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DISOBEDIENCE & UNBELIEF: WHAT WE NEED TODAY TO BE FAITHFUL TOMORROW!
Hebrews 3:7-19 – MHAFB Protestant – 5/22/22 – Chaplain Matthew Ellis
I. Introduction
A. Slide) Introduction: Welcome back to our series on “Hebrews”
1.
A few quick notes for you: (Taking notes, blanks) (Like it when you talk back)
2. Sld) Cantankerous: How would you define it?
a) Can mean Bad-tempered; Argumentative; Uncooperative; Ill-natured; Liable to cause trouble
b) Sld) Google image search… these pictures came up!
3. Do you know anyone who is a bit of a cantankerous person?
a) Have you been a bit of a cantankerous person yourself?
4.
And sadly, this word came to define the people of God who came out of Egypt…
a) He displayed such glory & power to them, didn’t He? (Exodus 7-12, 14-16.)
i) The 10 plagues that revealed His absolute power over every so-called Egyptian god
ii) He miraculously parted the Red Sea to save them
iii) He gave them water from dry & desolate rocks
iv) Provided bread from heaven & free quail for meat—
v) And more!
b) Yet, these greatly privileged people still fell into such horrible sin!
i) Tragically, they were spiritually cantankerous, & it led them to ruin
B. Big Picture:
1.
Why are we talking about Exodus when we’re actually in Hebrews?
2. Because our passage today, Hebrews 3:7-19, reminds us of these cantankerous people—
a) Using them to warn us in our own walk with God.
b) And encourage us in the right direction!
3. S3) Today we’re hearing about “Disobedience & Unbelief”
a) Learning what we need today to be faithful tomorrow!
b) As we journey through Hebrews 3:7-19,
4. S4) Thesis: During this time, I hope that you will each see how…
Jesus’ great faithfulness compels all who are found in Him to diligently pursue such faithfulness.
a) This passage has a very call for serious personal reflection & recommitment to the Lord.
C. Passage:
1. Context: To lay the foundation, I think it’s important to realize where the term “Faithfulness”
comes from for this thesis statement.
Does anyone know?
a) It relates to the Biblical context.
b) If you were here last week, in Chaplain Brent’s message from Hebrews 3:1-6…
i) You would have heard how Jesus was compared to Moses
ii) Hebrews shares that Jesus was totally faithful to the One who appointed Him to His role
iii) He declares that our Christ was perfectly faithful as a Son over His household
c) And then we are given a short warning that a warning is given that “we are that household if we
hold on to our confidence and the hope in which we boast.”
- Hebrews 3:6 (CSB)
i) This transitions to a larger warning that expands upon our call us to this faithfulness—
ii) This holding “to our confidence &… hope”
2. Passage: Please stand with me in honor of God & His Word as we now see this in Hebrews 3:7-19,
a) Sld) 7 Therefore, as the Holy Spirit says:
i) Today, if you hear his voice, 8 do not harden your hearts as in the rebellion, on the day of
testing in the wilderness, 9 where your ancestors tested me, tried me, and saw my works
10 for forty years.
b) Sld) Therefore I was provoked to anger with that generation and said, “They always go astray
in their hearts, and they have not known my ways.”
11 So I swore in my anger,
i) “They will not enter my rest.”
c) Sld) 12 Watch out, brothers and sisters, so that there won’t be in any of you an evil, unbelieving
heart that turns away from the living God.
i) 13 But encourage each other daily, while it is still called today, so that none of you is
hardened by sin’s deception.
d) Sld) 14 For we have become participants in Christ if we hold firmly until the end the reality that
we had at the start.
15 As it is said: Today, if you hear his voice, do not harden your hearts as in
the rebellion.
e) Sld) 16 For who heard and rebelled?
Wasn’t it all who came out of Egypt under Moses?
i) 17 With whom was God angry for forty years?
Wasn’t it with those who sinned, whose bodies fell in the wilderness?
ii) 18 And to whom did he swear that they would not enter his rest, if not to those who
disobeyed?
iii) 19 So we see that they were unable to enter because of unbelief.
(CSB)
D. Transition: Please be seated & join me now in considering first…
II.
Sld) Our Susceptibility to Sin
A. Explain:
1.
This is a foundation of the warning & encouragement to faithfulness
a) It explains why this faithfulness is such a struggle for us!
b) Let’s summarize what we see here…
2. Sld) First, this text builds upon the biblical foundation that we each have a sin-nature
(Genesis 8:21; Romans 3:23, 5:12; 1 Corinthians 15:22)
a) Sld) And if we want to live as God desires—We need to realize & resist this!
3. Examples are given from stories in Exodus 17:1-7; Numbers 11:1-6, 14:11-22(35), 20:2-13;
Deuteronomy 9:22; quoting from Psalm 95:7-11, to help us see that…
a) Sld) Just as Israel rebelled & tested God...
b) Sld)...we could to do the same!
4.
There could be two audiences spoken to here: Born-Again Disciples of Jesus & the unregenerate
a) First let’s talk about born-again Christians—
i) In accordance w/my Baptist heritage, I am convinced that this passage does not reference a
loss of salvation for these people (e.g.
John 10:28-30; Romans 8:38-39; 1 Peter 1:3–5)
ii) However,
(i) We can fall into sin & unbelief
(ii) We can, in part, turn away from the Living God
(iii) We can become hardened by sin’s deception
iii) Consequently, we can lose…
(i) …the daily spiritual rest that God offers us, this side of heaven (vv 3:11, 3:19, 4:1-13)
(ii) …some of the rewards that God wishes to give us in heaven (1 Corinthians 3:10-15)
iv) There is a real danger of losing the abundant life that Jesus has offered us (Mark 10:26-31;
John 10:10)
b) Now, let’s talk about the unregenerate—those who are not true followers of Jesus—
i) This could include children of believers, unsaved spouses, or other attenders to the
Christians that first heard this message—
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