Week 6: Hebrews 9-10

Objective: 

• The Earthly Sanctuary

• Limitations of the Earthly Service

• The Heavenly Sanctuary

• The Mediator’s Death Necessary

• Animal Sacrifices Insufficient

• Christ’s Death Perfects the Sanctified

• The Just Live by Faith

Resources:

• Fr Tadros Y Malaty Commentary
• Catena Bible Commentary
  
• HEM Youssef Bible Study (English)
• Fr Dawoud Lamie Bible Study (Arabic)
  

Reading:

• Hebrews 9-10

Key verse(s):

"Therefore do not cast away your confidence, which has great reward." Hebrews 10:35

Comments:

• Chapters 9 and 10 talk about the OT vs NT sacrifices.
• Christ the sacrifice of the NT vs the OT sacrifices.
• All OT had limited effect and the blood of animals cannot forgive sins. 
• Christ's sacrifice is a propitiation for man's sins.

Review/recap questions:
**Servant may add more questions

1.  What two gifts does the New Covenant provide to a believer?
2. Why was the Lord Jesus Christ’s sacrifice better than the sacrifices made under the Mosaic covenant?
3. Define “sanctification.”
4. How are we sanctified?
5. Compare between the Levitical priests and our High Priest.

Homework:

**Servant may add more questions

1. The blood of the Lord Jesus Christ cleanses:
   a) our body b) our heart c) our conscience d) our mind
2. The Ark of the _______ overlaid on all sides with gold, in which were the golden _______ that had the ______, Aaron's _____ that budded, and the __________ of the covenant.
3. "This is the ______ that I will make with them after those days, says the LORD: I will put My laws into their ________, and in their ________ I will _______ them."
4. Therefore do not cast away your _________, which has great _________. For you have need of ________, so that after you have done the will of God, you may receive the __________.