Hebrews 4:14-16

In this episode of First Love, “The Sheep Gate: Beginning The Journey Of Becoming,” Dr. Robyn Kassas and Dr. Nathan Kassas continue their Nehemiah 3 gates series, revealing why the Sheep Gate is the essential first conversation with God that so many skip. Just as Suleiman the Great removed Jerusalem’s gates and ended the sacrifices, the Western gospel often removes this gate of sacrifice, misreading 2 Corinthians 5:17 as an instant “become new” instead of the ongoing “becoming new” process that only happens as we live daily in Christ through the Lamb of God. You’ll discover that true transformation and priesthood begin with sacrifice, not authority or arrival, and that embracing this daily becoming restores hope, keeps us growing, and prevents the despair of thinking we’ve failed when change feels slow. This episode calls you to stop skipping the gates and the conversations the Holy Spirit is highlighting. As you surrender to the process of becoming new in Christ, you’ll step out of presumption or hopelessness into God’s progressive timeline of transformation and restored legacy. Journey with Dr. Robyn and Dr. Nathan as they prophetically invite you to return to your first love—Jesus—but not to stay in an immature, honeymoon faith. Come back so you can go forward, growing into a mature love that trusts His ways above your own and empowers you to walk in the fullness of His story for your life.

As you read your Old Testament you discover Israel had many high priests and they would serve an important role. But as we’ll learn today on a Daily Walk, Jesus is far superior to the Levitical Priesthood! We’ll give you several reasons why as we get back into our new study of Hebrews with pastor John Randall.

Yeshua Is Greater than Aaron, Part 3

Where can you go when you’ve blown it? What can you do when you need rest . . . or strength . . . or help? If you know the Lord Jesus as your Savior, then you have an advocate to defend you, a high priest to intercede for you, a tender Shepherd to care and provide for you. Learn more about our wonderful Savior as Dr. J. Vernon McGee leads us through Hebrews, chapter 4.

“Temptation itself is neutral: to be tempted indicates neither virtue nor sinfulness, for the proper connotation of temptation is testing, or proving, and virtue is in the resistance and overcoming of temptation, whereas sin is in yielding and capitulation.” (Philip E. Hughes)

Pastor Jack Graham teaches on what he calls three of the most important verses in the Bible found in Hebrews 4:14-16. The greatest divide is not political, socio-economic, or racial, Pastor Graham teaches. It is the divide between a holy God and sinful humanity.