What our author wanted his audience to understand is the same thing we need to understand. The world comes at us, but Christ always works in us. The Jewish believers were beginning to experience...

In these verses our author presented ample evidence that salvation comes through faith not works. Salvation has always come through faith, whether it was before, during, or after the Mosaic Law....

In these verses, once again, our author focused on faith, not works. All these men were flawed. Isaac was a liar, Jacob was a conniver, and Moses was a murderer. Joseph was a favored son who was...

The faith of Abraham, the father of the Jews, is the focus of these verses. It was important for the Jewish readers to see that faith in God is counted as righteousness. If they wanted to be right...

Our author wanted his Jewish audience to understand that faith has always been more important than sacrifices and works. And righteousness has always come by faith in God. No amount of sacrifices...