Grounded & Growing

Hebrews 2 shows us just how necessary it is that Christ be made like us in all things. He takes on humanity to save us. He takes on flesh to show His mercy. He becomes one of us so He can bring us back to God. Christ’s incarnation—God in the flesh—is crucial to the gospel. Without His incarnation, our faith is in vain. But through Him, we are restored to God.

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The verse before us today teaches us much about God’s sovereign designs in salvation. God, the master architect, has orchestrated salvation for us. He who made the world sent His Son into the world to suffer for mankind and save man from His sin. He who deserves all glory has brought us to glory through Christ.

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The astronomer Carl Sagan said, “Our planet is a lonely speck in the great enveloping cosmic dark. In our obscurity, in all this vastness, there is no hint that help will come from elsewhere to save us from ourselves.” He spoke as a sceptic, knowing the magnitude of the universe but unwilling to believe in the Creator. Though he may be right that science gives no reason to believe redemption will come, God says otherwise. God came to us. Jesus was made lower than the angels. He became like us. He became one of us. And He died for us to save us from ourselves. 

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When you think of Hebrews you should think of two words: Christ, and better. Hebrews is supreme in the New Testament in its treatment of Christ’s person and work. Specifically, how He has fulfilled all that the Old Testament law predicted. For this reason, He is better. And He brings the better covenant and better promises through His better mediation and better atoning sacrifice.

The author has this gospel in view when he begins in chapter two to urge his readers to heed the gospel. Though he is preparing to explain the gospel to them in full detail, he reminds them to remember what they have already heard. They have the gospel, sufficient to believe and be saved, but not all have acted. Not all have trusted in Christ for salvation. It is this failure that he addresses in the opening verses of chapter two.

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In this seventh and final episode we will look at the close of the canon. Should Christians today expect personal revelations from God? Should we expect  divinely inspired writings to be composed or discovered? How we answer this question may be more important than you think. Confusion about the close of the biblical canon opens us up to ideas that run contrary to God’s will for His people.

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One of the toughest questions relating to the canon of Scripture is that of the extent of the canon. How do we know that the books we think are Scripture are actually from God? Have we missed any? Answers vary. We are continuing the discussion of the canon of Scripture by taking a look at some of the disputed writings. 

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We’re going to pick up in this episode where we left off last time, continuing into the New Testament canon.

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We are continuing our series on the canon of Scripture. Before us today is a discussion of how the Old Testament canon came to be. Why do we consider the 39 books of the Old Testament to be Scripture?

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The question of canon is, “How do we know which writings speak for God.” This question assumes that God has spoken, and that He has done so through a written word. How are Christians nearly 2000 years removed from the writing of the New Testament to know that we have everything God intended us to have and nothing more? Today we will look at the principles of canon, the tests by which we can recognize which books are truly from God—and which are not.

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The doctrine of the canon of Scripture addresses the question of how we can know what is included in the inspired, inerrant, authoritative Scriptures. All Scripture is God-breathed, but how do we know which writings are from God and which have been contrived by man? Certain principles can be used to gauge whether or not a historical writing deserves a place in the biblical canon. In this second episode we will be talking about the general principles that frame our understanding of the canon of Scripture.

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