaldees: (vs. 8 - 9) _____________________________ ________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ ________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ 16. What was Abraham looking for ? (vs.10) __________________________________________________________________ ________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ 17. Tell how Sara exercised her faith: (vs. 11) _________________________________________________________________ ________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ 18. How does the writer describe the descendants of Abraham? (vs. 12) ____________________________________ ________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ 19. Abraham, Sara, Isaac and Jacob died "in faith" and confessed that they were what in the earth? (vs. 9, 13) ________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ 20. Tell what they were seeking: (vs. 14) _______________________________________________________________________ ________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ 21. What kind of country were they seeking? (vs. 15, 16) _____________________________________________________ ________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ 22. Tell how Abraham's faith was tried: (vs. 17 - 19; Gen. 22) ________________________________________________ ________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ ________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ 23. "By faith" Isaac blessed Jacob and Esau concerning what? (vs. 20) _______________________________________ ________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ 24. "By faith" what did Jacob do when he was dying? (vs. 21) _________________________________________________ ________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

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25. What command did Joseph give concerning his bones? (vs. 22; Gen. 50: 25, 26) _______________________ ________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ 26. How long was Moses hidden by his parents? (vs. 23) _____________________________________________________ 27. List four things Moses did "by faith": (vs. 23 - 29) _________________________________________________________ ________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ ________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ ________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ 28. Tell how the walls of Jericho fell "by faith": (vs. 30; Joshua 6: 3 - 5) _____________________________________ ________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ ________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ 29. Tell why Rahab was saved from the destruction of Jericho: (vs. 31; Joshua 2) __________________________ ________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ ________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ 30. Whom did the writer say that time would not permit him to tell of? (vs. 32) ____________________________ ________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ ________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ 31. List the deeds by which faith was evidenced throughout the history of Israel: (vs. 33 - 34) ___________ ________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ ________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ ________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ ________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ 32. List some of the sufferings that were endured "by faith" : (vs. 35 - 38) __________________________________ ________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ ________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ 33. Tell what "promise" is referred to in verse 39: (Gen. 12: 1 - 3) ___________________________________________ ________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

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34. How was it that "they without us should not be made perfect"? (vs. 40; Heb. 9:15) ____________________ ________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ ________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

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HEBREWS Lesson Twelve QUESTIONS, HEBREWS, CHAPTER TWELVE 1. What must we do to be successful in running "the race that is set before us"? ( vs. 1) ___________________ ________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ 2. We are "compassed about" with what? (vs. 1) ______________________________________________________________ ________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ 3. Unto whom were they to look? (vs.2) ________________________________________________________________________ 4. Tell who the "author and finisher" of our faith is: (vs.2) ____________________________________________________ 5. Whose example of suffering is used to encourage the Hebrews (and us)? (vs. 3, 4) ______________________ ________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ 6. Tell what the Hebrews had not done: (vs.4) _________________________________________________________________ ________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ 7. What exhortation had these Hebrew Christians forgotten? (vs. 5, 6; Prov. 3: 11 - 12; Psa. 94: 12) _____ ________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ ________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ 8. What does God do to His children whom He loves? (vs. 6; Rev. 3:19) _____________________________________ ________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ 9. NOTE: The chastening of the Lord in the New Testament involves the entire process of "bringing up children"; the word "nurture" in Eph. 6:4 is from the same Greek word that is translated "chasten" in Hebrews 12. This "chastening" involves: (1) Instructive Discipline (training) -- II Tim. 3:16; Matt. 28;20; Prov. 22:6 (2) Preventive Discipline -- II Cor. 12: 7; Matt. 5: 10 -12 (3) Reproving and Rebuking/ Discipline -- I Tim. 5:20; II Tim. 3:16; II Tim. 4:2 (4) Corrective Discipline -- II Tim. 3:16; I Cor. 5:5; II Thess. 3:14; 3:6; I Tim. 1: 19 - 20 10. When God chastens us, He is dealing with us as with what? (vs. 7) ______________________________________

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11. What if one is "without chastisement"? (vs. 8) _____________________________________________________________ ________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ 12. When God corrects us, should we submit to Him with more reverence than to our fleshly parents? (vs. 9) ________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ 13. Give the reason why: (vs. 9, 10) _____________________________________________________________________________ ________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ ________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ 14. How does "chastening" seem for the present? (vs. 11) ____________________________________________________ 15. Tell of the ultimate results of chastening: (vs. 11) _________________________________________________________ ________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ 16. The burden of afflictions is apt to make the Christian's hands "hang down" and their knees grow feeble, and they will become discouraged. What did the Hebrew writer say they must do to strive against discouragement? (vs. 12,13) ________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ ________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ 17. What were they to follow if they were to see the Lord? (vs.14) __________________________________________ ________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ 18. Can a child of God "fail (fall short) of the grace of God"? (vs. 15) _________________________________________ 19. What can one person with a "root of bitterness" do to many other people? (vs. 15) ___________________ ________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ 20. Esau profanely despised and sold his birthright and all of its advantages; can sin destroy the Christian's birthright? (vs. 16, 17) _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ 21. Discuss the giving of the Law at Sinai: (vs. 18 - 21): (1) What mount had they not come to? (vs. 18) ______________________________________________________ _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________

