1. What does this text tell you about the character of God?
2. What does it say about God’s nature?
3. Where do you see God’s love at work in the midst of these verses?
4. What section or verses in the text speak most personally to you?
For context, read Hebrews 10.19-23 and answer the following questions:
5. How do you sense you are “drawing near to God?”
6. How are you currently experiencing God’s faithfulness?
Read Hebrews 7.1-3 and answer the following questions:
7. What are the primary characteristics noted of Melchizedek?
8. Why is Melchizedek such a big deal to the first readers of the letter to the Hebrews?
Read Genesis 14 and Hebrews 7.4-10 and answer the following questions:
9. What stands out to you in the Genesis narrative?
10. The text says Melchizedek brings out bread and wine to Abraham, and Abraham tithes a tenth of all of this possession to Melchizedek. How do you see foreshadowing in these scenes? How do these scenes point to Jesus, our Great High Priest?
Read Hebrews 7.11-22 and answer the following questions:
11. Why does the author share these specific details of the story?
12. What comfort does it bring you to know Jesus is our High Priest forever?
13. What’s the purpose of God making an “oath?”
Read Hebrews 7.23-26 and answer the following questions:
14. How do you sense Jesus praying for you today?
15. How are you experiencing Jesus meeting your needs today?
16. What is your greatest relational need today?
Read Hebrews 7.27-28 and answer the following questions:
17. How do these verses draw you to Jesus?
18. Describe His perfection.
19. Reflect on the text as a whole. What are the primary implications of this text for you life?
20. How is Jesus calling you, leading you, blessing you, and inviting you into deeper places of trust and intimacy with Him?
Give Him praise for prevailing love in your life, in the life of your neighbors, and the nations.
1. What does this text tell you about the character of God?
2. What does it say about God’s nature?
3. Where do you see God’s love at work in the midst of these verses?
4. What section or verses in the text speak most personally to you?
For context, read Hebrews 10.32-35 and answer the following questions:
5. Note all the ways these Jewish converts suffered?
6. How does their witness of suffering together encourage you?
7. Are we as Christians called to suffer with others? Who suffers with you? With whom do you suffer?
Read Hebrews 6.1-3 and answer the following questions:
8. What’s the heart of these verses? What is the writer ultimately trying to communicate?
9. Where do you sense God calling you to mature, to deeper trust?
10. What would maturity sound like in your life? What would it look like? How would a deeper maturity call you to love?
Read Hebrews 6.4-8 and answer the following questions:
11. What are a few of the varied theological implications in this text?
12. Thankfully, we are not given the ability or capacity to judge when someone “falls away.” What is our theology, our belief about our response to those who are lost, or far from God?
Read Hebrews 6.9-15 and answer the following questions:
13. Who is someone God placed in your life whose example is worth imitating?
14. How has that person been an example of faith and patience to you?
15. How has that person modeled ongoing partnering with God in the process of maturity?
16. How would you characterize the “way” and the “why” they pray?
Read Hebrews 6.16-20
17. Jesus is our anchor. How do you stay anchored to Jesus in the midst of suffering?
18. How might Jesus be calling you to trust more deeply in Him today?
In closing, spend some time reflecting on and praying The Lord’s Prayer from Matthew 6. Note the communal implications of this prayer.
Our Father in Heaven, hallowed be Your name,Your kingdom come, Your will be done, on earth as it is in Heaven.
Give us today our daily bread.
And forgive us our debts, as we also have forgiven our debtors.
And lead us not into temptation, but deliver us from the evil one
For thine is the kingdom and the power and the glory forever and ever. Amen.
1. What does this text tell you about the character of God?
2. What does it say about God’s nature?
3. Where do you see God’s love at work in the midst of these verses?
4. What section or verses in the text speak most personally to you?
Read Hebrews 5:1-6 and answer the following questions:
5. What’s the overall purpose of the letter to the Hebrews? How do these verses highlight that purpose?
6. What’s the importance of the role of high priest to the Jewish people?
7. Who is Melchizedek and what’s the importance of naming him in the text?
Read Hebrews 5:7-10 and answer the following questions:
8. What speaks most personally to you in these verses?
9. Why would Jesus need to “learn obedience?”
10. How have you learned obedience through suffering?
Read Matthew 26:36-46 and answer the following questions:
11. What’s the correlation between these verses and Hebrews 5.7?
12. Why isn’t this scene fully prophesied either in the Old Testament, or predicted by Jesus Himself?
13. Why is it in this one and only scene where Jesus asks His friends to pray for Him?
Read and reflect on the truth below, and answer the questions that follow:
Jesus entered into the full force of two of our lives’ greatest mysteries: obedience and suffering. And to engage these mysteries He chose to bring along some friends.
14. How have you resisted temptation in the midst of suffering?
15. How has obedience been forged through the context of community?
16. Where in your life do you chose to “bring along some friends?”
17. What would life look like for you if you fully accepted this invitation from Jesus?
Read Hebrews 5:11-14 and answer the following questions:
18. What one word would you use to describe these verses?
19. What’s the purpose of this portion of Scripture?
20. How do these verses encourage you and challenge you?
An illustration was used on Sunday regarding Biblical leaders who “finished well.” (See 2 Timothy 4.7)
21. Consider your favorite Biblical leader, how would you characterize the way their lives finished?
22. The role of community was a significant factor in the 30% of Biblical leaders who finished well. What is the role of community in your life?
23. How do you sense Jesus inviting you into the community of the Trinity?
Spend some time giving praise to Jesus for His ultimate sacrifice.
