WEBVTT 00:00:01.320 --> 00:00:01.870 00:00:04.240 --> 00:00:05.768 Whooo! It's one of those kind of mornings. 00:00:05.768 --> 00:00:08.960 I came in with a wooo this morning because I tell you what, 00:00:08.960 --> 00:00:10.146 it's been a good week. 00:00:10.146 --> 00:00:11.346 God's doing some cool things, 00:00:11.346 --> 00:00:13.202 and we get to enjoy what God does. 00:00:13.202 --> 00:00:15.586 And that song just kind of points it out, 00:00:15.586 --> 00:00:19.212 talks about who God is and what he's done. 00:00:19.266 --> 00:00:20.712 And so we're in hebrews, 00:00:20.712 --> 00:00:21.692 chapter three. 00:00:21.826 --> 00:00:23.912 We're still considering the topic, 00:00:24.056 --> 00:00:25.576 the object of our faith, 00:00:25.576 --> 00:00:29.520 and. And the object of our faith is just simply Jesus. 00:00:29.680 --> 00:00:34.512 We focus and prioritize and elevate, 00:00:34.576 --> 00:00:39.760 and actually what the Bible teaches us is lift high the name of Jesus. 00:00:39.920 --> 00:00:41.850 And so that's the goal of our morning, 00:00:41.850 --> 00:00:43.392 and that's why we gather, 00:00:43.392 --> 00:00:44.980 is to lift high the name of Jesus. 00:00:44.980 --> 00:00:46.254 We're in the book of Hebrews. 00:00:46.148 --> 00:00:48.196 The book of Hebrews is all about Jesus, 00:00:48.196 --> 00:00:49.476 as is the rest of the Bible. 00:00:49.476 --> 00:00:52.398 ActuallY, the book of hebrews just ties the Old Testament and the new 00:00:52.398 --> 00:00:53.450 Testament together. 00:00:54.160 --> 00:00:57.538 And really what we've seen through these first couple of chapters of 00:00:57.538 --> 00:01:00.844 Hebrews is really about who Christ is, 00:01:00.882 --> 00:01:01.896 that God has spoken, 00:01:01.896 --> 00:01:02.770 and in these days, 00:01:02.770 --> 00:01:04.920 God has spoken through his son Jesus, 00:01:04.920 --> 00:01:07.980 and we should pay attention. 00:01:08.800 --> 00:01:13.724 Okay? And so Today's message is really one of the warnings. 00:01:13.772 --> 00:01:16.412 There are four warnings throughout the book of Hebrews, 00:01:16.412 --> 00:01:17.996 and this is one of the warnings. 00:01:17.996 --> 00:01:19.976 How many of you enjoy warnings? 00:01:21.160 --> 00:01:23.386 Right? I'm going to tell you one, 00:01:23.386 --> 00:01:26.026 that you're not supposed to get you ready. 00:01:26.106 --> 00:01:26.538 You know, 00:01:26.538 --> 00:01:30.668 when you're driving too fast down the highway and approaching traffic, 00:01:30.704 --> 00:01:32.504 flashes their lights at you. 00:01:32.702 --> 00:01:34.682 They ain't supposed to do that. 00:01:35.660 --> 00:01:38.164 They're not supposed to let you know there's a cop sitting over the hill 00:01:38.164 --> 00:01:39.160 with a radar, 00:01:39.740 --> 00:01:45.176 right? But when we're driving too fast and somebody flashes their lights 00:01:45.208 --> 00:01:45.730 at us, 00:01:45.730 --> 00:01:47.050 what do we do? 00:01:48.240 --> 00:01:48.972 Slow down. 00:01:49.026 --> 00:01:49.628 Right? 00:01:49.794 --> 00:01:51.496 We like that warning. 00:01:51.688 --> 00:01:54.616 It what keeps us out of trouble. 00:01:54.728 --> 00:01:57.528 So when we see the warnings of the Book of HebRews, 00:01:57.528 --> 00:01:58.438 there's one in chapter two, 00:01:58.438 --> 00:01:58.924 and now here's, 00:01:58.924 --> 00:02:00.214 there's one in chapter three. 00:02:00.214 --> 00:02:03.120 And the warning of God to his people, 00:02:03.190 --> 00:02:05.292 because we know that God has spoken. 00:02:05.292 --> 00:02:07.462 God has SpokEn through his SOn JeSuS. 00:02:07.180 --> 00:02:09.136 And God is inspired, 00:02:09.328 --> 00:02:10.736 the writer of Hebrews, 00:02:10.768 --> 00:02:11.962 which we don't know who it is, 00:02:11.962 --> 00:02:14.304 but we understand that as he's writing, 00:02:14.352 --> 00:02:18.476 he is writing from the inspiration of God by his spirit. 00:02:18.528 --> 00:02:20.062 Therefore, when we start verse seven, 00:02:20.062 --> 00:02:21.712 it says this very specifically, 00:02:21.780 --> 00:02:25.290 therefore, as the Holy Spirit says, 00:02:27.500 --> 00:02:28.490 all right, 00:02:30.220 --> 00:02:32.200 that should be enough to go. 00:02:34.240 --> 00:02:38.430 I should pay attention to what God's about to say. 00:02:38.880 --> 00:02:43.630 I should stop and pay attention to what God wants us to hear. 00:02:44.720 --> 00:02:46.700 So as we progress in this. 00:02:46.722 --> 00:02:49.032 I titled this just a hard caution, 00:02:49.300 --> 00:02:51.062 because this is what God's giving us. 00:02:51.062 --> 00:02:52.252 It goes like this. 00:02:51.862 --> 00:02:54.400 Therefore, as the Holy Spirit says today, 00:02:54.470 --> 00:02:55.452 if you hear his voice, 00:02:55.452 --> 00:02:56.508 do not harden your hearts. 00:02:56.508 --> 00:02:59.872 As in the rebellion on the day of testing in the wilderness, 00:02:59.872 --> 00:03:01.620 where your ancestors tested me, 00:03:01.690 --> 00:03:04.388 tried me and saw my works for 40 years. 