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“Steadfastness in Full Effect” 
 
Spencer DeBurgh 
2.16.2020 
 
Scriptures used in this teaching: 
James 2:2-4 
2. Count it all joy, my brothers, when you meet trials of various kinds, 
3. for you know that the testing of your faith produces steadfastness. 4. And let steadfastness have its full effect, that you may be perfect and complete, lacking in nothing. 
 
James 2: 12 
12. Blessed is the man who remains steadfast under trial, 
for when he has stood the test he will receive the crown of life, 
which God has promised to those who love him.

“Steadfastness in Full Effect”

Spencer DeBurgh
2.16.2020

Scriptures used in this teaching:
James 2:2-4
2. Count it all joy, my brothers, when you meet trials of various kinds, 
3. for you know that the testing of your faith produces steadfastness. 4. And let steadfastness have its full effect, that you may be perfect and complete, lacking in nothing.

James 2: 12
12. Blessed is the man who remains steadfast under trial, 
for when he has stood the test he will receive the crown of life, 
which God has promised to those who love him.

“Steadfastness in Full Effect” ... James 2:2-4 & verse 12 .. Spencer DeBurgh .. 2.16.2020

"The Gospel of God" ... José L. Torres ... 7.14.2019 
 
Scripture used in this sermon: 
 
Romans 1:1-6 
Paul, a servant of Christ Jesus, called to be an apostle, 
set apart for the gospel of God, 
which he promised beforehand through his prophets in the holy Scriptures,  
concerning his Son, who was descended from David 
according to the flesh 
and was declared to be the Son of God 
in power according to the Spirit of holiness 
by his resurrection from the dead, 
Jesus Christ our Lord, 
through whom we have received grace 
and apostleship to bring about the obedience of faith 
for the sake of his name among all the nations, 
including you who are called 
to belong to Jesus Christ. 
 
14. I am under obligation both to Greeks and to barbarians, both to the wise and to the foolish. 
15. So I am eager to preach the gospel to you also who are in Rome. 
16. For I am not ashamed of the gospel, for it is the power of God for salvation to everyone who believes, to the Jew first and also to the Greek.

"The Gospel of God" ... José L. Torres ... 7.14.2019 Scripture used in this sermon: Romans 1:1-6 Paul, a servant of Christ Jesus, ...

&quot;The Gospel of God&quot; ...  José L. Torres ... Romans 1:1-6/ 14-16

”Let us go to Him” 
Hebrews 13:10-16 
6.9.2019 
Spencer DeBurgh 
 
Scriptures used in this sermon: 
 
John 12::24-26 … (ESVUK) 
Truly, truly, I say to you, unless a grain of wheat falls into the earth and dies, it remains alone; but if it dies, it bears much fruit. 
 Whoever loves his life loses it, and whoever hates his life in this world will keep it for eternal life. 
 
Hebrews 13:10-16 
We have an altar from which those who serve the tent have no right to eat. 
For the bodies of those animals whose blood is brought into the holy places by the high priest as a sacrifice for sin are burned outside the camp. 
So Jesus also suffered outside the gate in order to sanctify the people through his own blood. 
Therefore let us go to him outside the camp and bear the reproach he endured. 
For here we have no lasting city, but we seek the city that is to come. 
Through him then let us continually offer up a sacrifice of praise to God, that is, the fruit of lips that acknowledge his name. 
Do not neglect to do good and to share what you have, for such sacrifices are pleasing to God. 
 
Hebrews 10:10-14 
And by that will we have been sanctified through the offering of the body of Jesus Christ once for all. 
And every priest stands daily at his service, offering repeatedly the same sacrifices, which can never take away sins. 
But when Christ had offered for all time a single sacrifice for sins, he sat down at the right hand of God, waiting from that time until his enemies should be made a footstool for his feet. 
For by a single offering he has perfected for all time those who are being sanctified. 
 
Matthew 15: 7-9 
You hypocrites! 
Well did Isaiah prophesy of you, when he said: 
"‘This people honours me with their lips, 
 but their heart is far from me; 
in vain do they worship me, 
teaching as doctrines the commandments of men.’”

”Let us go to Him”
Hebrews 13:10-16
6.9.2019
Spencer DeBurgh

Scriptures used in this sermon:

John 12::24-26 … (ESVUK)
Truly, truly, I say to you, unless a grain of wheat falls into the earth and dies, it remains alone; but if it dies, it bears much fruit. 
 Whoever loves his life loses it, and whoever hates his life in this world will keep it for eternal life.

Hebrews 13:10-16
We have an altar from which those who serve the tent have no right to eat. 
For the bodies of those animals whose blood is brought into the holy places by the high priest as a sacrifice for sin are burned outside the camp. 
So Jesus also suffered outside the gate in order to sanctify the people through his own blood. 
Therefore let us go to him outside the camp and bear the reproach he endured. 
For here we have no lasting city, but we seek the city that is to come. 
Through him then let us continually offer up a sacrifice of praise to God, that is, the fruit of lips that acknowledge his name. 
Do not neglect 

”Let us go to Him” ... Hebrews 13:10-16 ... 6.9.2019

“Hope Transforms Habits” 
Hebrews 13:1-6 
5.27.2019 
Spencer DeBurgh 
 
Scriptures used in this teaching: 
Hebrews 13:1-6 
1. Let brotherly love continue. 
2. Do not neglect to show hospitality to strangers, for thereby some have entertained angels unawares. 
3. Remember those who are in prison, as though in prison with them, and those who are mistreated, since you also are in the body. 
4. Let marriage be held in honour among all, and let the marriage bed be undefiled, for God will judge the sexually immoral and adulterous. 
5. Keep your life free from love of money, and be content with what you have, for he has said, “I will never leave you nor forsake you.” 
6. So we can confidently say, “The Lord is my helper; I will not fear; what can man do to me?” 
 
Hebrews 12:28-29 
28 Therefore let us be grateful for receiving a kingdom that cannot be shaken, and thus let us offer to God acceptable worship, with reverence and awe, 29 for our God is a consuming fire. 
 
John 17:14-18 
14. I have given them your word, and the world has hated them because they are not of the world, just as I am not of the world. 
15. I do not ask that you take them out of the world, but that you keep them from the evil one. 
16. They are not of the world, just as I am not of the world. 
17. Sanctify them in the truth; your word is truth. 
18. As you sent me into the world, so I have sent them into the world. 
 
Luke 12: 32-34 
32 .“Fear not, little flock, for it is your Father's good pleasure to give you the kingdom. 
33. Sell your possessions, and give to the needy. 
Provide yourselves with money bags that do not grow old, with a treasure in the heavens that does not fail, where no thief approaches and no moth destroys. 
34. For where your treasure is, there will your heart be also. 
 
Hebrews 11:24-26 
24. By faith Moses, when he was grown up, refused to be called the son of Pharaoh's daughter, 
25. choosing rather to be mistreated with the people of God than to enjoy the fleeting pleasures of sin. 
26. He considered the reproach of Christ greater wealth than the treasures of Egypt, for he was looking to the reward.

