[FS] Hebrews - Our Supreme Messiah #38 - God Is Working in You!

What does it mean to have a god of peace? I don't know if you thought about it this way but god's never stressed out. He is never stressed out. He is no he is never overwhelmed. He is never second guessing himself. He's not like us. He is a god of peace. And because he's a god of peace, man, he he he doesn't feel those things. He is perfect, and we talked about it before that he's unchanging, he's immutable, and so he is a God of peace. [00:42:00] (39 seconds)  #GodOfPeace

Folks, I I hope you can understand the the power of forgiveness. And and and, again, this is what the the listeners of this letter, the the recipients needed to understand. You're you're you're forgiven, And and and there there should be no guilt because we are clothed with his righteousness. And it's an amazing amazing thought. And he offers once, Jesus does. In verse 28, offers once to bear the sins of many. His sacrifice, folks, was won and done. No more to be done again. [00:52:58] (41 seconds)  #ForgivenAndFree

But the question basically is this, it's two parts. Am I hindering God's work or equipping is really the better thought there? Am I hindering God's work in my life in any way? And if so, how can I help instead of hinder? How can I help God instead of hinder God? We want god to to equip us. We want to see god move in us. We want to see god transform us but sometimes we get in the way, don't we? I I I get in the way all the time. [01:05:19] (41 seconds)  #DontHinderGod

And when you think about it, don't we all come to Jesus kinda broken? Some more broken than others. But we all come broken before Christ, and he is healing and mending us along the way because sin separated us but faith in him, faith in Christ, and believing him and and again, not just by saying, oh, I believe in Jesus but this is a heartfelt brokenness that understands sin and that has a heart's desire to turn from sin, to use that word repent that we see in the Bible. [00:57:02] (36 seconds)  #HeartfeltRepentance

God equips us with those gifts through the power of his spirit. The spirit of love and joy, peace. We have a god of peace. All these things are things that god is equipping us with. And I know some are going, man, I think forgetting to give me patience. You know what? He's putting you in situations where he wants you to practice it. He's trying to equip you. You just gotta put it in place, folks. [01:00:34] (33 seconds)  #SpiritEquips

And then next, the author tells us the the why of all this. Why why is God equipping us? So, we we look at the remainder of of verse 21 and it simply says this, that you may do his will. Why? To do his will. Working in us which is pleasing in his sight through Jesus Christ to whom be glory forever and ever. So why does god equip us with everything good? He tells us two things very clearly here. The first why is that I might do his will and live a life pleasing to God. [01:02:53] (43 seconds)  #DoHisWill

And who gets the glory? Jesus. And and and I know I've heard some of your stories where you've talked to people and I I try to do this as well. If somebody says something to me or complimentary or something like that, well, I can usually say, hey, it's mainly because Jesus is in my life because before I had Jesus, that wasn't me. And and and that's a great way to just to give testimony to Christ, to give glory to Jesus. [01:04:10] (26 seconds)  #GloryToJesus

And this is what he tells them. He tells them, I have a plan for your peace. I have a plan for your welfare, not for evil, even though they're having evil poured out upon them because God's judgments is on them. But he's telling them in the midst of that so that they might have hope. They will endure this. They will eventually get out of this. And that and that's what God's peace can do with us, that we're in we're in the midst of the the the trial and the trouble and the difficult situation. [00:44:03] (30 seconds)  #PlansForPeace