00:03:04.554 --> 00:03:07.626 Therefore, I was provoked to anger with that generation and said, 00:03:07.626 --> 00:03:09.680 they always go astray in their hearts, 00:03:09.680 --> 00:03:11.354 and they have not known my ways. 00:03:11.354 --> 00:03:12.692 So I swore in my anger, 00:03:12.692 --> 00:03:14.286 they will not enter my rest. 00:03:14.286 --> 00:03:14.862 Watch out, 00:03:14.862 --> 00:03:15.668 brothers and sisters, 00:03:15.668 --> 00:03:19.012 so that there won't be in any of you an evil, 00:03:19.012 --> 00:03:22.104 unbelieving heart that turns away from the living God, 00:03:22.142 --> 00:03:24.056 but encourage each other daily. 00:03:24.168 --> 00:03:26.148 Why it is still called today, 00:03:26.322 --> 00:03:29.740 so that none of you is hardened by sin's deception. 00:03:30.400 --> 00:03:34.898 For we have become participants in Christ if we hold firmly until the end 00:03:34.898 --> 00:03:37.250 the reality that we had at the start. 00:03:37.250 --> 00:03:38.900 As it is said today, 00:03:39.060 --> 00:03:40.412 if you hear his voice, 00:03:40.412 --> 00:03:41.628 do not harden your hearts, 00:03:41.628 --> 00:03:43.036 as in the rebellion. 00:03:43.228 --> 00:03:44.878 For who heard and rebelled, 00:03:44.892 --> 00:03:47.516 wasn't it all who came out of Egypt under Moses? 00:03:47.516 --> 00:03:49.826 With whom was God angry for 40 years? 00:03:49.702 --> 00:03:51.696 Wasn't it with those who sinned, 00:03:51.728 --> 00:03:53.872 whose bodies fell in the wilderness? 00:03:54.016 --> 00:03:56.810 And to whom did he swear that they would not enter his rest, 00:03:56.810 --> 00:03:58.980 if not those who disobeyed? 00:03:59.340 --> 00:04:03.300 So we see that they were unable to enter because of unbelief. 00:04:04.140 --> 00:04:05.204 Let's pray. 00:04:05.332 --> 00:04:06.440 We need it. 00:04:06.590 --> 00:04:08.090 God, we thank you. 00:04:09.420 --> 00:04:12.720 Thank you for a day that we have to gather, 00:04:13.440 --> 00:04:14.264 to worship, 00:04:14.312 --> 00:04:15.230 to sing. 00:04:15.840 --> 00:04:16.482 And, God, 00:04:16.482 --> 00:04:17.176 as we gather, 00:04:17.176 --> 00:04:17.922 worship, and sing, 00:04:17.922 --> 00:04:22.030 God, we know you are reminding us of who you are. 00:04:22.640 --> 00:04:25.832 God, you're reminding us of what you've said. 00:04:25.906 --> 00:04:27.264 But even beyond that, 00:04:27.302 --> 00:04:31.730 God, you're letting us know again what it is that you've done. 00:04:32.580 --> 00:04:33.142 And so, 00:04:33.142 --> 00:04:34.966 God, we gather here with a purpose today. 00:04:34.966 --> 00:04:37.330 We gather here this morning to stop, 00:04:37.640 --> 00:04:39.008 to pay attention, 00:04:39.184 --> 00:04:40.762 God, to pay attention to your words, 00:04:40.762 --> 00:04:45.052 but also to pay attention to the warnings that your word offers us, 00:04:45.098 --> 00:04:46.500 to the cautions, 00:04:47.640 --> 00:04:49.620 God, help us to pay attention. 00:04:49.640 --> 00:04:51.146 We pray it in Jesus name. 00:04:51.146 --> 00:04:54.036 Amen. So will came in this morning, 00:04:54.058 --> 00:04:54.718 he says. 00:04:54.570 --> 00:04:55.540 Big crowd. 00:04:56.040 --> 00:04:58.212 So I guess the parking lot is getting fuller. 00:04:58.212 --> 00:05:01.950 Some of you might have been 925 folks and decided to come at 810. 00:05:01.950 --> 00:05:03.624 Welcome. Glad you're here. 00:05:03.822 --> 00:05:06.560 It's going to be better if you come at 810. 00:05:06.560 --> 00:05:07.964 Parking started this week. 00:05:08.002 --> 00:05:08.722 Did you all know that? 00:05:08.722 --> 00:05:09.768 Paid parking. 00:05:09.944 --> 00:05:12.860 If you park in the city's parking lots, 00:05:13.280 --> 00:05:18.230 you have to either have a permit or you have to pay with the app. 00:05:17.894 --> 00:05:20.268 However, in these two blocks, 00:05:20.444 --> 00:05:23.120 they do not start patrolling until noon. 00:05:23.620 --> 00:05:27.280 So we have a special dispensation from the town council. 00:05:28.980 --> 00:05:31.952 They will not patrol the parking lots around the churches, 00:05:31.952 --> 00:05:33.088 these two block areas. 00:05:33.088 --> 00:05:34.400 So you can park at the beach, 00:05:34.400 --> 00:05:35.002 walk over. 00:05:35.002 --> 00:05:36.480 But starting at noon, 00:05:36.640 --> 00:05:38.870 they start patrolling again. 00:05:39.240 --> 00:05:41.220 So leave before noon. 00:05:41.560 --> 00:05:45.758 But we are encouraging this 810 crowd to park on this side of the 00:05:45.758 --> 00:05:48.724 building, because at 09:00 on Easter Sunday, 00:05:48.772 --> 00:05:51.630 our friends will be here across the corner there, 00:05:51.630 --> 00:05:54.640 and they will want all the parking they can get. 00:05:54.640 --> 00:05:56.620 So we just park there first. 00:05:57.040 --> 00:05:58.476 Okay. All right, 00:05:58.658 --> 00:05:59.318 second thing. 00:05:59.346 --> 00:06:00.604 Easter is coming. 00:06:00.802 --> 00:06:02.226 Easter is in this month. 00:06:02.226 --> 00:06:03.484 It's March 31, 00:06:03.522 --> 00:06:04.962 the last day of the month, 00:06:04.962 --> 00:06:08.156 and we're going to have a great big Easter celebration. 00:06:08.156 --> 00:06:10.070 We start it on the Sunday before, 00:06:10.070 --> 00:06:10.908 on the 24th, 00:06:10.908 --> 00:06:12.748 when we celebrate the Lord's supper. 