GOOD LIVING
Hebrews 13:1 - 17
GRACIOUS LIVING
1. Keep on loving each other as brothers. 2 Do not forget to entertain strangers, for by so doing some people have entertained angels without knowing it. 3 Remember those in prison as if you were their fellow prisoners, and those who are mistreated as if you yourselves were suffering.
A. The Bible says keep on loving each others as brothers
1. This suggest that we have established a relationship.
2. We have had some dealings with each other,
3. The text suggest that we have some problems with others.
4. For God to tell me to keep on loving, I must have a problem
loving.
B. I got to get myself right, to love
1. I got to love God enough to love you.
2. No matter what kind of issues we have, the Lord says,
keep on loving.
3. I got to put me and my problems aside to keep on loving some
one else.
C. When, I leave the house, I need to be in a loving mode.
1. The text says “Be kind to strangers because you never know when
you might be entertaining an angel.
2. God got some blessings for you in the street.
3. God can bless your going and your coming
4. Your attitude toward others determine your blessings.
5. We need to be on our best behavior in the house and out the
house.
D. My attitude determines my altitude.
LET THE CHURCH START AT HOME
V:4-5. Marriage should be honored by all, and the marriage bed kept pure, for God will judge the adulterer and all the sexually immoral. 5 Keep your lives free from the love of money and be content with what you have,
A. Your life ought be a refection of the Church of Jesus Christ.
1. The body is the temple of the Lord.
2. God’s first human institution is marriage.
3. Honor has to start with you.
a. You have to carry yourself like Jesus is your marriage
partner and role model.
b. When Jesus is honored first, your spouse will be honored
by you.
c. How you treat those closest to you is an indication of how
you might treat others.
B. Two types of marriages are represented here.
1. Physical Marriage.
a. God want us to be a comfort to each other.
b. In a marriage, two are stronger than one alone.
c. In a marriage we must learn trust and respect.
d. Since the two have become one, when you disrespect your
spouse, you disrespect yourself.
e. God hates adultery.
2. Spiritual Marriage
a. All of us are marriage to Christ, He is the
bride groom and we are his bride.
b. Jesus is true to us.
c. Jesus expects us to be true to him.
d. Spiritual adultery is putting something or
someone before Jesus.
e. No one can do you like Jesus.
C. Contentment in life is loving what you have.
1. Money will not buy happiness or contentment.
2. There will always be something newer, something bigger
and something more exciting than what you have.
3. If you are grateful to God for what you have, He will give
you more.
CONFIDENT LIVING
because God has said,
"Never will I leave you; never will I forsake you."
6 So we say with confidence,
"The Lord is my helper; I will not be afraid. What can man do to me?"
7 Remember your leaders, who spoke the word of God to you. Consider the outcome of their way of life and imitate their faith. 8 Jesus Christ is the same yesterday and today and forever.
A. With Jesus on our side, we have nothing to worry about.
1. When things don’t go our way, trust Jesus.
2. Philippians 4:6
Do not be anxious about anything, but in everything, by prayer and
petition, with thanksgiving, present your requests to God.
B. God has given us shepherds of His Church.
1. The vision of the Church has been given to our pastors.
2. God gives our pastors an understanding of His Word to
enlighten us in all our ways.
3. We should remember our pastors in words and deeds.
a. We should remember our pastors in prayer every day.
b. We should remember our pastors in our giving.
c. They support us spiritually.
d. We should support them financially.
c.1 Corinthians 9:14
In the same way, the Lord has commanded that those who preach the
gospel should receive their living from the gospel.
d. Those who support their pastors will receive a pastors reward.
Matthew 10:41
Anyone who receives a prophet because he is a prophet will receive a
prophet's reward.
TRUTHFUL LIVING
V:9-10. Do not be carried away by all kinds of strange teachings. It is good for our hearts to be strengthened by grace, not by ceremonial foods, which are of no value to those who eat them. 10 We have an altar from which those who minister at the tabernacle have no right to eat.
A. Our knowledge of God comes from the Word.
1. The Word is the only truth we need.
2. We should keep our conversations focused on the Lord.
B. We gain our strength from faith in the Word of God.
1. God has favored believers with an understanding of the Word.
2. Those who claim that ceremonies have value, have no understanding
of the Word.
3. Food eaten by man, goes in one end and come out the other end with
no spiritual value.
4. We have a right to the table of Jesus at which the Word is continuously
served which provides salvation.
4. Those who reject Christ as High Priest, have no place at the table of
Jesus.
SPIRITUAL LIVING
V:11-14. The high priest carries the blood of animals into the Most Holy Place as a sin offering, but the bodies are burned outside the camp. 12 And so Jesus also suffered outside the city gate to make the people holy through his own blood. 13 Let us, then, go to him outside the camp, bearing the disgrace he bore. 14 For here we do not have an enduring city, but we are looking for the city that is to come.
A. In the temple, all the Old Testament sacrifices were made inside
the city wall by the temple priest.
1. Jesus who the temple priest rejected, was wrongly accused inside the
wall by the Chief Priest and all religious leaders.
2. He was taken outside the temple wall and crucified on a hill call
Golgotha for the sins of all men.
B. It was outside the temple and outside the wall of the city
where our salvation was gained though the blood of our High Priest
on the cross.
1. The temple and the city of Jerusalem was burned to the ground in
seventy AD.
2. We have no city on earth built by human hands to look forward to.
3. Our eternal city will be established when Jesus come back for
his elect which includes all believers.
4. Our faith in His Word gives us joy as we wait for His return
SACRIFICIAL LIVING
V:15-16. Through Jesus, therefore, let us continually offer to God a sacrifice of praise — the fruit of lips that confess his name. 16 And do not forget to do good and to share with others, for with such sacrifices God is pleased.
A. We are commanded to give God praise and glory.
1. Our job is to confess Jesus as our Lord and Savior.
2. In our conversation, let our testimony draw others to Christ.
B. The life of a believers should be one of sharing with others what
God has blessed us with.
1. Doing good should be our motto. Do unto others as you would have
them do for you.
2. Jesus sacrificed his life for us. It is not to much for us to make
sacrifices for the good of others.
C. Pleasing God should be our first priority.
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