I don’t know who originally wrote this but I know Rick Warren and Chuck Swindoll have quoted someone that said, “Man can live about forty days without food, about three days without water, about eight minutes without air…but only for one second without hope.” Hope is the confidence that there is something better, that there is Someone who is good and cares about our situation. To lose hope is brutal. Of course the source of our hope matters! If our hope is in people; whether that be the government or the church, we will be disappointed. We may get let down so many times that we give up. The first century Jews had placed their hope in a system that was designed to be temporary. The problem with a temporary system is that it provides temporary hope. It’s still good…but we need something permanent, a better hope. In our study this week, we’ll look at the logic of the writer of the letter to the Hebrews. The writer proves, from their own Scriptures, that if God intended them to have a permanent hope in the Law, He wouldn’t have made other promises. The prophecies about another priesthood and a better covenant were “index fingers pointing to Messiah.” It’s a struggle in this life and the only way forward is to have confident hope in a permanent promise. We have one in Jesus Christ the Lord!