Find Rest

Find Rest

Dave Riddle - 11/26/2023

Key Passages: Hebrews 3:7-19, Psalm 95:7-11

Grumbling in the Wilderness

- Exodus 17:1-7

- Hebrews 3:8 - Test

Watch out brothers and sisters…

- Hebrews 3:12

- Who is the author speaking to? Believers, unbelievers, people who have been exposed to the gospel but haven’t yet accepted it?

- It’s unclear.

- “Departs” = Apostasy / aphestemi: to desist, desert, etc. to depart, fall away, refrain, retire, withdraw or remove oneself, cease from something. To stand alone.

- How does this apply to eternal security, once saved always saved, perseverance of the saints?

- Rest vs unrest

- Testing, rebelling, grumbling lead to a place of unrest and hardened hearts.

- Hebrews 3:12-13

- Mutual encouragement protects us and leads to rest.

- Hebrews 3:13-14

Partners with Christ

- Hebrews 3:14

- Hebrews 3:6

Rebellion in the Wilderness

- Hebrews 3:15-17

- Numbers 13 & 14

- Numbers 14:20-34

- disobedience, unbelief, and rebellion leads to unrest.

- Hebrews 3:18