BECAUSE OF UNBELIEF

Introduction:

A. How Would You Feel If You Were Told...

1. After 4 days of sheer agony, the pain would never go away.

2. After 4 months of trying, you would never be able to change.

3. After 40 years of work, you would never be able to retire.

B. Would You Want To Know Why?

Body: Hebrews 3: 12 - 19

I. Beware.

A. An evil heart of unbelief.

1. It develops in the heart.
2. It develops due to evil.

B. Departing from the living God.

1. God never leaves us, we leave Him.
2. We "strike out" on our own (baseball pun intended).
3. We determine we are able to handle things ourselves.

C. Being hardened through the deceitfulness of sin.

1. Sin causes us to think we are all right when we are not.
2. Sin causes us to think no one else is affected.
3. Sin causes harm in the pursuit of pleasure.

II. Partakers Of Christ.

A. We are.

B. If we hold steadfast.

III. Who Do Not Enter?

A. Those who hear and rebel.

B. Those who sin.

C. Those who do not obey.

D. Those who do not believe.

Conclusion:

A. What Is Hell?

1. Having to work at a terrible job for all eternity.

2. Enduring unbearable pain for all eternity.

3. Being separated from loved ones for all eternity.

4. Never having another chance to make things right.

B. Do You Believe God?

C. Are You Obeying Him?