Hebrews: Living in the New Covenant Reality: Episode 8

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Welcome to our Wednesday’s broadcast of

the Gospel truth today I’m continuing to

teach verse by verse through the book of

Hebrews we’re now into Hebrews chapter 3

and verse 11 I’ve already covered a lot

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extra so we are now in Hebrews chapter 3

and in verse 11 let me just say that he

went back and quoted Psalms chapter 95

and went and showed how that he brought

the children of Israel out of the land

of Egypt but he never intended for them

to spend 40 years in the wilderness he

wanted to bring them into the promised

land but they hardened their

heart man that is I’ve got an entire

teaching on this about Hardness of Heart

I’ve got a book on it CDs DVDs if you

haven’t gotten that you can go to our

website and get it but man a hardened

Heart Makes You spiritually dull it

makes you to where you can’t understand

things that’s what it says in Mark

chapter 8 you can’t perceive you can’t

understand you can’t remember and you

know this is absolutely true of the

average Christian that they just can’t

perceive spiritual things they they can

can get carnal things but they just

can’t get spiritual things you know why

because their heart is

hardened man I could preach on that but

I have an old series on that so anyway

he had just warned them don’t Harden

your heart and he said that because they

refused and because they wouldn’t be

sensitive to the Lord but instead they

were letting their feelings their

emotions dominate them they lusted for

food they got upset because they didn’t

have water and things like this he says

in verse 11 so I swear in my wrath they

shall not enter into my rest now he’s

laying the foundation the groundwork for

a teaching that he’s going to expound on

in the next chapter in Hebrews chapter 4

and I’m going to talk about that about a

Sabbath rest but right here he mentions

that the Lord intended to bring the

Israelites out of Egypt into a place

that he called his rest and this isn’t a

physical location it’s not anything

physical it’s a spiritual condition

where you are resting in the Lord

instead of striving trying to get God to

do something you are resting in what

he’s already done and so that’s what he

said in verse 11 in verse 12 he said

take heed Brethren lest there be in any

of you an evil heart of unbelief and

departing from the Living God and again

if you were to go back and take this in

the context of the verses that he had

just quoted he talked about hardening

your heart now here he is talking about

having an evil heart of unbelief and

he’s using these terms interchangeably a

person with a hardened heart is a person

that has an evil heart of

unbelief and man nobody wants to be like

that how do you keep from doing that it

says that this evil heart of unbelief

will cause you to depart from the Living

God and again I could refer to this

teaching where I go into a lot more

detail but basically your heart becomes

sensitive to whatever you focus your

attention on and it automatically starts

becoming insensitive or hardened towards

what you don’t focus on and again if I

had time to go through this whole

teaching this doesn’t mean that you

don’t know what the script scripture

says you might even be able to quote a

scripture but if that scripture isn’t

having as much sway over you as what

you’re seeing for instance here’s an

example the Bible says by his stripes

you are healed he heals all of our

sickness all of our diseases that’s what

God’s word says but if a doctor says

you’ve got cancer and what the doctor

says dominates you and your thoughts

more than what the word says then you’ve

got an evil heart of unbelief you are

hardened towards God you might still be

able to quote the scripture that by his

stripes we were healed 1 Peter 2:24 but

that scripture isn’t dominating you as

much as what the doctor says that’s

because you are focused more in the

natural realm than you are the spiritual

realm and it’s a process it takes time

to retool yourself to recondition

yourself to where you are letting God’s

word be more real to you than what you

can see taste hear smell and feel that’s

my whole teaching about Hardness of

Heart Is man that’s a great teaching I

need to do that more often because uh

that’s something that I deal with on a

regular basis so again verse 12 says

take heed Brethren lest there be in any

of you an evil heart of unbelief in

departing from the Living God if God

tells you to take heed and make sure

this doesn’t happen that’s because you

have the ability to do it some people

think I can’t help it what the the

doctor said this how can I sit there and

get to we what God’s word says is more

real than what the doctor says well if

you say that you can’t do it well then

in a sense you’re saying that when God

tells you to take heed to keep this evil

heart from coming well then he’s unjust

he’s demanding something of you that you

can’t give and that’s not true you can

do what God told you to do but you can’t

do it necessarily just sitting there in

