Read Hebrews 5.
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.
