Anchored (2)

Hebrews 3:1–6 NKJV

1 Therefore, holy brethren, partakers of the heavenly calling, consider the Apostle and High Priest of our confession, Christ Jesus, 2 who was faithful to Him who appointed Him, as Moses also was faithful in all His house. 3 For this One has been counted worthy of more glory than Moses, inasmuch as He who built the house has more honor than the house. 4 For every house is built by someone, but He who built all things is God. 5 And Moses indeed was faithful in all His house as a servant, for a testimony of those things which would be spoken afterward, 6 but Christ as a Son over His own house, whose house we are if we hold fast the confidence and the rejoicing of the hope firm to the end.

The Book of Hebrews

Superior things

To be superior

++A Standard

++A common place of acceptance

++an accepted norm

God’s Voice and Covenant

God Speaks a Hope

Exodus 19:5 NKJV

5 Now therefore, if you will indeed obey My voice and keep My covenant, then you shall be a special treasure to Me above all people; for all the earth is Mine.

You shall be

++Special treasure to God

++A Treasure to God

++A greater nation in the earth

God Speaks a Blessing

Deuteronomy 28:1–2 NKJV

1 “Now it shall come to pass, if you diligently obey the voice of the Lord your God, to observe carefully all His commandments which I command you today, that the Lord your God will set you high above all nations of the earth. 2 And all these blessings shall come upon you and overtake you, because you obey the voice of the Lord your God:

Blessing(s)

++Of Identity

++A nation above all others

++Shall come upon you

++Shall overtake you

All these things are future

Blessed _shall you be_

++In the City

++In the Country

Deuteronomy 28:3 NKJV

3 “Blessed shall you be in the city, and blessed shall you be in the country.

Blessed shall you be

In the City

In the Country

++When you come in

++When you go out

Deuteronomy 28:6 NKJV

6 “Blessed shall you be when you come in, and blessed shall you be when you go out.

Blessed _Shall be_

++Your children

++Your business

Deuteronomy 28:4 NKJV

4 “Blessed shall be the fruit of your body, the produce of your ground and the increase of your herds, the increase of your cattle and the offspring of your flocks.

Blessed Shall be

Your children

Your business

++Your provision

Deuteronomy 28:5 NKJV

5 “Blessed shall be your basket and your kneading bowl.

The Lord _Will_

++Cause your enemies to fall

Deuteronomy 28:7 NKJV

7 “The Lord will cause your enemies who rise against you to be defeated before your face; they shall come out against you one way and flee before you seven ways.

The Lord Will

++Cause your enemies to fall

++Command a blessing on you

Deuteronomy 28:8 NKJV

8 “The Lord will command the blessing on you in your storehouses and in all to which you set your hand, and He will bless you in the land which the Lord your God is giving you.

The Lord Will

Cause your enemies to fall

Command a blessing on you

++Bless you

Why didn’t God’s people receive the promised blessing?

The challenge was

++A Connection

++A Condition

They read the law but didn’t hear God’s Voice

2 Corinthians 3:5–6 NKJV

5 Not that we are sufficient of ourselves to think of anything as being from ourselves, but our sufficiency is from God, 6 who also made us sufficient as ministers of the new covenant, not of the letter but of the Spirit; for the letter kills, but the Spirit gives life.

The law was ineffective

++On a people unable to hear

++On a people unwilling to obey

The Purpose of the Law

The Law

++Brought Correction

Romans 3:19 NKJV

19 Now we know that whatever the law says, it says to those who are under the law, that every mouth may be stopped, and all the world may become guilty before God.

The Law

Brought Correction

++Knowledge of sin

Romans 3:20 NKJV

20 Therefore by the deeds of the law no flesh will be justified in His sight, for by the law is the knowledge of sin.

The Law

Brought Correction

Revelation of sin

++Made all guilty before God

Romans 3:23 NKJV

23 for all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God,

Partakers of Flesh and Blood

Hebrews 2:14 NKJV

14 Inasmuch then as the children have partaken of flesh and blood, He Himself likewise shared in the same, that through death He might destroy him who had the power of death, that is, the devil,

We are on a journey to the Promise

We are challenged

++By our flesh

Romans 7:23–24 NKJV

23 But I see another law in my members, warring against the law of my mind, and bringing me into captivity to the law of sin which is in my members. 24 O wretched man that I am! Who will deliver me from this body of death?

