God Has Better Things for You
Hebrews 6:9 (NIV)
1. God Has Friendship For You
Hebrews 6:9 ( NIV)
Even though we speak like this, dear friends, we are convinced of better things in your case—the things that have to do with salvation.
James 2:23 (ESV)
“Abraham believed God, and it was counted to him as righteousness”—and he was called a friend of God.
Ephesians 3:17-19 (NIV)
And I pray that you, being rooted and established in love, may have power, together with all the Lord’s holy people, to grasp how wide and long and high and deep is the love of Christ, and to know this love that surpasses knowledge.
1 Corinthians 2:9-10 (ESV)
“What no eye has seen, nor ear heard, nor the heart of man imagined, what God has prepared for those who love him”— these things God has revealed to us through the Spirit.
2. God Remembers Everything You Have Done For Him
Hebrews 6:10 (NIV)
God is not unjust; he will not forget your work and the love you have shown him as you have helped his people and continue to help them.
Colossians 3:23-24 (NIV)
Whatever you do, work at it with all your heart, as working for the Lord, not for human masters, since you know that you will receive an inheritance from the Lord as a reward. It is the Lord Christ you are serving.
3. God Has a Future For You
Hebrews 6:11-12 (ESV)
And we desire each one of you to show the same earnestness to have the full assurance of hope until the end, so that you may not be sluggish, but imitators of those who through faith and patience inherit the promises.
