Paul — Quovadisworld

THE CERTAINTY OF GOD’S PROMISE

But, beloved, even though we speak to you in this way, we are convinced of better things concerning you, and of things that accompany salvation.

WARNING AGAINST APOSTASY PRESS ON UNTO FULL GROWTH

For everyone who lives on milk is [doctrinally inexperienced and] unskilled in the word of righteousness, since he is a spiritual infant.

JESUS OUR DIVINELY APPOINTED GREAT HIGH PRIEST

Jesus became the source of eternal salvation to all those who obey Him, being designated by God as High Priest according to the order of Melchizedek.

A REST FOR THE PEOPLE OF GOD ENTERED BY FAITH AND PRAYER

Let us therefore make every effort to enter that rest [of God, to know and experience it for ourselves], so that no one will fall by following the same example of disobedience [as those who died in the wilderness].

A REST FOR THE PEOPLE OF GOD THAT JOSHUA COULD NOT GIVE

“AND GOD RESTED ON THE SEVENTH DAY FROM ALL HIS WORKS”

A REST FOR THE PEOPLE OF GOD

THE NEW AND BETTER COVENANT
CHRIST THE SURETY OF THE NEW COVENANT
He Is Greater than Moses

MADE LIKE UNTO HIS BRETHREN

“HERE I AM, I AND THE CHILDREN WHOM GOD HAS GIVEN ME.”

WARNING AGAINST NEGLECTING SALVATION

YOU HAVE MADE HIM FOR A LITTLE WHILE LOWER THAN THE ANGELS; YOU HAVE CROWNED HIM WITH GLORY AND HONOR, AND SET HIM OVER THE WORKS OF YOUR HANDS;

THE SUPREMACY OF GOD’S SON

GOD, IS FOREVER AND EVER, AND THE SCEPTER OF RIGHTEOUSNESS IS THE SCEPTER OF HIS KINGDOM.

PAUL’S PLEA FOR ONESIMUS TO BE RECEIVED AS A BROTHER

By personal persuasion he had won over Onesimus to return, and by this letter he seeks to insure for him a welcome in his master’s house.