EXCEPTIONAL CONSISTENCY

Hebrews 13:7–9 CSB

Remember your leaders who have spoken God’s word to you. As you carefully observe the outcome of their lives, imitate their faith. Jesus Christ is the same yesterday, today, and forever. Don’t be led astray by various kinds of strange teachings; for it is good for the heart to be established by grace and not by food regulations, since those who observe them have not benefited.

Main Idea: Exceptional consistency is the fruit of an exceptional God.

Key Question: Are you consistent in your walk of faith with God?

1. We ought to honor consistency in leadership. (v. 7)

Hebrews 13:7 CSB

Remember your leaders who have spoken God’s word to you. As you carefully observe the outcome of their lives, imitate their faith.

James 3:13 CSB

Who among you is wise and understanding? By his good conduct he should show that his works are done in the gentleness that comes from wisdom.

“outcome of their lives” = “the result of how one lived”

Hebrews 6:12 CSB

so that you won’t become lazy but will be imitators of those who inherit the promises through faith and perseverance.

2. We serve a consistent God. (v. 8)

Hebrews 13:8 CSB

Jesus Christ is the same yesterday, today, and forever.

Hebrews 1:12 CSB

you will roll them up like a cloak, and they will be changed like clothing. But you are the same, and your years will never end.

John 8:58 CSB

Jesus said to them, “Truly I tell you, before Abraham was, I am.”

Revelation 1:8 CSB

“I am the Alpha and the Omega,” says the Lord God, “the one who is, who was, and who is to come, the Almighty.”

3. We ought to be consistent in our doctrine. (v. 9)

Hebrews 13:9 CSB

Don’t be led astray by various kinds of strange teachings; for it is good for the heart to be established by grace and not by food regulations, since those who observe them have not benefited.

Ephesians 4:14 CSB

Then we will no longer be little children, tossed by the waves and blown around by every wind of teaching, by human cunning with cleverness in the techniques of deceit.

Jude 12 CSB

These people are dangerous reefs at your love feasts as they eat with you without reverence. They are shepherds who only look after themselves. They are waterless clouds carried along by winds; trees in late autumn—fruitless, twice dead and uprooted.

Colossians 1:23 CSB

if indeed you remain grounded and steadfast in the faith and are not shifted away from the hope of the gospel that you heard. This gospel has been proclaimed in all creation under heaven, and I, Paul, have become a servant of it.