“Hope Transforms Habits”
Hebrews 13:1-6
5.27.2019
Spencer DeBurgh

Scriptures used in this teaching:
Hebrews 13:1-6
1. Let brotherly love continue. 
2. Do not neglect to show hospitality to strangers, for thereby some have entertained angels unawares. 
3. Remember those who are in prison, as though in prison with them, and those who are mistreated, since you also are in the body. 
4. Let marriage be held in honour among all, and let the marriage bed be undefiled, for God will judge the sexually immoral and adulterous. 
5. Keep your life free from love of money, and be content with what you have, for he has said, “I will never leave you nor forsake you.” 
6. So we can confidently say, “The Lord is my helper; I will not fear; what can man do to me?”

Hebrews 12:28-29
28 Therefore let us be grateful for receiving a kingdom that cannot be shaken, and thus let us offer to God acceptable worship, with reverence and awe, 29 for our God is a consuming fire.

John 17:14-18
14. I have given them

“Hope Transforms Habits” ...  5 26 2019 ... Hebrews 13:1-6

“Held in Honor” 
5.19.2019 
Spencer DeBurgh 
 
Scriptures used in this teaching: 
 
Hebrews 12:28-29 Hebrews 13:1-4 
28. Therefore let us be grateful for receiving a kingdom that cannot be shaken, and thus let us offer to God acceptable worship, with reverence and awe, 29. for our God is a consuming fire. 
 
13:1 Let brotherly love continue. 
2. Do not neglect to show hospitality to strangers, for thereby some have entertained angels unawares. 
3. Remember those who are in prison, as though in prison with them, and those who are mistreated, since you also are in the body. 
4. Let marriage be held in honour among all, and let the marriage bed be undefiled, for God will judge the sexually immoral and adulterous. 
 
Genesis 2: 18-25 
18. Then the Lord God said, 
“It is not good that the man should be alone; 
I will make him a helper fit for him.” 
19. Now out of the ground the Lord God had formed 
every beast of the field and every bird of the heavens 
and brought them to the man to see what he would call them. 
And whatever the man called every living creature, that was its name. 
20. The man gave names to all livestock and to the birds 
of the heavens and to every beast of the field. 
But for Adam there was not found a helper fit for him. 
21. So the Lord God caused a deep sleep to fall upon the man, and while he slept took one of his ribs and closed up its place with flesh. 
22. And the rib that the Lord God had taken from the man he made into a woman and brought her to the man. 
23. Then the man said, 
“This at last is bone of my bones and flesh of my flesh; 
she shall be called Woman, because she was taken out of Man.” 
24. Therefore a man shall leave his father and his mother 
and hold fast to his wife, and they shall become one flesh. 
25. And the man and his wife were both naked 
and were not ashamed. 
 
Matthew 19:3-9  
3. And Pharisees came up to him and tested him by asking, “Is it lawful to divorce one's wife for any cause?” 
4. He answered, “Have you not read that he who created them from the beginning made them male and female, 
5. and said, ‘Therefore a man shall leave his father and his mother and hold fast to his wife, and the two shall become one flesh’? 
6. So they are no longer two but one flesh. What therefore God has joined together, let not man separate.” 
7. They said to him, “Why then did Moses command one to give a certificate of divorce and to send her away?” 
8. He said to them, “Because of your hardness of heart Moses allowed you to divorce your wives, but from the beginning it was not so. 
9. And I say to you: whoever divorces his wife, except for sexual immorality, and marries another, commits adultery.” 
 
1 Corinthians 6: 9-11 
9. Or do you not know that the unrighteous will not inherit the kingdom of God? 
Do not be deceived: neither the sexually immoral, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor men who practise homosexuality, 
10. nor thieves, nor the greedy, nor drunkards, nor revilers, nor swindlers will inherit the kingdom of God. 
11. And such were some of you. But you were washed, you were sanctified, you were justified in the name of the Lord Jesus Christ and by the Spirit of our God.

“Held in Honor”
5.19.2019
Spencer DeBurgh

Scriptures used in this teaching:

Hebrews 12:28-29 Hebrews 13:1-4
28. Therefore let us be grateful for receiving a kingdom that cannot be shaken, and thus let us offer to God acceptable worship, with reverence and awe, 29. for our God is a consuming fire.

13:1 Let brotherly love continue.
2. Do not neglect to show hospitality to strangers, for thereby some have entertained angels unawares. 
3. Remember those who are in prison, as though in prison with them, and those who are mistreated, since you also are in the body. 
4. Let marriage be held in honour among all, and let the marriage bed be undefiled, for God will judge the sexually immoral and adulterous.

Genesis 2: 18-25
18. Then the Lord God said, 
“It is not good that the man should be alone; 
I will make him a helper fit for him.” 
19. Now out of the ground the Lord God had formed 
every beast of the field and every bird of the heavens 
and brought them to the man to see what he would 

“Held in Honor”.. Hebrews 13:4  ... 5.19.2019

“Finished” 
Philippians 2: 5-11 
4.21.2019 
Spencer DeBurgh 
 
Scriptures used in this teaching: 
Philippians 2:5-11 
Have this mind among yourselves, which is yours in Christ Jesus, 
who, though he was in the form of God, did not count equality with God a thing to be grasped, 
but made himself nothing, taking the form of a servant,[b] being born in the likeness of men. 
And being found in human form, he humbled himself by becoming obedient to the point of death, even death on a cross. 
 
Therefore God has highly exalted him and bestowed on him the name that is above every name, 
so that at the name of Jesus every knee should bow, in heaven and on earth and under the earth, 
and every tongue confess that Jesus Christ is Lord, to the glory of God the Father. 
 
Philippians 3:8-21 
Indeed, I count everything as loss because of the surpassing worth of knowing Christ Jesus my Lord. For his sake I have suffered the loss of all things and count them as rubbish, in order that I may gain Christ 
and be found in him, not having a righteousness of my own that comes from the law, but that which comes through faith in Christ, the righteousness from God that depends on faith 
that I may know him and the power of his resurrection, and may share his sufferings, becoming like him in his death, 
that by any means possible I may attain the resurrection from the dead. 
Not that I have already obtained this or am already perfect, but I press on to make it my own, because Christ Jesus has made me his own. 
 
Brothers, I do not consider that I have made it my own. But one thing I do: forgetting what lies behind and straining forward to what lies ahead, 
I press on towards the goal for the prize of the upward call of God in Christ Jesus. 
Let those of us who are mature think this way, and if in anything you think otherwise, God will reveal that also to you. 
Only let us hold true to what we have attained. 
Brothers, join in imitating me, and keep your eyes on those who walk according to the example you have in us. 
For many, of whom I have often told you and now tell you even with tears, walk as enemies of the cross of Christ. 
Their end is destruction, their god is their belly, and they glory in their shame, with minds set on earthly things. 
 
But our citizenship is in heaven, and from it we await a Saviour, the Lord Jesus Christ, 
who will transform our lowly body to be like his glorious body, by the power that enables him even to subject all things to himself.

“Finished”
Philippians 2: 5-11
4.21.2019
Spencer DeBurgh

Scriptures used in this teaching:
Philippians 2:5-11
Have this mind among yourselves, which is yours in Christ Jesus, 
who, though he was in the form of God, did not count equality with God a thing to be grasped, 
but made himself nothing, taking the form of a servant,[b] being born in the likeness of men. 
And being found in human form, he humbled himself by becoming obedient to the point of death, even death on a cross. 