front of the TV watching as the stomach

turns and eating Bond bonds all the time

and not getting into the word of God not

studying the word of God you have to put

forth some effort matter of fact in the

next chapter when he starts talking

about this sabbath rest he will

specifically talk about let’s labor to

enter into this rest that sounds

contradictory if you’re going to rest

you don’t labor to rest but when you’re

talking about a spiritual rest to where

you get to where you just you are

controlled by what Jesus has done and

you aren’t controlled by what the

negative things in this world are

telling you you have to labor

to enter into a place of rest to where

you don’t get anxious and worried and

have fear about all of these things it

takes some effort in order to get this

working in your life but it’s well worth

the effort in verse 13 here’s one of the

ways you keep this evil heart of

unbelief you keep from being hardened

towards God verse 13 says you exhort one

another daily while it is called today

lest any of you be hardened through the

deceitful of sin so one of the ways that

we keep oursel in tune spiritually and

plugged into God is through relationship

with other members in the body you know

it goes on to say that we are not

supposed to forsake the assembling of

ourselves together as a manner of some

is but we’re supposed to even get

together more as we see the day

approaching as things get worse and

worse the body of Christ needs to get

closer and closer and so one of the ways

that we keep our our heart in tuned to

God is through fellowship with Believers

now that that’s not limited to going to

a church building and going to what we

call church but church is just uh you

know Jesus said in Matthew chapter 18

where two or three are gathered together

there am I in the midst of you so

anytime you get two uh Believers

together Christ is there in the midst

and this is just talking about

Fellowship now it can be done in church

and through small groups and through

things like that but it’s not limited to

just an official church service this is

just Believers getting together you know

we have 1,200 employees we have about

800 and something employees at our main

headquarters in Colorado and did you

know that we get together and we have

chapel and we talk and over lunch today

man I was visiting with some Believers

and we were talking about things and

this is how you keep your focus on the

Lord you need to be around people you

know it says in 1 Corinthians chapter 15

be not deceived evil Communications

corrupt good manners and this is just

saying that the people you hang around

with is a major influence in your life

outside of your personal relationship

with God I believe that probably your

relationship with people is the second

most important thing that you have and

if you are hanging around people who are

fearful and speaking unbelief and

blaspheming God and taking his name in

vain and talking about doing drugs or

getting drunk or even if it’s not these

overt sins if you’re just around people

who are gripers and complainers and

negative it’s going to affect you and if

you say oh no that doesn’t bother me

well it says don’t be deceived evil

Communications corrupts good manners if

you think that you can hang around

people who are negative without you

becoming negative you’re

deceived you need to be around Believers

and this is what it’s talking about we

need to exhort one another this is how

we keep our hearts from becoming uh

hardened towards God and it says lest

any of us be hardened through the

deceitfulness of sin so this verse very

clearly says that sin will harden your

heart towards God now I believe in the

grace of God the book of Hebrews is

really talking about our new covenant

Grace and it’s showing that all of our

sins have been forgiven past present and

even future sins Hebrews chapter nine

we’ll be getting to that so I believe in

the grace of God but

sin will harden your heart towards God

it doesn’t Harden God’s heart towards

you God loves you the same whether

you’re living in sin or not now I’m

talking about people who are born again

your sins have been forgiven past

present and future and God isn’t going

to love you more if you live holy he’s

not going to love you less if you don’t

live holy sin will not Harden God’s

heart towards you but sin will harden

your heart towards God that’s exactly

what Hebrews chapter 3: 13 says your

heart becomes hardened through the

deceitfulness of sin so if you are

living in sin quit it even though God is

not going to impute that sin unto you

even though he’s forgiven you of your

sins and even though your relationship

with him is guaranteed you’re just crazy

if you go live in sin because sin gives

Satan a direct inroad into your life

Romans chap 6: 16 says know ye not that

to whom ye yield yourself servant to

obey his servants you are to whom you

obey whether of sin unto death or of

obedience unto righteousness if you

yield to sin you’re Liv you’re yielding

to the person who inspired that sin the

devil in John 10:10 says the thief

