Encourage One Another
Sermon Series: One Another
Encourage One Another
Hebrews 3:7-19
Pastor Bob Cherry
February 11, 2024
“So, as the Holy Spirit says: `Today, if you hear his voice, do not harden your hearts as you did in the rebellion, during the time of testing in the wilderness, where your ancestors tested and tried me, though for forty years they saw what I did. That is why I was angry with that generation; I said, `Their hearts are always going astray, and they have not known my ways.’ So I declared on oath in my anger, `They shall never enter my rest.’ See to it, brothers and sisters, that none of you has a sinful, unbelieving heart that turns away from the living God. But encourage one another daily, as long as it is called `Today,’ so that none of you may be hardened by sin’s deceitfulness. We have come to share in Christ, if indeed we hold our original conviction firmly to the very end. As has just been said: `Today, if you hear his voice, do not harden your hearts as you did in the rebellion.’ Who were they who heard and rebelled? Were they not all those Moses led out of Egypt? And with whom was he angry for forty years? Was it not with those who sinned, whose bodies perished in the wilderness? And to whom did God swear that they would never enter his rest if not to those who disobeyed? So we see that they were not able to enter, because of their unbelief.” (Hebrews 3:7-19)
“Therefore encourage one another and build each other up, just as in fact you are doing.”
1st Thessalonians 5:11)
Encouraging One Another Involves:
- S – Seeing and Seeking the good.
“God said, `Let there be light,’ and there was light. God saw that the light was good, and he separated the light from the darkness.” (Genesis 1:3)
“Love must be sincere. Hate what is evil; cling to what is good… Do not be overcome by evil, but overcome evil with good.” (Romans 12:9 & 21)
- T – Taking Time to Listen.
“My dear brothers and sisters, take note of this: Everyone should be quick to listen, slow to speak and slow to become angry, because human anger does not produce the righteousness that God desires.” (James 1:19-20)
There is… “a time to tear and a time to mend, a time to be silent and a time to speak…”
(Ecclesiastes 3:7)
- O – Overlooking some negative.
“A person’s wisdom yields patience; it is to one’s glory to overlook an offense.”
(Proverbs 19:11)
“If you bite and devour each other, watch out or you will be destroyed by each other.”
(Galatians 5:15)
- P – ____________________________________ God’s Word.
“All Scripture is God breathed and is useful for teaching, rebuking, correcting and training in righteousness, so that the servant of God may be thoroughly equipped for every good work.”
(2nd Timothy 3:16-17)
Cup of Encouragement:
- C – Come Alongside Someone and Offer Comfort and Counsel
- U – Understand their Situation
- P – Pray for them as you Present God’s Word
“Therefore, as God’s chosen people, holy and dearly loved, clothe yourselves with compassion, kindness, humility, gentleness and patience. Bear with each other and forgive one another if any of you has a grievance against someone. Forgive as the Lord forgave you.”
(Colossians 3:12-13)
Fill ins:
Seeing Seeking
Taking Time
Overlooking
Presenting