Description: John Ritenbaugh characterizes the spiritual condition of the recipients of the Hebrews epistle as dangerously complacent, drifting into apostasy through neglect rather than from any blatant sin or perversion. Losing their zeal and first love after the manner of the Ephesians, having a complacent disregard for Christ's sacrifice, they were in danger of permanently searing their consciences and losing their vital access to God. The entire eleventh chapter provides examples to bolster their faith and rekindle their first love. The kind of faith described in this chapter is not blind and clueless, but is carefully developed as a result of systematic analysis of available evidence. Abraham, Sarah, and Moses were all motivated to endure by calculating or adding up all the evidence. Likewise God desires and has deliberately planned that we build our faith by the same kind of calculation, analysis, or adding up the evidence. (91 minutes)
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Sermons in the Hebrews series:
Hebrews (Part 10)
Hebrews 8:1 - 9:15
Hebrews (Part 1)
Introduction
Hebrews (Part 2)
Hebrews 2:1-13
Hebrews (Part 3)
Hebrews 2:14 - 3:6
Hebrews (Part 4)
Hebrews 3:7 - 4:2
Hebrews (Part 5)
Hebrews 4:3 - 5:8
Hebrews (Part 6)
Hebrews 4:14 - 6:8
Hebrews (Part 7)
Hebrews 6:9 - 7:10
Hebrews (Part 8)
Hebrews 7:1 - 8:6
Hebrews (Part 9)
A Superior Covenant
Hebrews (Part 11)
Hebrews 9:16 - 10:25
Hebrews (Part 12)
Hebrews 10:26 - 11:3
Hebrews (Part 13)
Hebrews 11:4-28
Hebrews (Part 14)
Hebrews 11:29 - 12:14
Hebrews (Part 15)
Hebrews 12:15 - 13:25
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