00:06:12.748 --> 00:06:14.550 In all four gatherings that morning, 00:06:14.550 --> 00:06:16.530 we'll be celebrating Lord's supper together. 00:06:16.470 --> 00:06:17.788 And then on Easter Sunday, 00:06:17.788 --> 00:06:21.802 we're going to do sunrise right across there at the beach behind the fire 00:06:21.802 --> 00:06:22.618 department over there. 00:06:22.618 --> 00:06:23.786 And that'll be at 630. 00:06:23.786 --> 00:06:24.842 Then we'll do our 810, 00:06:24.842 --> 00:06:26.228 925, 1040, 00:06:26.314 --> 00:06:28.228 1150 worship hours here. 00:06:28.314 --> 00:06:30.964 And so we'll have a big time of celebration on Easter. 00:06:30.964 --> 00:06:33.112 And during that 1150 worship hour, 00:06:33.166 --> 00:06:37.700 right at 12:00 kids are going to scarf up Easter eggs, 00:06:37.860 --> 00:06:39.180 just so you know. 00:06:39.500 --> 00:06:41.086 And then coming in May, 00:06:41.086 --> 00:06:41.796 May 19, 00:06:41.828 --> 00:06:45.244 we don't have all the details ready to highlight this, 00:06:45.282 --> 00:06:48.364 but our first outdoor worship of the year, 00:06:48.402 --> 00:06:50.594 where we put all the gatherings together, 00:06:50.594 --> 00:06:52.248 will be on May the 19th. 00:06:52.248 --> 00:06:55.218 So just giving you the heads up for that. 00:06:56.420 --> 00:06:58.400 How many warnings do we see? 00:06:59.300 --> 00:07:00.396 See warning signs? 00:07:00.428 --> 00:07:01.090 I mean, 00:07:01.780 --> 00:07:03.654 if you're driving down the road, 00:07:03.654 --> 00:07:04.838 like, I'm driving a lot, 00:07:04.838 --> 00:07:06.102 you all know I'm driving a lot, 00:07:06.102 --> 00:07:06.612 right? 00:07:06.746 --> 00:07:08.752 So I'm driving down the highway, 00:07:08.896 --> 00:07:13.990 and all of a sudden you see this sign that says left lane closed ahead, 00:07:14.840 --> 00:07:17.350 right? What does that tell you? 00:07:17.960 --> 00:07:20.958 Don't drive in the left lane for a little bit. 00:07:20.958 --> 00:07:23.400 Now, I could be obstinate, 00:07:25.500 --> 00:07:26.836 hard headed, 00:07:27.028 --> 00:07:33.304 and drive in the left lane and potentially find myself in a ditch or off 00:07:33.342 --> 00:07:37.592 a bridge or running into the back of one of them cushion trucks. 00:07:37.592 --> 00:07:39.138 You all know what I'm talking about. 00:07:38.930 --> 00:07:41.218 They got the little bumper thing on the back of it, 00:07:41.218 --> 00:07:43.224 right? I could take the warning, 00:07:43.272 --> 00:07:45.752 say left lane closed ahead and into. 00:07:45.826 --> 00:07:47.404 I'll get closer to where it's closed, 00:07:47.404 --> 00:07:52.092 and they got cones sort of trying to veer me into the right lane, 00:07:52.156 --> 00:07:56.356 right. The first warning I should pay attention to. 00:07:56.378 --> 00:07:57.368 The second warning, 00:07:57.424 --> 00:07:59.780 I definitely should pay attention to, 00:07:59.850 --> 00:08:00.276 right? 00:08:00.378 --> 00:08:06.916 Because if I want to be obstinate and hard headed about it and ignore the 00:08:06.938 --> 00:08:10.264 warning. Guess what? 00:08:10.302 --> 00:08:13.880 I get the consequences. 00:08:15.580 --> 00:08:20.264 See? So I want you to notice what we're looking at here. 00:08:20.382 --> 00:08:25.016 We are expected to read these verses from the book of Hebrews from an 00:08:25.038 --> 00:08:26.818 author that we're not quite sure who it is, 00:08:26.818 --> 00:08:27.592 whether it's Paul, 00:08:27.592 --> 00:08:28.632 Apollos, Barnabas, 00:08:28.696 --> 00:08:30.610 or some committee of all of them together, 00:08:30.610 --> 00:08:31.634 maybe, we don't know, 00:08:31.634 --> 00:08:34.392 written to people who are Christ followers, 00:08:34.456 --> 00:08:38.060 people who have surrendered their lives to Jesus and are following Jesus. 00:08:38.060 --> 00:08:42.166 And yet God is giving the instruction that the Old Testament was about 00:08:42.166 --> 00:08:44.060 the proclamation of the Messiah. 00:08:44.140 --> 00:08:46.992 The New Testament is the revelation of the Messiah. 00:08:46.992 --> 00:08:52.084 And so these things tie together to tell us God's plan and progression of 00:08:52.122 --> 00:08:54.020 redemption. God is saying, 00:08:54.090 --> 00:08:55.140 pay attention. 00:08:57.000 --> 00:08:58.730 Pay attention to what I've done. 00:08:58.730 --> 00:09:00.710 Pay attention to what I've said. 00:09:01.260 --> 00:09:03.928 Pay attention to what I've provided you today. 00:09:04.094 --> 00:09:05.744 If you hear his voice, 00:09:06.140 --> 00:09:07.844 do not harden your hearts. 00:09:07.892 --> 00:09:11.652 As in the rebellion on the day of testing in the wilderness, 00:09:11.652 --> 00:09:13.576 where your ancestors tested me, 00:09:13.678 --> 00:09:16.318 tried me and saw my works for 40 years. 00:09:16.226 --> 00:09:20.190 Therefore, I was provoked anger with that generation and said, 00:09:20.560 --> 00:09:22.568 they always go astray in their hearts, 00:09:22.568 --> 00:09:23.842 and they have not known my ways. 00:09:23.842 --> 00:09:25.020 So I swore my anger. 00:09:25.020 --> 00:09:26.774 They will not enter my rest. 00:09:26.774 --> 00:09:29.730 See, this comes from psalm 95. 