Outline for class of 3/24/04
Prayer:
Oh God, through the teaching of Your Word, may You minister to us by using this
teaching to move us toward personal holiness and righteousness. May our
understanding be enlightened, our conscience searched and comforted, our hearts
inflamed and stirred to zeal for Your service. May our affections be well
ordered, and our will moved to resolve to do whatever it takes to persevere for
You.
HEBREWS Ch. 10: 19- 31 THE CALL TO PERSEVERE
INTRO: Brief review of OT place of worship
A. Tabernacle- tent
B. Solomon's Temple-twice as large as tab., stone overlaid with timber and
precious metals. A porch and side rooms added.
C. Herod's Temple-elaborate, pillared porches, court of: gentiles, women, men,
and priests, colonnade added.
See Diagram
TRANSITIONAL PASSAGE
From doctrinal
exposition To
practical
From belief
To
actions and attitudes
Doctrine alone = cold and conceited Christians.
Exhortation alone = discouraged and ill-instructed/ill-equipped Christians.
Balance presents different facets of the same truth.
I. Privileges and blessings Christ's blood procured for us Heb. 10 :19-22
A. Our sins are blotted out - the source of our confidence.
1. Only way not one of several ways
2. New way not old way
3. Living way not dead sacrifice way
B. We have title to approach God as acceptable worshippers.
Confidence/liberty to enter the "Most Holy Place."
C. We have our own High Priest: God's divine provision for believers' spiritual
maintenance.
II. Believers' Proper Response (to these privileges) that
promote perseverance. Hebrews10:22-25
A. Let Us: draw near vs. 21-22
1. With a sincere heart
2. In full assurance of faith
a. Sprinkled
b. Washed
B. Let Us: "hold unswervingly to the hope we profess, for he who promised
is faithful." vs.23
C. Let Us: "consider how we may spur one other on toward" vs.24
1. Love
2. Good deeds
D. Let Us: not give up (gr.- abandon in time of danger) meeting together vs.25
E. Let Us: encourage each other vs.25
Application: Small group question #2
III. God's Preservation-His keeping power
"Kept by the power of God through faith" KJV
I Peter 1:5. John 10:28-29
IV. Our Responsibility in Perseverance
A. "Keep thy heart with all diligence, for out of it are the issues of
life" Prov. 4:23
B."Keep himself unspotted from the world" James 1:27
C."Keep yourselves from idols" 1 Jn. 5:21. Note
vs.18 "…anyone born of God does not continue in sin…"
D. "Keep yourselves in God's love" Jude 21. This is in contrast
to "…following your own ungodly desires" and 'following mere
natural instincts' in vs. 18 & 19.
Application: Small group question #3
V. What is "Knowledge of Truth?" Transcendent reality
A. God the Father - "God of all truth" Deut. 32:4 Is. 65:16
B. Jesus - Messenger of truth Jn. 1:17. Testifier of the truth Jn.
18:37. Way the truth and the life Jn.14:6.
C. Holy Spirit - Spirit of Truth Jn. 16:12, 15:26
D. Bible - the Word is truth Jn. 17:17
E. Church (God's household) - (should be) pillar and foundation of the truth
F. Believer's Salvation - the "knowledge of truth" I Tim. 2:4, I Tim.
4:3 refers to believers as those who 'believe and know the truth.'
Know in gr. - to recognize, to know in the sense of realizing by operation of
the Holy Spirit. It indicates a relationship between the person knowing
and the object known. "…what is known is of value or importance to
the one who knows, and hence the establishment of the relationship, especially
of God's knowledge."
VI. 26 - 31 Negative consequences of a wrong response to Christ's sacrifice v.
26-31. See Allison's lecture on Heb. 5.
VII. Positive consequences of a right response to Christ's sacrifice v.
32-39
A. Their past perseverance manifested
1. Steadfast in suffering
2. Withstood insult and persecution
3. Supported and sympathized with others in persecution
4. Valued eternal rewards more than earthly possessions
B. The "future reward" assured for believers as encouragement to
persevere. Behaviors like 1-4 will be required to glorify God from now to
then.