Therefore God has highly exalted him and bestowed on him the name that is above every name, 
so that at the name of Jesus every knee should bow, in heaven and on earth and under the earth, 
and every tongue confess that Jesus Christ is Lord, to the glory of God the Father.

Philippians 3:8-21
Indeed, I count everything as loss because of the surpassing worth of knowing Christ Jesus my Lord. For his sake I have suffered the loss of all things and count them as rubbish, in order that I may gain Christ 
and be f

“Finished” ... Philippians 2:5-11... 4 21 2019

“Strive for Holiness” 
Hebrews 12: 12-17 
Spencer DeBurgh 
4.14.2019 
 
SCRIPTURES USED IN THIS TEACHING: 
 Isaiah 35: 1-10 
 
1. The wilderness and the dry land shall be glad; 
    the desert shall rejoice and blossom like the crocus; 
2. it shall blossom abundantly 
    and rejoice with joy and singing. 
The glory of Lebanon shall be given to it, 
    the majesty of Carmel and Sharon. 
They shall see the glory of the Lord, 
    the majesty of our God. 
3. Strengthen the weak hands, 
    and make firm the feeble knees. 
4. Say to those who have an anxious heart, 
    “Be strong; fear not! 
Behold, your God 
    will come with vengeance, 
with the recompense of God. 
    He will come and save you.” 
5. Then the eyes of the blind shall be opened, 
    and the ears of the deaf unstopped; 
6. then shall the lame man leap like a deer, 
    and the tongue of the mute sing for joy. 
For waters break forth in the wilderness, 
    and streams in the desert; 
7. the burning sand shall become a pool, 
    and the thirsty ground springs of water; 
in the haunt of jackals, where they lie down, 
    the grass shall become reeds and rushes. 
8. And a highway shall be there, 
    and it shall be called the Way of Holiness; 
the unclean shall not pass over it. 
    It shall belong to those who walk on the way; 
    even if they are fools, they shall not go astray.[a] 
9. No lion shall be there, 
    nor shall any ravenous beast come up on it; 
they shall not be found there, 
    but the redeemed shall walk there. 
10. And the ransomed of the Lord shall return 
    and come to Zion with singing; 
everlasting joy shall be upon their heads; 
    they shall obtain gladness and joy, 
    and sorrow and sighing shall flee away. 
 
Hebrews 12: 12-17 
12 .Therefore lift your drooping hands and strengthen your weak knees, 
13. and make straight paths for your feet, so that what is lame may not be put out of joint but rather be healed. 
14. Strive for peace with everyone, and for the holiness without which no one will see the Lord. 
15. See to it that no one fails to obtain the grace of God; that no “root of bitterness” springs up and causes trouble, and by it many become defiled; 
16. that no one is sexually immoral or unholy like Esau, who sold his birthright for a single meal. 
17. For you know that afterwards, when he desired to inherit the blessing, he was rejected, for he found no chance to repent, though he sought it with tears. 
 
Proverbs 3: 5-6 
5. Trust in the Lord with all your heart,and do not lean on your own understanding. 
6. In all your ways acknowledge him, and he will make straight your paths. 
11. And every priest stands daily at his service, 
offering repeatedly the same sacrifices, 
which can never take away sins. 
 
Hebrews 10:10-14. 
10. And by that will we have been sanctified through the offering of the body of Jesus Christ once for all. 
11.But when Christ had offered for all time a single sacrifice for sins, he sat down at the right hand of God, 
13. waiting from that time until his enemies should be made a footstool for his feet. 
14. For by a single offering he has perfected for all time those who are being sanctified. 
 
Deuteronomy 29:18-20 
18. Beware lest there be among you a man or woman or clan or tribe whose heart is turning away today from the Lord our God to go and serve the gods of those nations. Beware lest there be among you a root bearing poisonous and bitter fruit, one who, when he hears the words of this sworn covenant, blesses himself in his heart, saying, ‘I shall be safe, though I walk in the stubbornness of my heart.’ This will lead to the sweeping away of moist and dry alike. 
20. The Lord will not be willing to forgive him, but rather the anger of the Lord and his jealousy will smoke against that man, and the curses written in this book will settle upon him, and the Lord will blot out his name from under heaven.

“Strive for Holiness”
Hebrews 12: 12-17
Spencer DeBurgh
4.14.2019

SCRIPTURES USED IN THIS TEACHING:
 Isaiah 35: 1-10

1. The wilderness and the dry land shall be glad;
    the desert shall rejoice and blossom like the crocus;
2. it shall blossom abundantly
    and rejoice with joy and singing.
The glory of Lebanon shall be given to it,
    the majesty of Carmel and Sharon.
They shall see the glory of the Lord,
    the majesty of our God.
3. Strengthen the weak hands,
    and make firm the feeble knees.
4. Say to those who have an anxious heart,
    “Be strong; fear not!
Behold, your God
    will come with vengeance,
with the recompense of God.
    He will come and save you.”
5. Then the eyes of the blind shall be opened,
    and the ears of the deaf unstopped;
6. then shall the lame man leap like a deer,
    and the tongue of the mute sing for joy.
For waters break forth in the wilderness,
    and streams in the desert;
7. the burning sand shall become a pool,
    and the thirsty grou

“Strive for Holiness” ... Hebrews 12: 12-17 ... 4.14.2019

ScriptureS used in this teaching: 
 
Isaiah 28: 23-29 
 
Give ear, and hear my voice; 
    give attention, and hear my speech. 
Does he who ploughs for sowing plough continually? 
    Does he continually open and harrow his ground? 
When he has levelled its surface, 
    does he not scatter dill, sow cumin, 
and put in wheat in rows 
    and barley in its proper place, 
    and emmer as the border? 
For he is rightly instructed; 
    his God teaches him. 
Dill is not threshed with a threshing sledge, 
    nor is a cart wheel rolled over cumin, 
but dill is beaten out with a stick, 
    and cumin with a rod. 
Does one crush grain for bread? 
    No, he does not thresh it for ever; 
when he drives his cart wheel over it 
    with his horses, he does not crush it. 
This also comes from the Lord of hosts; 
    he is wonderful in counsel 
    and excellent in wisdom. 
 
Hebrews 12: 4-11 
 
In your struggle against sin you have not yet resisted to the point of shedding your blood. 
And have you forgotten the exhortation that addresses you as sons? 
“My son, do not regard lightly the discipline of the Lord, 
    nor be weary when reproved by him. 
For the Lord disciplines the one he loves, 
    and chastises every son whom he receives.” 
It is for discipline that you have to endure. 
God is treating you as sons. For what son is there whom his father does not discipline? you are left without discipline, in which all have participated, then you are illegitimate children and not sons. 
Besides this, we have had earthly fathers who disciplined us and we respected them. 
Shall we not much more be subject to the Father of spirits and live? they disciplined us for a short time as it seemed best to them, but he disciplines us for our good, that we may share his holiness. 
For the moment all discipline seems painful rather than pleasant, but later it yields the peaceful fruit of righteousness to those who have been trained by it. 
 
2 Timothy 3:16-17 
All Scripture is breathed out by God and profitable for teaching, for reproof, for correction, and for training in righteousness, that the man of God may be competent, equipped for every good work. 
 