00:09:31.620 --> 00:09:32.930 I marked it. 00:09:34.100 --> 00:09:35.648 Listen to psalm 95. 00:09:35.734 --> 00:09:37.996 Come, let us shout joyfully to the Lord. 00:09:37.996 --> 00:09:40.912 Shout triumphantly to the rock of our salvation. 00:09:40.976 --> 00:09:42.976 Let us enter his presence with thanksgiving. 00:09:42.976 --> 00:09:45.616 Let us shout triumphantly to him in song. 00:09:45.632 --> 00:09:47.466 For the Lord is a great God, 00:09:47.466 --> 00:09:49.504 a great king above all gods. 00:09:49.552 --> 00:09:51.898 The depths of the earth are in his hand, 00:09:51.898 --> 00:09:53.482 and the mountain peaks are his. 00:09:53.482 --> 00:09:54.462 The sea is his. 00:09:54.462 --> 00:09:55.038 He made it. 00:09:55.038 --> 00:09:57.018 His hands form the dry land. 00:09:57.054 --> 00:09:58.782 Come, let us worship and bow down. 00:09:58.782 --> 00:10:00.132 Let us kneel before the Lord, 00:10:00.132 --> 00:10:00.628 our maker, 00:10:00.628 --> 00:10:01.566 for he is our God, 00:10:01.566 --> 00:10:04.616 and we are the people of his pasture, 00:10:04.648 --> 00:10:05.826 the sheep under his care. 00:10:05.826 --> 00:10:07.512 Today, if you hear his voice, 00:10:07.512 --> 00:10:08.792 do not harden your hearts. 00:10:08.792 --> 00:10:10.380 As at Meribah, 00:10:11.520 --> 00:10:15.004 as on that day at Massa in the wilderness, 00:10:15.052 --> 00:10:16.342 where your fathers tested me, 00:10:16.342 --> 00:10:17.410 they tried me, 00:10:17.780 --> 00:10:20.848 though they had seen what I did for 40 years. 00:10:20.934 --> 00:10:22.800 I was disgusted. 00:10:24.900 --> 00:10:26.530 Boy, that's pretty strong. 00:10:27.300 --> 00:10:30.320 I was disgusted with that generation. 00:10:30.400 --> 00:10:30.986 I said, 00:10:30.986 --> 00:10:33.824 they are a people whose hearts go astray. 00:10:33.872 --> 00:10:35.242 They do not know my ways. 00:10:35.242 --> 00:10:36.458 So I swore my anger. 00:10:36.288 --> 00:10:38.268 They will not enter my rest. 00:10:39.740 --> 00:10:43.592 Those are called the enthronement Psalms 95 and 93, 00:10:43.646 --> 00:10:45.296 and couple in that area. 00:10:45.980 --> 00:10:50.824 Basically what they're doing is they're acknowledging who God is and what 00:10:50.862 --> 00:10:55.096 God has done and calling God's people to worship, 00:10:55.208 --> 00:10:56.184 to bow, 00:10:56.312 --> 00:10:58.350 to surrender before him. 00:10:59.200 --> 00:11:02.170 Can I just go ahead and say pretty flippantly, 00:11:04.820 --> 00:11:08.610 it's understood not to ignore God. 00:11:10.020 --> 00:11:11.468 And yet we live in a culture, 00:11:11.468 --> 00:11:13.782 and at a time when people just want to ignore God, 00:11:13.782 --> 00:11:15.664 they want to discredit God. 00:11:15.782 --> 00:11:19.718 What is the reasoning in psalm 95 that says it's best to pay attention to 00:11:19.718 --> 00:11:22.448 God, who is the king above all gods, 00:11:22.544 --> 00:11:26.058 who actually holds all of creation in the palm of his hand? 00:11:26.058 --> 00:11:28.960 If there's no other reason to honor God and to worship God and to bow 00:11:28.960 --> 00:11:29.614 before God, 00:11:29.614 --> 00:11:33.508 then it is the fact that he created it all and he holds it and sustains 00:11:33.508 --> 00:11:35.816 it. See, 00:11:35.918 --> 00:11:38.456 that's the warning he said. 00:11:38.478 --> 00:11:41.080 And yet your ancestors rebelled. 00:11:42.560 --> 00:11:46.136 Do not harden your hearts as in the rebellion. 00:11:46.248 --> 00:11:47.644 And then in psalm 95, 00:11:47.682 --> 00:11:50.424 it mentions the Meribah and the Massah. 00:11:50.472 --> 00:11:52.452 That's where they turned against God. 00:11:53.120 --> 00:11:57.090 That's where they ignored who he was and what he had done. 00:11:58.660 --> 00:12:00.124 Now, this word rebellion, 00:12:00.172 --> 00:12:01.010 it's interesting. 00:12:02.660 --> 00:12:05.404 It's not just casual disobedience. 00:12:05.532 --> 00:12:10.692 Okay, so let's ask ourselves the question. 00:12:10.746 --> 00:12:11.940 What is rebellion? 00:12:12.680 --> 00:12:13.584 What's rebellion? 00:12:13.632 --> 00:12:14.564 You ready? 00:12:14.762 --> 00:12:15.422 All right. 00:12:15.386 --> 00:12:16.820 Is it rebellion? 00:12:17.960 --> 00:12:18.858 No. Let's see. 00:12:18.858 --> 00:12:19.994 I don't see many kids. 00:12:19.994 --> 00:12:21.194 Well, a couple back there. 00:12:21.002 --> 00:12:21.438 Yeah. All right. 00:12:21.438 --> 00:12:22.110 Good to see you. 00:12:22.110 --> 00:12:22.590 All right, 00:12:22.590 --> 00:12:25.640 so is it rebellion to disobey your parents? 00:12:29.720 --> 00:12:31.146 I'm not going to answer the question. 00:12:31.146 --> 00:12:33.456 I'll let you all answer for yourself. 00:12:34.700 --> 00:12:42.120 Is it rebellion to drive 56 on highway 17? 00:12:46.160 --> 00:12:48.830 No, of course not. 00:12:51.440 --> 00:12:53.100 Is it rebellion? 00:12:54.000 --> 00:12:54.990 Right. You see, 00:12:55.026 --> 00:12:57.202 that's the question I want us to consider this morning, 00:12:57.202 --> 00:12:59.074 because that's what God is saying right here. 00:12:59.074 --> 00:12:59.362 It says, 00:12:59.362 --> 00:13:00.408 do not harden your hearts, 00:13:00.408 --> 00:13:02.012 as in the rebellion. 