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INTRODUCTION

• Chapter three begins with "Therefore"
• • Importance of what has already been said.
  • All is an encouragement to faithfulness.
• THE SUPERIORITY OF:
• • Christ over former messengers - Angels and Prophets.
  • The Message of Christ, over all other messages.
  • The Message of Christ = "The Great Salvation".
• MESSAGE OF FIRST TWO CHAPTERS: "We must give the more earnest heed..." Must hear it........ Can't change it!.
• MESSAGE OF CHAPTERS THREE AND FOUR: We must live by it.

HOUSEHOLD OF CHRIST

• CHRIST IS:
• • The Apostle of our confession - or
  • The Messenger of our LIFE.
• GLORY OF BUILDER OF HOUSE - Household.
• • Not considering material house.
  • But household or Family.
• MOSES WAS A PART OF THE HOUSEHOLD - family not the builder.
• CHRIST IS THE BUILDER (v. 4).
• • We are the house or family of God.
  • Galatians 3:26,27; I Timothy 3:15.

E. "IF WE HOLD FAST" v. 6...."unto the end"

Rebellion Against Word

• THE REBELLION IN THE WILDERNESS. Vs. 7,8,9.
• • Not one specific case...
  • But again and again for 40 years.
• REBELLION AGAINST GOD and Specifically against the Word, Teaching, Commandment, MESSAGE OF GOD!
• • V. 15. When you hear his voice....
  • Evil, unbelieving heart v. 12.
• THE RESULTS:
• • Thy shall never enter my rest.
  • "My Rest" = Promise Land.
  • Their bodies fell in the wilderness. V. 17.
• GOD OFFERS US A "REST" TODAY. v. 12.
• • 4:1 "His rest remains"

2. Same thing that kept them out will KEEP US OUT TODAY! (V. 18,19)

THE WORD OF GOD

• LIVING, ACTIVE, SHARPER than any two-edged sword. (4:12).
• • It is NO dead letter.
  • It is LIVING.
• DIVIDING:
• • Soul, spirit, joint and morrow.
  • Not of literal body...but he heaps words upon word to show that the Divine word cuts through everything that is man.
  • Mere man cannot stand against it!.
• BUT DOES MAN REALLY THINK HE CAN STAND AGAINST AND OVERCOME GOD'S WORD?
• • Israel - when told they could not go into promised land...
  • • Tried to go anyway.
    • Utterly failed.
  • Disobedience is always to (Against) the Word!.
  • • Cannot disobey without being found out.
    • Cannot escape the Word of God.
  • The Word Is Sharper.....
  • • If we rebel,.....If we disobey.
    • God means exactly what He say... "You shall never enter my Rest"
    • Physical body cannot overcome sharp sword....
    • Mortal man cannot overcome God's Word.

GOD'S WORD IS POWER..

• TO SAVE:
• • We often emphasis the power of the Word of God in judgment against man.
  • • Maybe too much.
    • In so doing we often overlook the power of God's Word to save.
  • James 1:21: "Word"... "which is able to save your soul"
  • • Mark 16:15,15; "shall be saved."
    • Acts 11:14; shall speak unto thee words, whereby thou shall be saved."
    • Romans 1:16; Gospel....Power of God to Save.
• JUST AS MAN CANNOT REVERSE GOD'S WORD'S OF JUDGMENT...HE CANNOT DENY GOD'S WORDS OF SALVATION!
• • Word....sharper, etc... same argument.
  • Man can deny it, etc. But he cannot change it or stop it..

• GOD STILL SAYS..... MARK 16:15-16.