Hebrews 3:12-14 
Take care, brothers, lest there be in any of you an evil, unbelieving heart, leading you to fall away from the living God. 
But exhort one another every day, as long as it is called “today”, that none of you may be hardened by the deceitfulness of sin. 
For we have come to share in Christ, if indeed we hold our original confidence firm to the end. 
 
Titus 2:11-14 
For the grace of God has appeared, bringing salvation for all people, training us to renounce ungodliness and worldly passions, and to live self-controlled, upright, and godly lives in the present age, waiting for our blessed hope, the appearing of the glory of our great God and Saviour Jesus Christ, who gave himself for us to redeem us from all lawlessness and to purify for himself a people for his own possession who are zealous for good works. 
 
Psalm 131 
O Lord, my heart is not lifted up; 
    my eyes are not raised too high; 
I do not occupy myself with things 
    too great and too marvellous for me. 
But I have calmed and quietened my soul, 
    like a weaned child with its mother; 
    like a weaned child is my soul within me. 
O Israel, hope in the Lord 
    from this time forth and for evermore.

ScriptureS used in this teaching:

Isaiah 28: 23-29

Give ear, and hear my voice;
    give attention, and hear my speech.
Does he who ploughs for sowing plough continually?
    Does he continually open and harrow his ground?
When he has levelled its surface,
    does he not scatter dill, sow cumin,
and put in wheat in rows
    and barley in its proper place,
    and emmer as the border?
For he is rightly instructed;
    his God teaches him.
Dill is not threshed with a threshing sledge,
    nor is a cart wheel rolled over cumin,
but dill is beaten out with a stick,
    and cumin with a rod.
Does one crush grain for bread?
    No, he does not thresh it for ever;
when he drives his cart wheel over it
    with his horses, he does not crush it.
This also comes from the Lord of hosts;
    he is wonderful in counsel
    and excellent in wisdom.

Hebrews 12: 4-11

In your struggle against sin you have not yet resisted to the point of shedding your blood. 
And have you forgotten the exhortation

“In Training” ... Hebrews 12: 4-11 ... 4.7.2019

Spencer DeBurgh 
3.31.2019 
Scriptures used in this teaching from Hebrews: 
 
Hebrews 12:5-11 
And have you forgotten the exhortation that addresses you as sons? 
“My son, do not regard lightly the discipline of the Lord, 
nor be weary when reproved by him. 
For the Lord disciplines the one he loves, 
and chastises every son whom he receives.” 
It is for discipline that you have to endure. 
God is treating you as sons. For what son is there whom his father does not discipline? 
If you are left without discipline, in which all have participated, then you are illegitimate children and not sons. 
Besides this, we have had earthly fathers who disciplined us and we respected them. 
Shall we not much more be subject to the Father of spirits and live? 
For they disciplined us for a short time as it seemed best to them, but he disciplines us for our good, that we may share his holiness. 
For the moment all discipline seems painful rather than pleasant, but later it yields the peaceful fruit of righteousness to those who have been trained by it. 
 
Hebrews 12:7 
It is for discipline that you have to endure. 
God is treating you as sons. For what son is there whom his father does not discipline? 
 
Proverbs 13:24 
Whoever spares the rod hates his son, 
but he who loves him is diligent to discipline him. 
 
Proverbs 19:18 
Discipline your son, for there is hope; 
do not set your heart on putting him to death. 
 
Proverbs 23:13-14 
Do not withhold discipline from a child; 
if you strike him with a rod, he will not die. 
If you strike him with the rod, 
you will save his soul from Sheol. 
 
Proverbs 29:15 
The rod and reproof give wisdom, 
but a child left to himself brings shame to his mother. 
 
2 Thessalonians 1:7-9 
and to grant relief to you who are afflicted as well as to us, when the Lord Jesus is revealed from heaven with his mighty angels in flaming fire, inflicting vengeance on those who do not know God and on those who do not obey the gospel of our Lord Jesus. 
They will suffer the punishment of eternal destruction, away from[b] the presence of the Lord and from the glory of his might 
 
Proverbs 13:24 
Do not withhold discipline from a child; 
if you strike him with a rod, he will not die. 
If you strike him with the rod, 
you will save his soul from Sheol. 
 
Hebrews 12:2 
looking to Jesus, the founder and perfecter of our faith, 
who for the joy that was set before him endured the cross, 
despising the shame, and is seated at the right hand of the throne of God.

Spencer DeBurgh
3.31.2019
Scriptures used in this teaching from Hebrews:

Hebrews 12:5-11
And have you forgotten the exhortation that addresses you as sons?
“My son, do not regard lightly the discipline of the Lord,
nor be weary when reproved by him.
For the Lord disciplines the one he loves,
and chastises every son whom he receives.”
It is for discipline that you have to endure. 
God is treating you as sons. For what son is there whom his father does not discipline? 
If you are left without discipline, in which all have participated, then you are illegitimate children and not sons. 
Besides this, we have had earthly fathers who disciplined us and we respected them. 
Shall we not much more be subject to the Father of spirits and live? 
For they disciplined us for a short time as it seemed best to them, but he disciplines us for our good, that we may share his holiness. 
For the moment all discipline seems painful rather than pleasant, but later it yields the peaceful fruit of righteous

“Fatherly Discipline” … Hebrews 12:5-11

Hebrews 12: 1-3 
Spencer DeBurgh 
 3.3.2019 
 
Scriptures used in this sermon/teaching: 
 
Hebrews 12: 1-3 
Therefore, since we are surrounded by so great a cloud of witnesses, let us also lay aside every weight, and sin which clings so closely, and let us run with endurance the race that is set before us, looking to Jesus, the founder and perfecter of our faith, who for the joy that was set before him endured the cross, despising the shame, and is seated at the right hand of the throne of God. 
Consider him who endured from sinners such hostility against himself, so that you may not grow weary or faint-hearted. 
 
 
Hebrews 2:1 
Therefore we must pay much closer attention to what we have heard, lest we drift away from it. 
 
Hebrews 3: 12-13 
Take care, brothers, lest there be in any of you an evil, unbelieving heart, leading you to fall away from the living God. 
But exhort one another every day, as long as it is called “today”, that none of you may be hardened by the deceitfulness of sin. 
 
Hebrews 6: 11-12 
And we desire each one of you to show the same earnestness to have the full assurance of hope until the end, so that you may not be sluggish, but imitators of those who through faith and patience inherit the promises. 
 
Hebrews 10:23 
Let us hold fast the confession of our hope without wavering, for he who promised is faithful. 
 
Hebrews 10: 35-36 
Therefore do not throw away your confidence, which has a great reward. 
For you have need of endurance, so that when you have done the will of God you may receive what is promised. 
 
Romans 8:5-6 
For those who live according to the flesh set their minds on the things of the flesh, but those who live according to the Spirit set their minds on the things of the Spirit. 
For to set the mind on the flesh is death, but to set the mind on the Spirit is life and peace. 
 
Colossians 3:2 
Set your minds on things that are above, not on things that are on earth. 
 
Phillipians 3:19 
Their end is destruction, their god is their belly, and they glory in their shame, with minds set on earthly things.

