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Don’t Lose Hope!

Don’t Lose Hope!. Hebrews 10:26-11:1. Remember what “Hope” looks like?. Then he says, “I will never again remember their sins and lawless deeds.” And so, dear brothers and sisters, we can boldly enter heaven’s Most Holy Place because of the blood of Jesus.

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Don’t Lose Hope!

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  1. Don’t Lose Hope! Hebrews 10:26-11:1

  2. Remember what “Hope” looks like? Then he says, “I will never again remember their sins and lawless deeds.” And so, dear brothers and sisters, we can boldly enter heaven’s Most Holy Place because of the blood of Jesus. By his death, Jesus opened a new and life-giving way through the curtain into the Most Holy Place. Hebrews 10:17-20

  3. Remember what “Hope” looks like? Then he says, “I will never again remember their sins and lawless deeds.” And so, dear brothers and sisters, we can boldly enter heaven’s Most Holy Place because of the blood of Jesus. By his death, Jesus opened a new and life-giving way through the curtain into the Most Holy Place. Hebrews 10:17-20

  4. Remember what “Hope” looks like? Then he says, “I will never again remember their sins and lawless deeds.” And so, dear brothers and sisters, we can boldly enter heaven’s Most Holy Place because of the blood of Jesus. By his death, Jesus opened a new and life-giving way through the curtain into the Most Holy Place. Hebrews 10:17-20

  5. Remember what “Hope” looks like? Then he says, “I will never again remember their sins and lawless deeds.” And so, dear brothers and sisters, we can boldly enter heaven’s Most Holy Place because of the blood of Jesus. By his death, Jesus opened a new and life-giving way through the curtain into the Most Holy Place. Hebrews 10:17-20

  6. What Hope Doesn’t Look Like For if we go on sinning willfully after receiving the knowledge of the truth, there no longer remains a sacrifice for sins, but a terrifying expectation of judgment and the furyof a firewhich willconsumethe adversaries. Heb.10:26-32

  7. What Hope Doesn’t Look Like • Anyone who has set aside the Law of Moses dies without mercy on the testimony of two or three witnesses. • How much severer punishment do you think he will deserve who has trampled under foot the Son of God, and has regarded as unclean the blood of the covenant by which he was sanctified, and has insulted the Spirit of grace? Heb.10:26-32

  8. What Hope Doesn’t Look Like • For we know Him who said, "Vengeance is Mine, I will repay." And again, "The Lord will judge His people." • It is a terrifying thing to fall into the hands of the living God. Heb.10:26-32

  9. What Hope Doesn’t Look Like • For we know Him who said, "Vengeance is Mine, I will repay." And again, "The Lord will judge His people." • It is a terrifying thing to fall into the hands of the living God. Heb.10:26-32

  10. What Hope Doesn’t Look Like • For we know Him who said, "Vengeance is Mine, I will repay." And again, "The Lord will judge His people." • It is a terrifying thing to fall into the hands of the living God. Heb.10:26-32

  11. What Hope Doesn’t Look Like • For we know Him who said, "Vengeance is Mine, I will repay." And again, "The Lord will judge His people." • It is a terrifying thing to fall into the hands of the living God. "You have made him for a little while lower than the angels; You have crowned him with glory and honor, And have appointed him over the works of Your hands; Hebrews 2:7 (NASB) Heb.10:26-32

  12. What Hope Doesn’t Look Like • For we know Him who said, "Vengeance is Mine, I will repay." And again, "The Lord will judge His people." • It is a terrifying thing to fall into the hands of the living God. “The Lord will judge…” Heb.10:26-32

  13. What Hope Doesn’t Look Like Then he says, “I will never again remember their sins and lawless deeds.” And so, dear brothers and sisters, we can boldly enter heaven’s Most Holy Place because of the blood of Jesus. • For we know Him who said, "Vengeance is Mine, I will repay." And again, "The Lord will judge His people." • It is a terrifying thing to fall into the hands of the living God. Heb.10:26-32

  14. What Hope Doesn’t Look Like The ‘small print’ … Heb.10:26-32

  15. What Hope Doesn’t Look Like For if we go on sinning willfully after receiving the knowledge of the truth, there no longer remains a sacrifice for sins, but a terrifying expectation of judgment and the furyof a firewhich willconsumethe adversaries • ‘Sinning Willfully’ means ‘rejecting the cross’ • Context: chapters 7-10 But in those sacrifices there is a reminder of sins year by year. Hebrews 10:3 Heb.10:26-32

