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Feb 11, 2024

Hebrews: See and Know

Passage: Hebrews 10:19-29

Speaker: Chris Godley

Series: Hebrews: Fulfilled in Christ

Category: Grace Brevard

Keywords: community, isolation

Isolation is a serious problem today. As we turn to isolation to cope and protect ourselves from uncertainty, insecurity, fear, etc... we not only isolate from one another, but God, as well. We can often deceive ourselves in our own perceptions of our spiritual and emotional health. God invites us into relationship with himself and others through his church. His Spirit equips us with courage and bravery to step out of isolation and into full life found in Christ, as members of his body, participants in the image of God on earth.

Central Text - Hebrews 10:19-29

19 Therefore, brothers, since we have confidence to enter the holy places by the blood of Jesus, 20 by the new and living way that he opened for us through the curtain, that is, through his flesh, 21 and since we have a great priest over the house of God, 22 let us draw near with a true heart in full assurance of faith, with our hearts sprinkled clean from an evil conscience and our bodies washed with pure water. 23 Let us hold fast the confession of our hope without wavering, for he who promised is faithful. 24 And let us consider how to stir up one another to love and good works, 25 not neglecting to meet together, as is the habit of some, but encouraging one another, and all the more as you see the Day drawing near.

26 For if we go on sinning deliberately after receiving the knowledge of the truth, there no longer remains a sacrifice for sins, 27 but a fearful expectation of judgment, and a fury of fire that will consume the adversaries. 28 Anyone who has set aside the law of Moses dies without mercy on the evidence of two or three witnesses. 29 How much worse punishment, do you think, will be deserved by the one who has trampled underfoot the Son of God, and has profaned the blood of the covenant by which he was sanctified, and has outraged the Spirit of grace?

 Sermon Discussion Questions

  • What are the “holy places” referred to in verse 19? What was meant by the assertion that we can “enter the holy places?”
  • How do you feel resistance when drawing near to God? What causes you to feel distant from him?
  • The call to draw near to God is plural: “let us...” What are the individual and communal characteristics in our “relationship with God?”
  • What does it look like for us, as the Church, to live out verses 22-23?