Sermon
8.6.17
Text: Hebrews 3:7-18, 4:1
Look!
21 The Lord his God is with him, And the shout of a King is among them. 23 “For there is no sorcery against Jacob, Nor any divination against Israel. It now must be said of Jacob And of Israel, ‘Oh, what God has done!’ 24 Look, a people rises like a lioness, And lifts itself up like a lion; It shall not lie down until it devours the prey, And drinks the blood of the slain.” Nu 23
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The Roar of a Lion
The Shout of a King
Invincible
17 No weapon formed against you shall prosper, And every tongue which rises against you in judgment You shall condemn. This is the heritage of the servants of the Lord, And their righteousness is from Me,” Says the Lord. Isaiah 54:17
Too Powerful to be Defeated
The devil offers “A Trojan Horse”
The Battle “Within”
. 26“Be angry, and do not sin”: do not let the sun go down on your wrath, 27nor give place to the devil. Ephesians 4:25-27
Its Natural
Devil’s Food
Your “Good” Friend
4 Then the serpent said to the woman, “You will not surely die. 5 For God knows that in the day you eat of it your eyes will be opened, and you will be like God,knowing good and evil.”
6So when the woman saw that the tree was good for food, that it was pleasant to the eyes, and a tree desirable to make one wise, she took of its fruit and ate. She also gave to her husband with her, and he ate. Genesis 3:4-6
Question God
Man Centered Vs God Centered
Starts with a “Seed”
14Pursue peace with all people, and holiness, without which no one will see the Lord: 15 looking carefully lest anyone fall short of the grace of God; lest any root of bitterness springing up cause trouble, and by this many become defiled; Hebrews 12:14-15
Pursue Peace
Holiness or Purity
Human Response
7 Therefore, as the Holy Spirit says:“Today, if you will hear His voice,8 Do not harden your hearts as in the rebellion, (Provocation)In the day of trial in the wilderness, 9 Where your fathers tested Me, tried Me,And saw My works forty years. Hebrews 3:7-9
Provoke: Make Bitter
Cover Up
Unbelief
12 Beware, brethren, lest there be in any of you an evil heart of unbelief in departing from the living God; 13 but exhort one another daily, while it is called “Today,” lest any of you be hardened through the deceitfulness of sin. 14 For we have become partakers of Christ if we hold the beginning of our confidence steadfast to the end, Hebrews 3:12-14
Evil Heart of Unbelief
Beginning Confidence
The Day
1 Therefore, since a promise remains of entering His rest, let us fear lest any of you seem to have come short of it. 2 For indeed the gospel was preached to us as well as to them; but the word which they heard did not profit them, not being mixed with faith in those who heard it. Heb 4:1-2
The Promise Remains
From Faith to Faith
The Day of Rest
3For we who have believed do enter that rest, as He has said: “So I swore in My wrath,
‘They shall not enter My rest,’ ” although the works were finished from the foundation of the world. Hebrews 4:1-3
The Finished Works
Today
19Repent therefore and be converted, that your sins may be blotted out, so that times of refreshing may come from the presence of the Lord, 20 and that He may send Jesus Christ, who was preached to you before, 21 whom heaven must receive until the times of restoration of all things, which God has spoken by the mouth of all His holy prophets since the world began. Acts 3:19-21
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Time for a
“Comeback”