The Epistles to the Hebrews

Sess ion 1 The Easy Yoke: Learning of Chr i st in Bibl ical Theology  13

Words cannot convey the love which played back and forth like unseen electric impulses between the heart of Jesus and those of His friends. It was a love that sighed, and longed and pitied and hungered. The disciples reached a point where they could not endure being out of His sight. To be near Him was life. To be away from Him was to be out in the lonesome cold. Here was love pure as a mountain stream. It set a new high for love’s possibilities among friends. His warmest adorers followed Him when He was popular; they followed Him when the rest had fled. The chief concern of His life seemed to be to make a little circle understand what friendship can really be, to help them see that heaven itself is nothing more than perfect friendship.

~ Frank Laubach. You Are My Friends . New York: Harper and Brothers, 1942. p. 8.

Christ be with me, Christ within me, Christ to win me, Christ to comfort and restore me, Christ beneath me, Christ above me, Christ in quiet, Christ in danger, Christ in hearts of all that love me, Christ in mouth of friend and stranger.

~ St. Patrick, missionary to Ireland, c. 390-c. 461

D. As the substance of God’s kingdom redemption (in symbol and type)

1. 1 Tim. 2.5-6

2. Isa. 11.1-5; 53.1-12

3. John 1.35-36

4. Heb. 9.11-14