March 8, 2020 | Kyle Brenon | Hebrews 4:14-16

This week we continue in our sermon series “Jesus is Greater” as we conclude Hebrews chapter 4. Last week we took a close look at Hebrews 4:11-13 where the author tells us, “no creature is hidden from his sight, but all are naked and exposed to the eyes of Him to whom we must give account.”

In light of this, we ended by asking ourselves, “What is it that we are NOT believing that makes us think we need to hide from God?" This week we look at Hebrews 4:14-16, and we take this question one step further. Here we see that not only do we not need to hide from God, but because of Jesus, our great high priest, we can come before His throne BOLDLY and with great confidence in our time of need!

So, what is it we are not believing that may be preventing us from doing this each and every day?!

Hebrews 4:14-16
"Since then we have a great high priest who has passed through the heavens, Jesus, the Son of God, let us hold fast our confession. For we do not have a high priest who is unable to sympathize with our weaknesses, but one who in every respect has been tempted as we are, yet without sin. Let us then with confidence draw near to the throne of grace, that we may receive mercy and find grace to help in time of need."

February 23, 2020 | Kyle Brenon | Hebrews 4:11-13

This week we continue with week 5 of our sermon series “JESUS is GREATER” and our study through the book of Hebrews. As we near the end of chapter 4 we slow down and zoom in on a somewhat familiar passage.

Hebrews 4:11-13

"Let us therefore strive to enter that rest, so that no one may fall by the same sort of disobedience. For the word of God is living and active, sharper than any two-edged sword, piercing to the division of soul and of sprit, of joints and of marrow, and discerning the thoughts and intentions of the heart. And no creature is hidden from his sight, but all are naked and exposed to the eyes of him to whom we must give account.”

Paul refers to God’s word as the “Sword of the Spirit” in Ephesians 6:17... Take up the helmet of salvation, and the sword of the Spirit, which is the word of God,”

Here in Hebrews 4 we are given a powerful picture of what that sword can do!

February 9, 2020 | Kyle Brenon | Hebrews 3:7-19

This week, we continue in our sermon series, Jesus is GREATER, as we walk through the book of Hebrews. In chapter three, the author warns against hardening our hearts to God’s voice. We don’t want to put ourselves at risk of failing to enter God’s rest due to rebellion and unbelief. Instead, we are encouraged to exhort one another and to hold tightly to what we know to be true.

This rest God offers is not some illusive, abstract idea that is just out of reach. It’s not something we cannot know until we get to heaven. It’s something we can experience now—something we are given today. It’s something we grow in as we learn all the more what it means to truly surrender to Christ.

Hebrews 3:7-19

"Therefore, as the Holy Spirit says, “Today, if you hear his voice, do not harden your hearts as in the rebellion, on the day of testing in the wilderness, where your fathers put me to the test and saw my works for forty years. Therefore, I was provoked with that generation, and said, They always go astray in their heart; they have not known my ways.’ ’ As I swore in my wrath, ‘They shall not enter my rest.’”

Take care, brothers, lest there be in any of you an evil, unbelieving heart, leading you to fall away from the living God. But exhort one another everyday, as long as it is called “today,” that none of you may be hardened by the deceitfulness of sin. For we have come to share in Christ, if indeed we hold our original confidence firm to the end. As it is said, “Today, if you hear his voice, do not harden your hearts as in the rebellion.”

For who were those who heard and yet rebelled? Was it not all those who left Egypt led by Moses? And with whom was he provoked for forty years? Was it not with those who sinned, whose bodies fell in the wilderness? And to whom did he swear that they would not enter his rest, but to those who were disobedient? So we see that they were unable to enter because of unbelief."

February 2, 2020 | Kyle Brenon | Hebrews 2:1-4; 2:16-18

This week we continue in week two of our sermon series “Jesus is Greater” and our study through the book of Hebrews. 

We seem to have quite a short attention span, and that attention span keeps getting shorter and shorter... Oh look, a squirrel! This is true in almost every aspect of our lives, and our spiritual walk is no exception. As chapter two begins, the author of Hebrews warns us that we need to pay closer attention to the message we have been given. This is the message that we have heard from the Lord, because if we don’t, we will certainly drift away from it. Let us continue to pray in faith that God will give us ears to hear this message. Not just once, but every day, clearer and clearer as we grow closer and closer to Him. 

Hebrews 2:1-4

"Therefore we must pay much closer attention to what we have heard, lest we drift away from it. For since the  message declared by angels proved to be reliable, and every transgression or disobedience received a just  retribution, how shall we escape if we neglect such a great salvation? It was declared at first by the Lord, and it was  attested to us by those who heard, while God also bore witness by signs and wonders and various miracles and by  gifts of the Holy  Spirit distributed according to his will."

Hebrews 2:16-18

"For surely it is not angels that he helps, but he helps the offspring of Abraham. Therefore he had to be made like his  brothers in every respect, so that he might become a merciful and faithful high priest in the service of God, to make  propitiation for the sins of the people. For because he himself has suffered when tempted, he is able to help those  who are being tempted.”

January 26, 2020 | Kyle Brenon | Hebrews 1:1-4

This week we begin a new 12-week sermon series that will take us through the New Testament book of Hebrews. We have titled this series “Jesus Is Greater.” (though we are using that cool little > greater than symbol…) Why? Because if the book of Hebrews tells us anything it’s that JESUS is GREATER! 

He is greater than the angels, He is greater than Moses, greater than Joshua and He is greater than any earthy priest. Not only this, but His completed work in ushering in the new and better covenant (Hebrews 7:22) is greater than the old. He is greater than everything we chase after, anything we place our hope, our identity or our value in. As we grasp for these things, it serves us well to remember that compared to everything else, Jesus is always GREATER. 

Hebrews 1:1-4

“Long ago, at many times and in many ways, God spoke to our fathers by the prophets, but in these last days he has spoken to us by his Son, whom he appointed the heir of all things, through whom also he created the world. He is the radiance of the glory of God and the exact imprint of his nature, and he upholds the universe by the word of his power. After making purification for sins, he sat down at the right hand of the Majesty on high, having become as much superior to angels as the name he has inherited is more excellent than theirs."