At this hour I would like us
to turn to Hebrews chapter 10 if you would like to follow along. Hebrews chapter 10. This morning we're looking at
the admonition. Of the Lord's people here in
our text. The writer says the word let
us three times in three verses. Three times in three verses.
We do not do these things, and that's our title, let us, but
we do not do these things as qualification. We don't do these
things for an outward evidence to prove inward change, as so
many do. We do these things because God
requires it. God requires it. And when God
says do this, we do it. What do we say about what God
requires? Everything that he requires, he must provide. because
he only accepts what he, only thing that God accepts is what
he provides. That's all that he accepts. If
he doesn't provide it, he doesn't accept it. He must provide it
because he only accepts what he provides. Let's read this,
Hebrews 10 verse 21 through 25. He says, and having an high priest
over the house of God, let us draw near with a true heart and
full assurance of faith Having our hearts sprinkled from an
evil conscience and our bodies washed with pure water, let us
hold fast the profession of our faith without wavering, for he
is faithful that promised. And let us consider one another
to provoke and to love and to good works, not forsaking the
assembling of ourselves together as the manner of some is, but
exhorting one another, and so much the more as you see the
day approaching. Three times by the inspiration
of the spirit, the writer says, let us. First one is let us draw
near. The second one is let us hold
fast. And the third one is, let us
consider one another to provoke unto good works. I pray the Lord
would be pleased to give us understanding in this. As I was studying, the Lord does this so many times.
He makes us realize, he makes preachers realize, and even if
you go to study, he'll make you realize, Lord, I can't see. I
can't, I don't know what this is saying. I don't understand
this. What does this mean? And we're made to beg. Lord,
show me, what are you saying here? What are you teaching? Teach me, oh Lord, the way of
thy statues. Lead me in the paths of righteousness.
Cause me to understand what you're saying here. I pray he causes us to have understanding
this morning for our good and his glory. Now the first thing
he says, and I started reading that verse on purpose because
that's how, this is all a continuation from what we've heard from week
to week, but he starts out by saying, in having an high priest,
verse 22, over the house of God, so in that light, Let us draw
near with a true heart in full assurance of faith, having our
hearts sprinkled from an evil conscience and our bodies washed
with pure water. Let us draw near. What does it mean to draw near?
It means to approach. Well, who approaches the Lord?
Who approaches the Lord? Those that have been made needy.
Those that have been made needy, those have been given the desire
to approach the Lord for mercy and for grace. They're the ones
that draw near. They're the ones that draw near.
And how do we draw near? We come to Him with boldness,
with boldness. And we heard about that, what
boldness is, what boldness is not. Boldness is not being sure
of yourself. Boldness is being certain that
Christ finished the work. Boldness is looking to Him and
having complete confidence in Him, having no confidence in
the flesh. That's what boldness is. That's how we draw near. Looking unto Jesus, the author
and finisher of faith. That's how we draw near with
a true heart. That's the next part here, isn't
it? Let us draw near with a true heart in full assurance of faith. Now, we heard a message, I think
it was last Sunday or the Sunday before. What is a true heart? What is a true heart? But you
could say the same thing. What is full assurance of faith?
They go hand in hand. If you have a true heart, you
have full assurance of faith. And if you have full assurance
of faith, you have a true heart before the Lord. It is the gift
of God, all by his grace. All by his grace, he gives a
true heart that looks to Christ alone. He gives full assurance
of faith that rests in Christ alone. That's how the Lord's
people draw near unto the Lord. God gives you a pure heart. He's
given you full assurance of faith in Christ. They're one and the
same. Much like repentance and faith, they go hand in hand.
The Lord never gives one without the other. They're inseparable. They're inseparable. Pure heart
and full assurance of faith. And I wanna say this, be clear.
Those are not qualifications that we strive to attain to,
that we strive to get. What do I mean by that? Because
men will say, if you want to draw near to God, you have to
have a full heart, a true heart, and full assurance of faith.
Is that true? Absolutely. But what they mean by that is,
is you need to get a true heart and full assurance of faith.
That's something you can't get at Walmart. That's something
you can't get at any store. You can't go buy it. You can't
go find it. That's something you can't get
by reading every day. That's something that has to be given
of the Lord freely by His choice, freely by His grace. If I find
myself having a true heart that must have Christ, if I find myself
having no confidence in my flesh and having full assurance in
one thing, having faith in Christ Jesus alone as all my righteousness
and salvation, that's a gift of God by His amazing grace. That's something He bestows by
His choice. Only those chosen in Christ before
time ever began received these glorious gifts. It's not something
that can be acquired, something that be attained, something that
is received. Now, how do we receive things?
