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Introduction
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Great week last week.
Thankful for those that came out and enjoyed celebrating the resurrection with us.
We are jumping back into our gospel story series.
Today we are in the book of Hebrews 12
Life and ministry come in seasons.
God knew that, I believe it’s apart of His grand design.
He built seasons into creation.
Here in new England we get to experience all 4 of them.
We also get to feel all 4 of them.
The Winter Blues are a real thing.
The budding hope of the summer to come with spring.
The enjoyable, relaxing, and bright happiness often associated with summer, the slow down and “ending of an era” with fall.
Going through life without understanding these seasons will lead to frustrations, going through life knowing them leads to satisfaction.
Without an understanding these seasons you will find yourself trying to live the same way you do in summer as you do in winter.
Can you imagine going without a snowblower when 3 ft comes down?
All because you don’t accept what is happening...
Seasons of life are the same.
God knows where you are at in life.
God has a great plan for your life.
I don’t believe God calls you to live in winter while trying to work like its summer.
Through each season we have to understand what God has for us and how we are to accomplish it, in this season.
How do we do that?
How do accomplish something for God when that season of winter comes?
How do we realize our potential in Christ in all seasons?
Today we are going to explore this and more as we read jut 3 verses but talk about a whole chapter.
Let’s Dive in
Hebrews 12:1
Exegete:
Ok, one verse..what could possible come out of one verse…SOO MUCH
The first word packs so much into it I could preach off of it.
Why?
The word wherefore is interchangeable with the word therefore and points back to chapter 11.
Chapter 11 of Hebrews is known as the Hall of faith.
In that chapter there mentions of men and women that were used greatly by God in the Old Testament.
From Abel in Genesis all the way through the prophets, the list is full of great works done through ordinary people.
People like Abraham.
Abraham was man God called out from a polytheistic religion that gave his life over to him, made many mistakes, and still bears the title “Father of the nation of ISrael”
then there were people like Moses, who being poor of speech, had no confidence in himself, and a murderer, God took and lead the peopel out of bondage in Israel.
He was used to write the first 5 books of scripture.
last but not least you have women like Rahab.
Rahab was a harlot, a lady of the night if you will, and she is mentioned in this halll of faith becuase of her faith during the battle of Jericho to hide the spies and lie to her countryman.
This lead to the Israelites having a tactical advantage on top of their God advantage and Rahab and her family were spared in the destruction.
Each person that is listed in the hall of faith have events in their life that were miraculous.
However, the people that are listed in the hall of faith also fall into the following categories:
Liar
Manipulative
Little Faith
Murderer
Harlot
They Gave God excuses
Prideful
full of lust
The bible then goes on to say in
Heb 11:35-38
All of these people, used by God to do great things.
Illustrate:
I saw a quote about God being in the recycling business last week.
I did a little research into that and this is what I found.
Recycling takes something and destroys it to make something new.
Upcycling takes waste and creates something from it in its current state.
God doesn’t destroy you and turn you into something else.
He take you as you are and repurposes you and your life.
He takes the alcoholic and turns him into a preacher: Billy Sunday
He takes the drug addict and turns them into a parent
He takes the gangster and turns them into a missionary
He takes the troubled teenager and turns them into a Christian leader
How could God upcycle your life if you gave it over to Him?
Argue
Many Christians can say “I’ve given my heart and life to Christ” yet they show no fruit.
Nothing has changed.
James 2:18
If we have faith we will have works.
Not may…but Will have works.
Paul writes and compares the works of the flesh to the works of the spirit or the “fruit of the Spirit” in Galatians 5.
Gal 5:19-21
I’m not going to break those down but I encourage you to look those up in the Greek language for a better understanding.
Ultimately what I’ld like you to see here is that the works of the flesh “manifest” meaning they are the external acts that are living for the flesh.
They are symptoms of the problem.
The problem isn’t fornication outside of marriage, the problem is the heart of the man or woman that would do that.
Contrast these against the works of the Spirit
Gal 5:22-24
Fruit is again not the source, it is the product.
Apply:
The product of the people in Chapter 11 is not because of who they were, it is because of Christ in them.
It is because of their willingness to yield to Him and let Him work.
They were no different than you and I.
The one thing that may be different, is their willingness.
Their willingness to submit to the Lord.
Their willingness to be different.
Their willingness to be looked at weird, mocked, tortured, and even killed for their faith.
God can use you to do great things.
We are surrounded by a great cloud of witnesses that proves this.
That phraseology there just means we have the example of those who have gone before us.
I.
You can know that God will use you, because He used them
Why wouldn’t God take your life and transform it into a God honoring and Christ glorifying life?
Whatever excuse you have I bet we can find the same one with a person in scripture or something worse.
Dive into verse 1 a litter deeper with me
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