hebrews 6:11ff - the anchor of hope

Hebrews 6:11-7

Ch.1-2 “The Grand Cosmological View”• “God Provides…”

Ch. 3-6 “The Great Struggle of Humanity”• Spiritual death• Spiritual immaturity• Spiritual failure• Spiritual maturity

Ch. 6b What is a secure relationship with God?• A long, historical record of “Entering God’s Rest”

Ch.1-2 “The Grand Cosmological View”• “God Provides…”

Ch. 3-6 “The Great Struggle of Humanity”• Spiritual death• Spiritual immaturity• Spiritual failure• Spiritual maturity

Ch. 6b What is a secure relationship with God?• A long, historical record of “Entering God’s Rest”

“For we who have believed enter that Rest” Heb. 4:2

God Provides:So God created human beings in his own image…Then God blessed them and said, “Be fruitful and multiply. Fill the earth and govern it… Look! I have given you…for your food. Genesis 1:27-29

God Provides… Man RebelsThe Lord God called to the man, “Where are you?” He replied, “I heard you walking in the garden, so I hid. I was afraid…” Genesis 3:9-10 (NLT)

God Provides… Man Rebelsebels

God Provides:Then the Lord took Abram outside and said to him, “Look up into the sky and count the stars if you can. That’s how many descendants you will have!” Genesis 15:5

God Provides:Then the Lord took Abram outside and said to him, “Look up into the sky and count the stars if you can. That’s how many descendants you will have!” Genesis 15:5

“I will make you a great nation…And in you all the families of the earth will be blessed." Genesis 12:2-3 (NASB)

God Provides:For when God made the promise to Abraham, since He could swear by no one greater, He swore by Himself, saying, "I will surely bless you and I will surely multiply you."

Hebrews 6:13-14 (NASB)

God Provides… Abraham Abraham Believes:Believes:

And Abram believed the Lord, and the Lord counted him as righteous because of his faith. Genesis 15:6

Even when there was no reason for hope, Abraham kept hoping—believing that he would become the father of many nations. For God had said to him, “That’s how many descendants you will have!”

Romans 4:18 (NLT)

God Provides… Abraham Abraham Believes:Believes:Then Abraham waited patiently, and he received what God had promised. Hebrews 6:15 (NLT)

God Provides…So God has given both his promise and his oath. These two things are unchangeable because it is impossible for God to lie. Therefore, we who have fled to him for refuge can have great confidence as we hold to the hope that lies before us. Hebrews 6:18

God Provides… Man Rebels…?we who have fled to him for refuge can have great confidence as we hold to the hope that lies before us. Hebrews 6:18

Now when people take an oath, they call on someone greater than themselves to hold them to it. And without any question that oath is binding.

In the name of the KING…

God also bound himself with an oath, so that those who received the promise could be perfectly sure that he would never change his mind.

So God has given both his promise and his oath...

These two things are unchangeable because it is impossible for God to lie.

Therefore, we who have fled to him for refuge can have great confidence as we hold to the hope that lies before us.

Therefore, we who have fled to him for refuge can have great confidence as we hold to the hope that lies before us.

After all, you have not yet given your lives in your struggle against sin. Hebrews 12:4

The soul requires an anchor of hope.• ‘The future looks bright!’• AND anchored!

The soul requires an anchor of hope. Without God, ‘hope’ is wishful

thinking.

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ad”

Even Bill Gates!


thinking. Christian hope means having certainty.



• Based on his character.

He Himself has said, "I will never desert you, nor will I ever forsake you," so that we confidently say, "The Lord is my helper, I will not be afraid. What will man do to me?" Hebrews 13:5-6 (NASB)



• Based on his character.• Based on his authority over death.



• Based on his character.• Based on his authority over death.• Based on his authority, period!…Since there was no one greater to swear by,

God took an oath in his own name… Hebrews 6:13


thinking. Christian hope means having certainty. Hope from Jesus: a worthy leader.Three things will last forever—faith, hope, and

love—and the greatest of these is love. 1 Corinthians 13:13 (NLT)


thinking. Christian hope means having certainty. Hope from Jesus: a worthy leader.



• Run to Him for refuge!Therefore, we who have fled to him for refuge can have great confidence... Hebrews 6:18 (NLT)



• Run to Him for refuge!• Go to his Word!

Our Basis For Hope:“God also bound himself with an oath”




And the rain fell, and the floods came, and the winds blew and slammed against that house; and yet it did not fall, for it had been founded on the rock. (7:25)



• Run to Him for refuge!• Go to his Word!• MOVE OUT with Hope!…hold to the hope that lies before us. Hebrews 6:18



• Run to Him for refuge!• Go to his Word!• MOVE OUT with Hope!• Where do you want to go today?

WHERE DO YOU WANT TO GO TODAY / TOMORROW / AND IN ETERNITY?



• Run to Him for refuge!• Go to his Word!• MOVE OUT with Hope!• Where do you want to go today?

WHERE DO YOU WANT TO GO TODAY / TOMORROW / AND IN ETERNITY?

a hope both sure and steadfast… where Jesus has entered as a forerunner for us Heb.6:19-20