Hebrews 3:1-19

Hearing the Lord's Voice

I. The Content of the Lord's Voice - Hebrews 3:1-6

A. The revelation of a heavenly calling - Heb. 3:1; 2 Tim. 1:9; Acts 26:19

1. To produce God's house - Heb. 3:1-2, 6; Matt. 16:18

B. The careful consideration of Jesus' mission - Heb. 3:1

1. Jesus, the Apostle, sent for God's house - Heb. 3:1; John 2:16-17; 14:2-3

2. Jesus, the High Priest, executing God's house - Heb. 3:1

3. Jesus, faithful to the heavenly calling for God's house - Heb. 3:2, 6

a) Jesus being constituted - Heb. 3:2; 13:20-21

b) Moses and the tabernacle as a testimony of God's house - Heb. 3:2-5

4. Jesus, the Builder and the Material of God's house - Heb. 3:3-4; Matt. 16:18;
1 Cor. 3:9-12

C. The revelation of the house of God - Heb. 3:6; 1 Pet. 2:5

1. The church - 1 Tim. 3:15

2. The body of Christ - Heb. 3:6; Eph. 1:22-23; 2:15-16, 19-22

3. The condition of God's house - Heb. 3:6; 10:21, 24-25

II. The Goal of the Lord's Voice - Hebrews 3:7-19

A. Partners of Christ for God's house - Heb. 3:14 (cf. verse 1)

1. The message of His voice about His house - Heb. 3:7

B. A kingdom church life as God's rest - Heb. 3:11; 4:1, 3-11; Rom. 14:17

1. Faith for the church life today! - Heb. 3:12, 14, 19

C. God's ways on the pathway to the goal - Heb. 3:8, 10; Deut. 8:1-10

1. Negative reactions to God's ways

a) Blindness to God's ways - Heb. 3:10

b) Going astray in our hearts - Heb. 3:10

c) Hardening of the heart - Heb. 3:8, 13, 15

d) Becoming bitter and rebelling (provocation) - Heb. 3:8; 12:15

e) Unbelief and falling away - Heb. 3:12, 19

f) Sinning, deception, and disobedience - Heb. 3:13, 17-18

2. Positive reactions to God's ways

a) Daily accountability - Heb. 3:7, 13

b) Corporate accountability with the partners - Heb. 3:13-14

c) Satisfy the divine life by faith and hope to enter into the kingdom church life - Heb. 3:6, 12, 16-17, 19

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