First General Baptist

Message: The Letter to the Hebrews

Text: Hebrews 10:1-10

Reminder of Sin

~You keep reminding yourself of your sins.

You keep reminding yourself of what you said and did, instead of what Jesus said and did.

1 John 3:18-21

1 John 1:9, Ephesians 2:8-9, Hebrews 10:10

Replacement thinking because this is replacement living.

~Satan keeps reminding you—and everyone who will listen—of your sin.

Revelation 12:10, Zechariah 3:1-2 (NIV)

The devil’s not wrong about your sin, but he is wrong about the cure for your sin.

Satan’s obsessed with the sins of others…don’t you be.

Message: The Letter to the Hebrews

Text: Hebrews 9:27-28

These two verses are the two ways everyone will leave this earth and enter eternity.

When Jesus comes a second time, there will be no more dealing with sin, it will all be about enjoying salvation for those who are in Christ.

1 Thessalonians 4:13-18

We’re not waiting for the “appointment.” We’re waiting for Him.

Message: The Letter to the Hebrews  

Text: Hebrews 9:22-28  

An appointed time:  

Acts 17:31, Job 14:5  

God isn’t going to give you more than your appointed time. Your time is right now.  

~Let heaven affect you as much as possible.  

~Spend the rest of the time you have affecting heaven as much as possible.  

Revelation 12:12 Satan understands an appointed time.

Message: The Letter to the Hebrews  

Text: Hebrews 9:15-22  

Testament and testator is the same as our last will and testament.  

Old Testament law, before that the Passover, before that God used an animal to cover Adam and Eve’s sin.  

Death is the consequence of sin and death is the payment for sin.  

Blood is not the issue. An animal couldn’t just be injured for the blood, it had to die. Blood that leads to death is the payment for sin.  

We must never forget: good is not the issue, bad is the issue.  

In an unexpected twist, Satan wants good to be the issue. In a very superficial way, he wants you to do good in order to not think about the bad.  

Only Christians teach that God is reaching down to man. Everyone else tends toward man reaching up to God.  

John 20:27 NIV 

Message: The Letter to the Hebrews  

Text: Hebrews 9:14-15  

Sin is work  

Sin brings separation, Isaiah 59:2  

So we need a mediator, 1 Timothy 2:5  

Sin brings death, Romans 6:23  

Sin brings debt, that’s what redemption means  

Physical law, “For every action there is an equal and opposite reaction.”

Message: The Letter to the Hebrews  

Text: Hebrews 9:1-14  

Conscience: the depths of our personality; the center of who we are, the inner man; a part of our heart/soul/spirit/body  

The Good: Light and Bread

The Problem: Not everyone was welcome, and, no one’s conscience was completely cleared.  

Ritual should lead to relationship. When relationship fails, we fall back to ritual & rules.  

“Should do” leads to “want to.”  

Relationship rather than just ritual:  

Realization of something missing  

Time 

Guest Speaker Rev. Larry Loggins

Message: “I know…you.”  

Text: Jeremiah 29:11 (NIV)  

“I know…”  

Psalm 119:105  

The Word of God: reading, listening, watching…  

In that order.  

“…you.”  

Jeremiah 1:5  

Psalm 139:1-6, 13-18  

Colossians 1:16, “by Jesus and for Jesus.”  

What you are called to, what you were made for, should eventually become the most important thing in life. That ‘s where meaning, purpose, love…everything comes from.

Message: At just the right time

Text: Galatians 4:4

Luke 2:1-7

Caesar Augustus—The first Roman emperor. The beginning of emperor worship, the emperor as divine, the emperor as god.

Quirinius—The first census, not the second.

Matthew 2:1, 16

Herod the king, Herod the Great, “Herod the butcher”

Caesar Augustus, “It is safer to be Herod’s hog than his wife.”

John 3:16 At just the right time

 Message: Communion  

Text: 1 Corinthians 11:26  

If you read this about anyone else it would seem strange, and others would think you strange if you wrote it.  

What can learn from the verse?  

1. Jesus died.

2. But, Jesus is not dead. Death is not the end of Jesus, it’s the beginning of new life.

3. Jesus is coming. This is the end of all temporal things. The coming of Jesus is when His church can finally stop…until then we always have work to do.