CG Questions for Consider Jesus
Key Texts: Hebrews 2:1-4; 3:1-6
Questions
What is the author of Hebrews asking us to do in 2:1? (Because of Christ’s superiority we must pay attention to the gospel or risk drifting away from it.)
How does the author argue that Jesus is better than Moses? How does this further inform our answer to the question in 2:1?
Why would the readers of this epistle be tempted to view Moses as more important than Jesus? How do we fall into similar thought processes? How does the text instruct us to counter this?
What does 3:6 indicate as the object of our hope?
“People do not drift toward holiness. Apart from grace-driven effort, people do not gravitate toward godliness, prayer, obedience to Scriptures, faith, and delight in the Lord. We drift toward compromise and call it tolerance; we drift toward disobedience and call it freedom; we drift toward superstition and call it faith. We cherish the indiscipline of lost self-control and call it relaxation; we slouch toward prayerlessness and delude ourselves into thinking we have escaped legalism; we slide toward godlessness and convince ourselves we have been liberated.”[1]
[1] D. A. Carson, For the Love of God: Volume Two (Wheaton, IL: Crossway, 1999), January 23.
