Listening Carefully Hebrews 3:7-4:2
Jan 03, 2016
Listening CarefullyHebrews 3:7-4:2
Why Jesus Became a Man
Jesus Became a Man:
• to restore our Lost Dominion
Hebrews 3:1Therefore, holy brethren, partakers of a heavenly calling, consider Jesus, the Apostle and High Priest of our confession;
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Why Jesus Became a Man
Jesus Became a Man:
• to restore our Lost Dominion
Hebrews 3:7-117 Therefore, just as the Holy Spirit says,“TODAY IF YOU HEAR HIS VOICE,
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Why Jesus Became a Man
Jesus Became a Man:
• to restore our Lost Dominion
Hebrews 3:7-118 DO NOT HARDEN YOUR HEARTS AS WHEN THEY PROVOKED ME,AS IN THE DAY OF TRIAL IN THE WILDERNESS,9 WHERE YOUR FATHERS TRIED Me BY TESTING Me, Listening Carefully
Why Jesus Became a Man
Jesus Became a Man:
• to restore our Lost Dominion
Hebrews 3:7-11AND SAW MY WORKS FOR FORTY YEARS.10 “THEREFORE I WAS ANGRY WITH THIS GENERATION,AND SAID, ‘THEY ALWAYS GO ASTRAY IN THEIR HEART, Listening Carefully
Why Jesus Became a Man
Jesus Became a Man:
• to restore our Lost Dominion
Hebrews 3:7-11AND THEY DID NOT KNOW MY WAYS’;11 AS I SWORE IN MY WRATH, ‘THEY SHALL NOT ENTER MY REST.’”
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Why Jesus Became a Man
Jesus Became a Man:
• to restore our Lost DominionWhen God Speaks
We Need to Carefully Listen
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Why Jesus Became a Man
Jesus Became a Man:
• to restore our Lost Dominion
When God SpeaksWe Need to Carefully Listen
• The Example of the Israelites
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Why Jesus Became a Man
Jesus Became a Man:
• to restore our Lost Dominion
1 Corinthians 10:11 NLTThese things happened to them as examples for us. They were written down to warn us who live at the end of the age.
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Why Jesus Became a Man
Jesus Became a Man:
• to restore our Lost Dominion
Hebrews 3:11AS I SWORE IN MY WRATH, ‘THEY SHALL NOT ENTER MY REST.’”
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Why Jesus Became a Man
Jesus Became a Man:
• to restore our Lost Dominion
Disobeying God cost them:• 40 years of wandering in the desert• disappointing God, making him angry• never entering into God’s rest for them
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Why Jesus Became a Man
Jesus Became a Man:
• to restore our Lost Dominion
Psalm 84:11 ERVThe LORD God is our protector and glorious king. He blesses us with kindness and honor.The LORD freely gives every good thing to those who do what is right.
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Why Jesus Became a Man
Jesus Became a Man:
• to restore our Lost Dominion
Psalm 84:11 For the LORD God is a sun and shield; the LORD gives grace and glory; No good thing does Hewithhold from those who walk uprightly.
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Why Jesus Became a Man
Jesus Became a Man:
• to restore our Lost Dominion
Jeremiah 5:25 ERVYou don’t have these blessings because you have done wrong.Your sins have kept these good things away from you.
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Why Jesus Became a Man
Jesus Became a Man:
• to restore our Lost Dominion
Jeremiah 5:25 NLTYour wickedness has deprived you of these wonderful blessings. Your sin has robbed you of all these good things.
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Why Jesus Became a Man
Jesus Became a Man:
• to restore our Lost Dominion
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Disobeying God may cost us:
• Going in spiritual circles, rather than following in Christ
• Disappointing our Heavenly Father
• Never experiencing the abundant Christian life
• Never receiving much of what God wanted to give us.
Why Jesus Became a Man
Jesus Became a Man:
• to restore our Lost Dominion
Hebrews 3:12-1312 Take care, brethren, that there not be in any one of you an evil, unbelieving heart that falls away from the living God.
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Why Jesus Became a Man
Jesus Became a Man:
• to restore our Lost Dominion
Hebrews 3:12-1313 But encourage one another day after day, as long as it is still called “Today,” so that none of you will be hardened by the deceitfulness of sin.
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Why Jesus Became a Man
Jesus Became a Man:
• to restore our Lost Dominion
When God SpeaksWe Need to Carefully Listen
• The Example of the Israelites• The Danger to Our Hearts
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Why Jesus Became a Man
Jesus Became a Man:
• to restore our Lost Dominion
Hebrews 3:12-13… so that none of you will be hardened by the deceitfulness of sin.
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Why Jesus Became a Man
Jesus Became a Man:
• to restore our Lost Dominion
Hebrews 3:1212 Take care, brethren, that there not be in any one of you an evil, unbelieving heart that falls away from the living God.
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Why Jesus Became a Man
Jesus Became a Man:
• to restore our Lost Dominion
Hebrews 3:18And to whom did He swear that they would not enter His rest, but to those who were disobedient?
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Why Jesus Became a Man
Jesus Became a Man:
• to restore our Lost Dominion
Hebrews 4:1-2Therefore, let us fear if, while a promise remains of entering His rest, any one of you may seem to have come short of it.
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Why Jesus Became a Man
Jesus Became a Man:
• to restore our Lost Dominion
Hebrews 4:1-22 For indeed we have had good news preached to us, just as they also; but the word they heard did not profit them,
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Why Jesus Became a Man
Jesus Became a Man:
• to restore our Lost Dominion
Hebrews 4:1-2because it was not united by faith in those who heard.
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Why Jesus Became a Man
Jesus Became a Man:
• to restore our Lost Dominion
Hebrews 4:1. . . let us fear if, while a promise remains of entering His rest, any one of you may seem to have come short of it.
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Listening CarefullyHebrews 3:7-4:2