Welcome to Enjoying the Journey with Evangelist Scott Pauli.

Today we are on a journey through Scripture.

We hope you'll join us as we make 66 stops through each book of the Word of God.

It seems that everybody is looking for a better life, a better job, a better family situation,

a better place to live, a better car, a better health, better benefits, fill in the blank,

better everything.

That's what the whole world seems to be crying out for.

Well, did you know that there's a book

of the Bible that is all about a better way, about better things and about a better life, and it is

the book of Hebrews. It's found in our New Testament, and the book gets its name from the fact that it

was addressed to a group of believers who were Hebrews.

They were Jews who had come to believe in the true Messiah, the Lord Jesus Christ.

And they're living in a perilous time because they're in danger of going back to their old religion,

to Judaism, being drawn back in to just a life of ritual and religion and routine.

And the writer of Hebrews writes to tell them, you don't need that because Jesus Christ has given you better things.

This is a powerful book.

There's been a lot of debate over who wrote it.

Some suggest the Apostle Paul, that Hebrew of the Hebrews,

a man much qualified to write this particular book that has so many Old Testament references.

Others have suggested Apollos and others have suggested Luke or Silas.

We don't know for sure. And I've learned early on it's best not to be adamant about something God

was not clear on in Scripture. We don't know who wrote the book of Hebrews, and yet we don't need

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