Sermons on Faith (Page 2)
The people of the Exodus had two bodies of water to cross: the Red Sea symbolizes baptism -their transformation from slavery to freedom, much as we enter baptism as slaves to sin and emerge free of it. They also needed to cross the Jordan and receive the promised rest, but they didn’t. Hebrews warns us…
Leaving Christianity to return to Judaism would be a mistake for the Jewish Christians suffering persecution in Rome. The Hebrew writer challenges them to not make the mistake their ancestors did in the desert with Moses, which resulted in hardness of heart.
…Peter and John replied, “Which is right in God’s eyes: to listen to you, or to him? Acts 4:19
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