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Hebrews 3:7-19 Have you ever known someone who could barely remember where they put their keys yet could tell you every word of a story from 20 years ago? Our minds hold onto memories, especially those that leave a strong impression. But sometimes we hold onto things we shouldn’t—resentments, fears or…

Can you believe those Israelites? They watched the 10 plagues with the finale of what is celebrated by the passover. They walked through the Red Sea and the Jordan. They were fed manna in the wilderness. When they asked for meat God provided them quail. When they were thirsty God caused water to gush…

Intro We are in week 2 going into week 3 of 21 Days of Prayer and fasting We are in the new year, a little more than half way through the first month of the New Year. People used to make resolutions. funny resolutions I will remember to write 2025 instead of 2024 by end of Jan instead of Feb. I resolve…

First exhortation We must pay the most careful attention, therefore, to what we have heard, so that we do not drift away. For since the message spoken through angels was binding, and every violation and disobedience received its just punishment, how shall we escape if we ignore so great a salvation?…

favorite verses? Both the one who makes people holy and those who are made holy are of the same family. So Jesus is not ashamed to call them brothers and sisters. Since the children have flesh and blood, he too shared in their humanity so that by his death he might break the power of him who holds the…

The Call to Rest Central Truth: There is no R EST apart from F ollowing Christ! Ecclesiastes 1:12-18 Romans 8:18-23 S uffering , G lory , L onging , F utility , G roaning , W aiting E agerly in H ope ! - SAVED Nothing in this world will be enough to satisfy what is lacking! Matthew 11:28-30 Rest for…

Wednesday nights. Whole church GroupMe to share prayer requests. Sing and meditate on and pray the Psalms. Work through the sermon as time permits. There isn’t a single example in scripture of personal prayer requests being given in a prayer meeting. Paul gives some personal requests. We are told to…

Header Sermon Bullet points 1 In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God.

The Daily Grind Each day you wake up. You go through your morning routine. And then you get stuck into the jobs you have for the day. If you’re lucky, they might be pleasant enough tasks. Maybe it’s a paid job. Maybe you’re in retirement but you still have all those jobs in front of you. Regardless of…

Hebrews Hebrews 3 “Therefore, holy brothers and sisters, partners in a heavenly calling, take note of Jesus, the apostle and high priest whom we confess, who is faithful to the one who appointed him, as Moses was also in God’s house. For he has come to deserve greater glory than Moses, just as the builder…

1 The vision of Obadiah. Thus says the Lord God concerning Edom: We have heard a report from the Lord , and a messenger has been sent among the nations: “Rise up! Let us rise against her for battle!” 2 Behold, I will make you small among the nations; you shall be utterly despised. 3 The pride of your…

Either what woman having ten pieces of silver, if she lose one piece, doth not light a candle, and sweep the house, and seek diligently till she find it ? And when she hath found it , she calleth her friends and her neighbours together, saying, Rejoice with me; for I have found the piece which I had…

Hebrews 3-4 Good morning Church! We are biting off a big chunk this morning, but I think it will make more sense if we do... rather than break it up over a couple of weeks. So, a couple of things about the book of Hebrews first. It was written to actual Hebrews. Again Hebrews that had come to know Jesus…

Order of Service Welcome Hymn - THERE’S NO GREATER NAME THAN JESUS (335) Psalm Reading Be gracious to me, O God, for man tramples on me; all day long an attacker oppresses me; my enemies trample on me all day long, for many attack me proudly. When I am afraid, I put my trust in you. In God, whose word…

Hebrews 3:7–19 (KJV 1900) 7 Wherefore (as the Holy Ghost saith, To day if ye will hear his voice , 8 Harden not your hearts , as in the provocation, in the day of temptation in the wilderness: 9 When your fathers tempted me, proved me, and saw my works forty years. 10 Wherefore I was grieved with that…

1 Long ago, at many times and in many ways, God spoke to our fathers by the prophets, 2 but in these last days he has spoken to us by his Son, whom he appointed the heir of all things, through whom also he created the world. 3 He is the radiance of the glory of God and the exact imprint of his nature,…

The Sabbath has ended. The special sign that God gave to Israel, the Sabbath, was over. The day was for physical rest, refreshment, but for Israel it was never meant to be what it had become. /the Pharisees and scribes had added enough restrictions that it became a day of bondage instead of blessing.…

The author of Hebrews is anonymous. Anonymous means we don’t know who wrote it. Origen, early church father, (185-253) famously said “God only knows” the author of Hebrews. Anonymous means we don’t know who wrote it, only God does. The audience is first century Hellenistic (Greek cultured) Jews who have…

Take heed, brethren, lest there be in any of you an evil heart of unbelief, in departing from the living God. But exhort one another daily, while it is called To day; lest any of you be hardened through the deceitfulness of sin. For we are made partakers of Christ, if we hold the beginning of our confidence…

13 But evil men and seducers shall wax worse and worse, deceiving, and being deceived. towards the latter days deceivers and liers shall become worse and worse. deception shall run rampant. we are who we identify as??? the deception that life is greener on the other side.. the story of the girl that…

4 For He has spoken in a certain place of the seventh day in this way: “And God rested on the seventh day from all His works” ; 5 and again in this place: “They shall not enter My rest.” 6 Since therefore it remains that some must enter it, and those to whom it was first preached did not enter because…

Love is the root of all we do. 1 If I speak in the tongues of men and of angels, but have not love, I am a noisy gong or a clanging cymbal. 2 And if I have prophetic powers, and understand all mysteries and all knowledge, and if I have all faith, so as to remove mountains, but have not love, I am nothing.…

This is our 3rd week in the teaching portion of our EMPTY acronym, our flyover of the New Testament. It’s a 40,000 foot flyover, but its giving us a sense of the overarching message of redemption and seeing the connections of the New Testament back to the Old, and the flow of the story from Genesis on.…

12 Take care, brothers, lest there be in any of you an evil, unbelieving heart, leading you to fall away from the living God. 13 But exhort one another every day, as long as it is called “today,” that none of you may be hardened by the deceitfulness of sin. 14 For we have come to share in Christ, if…

Sometimes in life warning signs can be glaring in our face and so blatant that we must deal with them. And yet there are other times where they are subtle and we often miss them. A few weeks ago I went to a baseball game in Denver Colorado and outside the baseball park was a gentlemen who had a little…