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May 14 - Hebrews 4 · A Chapter a Day Bible Reading

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  Hello, friends, It's Sean. Here it is, Wednesday the 14th
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  of May, and you have invited me in again so that we can continue
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  to read a bit of God's word together.
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  And I don't know about you, but I am just loving, loving Hebrews
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  and loving the way that it is just building this argument for
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  who Jesus is and all that he has done for us, which is really
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  interesting, you know, because we live in this world where
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  Christianity is so last decade, right?
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  So uncool at the moment and the word Jesus is almost a dirty
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  word. And if we if we are caught
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  saying the word Jesus in front of people who are unbelievers,
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  hey, look at us like what is wrong with you?
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  Why would you believe in this archaic concept of this person
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  who just brings about all of this religious baggage in their
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  ears? So our challenge, my challenge
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  and your challenge is to find ways that we can share Jesus and
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  share his truth in a way that doesn't turn people off.
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  But amazes people with the incredible love and all the
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  amazing things that we're reading about as we keep on
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  moving through Hebrews. He is this incredible,
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  incredible part of our lives. Holy Spirit, give us wisdom so
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  we know how to share your truth. Share Jesus with the world who
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  desperately needs to hear him. Well, with that laid on the
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  table, let's continue this journey friends, as we read
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  together Hebrews chapter 4. God's promise of entering His
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  rest still stands, so we ought to tremble with fear that some
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  of you might fail to experience it.
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  For this good news that God has prepared, this rest has been
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  announced to us, just as it was to them.
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  But it did them no good because they didn't share the faith of
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  those who listen to God, For only we who believe can enter
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  His rest. As for the others, God said in
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  my anger I took an oath they will never enter my place of
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  rest, even though this rest has been ready since He made the
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  world. We know it is ready because of
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  the place in the scriptures where it mentions the 7th day.
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  On the 7th day God rested from all his work.
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  But in the other passage, God said they will never enter my
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  place of rest. So God's rest is there for
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  people to enter. But those who first heard this
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  good news failed to enter because they disobeyed God.
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  So God said another time for entering his rest, and that time
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  is today. God announced this through David
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  much later in the words already quoted today.
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  When you hear His voice, don't harden your hearts.
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  Now if Joshua had succeeded in giving them this rest, God would
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  not have spoken about another day of rest still to come.
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  So there is a special rest still waiting for the people of God.
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  For all who have entered into God's rest have rested from
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  their labours, just as God did after creating the world.
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  So let us do our best to enter that rest.
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  But if we disobey God, as the people of Israel did, we will
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  fall. For the Word of God is alive and
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  powerful. It is sharper than the sharpest
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  2 edged sword, cutting between soul and spirit, between joint
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  and marrow. It exposes our innermost
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  thoughts and desires. Nothing in all creation is
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  hidden from God. Everything is naked and exposed
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  before His eyes, and He is the one to whom we are accountable.
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  So then, since we have a great high priest who has entered
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  heaven, Jesus the Son of God, let us hold firmly to what we
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  believe. This high Priest of ours
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  understands our weaknesses, for he faced all the same testings
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  we do, yet he did not sin. So let us come boldly to the
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  throne of our gracious God. There we will receive His mercy
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  and we will find grace to help us when we need it most.
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  Ah, Jesus, thank you for this rest that you offer us.
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  We do not have to fight every day of our lives to achieve
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  everything ourselves, but we can stop and we can rest in you,
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  knowing that you have our eternal future, our eternal well
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  being, the health of our souls already sorted in your firm
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  hands, in your generous grasp, and that all we need do, as
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  you've said, is come boldly to the throne on which you sit.
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  And there when we come to you, you give us mercy and grace just
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  when we need it most. Ah, Jesus, we come before your
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  great throne, and we ask you for that grace, for that mercy to
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  help us through today, to overcome the challenges that
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  we'll face, no doubt, and the doubts that will spring up
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  inside of us for sure. But to always claim our promise
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  in you, that in you we will have enough grace and mercy for
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  anything that we're going to face today.
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  And we pray all of this in your wonderful name, Jesus, Amen.