Serving the Lord in Leytonstone, London
Abraham started life not knowing God. But in his later years, God called this elderly, childless man to move to Canaan where he would be blessed with family and home. Yet having given Abraham a son – Isaac – God then demanded him back via sacrifice
The writer of Hebrews has passionately encouraged his Christian friends in Jerusalem not to turn away from Jesus for salvation. If they do they will harden themselves, and lose everything.
Hebrews was written to exhort Jewish Christians living in first century Jerusalem not to let their faith in Christ be overtaken by their native Judaism.
Hebrews addresses Jewish Christians who ought to be teaching their fellow Jews in Jerusalem all about Christ’s fulfilment of the Old Testament.
The temple in first century Jerusalem was a dramatic place, with staff of priests headed up by the high priest.
Christians can find the pressures of life so overwhelming that we go astray from the Lord. Instead of living by faith, we are pushed by our thoughts and desires into wrong behaviour.