DETERMINATION: DO YOU

HAVE IT?

HEBREWS 3:1-19
CONSIDER: JESUS-PAUL-
MOSES—HEBREWS 3:1, 2

THEY ALL HAVE THREE THINGS IN COMMON:

MISSION—MESSAGE—DETERMINATION

JESUS WAS SENT TO THIS SINFUL WORLD

PAUL WAS COMMISSIONED TO THE GENTILE

WORLD

MOSES WAS SENT TO PHARAOH’S WORLD

 THEIR DETERMINATION
LOOMED LARGER THAN LIFE
ITSELF
JESUS WAS DETERMINED TO SAVE THIS WORLD

PAUL WAS DETERMINED TO SHAKE HIS WORLD

MOSES WAS DETERMINED TO CHANGE HIS WORLD

DETERMINATION—WHOLESOME
AND HOLY
OTHERWISE—IT’S DEFIANCE: HEBREWS 3:7

MOSES’ SIN FINDS HIM—HE DIED BEFORE

ENTERING THE PROMISED LAND

JONAH’S SIN BINDS HIM—HE WAS RESTRICTED

IN THE BELLY OF THE FISH FOR THREE DAYS
BECAUSE OF HIS DISOBEDIENCE

SAMSON’S SIN BLINDS HIM—HE WAS

ENAMORED WITH DELILAH WHO BECAME HIS
NEMESIS
 HEBREWS 3:8
THE WILDERNESS EXPERIENCE

IT WOULD HAVE TAKEN ISRAEL TWO WEEKS OR

OVER TO JOURNEY ACROSS THE WILDERNESS.
INSTEAD IT TOOK THEM 40 YEARS.

WHY? BECAUSE ISRAEL WAS DEFIANT!

IT TOOK ONE DAY FOR ISRAEL TO GET OUT OF
EGYPT; YET IT TOOK 40 YEARS FOR EGYPT TO
GET OUT OF THEM.
 HEBREWS 3:10, 11
TWO CONDITIONS
1. APATHY—VS.10
2. IGNORANT—VS.11

ACTS 17:30
JESUS WAS FAITHFUL TO HIS FATHER’S WILL
MOSES WAS FAITHFUL TO HIS MASTER’S WILL
PAUL WAS FAITHFUL TO HIS SUPERIOR’S WILL

N:B: YET PAUL WAS APATHETIC AND IGNORANT

ABOUT WHO JESUS CHRIST WAS.
 JUDAS—FAITHFUL TO HIS
MISSION: SINCERELY WRONG

JUDAS BETRAYED HIS MASTER FOR 30 PIECES OF

SILVER

WHAT’S THE MESSAGE?

IGNORANCE IS NO EXCUSE FOR NOT KNOWING
APATHY IS NO EXCUSE FOR NOT DOING
 DEFIANCE—HEBREWS
3:11, 12
2 PETER 2:4-11 & PROVERBS 27:20
IF GOD SPARED NOT THE ANGELS WHO SINNED…YOU
THINK HE’LL GIVE YOU A PASS?

IF GOD CAST THE EVIL ANGELS DOWN TO HELL…YOU

THINK HE’LL TOLERATE YOUR WRONG DOINGS?

IF GOD SPARED NOT THE ANCIENT WORLD, BUT SAVED

NOAH…DO YOU THINK HE’LL FORGIVE YOUR
STUBBORNESS?

IF GOD TURNED SODOM AND GOMORRAH INTO

ASHES…DO YOU THINK HE’LL LET YOU IN BECAUSE YOU
ARE RICH?
 DETERMINATION—EMBRACING
TODAY’S TRUTH IN EXCHANGE FOR
TOMORROW’S TRIUMPH
LUKE 9:62

GENESIS 32:25, 26

CONSIDER A SNAIL’S PACE—DESTINATION

CONSIDER AN ARTIC PENGUIN—MATING

SEASON

THAT’S DETERMINATION!
 DETERMINATION: RELIANCE—GOD
DEFIANCE: RELIANCE—MAN
HEBREWS 3:1, 5, 14
JESUS RELIED UPON GOD
PAUL RELIED UPON GOD
MOSES RELIED UPON GOD
LOT’S WIFE RELIED UPON MATERIAL THINGS: THAT’S
HOW THE BIBLE REMEMBERS HER!
THE RICH MAN RELIED UPON HIS RICHES. HE LOST HIS
LIFE AND HIS RICHES IN THE END.
KING HEROD RELIED UPON HIS DRUNKEN FRIENDS. HE
VIOLATED HIS CONSCIENCE IN OTHER TO APPEASE HIS
DRUNKEN FRIENDS.
ONE THIRD OF THE ANGELS RELIED UPON LUCIFER.
THEY MADE HIM THEIR MONUMENT.
EVE RELIED UPON HER REASONING. LOOK
WHAT HAPPENED TO THE HUMAN RACE!

