Level 2—Hebrews Topical Study

Crucial Point: Entering within the Veil and Going Forth unto Him Outside the Camp

Scripture:Heb. 13:8-14

Assigned Reading: Life-study of Hebrews, msg(s). 55-57

Supplemental Reading: A General Sketch of the New Testament in the Light of Christ and the Church (part 3—Hebrews through Jude), ch. 28

Questions:

1. What is the Old Testament context for entering within the veil and going forth unto Him outside the camp?
2. What is the significance of the charge, that is, to enter within the veil and go forth unto Him outside the camp, at the end of the book of Hebrews?
3. How might we today need to enter within the veil and go forth unto Him outside the camp?
4. What is the significance of Heb. 13:20-21 as the concluding charge in the book of Hebrews?

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Level 2—Hebrews Topical Study

Crucial Point: The Triune God in Hebrews

Scripture: None

Assigned Reading: Life-study of Hebrews, msg(s). 63, 66, 68

Supplemental Reading: God’s New Testament Economy, ch. 17; The Divine Spirit with the Human Spirit in the Epistles, ch. 11; The Spirit in the Epistles, ch. 10

Questions:

1. What are some aspects of the Spirit revealed in the book of Hebrews?
2. What is the significance of the “eternal” Spirit in God’s economy?
3. What is the significance of the Spirit of grace?
4. What is the significance of the human spirit. in the book of Hebrews?

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Level 2—Hebrews Topical Study

Crucial Point: The Shaking of Earth and Heaven but Receiving an Unshakeable Kingdom

Scripture:Heb. 12:25-29

Assigned Reading: Life-study of Hebrews, msg. 54

Supplemental Reading: The Kingdom, chs. 45, 47

Questions:

1. How might we “refuse Him who speaks,” as it says in Heb. 12:25?
2. Contrast the shaking of the earth and heaven with the unshakeable kingdom.
3. In Heb. 12:28, what does “let us have grace” mean?
4. What is your understanding and experience of our God as a consuming fire?

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Level 2—Hebrews Topical Study

Crucial Point: Having Come Forward to the Side of Grace

Scripture: Heb. 12:18-24

Assigned Reading: Life-study of Hebrews, msg. 53

Supplemental Reading: CWWN, vol. 17, “Notes on Scriptural Messages,” ch. 22; CWWL, 1958, vol. 2, “The Basis for the Building Work of God,” ch. 5

Questions:

1. When was a time when you were full of fear and trembling before God?
2. What are the things listed in Heb. 12:18-24 on the side of grace?
3. What is the significance of Heb. 12:18-24 in relation to the context?
4. What is the significance of Heb. 12:18-24 for our experience?

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Level 2—Hebrews Topical Study

Crucial Point: Looking Carefully in Falling Away from the Grace of God, in Bitterness Springing Up, and in Fornication and Profanity

Scripture:Heb. 12:14-17

Assigned Reading: Life-study of Hebrews, msg. 52

Supplemental Reading: Life-study of Exodus, msg. 30; Life-study of 1 Thessalonians, msg. 15

Questions:

1. In Heb. 12:15-16, what are three matters for which we need to look carefully?
2. What does it mean to fall away from the grace of God?
3. How are we healed from bitterness in the Christian life?
4. What does it mean in our experience to give up our own birthright in one meal, as Esau did, and why is this profane?

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Level 2—Hebrews Topical Study

Crucial Point: The Discipline of the Lord

Scripture: Heb. 12:3-13

Assigned Reading: Life-study of Hebrews, msgs. 51, 61-62

Supplemental Reading: CWWN, vol. 50, “Messages for Building Up New Believers (3),” ch. 41

Questions:

1. Is discipline a kind of punishment or is it different from punishment?
2. What is the significance of the phrase “the Father of spirits” in Heb. 12:9 in its context?
3. Why does God discipline His sons?
4. What does it mean for discipline to yield the peaceable fruit of righteousness to those who have been exercised by it?

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