1. Discipline: Are we willing to learn?

2. How are you going to run? When faced with difficulty, our response determines the outcome. Training

3. How are you going to run? Difficulties will still come. They will either enslave and destroy or they will build and prepare. Training

4. Choices: – Heb. 12:16-17 There is no effective repentance in eternity!

5. Choices: – Heb. 12:16-17 Since a bad response can have eternal consequences, get perspective and help others do the same.

6. Choices: – Heb. 12:16-17 As a believer, you will learn your lesson. The question is: Will you learn it in time?

7. The Dream of Humanity An extraordinary offer from the King demands a definitive response from us.

8. Main Idea of Hebrews By persevering faith, we can have partnership with God’s King/Priest Son !

9. Outline – Hebrews 12 1.The Awe and Fear of the Old Covenant 18-21 2.The Spender and Grace of the New Covenant 22-24 3.The Caution to Listen 25-29

10. Hebrews 12:18-21 For you have not come to the mountain that may be touched and that burned with fire, and to blackness and darkness and tempest, and the sound of a trumpet and the voice of words, so that those who heard it begged that the word should not be spoken to them anymore. (For they could not endure what was commanded: “And if so much as a beast touches the mountain, it shall be stoned or shot with an arrow.” And so terrifying was the sight that Moses said, “I am exceedingly afraid and trembling.”

11. Exodus 19:7-9 So Moses came and called for the elders of the people, and laid before them all these words which the L ORD commanded him. Then all the people answered together and said, “All that the L ORD has spoken we will do.” So Moses brought back the words of the people to the L ORD. And the L ORD said to Moses, “Behold, I come to you in the thick cloud, that the people may hear when I speak with you, and believe you forever.” So Moses told the words of the people to the L ORD.

12. Exodus 19:10-13 Then the L ORD said to Moses, “Go to the people and consecrate them today and tomorrow, and let them wash their clothes. And let them be ready for the third day. For on the third day the L ORD will come down upon Mount Sinai in the sight of all the people. You shall set bounds for the people all around, saying, ‘Take heed to yourselves that you do not go up to the mountain or touch its base. Whoever touches the mountain shall surely be put to death. Not a hand shall touch him, but he shall surely be stoned or shot with an arrow; whether man or beast, he shall not live.’ When the trumpet sounds long, they shall come near the mountain.”

13. Exodus 19:14-17 So Moses went down from the mountain to the people and sanctified the people, and they washed their clothes. And he said to the people, “Be ready for the third day; do not come near your wives.” Then it came to pass on the third day, in the morning, that there were thunderings and lightnings, and a thick cloud on the mountain; and the sound of the trumpet was very loud, so that all the people who were in the camp trembled. And Moses brought the people out of the camp to meet with God, and they stood at the foot of the mountain.

14. Exodus 19:18-20 Now Mount Sinai was completely in smoke, because the L ORD descended upon it in fire. Its smoke ascended like the smoke of a furnace, and the whole mountain quaked greatly. And when the blast of the trumpet sounded long and became louder and louder, Moses spoke, and God answered him by voice. Then the L ORD came down upon Mount Sinai, on the top of the mountain. And the L ORD called Moses to the top of the mountain, and Moses went up.

15. Exodus 19:21-23 And the L ORD said to Moses, “Go down and warn the people, lest they break through to gaze at the L ORD, and many of them perish. Also let the priests who come near the L ORD consecrate themselves, lest the L ORD break out against them.”

16. Deut. 9:19 For I was afraid of the anger and hot displeasure with which the L ORD was angry with you, to destroy you. But the L ORD listened to me at that time also.

17. Outline – Hebrews 12 1.The Awe and Fear of the Old Covenant 18-21 2.The Spender and Grace of the New Covenant 22-24 3.The Caution to Listen 25-29

18. Hebrews 12:22-24 But you have come to Mount Zion and to the city of the living God, the heavenly Jerusalem, to an innumerable company of angels, to the general assembly and church of the firstborn who are registered in heaven, to God the Judge of all, to the spirits of just men made perfect, to Jesus the Mediator of the new covenant, and to the blood of sprinkling that speaks better things than that of Abel.

19. Hebrews 12:22-23 – N.C. Realities A heavenly origin The home of the living God The heavenly Capital Heavenly partners The angels Fellow members of the Church

20. Hebrews 12:22-23 – N.C. Realities A heavenly Judge Heavenly residents made perfect A heavenly Mediator Who offers a better Covenant Who offered better blood which doesn’t cry for judgment but gives assurance We have come to a place of welcome, a place of grace, our home!

21. Outline – Hebrews 12 1.The Awe and Fear of the Old Covenant 18-21 2.The Spender and Grace of the New Covenant 22-24 3.The Caution to Listen 25-29

22. Hebrews 12:25-27 See that you do not refuse Him who speaks. For if they did not escape who refused Him who spoke on earth, much more shall we not escape if we turn away from Him who speaks from heaven, whose voice then shook the earth; but now He has promised, saying, “Yet once more I shake not only the earth, but also heaven.” Now this, “Yet once more,” indicates the removal of those things that are being shaken, as of things that are made, that the things which cannot be shaken may remain.

23. Hebrews 12:28-29 Walking away from a greater offer is a more serious crime.

24. Hebrews 12:28-29 A change is gonna come. Are you ready for it?

25. Hebrews 2:1-4 Therefore we must give the more earnest heed to the things we have heard, lest we drift away. For if the word spoken through angels proved steadfast, and every transgression and disobedience received a just reward, how shall we escape if we neglect so great a salvation, which at the first began to be spoken by the Lord, and was confirmed to us by those who heard Him, God also bearing witness both with signs and wonders, with various miracles, and gifts of the Holy Spirit, according to His own will?

26. Hebrews 12:28-29 Therefore, since we are receiving a kingdom which cannot be shaken, let us have grace, by which we may serve God acceptably with reverence and godly fear. For our God is a consuming fire.

27. Hebrews 12:28-29 The eternal permanence of the Kingdom makes the offer that much more serious and breathtaking.

28. Hebrews 12:28-29 The only way we can successfully remain faithful is by the grace of God.

29. Hebrews 12:28-29 Grace is not an option. It is a necessity.

30. 2 Cor. 12:9 And He said to me, “My grace is sufficient for you, for My strength is made perfect in weakness.” Therefore most gladly I will rather boast in my infirmities, that the power of Christ may rest upon me.

31. Galatians 2:20-21 I have been crucified with Christ; it is no longer I who live, but Christ lives in me; and the life which I now live in the flesh I live by faith in the Son of God, who loved me and gave Himself for me. I do not set aside the grace of God; for if righteousness comes through the law, then Christ died in vain.”

32. Galatians 3:1-3 O foolish Galatians! Who has bewitched you that you should not obey the truth, before whose eyes Jesus Christ was clearly portrayed among you as crucified? This only I want to learn from you: Did you receive the Spirit by the works of the law, or by the hearing of faith? Are you so foolish? Having begun in the Spirit, are you now being made perfect by the flesh?

33. Hebrews 4:14-16 For we do not have a High Priest who cannot sympathize with our weaknesses, but was in all points tempted as we are, yet without sin. Let us therefore come boldly to the throne of grace, that we may obtain mercy and find grace to help in time of need.

34. Hebrews 12:28-29 A healthy fear of God is a appropriate and motivating. 2 Cor. 5:10-14; 1 Pet. 2:17 Vs. 1 John 4:18

35. The Dream of Humanity An extraordinary offer from the King demands a definitive response from us.

36. Main Idea of Hebrews By persevering faith, we can have partnership with God’s King/Priest Son !