First General Baptist

Message: The Letter to the Hebrews  

Text: Backtrack 2, Acts 10:34-43  

Achieve: vs 35  

It can no longer stop here, because we can’t do it  

Discipleship: vs 36  

“Not so, Lord”  “He is Lord of all”  

Receive: vs 43  

Acts 4:12, John 1:12  

The thing that saves us, keeps us saved.  

Grace never was fair and never will be. Praise the Lord!  

A.B. Simpson, "Learn this secret:  that you are not sanctified for all time so that there will be no more need for grace and victory; but you have grace for this moment and the next moment and by the time life is spent, you shall have had a whole ocean of His grace."  

Ron Hutchcraft,"Any longtime Christian who does not still find God's grace amazing needs to take an honest look at his or her own sinfulness."

Message: The Letter to the Hebrews  

Text: Hebrews 8:1-13 (10)  

(Backtrack to a couple weeks ago: the story of Cornelius and Simon Peter, Acts 10)  

Cornelius is religious and lost. Peter is religious and prejudice.  

Yesterday…the day before.  

Whatever question you are asking God, He could often turn around and ask you.  

Does the amount that God uses us correlate to the amount that we are willing to be used…the amount we are willing to change to be used.?  

What might need to change?

James Pagan, Cindy Moye, and Sarah Riddle have something to say..

Message: The Letter to the Hebrews  

Text: Hebrews 8:1-13  

To go from trying to obey the Godly law that is written down to trying to obey the Godly law that is written on your heart.  

To go from knowing things about Jesus to knowing Him personally, is a huge change in relationship and spiritual life.  

Analogy: When most of us started attending church we came to get, but a huge change takes place in our spiritual life when we start attending church in order to give…and we actually receive so much more!  

Philippians 3:7-10  

Before the spiritual change: “What’s wrong with it?”  

“How far away can I get?”  

After the spiritual change: “What’s right with it?”  

“How close can I get?”  

John 14:15  

Philippians 3:11-12  

1 John 4:19

Message: The Letter to the Hebrews  

Text: Hebrews 8:1-13  

This Hebrew/Christian pastor quotes heavily from Jeremiah, who had what looks like 40 years of failure. God’s people were no longer listening to the law, the Word, or the prophets.   

Colossians 1:27  

Holy Spirit speaking to you: Romans 8:16  

Old Country Preacher, “I don’t always know when the Holy Spirit is, but I sure know when He aint.”  

Matthew 28:18-19 Watching for stop signs along the way.  

Acts 16:6-10  

If you think it’s wrong, stop immediately. If you think it’s right, tread forward carefully.  

Holy Spirit speaking to others:  

Acts 10 Simon Peter and Cornelius  

Cornelius first by a vision and an angel  

Simon Peter next by Jesus, a vision, and Holy Spirit.  

Whoever the Holy Spirit sends you to, He always goes ahead of you.

Message: The Letter to the Hebrews  

Text: Hebrews 7:23-28  

“To the uttermost.” – completely, perfectly, finally, for all time and eternity.  

From – To

From: Getting past your past.  

What you have done.  

What others have done to you.  

Replacement discipline.  

To: Now and to the end of time  

Jesus is praying for you.  

Others are waiting for you…and others are depending on you.  

Robert McCheyne, "If I could hear Christ praying for me in the next room, I would not fear a million enemies.  Yet distance makes no difference.  He is praying for me!"

Message: The Letter to the Hebrews  

Text: Hebrews 7:11-22  

What is wrong with the priesthood? What is wrong with keeping the law?  

The law is perfect, there is nothing wrong with the law…there is something wrong with me!  

Will the Holy Spirit lead you to something He knows you will fail at?  

Galatians 3:24-25 (KJV)  

Learning real dependance often comes from failure, finally getting that I’m not able to do it on my own.  

John 15:4-5  

*Get better at obeying the inner impulse that is the Holy Spirit. Immediate obedience, because delayed obedience is disobedience. This is the difference between a law written on paper or written on your heart.  

*Honestly, why are you doing it? What is your motive? We can do a good thing for a bad reason.

Message: The Letter to the Hebrews

Text: Hebrews 7:1-4

The shadow of the cross falls backward and forward.

Can you see Jesus in people?

Jesus is not like Melchizedek. Melchizedek is like Jesus.

Abraham, Jacob, Moses, David, Isaiah, Daniel…

John 8:56-58

Matthew 25:31-37, 40 Notice anything about this list? How are the lists alike, the common theme?

Can you see Jesus in the times?

Romans 8:18-22

Can you see the clock speeding up?

Message: The Letter to the Hebrews  

Text: Hebrews 7:1-10  

Can you see Jesus?  

The shadow of the cross falls backward and forward.  

Jesus is not like Melchizedek. Melchizedek is like Jesus.  

Abraham, Jacob, Moses, David, Isaiah, Daniel…  

John 8:56-58  

Giving to Jesus:  

“If you will not give according to how you have been blessed. Then may you be blessed according to how you give.”  

All any of us have to give is from what God has already given us. Do you think God is going to run out?  

Receiving from Jesus:  

Humble enough to recognize your need. Humble enough to let someone pray for you.

Message: The Letter to the Hebrews

Text: Hebrews 6:12-20

Consider: who you imitate, who you look to, who you depend upon.

Consider: If hope is the anchor of your soul, what is your hope?

Faith is almost always what God is going to do. Hope is what God is going to do based on what God has done and what He has said.

Some of us need to:

1) Find our hope. We’re adrift

2) Change our hope. We’re off course. Our boat is too small for the anchor.

3) Trust our hope. Stay the course.