Hebrews 10: Part 4 — A ‘Time With God’ Audio Devotion

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But those sacrifices are an annual reminder of sins. It is impossible for the blood of bulls and goats to take away sins… But when this priest had offered for all time one sacrifice for sins, he sat down at the right hand of God, and since that time he waits for his enemies to be made his footstool.

Hebrews 10

Transcript

Good morning. As we head into this day, let’s start it by some time with God. God is here. He’s real. He’s right there where you are. As you listen to this radio spot. He Himself is there, and if your heart is open, you’ll hear Him talking to you as we read his word, the Bible now.

God wants to get involved with you in your life, and listening to what he has to say to us is one of the best ways to grow your relationship with Him.

We’re reading from the book of Hebrews this week, chapter 10, and here’s what it says in verses 24 and 25. It says:

And let us consider how to stir one another up 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. That is the day of God’s judgement.

Well, this is a beautiful couple of verses. He’s just talked about getting rid of that sense of guilt you drag around with you and trusting that what God says about you and what he says about his love for you and your access to him, because you’re totally forgiven.

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That is all there and then he says, and consider how to stir up one another to love and good works. So it’s not just about you and your relationship with God. Listen very carefully. When God reaches into your life and begins to redeem your life. You make a mess of your life. You’ve got some things going right, but your inner life you cannot make right without God.

And when you encounter God and He starts to change your life and He forgives you and brings you into relationship with Him and starts to draw you near to Him, when he does that in your life, you instantly become a part of His plan for the lives of the people around you.

Isn’t that awesome?

Your life becomes full of this purpose of God. Yes, you’re going to work, you’re going to uni, you’re doing whatever you’re doing in your neighbourhood, in your home.

But all at the same time you’re asking the question, God, what is your purpose through me in the lives of the people around me. So that you’re constantly considering how can I stir up this person I’m talking to love, to love God if they don’t know Him, to love the people around them if they do know Him. How can I stir people up to do what’s right, to do what builds people up.

I’m not going to neglect the people around me. I’m not going to try and live this lone wolf kind of life, no, as the verse says, encouraging one another. That’s what God wants for you. You have received so much from Him. He’s doing things in your life. But that’s not just for you, he wants you to get involved in what he is doing in the lives of the people around you. So just take a moment, think about the people you’re going to encounter today. Maybe you are already with them right now listening together to this radio spot.

Maybe it’s someone you’re going to meet in just a little while, maybe it’s the people in your own family, maybe it’s a work acquaintance. I don’t know. Think through the specific people you’re going to see today and ask God – Would you work through me to stir those people up, to love you, to love the people around them, and to do what’s right in their lives? I want to be your instrument.

I’m John North.

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