HITLER RELIED UPON HIS MILITARY AND

INTELLECTUAL PEDIGREE. HE ORDERED
JEWISH BABIES BE THROWN INTO BURNING
INFERNOS.

BALAAM RELIED UPON HIS BRIBERY. HIS

DONKEY ALERTED HIM TO HIS SENSES.

ARE YOU STILL PROUD OF YOUR INHERENT

GENES (DNA)?

HEBREWS 3:16, 17
 DETERMINATION IS DUE TO A
CAUSE—DEFIANCE IS DUE TO AN
EFFECT
JESUS DIED FOR MANKIND BECAUSE EVE
SINNED…AS A RESULT OF SIN…DEATH-
DISEASE-VIOLENCE-AND MURDER…ARE ALL
EFFECTS OF DEFIANCE.
WHY WOULD GOD ALMIGHTY IN REVELATION
21:8 BUNDLE THE UNBELIEVERS WITH THE
COWARDLY-ABOMINABLE-MURDERERS-
SEXUALLY IMMORAL-SORCERERS-IDOLATERS-
AND LIARS?
THEY ALL ARE DEFIANT!
N:B: WHEN YOU DON’T OR REFUSE TO BELIEVE
IN GOD, YOU’RE CALLING HIM A LIAR!
 …AND SIN, WHEN IT IS
FINISHED—DEFIANCE
DEUTERONOMY 3:6
JOSHUA 6:21
1 SAMUEL 22:19

BASED ON THE ABOVE TEXTS, HOW ARE YOU

PERSONALLY GOING TO MAKE IT INTO HIS KINGDOM?
EPHESIANS 2:9

HERE’S HOPE BEYOND THE HEARSE:

N:B: GOD DOES NOT LOOK AT YOUR PASS TO DETERMINE
YOUR FUTURE
MATTHEW 1:16, 17 [LINEAGE OF CHRIST]
 AN EXAMINATION OF JESUS’
LINEAGE
DAVID—ADULTERER: GOD SAID THAT HE WAS A MAN
AFTER HIS OWN HEART
RUTH—MOABITE: THEY SACRIFICE THEIR CHILDREN
UNTO FALSE gods. RUTH WAS GRAFTED INTO THE
LINEAGE OF CHRIST
MANASSEH—CAME BY WAY OF 15 MORE YEARS WHICH
WAS ADDED TO KING HEZEKIAH’S LIFE. HE WAS ONE
OF THE MOST WICKED OF ALL KINGS OF ISRAEL. HE’S
PART OF CHRIST’ LINEAGE.
ABRAHAM—LIAR: HE BECAME THE FATHER OF FAITH.
HE IS PART OF THE LINEAGE OF CHRIST.
JACOB—CON MAN: THE 12 TRIBES OF ISRAEL CAME FROM
HIS BOSOM. HE’S ALSO PART OF CHRIST’ LINEAGE.

RAHAB—PROSTITUTE: SHE IS ALSO PART OF CHRIST’

LINEAGE.

SOLOMON—WOMANIZER: HE HAD 300 WIVES AND 600

CONCUBINES…AND HE WAS UNDOUBTINGLY, THE
WORLD’S WISEST MAN. HE TOO IS PART OF CHRIST’
LINEAGE.

THE FIRST ADAM WAS STUBBORNLY DEFIANT.

BUT THE SECOND ADAM WAS STEADFASTLY
DETERMINED.
 JESUS-PAUL-MOSES’
DETERMINATION
JOHN 10:15 [JESUS]
As the Father knoweth me, even so know I the Father: and
I lay down my life for the sheep.
JOHN 19:30 [JESUS]
When Jesus therefore had received the vinegar, he said, It
is finished: and he bowed his head, and gave up the
ghost.
PHILIPPIANS 3:14 [PAUL]
I press toward the mark for the prize of the high calling of
God in Christ Jesus.
2 TIMOTHY 4:7 [PAUL]
I have fought a good fight, I have finished [my] course, I
have kept the faith:
EXODUS 32:32 [MOSES]
Yet now, if thou wilt forgive their sin--; and if not, blot me,
I pray thee, out of thy book which thou hast written.

EXODUS 40:1-33 [MOSES: BUILDING—SANCTUARY]

So Moses finished the work.

STORIES OF DETERMINATION:
BLIND MAN—JOHN 9:1-41
WITHERED HAND—LUKE 6:6-8
IMPOTENT MAN—JOHN 5:1-11

DETERMINATION: DO YOU HAVE IT?

ROMANS 1:20
For the invisible things of him from the creation of the
world are clearly seen, being understood by the things
that are made, [even] his eternal power and Godhead; so
that they are without excuse: