WORSHIP NOTES Volume 13, No. 11 (November 2018) And Jacob dreamed, and behold, there was a LADDER set up on the earth, and the top of it reached to heaven. And behold, the angels of God were ascending and descending on it! Then Jacob awoke from his sleep and said, “Surely the Lord is in this place, and I did not know it.” And he was afraid and said, “How …
WORSHIP NOTES Volume 11, No. 7 (July 2016) Trick question: Who was the first Apostle in the New Testament? Answer: The Lord Jesus. The writer of Hebrews in 3:1 calls Him “the Apostle and High Priest of our confession.” With these two terms He summarizes the two-way mediation of Christ that He has dealt with in chapter 1 and 2: the Son’s revelatory ministry seen in chapter 1 (mediating …
WORSHIP NOTES Volume 9, No. 6 (June 2014) 18. WORSHIP IN THE LETTER TO THE HEBREWS Hebrews is a whole world of its own when it comes to New Testament teachings about worship. Here are some testimonies to its greatness and uniqueness: Hebrews presents the most complete and fully integrated theology of worship in the New Testament. All the important categories of Old Testament thinking on this subject—sanctuary, sacrifice, altar, priesthood and covenant—are …
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WORSHIP NOTES Volume 9, No. 4 (April 2014) 14. Turning from False to True Worship (1 Thessalonians 1:8-10) Too often we talk about the gospel only in negative terms: that is, how it saves us (and gloriously so!) from sin, death and hell. But it is important to realize and to emphasize that we are not just saved from something, but also to something: to a personal relationship with our …
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