And I thought a good example would be we listen physically. You are receiving the sound of
my voice right now in your ears, and it is not, well, it's voluntary
that you're present, But the only way that you would not be
able to receive is if you put your hand over your ears, am
I right? Unless some of you may use hearing aids. I thought of
our brother there. I said, well, he could take his
hearing aids out. He wouldn't hear me at all. That would be the same
as not being wanting to receive it. But the truth is, is the
sound goes forth and you receive it. There's smells you'll receive
sometimes. You didn't want to receive them.
You know what I'm talking about. There's things that we receive. And that's
the point. Receiving is, it's passive. It's not, It's not I'm going
to intentionally receive this faith, this true heart, this
pure heart. No, we're dead in trespasses
and in sin and the Lord says live and he gives it freely by
his grace, we receive it. We receive it all by his grace. The Lord shows Before time to
make his people his benefactors of his will. Benefactors of his
will. Now the Lord's given you the
ability if you're. If you have children, they could be the benefactors
of your will. You don't have children, you
could make anybody the benefactor of your will, technically, but
it's your will. It's your choice in the matter. Same goes with
God. Those that he wanted to ordain to eternal life, he ordained
them by his will. Those whom he wanted to save,
he saved according to his will. And those that he loves is who
the writer here is writing to. And he says to those, draw near. Draw near with a true heart.
draw near in complete faith, resting in Christ alone, a true
heart with the faith, the assurance of faith that he provided. The only way we can draw near
isn't it with the true heart and full assurance of faith.
And what is it we plead whenever we approach? What is it we plead
when we come? What is it we plead when we draw
near? Look at verse 19. Having therefore,
brethren, boldness to enter into the holiest by the blood of Jesus. That's it. That's it, that's
our boldness. That's our full assurance of
faith. That's what a true heart cries out, nothing but the blood.
What can wash away my sin? Nothing but the blood. It's not
my works. It's not what good deeds I have done. In my hand
no price I bring, simply to Christ I cling. It's the blood alone,
the blood alone. Somebody says, well how do I
know if I can draw near? Well think about this, for the
Lord's people, his presence before the throne of God is the guarantee
that you're already present. His presence before the throne
of God, for the Lord's people, means that you're guaranteed
you're already present. You're already there. Because
he's there and we're in him. That's what the scripture tells
us. Somebody said, I don't understand that. I don't understand that
either, but I believe it. Why? Because full assurance of faith.
He said it. Truth, Lord. Truth, Lord. We're in Christ.
Christ is before the very throne of God as our mediator, as our
intercessor, as our surety, as our substitute. We're there. We're there. Because he is our
surety and our substitute, we have confidence to draw near. If he wasn't, we would have no
confidence. How are you gonna approach God without Christ?
How could we ever approach God without Christ? No, this full
assurance of faith, it has everything to do with where the faith looks
to. It looks to Christ alone. That's
where the full assurance is of his finished work. On the cross
of Calvary, the only way we can draw near is by His blood alone,
confessing His work alone. There's our full assurance, not
in me, in Him. Why do we have this boldness?
Because we have a perfect representative, a perfect representative that
finished the work, a perfect mediator. Perfect substitute,
perfect sacrifice, the Lord Jesus Christ does all these things
for his people. This is the only way we can have boldness, is
looking unto him. Therefore, let us draw near. Let us draw near. Now access,
because he's telling us draw near, let us draw near, that
means we have access, doesn't it? That's what that means. The
Lord's people have access, but access does not guarantee that
we will make use of it. Did you know that? It doesn't
guarantee. If the Lord gives us access,
he says, you have access to the very presence of God. Well, that
doesn't guarantee that I'm going to go there, that I'm going to
enter therein. So what does the Lord do? Well,
if he requires me to draw near, he's gonna cause me to draw near.
How does he do that? Tribulation, trials, afflictions,
frustrations, battles, all the, just growing old in general.
The body gets more tired than, I know, I'm speaking beyond my
years, but some things are hurting that used to not hurt. And it
gets worse, I know, everybody keeps telling me. He causes these
things to happen for us to do what? Draw near. Draw near. Lord, it's me again. Have mercy on me, the sinner.
