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7/23/2023 Worship Service and Sermon from Brick Lane Community Church in Elverson, PA.

Worship Leader: Matt Griffith
Speaker: Steve Estes
Scripture: Hebrews 10:32-39
Title: Christian: Persevere

Remember those earlier days after you had received the light, when you stood your ground in a great contest in the face of suffering. Sometimes you were publicly exposed to insult and persecution; at other times you stood side by side with those who were so treated. You sympathised with those in prison and joyfully accepted the confiscation of your property, because you knew that you yourselves had better and lasting possessions. So do not throw away your confidence; it will be richly rewarded. You need to persevere so that when you have done the will of God, you will receive what he has promised. For in just a very little while, "He who is coming will come and will not delay. But my righteous one will live by faith. And if he shrinks back, I will not be pleased with him.*" But we are not of those who shrink back and are destroyed, but of those who believe and are saved.

Notes:

1. What the readers experienced in the past
A. Pressure from fellow Jews
B. Pressure from Gentiles
C. Result of pressure

2. Argument #1: You've already come so far
A. Regarding loss of property
B. For those who escaped ill treatment...
C. Now...persecution seems to have returned
D. The point

3. Argument #2: Great rewards for perseverance; awful consequences for abandonment
A. Perseverance
B. Abandonment

4. All this takes reasonable faith

5. Closing exhortation

*Habakkuk 2:3-4

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