Hebrews: Better - Better Deal - Hebrews 8:1-13 (Richard McConnell)

We’ve had a mortgage with the bank for some years now and I started to wonder if it really was the best deal in terms of rates and repayments – so I filled out the online form requesting more info and pressed submit. A few days later I received a phone call from one of their employees. But it ended up being a very short phone call, because, as she explained, we already had the best deal. Better than anything else they or any other bank could provide for us. Is there anything else I can help you with today? Well, the answer was already out there in our 20 second conversation… no! We already had the best deal! Since that conversation, though, I have like never before started to appreciate once again that great deal, the best deal – a deal that the passage of time might have made me undervalue. The writer to the Hebrews is on the phone to us, just now - like he was on to the original recipients of the letter in the first century. And he’s assuring long-time Christians that with Jesus, we are on the best deal. And as he explains it, you know what this has the potential to do for you and me? It can provides us with something new. A fresh appreciation of something we probably knew at one time, a deepening appreciation that could be the catalyst for your growth and perseverance as a Christian.