Well friends, it was an interesting and fun day of teaching yesterday. I went "off script" and on a few tangents throughout the hour of teaching. If you just want the audio/podcast, go ahead and click here for a listen: Hebrews 4 PODCAST
If you're interested in filling out your red note folders OR just following along in detail, below are my detailed notes. This is WHAT I REALLY MEANT TO SAY...
Jesus is the WORD OF POWER
He’s
better than Moses!
KEY
VERSES: 3:3 For Jesus has
been counted worthy of more glory than Moses—as much more glory as the builder
of a house has more honor than the house itself. 4 (For every house is built by someone, but the builder of
all things is God.) 5 Now
Moses was faithful in all God's house as a servant, to testify to the things
that were to be spoken later, 6 but
Christ is faithful over God's house as a son. And we are his house if indeed we
hold fast our confidence and our boasting in our hope.
Notes
·
Read 3:1-19
·
Christ is greater in His person than Moses.
·
Christ is greater in His ministry than Moses.
·
Christ is great in His rest than Moses.
·
Mirror 3:1-2
o We
participate in Jesus’ heavenly identity.
o We
co-echo the logic of God’s eternal conversation with Jesus.
o Jesus
is what God believes about us.
·
Unbelief, believing a lie about yourself and
your salvation, exchanges the living God for a dead god of your own
imagination. A calloused heart is a mind dominated by the senses. (3:12)
·
Other Thoughts
o God’s
house is a community of people.
o The
gospel is a matter of celebration, knowing that it has nothing to do with our
achievements, and everything to do with God’s love and grace.
o The
main dilemma in this section of Hebrews is the question of whether or not we
will continue to follow and trust Jesus, or continue to drift and let our faith
become just a distant memory.
o We
need to do a spiritual rest stop and reevaluation (driving tired).
§ Keep
a tight grip on our confidence.
§ Or
we may become hard and bitter.
§ The
children of Abraham had seen God in Egypt!
§ The
writer is insistent that this isn’t for the person next to you. It’s for you!
Yes YOU!
§ Once
you stop focusing on the gospel of grace, you will go round and round in the
wilderness and never get anywhere.
§ Not
only are you a danger to yourself (driving tired), but to all those around you.
Parallel
Passages:
·
Psalm 95 KEY!
(Mirror 215) You can experience God’s
supernatural provision and protection and yet remain outside his rest. The
ultimate proof of faith is not experience of the supernatural, but entering
into his rest. His rest celebrates his perfect work; it finds its definition
and reference in Genesis 1:31, 1Kings 6:7, and Colossians 2:9-10. He longs for
you to discover your own completeness and perfection as seen from his point of
view. His rest is sustained in you by what he sees, knows, and says about you
in reference to the finished work of Christ. Jesus is what God believes about
you.
Jesus is the WORD OF POWER
He’s
better than Joshua!
KEY
VERSES: 4:8 For if Joshua had given them rest, God would not have
spoken of another day later on. 9 So
then, there remains a Sabbath rest for the people of God, 10 for whoever has entered God's rest
has also rested from his works as God did from his.
Notes
·
Read 4:1-13
·
(idea of
4:4) God saw more than his perfect image in Adam, he also saw the Lamb and his
perfect work of redemption (Revelation 13:8).
·
Stedman 58-59
o Ephesians
2:8-9
o Shadow
of Rest (1)promised land and (2)the weekly Sabbath
o Points
to God’s enjoyment of cessation from labor that He now invites us to share in.
o Dependence
on God to be at work through us.
§ Philippians
2:13
§ Philippians
4:13
§ Galatians
2:20
o We
cease from our own works and look to His working within us to achieve the
results that please God.
o Learning
to function from a position of rest is the way to avoid burnout in all
endeavors.
o We
co-labor with Jesus!
·
Be Confident (WW)
o God
finished His work and rested, so that His rest has been available since
Creation
o The
Jews failed to enter their rest
o Many
years later (Psalm 95), God said that rest was still available.
o Joshua
couldn’t take them there because their still remains a rest.
·
Other thoughts
o Rest
is a gift.
o It’s
hard to believe that the gospel really is the way through to God’s new world.
We face the challenge to trust God rather than the way we feel or the things we
see
·
Word of Power
o Has
the ability to get right to heart of things, or the heart of people.
o We
become aware not only of new truth from the outside in, but things on the
inside (hidden) are laid bare.
o God’s
word here is the OT and the truth about Jesus.
o We
have a choice in surgery to let the surgeon do his work or wait for the
autopsy.
o We
need to allow the message of Scripture (Jesus and His work) enter our
conscience and soak down into our imagination & heart.
Many
of us are “out of Egypt,” but have yet to “enter Canaan”…
|
PAST
|
PRESENT
|
FUTURE
|
|
God’s
Sabbath rest
|
Salvation
rest
|
Heaven
|
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Israel’s
Canaan rest
|
Submission
rest
|
Victory
in Christ
|
Parallel
Passages:
·
Psalm 95
(Mirror 217) The moment we cease from
our own efforts to justify ourselves, by yielding to the integrity of the
message that announces the success of the Cross, God’s word is triggered into
action. What God spoke to us in Sonship (the incarnation), radiates his image
and likeness in our redeemed innocence. This word powerfully penetrates and
impacts our whole being: body, soul and spirit.
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