Gracious Striving - Hebrews 3:7-19

Scripture

• Hebrews 3:7–19

About this sermon

It is a dangerous thing to harden your heart. It’s not something you have as much control over as you may think. There have been people who have foolishly said to themselves, and sometimes said to others, “I wish God would just leave me alone.” Or if they not dare let those words leave their mouths, they say what really amounts to the same thing. “I wish people would stop bothering me about God. I wish people would stop bothering me about the Bible, about the gospel. I wish my parents didn’t make me go to church.” When you don’t want to hear legitimate things from the word of God, or about God, or about your spiritual condition, what you really want is for God to leave you alone. Pastor Richard Caldwell appeals to us that this is not really what we want. If we have any sense whatsoever, we don’t want God to leave us alone. When you choose to lose interest in God, God may choose to grant your desire. This is what the writer of Hebrews is telling us in Chapter 3:7-19. He has set the glorious Son of God before our eyes. God is striving, beseeching, pleading (not as a beggar in need, but as a benefactor who loves). The question is, will we listen?

Topics

• Grace