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Hebrews 4:11-16 – Draw Near with Confidence to the Throne of Grace
Seeking Our God - March 09, 2021 12:00 - 18 minutes ★★★★★ - 17 ratingsLink to children's book. KEY TAKEAWAYS: The danger that believers today, like the Israelites of the past, who do not enter God's rest will not stand, but fall in disobedience. God’s message is alive and active, penetrating the innermost parts of a person. It distinguishes what is natural and ...
Hebrews 4:6-10 – Rest
Seeking Our God - March 01, 2021 12:00 - 11 minutes ★★★★★ - 17 ratingsKEY TAKEAWAYS: Stop and think about the rest that is before us. No pressures. No worries. No fears. No stresses. Just beautiful rest. What a wonderful promise. Like David, the author of Hebrews called the present generation to respond to God today That entering into God’s rest means resting f...
Hebrews 4:1-5 – What rest is this?
Seeking Our God - February 25, 2021 12:00 - 15 minutes ★★★★★ - 17 ratingsKEY TAKEAWAYS: Jesus is superior because He provides spiritual rest The theme of rest has its beginning in God’s own rest after creation We get no benefit from merely hearing the gospel. We must believe it and act on it to receive its benefit. Faith involves a wholehearted trust in God’s mess...
Hebrews 3:16-19 – Resting in the Peace of God
Seeking Our God - February 22, 2021 12:00 - 13 minutes ★★★★★ - 17 ratingsKEY TAKEAWAYS: Jesus’ sonship shows His superiority to Moses and reminds us that rejecting Him has more serious consequences than rejecting Moses. A benefit of obedience includes not only praising and pleasing our Father but also entering His peaceful rest. By believing God, we enter into His ...
Hebrews 3:12-15 – Hardening our Heart
Seeking Our God - February 17, 2021 12:00 - 20 minutes ★★★★★ - 17 ratingsKEY TAKEAWAYS: Do regular checks on yourself. How is your heart and attitude toward God? Are you obeying His commands or what He is leading you to do? Let us encourage our brothers and sisters. Let us be known for our encouragement. Let us endure in the faith. No matter what trials and tribul...
Hebrews 3:7-11 - Hardening our Heart
Seeking Our God - February 15, 2021 12:00 - 15 minutes ★★★★★ - 17 ratingsCheck out my children's book here: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B08FP9NZNK KEY TAKEAWAYS: Much as Israel was delivered from Egypt by the blood of lambs and the power of God, so a sinner who believes in Christ is delivered from the bondage of sin. Jesus Christ is “the Lamb of God” whose death and ...
Hebrews 3:1-6 – The Call for Faithfulness
Seeking Our God - February 10, 2021 12:00 - 12 minutes ★★★★★ - 17 ratingsKEY TAKEAWAYS: Jesus’ sonship shows His superiority to Moses and reminds us that rejecting Him has more serious consequences than rejecting Moses. Jesus is superior to Moses because He is God’s Son serving over God’s house. Jesus has greater honor than Moses. Jesus presently rules over the ch...
Hebrews 2:14-18 – Jesus gives freedom over the fear of death
Seeking Our God - February 08, 2021 12:00 - 13 minutes ★★★★★ - 17 ratingsKEY TAKEAWAYS Although completely perfect and sinless, Christ voluntarily submitted to the penalty of sin, this agonizing death on the Cross. This voluntary sacrifice of Himself for our welfare satisfied the justice and holiness of God. The benefits of His sacrifice are applied to all who place...
Hebrews 2:10-13 – The Family of God
Seeking Our God - February 03, 2021 12:00 - 12 minutes ★★★★★ - 17 ratingsKEY TAKEAWAYS: Jesus was the perfect and complete sacrifice for our sins. Jesus was fully human and fully God. Believers are part of the family of God We are being sanctified continually. This does not mean we will never sin. But that God has set us aside to do His will and His working in us...
Hebrews 2:5-9 – Jesus Christ is Crowned with Glory and Honor
Seeking Our God - February 01, 2021 12:00 - 11 minutes ★★★★★ - 17 ratingsKEY TAKEAWAYS Verse 9 provides three statements about Jesus: (1) He became a human being. (2) As a human, He experienced suffering and death (which His death also provided a marvelous display of divine grace). (3) the outcome of the suffering of Christ was that He was crowned with glory and hon...
