“Hard of Hearing”

1. “Hard of Hearing” Hebrews 3.12-15

2. Refusing to hear • Refusing to believe God is a serious sin because it shows an evil heart. (v.12) • Unbelief is not an inability to understand, but an unwillingness to trust. • Unbelief isn’t weakness of faith; it sets itself in opposition to faith. Matthew 13.58

3. Did you hear? • If we will strengthen our faith and avoid the ruin of unbelief, we must be around other believers who will encourage. (v13) • How seriously do we take our responsibility to encourage someone? • If you are out of fellowship altogether, how can you exhort (encourage)? • The sin of unbelief has its roots in deceit; and unbelief hardens us.

4. Philippians 1.6 “…He who has begun a good work in you will complete it…” • Hard to hear • God uses warnings and appeals to our will as His appointed means to build endurance in us. • We harden our own hearts in response to what may be done to us.

5. Deuteronomy 15.7 • 4. Hearing all the way through • It isn’t enough to make a good beginning, real belief perseveres to the end. (v14) • How we finish is even more important than how we start.

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