Message: The Letter to the Hebrews
Text: Hebrews 12:1-2
Weight Loss
The Sin:
“Sin is always a form of insanity.”
1 Corinthians 6:12
The Weight:
Weight of others
Philippians 3:7-14
Weight of things
Weight of yourself
2 Corinthians 12:9
No Greater Love
Message: The Letter to the Hebrews
Text: Hebrews 12:1-4
No Greater Love
What is Jesus’ joy?
John 15:9-13
Consider Him in comparison
George MacDonald, "Because you don't see what can be done, you say God can do nothing--which is like saying there cannot be more within His scope than there is within yours."
John 15:5 and Philippians 4:13
Aware But Focused
Message: The Letter to the Hebrews
Text: Hebrews 12:1-4
Your Journey…
Aware but focused
Instead of just aware of what is going on around us, we’re focusing on that.
The discipline of not allowing the unGodliness and unfaithfulness of others discourage us.
This race isn’t against each other. We each have our own course.
Instead of just aware of ourselves, we’re focusing on ourselves.
Ephesians 6:12
I’m very aware of what is going on around me and in me, so I stare at Jesus.
Your Journey: Someone is anxious to see you!
Message: The Letter to the Hebrews
Text: Hebrews 11:40 (Msg, NLT)
Your Journey…
Someone is anxious to see you!
People are waiting for you:
1 Corinthians 11:33
Henri Nouwen, "A man can keep his sanity and stay alive as long as there is at least one person who is waiting for him. The mind of man can indeed rule his body even when there is little health left. A dying mother can stay alive to see her son before she gives up and struggle, a soldier can prevent his mental and physical disintegration when he knows that his wife and children are waiting for him. But when nothing and nobody is waiting, there is no chance to survive in the struggle for life."
Revelation 21:3-5
Jesus is waiting for you:
Psalm 116:15
Romans 3:23, 6:23, 10:9-10, John 1:12
Your Journey: Success is Obedience
Message: The Letter to the Hebrews
Text: Hebrews 11:32-40
Your Journey…
Success is Obedience
Our view of success is often achieving desired results.
God’s view of success is obedience. His desired result is always eternal.
Our view and God’s view are often very different.
Luke 2:10-11
The gospel is an announcement, a proclamation…not a debate topic.
Acts 9:15-16
Your Journey: Crazy Faith
Message: The Letter to the Hebrews
Text: Hebrews 11:30-31
Your Journey…
Crazy Faith
Crazy faith of the Israelites:
“Not one word!”
Crazy faith of Rahab and all her family:
Choosing to leave the unbelieving for the believing.
Your Journey: Two Friends
Message: The Letter to the Hebrews
Text: Hebrews 11:23-29
Your Journey…
Two Friends
An amazing this is that God loves you, a real amazing this is that God likes you. God does not need you, but He wants you.
(Exodus 32:7, 11, 33:13)
Exodus 33:11
*Leaving, forsaking, choosing, turning your back…
*Time
God is always the initiator
Philippians 2:13
Philippians 3:10
Your Journey… Links in a Chain
Message: The Letter to the Hebrews
Text: Hebrews 11:20-22
Your Journey… Links in a Chain
The link before us: There is something wrong with all of us, we are all dysfunctional. But we won’t let that stop us.
Matthew 6:33
It’s the kingdom that’s important, not just my small part of the kingdom.
The link after us:
“Yes you can!” Amazing how much we complain about the people we are called to minister to.
Philippians 4:13
Your Journey: There Was Jesus
Message: The Letter to the Hebrews
Text: Hebrews 11:17-19
Your Journey…
There was Jesus
See God the Father in Abraham
See Jesus the Son in Isaac
The Great Reversal: now see yourself in Isaac and see Jesus in the ram.
Jesus not only sees what you are going through, He enters it with you. You are never alone.
Your Journey… Noah: more afraid not to
Message: The Letter to the Hebrews (Father’s Day)
Text: Hebrews 11:7
Your Journey…
Noah: more afraid not to
John Maxwell, “Mistakes mark the road to success. He who makes no mistakes makes no progress. Make sure you generate a reasonable number of mistakes.”