00:13:02.076 --> 00:13:03.212 Now, this word rebellion, 00:13:03.212 --> 00:13:05.174 and you got to understand the context. 00:13:04.732 --> 00:13:05.862 Remember, I've told you, 00:13:05.862 --> 00:13:07.222 translation is an art form, 00:13:07.222 --> 00:13:08.212 not a science. 00:13:08.268 --> 00:13:16.164 And so this word rebellion communicates in English the sentiment of what 00:13:16.202 --> 00:13:17.852 God wants us to understand. 00:13:17.898 --> 00:13:19.860 But in the Hebrew, 00:13:20.520 --> 00:13:26.788 it actually means rebellion with the intent to provoke anger. 00:13:26.884 --> 00:13:28.046 That's why God says, 00:13:28.046 --> 00:13:29.204 down a little farther, 00:13:29.204 --> 00:13:30.184 he says, 00:13:30.382 --> 00:13:32.212 they provoked me to anger, 00:13:32.276 --> 00:13:34.228 therefore I was provoked to anger. 00:13:34.228 --> 00:13:39.390 So their rebellious intent was in defiance of God, 00:13:40.320 --> 00:13:42.072 not just a casual disobedience. 00:13:42.136 --> 00:13:43.378 Like I'm going to ignore it. 00:13:43.378 --> 00:13:46.024 Today. I got a meeting in Hampstead. 00:13:46.072 --> 00:13:49.200 I'm going to drive 57 down 17. 00:13:49.700 --> 00:13:50.352 Right? 00:13:50.486 --> 00:13:53.840 No, it's not just a casual disobedience. 00:13:54.580 --> 00:13:57.180 It's an intent, 00:13:57.340 --> 00:13:59.904 a defiance of who God is, 00:14:00.022 --> 00:14:01.302 that it's referring to that. 00:14:01.302 --> 00:14:01.942 So when it says, 00:14:01.942 --> 00:14:03.088 do not harden your hearts, 00:14:03.088 --> 00:14:05.068 as in the day of rebellion, 00:14:05.320 --> 00:14:07.744 on the day of testing in the wilderness, 00:14:07.744 --> 00:14:09.412 where your ancestors tested me, 00:14:09.466 --> 00:14:09.978 tried me, 00:14:09.978 --> 00:14:12.644 and saw my works for 40 years. 00:14:12.762 --> 00:14:15.370 They saw what I had done, 00:14:16.220 --> 00:14:18.250 they knew who I was, 00:14:18.780 --> 00:14:20.836 and they defiantly. 00:14:21.028 --> 00:14:21.770 Right. 00:14:23.340 --> 00:14:25.850 We're not going to listen to you. 00:14:26.400 --> 00:14:28.830 We're not going to obey you. 00:14:29.920 --> 00:14:30.910 You see? 00:14:31.360 --> 00:14:33.470 Get mad if you want to. 00:14:35.040 --> 00:14:37.350 We're going to do our own thing. 00:14:37.440 --> 00:14:39.058 That's what this is referring to. 00:14:39.058 --> 00:14:39.970 And God's saying, 00:14:39.970 --> 00:14:40.732 hear the warning. 00:14:40.732 --> 00:14:43.206 And then he goes on so far as to say this, 00:14:43.206 --> 00:14:43.766 watch out, 00:14:43.766 --> 00:14:44.732 brothers and sisters, 00:14:44.732 --> 00:14:50.392 so that there won't be in any of you an evil, 00:14:50.476 --> 00:14:51.750 unbelieving heart. 00:14:52.840 --> 00:14:55.172 Evil, unbelieving heart. 00:14:55.226 --> 00:14:57.206 Now, can I just be honest? 00:14:57.082 --> 00:14:58.950 56 and a 55. 00:15:00.840 --> 00:15:02.112 Evil and unbelieving. 00:15:02.176 --> 00:15:03.082 I'm not sure of that. 00:15:03.082 --> 00:15:04.600 But it is defiant, 00:15:05.260 --> 00:15:06.920 right? I mean, 00:15:06.990 --> 00:15:08.334 he's not here in this hour. 00:15:08.206 --> 00:15:09.678 He comes at the 925 hours. 00:15:09.678 --> 00:15:13.308 But we do have a highway patrolman that attends the gathering. 00:15:16.720 --> 00:15:25.740 I was driving down 17 one day and he went by me like a shot. 00:15:26.080 --> 00:15:27.026 A little bit later, 00:15:27.026 --> 00:15:28.676 he texted me and said, 00:15:28.900 --> 00:15:29.560 he said, 00:15:29.606 --> 00:15:33.760 that's what a particular speed looks like on 17. 00:15:34.740 --> 00:15:36.210 He was after somebody, 00:15:36.580 --> 00:15:39.904 right? But he can do that. 00:15:40.102 --> 00:15:41.200 I can't. 00:15:41.700 --> 00:15:45.552 So let's think about the subtleties of hearing God's warning. 00:15:45.616 --> 00:15:47.402 What is it that God has called us to? 00:15:47.402 --> 00:15:52.964 What is it that God has said for us in order to be his children, 00:15:53.082 --> 00:15:53.796 his people, 00:15:53.898 --> 00:15:58.744 his followers of Jesus acknowledging who he is and what he's done on our 00:15:58.782 --> 00:15:59.956 behalf, our salvation, 00:16:00.068 --> 00:16:01.092 our redemption, 00:16:01.236 --> 00:16:03.230 the trust that we've placed in him, 00:16:03.230 --> 00:16:06.078 the fact that we make the confession because it comes in here, 00:16:06.078 --> 00:16:09.096 this idea of if we hold on to our confession, 00:16:09.096 --> 00:16:10.568 our confession that Jesus is Lord, 00:16:10.568 --> 00:16:11.660 Jesus is master, 00:16:12.240 --> 00:16:16.828 Jesus is the very center of my identity and my being. 00:16:16.914 --> 00:16:17.710 You see, 00:16:18.180 --> 00:16:19.756 if that's my confession, 00:16:19.868 --> 00:16:26.160 then I should obey the principles of that confession that I bow and 00:16:26.230 --> 00:16:29.040 surrender to Jesus, 00:16:29.540 --> 00:16:30.640 my Lord. 00:16:31.540 --> 00:16:33.850 I don't go out and live defiantly. 00:16:33.644 --> 00:16:35.856 Just my selfish intentions. 