Insecurity What to do With Confidence

 

Insecurity

What to do With Confidence

If you and I only had Hebrews 10:19-25 we would have enough to do

Make sure you rest in the confidence of these verses

Don’t allow your insecurities to get in the way of Jesus’ provision for you

To enter into the private place of the Holy of Holies

Don’t worry about getting into this place by the popularity of others 

This place is personal

You have a standing invitation to enter with Jesus 24-7

When in the place of insecurity

Take Jesus’ hand and walk through the torn veil

Fully embrace the confidence you have through the blood of Jesus

Don’t dwell in the land of insecurity

But in the private place of confidence to enter into the Holy of Holies     

 

 

 

What to do With Confidence

 

Therefore, brothers, since we have confidence

to enter the Most Holy Place by the blood of Jesus

Hebrews 10:19

 

Don’t pass over this verse too quickly.

 

What gives you confidence

to enter the Most Holy Place?

 

The Most Holy Place is

the place of God’s throne.

 

The picture is Moses’ Tabernacle with three courts.

 

The outer court was entered through the gate…

 

 Where the Altar of Sacrifice

And the Laver of washing was.

  

The inter court was a covered tent.

 

And you entered through a door…

 

 There you find the Golden Candle Stick

Table of howbread

 And the Golden Altar of Incense.

 

The Holies of Holies was entered through a veil.

 

 In this place only the High Priest

 could enter and only once a year.

 

In the Holy of Holies

was the Ark of the Covenant.

 

Jesus is the Gate.

 

 He is the Door

 

And through His death…

 

He tore the veil into the Holy of Holies.

 

The Holy of Holies is

a private place with God.

 

Our confidence to enter into this private place,

 the Most Holy Place is opened to us

 through the blood of Jesus Christ…

 

His sacrifice, His provision.

 

Our confidence is not in our

name, status, good works.

 

To enter into the Holy of Holies,

 you enter with Jesus.

 

You enter by His blood

and through His name

with His invitation.

 

Jesus is The High Priest who took all

our needs and requests…

 

 But He takes us into the

very presence of God…

 

That private personal place.

     

So how do we walk in that confidence?

 

Let us draw near to God with

a sincere heart in full assurance of faith.

 

How would you define a sincere

heart in full assurance of faith?

 

Look at this description in verse 22…

 

Having our hearts sprinkled to cleanse us

from a guilty conscience and

 having our bodies washed with pure water.

 

Water baptism may not sound like much,

but look at what 1 Peter 3:21 says…

 

This water symbolizes baptism that now saves you also

 — not the removal of dirt from the body

but the pledge of a good conscience toward God.

 

Confidence comes from a good conscience

which is a part of water baptism.

 

How do we walk in Confidence?...

 

Let us hold unswervingly to the hope we profess,

for he who promised is faithful.

Verse 23

 

Hope…

 

 Hang on to it and profess it

and let Jesus do the rest.

 

And let us consider how we may spur one

another on toward love and good deeds.

Verse 24

 

Professing your hope is encouraging

others to love and do good deeds.

 

Let us not give up meeting together,

as some are in the habit of doing,

but let us encourage one another —

and all the more as you see the Day approaching.

Verse 25

 

Make it your habit to meet together

regularly with other believers.

 

Encourage one another.

 

If you see the signs of the

coming of the Lord…

 

 Do all the above with greater fervency.

 

If you and I only had Hebrews 10:19-25,

 we would have enough to do.

 

Make sure you rest in the

confidence of these verses.

 

Don’t allow your insecurities to get in the way

of Jesus’ provision for you to enter

into the private place of the Holy of Holies.

 

Don’t worry about getting into this

place by the popularity of others.

 

This place is personal.

 

 You have a standing invitation

to enter with Jesus 24-7.

 

When in the place of insecurity…

 

 Take Jesus’ hand and walk

through the torn veil.

 

Fully embrace the confidence you

have through the blood of Jesus.

 

Don’t dwell in the land of insecurity

but in the private place of confidence

to enter into the Holy of Holies.

      

 

 

Scripture Reading

 

Hebrews 10:19-25 NIV

 

19 Therefore, brothers, since we have confidence to enter the Most Holy Place by the blood of Jesus, 20 by a new and living way opened for us through the curtain, that is, his body, 21 and since we have a great priest over the house of God, 22 let us draw near to God with a sincere heart in full assurance of faith, having our hearts sprinkled to cleanse us from a guilty conscience and having our bodies washed with pure water. 23 Let us hold unswervingly to the hope we profess, for he who promised is faithful. 24 And let us consider how we may spur one another on toward love and good deeds. 25 Let us not give up meeting together, as some are in the habit of doing, but let us encourage one another — and all the more as you see the Day approaching.