• Read Hebrews 10

As with chapter 9, this chapter is dense with imagery and truth- read through a couple times and ask the Holy Spirit to teach you.

• Read Hebrews 10: 32-39

What do you think it looks like to have confidence and to persevere like the author is commending them for?

• In your own life, share a time when you lived by faith?
• When are you tempted to shrink back?
• What do you think the promise is that verse 36 refers to?

• Read Hebrews 10: 26-31

This is a hard read.

• What do you think verse 26 and verse 29 mean? (check out some commentaries).
• All we are going to do today is sit with these hard warnings.

• Read Hebrews 10: 19-25

What gives us confidence to approach God in this bold fashion?

What do you think verse 23 means?

How are you active in spurring others on towards holiness?

How have you been spurred on by others?

• Read Hebrews 10: 8-18

In verse 10 we are “made holy”

In verse 14 we are “being made holy”

• Which part is already done and which part is a continual work?
• This continual work, called sanctification, is worked out by the Holy Spirit in our lives.
• Ask the Spirit to show you how He is at work today making you holy.

• Read Hebrews 10: 8-14

Several times, we’ve compared Christ’s sacrifice with the earthly priests. How is the compared/ contrasted in these verses:

• What is an explanation of the significance in Christ’s seated position?
• God the Father was the one who willed for Christ to come and sacrifice, Christ was obedient to that will. (v9)
• Spend some time just pondering that the Father who required a blood sacrifice to cleanse us for relationship with Himself, provided the most costly sacrifice that He could in order

• Read Hebrews 10:1-10

How is the law a shadow of good things coming? Think back through the ten commandments from this summer and other laws that we’ve worked through together.

How is what Christ offered different than this original sacrificial system?

The definition of holy means: set apart, separate, sacred. That is how God sees us once Christ has paid the penalty for our sins?

On a separate piece of paper, write out a prayer of thanks for being “made holy”.