Drawing Near
November 06, 2022      |     By: Luke Beal      |      Category: Sermons      |      Location: El Dorado
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Luke teaches out of Hebrews 10 regarding the benefits of our assembling together and warning us against the “habit” of isolation.  We are unified, encouraged and we put the enemy to flight!  In Exodus 17, we are reminded that our unity and support of one another is offensive in nature instead of defensive.
In speaking the truth in love, we are called to “consider” how to stir one another up (literally to provoke) to love & good works.  Jesus made a new and living way - so let us draw near to God AND one another in together with confidence!

Hebrews 10:19-25 (NASB)
19 Therefore, brothers and sisters, since we have confidence to enter the holy place by the blood of Jesus,
20 by a new and living way which He inaugurated for us through the veil, that is, through His flesh,
21 and since we have a great priest over the house of God,
22 let’s approach God with a sincere heart in full assurance of faith, having our hearts sprinkled clean from an evil conscience and our bodies washed with pure water.
23 Let’s hold firmly to the confession of our hope without wavering, for He who promised is faithful;
24 and let’s consider how to encourage one another in love and good deeds,
25 not abandoning our own meeting together, as is the habit of some people, but encouraging one another; and all the more as you see the day drawing near.

Ephesians 4:11-16 (NASB)
11 And He gave some as apostles, some as prophets, some as evangelists, some as pastors and teachers,
12 for the equipping of the saints for the work of ministry, for the building up of the body of Christ;
13 until we all attain to the unity of the faith, and of the knowledge of the Son of God, to a mature man, to the measure of the stature which belongs to the fullness of Christ.
14 As a result, we are no longer to be children, tossed here and there by waves and carried about by every wind of doctrine, by the trickery of people, by craftiness in deceitful scheming;
15 but speaking the truth in love, we are to grow up in all aspects into Him who is the head, that is, Christ,
16 from whom the whole body, being fitted and held together by what every joint supplies, according to the proper working of each individual part, causes the growth of the body for the building up of itself in love.

Exodus 17:8-13 (NASB)
8 Then Amalek came and fought against Israel at Rephidim.
9 So Moses said to Joshua, “Choose men for us and go out, fight against Amalek. Tomorrow I will station myself on the top of the hill with the staff of God in my hand.”
10 Joshua did just as Moses told him, and fought against Amalek; and Moses, Aaron, and Hur went up to the top of the hill.
11 So it came about, when Moses held his hand up, that Israel prevailed; but when he let his hand down, Amalek prevailed.
12 And Moses’ hands were heavy. So they took a stone and put it under him, and he sat on it; and Aaron and Hur supported his hands, one on one side and one on the other. So his hands were steady until the sun set.
13 And Joshua defeated Amalek and his people with the edge of the sword.

Ephesians 2:10 (NASB)
10 For we are His workmanship, created in Christ Jesus for good works, which God prepared beforehand so that we would walk in them.

2 Timothy 1:5-7 (NASB)
5 For I am mindful of the sincere faith within you, which first dwelled in your grandmother Lois and your mother Eunice, and I am sure that it is in you as well.
6 For this reason I remind you to kindle afresh the gift of God which is in you through the laying on of my hands.
7 For God has not given us a spirit of timidity, but of power and love and discipline.