Hebrews 2:1-4 - So Great a Salvation
Seeking Our God - January 29, 2021 12:00 - 10 minutes ★★★★★ - 17 ratingsKEY TAKEAWAYS: Ignoring Jesus has horrible consequences, including drifting away We have such a great salvation. Let us thank God for that salvation and His amazing plan It is easy to drift with the current, but it is difficult to return against the stream. Our salvation is a “great salvation...
Similarities and Differences between Angels and Humans
Seeking Our God - January 27, 2021 12:00 - 8 minutes ★★★★★ - 17 ratingsSo, in thinking about this, I thought it was important to establish a baseline and take a brief moment to discuss what angels are. A few years ago I was assigned to write a short article on comparing and contrasting angels and human beings as creatures of God. The main point was to look at our s...
Hebrews 1:10-14 - The eternality of Jesus
Seeking Our God - January 25, 2021 12:00 - 10 minutes ★★★★★ - 17 ratingsKEY TAKEAWAYS: Jesus is identified as the Lord who is to be praised. Only God provides stability and security. We can anchor our lives to Him, the epitome of stability and security. Christ’s ascension lifted Him to a place of authority and power at the Father’s right hand. Chapter 1 Summary:...
Hebrews 1:5-9 – Jesus is Greater than Angels
Seeking Our God - January 22, 2021 12:00 - 12 minutes ★★★★★ - 17 ratingsDon't' forget to go check out my new children's book on Amazon KEY TAKEAWAYS: Jesus is the fulfillment of the promised Davidic kingship (v. 5) Christ is viewed as the ultimate aim and goal of all the Old Testament quotations used. The superiority of Jesus to the angels is clearly shown. The ...
Hebrews 1:1-4 – Jesus, Heir of all things and the radiance of God’s glory
Seeking Our God - January 20, 2021 12:00 - 13 minutes ★★★★★ - 17 ratingsKEY TAKEAWAYS: God has spoken through the Son more fully and authoritatively than through the prophets or the angels. The Son is more glorious than the prophets because God has spoken fully through Him (vv. 1-3) The Son brought us God’s grace because His death removed the stain of sin For mo...
HEBREWS OVERVIEW
Seeking Our God - January 18, 2021 12:00 - 30 minutes ★★★★★ - 17 ratingsThe Epistle to the Hebrews is a rich part of the New Testament canon. In a unique fashion, it exalts the person and work of the Lord Jesus Christ. In doing so, it makes immensely valuable contributions to the doctrines of His Incarnation, His substitutionary death, and His priesthood. Among the ...
Leadership Observations from the Life of Moses
Seeking Our God - January 11, 2021 12:00 - 19 minutes ★★★★★ - 17 ratingsThe main thing was to have a leadership observation and have it be timeless, relevant, and a practical leadership principle. After reviewing the principles, we were to select two of them on which to further comment. Moses was a fantastic leader who had many faults. At times he showed great trus...
Galatians 6:11-18 – A New Creation and Chapter 6 conclusion
Seeking Our God - January 08, 2021 12:00 - 17 minutes ★★★★★ - 17 ratingsSECTION TAKEAWAYS: For those who walk in this new creation, peace and mercy will be upon them and the grace of Jesus will be with them. What counts is God changing us from the inside out. The message of the Judaizers was powerless to change hearts. What changes hearts is faith in Christ for bo...
Galatians 6:6-10 – Sowing to the Spirit and reaping good
Seeking Our God - January 06, 2021 12:00 - 11 minutes ★★★★★ - 17 ratingsKEY TAKEAWAYS: We must remember that what we do with material things is an evidence of how we value spiritual things. “For where your treasure is, there will your heart be also” (Matt. 6:21) There is a much wider application of the principle to our lives; because all that we do is either an in...
Galatians 6:1-5 - Bearing one another's burdens
Seeking Our God - January 04, 2021 12:00 - 9 minutes ★★★★★ - 17 ratingsKEY TAKEAWAYS: A believer devasted by sin needs to be approached with gentleness by fellow believers. Let us be willing to listen, be gentle, be loving, and depend on the Spirit for His guidance in restoration. The message of grace frees us from selfishness to bear others’ burdens Instead of ...
