Summer Series: “Jesus and the Transformation of Worship” Hebrews 10

Summer Series: “Jesus and the Transformation of Worship”

Hebrews 10

“The change we most yearn for is available to us only

through the Triune God who transforms his people within

the divine community, the church—The People of the Table. I believe and want to convince you that ‘it takes a church to raise a Christian.’”

Tod Bolsinger

The Rest of the Study

August 8 – Chapters 11-12

August 15 – Chapter 13

Shepherd Sunday

Hebrews 13:7

Remember your leaders, those who spoke to you

the word of God. Consider the outcome of

their way of life, and imitate their faith.

Obey your leaders and submit to them, for they are keeping watch

over your souls, as those who will have to give an account. Let

them do this with joy and not with groaning, for that would be

of no advantage to you.

Hebrews 13:17

Greet all your leaders and all the saints....

Hebrews 13:24

And when they had appointed elders for them in

every church, with prayer and fasting they committed them to the Lord in whom

they had believed.

Acts 14:23

Now from Miletus he sent to Ephesus and called the elders of the church to come to him.

18 And when they came to him, he said to them…

Acts 20: 17

Pay careful attention to yourselves and to all the flock, in which the Holy

Spirit has made you overseers, to care for the church of God, which he

obtained with his own blood.

Acts 20:28

•Like a shepherd’s care

•Communicates God’s Word

•Gives an account to Christ

•Known and loved by God’s people

Elder Leadership

•Service starts in worship center

•Worship continues in eight small groups

•Instruction, Communion, Prayer, Fellowship

•Person to person ministry from our leaders

Shepherds’ Sunday


Hebrews 10

Overview of Chapter 10

Summary of Major Truth



Obedient Response to that Truth



Obedient Response to that Truth

Solemn Warning against Refusing that Truth


Hebrews 10:19-25

10:19-25 Concerns Corporate Worship

•“Let us” (vv. 22,23,24)


•“Let us” (vv. 22,23,24)

•“Brothers” (v. 19)


•“Let us” (vv. 22,23,24)


•Day of Atonement references


•“Let us” (vv. 22,23,24)



•“House of God” (v. 21)

I hope to come to you soon, but I am writing these

things to you so that, if I delay, you may know how one ought to behave in the household of God, which is

the church of the living God, a pillar and buttress of

the truth.

1 Timothy 3:14-15


•“Let us” (vv. 22,23,24)




•Verbal “confession” (v. 23)


•“Let us” (vv. 22,23,24)





•“One-another” activity (vv.24-25)


•“Let us” (vv. 22,23,24)





•“One-another” activity (vv.24-25)

•“meet together” (v. 25)

"should be understood as simply the regular gathering

together of Christian believers for worship and exhortation in a

particular place -- a practice that first took place daily (Acts 2:46) but subsequently weekly,

on the first day of the week (Acts 20:7, 1 Corinthians 16:2)."

P. E. Hughes

“If you turn back … from doing your pleasure on my holy day, and call the Sabbath a delight and the holy day of the Lord

honorable; if you honor it, not going your own ways, or

seeking your own pleasure, or talking idly; then you shall take

delight in the Lord ….”

Isaiah 58:13-14

A Sunday Schedule (10:19-25)

PREPARATION

Let Us Draw Near

“The washing of the body with pure water is surely a reference to baptism.... But the thing that

distinguished Christian baptism from the multiplicity of lustrations that were practiced in the religions

of the ancient world was that … baptism was the outward sign of an

inward cleansing, and it was the latter that was the more important.”

Leon Morris

Baptism … now saves you, not as a removal of dirt from the body but as an appeal to God for a good conscience, through the resurrection of Jesus Christ, who has gone

into heaven and is at the right hand of God….

1 Peter 3:21


PREPARATION

Let Us Draw Near

APPROACH

"Abba, Father!" we approach Thee

In our Saviour's precious name:

We, Thy children, here assembling,

Now the promised blessing claim.

From our sins His blood hath washed us;

'Tis through Him our souls draw nigh;

And Thy Spirit, too, has taught us,

"Abba Father!" thus to cry.

Once as prodigals we wandered,

In our folly, far from Thee;

But Thy grace, o'er sin abounding,

Rescued us from misery.

Thou Thy prodigals hast pardoned,

Loved us with a Father's love;

Welcomed us with joy o'erflowing,

E'en to dwell with Thee above.

Clothed in garments of salvation,

At Thy table is our place;

We rejoice, and Thou rejoicest

In the riches of Thy grace.

"It is meet," we hear Thee saying,

"We should merry be and glad,

I have found my once lost children,

Now they live, who once were dead.


Let Us Hold Fast

Therefore I want you to understand that no one speaking in the Spirit of God ever says “Jesus is accursed!” and no one

can say “Jesus is Lord” except in the Holy Spirit.

1 Corinthians 12:3

because, if you confess with your mouth that

Jesus is Lord and believe in your heart that God

raised him from the dead, you will be saved.

Romans 10:9

“The content of this confession is the

expectation that Christ will fulfill all the promises he has made and that all those who profess the name of Christ possess these promises.”

Simon Kistemaker


Let Us Hold Fast

PROCLAMATION

AFFIRMATION


Let Us Consider

Why I Need to “Consider”?

1. God's truth defines what is truly loving and good.



2. God's truth must be evident in my life first.



2. God's truth must be evident in my life first.

3. Different people need different “stirring.”


Let Us Consider

APPLICATION


Let Us Consider

APPLICATION

ENCOURAGEMENT

Let the word of Christ dwell in you richly, teaching and

admonishing one another in all wisdom, singing psalms

and hymns and spiritual songs, with thankfulness in

your hearts to God.

Colossians 3:16

August 22, 6-8 p.m.August 22, 6-8 p.m.

APPROACH


PREPARATION

PROCLAMATION

AFFIRMATIONAPPLICATION

ENCOURAGEMENT

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Summer Series: “Jesus and the Transformation of Worship” Hebrews 10