1. HEBREWS

2. “The writer... encourages them with the assurance that they have everything to lose if they fall back, but everything to gain if they press on.” –F.F. Bruce

3. HEBREWS Message of Hebrews: Continue following the superior Savior, Jesus Christ.

4. A More Desirable Christian Culture

5. We need daily exhortation from others to help us grow A More Desirable Christian Culture

6. 12 See to it, brothers and sisters, that none of you has an evil, unbelieving heart that forsakes the living God. 13 But exhort one another each day, as long as it is called “Today,” that none of you may become hardened by sin’s deception. Hebrews 3:12-13 (NET Bible)

7. A More Desirable Christian Culture Apostasy: Falling or turning away from one’s faith. The term originally designated political defection or rebellion, but later came to be used of those departing from obedience to Christ. -Zondervan Dictionary

8. A More Desirable Christian Culture “They had the responsibility for monitoring their own thoughts and beliefs as well as regularly (daily) encouraging one another.” -Quicknotes Commentary

9. A More Desirable Christian Culture “In a fellowship which exercised a watchful and unremitting care for its members the temptation to prefer the easy course to the right one would be greatly weakened, and the united resolution to stand firm would be correspondingly strengthened.” -F.F. Bruce

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11. We need daily exhortation from others to help us grow A More Desirable Christian Culture

12. We need daily exhortation from others to help us grow A good start does not excuse a poor finish A More Desirable Christian Culture

13. 14 For we have become partners with Christ, if in fact we hold our initial confidence firm until the end. 15 As it says, “Oh, that today you would listen as he speaks! Do not harden your hearts as in the rebellion.” 16 For which ones heard and rebelled? Was it not all who came out of Egypt under Moses’ leadership? Hebrews 3:14-19 (NET Bible)

14. 17 And against whom was God provoked for forty years? Was it not those who sinned, whose dead bodies fell in the wilderness? 18 And to whom did he swear they would never enter into his rest, except those who were disobedient? 19 So we see that they could not enter because of unbelief. Hebrews 3:14-19 (NET Bible)

15. A More Desirable Faithfulness Slavery in Egypt First Exodus Wilderness Promised Land

16. A More Desirable Faithfulness Slavery in Egypt First Exodus Wilderness Promised Land N EW E XODUS P ROMISED L AND S LAVERY TO S IN W ILDERNESS

17. 15 “If your brother sins, go and show him his fault when the two of you are alone. If he listens to you, you have regained your brother. 16 But if he does not listen, take one or two others with you, so that at the testimony of two or three witnesses every matter may be established. 17 If he refuses to listen to them, tell it to the church. If he refuses to listen to the church, treat him like a Gentile or a tax collector.” Matthew 18:15-17 (NET Bible)

18. 1 “Do not judge so that you will not be judged. 2 For by the standard you judge you will be judged, and the measure you use will be the measure you receive. 3 Why do you see the speck in your brother’s eye, but fail to see the beam of wood in your own? 4 Or how can you say to your brother, ‘Let me remove the speck from your eye,’ while there is a beam in your own? Matthew 7:1-5 (NET Bible)

19. 5 You hypocrite! First remove the beam from your own eye, and then you can see clearly to remove the speck from your brother’s eye.” Matthew 7:1-5 (NET Bible)

20. 24 “Do not judge according to external appearance, but judge with proper judgment.” John 7:24 (NET Bible)

21. We need daily exhortation from others to help us grow A good start does not excuse a poor finish A More Desirable Christian Culture

22. Burdened Unteachable Stable A More Desirable Christian Culture

23. Comfort the Burdened Unteachable Stable A More Desirable Christian Culture

24. Comfort the Burdened Confront the Unteachable Stable A More Desirable Christian Culture

25. Comfort the Burdened Confront the Unteachable Challenge the Stable A More Desirable Christian Culture

26. We need daily exhortation from others to help us grow A good start does not excuse a poor finish A More Desirable Christian Culture