"NEEDLESS WORRY"

Rev. MF Blume
August 2, 1998 am


 

The Book of Hebrews begins by telling us that when God sent word to the world concerning the great plan of salvation, that was eternally planned for mankind, He chose to relay that message not by prophets or even mighty angels, but by HIS OWN SON. Put together the two stresses in this book and see that paying earnest heed to the word and having confidence go hand in hand.

What Hebrews is trying to tell us is that if we can pay special attention, earnest heed, to the words Jesus gave to us, we will make it to Heaven, and any trial we may go through down below.

Hebrews 2 also brings in the idea that salvation was first spoken by Jesus, Himself, and then confirmed to us all by the very ones who personally heard Him teach.

God always did that when He spoke a new word to the world.

THE POINT

Then we read of statements like...
 

Realize the point this is making.

The unbelief that characterized Israel when they came to Canaan under Moses' time, is never experienced by the ones who KNOW THAT THEY ARE IN HIS WILL. And Hebrews is comparing that situation to ours today.

ALL of Israel was READY to go into Canaan.

This is amazing! People have not changed when it comes to God. NO. Had you heard the truth carefully enough, you would be filled with confidence! Satan gives us feelings also. Hebrews says the entire reason we hesitate is because we DID NOT GET WHAT THE NEW TESTAMENT SAID!
 

Hebrews said that we need to LISTEN CLOSELY to the Word, because it will make anybody come to a place of FULL ASSURANCE, CONFIDENCE and BOLDNESS... (look at the words used in this book! to describe the way any of us SHOULD feel about our christianity!)  that we finally quit fooling around with worry and usefully spend our time PROGRESSING because we are not HINDERED if we KNOW THE REAL SITUATION!!

When we DO make mistakes and sin, we still get it all wrong!

We do not read of this offer as if God said that ONLY TWO TIMES that we sin, no matter how much we simply made mistakes, and did not mean to do them, can we be given forgiveness -- beyond that is too much for God to forgive.

"Gospel" means GOOD NEWS.

Where has this distorted Gospel come from?

You say, "Look at Sister Stick-in-the-mud. I do not see much joy there." Notice how we will get this confidence: Hebrews 4 told us there is a sword that stands in the way to the Rest. We read at the start about the quality human high priests have to intercede to God for people. AND HE IS TRYING TO HELP US UNDERSTAND WE CAN HAVE CONFIDENCE. We need to get used to finding out the reality of our situations as christians by reading about it in the Bible.
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