The Danger of Unbelief…

Hebrews 4:11 King James Version (KJV)

¹¹ Let us labor therefore to enter into that rest, lest any man fall after the same example of unbelief.

Jude 5 King James Version (KJV)

⁵ I will therefore put you in remembrance, though ye once knew this, how that the Lord, having saved the people out of the land of Egypt, afterward destroyed them that believed not.

Deuteronomy 1:31, 34-35 English Standard Version (ESV)

³¹ and in the wilderness, where you have seen how the Lord your God carried you, as a man carries his son, all the way that you went until you came to this place.’

Deuteronomy 1:34-35 English Standard Version (ESV)

The Penalty for Israel’s Rebellion

³⁴ “And the Lord heard your words and was angered, and he swore, ³⁵ ‘Not one of these men of this evil generation shall see the good land that I swore to give to your fathers,

1 John 5:10 King James Version (KJV)

¹⁰ He that believeth on the Son of God hath the witness in himself: he that believeth not God hath made him a liar; because he believeth not the record that God gave of his Son.

Numbers 14:11 King James Version (KJV)

¹¹ And the Lord said unto Moses, How long will this people provoke me? and how long will it be ere they believe me, for all the signs which I have shewed among them?

Numbers 14:12 King James Version (KJV)

¹² I will smite them with the pestilence, and disinherit them, and will make of thee a greater nation and mightier than they.

Deuteronomy 1:21-23 Revised Standard Version (RSV)

²¹ Behold, the Lord your God has set the land before you; go up, take possession, as the Lord, the God of your fathers, has told you; do not fear or be dismayed.’ ²² Then all of you came near me, and said, ‘Let us send men before us, that they may explore the land for us, and bring us word again of the way by which we must go up and the cities into which we shall come.’ ²³ The thing seemed good to me, and I took twelve men of you, one man for each tribe;

Deuteronomy 1:29-31 Revised Standard Version (RSV)

²⁹ Then I said to you, ‘Do not be in dread or afraid of them. ³⁰ The Lord your God who goes before you will himself fight for you, just as he did for you in Egypt before your eyes, ³¹ and in the wilderness, where you have seen how the Lord your God bore you, as a man bears his son, in all the way that you went until you came to this place.’

Deuteronomy 1:34-35 Revised Standard Version (RSV)

The Penalty for Israel’s Rebellion

³⁴ “And the Lord heard your words, and was angered, and he swore, ³⁵ ‘Not one of these men of this evil generation shall see the good land which I swore to give to your fathers,

Hebrews 6:18 King James Version (KJV)

¹⁸ That by two immutable things, in which it was impossible for God to lie, we might have a strong consolation, who have fled for refuge to lay hold upon the hope set before us:

Hebrews 8:6 King James Version (KJV)

⁶ But now hath he obtained a more excellent ministry, by how much also he is the mediator of a better covenant, which was established upon better promises.

Luke 24:25-27 King James Version (KJV)

²⁵ Then he said unto them, O fools, and slow of heart to believe all that the prophets have spoken:

• Same Sun that Hardens the Clay Melts the wax
• Condition of the modern Church

The Last Day Church Is Going to be greater than the earlier church

• Greater unction of the Holy Spirit
• Greater than the outpouring at Pentecost
• God always saves His best to last

Daniel 12:9 King James Version (KJV)

⁹ And he said, go thy way, Daniel: for the words are closed up and sealed till the time of the end.

Daniel 12:10 King James Version (KJV)

¹⁰ Many shall be purified, and made white, and tried; but the wicked shall do wickedly: and none of the wicked shall understand; but the wise shall understand.

Daniel 12:8 King James Version (KJV)

⁸ And I heard, but I understood not: then said I, O my Lord, what shall be the end of these things?

Last Days

God Wrought special Miracle by the Hands of Paul

Acts 19:11 King James Version (KJV)

¹¹ And God wrought special miracles by the hands of Paul:

Acts 19:12 King James Version (KJV)

¹² So that from his body were brought unto the sick handkerchiefs or aprons, and the diseases departed from them, and the evil spirits went out of them.

• Paul went into Ephesus: Very Demon depressed place.
• Paul preached the word.
• Paul operated in signs and wonders and the word spread and prevailed.

Acts 19:13-20 King James Version (KJV)

¹³ Then certain of the vagabond Jews, exorcists, took upon them to call over them which had evil spirits the name of the Lord Jesus, saying, We adjure you by Jesus whom Paul preacheth.

¹⁴ And there were seven sons of one Sceva, a Jew, and chief of the priests, which did so.

¹⁵ And the evil spirit answered and said, Jesus I know, and Paul I know; but who are ye?

¹⁶ And the man in whom the evil spirit was leaped on them, and overcame them, and prevailed against them, so that they fled out of that house naked and wounded.

¹⁷ And this was known to all the Jews and Greeks also dwelling at Ephesus; and fear fell on them all, and the name of the Lord Jesus was magnified.

¹⁸ And many that believed came, and confessed, and shewed their deeds.

¹⁹ Many of them also which used curious arts brought their books together, and burned them before all men: and they counted the price of them, and found it fifty thousand pieces of silver.

²⁰ So mightily grew the word of God and prevailed.