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(2 ) What was the penalty for man or beast if they touched Mount Sinai? ( Ex. 19:12- 13; Heb. 12: 18 - 20) _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________ _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________ (3) Tell the story of the "sound of the trumpet" and the voice of God: (vs. 19; Ex. 19: 17 - 25; 20 : 18 - 19) _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________ _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________ _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________ (4) Tell what effect this "sight" had on Moses: (vs.21) ________________________________________________ _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________ 22. Discuss to what the Christian has come: (vs. 22 - 24) (1) Verse 22: ______________________________________________________________________________________________ _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________ _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________ (2) Verse 23: _______________________________________________________________________________________________ _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________ _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________ (3) Verse 24: _______________________________________________________________________________________________ _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________ _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________ 23. Can one escape being lost if he refuses to hear Christ? (vs. 25) __________________________________________ 24. When was it that God's "voice then shook the earth;"? (Exodus 19:18) _________________________________ ________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ 25. God had promised (Haggai 2:5 - 9) to "shake not the earth only, but also": (vs. 26) ____________________ ________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ 26. In the "shaking", what was to be removed? (vs. 27) _______________________________________________________ ________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

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27. What was to remain? (vs. 27) _______________________________________________________________________________ 28. Tell what kind of kingdom Christians have received: (vs.28) ____________________________________________ ________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ 29. How are we to serve God? (vs. 28) __________________________________________________________________________ ________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ 30. Our God is what? (vs. 29; Deut 4:24) ________________________________________________________________________ ________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ ________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

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HEBREWS Lesson Thirteen QUESTIONS, HEBREWS, CHAPTER THIRTEEN

1. What should continue among Christians? (vs. 1) ____________________________________________________________ ________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ 2. Christians are not to forget what? (vs. 2) ____________________________________________________________________ ________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ 3. Who "entertained angels unawares"? ( Gen. 18: 1 - 8; 19:1 - 3) ____________________________________________ ________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ 4. Who was to be remembered? (vs.3) __________________________________________________________________________ 5. What did the writer, by inspiration, say about marriage? (vs. 4) __________________________________________ ________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ ________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ 6. What will happen to whoremongers and adulterers? (vs. 4) _______________________________________________ ________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ 7. The Christian's "conversation" (manner of life) is to be without what? (vs. 5) ___________________________ ________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ 8. With what should Christians be content? (vs. 5) ____________________________________________________________ ________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ 9. What promise has the Lord given Christians? (vs.5) ________________________________________________________ ________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ 10. What may Christians "boldly say"? (vs. 6) __________________________________________________________________ 11. Whom should we remember, and what should we follow? (vs. 7) ______________________________________ ________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ 12. Who is unchangeable? (vs. 8) ________________________________________________________________________________

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13. Christians are not to be "carried about" with what? (vs. 9) _______________________________________________ ________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ 14. How should the heart of the Christian be established? (vs.9) _____________________________________________ ________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ 15. Do Christians have an altar? (vs. 10) ________________________________________________________________________ 16. Who has no right to eat at this altar? (vs. 10) ______________________________________________________________ 17. Where was the blood brought that was taken from the animals used in the atonement? (vs. 11) _____ ________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ 18. Where were the bodies of those beasts burned? (vs. 11) _________________________________________________ 19. Where did Jesus suffer? (vs. 12) _____________________________________________________________________________ 20. Are Christians to bear the reproach of Christ? (vs. 13) ____________________________________________________ 21. What are Christians seeking? (vs. 14) ______________________________________________________________________ 22. What kind of sacrifice are we to offer to God continually? (vs.15) _______________________________________ ________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ 23. With what kind of sacrifices is God well pleased? (vs. 16) _______________________________________________ ________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ 24. Whom should Christians obey and why? (vs. 17) __________________________________________________________ ________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ 25. For what in particular did the writer want them to pray? (vs. 18 - 19) __________________________________ ________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ ________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ 26. Who is the "great shepherd of the sheep?" (vs. 20) ________________________________________________________ 27. God makes Christians perfect, equips them completely for every good work in doing His will through whom ? (vs. 21) ________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ 28. Give the name of the brother who had been set at liberty: (vs. 23) ______________________________________

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29. Did the writer of this letter (Paul?) plan on joining Timothy soon to go and see these brethren? (vs. 23) ________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ 30. Whom were they to salute? (vs.24) _________________________________________________________________________ ________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ 31. Who saluted them? (vs.24) __________________________________________________________________________________ 32. Does verse 25 sound like the apostle Paul's language? ( I Cor. 16:23; II Cor. 13:14; Gal. 6:18; Eph. 6:24; Phil. 4: 23; Col .4:18) ________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ ________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

MATERIAL PREPARED BY

DONALD TOWNSLEY

1996