Hebrews
Keep on loving each other.
This week, Pastor Tim continues our journey through Hebrews with a BIG IDEA that’s a great reminder to us all: Keep on loving each other.
1. What is brotherly love?
2. How do we endure in brotherly love?
3. What kills love?
Do not refuse Him who is speaking
As we continue our journey through the Book of Hebrews, our BIG IDEA centers around Hebrews 12:25: Do not refuse Him who is speaking. Why?
1. Because you’ve come to a greater mountain (vv. 18-24)
2. Because you’ve heard a greater warning (vv. 25b)
3. Because You’ve received a greater kingdom (vv. 26-29)
Be subject to your Father’s discipline
Instead of seeing our trials as God’s disfavor, we need to receive them as his loving discipline, fitting us to run. This morning’s passage is Hebrews 12:4-17 and the big idea of our passage, this morning is: Be subject to your Father’s discipline.
1. Because His discipline flows from His love (vv. 4-13)
2. Because He disciplines us for peace and holiness (vv. 14-17).
Run With Endurance to the Finish
Our very own Pastor Paul delivers this week’s BIG IDEA of Hebrews 12:1-3: RUN WITH ENDURANCE TO THE FINISH
1. Listen to the witnesses (12:1a)
2. Lay aside weights and sins (12:1b)
3. Look to Jesus (12:2-3)
Walk by faith, not by sight.
Walk by faith, not by sight…
1. When the path doesn’t match the promise
2. When the path hits opposition
3. When the path leads to triumph or tragedy.
Walk by Faith, Not by Sight
BIG IDEA: Walk by faith, not by sight
1. what faith is,
2. what faith looks like,
3. what faith looks for
Don’t throw away your confidence in Christ.
Hebrews 10:26-39 is our passage this morning and brings us to the big idea: Don’t throw away your confidence in Christ. Don’t throw away your confidence in Christ because holding tightly to it by faith has great, eternal reward.
Live in light of Christ’s sacrifice.
Our passage this morning is the hinge in Hebrews. It contains both the end to one major part of the letter and the beginning of the next; it’s a hinge. The first part of the passage will sum up nearly all the theology we’ve learned in Hebrews so far, and then the second part of the passage begins the final section of the letter, which is intensely practical, even more practical than the letter has already been. That brings us to the big idea of our passage this morning: Live in light of Christ’s sacrifice. Live in light of Christ’s once-for-all sacrifice. Ok – how do we do that? To answer that question we are going to take our passage in two parts: 1. The sacrifice 2. The living.
With Christ We Don’t Have to Fear Death
The big idea of our passage this morning: With Christ we don’t have to fear death. With Christ we have power in life because we don’t have to fear death. Why don’t we have to fear death? Two reasons: 1. Christ died to secure our eternal inheritance 2. Christ will come again with our eternal inheritance.
Only Christ can cleanse our conscience
As we continue our journey through Hebrews, we find ourselves facing the question, “Who will heal our guilt?”
The answer is the big idea of our passage: Only Christ can cleanse our conscience. Only Christ can cleanse our conscience. This big idea raises big questions. Our passage answers three of them. 1. What can’t cleanse our conscience? (9:1-10) 2. How does Christ cleanse our conscience? (9:11-14a) 3. Why does Christ cleanse our conscience (9:14b).