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.
Apostasy
Don’t go back to basics
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.
I know better than God
Jonah has survived a terrible threat of death twice: once in the sea, and once in Assyria.
Taming a beast
Jonah was swallowed by a great fish, and survived by God’s kindness. Now he’s swallowed by a greater monster
False confidence
James has had to rebuke his friends for going to war with one another. But what’s produced such behaviour? Their failure to live by faith
Ready to die?
In a lost and lonely state (due to his sinful choices) Saul has contacted dead Samuel. But Samuel has no comfort for him.