This Morning's Sermon

God’s Will – Your Confidence
Hebrews 10:19-39

As you turn in your Bibles this morning to the Book of Hebrews 10:19-39, I would like to take a moment to quickly go over the 4 verses preceding our text this morning. These verses are quoted from the Prophet Jeremiah. I would ask you to simply bow your heads and listen to the words of the Prophet this morning as we lead into prayer.

And the Holy Spirit also bears witness to us; for after saying,
“This is the covenant that I will make with them
after those days, declares the Lord:
I will put my laws on their hearts,
and write them on their minds,”
then he adds,
“I will remember their sins and their lawless deeds no more.”
Where there is forgiveness of these, there is no longer any offering for sin.


I will remember their sins no more. I will remember their lawless deeds no more. There is forgiveness of sin. There is forgiveness of lawlessness. There is no longer any sacrifice that you can make for forgiveness anymore. Jesus Christ became that sacrifice. Jesus took your sin upon him as he was crucifies upon the cross. It is something we call Substitutionary Atonement. Jesus Christ took your place. Do you believe that this morning? That Jesus took your place on the cross. He carried your sins. He is the source of forgiveness of sins. He made it final. Do you believe that today? Can you say this with me this morning? “Jesus took my place.” Jesus forgave me. Let’s pray.

Jesus taking our place on the cross is the source of all things for the Christian. And as we open our Bibles this morning to the passage here in Hebrews, we find that all important word, “therefore”. Since Jesus took your place, Since Jesus made the sacrifice; Since He was your offering on the cross, what is the Christian to do? He is to have confidence. We are going to look at the rest of the chapter verse by verse this morning. Because of the length of the last couple passages we’ve had to go from very broad to some very specific items with in them to understand those texts. Today, not so much. We’ve also spent the last two weeks looking at how the passages relate to particular people. Once again, we do will do that today. The passage breaks up into three distinct sections. We will take them one at a time. Let’s read starting at verse 19, of Chapter 10.

Important words and phrases in Verses 19-25
Marks of a Confident Believer
Confidence New and living way
Draw near Full Assurance
True heart Clean from evil conscience
Hold fast the confession of our hope
Consider how to stir up to love and good works
Do not neglect/abandon meeting together
Encourage one another

Important words and phrases in Verses 26-31
Marks of Fearful Believer
Deliberate Sin
No sacrifice for sin - Does this mean he lost salvation and can not regain it?
Fearful expectation of judgment
Fury of Fire Consumed Adversaries

FRIENDSHIP WITH THE WORLD IS ENMITY WITH GOD!!!!!

Spurned the Son of God Profane the blood of the covenant

If you claim to have Christ and continue in deliberate sin, it will be much worse for you than others! Why? Romans 1, you have no excuse AND you’ve heard!!!! And did not follow. (sins against and blasphemes the spirit) And you ought to be afraid. It is a fearful thing to be in the hands of the living God!
Can you quit sinning? Flip the switch. What do you do when you think you might get caught in sin? You suddenly quit, for a time.

Verses 32-39 Why should one group be confident and another fearful?
1. One group sins deliberately
2. One does the Will of God.

The Will of God is always encapsulated around lost people. In other words, our primary duty as Christians is to reach out to those who don’t know Jesus Christ as their Lord and Savior, and tell them about the grace and forgiveness of sins that is found in Him.
Do you know why you are a Christian? Because someone took the time to tell you about Jesus.