  16. What Hope Doesn’t Look Like For if we go on sinning willfully after receiving the knowledge of the truth, there no longer remains a sacrifice for sins, but a terrifying expectation of judgment and the furyof a firewhich willconsumethe adversaries • ‘Sinning Willfully’ means ‘rejecting the cross’ • Context: chapters 7-10 • Rituals can’t do better! For it is impossible for the blood of bulls and goats to take away sins. Hebrews 10:4 Heb.10:26-32

  17. What Hope Doesn’t Look Like For if we go on sinning willfully after receiving the knowledge of the truth, there no longer remains a sacrifice for sins, but a terrifying expectation of judgment and the furyof a firewhich willconsumethe adversaries • ‘Sinning Willfully’ means ‘rejecting the cross’ • Context: chapters 7-10 • Rituals can’t do better! • He defines ‘willful sin’ v.29 How much severer punishment do you think he will deserve who has trampled under foot the Son of God, and has regarded as unclean the blood of the covenant by which he was sanctified, and has insulted the Spirit of grace?Heb. 10:29 Heb.10:26-32

  18. What Hope Doesn’t Look Like For if we go on sinning willfully after receiving the knowledge of the truth, there no longer remains a sacrifice for sins, but a terrifying expectation of judgment and the furyof a firewhich willconsumethe adversaries • ‘Sinning Willfully’ means ‘rejecting the cross’ • Context: chapters 7-10 • Rituals can’t do better! • He defines ‘willful sin’ v.29 • It is ONGOING..“while doing this sin…” Heb.10:26-32

  19. What Hope Doesn’t Look Like For if we go on sinning willfully after receiving the knowledge of the truth, there no longer remains a sacrifice for sins, but a terrifying expectation of judgment and the furyof a firewhich willconsumethe adversaries • ‘Sinning Willfully’ means ‘rejecting the cross’ • Never actually says what will happen • “A terrifying expectation of judgment…” • “How much severer punishment do you think he will deserve…?” Heb.10:26-32

  20. What Hope Doesn’t Look Like For if we go on sinning willfully after receiving the knowledge of the truth, there no longer remains a sacrifice for sins, but a terrifying expectation of judgment and the furyof a firewhich willconsumethe adversaries • ‘Sinning Willfully’ means ‘rejecting the cross’ • Never actually says what will happen • “A terrifying expectation of judgment…” • “How much severer punishment do you think he will deserve…?” For we know Him who said, "Vengeance is Mine, I will repay." Heb.10:26-32

  21. What Hope Doesn’t Look Like For if we go on sinning willfully after receiving the knowledge of the truth, there no longer remains a sacrifice for sins, but a terrifying expectation of judgment and the furyof a firewhich willconsumethe adversaries • ‘Sinning Willfully’ means ‘rejecting the cross’ • Never actually says what will happen • He’s messing with their legalistic heads! • BE SCARED…! • …of your Foolishness? Heb.10:26-32

  22. Losing Sight of Hope Think back on those early days when you first learned about Christ. Remember how you remained faithful even though it meant terrible suffering. Sometimes you were exposed to public ridicule and were beaten, and sometimes you helped others who were suffering the same things. Heb.10:32-39

  23. Losing Sight of Hope Think back on those early days when you first learned about Christ. Remember how you remained faithful even though it meant terrible suffering. Sometimes you were exposed to public ridicule and were beaten, and sometimes you helped others who were suffering the same things. Heb.10:32-39

  24. Losing Sight of Hope • For you showed sympathy to the prisoners and accepted joyfully the seizure of your property, knowing that you have for yourselves a better possession and a lasting one. Heb.10:32-39

  25. Losing Sight of Hope • For you showed sympathy to the prisoners and accepted joyfully the seizure of your property, knowing that you have for yourselves a better possession and a lasting one. Heb.10:32-39

  26. Losing Sight of Hope • For you showed sympathy to the prisoners and accepted joyfully the seizure of your property, knowing that you have for yourselves a better possession and a lasting one. Paul was impressed! Heb.10:32-39

  27. Losing Sight of Hope • Therefore, do not throw away your confidence, which has a great reward! • For you have need of endurance, so that when you have done the will of God, you may receive what was promised. Heb.10:32-39

  28. Losing Sight of Hope • ‘For yet in a very little while, He who is coming will come, and will not delay.’ This used to be their ‘hope’ ! They also said, "Men of Galilee, why do you stand looking into the sky? This Jesus, who has been taken up from you into heaven, will come in just the same way as you have watched Him go into heaven." Acts 1:11 • …and it’s still true! Heb.10:32-39

  29. Losing Sight of Hope • ‘For yet in a very little while, He who is coming will come, and will not delay.’ • ‘But my righteous one shall live by faith; And if he shrinks back, My soul has no pleasure in him.’ Don’t lose focus: ‘living by faith’ Heb.10:32-39

