Part 2 | Looking for a Church for the End of the World
From Hebrews 10
📖 Hebrews 10:25 ESV not neglecting to meet together, as is the habit of some, but encouraging one another, and all the more as you see the Day drawing near.
Four wrong ways to approach the End Times:
1. Predictions.
2. Panic.
3. Disregard.
4. Disengaged from .
Be engaged in the Church more than ever because…
1. We have to the of God in the of Christ.
📖 Hebrews 10:19-20 ESV Therefore, brothers, since we have confidence to enter the holy places by the blood of Jesus, 20 by the new and living way that he opened for us through the curtain, that is, through his flesh
📖 Matthew 27:50-51 ESV And Jesus cried out again with a loud voice and yielded up his spirit. 51 And behold, the curtain of the temple was torn in two, from top to bottom.
📖 1 Timothy 2:4 ESV (God) desires all people to be saved and to come to the knowledge of the truth.
📖 2 Peter 3:9 ESV The Lord is not slow to fulfill his promise as some count slowness, but is patient toward you, not wishing that any should perish, but that all should reach repentance.
📖 Hebrews 10:21 ESV and since we have a great priest over the house of God,
The theme of Hebrews: is
Be engaged in the Church more than ever because…
2. We are to a with Jesus.
📖 Hebrews 10:22 ESV let us draw near with a true heart in full assurance of faith, with our hearts sprinkled clean from an evil conscience
We don’t gather at church to do a .
We gather to be God gave us a .
📖 Hebrews 10:22b ESV and our bodies washed with pure water.
📖 Ephesians 5:25-26 ESV Christ loved the church and gave himself up for her, 26 that he might sanctify her, having cleansed her by the washing of water with the word
Be engaged in the Church more than ever because…
3. We are in a with Jesus.
📖 Hebrews 10:23 ESV Let us hold fast the confession of our hope without wavering, for he who promised is faithful.
📖 Acts 14:21-22 ESV they (Paul and Barnabus) returned to Lystra and to Iconium and to Antioch, 22 strengthening the souls of the disciples, encouraging them to continue in the faith, and saying that through many tribulations we must enter the kingdom of God.
📖 Acts 15:32 ESV And Judas and Silas, who were themselves prophets, encouraged and strengthened the brothers with many words.
📖 1 Thessalonians 3:2-3 ESV and we sent Timothy, our brother and God’s coworker in the gospel of Christ, to establish and exhort you in your faith, 3 that no one be moved by these afflictions.
📖 Hebrews 10:24 ESV And let us consider how to stir up one another to love and good works, not neglecting to meet together…
Christians need a .
Sermon in a Sentence:
Jesus made the way for you to His presence, , and in God.
