Sermons By Ed

Study Notes Ed Underwood Hebrews: Jesus is Better Keeping our eyes fixed on Jesus, the pioneer and perfecter of our faith (Hebrews 12:2). The nine General Epistles point to the person and work of the resurrected Christ. They encourage Christians to cling to Him and exhort them to serve Him faithfully because He is the only source of life. Written primarily to persecuted Jewish Christians, the truths apply to every believer from every culture and in every age of church history. In A.D. 64 Nero initiated a cruel and comprehensive persecution of Christians throughout the Roman Empire. It was costly to follow Jesus, but it was especially demanding for Jewish converts to follow their Messiah-Savior. Somewhere in the empire there was a discouraged home church composed primarily of Jewish converts who were being tempted to stop following Jesus as His devoted disciples and return to the practices of Judaism. I don’t believe they were abandoning their faith. They were simply reasoning that following Jesus was t