  30. Losing Sight of Hope • ‘For yet in a very little while, He who is coming will come, and will not delay.’ • ‘But my righteous one shall live by faith; And if he shrinks back, My soul has no pleasure in him.’ Don’t lose focus: ‘living by faith’ Heb.10:32-39

  31. God’s Plan: “Enter Into My Rest!” • But “Don’t shrink back!” KadeshBarnea A Bright Future! The View Behind

  32. God’s Plan: “Enter Into My Rest!” • But “Don’t shrink back!” (Heb. 10:30) But we are not of those who shrink back to destruction, but of those who have faith to the preserving of the soul. Hebrews 10:39 Why this waste? KadeshBarnea A Bright Future! The View Behind

  33. The Slide into O.C.S. • Time Passes (30 years later…) • Older, wiser, not ‘young and naïve’ • Competent, ‘responsible members of society’ • Absorbed by their culture (compromised!) • Good, well-meaning Christians • Obsessed with ‘Do the right thing!’ “No one can serve two masters. For you will hate one and love the other; you will be devoted to one and despise the other. You cannot serve both God and money. Matthew 6:24

  34. “How Far You’ve Fallen…!” “New & Living Way” O.C.S. • Love-Oriented! • Performance-Oriented • “They were continually devoting themselves to the apostles' teaching and to fellowship, to the breaking of bread and to prayer…” But in those sacrifices there is a reminder of sins year by year. Hebrews 10:3

  35. “How Far You’ve Fallen…!” “New & Living Way” O.C.S. • Love-Oriented! • Bold, audacious, fearless! • Performance-Oriented • Nervous, fear-of-failure “a reminder of sins year by year” “a terrifying expectation of judgment” For you showed sympathy to the prisoners and accepted joyfully the seizure of your property,

  36. “How Far You’ve Fallen…!” “New & Living Way” O.C.S. • Love-Oriented! • Bold, audacious, fearless! • Clear direction forward! • Performance-Oriented • Nervous, fear-of-failure • Confused, baffled wandering This Jesus, who has been taken up from you into heaven, will come in just the same way as you have watched Him go into heaven." Acts 1:11 ‘For yet in a very little while, He who is coming will come, and will not delay.’

  37. “How Far You’ve Fallen…!” “New & Living Way” O.C.S. • Love-Oriented! • Bold, audacious, fearless! • Clear direction forward! • Motivated, joyful! • Performance-Oriented • Nervous, fear-of-failure • Confused, baffled wandering • Tired, demoralized • For you have need of endurance, …accepted joyfully the seizure of your property, • Everyone kept feeling a sense of awe

  38. “How Far You’ve Fallen…!” “New & Living Way” O.C.S. • Love-Oriented! • Bold, audacious, fearless! • Clear direction forward! • Motivated, joyful! • Trusting God! • Performance-Oriented • Nervous, fear-of-failure • Confused, baffled wandering • Tired, demoralized • Shrinking Back …knowing that you have for yourselves a better possession and a lasting one. But “Don’t shrink back!” (Heb. 10:30)

  39. “How Far You’ve Fallen…!” “New & Living Way” O.C.S. "Truly, truly, I say to you, he who hears My word, and believes Him who sent Me, has eternal life, and does not come into judgment, but has passed out of death into life. John 5:24 • Love-Oriented! • Bold, audacious, fearless! • Clear direction forward! • Motivated, joyful! • Trusting God! • Hope-Driven! • Performance-Oriented • Nervous, fear-of-failure • Confused, baffled wandering • Tired, demoralized • Shrinking Back • Law-Driven "The Lord will judge His people.“ …a better possession and a lasting one.

  40. “How Far You’ve Fallen…!” “New & Living Way” O.C.S. • Love-Oriented! • Bold, audacious, fearless! • Clear direction forward! • Motivated, joyful! • Trusting God! • Hope-Driven! • Victorious! • Performance-Oriented • Nervous, fear-of-failure • Confused, baffled wandering • Tired, demoralized • Shrinking Back • Law-Driven • Defeated …accepted joyfully the seizure of your property, • For you have need of endurance,

  41. O.C.S. – Seize Your HOPE! • Now faith is the assurance of things hoped for, the conviction of things not seen. Hebrews 11:1

  42. O.C.S. – Seize Your HOPE! • Now faith is the assurance of things hoped for, the conviction of things not seen. Hebrews 11:1 But now faith, hope, love, abide these three; but the greatest of these is love. 1 Corinthians 13:13

  43. O.C.S. – Seize Your HOPE! • Now faith is the assurance of things hoped for, the conviction of things not seen. Hebrews 11:1 So faith comes from hearing, and hearing by the word of Christ. Romans 10:17

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