I've fallen again. I've sinned again. Lord, my pride
got in the way again. Name it. Name it. It's always
something, isn't it? You know what David said, I would
not have sought your face, Lord, unless you said unto me, seek
ye my face. That's what the Lord says to
his people. And now he's saying unto us, draw near. And we say,
Lord, I come. Unto thee I come. I'm drawing
near. You're going to have to give me the faith to do it. You're
going to have to give me the true heart to do it. You're going
to have to give me the confession to do it. And he says, I already
have. Draw near. Draw near. He does all these things to give
us one thing as our need, Christ and Christ alone. Christ and
Christ alone. The second let us in our text
is found in verse 23. And he says, let us hold fast
the profession of our faith without wavering. For he is faithful
that promised. And we preached a message on
the Lord's faithfulness last Sunday. Now, we never look at faith as
something that we have merited, something that we have devised
or came up with, something that we have earned, or something
that we were born with or not. The Lord has to give it by grace,
by his grace. And when he does, what is the
profession? What is the profession of our faith? Well, it would
better be said, who is the profession? Who is the profession of our
faith? Christ. The Lord Jesus Christ is the
profession of our faith. Why? Because it's his faith that
was given. Faith looks to Christ. Faith
never looks to me and my circumstances or you or your circumstances.
It never examines self to look for some evidences that I have
been brought from darkness into light. It never weighs my life
and says, okay, now I know that I have faith because of this.
Faith looks to Christ alone. Faith is given freely by grace.
Faith demands that we say with Paul, There is neither Greek
nor Jew, circumcision nor uncircumcision, barbarian, Scythian, bond or
free, but Christ is all in all. Christ is all in all. That's
what faith says. There's no difference between
those who are mixing law and grace, those who are completely
ignorant of the gospel, that have no interest in God. There's
no difference. If Christ is not all, we have no hope. Christ
is the difference maker. It doesn't matter, and he's talking
about creed, he's talking about bloodlines, he's talking about,
and that's what people hold on to sometimes is the righteousness.
But the end of it, we don't hold fast to tradition. We don't hold
fast to our bloodline. We don't hold fast to what we're
doing. We hold to Christ. Moreover, he holds to us. He
keeps his people. The only way you're gonna be
able to hold to Christ is if he's holding on to you. That's just how it
is. That's just how it is. Christ and his glorious salvation
is our plea. He's our confession. He's our
rock. He says here, let us hold fast the profession of our faith
without wavering. The only way we're not gonna
waver is if we're on the rock, the Lord Jesus Christ. If we're
founded on the rock, the Lord Jesus Christ, we won't waver.
And who put us there? He did. He did. All our righteousness
is as filthy rags. But if we're upon that rock,
we have been robed in his righteousness. Therefore, stand fast, stand
fast, never wavering. The same way that we draw near.
We stand fast with a true heart and full assurance of faith.
It's the same thing. It's the same thing. That's the
only way that we can stand fast is with a true heart and full
assurance of faith. Where did we get the true heart from? Where
does the full assurance of faith come from? Who does it give all
the glory to? We don't get any glory in this.
We don't get any glory in this. He gets all the glory. How does one hold fast? The same
way we draw near, by looking unto Jesus, the author and finisher
of faith, looking unto Jesus. Now here's the comfort to the
child of God. If I'm required to hold fast, I can rest knowing
I'm kept by the power of God. I'm kept by the power of God.
He will cause me to hold fast. He will not leave me to myself.
