http://www.calvaryhillsboro.org/

Subscribe To Watch More: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCMljrvWnX5HWCHwB-GAbCsw

Thank you for watching. God bless you and your family!
We would love to hear your comments and please like and share this video.

This book is written to believers in Jesus Christ who are Hebrews. These Jewish believers in Christ are very likely in Jerusalem, the birthplace of Christianity. That would make it the oldest, most a long-standing church of that day.
Since it’s the oldest church, it might be reasonable to assume it would be the most mature church. But that wasn’t the case at all; it wasn’t growing in maturity, it was in danger of going backward. They were being pressured by the other Jews in Jerusalem, drawn back into Judaism, back to the ways of the Old Testament, back to the laws of Moses. They were moving back to the shadow of the thing, but the substance belongs to Christ.
He writes to challenge them to press on to maturity, to grow deeper in their faith. By this time, they ought to have been teachers of spiritual things, but they needed again for someone to teach them the elementary principles of spiritual things. In other words, they had come to need milk and not solid food.
We should be challenged by these words. Why is it that some people don’t grow in their faith, why is it that some people don’t increase in spiritual maturity? One of the parables of Jesus gives an answer. He taught that the word of God is sown like a farmer sowing seed and that the different types of soils are like different kinds of hearts.
Some people hear the word of God, “but the worries of the world, and the deceitfulness of riches, and the desires for other things enter in and choke the word, and it becomes unfruitful.”
Don’t let the Word of God become unfruitful in your life, press on to maturity.
In the book of Hebrews he writes that in these last days God has spoken through His Son. He is the radiance of His glory and the exact representation of His nature. God sent His Son with the message of His heart, but He didn’t send His Son just to give us an education, He sent Jesus to seek and to save that which was lost; to reconcile the world to Himself and to transform our lives so we experience the results of spiritual maturity.
Don’t neglect so great a salvation, he writes. His desire is to bless our lives and to bring us into greater faith and greater spiritual maturity.
I. Desire Spiritual Maturity
 This book shows us Jesus like no other book in the Bible. It gives us some of the richest, deepest understanding of God’s Son and what He has done for us.
 Jesus is our high priest according to the order of Melchizedek. What possibly can that mean? And why is it important?
 This is an example of deeper truths. In fact, he writes, “Concerning him we have much to say, and it is hard to explain, since you have become dull of hearing.”
 This takes us all the way back to the days of Abraham. There was a king who was also a priest. He was King of Salem, the city we know today as Jerusalem. His name was Melchizedek.
 Later, in Chapter 7, he writes that Melchizedek was greater than Abraham because Abraham paid tithes to him and because Melchizedek blessed Abraham.
 Therefore, Jesus, as king and priest in the order of Melchizedek, is Himself greater than Abraham and He is greater than any Levitical priest that came after Abraham.
 In fact, Jesus is greater than Jonah, greater than Solomon, greater than Abraham, and greater than the Temple itself.
John 8:57-58, The Jews said to Him, “You are not yet fifty years old, and You have seen Abraham?” Jesus said to them, “Truly, truly, I say to you, before Abraham was born, I am.”
Matthew 12:6, “I say to you, that something greater than the Temple is here.”
Matthew 12:41, The men of Nineveh… repented at the preaching of Jonah; and behold, something greater than Jonah is here.
Matthew 12:42, “The Queen of the South… came from the ends of the earth to hear the wisdom of Solomon; and behold, something greater than Solomon is here.
 Concerning Jesus there is much to say, and we must be careful not to be dull of hearing.
A. God expects you to grow in your faith.

Pastor Rich Jones
Pastor Matthew Dodd
Rich Jones Sermons
Rich Jones Calvary Chapel
Calvary Chapel Worship Center
Calvary Chapel Hillsboro
Calvary Chapel Oregon
Calvary Chapel Beaverton
Calvary Chapel Portland

Tags:
Pastor Rich Jones
Pastor Matthew Dodd
Rich Jones
Matthew Dodd
Rich Jones Sermons

Rich Jones Church, Rich Jones Christian, Rich Jones Christian Church, Rich Jones Bible Study, Rich Jones Prayer, Pastor Rich Jones Faith, Rich Jones Grace, Rich Jones Teaching, Rich Jones Bible Teacher, Rich Jones Bible Verse, Rich Jones Teaching, Rich Jones Transformation, Rich Jones Salvation, Rich Jones Truth, Rich Jones Sermons, Rich Jones Calvary Chapel, Calvary Chapel Worship Center, Calvary Chapel Hillsboro, Calvary Chapel Beaverton, Calvary Chapel Portland, Calvary Chapel Oregon