8 Safeguards for Christians

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8 Safeguards for Christians

• from the Book of Hebrews

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Safeguarding Our Future

• We put on equipment to safeguard our body from
  injury
• We require background checks to safeguard our
  financial future from disaster
• We build protective areas to safeguard our
  property from natural disasters
• Are we safeguarding our eternal destiny? Consider
  the little word lest in Hebrews

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8 Safeguards for Christians

• 1. Give heed Therefore we ought to give the
  more earnest heed to the things which we have
  heard, lest at any time we should let them slip
  (Heb. 21)
• The safeguard here is giving heed to our hearing
  which involves holding on turning ones close
  attention to (Mk. 424 Lk. 818 1 Tim. 14
  413)

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8 Safeguards for Christians

• 2. Heart of belief Take heed, brethren, lest
  there be in any of you an evil heart of unbelief,
  in departing from the living God (Heb. 312)
• The safeguard here is a strong heart of belief
  (Prov. 423)

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8 Safeguards for Christians

• 3. Exhortation But exhort one another daily,
  while it is called To day lest any of you be
  hardened through the deceitfulness of sin (Heb.
  313)
• The safeguard here is giving and receiving
  exhortation (1 Thess. 514)

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8 Safeguards for Christians

• 4. Fear Let us therefore fear, lest, a promise
  being left us of entering into his rest, any of
  you should seem to come short of it (Heb. 41)
• The safeguard here is fear (reverence, respect,
  awe) toward our Almighty God (Mt. 1028)

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8 Safeguards for Christians

• 5. Labor - Let us labor therefore to enter into
  that rest, lest any man fall after the same
  example of unbelief (Heb. 411)
• The safeguard here is laboring to stay faithful
  in our service to Christ (1 Cor. 1558)

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8 Safeguards for Christians

• 6. Looking to Jesus For consider him that
  endured such contradiction of sinners against
  himself, lest ye be wearied and faint in your
  minds (Heb. 123)
• The safeguard here is following the example of
  Jesus who endured suffering (1 Cor. 111)

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8 Safeguards for Christians

• 7. Support Wherefore lift up the hands that
  hang down, and the palsied knees and make
  straight paths for your feet, lest that which is
  lame be turned out of the way but let it rather
  be healed (Heb. 1212-13)
• The safeguard here is supporting each other
  through times of suffering and discipline
  (Isa. 353-4)

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8 Safeguards for Christians

• 8. Looking carefully Looking diligently lest
  any man fail of the grace of God lest any root
  of bitterness springing up trouble you, and
  thereby many be defiled lest there be any
  fornicator, or profane person, as Esau, who for
  one morsel of meat sold his birthright (Heb.
  1215-16)
• The safeguard here is looking carefully to your
  spiritual affairs (2 Pet. 15-11)