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Encourage Each Other \\ Hebrews 10:19-25
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1. INTRO:
Ø Lights left on and Dead batteries.
What do you need?
Life drained out of you, what do you need?
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2. Scripture, Acts
Ø Explain Most Holy Place, Sprinkling with blood, the curtain, the high priest as special singular blood advocate.
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3. The Need to Encourage in the Struggle
Ø No matter how easily some surrender at first, “holding fast” or “unswervingly” is no “gimme.”
Consider Pilgrim’s Progress.
Ø We can get Kingdom fatigue when we focus on one thing after another that needs to improve, be fixed, be done, be stopped, etc.
Ø We are toasted by repeated failure, at times to the point of questioning the victory.
*Seabiscuit** (2003) *
*PG-13, Ch.25, Start: **2:07:30** End: **2:12:10*
*Big Idea: Good friends spur us to excellence.*
*Setup*: A racehorse that no one thought could win is transformed into a champion in this rousing story of second, and third, chances.
It is based on a true story.
Jockey Red Pollard suffers a devastating leg injury in a training accident.
Under another jockey, George Stevens, Seabiscuit blows out a ligament in a race and is so injured that a vet offers to put him down.
But with patience, rest, and loving handling Seabiscuit heals and is once again ready for the track.
The race is Santa Anita, where Seabiscuit lost by a nose the previous year.
Red Pollard is once again on board, not completely healed, but determined to compete.
As he enters the gate, he sees his friend and rival jockey, George on another mount.
*Scene*: George good-naturedly welcomes Red back to the races.
George knows that Seabiscuit is the favorite, and George expects to lose, but he is encouraging to his friend, Red.
All of the horses come hard out of the gates, but before long the others begin to pull away, leaving Seabiscuit at the back of the pack.
In an act of tremendous friendship, George holds his own mount back a bit and pulls alongside until Seabiscuit can regain the will to race.
That is all it takes.
Once Seabiscuit gets a whiff of competition in the stretch, he takes off like a rocket and wins.
*Application*: Sometimes the only things standing between defeat and victory are the encouragement and kind words of a friend.
True friends help even when doing so may be to their disadvantage.
God did not design us to go it alone; friends spur us on, helping us to make it to the finish line of faith.
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4. The Security to Encourage in Christ
Ø First, thank God, & I mean that, that it rests with Him and not us.
· Someone else bought our ticket.
Full assurance of faith is faith in Christ’s atonement, not certainty that we believe enough.
The object of our faith is Christ and his finished work, not our emotion or pride in a steadfast refusal to consider the perplexing questions.
· What began with grace, continues by grace.
\\ Galatians 3:3: Are you so foolish?
After beginning with the Spirit, are you now trying to attain your goal by human effort?
\\ 1Th 5:24: The one who calls you is faithful and he will do it.
Ø Second, normally only those who are secure make good encouragers.
When we are insecure we tend to look to ourselves instead of others.
Ø It is about relationship with Him foremost.
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5. The Ways to Encourage in Practice
Ø Ok, here is the duh comment.
Use words.
· An anxious heart weighs a man down, but a kind word cheers him up.
Pr 12:25
· (Negative~/Positive)Do not let any unwholesome talk come out of your mouths, but only what is helpful for building others up according to their needs, that it may benefit those who listen.
Ephesians 4:29
Ø Choose to trust.
Expect growth & change.
Ø Find the silver lining: Corrie Ten Boon in her book "The Hiding Place” - prison camp riddled with fleas.
Sister Betsy prays "Lord thank you for the fleas!"
Corrie stops prayer, asking why? "Corrie don’t you see, The Lord provided the fleas.
The guards will not bother us in our barracks so we can pray and worship freely".
Ø Share your stories of what God is doing in your life.
Ø Be reflective on it.
consider—with the mind attentively fixed on “one another” (see on Heb 3:1), contemplating with continual consideration the characters and wants of our brethren
Ø Gather faithfully: not to keep rules or kiss-up to the pastor, but to encourage yourself and others.
· numbers (party needs people).
I was talking to “Betty” about a birthday party for a youngster.
Invites were made to a skating party, I believe.
Family was new, parents didn’t really know parents of birthday girl.
No one came.
Ouch.
How sad is that?
· Fosters relationships – loneliness is discouraging
· shows I’m important to you, and I can count on you (especially in cell).
· 3x cord: Though one may be overpowered, two can defend themselves.
A cord of three strands is not quickly broken.
Ecclesiastes 4:12
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