Study Desk

We have much to say about this, but it is hard to explain because you are so slow to understand.

So let us go on to grown-up teaching. Let us not go back over the beginning lessons we learned about Christ. We should not again start teaching about faith in God and about turning away from those acts that lead to death.

We want each of you to go on with the same hard work all your lives so you will surely get what you hope for.

God wanted to prove that his promise was true to those who would get what he promised. And he wanted them to understand clearly that his purposes never change, so he made an oath.

The people were given the law concerning the system of priests from the tribe of Levi, but they could not be made perfect through that system. So there was a need for another priest to come, a priest like Melchizedek, not Aaron.

When one of the other priests died, he could not continue being a priest. So there were many priests.

So he is able always to save those who come to God through him because he always lives, asking God to help them.

Every high priest has the work of offering gifts and sacrifices to God. So our high priest must also offer something to God.

God called this a new agreement, so he has made the first agreement old. And anything that is old and worn out is ready to disappear.

How much more is done by the blood of Christ. He offered himself through the eternal Spirit as a perfect sacrifice to God. His blood will make our consciences pure from useless acts so we may serve the living God.

For this reason Christ brings a new agreement from God to his people. Those who are called by God can now receive the blessings he has promised, blessings that will last forever. They can have those things because Christ died so that the people who lived under the first agreement could be set free from sin.

So the copies of the real things in heaven had to be made clean by animal sacrifices. But the real things in heaven need much better sacrifices.

so Christ was offered as a sacrifice one time to take away the sins of many people. And he will come a second time, not to offer himself for sin, but to bring salvation to those who are waiting for him.

So when Christ came into the world, he said: "You do not want sacrifices and offerings, but you have prepared a body for me.

Then he said, "Look, I have come to do what you want." God ends the first system of sacrifices so he can set up the new system.

So, brothers and sisters, we are completely free to enter the Most Holy Place without fear because of the blood of Jesus' death.

So what do you think should be done to those who do not respect the Son of God, who look at the blood of the agreement that made them holy as no different from others' blood, who insult the Spirit of God's grace? Surely they should have a much worse punishment.

So do not lose the courage you had in the past, which has a great reward.

You must hold on, so you can do what God wants and receive what he has promised.

It is by faith we understand that the whole world was made by God's command so what we see was made by something that cannot be seen.