Cornerstone Baptist Church

Jesus is a new priest of a new and better covenant; better because Jesus remains our Priest forever and He never sins.

Jesus is a far better priest than any human priest, even better than Melchizedek. Jesus has blessed us, like Melchizedek blessed Abraham. As such we should give our lives to Jesus as Abraham gave a tithe to Melchizedek.

As the Davidic Kingdom begins we see glimpses of the amazing patience and obedience of God’s faithful king, the mess of a fallen world, and the beauty of a king’s heart focused on the kingdom of God.

We can hold on to Jesus because God, who cannot lie, has promised that our High Priest, Jesus, is a sure and steady anchor already ministering on our behalf before God.

The warning in Hebrews serves to keep believers diligent in pressing forward in their Christian walk.

We should be growing in our ability to digest the Word. We can work hard to understand and apply the Bible, praying for God's help in doing so.

Saul's life is a tragic example of failing to trust and obey God. Followers of God pray for help to see and trust God's ways and purposes.

We have a perfect High Priest who was anointed by God as a perfect sacrifice for our sins. He is able to bring us to God.

Furthering the imperative, the author of Hebrews invites us to strive to enter the rest of God by continuing to believe in the Gospel and drawing near to Christ in our time of need (temptation).

We are created for eternal rest with God and warned that our lives should be characterized by striving to enter that rest.

(1) Your sin can harden your heart; (2) Hard hearts are an attack on God that he won't ignore; (3) Your only hope is to keep holding onto Jesus; (4) You need other Christians to help you do this

Since Jesus is better than Moses we should maintain our regular trust in Him.

God gives us pictures of the startling nature of His Kingdom and His promised King. We see pictures of major kingdom deliverance along with a rescuing, gracious King.

Jesus was and is our help to restore us to peace with God.

Rejected by God, Saul desperately turns towards evil and darkness in a desperate attempt to find help.

We must make an active practice of giving attention to the gospel, lest we drift from it. We need not drift as it is reliable and apparent.

Jesus deserves our worship as He is better than even the faithful, glorious, holy angels.

Hold on to the Jesus who is God's final word, the heir and creator of all things, our God and Savior.

David points us to the Son of David who is a King truly one of a Kind.

Believers may live, by the grace of God, with souls at peace as they trust in God's character.

Learning to love God's character, discipline and mercy towards others.

God's message of judgement can lead to saving faith which is attended by an appropriate response.

In Abigail we find a beautiful picture of mercy and trusting in the promised one of God. We have a picture of what it looks like for us to trust in Christ and intercede for those who will be judged by God's wrath.

The story of Jonah points us to the resurrection of Christ, the greater of Jonah. We can worship God completely as we consider all that He has done in joining us with Christ who rose to defeat sin and death.

God is angry with sin. God's wrath can be appeased through a sacrifice. Jesus Christ is the innocent man who was thrown into the sea of God's wrath in order to save the us, the guilty ones.