Life Together: Encourage One Another (Hebrews 2:13-14)
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Today’s Scripture: Hebrews 3:12-13
Pages 1002 in our guest Bibles.
KNOW YOURSELF“
”
Why it is that of all the billions and
billions of strange objects in the
cosmos—novas, quasars, pulsars,
black holes—YOU are beyond
doubt the strangest?
“We knowersare unknown
to ourselves...”Friedrich Nietzsche
German Philosopher
God cannot give us peace and
happiness APART from Himself
because there is NO such thing.
~ CS LewisMere Christianity
“ENCOURAGEONE ANOTHER”
Hebrews 3:12-13
Looking out for One Another
Take care, brothers, lest there be in
Hebrews 3:12
in any of you an evil, unbelieving heart, leading you to fall away from the living God....
“Above all elseGUARD your HEART,
for it is the wellspring of life.”
~ Proverbs 4:23, NIV
SINFUL HEART
UNBELIEVING HEART
TURNING AWAY HEART
HARDENED HEART
But exhort one another every day,
Hebrews 3:13
as long as it is called “today,” that none of you may be hardened bythe deceitfulness of sin.
“The heart is DECEITFUL
above all things....”~ Jeremiah 17:9
But exhort one another every day,
Hebrews 3:13
as long as it is called “today,” that none of you may be hardened bythe deceitfulness of sin.
We desperately need the intentional encouragement
of one anotherto run the race well.
Answerthe question:
BeSUSPICIOUS
of YOURSELF
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“The seeds of every known sin
lay dormant in our hearts.”~ Robert Murray McCheyne
(1813-1843)
“We would all like to think that no one knows
our hearts better than we do. We would like to
believe that others may be self-deceived, but we are not. It’s simply not true. Since sin is in its essence deceptive, as long as sin lives in our
hearts, we will tend to be blind to the true condition
of our hearts.
Paul TrippInstruments in the Redeemer’s Hands
“But more must be said. Not only will we be blind
to our hearts, but we will be blind to our
blindness, thinking we see when we really
don’t.”
Paul TrippInstruments in the Redeemer’s Hands
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Live close to Jesus
ANDHis people
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Pursue & invite accountability
“I like the idea of accountability--
in the lives ofother people.”
“...personal insight is the product of
community. I need you in order to
really see and know myself. Otherwise, I will listen to my own arguments, believe my own lies, and buy into my own
delusions...”
“My self-perception is as accurate as a
carnival mirror. If I am going to see myself clearly, I
need you to hold the mirror of God’s
Word in front of me.”
Are you regularly informing others of your tempta-
tions and sins, or do you present to them a carefully
edited and flattering version
of yourself?
“The CreamCheese Story”
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