I. EXORDIUM:
Do you have a conquering faith?
II. AUDIENCE PROFILE:
Believers
III. OBJECTIVES:
To show that we need to have a conquering faith.
IV. TEXT:
Hebrews 3:19 (Amplified Bible)
3:19 So we see that they were not able to enter [into His rest], because of their unwillingness to adhere to and trust in and rely on God [unbelief had shut them out].
This event in the Bible:
Numbers 14:1-35 (Amplified Bible)
14:1 AND ALL the congregation cried out with a loud voice, and [they] wept that night.
14:2 All the Israelites grumbled and deplored their situation, accusing Moses and Aaron, to whom the whole congregation said, Would that we had died in Egypt! Or that we had died in this wilderness!
14:3 Why does the Lord bring us to this land to fall by the sword? Our wives and little ones will be a prey. Is it not better for us to return to Egypt?
14:4 And they said one to another, Let us choose a captain and return to Egypt.
14:5 Then Moses and Aaron fell on their faces before all the assembly of Israelites.
14:6 And Joshua son of Nun and Caleb son of Jephunneh, who were among the scouts who had searched the land, rent their clothes,
14:7 And they said to all the company of Israelites, The land through which we passed as scouts is an exceedingly good land.
14:8 If the Lord delights in us, then He will bring us into this land and give it to us, a land flowing with milk and honey.
14:9 Only do not rebel against the Lord, neither fear the people of the land, for they are bread for us. Their defense and the shadow [of protection] is removed from over them, but the Lord is with us. Fear them not.
14:10 But all the congregation said to stone [Joshua and Caleb] with stones. But the glory of the Lord appeared at the Tent of Meeting before all the Israelites.
14:11 And the Lord said to Moses, How long will this people provoke (spurn, despise) Me? And how long will it be before they believe Me [trusting in, relying on, clinging to Me], for all the signs which I have performed among them?
14:12 I will smite them with the pestilence and disinherit them, and will make of you [Moses] a nation greater and mightier than they.
14:13 But Moses said to the Lord, Then the Egyptians will hear of it, for You brought up this people in Your might from among them.
14:14 And they will tell it to the inhabitants of this land. They have heard that You, Lord, are in the midst of this people [of Israel], that You, Lord, are seen face to face, and that Your cloud stands over them, and that You go before them in a pillar of cloud by day and in a pillar of fire by night.
14:15 Now if You kill all this people as one man, then the nations that have heard Your fame will say,
14:16 Because the Lord was not able to bring this people into the land which He swore to give to them, therefore He has slain them in the wilderness.
14:17 And now, I pray You, let the power of my Lord be great, as You have promised, saying,
14:18 The Lord is long-suffering and slow to anger, and abundant in mercy and loving-kindness, forgiving iniquity and transgression; but He will by no means clear the guilty, visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the children, upon the third and fourth generation.
14:19 Pardon, I pray You, the iniquity of this people according to the greatness of Your mercy and loving-kindness, just as You have forgiven [them] from Egypt until now.
14:20 And the Lord said, I have pardoned according to your word.
14:21 But truly as I live and as all the earth shall be filled with the glory of the Lord,
14:22 Because all those men who have seen My glory and My [miraculous] signs which I performed in Egypt and in the wilderness, yet have tested and proved Me these ten times and have not heeded My voice,
14:23 Surely they shall not see the land which I swore to give to their fathers; nor shall any who provoked (spurned, despised) Me see it.
14:24 But My servant Caleb, because he has a different spirit and has followed Me fully, I will bring into the land into which he went, and his descendants shall possess it.
14:25 Now because the Amalekites and the Canaanites dwell in the valley, tomorrow turn and go into the wilderness by way of the Red Sea.
14:26 And the Lord said to Moses and Aaron,
14:27 How long will this evil congregation murmur against Me? I have heard the complaints the Israelites murmur against Me.
