Hebrews – A Call to Commitment:                     “Demonstrating Confidence In Your Leaders”                                                 Hebrews 13:17-25

            Three Ways to Demonstrate Confidence in Your Leaders:

I.         Submit to Your Leaders

• Submission is about modeling: 1 Pet 5:3
• We are to be examples to the flock! 1 Cor. 11:1
• We are not talking about Authoritarianism!
• Mutual submission: Eph. 5:21
• Keep Watch: Sentry guarding His or Her post.  Why?
• They are responsible: James 3:1

 II.       Pray for Your Leaders

• We are dependant on the prayers of the Saints.
• We need prayer in order to live godly lives!
• Success in his mission is dependent on their prayers.
• He has urged them to focus on the Word: Heb 2:1
•  This prayer summarizes the content of the Sermon.
• God brings peace to the table; he brings unity.
• God can raise the dead; He brings life!
• God is the great Shepherd: Ps. 23
• God will be with us as we suffer.
• Equip can means mend: Mt. 4:21
•  He fixes the broken.  Why?
• We are fixed to serve!
• When he calls, he empowers.
• Again, he has challenged them and us.
•  He urges them to take his sermon to heart.
• “Word of Exhortation.” Acts 13:15
•  He will come to inspect what he expects.

 

III.      Greet Your Leaders

•  Leadership is about friendship
•  Leaders need relationships.
• It’s all about Grace!

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