Hebrews 12: 1-3
Spencer DeBurgh
 3.3.2019

Scriptures used in this sermon/teaching:

Hebrews 12: 1-3
Therefore, since we are surrounded by so great a cloud of witnesses, let us also lay aside every weight, and sin which clings so closely, and let us run with endurance the race that is set before us, looking to Jesus, the founder and perfecter of our faith, who for the joy that was set before him endured the cross, despising the shame, and is seated at the right hand of the throne of God.
Consider him who endured from sinners such hostility against himself, so that you may not grow weary or faint-hearted.


Hebrews 2:1
Therefore we must pay much closer attention to what we have heard, lest we drift away from it.

Hebrews 3: 12-13
Take care, brothers, lest there be in any of you an evil, unbelieving heart, leading you to fall away from the living God. 
But exhort one another every day, as long as it is called “today”, that none of you may be hardened by the deceitfulness of sin.

Hebrews

"Run the Race" ... Hebrews 12:1-3 ... ... 3.3.2019

“For whom the world is not worthy” 
Hebrews 11: 32-40 
Spencer DeBurgh 
2.24.2019 
 
Hebrews 11: 32-40 
32-34. And what more shall I say? For time would fail me to tell of Gideon, Barak, Samson, Jephthah, of David and Samuel and the prophets who through faith conquered kingdoms, enforced justice, obtained promises, stopped the mouths of lions, quenched the power of fire, escaped the edge of the sword, were made strong out of weakness, became mighty in war, put foreign armies to flight. 
35. Women received back their dead by resurrection. 
Some were tortured, refusing to accept release, so that they might rise again to a better life. 
36. Others suffered mocking and flogging, and even chains and imprisonment. 
37-38. They were stoned, they were sawn in two, they were killed with the sword. 
They went about in skins of sheep and goats, destitute, afflicted, mistreated of whom the world was not worthy 
… wandering about in deserts and mountains, and in dens and caves of the earth. 
39-40. And all these, though commended through their faith, did not receive what was promised, since God had provided something better for us, that apart from us they should not be made perfect. 
 
Hebrews 11:13-15 
13 These all died in faith, not having received the things promised, but having seen them and greeted them from afar, and having acknowledged that they were strangers and exiles on the earth. 
14. For people who speak thus make it clear that they are seeking a homeland. 
15. If they had been thinking of that land from which they had gone out, they would have had opportunity to return. 
16. But as it is, they desire a better country, that is, a heavenly one. 
Therefore God is not ashamed to be called their God, for he has prepared for them a city. 
 
Hebrews 10:36-39 
36. For you have need of endurance, so that when you have done the will of God you may receive what is promised. 
37. For,“Yet a little while, and the coming one will come and will not delay; 
38. but my righteous one shall live by faith, and if he shrinks back, my soul has no pleasure in him.” 
39. But we are not of those who shrink back and are destroyed, but of those who have faith and preserve their souls.

“For whom the world is not worthy”
Hebrews 11: 32-40
Spencer DeBurgh
2.24.2019

Hebrews 11: 32-40
32-34. And what more shall I say? For time would fail me to tell of Gideon, Barak, Samson, Jephthah, of David and Samuel and the prophets who through faith conquered kingdoms, enforced justice, obtained promises, stopped the mouths of lions, quenched the power of fire, escaped the edge of the sword, were made strong out of weakness, became mighty in war, put foreign armies to flight. 
35. Women received back their dead by resurrection. 
Some were tortured, refusing to accept release, so that they might rise again to a better life. 
36. Others suffered mocking and flogging, and even chains and imprisonment. 
37-38. They were stoned, they were sawn in two, they were killed with the sword. 
They went about in skins of sheep and goats, destitute, afflicted, mistreated of whom the world was not worthy
… wandering about in deserts and mountains, and in dens and caves of the earth.
39-40. And all

“For whom the world is not worthy” ...  Hebrews 11: 32-40

Scriptures used in these teachings: 
 
HEBREWS 11:29-31 
29. By faith the people crossed the Red Sea as on dry land, but the Egyptians, when they attempted to do the same, were drowned. 30. By faith the walls of Jericho fell down after they had been encircled for seven days. 
31. By faith Rahab the prostitute did not perish with those who were disobedient, because she had given a friendly welcome to the spies. 
 
EXODUS 14:5-31 
 
JOSHUA 6: 1-7 
 
PSALMS 20:6-7 
 
JOSHUA 2:1-14

Scriptures used in these teachings:

HEBREWS 11:29-31
29. By faith the people crossed the Red Sea as on dry land, but the Egyptians, when they attempted to do the same, were drowned. 30. By faith the walls of Jericho fell down after they had been encircled for seven days. 
31. By faith Rahab the prostitute did not perish with those who were disobedient, because she had given a friendly welcome to the spies.

EXODUS 14:5-31

JOSHUA 6: 1-7

PSALMS 20:6-7

JOSHUA 2:1-14

"Water, a Wall and a Woman" ... Hebrews 11:29-31 ... 2.17.2019

Scriptures used in this teaching from Hebrews: 
 
Hebrews 11:24-28 
 
24. By faith Moses, when he was grown up, refused to be called the son of Pharaoh's daughter, 
25. choosing rather to be mistreated with the people of God than to enjoy the fleeting pleasures of sin. 
 
26. He considered the reproach of Christ greater wealth than the treasures of Egypt, for he was looking to the reward. 
 
27. By faith he left Egypt, not being afraid of the anger of the king, for he endured as seeing him who is invisible. 
 
28. By faith he kept the Passover and sprinkled the blood, so that the Destroyer of the firstborn might not touch them. 
 
Psalms 16:11 
11. You make known to me the path of life; 
    in your presence there is fullness of joy; 
    at your right hand are pleasures for evermore. 
 
Psalms 19:8 
8. the precepts of the Lord are right, 
    rejoicing the heart; 
the commandment of the Lord is pure, 
    enlightening the eyes;

Scriptures used in this teaching from Hebrews:

Hebrews 11:24-28

24. By faith Moses, when he was grown up, refused to be called the son of Pharaoh's daughter, 
25. choosing rather to be mistreated with the people of God than to enjoy the fleeting pleasures of sin. 

26. He considered the reproach of Christ greater wealth than the treasures of Egypt, for he was looking to the reward. 

27. By faith he left Egypt, not being afraid of the anger of the king, for he endured as seeing him who is invisible. 

28. By faith he kept the Passover and sprinkled the blood, so that the Destroyer of the firstborn might not touch them.

Psalms 16:11
11. You make known to me the path of life;
    in your presence there is fullness of joy;
    at your right hand are pleasures for evermore.

Psalms 19:8
8. the precepts of the Lord are right,
    rejoicing the heart;
the commandment of the Lord is pure,
    enlightening the eyes;

"The Reward"  ... Hebrews 11:24-28 .... 2.10.2019

Scriptures used in this teaching from Hebrews: 
 
Hebrews 11:24-28 
24. By faith Moses, when he was grown up, refused to be called the son of Pharaoh's daughter, choosing rather to be mistreated with the people of God than to enjoy the fleeting pleasures of sin. 
 
26. He considered the reproach of Christ greater wealth than the treasures of Egypt, for he was looking to the reward. 
 
27. By faith he left Egypt, not being afraid of the anger of the king, for he endured as seeing him who is invisible. 
 
28. By faith he kept the Passover and sprinkled the blood, so that the Destroyer of the firstborn might not touch them. 
 
Hebrews 11:6 
6. And without faith it is impossible to please him, for whoever would draw near to God must believe that he exists and that he rewards those who seek him.