We are challenged

++By our flesh

++By the world

1 John 2:17 NKJV

17 And the world is passing away, and the lust of it; but he who does the will of God abides forever.

We have a Greater Hope

Galatians 4:4–5 NKJV

4 But when the fullness of the time had come, God sent forth His Son, born of a woman, born under the law, 5 to redeem those who were under the law, that we might receive the adoption as sons.

In Him is the Hope

++Of redemption

++Of adoption

John 1:17 NKJV

17 For the law was given through Moses, but grace and truth came through Jesus Christ.

We will get there

++Not because we have earned it

Romans 3:20 NKJV

20 Therefore by the deeds of the law no flesh will be justified in His sight, for by the law is the knowledge of sin.

We will get there

Not because we have earned it

++Not because we deserve it

Romans 5:8 NKJV

8 But God demonstrates His own love toward us, in that while we were still sinners, Christ died for us.

We will get there

Not because we have earned it

Not because we deserve it

++By the grace of God

Ephesians 2:8–9 NKJV

8 For by grace you have been saved through faith, and that not of yourselves; it is the gift of God, 9 not of works, lest anyone should boast.

Partakers of a Holy Calling

Hebrews 3:1 NKJV

1 Therefore, holy brethren, partakers of the heavenly calling, consider the Apostle and High Priest of our confession, Christ Jesus,

God has called you Holy

++You have heard the message

++You know the truth

Hebrews 4:2 NKJV

2 For indeed the gospel was preached to us as well as to them; but the word which they heard did not profit them, not being mixed with faith in those who heard it.

Consider Jesus Christ

He is

++The Apostle

++The High Priest of our confession

He was faithful to who appointed Him.

We are called to faithfulness

1 Corinthians 4:1–2 NKJV

1 Let a man so consider us, as servants of Christ and stewards of the mysteries of God. 2 Moreover it is required in stewards that one be found faithful.

Moses was faithful

Hebrews 3:5 NKJV

5 And Moses indeed was faithful in all His house as a servant, for a testimony of those things which would be spoken afterward,

Moses was faithful

++In all His house

++As a servant

++For a testimony of a future voice

Hebrews 1:1–2 NKJV

1 God, who at various times and in various ways spoke in time past to the fathers by the prophets, 2 has in these last days spoken to us by His Son, whom He has appointed heir of all things, through whom also He made the worlds;

God speaks again

John 1:14 NKJV

14 And the Word became flesh and dwelt among us, and we beheld His glory, the glory as of the only begotten of the Father, full of grace and truth.

A greater glory

Hebrews 3:3–4 NKJV

3 For this One has been counted worthy of more glory than Moses, inasmuch as He who built the house has more honor than the house. 4 For every house is built by someone, but He who built all things is God.

This is our hope

Hebrews 6:19 NKJV

19 This hope we have as an anchor of the soul, both sure and steadfast, and which enters the Presence behind the veil,

Christ is faithful

Hebrews 3:6 NKJV

6 but Christ as a Son over His own house, whose house we are if we hold fast the confidence and the rejoicing of the hope firm to the end.

Christ is

++The son over the House

++The builder of the House

We are the house

Haggai 2:9 NKJV

9 ‘The glory of this latter temple shall be greater than the former,’ says the Lord of hosts. ‘And in this place I will give peace,’ says the Lord of hosts.”

1 Corinthians 6:19 NKJV

19 Or do you not know that your body is the temple of the Holy Spirit who is in you, whom you have from God, and you are not your own?

Ephesians 2:10 NKJV

10 For we are His workmanship, created in Christ Jesus for good works, which God prepared beforehand that we should walk in them.

We must hold fast

++The confidence of our hope

++The rejoicing of our hope

++Firm till the end