Hebrews - worksheet 1
Jesus speaks - Hebrews 1:1-4
NKJV heading is God’s Supreme Revelation
Teaching video by David Guzik
Chapter 1 context
The first chapter of Hebrews establishes two primary ideas used to support the rest of the book. First, that God has spoken to mankind, most recently through Jesus, so we ought to be listening to Him. Secondly, chapter 1 introduces the fact that Jesus is superior to other spiritual beings, such as angels. These concepts are used to support the superiority of faith in Christ, over the Old Testament Law, expressed in the book’s later chapters (BibleRef).
Passage summary
Hebrews 1:1–4 summarizes the entire book of Hebrews. God has spoken to mankind in many ways, but now He speaks to us through Christ. This same man, Jesus Christ, is also God, and shares in all aspects of the divine nature. Jesus’ superiority over all other things is summarized in His symbolic position, seated at the right hand of God the Father. Everything which follows in the book of Hebrews supports this same basic theme: Christ is above and beyond all other things (BibleRef).
The book of Hebrews was written by an unknown author to Hebrew/Jewish Christians. Many of these Christians were persecuted by their Hebrew peers, and were called to return to Judaism. In that respect, this book is applicable today, when many believers wander away from the truth.
Hebrews 1:1-4 (NKJV) says 1God, who at various times and in various ways spoke in
Reveal Answer
to the fathers by the prophets, 2has Reveal Answer
spoken to us by Reveal Answer
, whom He has appointed heir of all things, through whom also He made the worlds; 3who being the brightness of His glory and the express image of His person, and upholding all things by the word of His power, when He had by Himself purged our Reveal Answer
, sat down at the right hand of the Reveal Answer
on high, 4having become so much better than the angels, as He has by inheritance obtained a more excellent name than they.
Q1 In this passage God is not explained, but has been taken as a fact, an assumption. Is God for you a fact, that you have personally experienced? How?
Q2 In verse 1 it’s said that God spoke. Through whom did He speak? And how did He speak according to verse 2? And what was the outcome of God’s speaking? Did Jesus bring the message of God, or was He the message of God?
Q3 What is the difference in bringing the Word of God between the prophets/apostles and Jesus?
Q4 List 7 phrases of “boasting” of Jesus you find in verses 2-4?
Q5 In verse 4 we read that Jesus has become better than the angels. What are other things that pop-up in your mind, to which Jesus is better as well?
Now, sing this song.
Jesus speaks - Hebrews 1:1-4
NKJV heading is God’s Supreme Revelation
Teaching video by David Guzik
Chapter 1 context
The first chapter of Hebrews establishes two primary ideas used to support the rest of the book. First, that God has spoken to mankind, most recently through Jesus, so we ought to be listening to Him. Secondly, chapter 1 introduces the fact that Jesus is superior to other spiritual beings, such as angels. These concepts are used to support the superiority of faith in Christ, over the Old Testament Law, expressed in the book’s later chapters (BibleRef).
Passage summary
Hebrews 1:1–4 summarizes the entire book of Hebrews. God has spoken to mankind in many ways, but now He speaks to us through Christ. This same man, Jesus Christ, is also God, and shares in all aspects of the divine nature. Jesus’ superiority over all other things is summarized in His symbolic position, seated at the right hand of God the Father. Everything which follows in the book of Hebrews supports this same basic theme: Christ is above and beyond all other things (BibleRef).
The book of Hebrews was written by an unknown author to Hebrew/Jewish Christians. Many of these Christians were persecuted by their Hebrew peers, and were called to return to Judaism. In that respect, this book is applicable today, when many believers wander away from the truth.
Hebrews 1:1-4 (NKJV) says 1God, who at various times and in various ways spoke in
Reveal Answer
to the fathers by the prophets, 2has Reveal Answer
spoken to us by Reveal Answer
, whom He has appointed heir of all things, through whom also He made the worlds; 3who being the brightness of His glory and the express image of His person, and upholding all things by the word of His power, when He had by Himself purged our Reveal Answer
, sat down at the right hand of the Reveal Answer
on high, 4having become so much better than the angels, as He has by inheritance obtained a more excellent name than they.
Q1 In this passage God is not explained, but has been taken as a fact, an assumption. Is God for you a fact, that you have personally experienced? How?Q2 In verse 1 it’s said that God spoke. Through whom did He speak? And how did He speak according to verse 2? And what was the outcome of God’s speaking? Did Jesus bring the message of God, or was He the message of God?
Q3 What is the difference in bringing the Word of God between the prophets/apostles and Jesus?
Q4 List 7 phrases of “boasting” of Jesus you find in verses 2-4?
Q5 In verse 4 we read that Jesus has become better than the angels. What are other things that pop-up in your mind, to which Jesus is better as well?
Now, sing this song.