Sermon
Encouragement and Warning
Stonebrook Community Church
Speaker: Matt Heerema
April 7, 2024 · 31 min
Summary
Through Hebrews 10:19-39, the author exhorts believers to approach God boldly through Christ's sacrifice, holding fast to faith, hope, and love while warning of judgment for those who reject Him. Listeners learn that Christ's blood permanently removes sin, enabling direct access to God and requiring regular communal encouragement to resist cultural pressure and persecution.
Highlights
You are not those who draw back and are destroyed, but those who have faith and are saved.
It's only the power and mere pleasure of God that holds you up, not letting you fall into that final consequence in hell so that you have a chance to hear.
God is not the one dangling you over the flames. You are dangling yourself. God is holding on to you, out of mercy, so that you have an opportunity this morning to finally hear that Christ is the Savior.