Hebrews 3:7-19

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:

• Numbers 21:4-9
  
• John 3:14-16
  
• Gal. 3: 2-3; 6-9;14; 29
  
• I Cor. 10:1-6
  

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’