58 Hebrews 10:19-25: Teaching/Preaching
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Drawing Near to the presence God!
Drawing Near to the presence God!
Three Exhortations to Draw near to God.
We must:
Be PERSONALLY devoted
Be CONSISTENT
Be CONNECTED to believers.
Introduction:
Christianity is all about a relationship with God.
Catechism-To enjoy, know and glorify God forever.
You were created to know and enjoy God right here and now and for the rest of your life.
Today I want to ask you are you living in the presence of God.
Religion without a relationship stinks.
This is why I hated going to church so much as a kid because I did not have a relationship with God.
Do you view Christianity as a relationship or as a religion?
If you have never began a relationship with God, I don’t think it is by chance you are here today.
Are you living out of your relationship with God right now.
Augustine our hearts are restless.
God shaped whole
The author is about to get into application of how we are to live in light of the last couple of chapters. So let’s be reminding why we need to live in the presence of God.
Verse 19 starts off with a therefore:
(19-21)
Therefore, brethren, since we have confidence to enter the holy place by the blood of Jesus,
The author is about to tell us what to do, but in the scripture most of the time before he tells us what he shows us why.
What was there confidence in: In was not in themselves it was in what Jesus had done for them.
Why did they have confidence:
Because of what God has done on their behalf. He literally spilled his blood so we could be confident. Jeremiah 9:23-24. He literally became our sacrifice and substitute for our sins.
Because they have a great high priest.
by a new and living way which He inaugurated for us through the veil, that is, His flesh,
This kind of access had never been experienced or seen before:
“The way to God is both ‘new’ and ‘living.’ It is ‘new’ because what Jesus has done has created a completely new situation, ‘living’ because that way is indissolubly bound up with the Lord Jesus himself.
Constable, T. (2003). Tom Constable’s Expository Notes on the Bible (Heb 10:19). Galaxie Software.
But there is another reason why we have this confidence:
Because we have a great high priest.
and since we have a great priest over the house of God,
I don’t know about you but I hope you want to live a life in the presence of God.
Today we are going to look three things he exhorts us to do so that we will live in his presence.
Therefore, brethren, since we have confidence to enter the holy place by the blood of Jesus,
by a new and living way which He inaugurated for us through the veil, that is, His flesh,
and since we have a great priest over the house of God,
let us draw near with a sincere heart in full assurance of faith, having our hearts sprinkled clean from an evil conscience and our bodies washed with pure water.
Let us hold fast the confession of our hope without wavering, for He who promised is faithful;
and let us consider how to stimulate one another to love and good deeds,
not forsaking our own assembling together, as is the habit of some, but encouraging one another; and all the more as you see the day drawing near.