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The Naked Bible Podcast

Naked Bible 182: Hebrews 4:1-13

The Naked Bible Podcast

Dr. Michael S. Heiser

Religion & Spirituality, Christianity

4.84.7K Ratings

🗓️ 22 October 2017

⏱️ 53 minutes

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Summary

Hebrews 4:1-13 continues an important theme introduced in Hebrews 3—holding fast to faith so as to enter into God’s rest (i.e., inherit the promise of eternal life). The writer strikes an analogy between the rest of God, earlier related to entrance (or not) into the Promised Land (Numbers 14), and God’s rest at the end of his creation work. God’s Sabbath rest is therefore identified with eternal life—a rest that is the result of God’s efforts, not ours. Since Christ is the one who provided eternal life through his work on the cross, Christ is our Sabbath.

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Welcome to the Naked Bible Podcast episode 182, Hebrews 4 verses 1 through 13.

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I'm Delayman, Tray Strickman and he's the scholar, Dr. Michael Heiser.

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Hey, Mike, how you doing? Pretty good. Pretty good. It's been a busy week.

0:40.5

You know, about that time of year when the normal chaos starts to veer into the vortex of

0:47.2

why do I do all this stuff? But October and November are always like that. So we kind of,

0:54.0

kind of expected. Yeah, did you do some recording for French Pop as well? How'd that go?

0:58.7

Yeah, we had a week or so ago. We've recorded 13 episodes. So, you know, I think that's going

1:07.6

to be starting probably late in the fall. Well, they'll start putting up the channel and

1:13.1

populating that. So we had a good week. We didn't have near the glitches we had the first time.

1:18.2

We ironed all those out. So it was pretty smooth. All right. We'll be looking for it.

1:23.7

Yeah. Well, we're in Hebrews chapter four. Now, we're only going to do the first 13 verses because

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whoever wrote the book of Hebrews has a, I don't want to say an irritating habit of jumping between

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subjects and then returning to the same subject later on. But we're getting a lot of that as we

1:44.8

head into chapter four all the way really through chapter 10. A lot of that stuff's going to be about

1:49.6

the high priesthood of Jesus. But there's going to be other things mixed in. So we're going to try to

1:56.5

kind of tailor the episodes to sections that are coherent that don't, you know, really take

2:04.5

more than one subject at a time, try to work our way through Hebrews that way. So today it's

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Hebrews 4, 1 through 13. And I'm just going to start by reading chapter four. We'll read through

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