He promised that. I will never leave you. I will
never forsake you. If I'm required to hold fast,
He's gonna cause me to hold fast. I can rest in that. I can rest
in that. This isn't something where we
go out and we start doing more and doing more. This is something
where we look to Christ. We look to Christ. We cleave
to Him. That's holding fast. He's given
us faith to do so. He's given us a heart to believe
Him. Not kept by my own power, but
His. If I do not hold fast, it's because
I'm a double-minded man. I'm wavering, I'm wavering. Turn with me to James chapter
one, he talks about this. Let's read verse one through
eight. First notice verse one, James, a servant of God and of
the Lord Jesus Christ to the 12 tribes, which are scattered
abroad. Now, and he says, greeting. This is not the 12 tribes physically
speaking. This is the 12 tribes spiritually
speaking. This is the church. This is the
church James talking to my brethren counted all joy. When you fall
into diverse temptations, knowing this, Let the trying of your
faith worketh patience, but let patience have her perfect work,
that she may be perfect and entire, wanting nothing. If any you lack
wisdom, let him ask of God that giveth to all men liberally and
upbraideth not, and it shall be given him. But let him ask
in faith, nothing wavering, for he that wavereth is like a wave
of the sea driven with the wind and tossed. For let not that
man think that he shall receive anything of the Lord. A double-minded
man is unstable in all his ways. Understand James and the writer
of Hebrews are talking about the same exact thing. Whenever
the writer of Hebrews is telling us stand fast, James is saying
the opposite of standing fast is to waver. Double-minded man. The Lord's people draw near,
and they stand fast in prayer and in worship. Worship is looking
unto Christ. Worship is, it's cleaving to
Him. It's desiring to honor Him and
extol Him and praise Him. That's why we're here, is to
see Him high and lifted up. Lord's people never waver in
their confession. They're not double-minded. They're
not double-minded. Why? Because they're kept by
the power of God. A double-minded man is unstable
in all of his ways. And I'm reminded of the Lord's
parable that he gave of the foolish man and the wise man. The foolish
man built his house upon the sand, and the rains came down,
the floods came up, and the house collapsed. But the wise man built
his house upon the rock. And the rain came down, the floods
came up, and the house on the rock stood firm. And it's a picture
of the Lord putting his people upon the solid rock and establishing
our goings. We didn't build anything. The
Lord built it all. And then he puts us where he
built it. And he says, stand fast. Stand fast. Well, Lord, I can't move. You
put me there. They that waver are double-minded. If you waver, you're not holding
fast. And if you do not waver, now
hear what I'm saying here. If you waver, you're not holding
fast. If you waver, you're not holding fast. If you do not waver
and hold fast, the Lord kept you. If you waver, you're not
holding fast. If you do not waver, and you
hold fast, the Lord kept you, and the Lord kept me. Therefore,
hold fast. That's it, hold fast. Do not
waver, and he gets all the glory. He gets all the glory. Someone
told me one time, they said, well, what I do does not matter.
That's true pertaining to salvation. That's true. You can't add one
thing to it. You can't take away one thing
from it. It's not possible. But if you don't come to Christ,
it's all your fault. It's all your fault. I can show
you that. Look here in verse 13 through 20. The second thought
of that is if you do come to Christ, it's all God's fault.
Verse 13 through 20. Let no man say when he is tempted,
I am tempted of God, for God cannot be tempted with evil,
neither tempteth he any man, but every man is tempted when
he has drawn away of his own lust and enticed. And when lust
hath conceived, it bringeth forth sin, and sin, when it is finished,
bringeth forth death. Do not err, my beloved brethren.
Every good gift and every perfect gift is from above, cometh down
from the Father of lights, with whom is no variableness, neither
shadow of turning. Of his own will begat he us with
the word of truth, that we should be a kind of first fruit of his
creature. Wherefore, my beloved brethren,
let every man be swift to hear, slow to speak, slow to wrath,
for the wrath of man worketh not the righteousness of God. If we're born from above, the
Lord does it. He does it. But if we don't come
to Christ, it's because we don't have a need to come to Christ.
There's never been anyone that came to Christ and had a need,
the Lord didn't meet that need. There is a responsibility for
everyone to come to Christ, and yet only the ones who are enabled
to do. And everyone else loves themselves
so much that they do not need God, they do not need his Christ. They are content dying in their
sin because they feel like they are good enough to present themselves
to God. It's not true, it's not true.
If you come to Christ, no matter what, if you don't come to Christ,
it's our own sinful hearts. It's the lust of our own hearts.
He just said that here. But if we come to Christ, it's
because of verse 18 of his own will begat he us. That's it.
That's it right there. Furthermore, holding fast is
coming to Christ. We hold fast, we've came to Christ,
he's caused us to. He's gave us the legs, he's give
us the ears, he's give us the eyes. The gospel call goes out
that says, believe on the Lord Jesus Christ and thou shalt be
saved. Believe on the Lord Jesus Christ and thou shalt be saved.
Gospel call goes out and says, come unto me, all you that are
labored and heavy laden, I'll give you rest. But unless the
Lord enables us to be laden and heavy laden, we won't need any
rest in Him. We'll be content doing what we
do. Something else. There's a lot
of people that I've been around that says, well, whatever's gonna
happen is gonna happen. And they say that in unbelief.
They don't say that by faith. What they mean by that is, well,
I can't change anything anyways, whatever's gonna happen's gonna
happen. Even I've heard believers say that. The Lord Jesus Christ in
the garden, whenever he prayed to the Father, and this is the
perfect man, God, praying to God. He did not say, Father,
let this cup pass from me. Nevertheless, whatever's gonna
happen's gonna happen, did he? No, why? Because he had heart
towards the Father. He believed the Father. He believed the Father. So what
was his prayer? Nevertheless, not my will, but thy will be
done. There is no excuse for not crying
out to the Lord. There is no excuse for not praying.