Galatians 5:22-26 – Fruit of the Spirit
Seeking Our God - December 28, 2020 12:00 - 14 minutes ★★★★★ - 17 ratingsKEY TAKEAWAYS: The Christian has died to sin and is alive to a Spirit-controlled life of righteousness Paul reminds the Galatians and us that all of us have the Holy Spirit to strengthen us against sin. The Spirit enables us to overcome the flesh and to produce fruit. The work of the Spirit ...
Galatians 5:19-21 – Peril of Victory Over Sin
Seeking Our God - December 21, 2020 12:00 - 9 minutes ★★★★★ - 17 ratingsKEY TAKEAWAYS: The acts of the flesh symbolize spiritual death While a Christian may intermittently get pulled into these sins, those who live like this habitually and continually will not inherit the kingdom of God. Let us not be controlled by anything but the Holy Spirit For more informati...
Galatians 5:13-18 – Love, Freedom, and Living in the Spirit
Seeking Our God - December 16, 2020 12:00 - 12 minutes ★★★★★ - 17 ratingsVerses 13-15 talk about the law of love and a life apart from license, while verses 16-18 begin the discussion on living according to the Spirit by first looking at the promise of victory over sin. KEY TAKEAWYS: Christ gives the Christian the freedom to love others truly. Another way to say it...
Galatians 5:7-12 - Running and Baking
Seeking Our God - December 14, 2020 12:00 - 10 minutes ★★★★★ - 17 ratingsIn the previous section (verses 1-6), we discussed the first three negative consequences of returning to the law. In this section, we will see the remaining three negative consequences. In this section, we see how turning to the law does two things: (1) it hinders the progress of believers (vv....
Galatians 5:1-6 – Freedom and Justification in Christ
Seeking Our God - December 11, 2020 12:00 - 11 minutes ★★★★★ - 17 ratingsKey takeaways: The Bible teaches that when we were unsaved, we owed God a debt we could not pay. God in His grace, because of the work of Christ on the cross, is able to forgive sinners, no matter how large their debt may be. Christ died to set us free from slavery to the law. Our responsibili...
Galatians 4:28-31 - Legalism vs. Grace and Chapter 4 Summary
Seeking Our God - December 09, 2020 12:00 - 11 minutes ★★★★★ - 17 ratingsKey Takeaways: We, as Christians, are children of promise. Let us live in that promise and freedom with thanksgiving, and not in bondage to legalism and works. Justification is by grace through faith and not by observing rules or performing rituals and works. Striving to a legalistic, works b...
Galatians 4:21-27 – Law, Grace, and an Allegory
Seeking Our God - December 07, 2020 12:00 - 14 minutes ★★★★★ - 17 ratingsKEY TAKEAWAYS: Abraham, the two wives, and the two sons represent spiritual realities; and their relationships teach us important lessons. Ishmael was Abraham’s son by proxy, according to the flesh; Isaac was his son by promise, a living witness to divine grace. The advent of Christ and the c...
Galatians 4:12-20 – Paul’s Concern and Appeal to Remember Their Relationship
Seeking Our God - December 02, 2020 12:00 - 11 minutes ★★★★★ - 17 ratingsKey Takeaways: A person with pure motives and real friendship does not always say things that are pleasant to hear. Sometimes the truth hurts; but a faithful friend would courageously confront another. Zealous opponents should not be able to woo you away from the truth of God’s salvation in Ch...
Galatians 4:8-11 – The Danger of Turning Back to Legalism
Seeking Our God - November 30, 2020 12:00 - 10 minutes ★★★★★ - 17 ratingsKey Takeaways: Do not trade the power and wealth and grace of the Gospel for the weak and worthless system of works All of us must beware of that legalistic spirit that caters to the flesh, leads to pride, and makes the outward event a substitute for the inward experience. Christians are free...
Galatians 4:1-7 Sonship in Christ
Seeking Our God - November 23, 2020 12:00 - 18 minutes ★★★★★ - 17 ratingsKEY TAKEAWAYS: As son and heir, each Christian receives the Holy Spirit, the down payment of his or her inheritance (Eph. 1:14). Christ came for two purposes: (1) to redeem those under the law by His death to free us from slavery to the law. And (2) that we might receive the full rights of ado...
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