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Hebrews 4:1-5

2/19/2017

Points of Interest
Hebrews 4:1-5
“The Believers Rest”
I. Call to Worship: Ps. 21:6,7
II. Offering: Proverbs 3:9
III. Scripture-references:

Eph. 2:8,9 – “For by grace you have been saved through faith; and that not of yourselves, it is the gift of God; not as a result of works, so that no one may boast.”
I Thess. 2:13 – “For this reason we also constantly thank God that when you received the word of God which you heard from us, you accepted it not as the word of men, but for what it really is, the word of God, which also performs its work in you who believe.”
b2 Thess. 2:13 – “But we should always give thanks to God for you, brethren beloved by the Lord, because God has chosen you from the beginning for salvation through sanctification by the Spirit and faith in the truth.”

2/5/2017

Points of Interest
Hebrews 3:7-19
I. Call to Worship: Ps. 18:30-32
II. Offering: II Cor. 9:7,8
III. Scripture-references:

I Peter 1:21 - ‘for no prophecy was ever made by an act of human will, but men moved by the Holy Spirit spoke from God’
Luke 16:31 - ‘If they do not listen to Moses and the prophets, they will not be persuaded even if someone rises from the dead.’
I John 2:19 – “they went out from us, but they did not really belong to us. For if they belonged to us, they would have remained with us; but their going showed that none of them belonged to us”

IV. Cross-References:

V. Quotes:

Kent Hughes - ‘faithlessness makes small mountains unclimbable and miniature seas uncrossable’
John MacArthur - ‘nothing is more illogical or unreasonable than unbelief. It refuses to accept the most overwhelming evidence – simply because unbelief does not want to believe’
Calvin - ‘we fall not immediately by the first assault into this madness of striving against God; but satan by degrees accosts us artfully by indirect means, until he holds us ensnared in his delusions’
John Piper -‘spend time with God-saturated people who help you see God and fight the fight’
Thomas Watson - ‘associate with sanctified persons … they may, by their counsel, prayers and holy example, be means to make you holy’
Spurgeon – ‘God has never taken an oath, that I know of, against any class of persons, except unbelievers’