| FAITHFULNESS OF CHRIST |
February 2, 2021
- Starting point: 1 Tim. 2:1-6
- Praying from: HEBREWS 3
THE PREEMINENT GLORY OF CHRIST
“Wherefore, holy brethren, partakers of the heavenly calling, consider the Apostle and High Priest of our profession, Christ Jesus;
2 Who was faithful to him that appointed him, as also Moses was faithful in all his house.
Preeminence of Christ (Over Moses)
3 For this man was counted worthy of more glory than Moses, inasmuch as he who hath builded the house hath more honour than the house.
4 For every house is builded by some man; but he that built all things is God.
5 And Moses verily was faithful in all his house, as a servant, for a testimony of those things which were to be spoken after;
6 But Christ as a son over his own house; whose house are we, if we hold fast the confidence and the rejoicing of the hope firm unto the end.
ACCEPTED TIME
7 Wherefore (as the Holy Ghost saith, To day if ye will hear his voice,
THE UNBELIEF OF ISRAEL
8 Harden not your hearts, as in the provocation, in the day of temptation in the wilderness:
9 When your fathers tempted me, proved me, and saw my works forty years.
10 Wherefore I was grieved with that generation, and said, They do alway err in their heart; and they have not known my ways.
11 So I sware in my wrath, They shall not enter into my rest.)
12 Take heed, brethren, lest there be in any of you an evil heart of unbelief, in departing from the living God.
13 But exhort one another daily, while it is called To day; lest any of you be hardened through the deceitfulness of sin.
14 For we are made partakers of Christ, if we hold the beginning of our confidence stedfast unto the end;
15 While it is said, To day if ye will hear his voice, harden not your hearts, as in the provocation.
THE UNBELIEF EXLUDES FROM CANAAN
16 For some, when they had heard, did provoke: howbeit not all that came out of Egypt by Moses.
17 But with whom was he grieved forty years? was it not with them that had sinned, whose carcases fell in the wilderness?
18 And to whom sware he that they should not enter into his rest, but to them that believed not?
19 So we see that they could not enter in because of unbelief.”
- THE CHRIST—vv. 1–6
THE PREEMINENT GLORY OF CHRIST
- Choice—vv. 1–2. Christ was faithful even as Moses was faithful.
- Compensation—v. 3. A person who builds a house receives more credit than the house itself!
Preeminence of Christ (Over Moses)
- Creator—v. 4. Christ the Creator.
- Comparison—v. 5. Moses was a type of the coming Christ. Moses’s life was much like Christ’s.
- Christ—v. 6. Christ is in complete charge of God’s house. Christians are God’s house. He lives within us.
- THE COMMANDS—vv. 7–11
ACCEPTED TIME
THE UNBELIEF OF ISRAEL
- Problem—vv. 7–8. Obey Christ. Do not make the same mistakes Israel made in the wilderness.
- Patience—v. 9. Though Israel complained in the wilderness, yet God was patient with them, performing many miracles for them.
- Plight—v. 10. They looked for a man—not to God.
- Punishment—v. 11. Because of their indifference, they were not permitted to enter the promised land.
III. THE CONTINUANCE—vv. 12–15
- Sin—v. 12. Note the words, “Departing from the living God.” Backsliding from God’s way.
- Slackness—v. 13, Do not harden your hearts.
- Steadfast—v. 14. The importance of faithfulness.
- Stubborn—v. 15. Harden not your hearts as Israel.
- THE CONDEMNATION—vv. 16–19
THE UNBELIEF EXLUDES FROM CANAAN
- Disobedience—v. 16. Israel provoked God by complaining.
- Destruction—v. 17. Those who complained and displeased God, died in the wilderness.
- Disbelief—v. 18. They did not trust God or Moses.
- Doubt—v. 19. They could not enter Canaan because of their unbelief.
- THE A-MEN OF ROMANS 16:20, 24, 27
16:20 “And the God of peace shall bruise Satan under your feet shortly. The grace of our Lord Jesus Christ be with you. A-men.”
16:24 “The grace of our Lord Jesus Christ be with you all. A-men.”
16:27 “To God only wise, be glory through Jesus Christ for ever. A-men.”
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