Scriptures used in this teaching from Hebrews:

Hebrews 11:24-28
24. By faith Moses, when he was grown up, refused to be called the son of Pharaoh's daughter, choosing rather to be mistreated with the people of God than to enjoy the fleeting pleasures of sin. 

26. He considered the reproach of Christ greater wealth than the treasures of Egypt, for he was looking to the reward. 

27. By faith he left Egypt, not being afraid of the anger of the king, for he endured as seeing him who is invisible. 

28. By faith he kept the Passover and sprinkled the blood, so that the Destroyer of the firstborn might not touch them.

Hebrews 11:6
6. And without faith it is impossible to please him, for whoever would draw near to God must believe that he exists and that he rewards those who seek him.

"The Choice"  ... Hebrews 11: 24-28  ..... 2.3.2019

Spencer DeBurgh 
12.19.2018 
Scriptures used in this sermon/teaching 
 
Hebrews 10:1-14 
 
1. For since the law has but a shadow of the good things to come instead of the true form of these realities, it can never, by the same sacrifices that are continually offered every year, make perfect those who draw near. 
2. Otherwise, would they not have ceased to be offered, since the worshippers, having once been cleansed, would no longer have any consciousness of sins? 
3. But in these sacrifices there is a reminder of sins every year. 
4. For it is impossible for the blood of bulls and goats to take away sins. 
5. Consequently, when Christ came into the world, he said, 
“Sacrifices and offerings you have not desired, 
    but a body have you prepared for me; 
6. in burnt offerings and sin offerings you have taken no pleasure. 
7. Then I said, ‘Behold, I have come to do your will, O God, as it is written of me in the scroll of the book.’” 
8. When he said above, “You have neither desired nor taken pleasure in sacrifices and offerings and burnt offerings and sin offerings” (these are offered according to the law), then he added, “Behold, I have come to do your will.” He does away with the first in order to establish the second. 
10. And by that will we have been sanctified through the offering of the body of Jesus Christ once for all. 
11. And every priest stands daily at his service, offering repeatedly the same sacrifices, which can never take away sins. 
12. But when Christ had offered for all time a single sacrifice for sins, he sat down at the right hand of God, waiting from that time until his enemies should be made a footstool for his feet. 
14. For by a single offering he has perfected for all time those who are being sanctified.

Spencer DeBurgh 
12.19.2018
Scriptures used in this sermon/teaching

Hebrews 10:1-14

1. For since the law has but a shadow of the good things to come instead of the true form of these realities, it can never, by the same sacrifices that are continually offered every year, make perfect those who draw near. 
2. Otherwise, would they not have ceased to be offered, since the worshippers, having once been cleansed, would no longer have any consciousness of sins? 
3. But in these sacrifices there is a reminder of sins every year. 
4. For it is impossible for the blood of bulls and goats to take away sins.
5. Consequently, when Christ came into the world, he said,
“Sacrifices and offerings you have not desired,
    but a body have you prepared for me;
6. in burnt offerings and sin offerings you have taken no pleasure.
7. Then I said, ‘Behold, I have come to do your will, O God, as it is written of me in the scroll of the book.’”
8. When he said above, “You have neither desired nor taken plea

"Adore the Savior" ... Hebrews 10:1-14

"Faith's Test" 
Spencer DeBURGH ...11 18 2018 
Hebrews 11:17-22 / Genesis 22:1-19 
 
Scriptures used in this sermon/teaching: 
 
Genesis 22 1-19 
1.After these things God tested Abraham and said to him, “Abraham!” And he said, “Here am I.” 
2. He said, “Take your son, your only son Isaac, whom you love, and go to the land of Moriah, and offer him there as a burnt offering on one of the mountains of which I shall tell you.” 
3. So Abraham rose early in the morning, saddled his donkey, and took two of his young men with him, and his son Isaac. And he cut the wood for the burnt offering and arose and went to the place of which God had told him. 
4. On the third day Abraham lifted up his eyes and saw the place from afar. 
5. Then Abraham said to his young men, “Stay here with the donkey; I and the boy will go over there and worship and come again to you.” 
6. And Abraham took the wood of the burnt offering and laid it on Isaac his son. And he took in his hand the fire and the knife. So they went both of them together. 
7. And Isaac said to his father Abraham, “My father!” And he said, “Here am I, my son.” He said, “Behold, the fire and the wood, but where is the lamb for a burnt offering?” 
8. Abraham said, “God will provide for himself the lamb for a burnt offering, my son.” So they went both of them together. 
9. When they came to the place of which God had told him, Abraham built the altar there and laid the wood in order and bound Isaac his son and laid him on the altar, on top of the wood. 
10. Then Abraham reached out his hand and took the knife to slaughter his son. 
11. But the angel of the Lord called to him from heaven and said, “Abraham, Abraham!” And he said, “Here am I.” 
12. He said, “Do not lay your hand on the boy or do anything to him, for now I know that you fear God, seeing you have not withheld your son, your only son, from me.” 
13. And Abraham lifted up his eyes and looked, and behold, behind him was a ram, caught in a thicket by his horns. And Abraham went and took the ram and offered it up as a burnt offering instead of his son. 
14. So Abraham called the name of that place, “The Lord will provide”; as it is said to this day, “On the mount of the Lord it shall be provided.” 
15. And the angel of the Lord called to Abraham a second time from heaven and said, “By myself I have sworn, declares the Lord, because you have done this and have not withheld your son, your only son, 
17. I will surely bless you, and I will surely multiply your offspring as the stars of heaven and as the sand that is on the seashore. And your offspring shall possess the gate of his[d] enemies, and in your offspring shall all the nations of the earth be blessed, because you have obeyed my voice.” 
19. So Abraham returned to his young men, and they arose and went together to Beersheba. And Abraham lived at Beersheba. 
 
Hebrews 11: 17-22 
17. By faith Abraham, when he was tested, offered up Isaac, and he who had received the promises was in the act of offering up his only son, of whom it was said, “Through Isaac shall your offspring be named.” 
19. He considered that God was able even to raise him from the dead, from which, figuratively speaking, he did receive him back. 20. By faith Isaac invoked future blessings on Jacob and Esau. 
21. By faith Jacob, when dying, blessed each of the sons of Joseph, bowing in worship over the head of his staff. 
22. By faith Joseph, at the end of his life, made mention of the exodus of the Israelites and gave directions concerning his bones. 
 
Hebrews 11: 25-26 
25. choosing rather to be mistreated with the people of God than to enjoy the fleeting pleasures of sin. 
26. He considered the reproach of Christ greater wealth than the treasures of Egypt, for he was looking to the reward.