1 John 2:20 (KJV)
You don’t really believe until you act. Go out and make some good mistakes.
How did Noah condemn the world?
11:7 The Message
God saw him
His family saw him
The world saw him
Communion: Wait For Each Other
Message: Communion-wait for each other
Text: 1 Corinthians 11:33, Revelation 12:12, 17, 2 Timothy 3:13, Matthew 24:12
Passover is a family meal. Jesus’ disciples have become a family, the family of God.
“Lawlessness”—rampant sin, wickedness, iniquity, overwhelming spread of evil.
Evil and hatred lead to indifference. Evil around you can lead to indifference in you.
Your Journey: Believing what God has said
Message: The Letter to the Hebrews
Text: Hebrews 11:11-12
Your Journey…
Believing what God has said
Genesis 18:9-15
If God can create the heavens and the stars, and has the numbered the hairs on your head…He can take care of you.
Matthew 6:24-34
Matthew 10:29-31
Matthew 11:28-30
1 Peter 5:6-7
Your Journey: Seeing Afar Off
Message: The Letter to the Hebrews
Text: Hebrews 11:8-16
Your Journey…
Seeing afar off
Tests of faith:
*Leaving when you’re not told where to go
*Hard to leave, you feel like you’re losing what you have gained.
*Abraham was a foreigner, stranger, pilgrim, no permanent home. Never felt at home.
*No matter what, Abraham kept looking toward his heavenly home.
“Seeing afar off”
Your Journey... Noah: More Afraid Not To
Message: The Letter to the Hebrews
Text: Hebrews 11:7
Your Journey…
Noah: more afraid not to
John Maxwell, "Mistakes mark the road to success. He who makes no mistakes makes no progress. Make sure you generate a reasonable number of mistakes."
1 John 2:20 (KJV)
You don’t really believe until you act. Go out and make some good mistakes.
Your Journey: The Great Reversal
Message: The Letter to the Hebrews
Text: Hebrews 11:5-6
Your Journey…
The Great Reversal
Please—to gratify entirely
You exist because God does. If God is not random, neither are you.
Colossians 1:16
1 John 4:19
The way to make any relationship better is to change yourself.
Your Journey: Mother's Day
Message: The Letter to the Hebrews
Text: Hebrews 11:4
Your Journey…
Mother’s Day
Levels of caring…
Levels of love…
John 15:13
Judas, Peter, other apostles, John, Mary
Loving someone more than yourself.
Douglas John Hall, "God's problem is not that God is not able to do certain things. God's problem is that God loves. Love complicates the life of God as it complicates every life."
Your Journey: By Faith We Understand
Message: The Letter to the Hebrews
Text: Hebrews 11:3
Your Journey…
By faith we understand…
Romans 1:19-20
Genesis 1:1,3
John 1:1-4
There is the Creator or the created. You can be one but you can’t be both.
You only need faith, when you need faith.
Are you overthinking it?
Leave the results with God.
Your Journey
Message: The Letter to the Hebrews
Text: Hebrews 11:1-2 (40)
Your Journey…
Part of faith is hope: Romans 5:4
Biblical hope is based on what God has done, what you have seen Him do.
Part of faith is what you have not seen God do yet
What is your purpose? Why did God make you?
What is your goal? Where are you going?
The journey to do what Jesus made you for and where He wants you to be requires faith, because faith is a journey.
40 years wandering around:
Life without faith—just killing time, filling time, no point.
Life of faith—Direction, a goal, doing things that really matter.
Not in the Tomb
Message: Not in the Tomb
Text: John 20:3-9
1 Thessalonians 4:13-18
Romans 10:9
John 1:12
In the Garden
Message: In the Garden
Text: Matthew 26:33-46
Look up. Now look over.
Look up:
You feel like no one understands…because they don’t.
1 Samuel 30:6
Look over:
Mark 15:31
2 Corinthians 12:9