cometh not but for to steal and to kill

and to destroy the Devil is only out to

steal kill and destroy and if you yield

to sin you are yielding to him and he is

going to cost you more than you want to

pay and keep you longer than you want to

stay you do not want to live in sin sin

will harden your heart towards the Lord

so quit it amen that’s so simple you

have to some have somebody help you to

misunderstand what I’m saying and yet

there are some people that are into

Grace so much that oh sin doesn’t matter

well sin won’t Harden God’s heart

towards you but it will harden your

heart towards God and so even though God

doesn’t turn away from you when you sin

you turn away from God when you sin and

if you are if you got your back towards

God you aren’t going to enjoy the

pleasure of his countenance you aren’t

going to be able to see his goodness

you’re going to be looking the other

direction and seeing all of the death

and the destruction and all the demonic

stuff and it’s going to cause depression

and discouragement not because God gave

it to you but you turned your back on

the goodness of God so if you’re living

in sin stop

it I tell you I don’t understand why

that’s hard but I’ve actually had people

who were very legalistic and they

thought that God loved them based on

whether or not they were living holy and

that’s just a burden that none of us can

bear because even though we live better

than maybe somebody else all of us have

sinned and come short of the glory of

God none of us can stand before God on

our own Merit and so when people hear me

preach about the grace of God and find

out that God loves us because he’s love

not because we’re lovely man they get so

free that they just go go the other

direction and think it doesn’t matter

what I do sin doesn’t matter God’s not

rejected me over sin well that’s true

but God’s not the only one who is

dealing with you based on sin even

though God’s not going to reject you

people will reject you and Satan will

gain access to you so some people that

I’ve introduced to Grace have gone so

far in One Direction that they just

think that sin doesn’t matter this verse

says your heart will become hardened

through the deceitfulness of sin this is

a new testament verse this is talking to

people who are born again God’s not

going to reject you because of sin but

people will sure reject you because of

sin if you treat them wrong they’ll

treat you wrongly and Satan will have an

inroad into your life so if you’re

living in sin stop it that’s so simple

you got to have somebody to help you to

misunder understand that but it’s

amazing how many people don’t get this

so he goes on to say in the next verse

for we are made partakers of Christ if

we hold the beginning of our confidence

steadfast un the end man I could spend

days on this but did you know getting

born again

starts the moment you confess Jesus as

your Lord but it’s not just a one-time

decision that you make and then you’re

saved regardless of whether you ever

give God another second

thought salvation is a progressive thing

there is a start to it it’s as simple as

the thief on the cross just saying Lord

remember me when you come into your

kingdom and Jesus promised him I today

you will be with me in Paradise he

didn’t get baptized in water he didn’t

get baptized in the Holy Spirit he

didn’t have time to pay ties he didn’t

make amends for his thing it’s that

simple but it’s not that easy you have

to mean it from your heart Romans

chapter 10 verse 9 says you have to

confess with your mouth the Lord Jesus

that’s more than just using that as a

title it means that you are submitting

yourself And So It Begins and it starts

just as simple as that thief on the

cross but this verse says that you are

made partakers of it if you hold fast

your confidence you can’t just believe

one time and make a one-time commitment

of your life to the Lord it needs to be

a ongoing commitment and that’s what

this is talking about you need to

continue and hold fast that confidence

in verse 15 it says while it is said

today if you will hear his voice Harden

not your hearts as in the provocation

again he’s already quoted these verses

out of Psalms chapter 95: 7 and 8 but

now he’s going back to that and he’s

highlighting that today you need to make

this decision and he’s talking to

Christians now this is a quotation from

Psalms chapter 95 and it’s actually

talking about the Jews when they came

out of the land of Egypt but the writer

of Hebrews is bringing it up to the the

current day this wasn’t something that

only applied to the Jews back thousands

of years ago it’s something for us today

and it goes on to say in the 16th verse

for some when they had heard did provoke

how be it not all that came out of Egypt

by Moses but with whom was he grieved 40

years was it not with them that had

sinned whose carcasses fell in the

wilderness so what he’s doing he’s again

talking about those Jews that came out

of the land of Egypt and they didn’t all

perish there was two people that

survived and that was Joshua and Caleb

because they operated in faith now