The Lord says, come. The Lord says, stand fast. The
Lord says, draw near. And it's not just that we've
been invited, he causes us to do so over and over. And what
is it that we pray? Lord, I know that all things
will happen according to your will, but I'm going to pray for
your will to happen anyways. Why? That's what he puts in our
heart to do. Lord, nevertheless, not my will,
but thy will be done. Well, it's already gonna happen.
Why should I have to pray that? Because you love him. Because you desire
his will over your own will, because you've bowed before him
and said, Lord, not unto me, O Lord, you know best, you know
best. That's called repentance. And
it takes faith to do that. I've heard people say, what's
the point of even praying? That's not a temptation from
God. Lord never tempted any man. He said that right there. Never
tempted any man. No, we're commanded to pray.
We're commanded to come to the Lord. I went hunting recently. I thought how silly it would
be for me to not have camouflage on and have any, uh, and I probably
should announce that over live streaming. Might've offended
somebody. I don't know. But anyways, it is what it is. Um, All right,
well, how silly would it be for me to take something to hunt
with? I'm just gonna go, okay, I'm gonna go hunting today. I'll
be back in a little while, honey, and I'll walk out the door. I'm
in this just blue jeans t-shirt, go down to the woods. Well, if
the Lord wants me to have a deer, it's gonna be here waiting on me. It's gonna
be right here at my stand. You know, that big old 10-point buck,
it's gonna be dead right there. That's silly, isn't it? That's
not what the Lord's people believe. That's called being presumptuous.
That's unbelief now. Do I prepare? Another example,
my garden. I had a garden. I did the best
I could do. It wasn't a good year for my garden. I'll be honest
with you. The Lord didn't give the increase. I know it's, and
it's my fault. It's my fault. I know it is because
I didn't, the ground was too tough. I should have put sand
in it because the water held it too much. It's my fault. Can't
blame God. Can't blame God. Lord, you didn't
bless my garden. I mean, Well, what else could
I have done better? Learn from it, move on. Lord,
I've done everything I can this year. Will you bless it this
year? And we beg, not my will though, Lord, your will be done.
We prepare for rain and the Lord's the one that has to send the
rain, Lord. And then we pray for the rain. Lord, send your
rain. This is how we live our lives as believers. This is how
we come together to worship. This is how we stand fast. We continue pressing towards
the mark, and the mark is Christ. We continue focusing on him.
We don't be presumptuous on God. We cry out unto him for our children
and our family that's lost. Lord, save them. Have mercy upon
them. Because if he doesn't, they won't
be saved. Lord makes his people beg for
his will. We're made to hold fast through
faith over and over and over. Somebody told me I was actually
kind of floored by it. They said, well, if the Lord's
going to save my children, he's going to do it. Ain't nothing
I can do about it. So what's the point of even praying? I thought, you
have erred, my dear friend. Scripture commands you to pray.
Ask and you shall receive. Seek and you shall find. What
does the Lord say? Your father in heaven knows how
to give. You give good gifts unto your kids being evil. Father
in heaven knows how to give gifts unto them, unto his children,
doesn't he? What does he give? He gives what
we need according to his will, so that we're made to say, thank
you, Lord. And we glorify him. What if we got everything that
we wanted all the time? We would just be, we'd be spoiled,
wouldn't we? You ever seen a kid that got everything that they
wanted? We would never need. But he gives us exactly what
we need, so we'll cry out to him, we're made to stand fast
on the foundation of Christ as all alone. That's it, that's
it. Faith only looks to Christ. It
is true whatever God has purposed is gonna happen. That's very
true. Therefore, draw near and stand
fast. Draw near and hold fast. Pray
unto him, seek his will and his face. It's true that no matter
what's gonna happen, it's gonna happen because he has purposed
it. Therefore, draw near. and stand fast, hold fast. Which brings me to my, the final
point, go back to Hebrews chapter 10. Let's just read all this again.
21 through 25 says, And having a high priest over the house
of God, let us draw near with a true heart and full assurance
of faith, having our hearts sprinkled from an evil conscience and our
bodies washed with pure water. Let us hold fast the profession
of our faith without wavering, for he is faithful that promised.
And let us consider one another. Let us consider one another to
provoke and to love and not, and to do good works. not forsaking
the assembling of ourselves together as a manner of some is, but exhorting
one another and so much more as you see the day approaching.
