July 8, 2007

Hebrews - Part 8 : Drawing Near to God

Steve Lane

A. Review/Introduction

Superiority of Jesus

Three groups - with a Jewish slant

A stern warning: Don't drift. Stay on course.

Central theme: drawing Near to God
Hebrews 7: 18 - 19
Prerequisites:
Who Jesus is
Faith: fix your eyes on Jesus

Stern Warnings

Backward steps are difficult to recover from and even impossible in some cases
Hebrews 5: 11 - 14
Truth stacking

Hebrews 6: 1 - 6
But, it is a chilling warning of... hard hearts

Hebrews 3: 6, 14
A slap in the face to cheap Grace

Draw Near to God

Hebrews 4: 14 - 16
Hebrews 6: 18 - 20
Hebrews 10: 19 - 23
To draw on His hope and have the daily...

Psalm 84 "How lovely is your dwelling place O Lord Almighty! My soul yearns..."

Psalm 73: 16 - 17
His questions were driving him to despair until he was in the presence of God.

Psalm 73: 23 - 26, 28
In Hebrews we have this drawing near to God woven into relationships in the body

Do you not often ask for spurring on, or for input or counsel?

Let Him quiet your soul and gìve you hope before receiving input from the body.

Hebrews 9: 5

B. Earthly Tabernacle Only a Shadow

Hebrews 9: 9, 10: 1

C.
Discipleship Comes With Salvation

Hebrews 9: 14
Hebrews 10: 36
Cheap grace - BE CAREFUL... don't add, but don't reduce the full meaning either.

Hebrews 3: 14
Hebrews 6: 7
A crop is expected from land that receives rain

D.
Again, Drawing Near and the Help We Need to Stay Near

Hebrews 10: 19 - 25
Hebrews 3: 12 - 13

E. More Severe Warnings

You don't just add Jesus to your life.
But, He does give you the cure for your cancer.

Hebrews 10: 26 - 31, 39
Don't shrink back! What is God calling you to?