The Book of Hebrews

The Book of Hebrews – August 3, 2025

Read the passage: Hebrews 5:11-6:3

August 3, 2025 – Pastor David Cay

As Christians, there are so many cool theological things to think about and to debate about. It can be exciting. But the problem is many Christians never get the basics right. Some want to skip basic theory and habits like prayer and Bible reading for something trendy. Some Christians are obsessed with the end times but can’t find time to pray.

It is the basics that will determine our success as Christians. It doesn’t mean we can’t move onto more advanced topics like the “end times”, but we should master the basics first.

So, my big question today is: How can we have a good theoretical understanding of the Christian life?

As usual, we’ll find our answer in the Bible.

  1. We should master the gospel message
  2. We should move on to advanced topics, but only after living out the basics

The Book of Hebrews – July 27, 2025

Read the passage: Hebrews 4:14-16; 5:7-9

I think all of us have been disappointed before when we pray. Sometimes we have a very worthy thing to pray for. We have a real need, and we’re not being selfish about it. Or we’re praying for someone else who’s hurting and they need help. And we pray with all our heart and nothing happens. And we can’t understand why God doesn’t just help us. And it’s natural to wonder, does God even care? Is God even real? Or did we do something wrong? Because it doesn’t make sense that God COULD help us and he just doesn’t. So prayer can be really frustrating and confusing.

But we’re not meant to live in frustration and confusion towards God. Because the Bible actually tells us what’s happening behind the scenes. It doesn’t tell us everything, but it tells us enough so that we don’t have to be frustrated and confused when we pray. But instead we can be confident even in the most difficult times.

So my big question today is: why should we be confident when we pray?

My answer is:

● 1. Because God’s HEART deserves our confidence, and

● 2. Because God’s MIND deserves our confidence.

The Book of Hebrews – July 20, 2025

Read the passage: Hebrews 4:1-11

As St. Augustine once said “You have made us for yourself, O Lord, and our heart is restless until it rests in you”.

So, my big question today is what can we do about the restlessness in our heart? We’ll see our answers in the Bible.

  1. God offers rest
  2. Only those who trust God in a practical way can receive his gift of rest

We learn that only Jesus can cure the restlessness that we feel. Only God can give us rest that we are looking for. It’s a rest that flows out of God’s finished work. Our future is secure!

But many Christians know this intellectually, but they don’t live this way. They don’t live it out by their actions. And that’s the problem! It’s only those who trust God by acting on his promises that they are the ones that will get to enjoy the rest that God gives.

The Book of Hebrews – July 13, 2025

Read the passage: Hebrews 3:7-15

This week’s passage zones in and repeats, over and over again, this idea about a hardened heart. A broken sensor for our spiritual lives.
Now, because this is our key idea today, let’s try to be clear about it. What is a hardened heart?

In this passage, we see the Israelites being used as an example where they saw the power and presence and words of God for 40 years, and they still rejected him. They rebelled against him. That is a hardened heart. To be face to face with the obvious existence, power, goodness and instructions of God, and to be unreasonably stubborn against it. To reject. To not follow it. You are unaffected and unmoved by God.

But there’s something deeper going on with a hardened heart than just being stubborn.

We see it in the parallelism in our passage.

  • That none of you may be hardened by sin’s deceitfulness.
  • None of you has a sinful (evil), unbelieve heart that turns away from the living God.

See, a hardened heart is a whole being posture that is turned away from God because it is turned towards something else; and is therefore unaffected by what he has to say or offer. That is rejection. That is rebellion. That is a broken spiritual sensor.

I believe that for Christians in our day and time, the hardening of the heart is one of the most common and dangerous pitfalls for us. Because we’re not so much angrily maliciously warring against God, we just start looking at other shiny things, and slowly de-prioritize God and forget about him.

But in our passage; a hardened rebellious heart is the very thing that keeps the Israelites from God’s promises of rest. Hardened hearts have the ability to keep us from the promises that God has in store for us.

That is terrifying. Because that’s where life is. That’s where joy is. That’s where purpose and meaning and satisfaction awaits us.

This is why our passage pleads with us, “Today, if you hear his voice, do not harden your hearts.”

But how?

That’s our focus today. What keeps our hearts from hardening?

Our answer we find in our passage is a focus on:

  1. Truth, not deceit.
  2. We; not just me.
  3. Now; not later.

The Book of Hebrews – July 6, 2025

Read the passage: Hebrews 2:10-18

We have a problem that’s not just hurting us; it’s killing us. That problem is sin. Sin is destroying us and the world. However, God loves us so much that he does whatever it takes to save us, no matter the cost.

My big question today is: How does God defeat sin? We find our answer in our Bible passage this week.

  1. God sent Jesus to take away the POWER of sin
  2. God sent Jesus to take away the PRESENCE of sin

The Book of Hebrews – June 29, 2025

Read the passage: Hebrews 1:1-4

We start a new series examining the book of Hebrews in the New Testament.

Constant busyness can be really bad for our relationship with God. Jesus talked about it in the Parable of the Sower. He talks about people who hear the message of God’s kingdom, but the worries of this life and the deceitfulness of wealth distract the person, so that their life is not fruitful. This is really typical for Christians.

I think most Christians don’t reach anywhere near the potential that God made us to have. It’s not because we hate Jesus or we have bad theology. And it’s not like we decided to leave the faith and worship Satan or anything. But a lot of Christians are just too distracted to follow Jesus properly.

So my big question today is: how can we stay on track with Jesus despite all the pressures and temptations of life?

My answer is: we need to see how worthy Jesus is – of all our time and devotion.

More specifically, we need to see that:

  1. Jesus is the greatest TRUTH
  2. Jesus is the greatest TREASURE