Friday, April 22, 2016

Year 6, Day 112: Hebrews 8

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Discipleship Focus: Invitation

  • Invitation: God is always inviting us into relationship with Him. He desires that we know Him and that we know His desire for us.

I love how the author of Hebrews brings this passage all together.  We’ve been building up to Christ as the high priest.  Here in this chapter the author of Hebrews tells us that Christ and the grace that comes through Him is superior to the covenant of the Law that was given through Moses.

Why can we hear this claim?  Christ was raised from the dead.  Christ is no longer here on earth as a model of godly living.  Christ is in heaven at the right hand of the Father proving that He was God’s New Covenant.  He is superior because God brought Him up to Heaven to be with Him as proof of His superiority.

So what does this have to do with Invitation?  God invites us into this New Covenant.  He wants us to know grace.  He wants us to understand our sinfulness through the Law, but He wants us even more to know that His grace is sufficient to overcome the judgment of the Law.  He invites us to be a part of this new thing that He is doing.  Even though we don’t deserve it, He wants us to come anyways.

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