Larry Wilson has helpfully set up our Hebrews series with his discussion of the "grinch" who kept trying to steal Christmas.
All throughout history, Satan was trying to stop the coming of Christmas. But no matter how hard he tried, Satan's most triumphant victories turned out to be key moments in the history of redemption.
Remember that – when you are feeling particularly downcast! Has it felt at times as though 2020 has been wandering in the wilderness?
Each Sunday that we had to stay home, it has felt very much like a wilderness. Because there is a way in which this building is a picture of the promised land. It is a place where we meet with God – together. But remember the point of the land: the land was never an end in itself.
God promised Abraham the land, but Paul tells us in Romans 4 that the promise pointed to the bigger picture, that he would inherit the whole earth – a point previously made in Psalm 2! The true inheritance was never a piece of real estate, the true inheritance is God himself.
Hebrews was written as an exhortation to Christians to press on toward maturity. We need to grow up and become the people that Christ calls us to be.
And the most basic question for Christian maturity is simply this: who is Jesus?
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