Let us consider one another. You know what the definition
of that word consider is in the Bible? This particular time it
is understand one another. Well what does he mean by that?
We're sinners saved by grace. That's what that means. Understand
that I'm a sinner, and that you're a sinner, and that the Lord did
not, he put away the sin of his people, but he did not change
our sinful nature. We're still sinners, and we consider
each other in that light, and we have compassion upon each
other in that light, and we show sympathy, and we empathize, and
we care for, and we pray for each other in that light. That's
what it is to consider one another. I've said this before, but he
that's easily offended has not been forgiven very much. If somebody's
easily offended, I guarantee you they haven't been forgiven
very much, but those who have been forgiven a lot, a lot, they're
not quite easily as offended and they're ready to forgive.
And if we see what it cost for us to be redeemed, see in the
precious lamb of God, his precious blood, all the covenant of grace,
everything that it took for us to be redeemed and what it took
for the forgiveness of our sin, we'll be so much more ready to
forgive those who wrong us, so much more ready. If you're looking to Christ as
all your righteousness, there will be some sympathy, some empathy,
some compassion for your brothers and sisters. Not as part of your righteousness.
Not as part of your righteousness. Christ is our righteousness.
But what does the scripture say? We know we've passed from death
unto life because we love the brethren. Because we love the
brethren. The first part of that is to
consider one another. Understand, we're sinners. We're
sinners saved by grace, nothing more. We love the brethren because
the love of Christ has been shed abroad in our heart. You see
how it all just goes back to Christ each time? Everything
about this is about him. It's his love that compels us
to love. It's his grace that compels us
to show grace. It's his mercy that compels us
to show mercy. And we do looking unto him. We
do looking unto him alone. The clue to all this is in the
next verse. Assemble and exhort. Assemble and exhort. Not forsaking
the assembling of ourselves together as the manner of some is, but
exhorting one another. What does it mean to exhort one
another? It means to lift up one another. Lift up one another. There's nothing more precious
than having a difficult day or difficult week feeling like you're
down in a valley. And you come to this place, and
one of your brothers or your sisters come up to you, and they
say, let me share with you this morsel of our Savior that I saw
this week, this message that I heard. Let me share this with
you. And it just lifts you. It just lifts your spirits. It
refocuses you on the Lord Jesus Christ. That's what he's talking
about right here by exhorting. We lift one another up and point
one another to the Lord Jesus Christ. That's how we love one
another. If a man or woman loves you, they're gonna tell you the
truth, and that truth is Christ alone. That's how we lift each
other up over and over again. I'm reminded that the eagle,
and I was reading, and you can believe anything you read on
the internet, right? Reading about the eagle, and they said,
you know, eagles fly. I believe they're the highest
flying bird there is, from my understanding. They can go closer
to the sun than any other bird because of a lens they have over
their eye, extra lens. But sometimes an eagle will become
injured down in the valley. Now the eagle will not, another
eagle will not go down in that valley. Cannot go down there
in that valley with that other eagle. But they will go get food
and they'll drop it down to that other eagle. And they'll keep
doing that day after day faithfully to that other eagle that's in
the valley. And that's a picture of the Lord's people. We can't
go in the valley for you with each other. I can't come to your
valley and you can't come to my valley, but you know what
we can drop? We can talk to each other about the Savior. Point
each other back to the manna that will satisfy the soul. Point
back to the water, the fountain of living water, over and over
and over. And that's where our strength
will come, and before you know it, we'll be flying again. Not
too long later, one of us will get back down in the valley again.
We have to pick each other up. Aren't you glad our Savior's
designed the encouragement of the brethren? And you read all
throughout Scripture in the New Testament how they encouraged
one another. Paul said that so many times, you were encouragement
to me. And I'll say this, you all are
encouragement to me. I thank God for you. I thank
God for you. Something we can do is after
service, talk about the messages the Lord's given. If you heard
something, tell each other about it. And lastly, lift each other
up in prayer. That's something that we are,
we're told's good. It's good to do. And do we do
this as part of our salvation? No, none of it, not a bit of
it. But we do it looking unto Jesus, looking unto the Lord
Jesus Christ. Let us draw nigh, let us hold
fast, and let us consider one another. Because we have been
saved by grace, we have been given a true heart. We have been
given full assurance of faith in Christ alone and because we're
kept by his power. Let's pray. Father, thank you for your word. Thank you for your. Your truths, Lord, that you declare
unto us calls us to do these things unto you in Christ's name. Amen.