00:16:36.048 --> 00:16:37.754 I don't go out there and go, 00:16:37.754 --> 00:16:40.058 I don't care that you died on the cross for me, 00:16:40.058 --> 00:16:42.650 I'm going to do what I want to see, 00:16:42.650 --> 00:16:47.112 that's the picture of the rebellion that the writer of Hebrews is talking 00:16:47.166 --> 00:16:52.490 about. I don't care that you love me the most and the best, 00:16:54.460 --> 00:16:59.538 right? There was a time in my life when God was dealing with me in some 00:16:59.538 --> 00:17:07.596 issues. There became a prayer of mine during that time in which I would 00:17:07.618 --> 00:17:09.020 just pray and tell Jesus, 00:17:09.020 --> 00:17:13.360 Jesus, I love you more than I love my sin. 00:17:17.290 --> 00:17:20.260 Jesus, I love you more than I love myself. 00:17:21.290 --> 00:17:24.522 See, God was dealing with me on some things. 00:17:24.576 --> 00:17:25.930 Some selfishness, 00:17:26.750 --> 00:17:28.582 some self serving. 00:17:28.646 --> 00:17:37.134 Just. I don't care that you told me to take up my cross daily and die to 00:17:37.172 --> 00:17:37.760 myself. 00:17:40.050 --> 00:17:41.930 Remember my childish stance. 00:17:42.090 --> 00:17:45.010 I want what I want when I want it. 00:17:45.010 --> 00:17:48.610 That is the admonition of our culture and our society. 00:17:51.430 --> 00:17:54.062 See, this idea of evil, 00:17:54.126 --> 00:17:57.714 unbelieving heart to avoid a hard heart that says, 00:17:57.752 --> 00:17:58.968 I want what I want. 00:17:58.968 --> 00:18:00.552 I don't care what you want. 00:18:00.552 --> 00:18:02.546 I don't care about your instructions. 00:18:02.658 --> 00:18:07.510 I particularly don't care what you've done on my behalf. 00:18:08.170 --> 00:18:11.470 See, that's what the people in the rebellion were doing. 00:18:11.212 --> 00:18:13.990 God had delivered them from slavery. 00:18:14.570 --> 00:18:18.070 God had taken them out into a wilderness area, 00:18:18.140 --> 00:18:19.830 taken them through the Red Sea. 00:18:19.830 --> 00:18:21.840 God had provided for them in every way. 00:18:21.840 --> 00:18:22.576 And they had said, 00:18:22.576 --> 00:18:23.872 we don't care what you've done. 00:18:23.872 --> 00:18:26.182 We want to go back to Egypt. 00:18:27.710 --> 00:18:29.360 We want to go back. 00:18:30.624 --> 00:18:31.738 Even though we were slaves, 00:18:31.738 --> 00:18:33.718 we were at least safe there. 00:18:34.770 --> 00:18:39.038 See, a hard heart rebellion, 00:18:39.134 --> 00:18:46.898 unbelief that turns away from the living God. 00:18:46.984 --> 00:18:48.206 See, that's the warning, 00:18:48.206 --> 00:18:50.458 y'all. That's the warning. 00:18:50.574 --> 00:18:52.006 Now we say, 00:18:52.028 --> 00:18:52.348 oh, yeah, 00:18:52.348 --> 00:18:53.668 I know I sin. 00:18:53.714 --> 00:18:54.188 Oh, yeah, 00:18:54.188 --> 00:18:57.400 I know my sin is, 00:18:57.930 --> 00:18:58.920 on some level, 00:18:58.956 --> 00:19:00.722 yes. Call it casual disobedience, 00:19:00.786 --> 00:19:02.436 but on the other level, 00:19:02.670 --> 00:19:04.570 it's rebellion. 00:19:06.430 --> 00:19:14.186 It's the failure to surrender who we are to who he is and what he's done. 00:19:14.368 --> 00:19:15.568 So when I look at these things, 00:19:15.568 --> 00:19:16.080 I'm thinking, 00:19:16.080 --> 00:19:18.788 God has told us to avoid this hard heart. 00:19:18.580 --> 00:19:19.162 Be careful. 00:19:19.162 --> 00:19:20.080 Watch out. 00:19:20.770 --> 00:19:22.362 See, I like it that translate. 00:19:22.362 --> 00:19:23.200 Watch out, 00:19:24.210 --> 00:19:25.860 man. If you're walking along, 00:19:26.450 --> 00:19:28.744 let's say you're walking down the street and you hear somebody go, 00:19:28.744 --> 00:19:29.404 watch out, 00:19:29.416 --> 00:19:29.746 man. 00:19:29.672 --> 00:19:30.302 I'm ducking. 00:19:30.302 --> 00:19:31.256 I don't know what's coming, 00:19:31.256 --> 00:19:32.430 but I'm ducking. 00:19:32.590 --> 00:19:35.570 Right? Thank you for the warning. 00:19:35.910 --> 00:19:36.660 Right. 00:19:37.670 --> 00:19:41.320 That's kind of the picture that the writer is portraying for us here. 00:19:41.320 --> 00:19:43.458 And when it talks about the evil, 00:19:43.458 --> 00:19:44.694 unbelieving heart. 00:19:44.892 --> 00:19:46.012 And I've been saying this, 00:19:46.012 --> 00:19:47.596 and we were talking about it this week, 00:19:47.596 --> 00:19:50.610 this idea of the self- centered, 00:19:50.690 --> 00:19:53.190 selfish, self- serving, 00:19:53.270 --> 00:19:56.890 self- whatever nature of our culture and society, 00:19:57.630 --> 00:20:01.610 right? Who suffers when we only serve ourselves? 00:20:02.110 --> 00:20:04.122 Everybody around us. 00:20:04.256 --> 00:20:08.560 And I was talking to Megan about children's ministry and stuff, 00:20:09.090 --> 00:20:14.238 and the greatest suffering we see in our society today is in children 00:20:14.324 --> 00:20:17.652 whose parents are more about serving themselves than they are about 00:20:17.652 --> 00:20:19.302 taking care of their kids. 00:20:21.750 --> 00:20:22.328 See that? 00:20:22.328 --> 00:20:23.416 And I'm just like, 00:20:23.416 --> 00:20:26.130 that's evil and unbelieving, 00:20:30.420 --> 00:20:32.038 but here you go now. 00:20:32.038 --> 00:20:32.298 All right, 00:20:32.298 --> 00:20:32.826 good news. 00:20:32.826 --> 00:20:36.816 Ready? But encourage each other daily. 