Sermons about Hebrews 31 36 (2024)

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What is the connection between repentance and refreshing? ›

Repentance and faith bring the believer supernatural cleansing and times of refreshing, as mentioned in Acts 3:19: “Repent, then, and turn to God, so that your sins may be wiped out, that times of refreshing may come from the Lord.” The phrases “times of refreshing” in verse 19 and two verses later “to restore ...

The new Covenant surpasses and replaces the Old Covenant in three ways. First, the new Covenant is the ministry of the Spirit, and the Old Covenant is the ministry of death. Second, the New Covenant is the ministry of righteousness and the Old Covenant is the ministry of condemnation.

Jesus' new covenant promises assure that everyone who will not resist the continual drawing of the Holy Spirit on their hearts will be drawn to Jesus through repentance and faith, be reconciled to God, forgiven of their sins, and sanctified through the writing of His law on their hearts, resulting in an “obedience that ...

While I was reading about casting your cares, I came across an article on verse-by-verse commentary.com and it said: We humble ourselves by casting our anxieties on God. God's care comes when we humble ourselves and depend on His grace. “Casting” means to throw upon and thus to deposit with.

First, the gospel is the Lord's plan of happiness, and repentance is designed to bring us joy. Second, true repentance is based on and flows from faith in the Lord Jesus Christ. There is no other way. Third, true repentance involves a change of heart and not just a change of behavior.

Godly Sorrow

Following the injunction of the Savior (see Matthew 28:19; Mark 16:15), His Apostles and their companions went out into the world with a message of repentance. Paul taught that “godly sorrow worketh repentance to salvation” (2 Corinthians 7:10). Godly sorrow can come as we face obvious sins.

So in the old covenant, God wrote his law on tablets of stone. Now, under the new covenant, given through Jesus Christ, the Holy Spirit writes his law on the hearts of his people.

Christians view the New Covenant as a new relationship between God and humans mediated by Jesus upon sincere declaration that one believes in Jesus Christ as Lord and God.

NCT claims that all Old Covenant laws have been fulfilled by Christ and are thus cancelled or abrogated in favor of the Law of Christ or New Covenant law. This can be summarized as the ethical expectation found in the New Testament.

Under the new covenant, God will write His laws on the hearts of His people to replace the sin that is presently written there (Jer. 17:1), but that which is written by God on the hearts of His people remains essentially the same as that which was written on tablets of stone.

Are Christians under the new covenant? ›

On the night of the Passover (Luke 22:20), Jesus speaks of himself as the new covenant, which we enter through his death and resurrection. Central to the new covenant is the belief in Jesus Christ as the mediator between God and humanity.

The disciples, then, would have grown up knowing that a covenant between God and His people was sealed with the blood of a sacrifice. Now Jesus has described the wine they are drinking as His blood of the covenant. He says that it is poured out for many for the forgiveness of sins.

An immediate feeling of anxiety or fear may trigger a natural, God-given emotional response for survival. That sort of anxiety is rarely what we'd consider sinful.

Every day, you can offer up your worries to God in prayer. Hand them over to him and trust him to take care of those matters. Do this as many times as needed to surrender to God, and you'll experience God's perfect peace. Stay in the present moment.

It's simply the result of uncertainty, and the bible teaches the idea that uncertainty is, essentially, distrust with the plan of God. It's not that anxiety is a sin, but that anxiety is the act of experiencing fears and worries that one wouldn't experience if they truly follow and show commitment to God.

The New Testament Creek verb for "refresh" is ANAPSEUCHO. ANA means "again" and PSEUCHO comes from the Greek noun for the "soul." When you put it all together, it means to breathe again and again or to revive the soul.

Acts 3:19; “ Repent, therefore, and turn around so as to get your sins blotted out, so that seasons of refreshing may come from Jehovah himself”. Matthew 11:28; “ Come to me all you who are toiling (struggling hard) and loaded down, and I will refresh you”.

In speaking of “times of refreshing,” Peter referred to the time when Jesus will return and rule in righteousness. The ultimate times of refreshing will be fulfilled when Jesus Christ returns in glory. In a lesser (though glorious) sense, God sends times of refreshing to His people today.

It is not used elsewhere in the New Testament except in its verb form by Paul in writing to Timothy that Onesiphorus had "oft refreshed" him. Its literal meaning is renewing, or reviving, or restoring, in spirit. Repentance and conversion always bring refreshing or reviving of spirit as an immediate result.