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Main Idea of Hebrews
By persevering faith, we can have
partnership with God’s King/Priest Son!
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As the book begins to end, it becomes
clear that this is a book written to
believers about eternal reward.
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12 Dos and Don’ts of Responding
• Don’t answer medical questions.
“What’s wrong with you?” or “Have you
lost your mind?”
• NEVER answer rhetorical questions.
“What, do you think I’m stupid?”
• Don’t interfere with Divine interaction
“What did I do to deserve this?”
• Avoid hypothetical traps
“If your friends jumped off a bridge,
would you do it?”
12 Dos and Don’ts of Responding
• Don’t correct poor English.
“I’ll sorry you!”
• Never correct hyperboles.
“I’ve told you a million times”
• Ignore poor logic
“Don’t you look at me with those eyes”
“Quiet, I can’t hear myself think”
• Don’t challenge prophecies
“Keep doing that and your face will freeze
that way” “You’ll poke your eye out”
“Someday you’ll thank me”
12 Dos and Don’ts of Responding
• Realize when memory is going.
“Were you born in a barn?”
• Don’t engage in metaphysical issues.
“Wipe that smile off your face”
• Don’t argue musical tastes
“Don’t use that tone with me, mister!”
• NEVER challenge threats
“If you don’t stop crying, I’ll give you
something to cry about”
Hebrews 12:1-2
Therefore we also, since we are surrounded by so
great a cloud of witnesses, let us lay aside every
weight, and the sin which so easily
ensnares us, and let us run with endurance the
race that is set before us, looking unto Jesus, the
author and finisher of our faith, who for the joy
that was set before Him endured the cross,
despising the shame, and has sat down at the right
hand of the throne of God.
Hebrews 12:3-4
For consider Him who endured such hostility from
sinners against Himself, lest you become weary
and discouraged in your souls. You have not yet
resisted to bloodshed, striving against sin.
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Keeping our focus on Christ and what He
accomplished helps contextualize our own
problems.
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Difficulties can wear us out and
discourage us.
A focus on Christ can counter that.
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One of the most common tendencies is to
exaggerate our problems.
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Hebrews 12:5-6
And you have forgotten the exhortation which
speaks to you as to sons:
“My son, do not despise the chastening of
the LORD,
Nor be discouraged when you are rebuked by
Him;
For whom the LORD loves He chastens,
And scourges every son whom He receives.”
Hebrews 12:7-8
(It is for discipline that you endure.) God deals with
you as with sons; for what son is there whom a
father does not chasten? But if you are without
chastening, of which all have become partakers,
then you are illegitimate and not sons.
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If we’re going to be partners, we need to
be trained.
“Illegitimate” = a child with no legal
standing and not in line to inherit.
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When our child-training comes, it comes
from a Father who loves us and is getting
us ready for eternity.
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Part of that involves character, part of it
involves a “letting go”, and part we won’t
know until the Day dawns.
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If we walk away from the child-training,
like the Prodigal Son, we lose both the
training and the reward.
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Difficulties will still come.
They will either enslave and destroy or
they will build and prepare.
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James 1:2-4
My brethren, count it all joy when you fall into
various trials, knowing that the testing of your
faith produces patience. But let patience
have its perfect work, that you may be perfect and
complete, lacking nothing. If any of you lacks
wisdom, let him ask of God, who gives to all
liberally and without reproach, and it will be given
to him.
James 1:6-8
But let him ask in faith, with no doubting, for he
who doubts is like a wave of the sea driven and
tossed by the wind. For let not that man suppose
that he will receive anything from the Lord; he is a
double-minded man, unstable in all his ways.
James 1:9-12
Let the lowly brother glory in his exaltation, but
the rich in his humiliation, because as a flower of
the field he will pass away. For no sooner has the
sun risen with a burning heat than it withers the
grass; its flower falls, and its beautiful appearance
perishes. So the rich man also will fade away in
his pursuits.
Blessed is the man who endures temptation; for
when he has been approved, he will receive the
crown of life which the Lord has promised to those
who love Him.
Responding well to trials – James 1
By welcoming them
Respond well
By not blaming God
James 1 – By welcoming them
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God has a purpose to develop us
Endurance produces results
God will grant wisdom
We are the objects of His attention
God will reward
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James 1:13-15
Let no one say when he is tempted, “I am tempted
by God”; for God cannot be tempted by evil, nor
does He Himself tempt anyone. But each one is
tempted when he is drawn away by his own
desires and enticed. Then, when desire has
conceived, it gives birth to sin; and sin, when it is
full-grown, brings forth death.
James 1:16-18
Do not be deceived, my beloved brethren. Every
good gift and every perfect gift is from above, and
comes down from the Father of lights, with whom
there is no variation or shadow of turning. Of His
own will He brought us forth by the word of truth,
that we might be a kind of firstfruits of His
creatures.
James 1 – By not blaming God
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God never provokes us to sin
Our lusts/desires provoke us to sin
Lust leads to sin
Sin leads to the experience of death
God brings life
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Hebrews 12:11
Now no chastening seems to be joyful for the
present, but painful; nevertheless, afterward it
yields the peaceable fruit of righteousness to those
who have been trained by it.
Hebrews 12:9-10
Furthermore, we have had human fathers who
corrected us, and we paid them respect. Shall we
not much more readily be in subjection to the
Father of spirits and live? For they indeed for a few
days chastened us as seemed best to them, but He
for our profit, that we may be partakers of His
holiness.
Father knows best!
Unlike human fathers, our Father always
knows what’s best.
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The result is that we share in our lives
what He has made us in position.
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When faced with difficulty, our response
determines the outcome.
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Responding well to trials – James 1
Respond well
Maturity and reward
OR, if not…
Enslavement and loss
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The difficulties do not end when we react
badly.
But, they will impact…one way or another!
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What’s it going to be?
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Or Loss?
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Matthew 11:28-30
Come to Me, all you who labor and are heavy
laden, and I will give you rest. Take My yoke upon
you and learn from Me, for I am gentle and lowly
in heart, and you will find rest for your souls. For
My yoke is easy and My burden is light.”
Luke 10:38-40
Now it happened as they went that He entered a
certain village; and a certain woman named
Martha welcomed Him into her house. And she
had a sister called Mary, who also sat at
Jesus’ feet and heard His word. But Martha was
distracted with much serving, and she approached
Him and said, “Lord, do You not care that my sister
has left me to serve alone? Therefore tell her to
help me.”
Luke 10:41-42
And Jesus answered and said to her, “Martha,
Martha, you are worried and troubled about
many things. But one thing is needed, and Mary
has chosen that good part, which will not be taken
away from her.”
Luke 14:25-27
Now great multitudes went with Him. And He
turned and said to them, “If anyone comes to Me
and does not hate his father and mother, wife and
children, brothers and sisters, yes, and his own life
also, he cannot be My disciple. And whoever does
not bear his cross and come after Me cannot be
My disciple.
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Faith is essential to be successful and
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Hebrews 12:11
Now no chastening seems to be joyful for the
present, but painful; nevertheless, afterward it
yields the peaceable fruit of righteousness to those
who have been trained by it.
Discipline: Are we willing to learn?