As we prepare to journey as a church through the book of Romans, this summer we are digging deeper into the word 'together'.
What does it look like to be together?
What does unity look like when we don't always share the same opinion?
What has God placed within you?
Last week I shared a video for discussion around the words TIME and OPTIMISE. If you didn't get along to smaller expressions, take a watch this week and spend some time thinking through some of these questions.
Are you expectant?
What do you hope for?
In what do you place your confidence?
What areas of your life need optimising to make greater space for the kingdom of God?
May you be richly blessed as you take time with the Lord.
Lizi x
Hebrews 10 v 19-35
A Call to Persevere in Faith
Therefore, brothers and sisters, since we have confidence to enter the Most Holy Place by the blood of Jesus, by a new and living way opened for us through the curtain, that is, his body, and since we have a great priest over the house of God, let us draw near to God with a sincere heart and with the full assurance that faith brings, having our hearts sprinkled to cleanse us from a guilty conscience and having our bodies washed with pure water. Let us hold unswervingly to the hope we profess, for he who promised is faithful. And let us consider how we may spur one another on toward love and good deeds, not giving up meeting together, as some are in the habit of doing, but encouraging one another—and all the more as you see the Day approaching.
If we deliberately keep on sinning after we have received the knowledge of the truth, no sacrifice for sins is left, but only a fearful expectation of judgment and of raging fire that will consume the enemies of God. Anyone who rejected the law of Moses died without mercy on the testimony of two or three witnesses. How much more severely do you think someone deserves to be punished who has trampled the Son of Godunderfoot, who has treated as an unholy thing the blood of the covenantthat sanctified them, and who has insulted the Spirit of grace? For we know him who said, “It is mine to avenge; I will repay,”[a] and again, “The Lord will judge his people.”[b] It is a dreadful thing to fall into the hands of the living God.
Remember those earlier days after you had received the light, when you endured in a great conflict full 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 suffered along 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.
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