“Better’s” in the Epistle of Hebrews

Christ (God in the flesh) - was made BETTER than Angelic hosts. Supremacy of Christ. Salvation by Grace so much better (and easier) than Salvation under Law. No contradiction in the fact that Grace was so much BETTER than the Law of Moses. BETTER hope, better relationship between God and man. BETTER Testament (New under Grace) than the Old Testament (during the Law of Moses and before). Jesus was the mediator of the New Covenant a BETTER covenant and Israel’s final sin offering. What made the New covenant BETTER was it was after a pattern established in Heaven and Christ was the prophetic Lamb that was slain from the foundation of the world. A BETTER and more vivid picture of Heaven from which Christ stepped down from when He was clothed with humanity. The BETTER resurrection was the Rapture of the Church (dead in Christ). The blood of Christ spoke pardon to every human being that accepted Christ – BETTER than the blood of Abel that spoke guilt to the human family. Unlike Levitical Law and animal sacrifice - the sacrificial offering of Jesus became the mediator of the New Covenant and blessing of the Church, the body of Christ.

1. Hebrews 1:4…Being made so much BETTER than the angels, as he hath by inheritance obtained a more excellent name than they.
2. Hebrews 6:9…But, beloved, we are persuaded BETTER things of you, and things that accompany salvation, though we thus speak.
3.  Hebrews 7:7…And without all contradiction the less is blessed of the BETTER.
4. Hebrews 7:19…For the law made nothing perfect, but the bringing in of a BETTER hope did; by the which we draw nigh unto God.
5. Hebrews 7:22…By so much was Jesus made a surety of a BETTER testament
6. Hebrews 8:6…But now hath he obtained a more excellent ministry, by how much also he is the mediator of a BETTER covenant, which was established upon better promises.
7. Hebrews 9:23…It was therefore necessary that the patterns of things in the heavens should be purified with these; but the heavenly things themselves with BETTER sacrifices than these.
8. Hebrews 10:34…For ye had compassion of me in my bonds, and took joyfully the spoiling of your goods, knowing in yourselves that ye have in heaven a BETTER and an enduring substance.
9. Hebrews 11:16…But now they desire a BETTER country, that is, an heavenly: wherefore God is not ashamed to be called their God: for he hath prepared for them a city.
10. Hebrews 11:35…Women received their dead raised to life again: and others were tortured, not accepting deliverance; that they might obtain a BETTER resurrection:
11. Hebrews 11:40…God having provided some BETTER thing for us, that they without us should not be made perfect.
12. Hebrews 12:24…And to Jesus the mediator of the new covenant, and to the blood of sprinkling, that speaketh BETTER things than that of Abel.

(5) Much More’s – Roman Epistle chapter 5

1.    Romans 5:9…MUCH MORE then, being now justified by his blood, we shall be saved from wrath through him.

2. Romans 5:10…For if, when we were enemies, we were reconciled to God by the death of his Son, MUCH MORE, being reconciled, we shall be saved by his life.

3. Romans 5:15… But not as the offence, so also is the free gift. For if through the offence of one many be dead, MUCH MORE the grace of God, and the gift by grace, which is by one man, Jesus Christ, hath abounded unto many.

4. Romans 5:17… For if by one man's offence death reigned by one; MUCH MORE they which receive abundance of grace and of the gift of righteousness shall reign in life by one, Jesus Christ.)

5. Romans 5:20… Moreover the law entered, that the offence might abound. But where sin abounded, grace did MUCH MORE abound:


· Forgiveness and cleansing from sin through faith in the sacrifice of Christ
· Great Grace - abundant Grace - Gift of righteousness - Power that morally changes man’s make-up
· Saved from Judgment and the condemnation of Hell’s damnation
· Reconciliation - united with Christ in the Spirit. Guilt freedom - sin’s dominion broken.
· The Offence of Adam result of the curse - divine nature lost - carnal nature passed into humanity
· Supremacy of Christ from the atonement of Calvary to His enthronement in Heaven
· Reign of death - Universal separation from God passed into humanity - resulting from Adam’s sin
· Law of Moses given to help man to recognize sin - showed the offence


Salvation offers forgiveness for all past sins. Salvation offers holiness of heart and conduct in this present life. The first man Adam at the Fall was a small picture if the divine nature (lost) – the second man Christ at the crucifixion made an atoning sacrifice and projects the HUGE PICTURE of God’s abundant Grace – Greater than the Law of Moses. Reason? Abundant Grace provides victory over sin’s dominion. Man struggled to keep the Law of Moses. Abundant Grace is freely given to make man a new creation - provides the believer with a clean heart and right life - results in the righteousness of God granted to the heart of a believer. Christ abolished the Law and thus took away the human struggle to achieve right standing in the eyes of God - at Calvary leaving us with these words, “It is finished”. MUCH MORE is the great picture of abundant grace projected in Romans 5. The free gift of Salvation given from Christ and so much more has replaced with magnitude - what Adam lost at the curse of the Fall.