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During today's conversation on back porch theology, we're continuing our trek through the

lush theological landscape of Hebrews that awesome New Testament treatise that highlights the

glorious juxtaposition of the supremacy and the accessibility of King Jesus. If you listened to

last week's episode, you probably remember that Hebrews was likely preached as a sermon before

it was recorded as a book. And the original audience was a group of beleaguered Jewish Christians

who were getting pummeled, literally and figuratively in their ancient polytheistic culture,

which led them to consider apostasy, which means they were seriously considering

jettisoning the Jesus aspect of their belief system. And just going back to the Jehovah part to

try to stem the tide of abuse that was being afflicted on them as Christians, which is why

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