"Faith's Test" 
Spencer DeBURGH ...11 18 2018
Hebrews 11:17-22 / Genesis 22:1-19 

Scriptures used in this sermon/teaching:

Genesis 22 1-19
1.After these things God tested Abraham and said to him, “Abraham!” And he said, “Here am I.” 
2. He said, “Take your son, your only son Isaac, whom you love, and go to the land of Moriah, and offer him there as a burnt offering on one of the mountains of which I shall tell you.” 
3. So Abraham rose early in the morning, saddled his donkey, and took two of his young men with him, and his son Isaac. And he cut the wood for the burnt offering and arose and went to the place of which God had told him. 
4. On the third day Abraham lifted up his eyes and saw the place from afar. 
5. Then Abraham said to his young men, “Stay here with the donkey; I and the boy will go over there and worship and come again to you.” 
6. And Abraham took the wood of the burnt offering and laid it on Isaac his son. And he took in his hand the fire and the knife. So they wen

"Faith's Test" ... Hebrews 11:17-22 / Genesis 22:1-19

Spencer DeBurgh ... 9.23.2018 
Racine Bible Church 
 
Scriptures used in this teaching: 
 
1 Corth.15:1-4 
Now I would remind you, brothers and sisters 
of the gospel I preached to you, 
which you received, 
in which you stand, 
and by which you are being saved, 
if you hold fast to the gospel I preached to you— 
unless you believed in vain. 
For I delivered to you as of first importance 
what I also received: 
that Christ died for our sins 
in accordance with the Scriptures 
that he was buried, that he was raised on the third day 
in accordance with the Scriptures 
 
Hebrews 11: 1-6 
1. Now faith is the assurance of things hoped for, 
the conviction of things not seen. 
2. For by it the people of old received their commendation. 
3. By faith we understand that the universe was created 
by the word of God, so that what is seen was not made out 
of things that are visible. 
4. By faith Abel offered to God a more acceptable sacrifice 
than Cain, through which he was commended as righteous, 
God commending him by accepting his gifts. 
And through his faith, though he died, he still speaks. 
5. By faith Enoch was taken up so that he should not see death, 
and he was not found, because God had taken him. 
Now before he was taken he was commended 
as having pleased God. 
6. And without faith it is impossible to please him, 
for whoever would draw near to God 
must believe that he exists 
and that he rewards those who seek him. 
 
Hebrews 11:24-26 
By faith Moses, when he was grown up, 
refused to be called the son of Pharaoh's daughter, 
choosing rather to be mistreated with the people of God 
than to enjoy the fleeting pleasures of sin. 
He considered the reproach of Christ greater wealth than the treasures of Egypt, 
for he was looking to the reward. 
 
Psalms 36:8-9 
They feast on the abundance of your house, 
    and you give them drink from the river of your delights. 
For with you is the fountain of life; 
    in your light do we see light. 
 
Psalm 16:11 
You make known to me the path of life; 
    in your presence there is fullness of joy; 
    at your right hand are pleasures for evermore. 
 
Hebrews 10:34-36 
34. For you had compassion on those in prison, 
and you joyfully accepted the plundering of your property, 
since you knew that you yourselves 
had a better possession and an abiding one. 
35. Therefore do not throw away your confidence, 
which has a great reward. 
36. For you have need of endurance, 
so that when you have done the will of God 
you may receive what is promised. 
 
Hebrews 11:16 
But as it is, they desire a better country, 
that is, a heavenly one. 
Therefore God is not ashamed to be called their God, 
for he has prepared for them a city. 
 
1 Peter 1:4 
to an inheritance 
that is imperishable, 
undefiled, 
and unfading, 
kept in heaven for you 
 
Matthew 6:1-4 
1.“Beware of practising your righteousness before other people in order to be seen by them, for then you will have no reward from your Father who is in heaven. 
2 “Thus, when you give to the needy, sound no trumpet before you, as the hypocrites do in the synagogues and in the streets, that they may be praised by others. 
Truly, I say to you, they have received their reward. 
3 But when you give to the needy, do not let your left hand know what your right hand is doing, so that your giving may be in secret. And your Father who sees in secret will reward you. 
 
Col. 3:24 
knowing that from the Lord you will receive the inheritance as your reward. You are serving the Lord Christ.

Spencer DeBurgh ... 9.23.2018
Racine Bible Church

Scriptures used in this teaching:

1 Corth.15:1-4
Now I would remind you, brothers and sisters 
of the gospel I preached to you, 
which you received, 
in which you stand, 
and by which you are being saved, 
if you hold fast to the gospel I preached to you—
unless you believed in vain.
For I delivered to you as of first importance 
what I also received:
that Christ died for our sins 
in accordance with the Scriptures
that he was buried, that he was raised on the third day 
in accordance with the Scriptures

Hebrews 11: 1-6
1. Now faith is the assurance of things hoped for, 
the conviction of things not seen. 
2. For by it the people of old received their commendation. 
3. By faith we understand that the universe was created 
by the word of God, so that what is seen was not made out 
of things that are visible.
4. By faith Abel offered to God a more acceptable sacrifice 
than Cain, through which he was commended as righteous, 
God commen

"He Exists and He Rewards" ... Hebrews 11:6

Scriptures used in this teaching: 
 
Hebrews 11:1-6 .......... 
 
Now faith is the assurance of things hoped for, the conviction of things not seen. 
 
For by it the people of old received their commendation. 
 
By faith we understand that the universe was created by the word of God, so that what is seen was not made out of things that are visible. 
 
By faith Abel offered to God a more acceptable sacrifice than Cain, through which he was commended as righteous, God commending him by accepting his gifts. And through his faith, though he died, he still speaks. 
 
By faith Enoch was taken up so that he should not see death, and he was not found, because God had taken him. Now before he was taken he was commended as having pleased God. 
 
And without faith it is impossible to please him, for whoever would draw near to God must believe that he exists and that he rewards those who seek him. 
 
Genesis 4 1-12 ......... 
 
Now Adam knew Eve his wife, and she conceived and bore Cain, saying, “I have produced a man with the help of the Lord.” 
 
And again, she bore his brother Abel. Now Abel was a keeper of sheep, and Cain a worker of the ground. 
 
In the course of time Cain brought to the Lord an offering of the fruit of the ground, and Abel also brought of the firstborn of his flock and of their fat portions. And the Lord had regard for Abel and his offering, but for Cain and his offering he had no regard. So Cain was very angry, and his face fell. 
 
The Lord said to Cain, “Why are you angry, and why has your face fallen? 
 
If you do well, will you not be accepted?[b] And if you do not do well, sin is crouching at the door. Its desire is for[c] you, but you must rule over it.” 
 
Cain spoke to Abel his brother. And when they were in the field, Cain rose up against his brother Abel and killed him. 
 
Then the Lord said to Cain, “Where is Abel your brother?” He said, “I do not know; am I my brother's keeper?” 
 
And the Lord said, “What have you done? The voice of your brother's blood is crying to me from the ground. 
 
And now you are cursed from the ground, which has opened its mouth to receive your brother's blood from your hand. 
 
When you work the ground, it shall no longer yield to you its strength. You shall be a fugitive and a wanderer on the earth.” 
 
Genesis 5:21-24 ......... 
 
When Enoch had lived for 65 years, he fathered Methuselah. 
 
Enoch walked with God after he fathered Methuselah for 300 years and had other sons and daughters. 
 
Thus all the days of Enoch were 365 years. 
 
Enoch walked with God, and he was not, for God took him. 
 
Romans 3:20 ......... 
 
For by works of the law no human being will be justified in his sight, 
since through the law comes knowledge of sin.

