The Outflow of Renewal (2)
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5 Keep your life free from love of money, and be content with what you have, for he has said, “I will never leave you nor forsake you.”
6 So we can confidently say, “The Lord is my helper; I will not fear; what can man do to me?”
7 Remember your leaders, those who spoke to you the word of God. Consider the outcome of their way of life, and imitate their faith.
8 Jesus Christ is the same yesterday and today and forever.
9 Do not be led away by diverse and strange teachings, for it is good for the heart to be strengthened by grace, not by foods, which have not benefited those devoted to them.
10 We have an altar from which those who serve the tent have no right to eat.
A Security of Faith
A Security of Faith
Hebrews 13:5–6 (ESV)
5..., for he has said, “I will never leave you nor forsake you.”
6 So we can confidently say, “The Lord is my helper; I will not fear; what can man do to me?”
Five words in the last nine Greek words included in the original text of verse 5 are words of negation.
The literal translation word for word from where we get these eight English words:
“I will no not desert you and not not not forsake you (not no never forsake you).”
Maybe this translation will help us down the path of understanding the security of faith that comes as an outflow of renewal.
The multitude of Greek words meaning “no” give us a clear recognition that The Lord desires we arrive at the understanding of such a security.
The writer takes us from the ever increasing proclamation of the non-forsaking nature of God to the confidence being brought because of this knowledge.
In essence, God has promised & it gives us confidence.
The outflow of a secure faith paves the way to say “The Lord is my helper...”
Do you remember the feeling you got as a kid when you got a new pair of kicks?
You would put those shoes on and thought for certain you could outrun any Olympic sprinter in with their help.
You had an Ace in the hole, one on your behalf, a great provider of strength.
Right now…we grab this feeling on an adult level.
Hebrews directly quotes Ps. 118:6
6 The Lord is on my side; I will not fear. What can man do to me?
Romans 8:31 (ESV)
31 What then shall we say to these things? If God is for us, who can be against us?
It’s as the little guy who goes strutting by because the big has his back.
I will NOT FEAR…What can man do to me?
So the outflow of renewal is a security of faith that rests in the capacity of God to uphold and complete all He has promised.
21 fully convinced that God was able to do what he had promised.
Outflow 1: A Security of Faith
Outflow 2:
A Recognized Standard
A Recognized Standard
7 Remember your leaders, those who spoke to you the word of God. Consider the outcome of their way of life, and imitate their faith.
8 Jesus Christ is the same yesterday and today and forever.
The writer recalls those who have set the example in word/teaching and who have fleshed out the example of the Lord to us. Not just any example, but an example in a time when it may have cost them their lives.
The writer here may be alluding to the fact that people being killed for their faith have earned the respect of those they have poured into and should be acknowledged by.
We should also not the Lord is the one who places men in positions and thus their is a recognition that God has a purpose in the placing of those men.
15 saying, “Touch not my anointed ones, do my prophets no harm!”
We may look back to Hebrews 12:1
Hebrews 12:1 (ESV)
1 Therefore, since we are surrounded by so great a cloud of witnesses, let us also lay aside every weight, and sin which clings so closely, and let us run with endurance the race that is set before us,
We have all of those Saints from Hebrews 11 and we have the multitudes who have taught and invested in us.
Look with me for a second to Hebrews 13:17
17 Obey your leaders and submit to them, for they are keeping watch over your souls, as those who will have to give an account. Let them do this with joy and not with groaning, for that would be of no advantage to you.
The writer gives a clear picture of the connectivity we are called to have to & with those the Lord has placed in leadership of us.
The reminder posits the fact that God gives us folks called to lead with a purpose of a presented example and ordained position of direction.
Yet we also have the exemplary positioned example of our Lord and Savior. He was, is, and will be the standard.
The outflow of renewal
Outflow 1 “A Security of Faith”
Outflow 2 “A Recognized Standard”
& Outflow 3:
An Understood Grace
An Understood Grace
9 Do not be led away by diverse and strange teachings, for it is good for the heart to be strengthened by grace, not by foods, which have not benefited those devoted to them.
10 We have an altar from which those who serve the tent have no right to eat.
So we should note that our faith needs to be rightly understood.
It should never be the desire of the minister, parent, friend, or relative to confirm the faith of another.
It is should always be our personal desire to see the faith of ourselves and others as a grace we understand.
For example, we desire in our renewal to grasp grace; to get the heart of the meaning of what grace meant, means, and will mean.
Grace is not earned, but gifted or otherwise it is not grace.
So the writer here is desiring to convey that the work of what the Lord is doing in our directives is not of ourselves. We look at the point that he makes about food being of no benefit to those devoted to them.
In essence, they keep dietary laws, sacrifice, focus on the laws straight from Leviticus; yet, this does nothing for them.
Notice the point of vs. 10: those who serve the tent have no right to eat.
So they serve, they strive, and they work and it is to no avail.
Let’s put this in our terms today…it’s not what we do, the church we are a member of, our gifts, our benevolence, or any other service.
The work is an outflow of what God has done in our lives.
He works and we trust.
He has brought about the the change and we are focused on getting to the point of walking in obedience as an outflow of our gratitude to him because of grace.
A Security of Faith
A Recognized Standard
An Understood Grace
Walking Away, But In...
Walking Away, But In...
Lean into your faith.
Emulate His Standard
Be Gripped by Grace