00:20:37.008 --> 00:20:42.016 While it is still called today so that none of you is hardened by sin's 00:20:42.048 --> 00:20:45.940 deception. For we have become participants, 00:20:46.020 --> 00:20:48.680 partners, companions with Jesus. 00:20:49.500 --> 00:20:53.806 We hold firmly until the end the reality that we had at the start. 00:20:53.806 --> 00:20:55.126 What is that reality? 00:20:54.900 --> 00:20:57.320 Jesus is Lord. 00:20:58.000 --> 00:20:59.180 I bow. 00:20:59.680 --> 00:21:00.712 I surrender. 00:21:00.776 --> 00:21:04.460 I give up myself for Jesus. 00:21:05.920 --> 00:21:12.304 Hold on to know somebody came out with some famous bracelets about that, 00:21:12.342 --> 00:21:12.930 right? 00:21:13.780 --> 00:21:15.410 What would Jesus do, 00:21:16.180 --> 00:21:17.280 man? I mean, 00:21:17.350 --> 00:21:18.432 anything you do, 00:21:18.486 --> 00:21:19.462 any choice you make, 00:21:19.462 --> 00:21:21.184 any attitude you hold, 00:21:21.382 --> 00:21:23.032 any activity of your life, 00:21:23.062 --> 00:21:24.132 the question is, 00:21:24.266 --> 00:21:25.840 does it honor Jesus? 00:21:25.920 --> 00:21:28.938 Is it bowed and surrendered before the throne of God? 00:21:28.938 --> 00:21:30.154 Because if it's not, 00:21:30.154 --> 00:21:31.110 stop it. 00:21:35.300 --> 00:21:36.046 I had people, 00:21:36.046 --> 00:21:38.026 young people that I used to. 00:21:38.220 --> 00:21:41.190 I was a youth pastor for a long time. 00:21:41.420 --> 00:21:42.318 Young people say, 00:21:42.318 --> 00:21:43.506 I just can't help. 00:21:43.506 --> 00:21:44.728 And I'd just sit there at my desk, 00:21:44.728 --> 00:21:45.790 go, stop it. 00:21:46.320 --> 00:21:47.756 They'd look at me. 00:21:47.938 --> 00:21:48.418 They said, 00:21:48.418 --> 00:21:49.780 but Pastor Bobby, 00:21:49.880 --> 00:21:50.262 I go, 00:21:50.262 --> 00:21:51.170 stop it. 00:21:52.340 --> 00:21:55.440 Actually took it from a video of Bob Newhart. 00:21:56.900 --> 00:21:58.550 You want to find it? 00:21:58.980 --> 00:21:59.932 Go YouTube. 00:21:59.996 --> 00:22:01.068 Bob Newhart. 00:22:01.164 --> 00:22:02.100 Stop it. 00:22:02.250 --> 00:22:04.186 You'll see this bit that he did, 00:22:04.186 --> 00:22:06.154 where this lady sat in front of him, 00:22:06.154 --> 00:22:07.990 started explaining why, 00:22:08.440 --> 00:22:11.364 how she couldn't explain something in her life. 00:22:11.402 --> 00:22:12.218 And he said, 00:22:12.218 --> 00:22:15.588 okay, I'm just going to say this to you. 00:22:15.674 --> 00:22:16.058 She said, 00:22:16.058 --> 00:22:17.098 well, do I need to write down? 00:22:16.938 --> 00:22:17.338 He goes, 00:22:17.338 --> 00:22:18.126 no, it's simple. 00:22:18.126 --> 00:22:19.134 You can figure it out. 00:22:19.134 --> 00:22:20.010 It's fine. 00:22:20.540 --> 00:22:21.240 He goes, 00:22:21.310 --> 00:22:22.170 stop it. 00:22:23.500 --> 00:22:24.152 Right? 00:22:24.286 --> 00:22:27.310 See, when we consider who God is, 00:22:27.840 --> 00:22:30.190 we consider what he's done. 00:22:30.720 --> 00:22:35.932 There is no excuse for those of us who are companions and partners with 00:22:35.986 --> 00:22:40.380 Christ to justify our rebellion. 00:22:42.320 --> 00:22:45.152 Okay? There's nothing to justify it. 00:22:45.286 --> 00:22:50.064 You can't make the case to defend yourself because there's no defense to 00:22:50.102 --> 00:22:51.460 justify sin. 00:22:52.040 --> 00:22:55.092 Okay? He repeats it today. 00:22:55.146 --> 00:22:56.032 If you hear his voice, 00:22:56.032 --> 00:22:59.380 do not harden your hearts as in the rebellion. 00:23:00.920 --> 00:23:04.276 Then he asks the rhetorical questions from verse 16 through 19. 00:23:04.308 --> 00:23:04.894 He says, 00:23:04.894 --> 00:23:06.478 for who heard and rebelled? 00:23:06.308 --> 00:23:07.358 Well, we know what he's talking about. 00:23:07.358 --> 00:23:10.810 He's speaking to jewish people, 00:23:11.180 --> 00:23:15.700 to the christians who have trusted Jesus as Messiah, 00:23:15.860 --> 00:23:18.664 who are of the jewish culture, 00:23:18.792 --> 00:23:20.104 ethnicity, faith, 00:23:20.152 --> 00:23:21.142 all of it. 00:23:21.234 --> 00:23:23.960 And they've recognized Christ as Messiah. 00:23:24.040 --> 00:23:26.488 But the challenge of the book of Hebrews, 00:23:26.488 --> 00:23:27.912 and we find it out in later chapters, 00:23:27.912 --> 00:23:33.936 is that some of them were being persecuted and were tempted to go back to 00:23:33.958 --> 00:23:35.040 the Judaism. 00:23:35.620 --> 00:23:37.702 And so the writer of Hebrews is. 00:23:37.414 --> 00:23:38.290 No, no. 00:23:38.820 --> 00:23:40.952 Remember that Jesus died. 00:23:41.036 --> 00:23:41.968 He is the lamb. 00:23:41.968 --> 00:23:43.300 Not all those lambs. 00:23:43.800 --> 00:23:45.120 It is his blood. 00:23:45.008 --> 00:23:48.148 Not that blood that redeems you, 00:23:48.234 --> 00:23:49.590 that forgives you. 00:23:51.240 --> 00:23:52.458 That's what he says right there. 00:23:52.458 --> 00:23:52.954 He says, 00:23:52.954 --> 00:23:54.692 for who heard and rebelled? 