April 21, 2024 "Don't Draw Back"

Hebrews 2:1 For this reason, we must pay attention all the more to what we have heard, so that we will not drift away.

Don’t Drift Away!

Hebrews 3:12, 15 Watch out, brothers and sisters, so that there won’t be in any of you an evil, unbelieving heart that turns away from the living God. 15 As it is said: Today, if you hear his voice, do not harden your hearts as in the rebellion.

Don’t Harden Your Heart!

Hebrews 6:4-6 For it is impossible to renew to repentance those who were once enlightened, who tasted the heavenly gift, who shared in the Holy Spirit, 5 who tasted God’s good word and the powers of the coming age, 6 and who have fallen away.

Don’t Fall Away!

We can reject God’s grace, but we cannot reject his judgment.

Hebrews 10:32-39 Remember the earlier days when, after you had been enlightened, you endured a hard struggle with sufferings. 33 Sometimes you were publicly exposed to taunts and afflictions, and at other times you were companions of those who were treated that way. 34 For you sympathized with the prisoners and accepted with joy the confiscation of your possessions, because you know that you yourselves have a better and enduring possession.

35 So don’t throw away your confidence, which has a great reward. 36 For you need endurance, so that after you have done God’s will, you may receive what was promised.

37 “For yet in a very little while, the Coming One will come and not delay.”

38 “But my righteous one will live by faith; and if he draws back, I have no pleasure in him.”

39 But we are not those who draw back and are destroyed, but those who have faith and are saved.

John 3:16-18 For God loved the world in this way: He gave his one and only Son, so that everyone who believes in him will not perish but have eternal life. 17 For God did not send his Son into the world to condemn the world, but to save the world through him. 18 Anyone who believes in him is not condemned, but anyone who does not believe is already condemned, because he has not believed in the name of the one and only Son of God.