Joshua and Caleb were also Sinners the

Bible says in Romans 3:23 all of sin

come short of the glory of God so it’s

not the fact that you have to be perfect

but Joshua and Caleb in spite of the

fact that they had sinned they believed

God and they were willing to put their

life on the line and go in and take

those that land and fight against the

Giants it was faith that pleased God not

their performance now Faith is reflected

in our performance and so I’m not saying

that there is’s a total disconnect your

performance indicates what you really

believe in your heart the scripture says

as a man thinks in his heart so is he so

that there’s not a total disconnect but

God looks on the heart not just the

actions 1st Samuel chapter 16 says man

looks on the outward appearance but God

looks on the heart and so God is looking

past your actions your actions are an

indication of what’s in your heart but

God looks past your actions and sees

your heart and even though Joshua and

Caleb weren’t perfect their heart had

faith in it and that’s what pleases God

Hebrews chap 11:6 without faith it’s

impossible to please God and so they

didn’t perish because they had Faith but

all of the other people perished because

they didn’t believe God it was unbelief

that was really the problem and this is

the whole point that he’s making right

here that Jesus has provided a New

Covenant that’s what the first three

chapters of Hebrews all about showing

that Jesus is superior to Angels he’s

Superior to Moses he’s superior to the

Old Testament law but you have to

believe it in order for it to come to

pass the Israelites came out of Egypt

but they didn’t believe God and because

of it they died in the wilderness and

likewise there are multitudes of

Christians today today that are dying in

a spiritual Wilderness not receiving the

healing the Deliverance The Joy the

peace the happiness all of the benefits

of this New Covenant because they are

not in faith faith comes by hearing and

hearing by the word of God and with most

of us it’s not the fact that we’ve

rejected the truth most of us haven’t

heard the truth most Christians today

have not heard that we are delivered

from the old Covenant law that we have a

new covenant now they may use that

phrase New Covenant old Covenant but

they really try and mix them together

and many many many Christians today are

just simply missing out on all of the

benefits that Jesus has provided because

they are still thinking Old Testament

law and somebody’s watching this and

thinking no I’m not thinking Old

Testament law I don’t offer animal

sacrifices I don’t observe the feast

days I don’t observe all of these

rituals that the Jews go through I’m not

an Old Testament lead IST what it is

you’re headed in the same direction

you’re going down the same road you just

changed vehicles and now instead of

animal sacrifices and feast days and

things like this you got to go to church

you got to pay your tithe you got to

real of holy you got to do this this and

this it’s the exact same mentality just

a different set of rules but true

Christianity New Covenant Christianity

is not just the same old same as Old

Testament with new rules no it’s a

completely different way of relating to

God not based on your performance but

based on what others what Jesus did for

us man that’s awesome again verse 17 but

with whom was he grieved 40 years was it

not with them that had sinned whose

carcasses fell in the wilderness and to

whom swear he that they should not enter

into his rest but to them that believed

not again what he’s doing is emphasizing

it wasn’t just their actions their

actions were just a evidence a byproduct

of what they believed and then he says

in the next verse verse 19 so we see

that they could not enter in because of

unbelief now you could go back in

scripture to the Book of Exodus and you

could show that these people murmured

that they complained they said let’s go

back to Egypt let’s anoint a captain and

go back to Egypt and you could point to

physical things that they did and those

things were wrong but this scripture is

making it clear that it’s not their

actions that kept them out of the

promised land it was their unbelief and

that unbelief is what caused those

actions boy that’s a big statement right

there and this is what the New Testament

is all about it’s about your heart your

actions aren’t as important as your

heart if God ever gets your heart and

truly changes your heart and if you get

set free in your heart it will manifest

itself in your actions if you ever fall

in love with the Lord and your heart

then it will be reflected in your

actions and so this is the last verse of

the third chapter and then he’s going to

start into chapter four where he talks

about the Sabbath rest and this is one

of the most important things that I

think God has ever shown me this is

something that man I go back over all of

the time I live this constantly so I’m

out of time today but on our program

tomorrow we’re going to get into Hebrews

chapter 4 and start talking about a

Sabbath

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