Hebrews 8–9 opens a deeper look at Jesus’ ministry by contrasting old structures with the reality now found in Him. The teaching highlights a better sanctuary, a better covenant and a better sacrifice, showing how each Old Testament pattern pointed forward to Christ’s finished work. With the author’s pastoral heart in view, the focus remains on encouraging weary believers to see Jesus clearly and continue trusting Him.

Paul shifts from humanity’s problem to God’s solution in Romans 3:21–26. This session explains how God provides righteousness through faith in Jesus, rooted in the story of Scripture. The teaching explores redemption, propitiation, and how God remains just while declaring sinners righteous through Christ.

Spiritual battles are fought best when believers know who they are and whose they are. This session unpacks the rich truths of salvation: being rescued from darkness, redeemed through Christ’s blood, forgiven, made new, adopted, reconciled, empowered, and sealed by the Spirit. These realities dismantle the enemy’s lies and establish believers in confidence, gratitude, and freedom. Identity becomes not an idea but a place to stand.

The final chapters of Revelation lift believers out of the struggle and into the hope of God’s ultimate victory. This message traces the downfall of evil, the return of Christ in glory, the marriage supper of the Lamb, the final judgment, and the renewal of all things. With the curse reversed and God dwelling with His people, the story ends in joy, justice, and restoration. These truths give courage in spiritual warfare, reminding believers that the battle is real, but the outcome is already secure.

In this session, the teaching highlights Paul’s remarkable pastoral heart toward a church he had never met. Instead of beginning with correction, he starts with thanksgiving—anchoring the Colossians in the reality of God’s work already evident among them. From there, Paul lifts their eyes to the nature of true apostolic ministry, contrasting the grounded, servant-hearted model he embodies with the extremes and suspicions often attached to the term. He then turns toward the power of the gospel in their midst—its fruit, its growth, its grace, its effect on community love—and prays that they would continue to walk worthily, shaped by wisdom from above rather than the counterfeit wisdom pressing in from their culture. The session closes by centering on the breathtaking reality of redemption: believers transferred from darkness into Christ’s kingdom, called to remember where they’ve come from and what now belongs to them in Him.

Text: Ruth 1:1-9, 2:17-22, 3:10-12 and Matthew 1:5-6

A life well lived is found in caring for others.