The Gospel is the "almost too good to be true" news that you have been made righteous apart from your efforts. Grace changes how you approach every aspect of your life. It is the power behind everything that God does. We have access, by faith, to all of the finished works provided by grace.
The early Hebrew Christians were in big trouble! Beginning with little steps of unbelief, they were now hardened in their hearts and dull of hearing. To escape persecution and fit in with the neighbors, they had accommodated and domesticated radical following. This is what happens when people abandon raw grace for a watered-down legalism. Modern readers should be able to recognize the Hebrews' condition because much of the modern western church has the same problem.The Gospel is the "almost too good to be true" news that you have been made righteous apart from your efforts. Grace changes how you approach every aspect of your life. It is the power behind everything that God does. We have access, by faith, to all of the finished works provided by grace.
The early Hebrew Christians were in big trouble! Beginning with little steps of unbelief, they were now hardened in their hearts and dull of hearing. To escape persecution and fit in with the neighbors, they had accommodated and domesticated radical following. This is what happens when people abandon raw grace for a watered-down legalism. Modern readers should be able to recognize the Hebrews' condition because much of the modern western church has the same problem.
