INTRODUCTION
- Chapter three begins with
"Therefore"
- Importance of what has already
been said.
- All is an encouragement to
faithfulness.
- THE SUPERIORITY OF:
- Christ over former messengers -
Angels and Prophets.
- The Message of Christ, over all
other messages.
- The Message of Christ = "The
Great Salvation".
- MESSAGE OF FIRST TWO CHAPTERS: "We
must give the more earnest heed..." Must hear
it........ Can't change it!.
- MESSAGE OF CHAPTERS THREE AND FOUR: We
must live by it.
HOUSEHOLD OF CHRIST
- CHRIST IS:
- The Apostle of our confession - or
- The Messenger of our LIFE.
- GLORY OF BUILDER OF HOUSE - Household.
- Not considering material house.
- But household or Family.
- MOSES WAS A PART OF THE HOUSEHOLD - family
not the builder.
- CHRIST IS THE BUILDER (v. 4).
- We are the house or family of God.
- Galatians 3:26,27; I Timothy
3:15.
E. "IF WE HOLD FAST" v.
6...."unto the end"
Rebellion Against
Word
- THE REBELLION IN THE WILDERNESS. Vs.
7,8,9.
- Not one specific case...
- But again and again for 40 years.
- REBELLION AGAINST GOD and Specifically
against the Word, Teaching, Commandment, MESSAGE OF GOD!
- V. 15. When you hear his voice....
- Evil, unbelieving heart v. 12.
- THE RESULTS:
- Thy shall never enter my rest.
- "My Rest" = Promise
Land.
- Their bodies fell in the
wilderness. V. 17.
- GOD OFFERS US A "REST" TODAY. v.
12.
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2. Same thing that kept them out will KEEP
US OUT TODAY! (V. 18,19)
THE WORD OF GOD
- LIVING, ACTIVE, SHARPER than any two-edged
sword. (4:12).
- It is NO dead letter.
- It is LIVING.
- DIVIDING:
- Soul, spirit, joint and morrow.
- Not of literal body...but he heaps
words upon word to show that the Divine word cuts
through everything that is man.
- Mere man cannot stand against it!.
- BUT DOES MAN REALLY THINK HE CAN STAND
AGAINST AND OVERCOME GOD'S WORD?
- Israel - when told they
could not go into promised land...
- Tried to go anyway.
- Utterly failed.
- Disobedience is always to
(Against) the Word!.
- Cannot disobey without
being found out.
- Cannot escape the Word of
God.
- The Word Is Sharper.....
- If we rebel,.....If we
disobey.
- God means exactly what He
say... "You shall never enter my
Rest"
- Physical body cannot
overcome sharp sword....
- Mortal man cannot overcome
God's Word.
GOD'S WORD IS
POWER..
- TO SAVE:
- We often emphasis the power of the
Word of God in judgment against man.
- Maybe too much.
- In so doing we often
overlook the power of God's Word to save.
- James 1:21:
"Word"... "which is able to save
your soul"
- Mark 16:15,15;
"shall be saved."
- Acts 11:14; shall
speak unto thee words, whereby thou shall
be saved."
- Romans 1:16;
Gospel....Power of God to Save.
- JUST AS MAN CANNOT REVERSE GOD'S WORD'S OF
JUDGMENT...HE CANNOT DENY GOD'S WORDS OF
SALVATION!
- Word....sharper, etc... same
argument.
- Man can deny it, etc. But
he cannot change it or stop it..
- GOD STILL SAYS..... MARK 16:15-16.