Kenny delivers a message emphasizing the superiority and encouragement found in the book of Hebrews. He highlights the book's central message: God's ultimate and final revelation through Jesus Christ, surpassing all previous forms of communication. Kenny emphasizes the special relationship believers have as partakers and companions of Christ. He acknowledges the book's warnings, interpreting them as God's loving discipline to draw believers closer to Christ. Ultimately, Kenny encourages listeners to find hope and strength in the "better things" God has prepared, including the incomparable Christ and the eternal companionship offered to all believers. He emphasizes the need to fix our eyes on Jesus for endurance and to recognize the shaking we experience as God's way of removing everything but Christ from our lives.
1 Therefore we ought to give the more earnest heed to the things which we have heard, lest at any time we should let them slip. 2 For if the word spoken by angels was stedfast, and every transgression and disobedience received a just recompence of reward; 3 How shall we escape, if we neglect so great salvation; which at the first began to be spoken by the Lord, and was confirmed unto us by them that heard him; 4 God also bearing them witness, both with signs and wonders, and with divers miracles, and gifts of the Holy Ghost, according to his own will?
1 God, who at sundry times and in divers manners spake in time past unto the fathers by the prophets, 2 Hath in these last days spoken unto us by his Son, whom he hath appointed heir of all things, by whom also he made the worlds; 3 Who being the brightness of his glory, and the express image of his person, and upholding all things by the word of his power, when he had by himself purged our sins, sat down on the right hand of the Majesty on high;
4 Being made so much better than the angels, as he hath by inheritance obtained a more excellent name than they.