Title – Missing out on the promises of God because of fear disappoints God and cowers us.
Teaching – If repetition is the best teacher, then don’t fail to believe what God promises is true.
Simply Broken Out Summary / Thoughts
| Heb 3:1-6 | Both Jesus and Moses were faithful to all who were in their “house”, the people to whom they were responsible, but Jesus is even more so, for He created people, and thus made the house, so He has a higher stature than Moses. |
| 3:6 | This passage links the house analogy to belief. Note how we boast, like a student who has studied diligently and has the subject so “nailed down” she can’t wait to get to class to let everyone see how eel she understands the subject. That’s what this means. |
| 3:7-11 | Here is quoted Psalm 95, written by David, some 400+ years after the Jews were brought out from Egypt, the ten plagues, the Red Sea crossing, yada, yada, yada. If you go through this in Exodus, you find God was pretty upset by their whining out of unbelief, after experiencing miracle after miracle. |
| 3:12-19 | v 12 is a marker for falling away. An “evil, unbelieving heart.” The Greek OT (Septuagint uses the term only twice, in Jer 16:12, 18:12. in there is noted stubbornness. The seems to be willful refusal to hear. “He who has ears to hear” is repeated at least 4 times in the Gospels by Jesus the sower 2x, about John once and the parable of the ludicrous dinner once.So the takeaway is to encourage others to live the faith life, and to avoid sin and encourage others to do the same. How? By breaking the faith barrier. |
The Geometry of Faith – the Faith Barrier
| 4:1-2 | It’s not enough to hear the message (the Gospel), I have to act on it, just as much as once I am saved, to act on God’s promises. | |
| 4:3-7 | Of all believers alive now or during the Exodus, some (almost all) go through life the hard way, not really believing the clear promises of God, rather than the way Joshua and Caleb took. See Numbers ch 13 and 14 for the details. | |
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| 4:14-16 | And don’t think Jesus doesn’t understand this. He does, He cares, He bought the t-shirt! |
Memory Verse – One verse you have set to memory.
For the word of God is living and active and sharper than any two-edged sword, and piercing as far as the division of soul and spirit, of both joints and marrow, and able to judge the thoughts and intentions of the heart. Hebrews 4:12
Application – How will you live out what you have learned?
I (the author, not you the reader) am going to pick up an old habit of journaling, writing down the events God has led me through and proven Himself faithful, so that I can remember those events. They have a habit of fading away otherwise. Check out this excellent teaching by Hal Lindsey.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eXQFrBz-wF4