05242020 The Dangers of a Hard Heart Psalm 95; Hebrews 3:7-16

Hebrews 3:6-11 6 but Christ is faithful over God’s house as a son. And we are his house if indeed we hold fast our confidence and our boasting in our hope. 7 Therefore, as the Holy Spirit says, “Today, if you hear his voice, 8 do not harden your hearts as in the rebellion, on the day of testing in the wilderness, 9 where your fathers put me to the test and saw my works for forty years. 10 Therefore I was provoked with that generation, and said, ‘They always go astray in their heart; they have not known my ways.’ 11 As I swore in my wrath, ‘They shall not enter my rest.’” BIG IDEA: REJECTING JESUS IN UNBELIEF IS MORE SERIOUS THAN REJECTING MOSES, SO GOD’S PEOPLE NEED ENCOURAGEMENT TO OVERCOME SIN AND ENDURE IN THEIR COMMITMENT TO CHRIST. WORSHIP IS… the activity of focusing on and responding with our whole heart, voice and very lives to the greatness, beauty and worthiness of God. I. Introduction Psalm 95:7-11 II. Our Lord Jesus Christ is Better Than All the Rest He 3:1-6 III. Being a Member of God’s House is Conditional He 3:6, 14; 1 Pe 2:4-5 GOD’S HOUSEHOLD IS… all people who hold to the courage, hope and original conviction of faith in Christ until the very end. IV. Our Assurance of Salvation Rests in God’s Ability He 13:7-8, 20-21 V. The Wilderness Experience • In the Wilderness Nothing Completely Satisfies • In the Wilderness God Seems Distant • In the Wilderness Your Heart Can Become Hard VI. Today’s Stern & Loving Warning From God He 3:7-14; Nu 11:5-6 This sermon can be listened to again @ • thecommunityofgrace.org/connect/sermons • faithlife.com/the-community-of-grace-memphis PASTOR MARK DEMIRE Grace THE COMMUNITY OF THE DANGERS OF A HARD HEART PSALM 95; HEBREWS 3:1-14 MAY 17, 2020