Grace Baptist Church Sheboygan

The pursuit of trivial treasure and trivial pleasure will, in the end, leave you empty. In this passage, Isaiah teaches us not to spend our lives chasing after accumulation or earthly pleasures but to set our sights completely on the true treasure of God.

Do not bear the rotten fruit of sin in your life, but live in a manner worthy of Christ, bearing the fruit of righteousness.

God glorifies Himself by making what had become fruitless and twisted, beautiful again.

The judgment of God is just, and the justice of God is right.

When society abandons the fear of the Lord and basks in rebellion against him, it corrodes into nothing.

Fear God, not man

Where worldliness leaves us empty and unsatisfied, God fills us with true joy and salvation in Himself.

God will uphold his righteousness

God restores what sin destroys

God has removed our gloom by giving us a divine, Davidic King, Jesus Christ.

God delivers us from what we fear, by coming to dwell with us.

God’s purpose is to exalt his name in all the earth

Learn from example, so you may lead by example, and follow Christ, who is the same yesterday, and today, and forever.

The great big message of the book of Hebrews is the greatness of Christ. It gets that message across especially by connecting who he is and what he’s done to the Old Testament. Our author has one more way he wants us to see the greatness of Christ. He wants to show us the greatness of the Kingdom of Christ, and he shows us this by comparing what Israel received and experienced at Mt. Sinai to new covenant and the heavenly city that we have in Jesus. God has given us an unshakeable kingdom.

In this passage, we learn to work out our faith in response to the work of discipline that God does in the lives of his people.

To succeed in the upward calling of God on our lives, we must look to Christ. There are three commands given to us in this passage, which help us see what that means and put this into action. A) Put Every Encumbrance Aside B) Run with Endurance C) Look to Christ

Take the Lord’s discipline to heart. It is for your holiness. Here we have three instructions for how Christians are called to find resilience in our walk with Christ: We endure by: A) Considering the Example of Christ’s Own Life B) Receiving the Lord’s Discipline as Sons C) Remembering the Point of God’s Discipline

Jesus completes the hope of faith. A) Faith is the Great Divide Between Those who Live and Those Who Perish B) Faith Fuels Decisive Action C) Faith Proves Worthy Through Suffering D) God's Plan to Complete Faith

Faith finds the strength to endure as it invests itself in the faithfulness of God. A) Faith Has True Love for God B) Faith Stands on the True Word of God C) Faith Finds True Treasure in God

Faith receives an inheritance from God, a true home with Him in a heavenly city. In this sermon we look at the faith of Abraham, Sarah, Isaac, and Jacob, who lived on earth as citizens of heaven, looking for the inheritance of a heavenly city that God had promised to them.