00:23:54.756 --> 00:23:58.056 Wasn't it all who came out of Egypt under Moses? 00:23:58.540 --> 00:24:03.016 And estimates are somewhere between four and 6 million people that were 00:24:03.038 --> 00:24:07.458 the captives in Egypt that came out on their way to the promised land and 00:24:07.458 --> 00:24:08.700 they rebelled. 00:24:11.760 --> 00:24:14.188 With whom was God angry for 40 years? 00:24:14.274 --> 00:24:15.594 Wasn't it all those? 00:24:15.602 --> 00:24:17.544 Wasn't it with those who sinned, 00:24:17.544 --> 00:24:19.840 whose bodies fell in the wilderness? 00:24:21.140 --> 00:24:25.280 Some estimates 3000 people died when they created a gold calf. 00:24:28.820 --> 00:24:32.804 Most commentators tell you those were the leaders of the rebellion that 00:24:32.842 --> 00:24:34.420 died in the wilderness. 00:24:36.440 --> 00:24:40.202 And to whom did he swear that they would not enter his rest if not to 00:24:40.202 --> 00:24:41.860 those who disobeyed? 00:24:43.980 --> 00:24:48.692 So we see that they were unable to enter because of unbelief. 00:24:48.756 --> 00:24:53.770 Now understand that in Christ, 00:24:54.300 --> 00:24:58.260 I told you before and people disagree with me and that's fine. 00:24:58.960 --> 00:25:01.484 Unbelief. See, 00:25:01.602 --> 00:25:05.314 I happen to be one of those people that I don't have the power, 00:25:05.314 --> 00:25:08.030 strength or anything to undo what God does. 00:25:08.660 --> 00:25:10.118 So when God saved me, 00:25:10.118 --> 00:25:11.200 I was saved, 00:25:11.860 --> 00:25:12.610 right? 00:25:12.980 --> 00:25:14.332 Do I still sin? 00:25:14.476 --> 00:25:16.450 56 is tough for me. 00:25:18.980 --> 00:25:20.300 You see my point? 00:25:20.600 --> 00:25:21.590 Here you go. 00:25:21.754 --> 00:25:23.060 The rebellion, 00:25:23.480 --> 00:25:30.144 the unbelief he's talking about is the denial of who God is and what he's 00:25:30.192 --> 00:25:38.410 done. The refusal to trust God is the unbelief that is translated there 00:25:40.220 --> 00:25:42.168 to rebel against God, 00:25:42.254 --> 00:25:45.544 to doubt that God is God, 00:25:45.582 --> 00:25:46.898 but more than that, 00:25:46.898 --> 00:25:53.950 to live a life that proclaims God is not God. 00:25:56.160 --> 00:25:57.230 See that? 00:25:58.180 --> 00:26:00.490 And there are people who do that. 00:26:00.580 --> 00:26:03.220 We see it around us all the time. 00:26:03.780 --> 00:26:11.376 We see people who just denounce God and what he has said to us to rebel 00:26:11.408 --> 00:26:12.468 against God. 00:26:12.634 --> 00:26:16.208 And the failure of their rebellion resulted. 00:26:16.304 --> 00:26:20.298 The consequences of driving in the left lane when the left lane is 00:26:20.298 --> 00:26:22.660 closed. Consequences. 00:26:23.400 --> 00:26:28.070 You don't get the rest that God's offer. 00:26:29.500 --> 00:26:36.124 We all know people that struggle in their lives and go through hard 00:26:36.162 --> 00:26:40.392 times. And we know some of those people who don't trust Jesus. 00:26:40.456 --> 00:26:42.988 And we say something like, 00:26:43.154 --> 00:26:47.580 I just don't know how people live without Jesus. 00:26:48.420 --> 00:26:53.810 But there are some people who defiantly shake their fist at God and say, 00:26:54.340 --> 00:26:56.640 I will not bow. 00:26:58.420 --> 00:27:00.930 See, watch out, 00:27:02.200 --> 00:27:03.172 watch out. 00:27:03.306 --> 00:27:04.576 That's the warning. 00:27:04.768 --> 00:27:06.836 It's a hard caution for us. 00:27:07.018 --> 00:27:08.310 Don't miss it. 00:27:08.680 --> 00:27:10.192 Let's bow and surrender. 00:27:10.256 --> 00:27:10.858 Pray with me. 00:27:10.858 --> 00:27:14.442 Father, thank you for today and for all that you have done. 00:27:14.442 --> 00:27:15.830 God, we love you. 00:27:16.760 --> 00:27:18.740 Thank you for every person here. 00:27:19.500 --> 00:27:23.198 Thank you for the fact that you knew everybody that'd be here, 00:27:23.198 --> 00:27:24.302 even the one I met early, 00:27:24.302 --> 00:27:25.934 and you knew where we would be, 00:27:25.934 --> 00:27:27.204 where we would be sitting. 00:27:27.204 --> 00:27:27.966 You knew God, 00:27:27.966 --> 00:27:29.662 what our hearts were prepared to hear. 00:27:29.662 --> 00:27:29.918 And so, 00:27:29.918 --> 00:27:34.622 God, I pray that you have prepared our hearts to hear you and that God, 00:27:34.622 --> 00:27:36.036 if we are in rebellion, 00:27:36.036 --> 00:27:38.308 if we're the ones defiantly shaking our fists, 00:27:38.308 --> 00:27:38.950 that you, 00:27:38.950 --> 00:27:42.636 Father, my prayer would be that we would submit, 00:27:42.748 --> 00:27:47.184 surrender, bow and worship you because you are God. 00:27:47.222 --> 00:27:50.742 If there's even one here this morning that doesn't know Jesus. 00:27:50.340 --> 00:27:51.708 God, that's where it starts. 00:27:51.708 --> 00:27:54.018 We've got to bow and know Jesus. 00:27:54.340 --> 00:27:55.900 And then we surrender. 00:27:56.060 --> 00:27:56.518 Thank you, 00:27:56.518 --> 00:27:57.622 God, for your love for us. 00:27:57.622 --> 00:27:59.142 Help us to love you back. 00:27:58.870 --> 00:28:00.182 We pray it in Jesus name. 00:28:00.182 --> 00:28:00.460 Amen.