WHAT DOES OBEDIENCE MEAN TO YOU? DO YOU NATURALY RESIST BEING TOLD WHAT TO DO?

WE COULD MISS OUT HEBREWS 3 - 4

CALLED AND SANCTIFIED 3:1 OUR FUTURE IS CALLING US GOD HAS SET US APART FOR THAT FUTURE TO REACH IT WE NEED TO FUCUS ON JESUS WHOM WE CONFESS AS APOSTLE AND HIGH PRIEST APOSTLE – SENT TO REPRESENT GOD HIGH PRIEST – CHOSEN TO REPRESENT US

JESUS AND MOSES 3:2-6 BOTH APPOINTED BY GOD BOTH FAITHFUL TO THE TASK GIVEN THEM MOSES AS A SERVANT IN GODS FAMILY JESUS AS THE SON OVER THE FAMILY WE ARE HIS FAMILY IF WE HOLD FAST AND REFUSE TO QUIT HANG ON TO OUR CONFIDENCE AND HOPE

WATCH OUT! BEWARE! 3:7-13 ARE WE LISTENING TO GOD/CHRIST? ARE WE ABLE TO DO WHAT THEY SAY? BEWARE OF AN EVIL HEART OF UNBELIEF WHICH WILL CAUSE US TO WALK AWAY FROM THE LIVING GOD SIN DECEIVES SO EXHORT ONE ANOTHER DAILY WE ARE SHARERS OF CHRIST IF WE FOLLOW THROUGH TO THE END

REMEMBER ISRAEL 3:16-19 THEY ALL LEFT EGYPT BUT HOW MANY REACHED THE PROMISED LAND? THEY RESISTED GODS VOICE, PROVOKED HIM TO WRATH THEY WERE UNWILLING TO BE PESUADED AND REFUSED TO TRUST SO THEY MISSED OUT

WHAT CAN WE MISS OUT ON? 4:1-10 GODS REST SALVATION HAS BEEN PRESENTED AS: 1. LORDSHIP OVER THE COMING WORLD 2. FREEDOM FROM THE FEAR OF DEATH AND NOW 3. SHARING IN GODS REST REST = STOP DOING SOMETHING

REST EXODUS 20:8-11 SIX DAYS YOU SHALL DO YOUR OWN WORK, BUT REST THE SEVENTH GENESIS 2:2 GOD RESTED ON THE SEVENTH DAY FOR SIX DAYS GOD WORKED ALONE ON THE SEVENTH DAY HE CEASED WORKING ALONE THE ALTERNATIVE IS PARTNERSHIP

PARTNERSHIP WHEN WE TAKE OVER THE RULE OF THE WORLD WILL WE BE WORKING FOR GOD OR WITH HIM? WILL HE ABDICATE AND LEAVE IT TO US? REVELATION 3:21 WITH GOD WE WERE CREATED FOR PARTNERSHIP FROM THE BEGINNING GOD HAS BEEN CALLING PEOPLE INTO PARTNERSHIP THIS IS THE HEAVENLY CALLING

WORKING WITH AN ESSENTIAL ASPECT OF OUR TRAINING IS LEARNING TO WORK WITH GOD THIS REQUIRES OBEDIENCE HEARING UNDER

HARD WORK 4:11 REST MEANS REPLACING INDEPENDENCE WITH INTERDEPENDENCE ANY AND ALL INDEPENDENT ACTION I NOW CLASSIFY AS SIN I NEED TO WORK AT REST IF I FAIL AT THIS POINT, LIKE THE ISREALITES, I WILL MISS OUT THEY WERE UNWILLING TO BE PERSUADED

EXPOSED BY THE WORD 4:12-13 LET THE WORD OF GOD WORK IN OUR LIVES IT WILL DIG DEEP AND EXPOSE THE SOURCE OF OUR ACTIONS IT WILL DIVIDE/SEPARATE BETWEEN THAT WHICH IS OF SELF [SOUL] AND THAT WHICH IS OF THE HOLY SPIRIT [SPIRIT]

WILLING TO BE PERSUADED 4:14-16 WE NEED HELP EXPOSURE SHOWS US THAT WE ARE INCAPABLE OF PARTNERSHIP IF WE DID NOT KNOW THAT WE HAVE A HIGH PRIEST WHO EMPATHISES AND IS ALWAYS AVAILABLE WE WOULD GIVE UP IN DESPAIR DONT QUIT – PUT OUR CONFIDENCE IN JESUS