14:28 Tell them, As I live, says the Lord, what you have said in My hearing I will do to you:
14:29 Your dead bodies shall fall in this wilderness—of all who were numbered of you, from twenty years old and upward, who have murmured against Me,
14:30 Surely none shall come into the land in which I swore to make you dwell, except Caleb son of Jephunneh and Joshua son of Nun.
14:31 But your little ones whom you said would be a prey, them will I bring in and they shall know the land which you have despised and rejected.
14:32 But as for you, your dead bodies shall fall in this wilderness.
14:33 And your children shall be wanderers and shepherds in the wilderness for forty years and shall suffer for your whoredoms (your infidelity to your espoused God), until your corpses are consumed in the wilderness.
14:34 After the number of the days in which you spied out the land [of Canaan], even forty days, for each day a year shall you bear and suffer for your iniquities, even for forty years, and you shall know My displeasure [the revoking of My promise and My estrangement].
14:35 I the Lord have spoken; surely this will I do to all this evil congregation who is gathered together against Me. In this wilderness they shall be consumed [by war, disease, plagues], and here they shall die.
V. THESIS:
I have a conquering faith thru JESUS.
VI. TITLE:
Unbelief will shut you from His rest
VII. EXPLICATION:
A. Date of writing: Before AD. 70
B. Style of writing: Best Greek style
C. Authorship: Not specific, but generally attributed to Apostle Paul. Can be also ascribed to Barnabas, Luke, Apollos
D. Audience: Hebrew Christians
E. Theme: Christ is superior to the prophets; Christ is superior to angels—J. Vernon McGee's Thru The Bible
F. Purpose: The chief doctrinal purpose of the writer was to show the transcendent glory of the Christian dispensation, as compared with that of the Old Testament.—Thompson Chain - Bible Book Outlines
G. Keyword: better
VIII. MAIN BODY:
A. The Israelites are not able to enter GOD's Rest
"So we see that they were not able to enter [into His rest],"
Enter means:
1. to go out or come in: to enter
2. of entrance into any condition, state of things, society, employment
3. of thoughts that come into the mind
"Enter" was the same in usage on the following verses:
Matthew 5:20 (Amplified Bible)
5:20 For I tell you, unless your righteousness (your uprightness and your right standing with God) is more than that of the scribes and Pharisees, you will never enter the kingdom of heaven.
Matthew 7:13 (Amplified Bible)
7:13 Enter through the narrow gate; for wide is the gate and spacious and broad is the way that leads away to destruction, and many are those who are entering through it.
The promised land in the Old Testament is Salvation/Eternal Life thru Grace in the New Testament.
Matthew 7:21 (Amplified Bible)
7:21 Not everyone who says to Me, Lord, Lord, will enter the kingdom of heaven, but he who does the will of My Father Who is in heaven.
B. Because of their unbelief
Their unwillingness to:
1. adhere to
2. trust in
3. rely on God
"because of their unwillingness to adhere to and trust in and rely on God [unbelief had shut them out]."
2 Thessalonians 2:12 (Amplified Bible)
2:12 In order that all may be judged and condemned who did not believe in [who refused to adhere to, trust in, and rely on] the Truth, but [instead] took pleasure in unrighteousness.
1 John 5:10 (Amplified Bible)
5:10 He who believes in the Son of God [who adheres to, trusts in, and relies on Him] has the testimony [possesses this divine attestation] within himself. He who does not believe God [in this way] has made Him out to be and represented Him as a liar, because he has not believed (put his faith in, adhered to, and relied on) the evidence (the testimony) that God has borne regarding His Son.
Jude 1:5 (Amplified Bible)
1:5 Now I want to remind you, though you were fully informed once for all, that though the Lord [at one time] delivered a people out of the land of Egypt, He subsequently destroyed those [of them] who did not believe [who refused to adhere to, trust in, and rely upon Him].
IX. CONCLUSION:
We are more than conquerors, but the only "thing" that can stop us, if we stop believing. CHRIST's Faith in us conquered kingdoms of this world.
Hebrews 11:33 (New International Version)
11:33 who through FAITH CONQUERED KINGDOMS, administered justice, and gained what was promised; who shut the mouths of lions,
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