Scriptures used in this teaching:

Hebrews  11:1-6 ..........

Now faith is the assurance of things hoped for, the conviction of things not seen. 

For by it the people of old received their commendation. 

By faith we understand that the universe was created by the word of God, so that what is seen was not made out of things that are visible.

By faith Abel offered to God a more acceptable sacrifice than Cain, through which he was commended as righteous, God commending him by accepting his gifts. And through his faith, though he died, he still speaks. 

By faith Enoch was taken up so that he should not see death, and he was not found, because God had taken him. Now before he was taken he was commended as having pleased God. 

And without faith it is impossible to please him, for whoever would draw near to God must believe that he exists and that he rewards those who seek him.

Genesis 4 1-12 ......... 

Now Adam knew Eve his wife, and she conceived and bore Cain, saying, “I have produ

Dying and Living by Faith - Hebrews 11:4-5

Scriptures used in this teaching: 
 
Hebrews 10:32-39 
But recall the former days when, after you were enlightened, you endured a hard struggle with sufferings, sometimes being publicly exposed to reproach and affliction, and sometimes being partners with those so treated. 
For you had compassion on those in prison, and you joyfully accepted the plundering of your property, since you knew that you yourselves had a better possession and an abiding one. 
Therefore do not throw away your confidence, which has a great reward. 
For you have need of endurance, so that when you have done the will of God you may receive what is promised. 
For, “Yet a little while, and the coming one will come and will not delay; 
but my righteous one shall live by faith, and if he shrinks back, my soul has no pleasure in him.” 
But we are not of those who shrink back and are destroyed, but of those who have faith and preserve their souls. 
 
Hebrews 2:14-15 
Since therefore the children share in flesh and blood, 
he himself likewise partook of the same things, 
that through death he might destroy 
the one who has the power of death, that is, the devil, 
and deliver all those who through fear of death were subject to lifelong slavery. 
 
Hebrews 4: 15-16 
For we do not have a high priest who is unable to sympathize with our weaknesses, but one who in every respect has been tempted as we are, yet without sin. 
Let us then with confidence draw near to the throne of grace, that we may receive mercy and find grace to help in time of need. 
 
Hebrews 7: 25 
Consequently, he is able to save to the uttermost those who draw near to God through him, since he always lives to make intercession for them. 
 
1 Peter 1:8-9 
Though you have not seen him, you love him. Though you do not now see him, you believe in him and rejoice with joy that is inexpressible and filled with glory, obtaining the outcome of your faith, the salvation of your souls. 
 
Hebrews 11: 13-16 
These all died in faith, not having received the things promised, but having seen them and greeted them from afar, and having acknowledged that they were strangers and exiles on the earth. 
For people who speak thus make it clear that they are seeking a homeland. 
If they had been thinking of that land from which they had gone out, they would have had opportunity to return. 
But as it is, they desire a better country, that is, a heavenly one. Therefore God is not ashamed to be called their God, for he has prepared for them a city.

Scriptures used in this teaching:

Hebrews 10:32-39
But recall the former days when, after you were enlightened, you endured a hard struggle with sufferings, sometimes being publicly exposed to reproach and affliction, and sometimes being partners with those so treated. 
For you had compassion on those in prison, and you joyfully accepted the plundering of your property, since you knew that you yourselves had a better possession and an abiding one. 
Therefore do not throw away your confidence, which has a great reward. 
For you have need of endurance, so that when you have done the will of God you may receive what is promised. 
For, “Yet a little while, and the coming one will come and will not delay;
but my righteous one shall live by faith, and if he shrinks back, my soul has no pleasure in him.”
But we are not of those who shrink back and are destroyed, but of those who have faith and preserve their souls.

Hebrews 2:14-15
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HEBREWS 10:32-39 ... 9. 2. 2018

Scriptures used in this teaching/sermon: 
 
Hebrews 10:32-39 
 
32. But recall the former days when, after you were enlightened, you endured a hard struggle with sufferings, 
sometimes being publicly exposed to reproach and affliction, 
and sometimes being partners with those so treated. 
 
34. For you had compassion on those in prison, and you joyfully accepted the plundering of your property, 
since you knew that you yourselves had a better possession and an abiding one. 
 
35. Therefore do not throw away your confidence, 
which has a great reward. 
 
36. For you have need of endurance, so that when you 
have done the will of God you may receive what is promised. 
 
37. For, “Yet a little while, 
 and the coming one will come and will not delay; 
but my righteous one shall live by faith, 
 and if he shrinks back, 
my soul has no pleasure in him.” 
 
39. But we are not of those who shrink back and are destroyed, 
but of those who have faith and preserve their souls. 
 
Hebrews 10:24-25 
 
24. And let us consider how to stir up one another to love and good works, 
not neglecting to meet together, as is the habit of some, 
but encouraging one another, and all the more 
as you see the Day drawing near. 
 
Hebrews 10:26-31 
 
26. For if we go on sinning deliberately 
after receiving the knowledge of the truth, 
there no longer remains a sacrifice for sins, 
but a fearful expectation of judgement, 
and a fury of fire that will consume the adversaries. 
 
28. Anyone who has set aside the law of Moses 
dies without mercy on the evidence of two or three witnesses. 
 
29. How much worse punishment, do you think, 
will be deserved by the one who has spurned the Son of God, 
and has profaned the blood of the covenant 
by which he was sanctified, 
and has outraged the Spirit of grace? 
 
30. For we know him who said, “Vengeance is mine; I will repay.” And again, “The Lord will judge his people.” 
 
31. It is a fearful thing to fall into the hands of the living God. 
 
 
Matthew 16: 21-27 
21. From that time Jesus began to show his disciples that he must go to Jerusalem and suffer many things from the elders and chief priests and scribes, and be killed, and on the third day be raised. 
22. And Peter took him aside and began to rebuke him, saying, “Far be it from you, Lord! This shall never happen to you.” 
23. But he turned and said to Peter, “Get behind me, Satan! You are a hindrance to me. For you are not setting your mind on the things of God, but on the things of man.” 
24. Then Jesus told his disciples, “If anyone would come after me, let him deny himself and take up his cross and follow me. 
25. For whoever would save his life will lose it, but whoever loses his life for my sake will find it. 
26. For what will it profit a man if he gains the whole world and forfeits his soul? Or what shall a man give in return for his soul? 
27. For the Son of Man is going to come with his angels in the glory of his Father, and then he will repay each person according to what he has done.

Scriptures used in this teaching/sermon:

Hebrews 10:32-39

32. But recall the former days when, after you were enlightened, you endured a hard struggle with sufferings, 
sometimes being publicly exposed to reproach and affliction, 
and sometimes being partners with those so treated. 

34. For you had compassion on those in prison, and you joyfully accepted the plundering of your property, 
since you knew that you yourselves had a better possession and an abiding one. 

35. Therefore do not throw away your confidence, 
which has a great reward. 

36. For you have need of endurance, so that when you 
have done the will of God you may receive what is promised. 

37. For, “Yet a little while,
    and the coming one will come and will not delay;
but my righteous one shall live by faith,
    and if he shrinks back,
my soul has no pleasure in him.”

39. But we are not of those who shrink back and are destroyed, 
but of those who have faith and preserve their souls.

Hebrews 10:24-25

24. And

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