The Selling of our Evangelical Birthright

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The Selling of our Evangelical Birthright

• Hebrews 1216

Presented by Bob DeWaay March 5, 2006
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Esaus Sin Was So Grievous Because it Showed
Disregard for Gods Covenant Promises

• Hebrews 1216
• that there be no immoral or godless person like
  Esau, who sold his own birthright for a single
  meal.

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Understanding Esaus Sin as Described in Hebrews
1216

• Esau was Immoral in the figurative OT sense of
  being unfaithful to the covenant.
• godless is bebe_los in the Greek which means
  secular or Irreligious
• Esau was a secular covenant despiser because he
  gave up what had great eternal value for what had
  only temporal value, a meal.

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The Blood Atonement is Our Glorious, Evangelical
Birthright

• Hebrews 1019, 20
• Since therefore, brethren, we have confidence to
  enter the holy place by the blood of Jesus, by a
  new and living way which He inaugurated for us
  through the veil, that is, His flesh,

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The Blood Atonement is the Only Way to Draw Near
to God

• Hebrews 1021, 22
• and since we have a great priest over the house
  of God, let us draw near with a sincere heart in
  full assurance of faith, having our hearts
  sprinkled clean from an evil conscience and our
  bodies washed with pure water.

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Believers Have Confidence in the Blood Atonement

• Hebrews 1023
• Let us hold fast the confession of our hope
  without wavering, for He who promised is faithful

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Modern Evangelicalism has Sold Their Birthright
for Mystical Stew Building Confidence Through
Mysticism

• Through Subjectivism (not Biblical)
• Through Mystical Spiritual Formation Practices
  (not Biblical)
• Through Yoga (not Biblical)
• Through Visualization Techniques and Cataphatic
  Prayer (not Biblical)
• Through Dream Interpretation (not Biblical)

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The Reason for the Sell Out is a Failure of
Faith a Lack of Confidence in the Sufficiency of
Christs Atonement

• Hebrews 111
• Now faith is the assurance of things hoped for,
  the conviction of things not seen.

• Mystical practices give people a more tangible
  religious experience, making them feel closer to
  God.
• The blood atonement was provided once for all and
  cannot be seen, faith is needed.

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Covenant Birthright Being Near To God

• Hebrews 725
• Hence, also, He is able to save forever those
  who draw near to God through Him, since He always
  lives to make intercession for them.

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Pot of Stew Feeling Near To God

• Hebrews 101
• For the Law, since it has only a shadow of the
  good things to come and not the very form of
  things, can never by the same sacrifices year by
  year, which they offer continually, make perfect
  those who draw near.

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Covenant Birthright Inspired Scripture

• Hebrews 11, 2
• God, after He spoke long ago to the fathers in
  the prophets in many portions and in many ways,
  in these last days has spoken to us in His Son,
  whom He appointed heir of all things, through
  whom also He made the world.

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The Pot of Stew Human Wisdom

• Live Enhancement Preaching
• How To Sermons about Temporal Problems
• The Social Gospel
• Man-made Programs Designed to Attract Seekers

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Covenant Birthright Hearing and Obeying

• Hebrews 37, 8
• Therefore, just as the Holy Spirit says, Today
  if you hear His voice, Do not harden your hearts
  as when they provoked Me, As in the day of trial
  in the wilderness

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Pot of StewFailure to Listen (obey)

• Hebrews 312
• Take care, brethren, lest there should be in any
  one of you an evil, unbelieving heart, in falling
  away from the living God.

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Failing to Listen to Christs Words is Worse than
Failing to Listen to Moses

• Hebrews 1225
• See to it that you do not refuse Him who is
  speaking. For if those did not escape when they
  refused him who warned them on earth, much less
  shall we escape who turn away from Him who warns
  from heaven.

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The Covenant Birthright Freedom From Satans
Tyranny

• Hebrews 214, 15
• Since then the children share in flesh and
  blood, He Himself likewise also partook of the
  same, that through death He might render
  powerless him who had the power of death, that
  is, the devil and might deliver those who
  through fear of death were subject to slavery all
  their lives.

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The Pot of Stew False Spiritual Warfare
Teachings (all Unbiblical)

• Binding and Loosing
• Breaking Generational Curses
• Casting out Demons as Therapy or Sanctification
• Binding Territorial Spirits

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The Covenant Birthright Sanctification
Confidence in Gods Means

• Hebrews 1014
• by one offering He has perfected for all time
  those who are sanctified.
• Hebrews 914
• how much more will the blood of Christ, who
  through the eternal Spirit offered Himself
  without blemish to God, cleanse your conscience
  from dead works to serve the living God?

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The Pot of Stew The Therapeutic Church

• Theophostic Ministry
• Celebrate Recovery
• Humanistic Psychology
• Encounter Groups (Diaprax)

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The Covenant Birthright Access in Prayer to the
Throne of Grace

• Hebrews 415, 16
• For we do not have a high priest who cannot
  sympathize with our weaknesses, but One who has
  been tempted in all things as we are, yet without
  sin. Let us therefore draw near with confidence
  to the throne of grace, that we may receive mercy
  and may find grace to help in time of need.

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The Pot of Stew Pagan Techniques

• Contemplative Prayer
• Chanting
• Labyrinths
• Journaling
• Spiritual Directors

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The Covenant Birthright True Christian
Fellowship

• Hebrews 1023 - 25
• Let us hold fast the confession of our hope
  without wavering, for He who promised is
  faithful and let us consider how to stimulate
  one another to love and good deeds, not forsaking
  our own assembling together, as is the habit of
  some, but encouraging one another and all the
  more, as you see the day drawing near.

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The Pot of Stew The Church as a Social Club

• Community Programs
• Green Christianity
• Erasing the Boundaries Between the Church and the
  World
• The P.E.A.C.E. Plan

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The Covenant Birthright Being Disciplined by
the Father

• Hebrews 126, 7
• For those whom the Lord loves He disciplines,
  And He scourges every son whom He receives. It is
  for discipline that you endure God deals with
  you as with sons for what son is there whom his
  father does not discipline?

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The Pot of Stew Man-made Spiritual Disciplines

• Silence
• Voluntary Banishment
• Taking Oaths
• Voluntary Poverty
• Obedience to a Spiritual Director

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Once the Birthright is Sold, The Covenant
Blessings Are Lost

• Hebrews 1216, 17
• that there be no immoral or godless person like
  Esau, who sold his own birthright for a single
  meal. For you know that even afterwards, when he
  desired to inherit the blessing, he was rejected,
  for he found no place for repentance, though he
  sought for it with tears.

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The Covenant Blessings are the Promises of
Messianic Salvation

• Hebrews 1222, 23
• But you have come to Mount Zion and to the city
  of the living God, the heavenly Jerusalem, and to
  myriads of angels, to the general assembly and
  church of the first-born who are enrolled in
  heaven, and to God, the Judge of all, and to the
  spirits of righteous men made perfect,

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The Covenant Blessings are the Promises of
Messianic Salvation

• Hebrews 1224
• and to Jesus, the mediator of a new covenant,
  and to the sprinkled blood, which speaks better
  than the blood of Abel.

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The Covenant Blessings are the Promises of
Messianic Salvation

• Hebrews 1228, 29
• Therefore, since we receive a kingdom which
  cannot be shaken, let us show gratitude, by which
  we may offer to God an acceptable service with
  reverence and awe for our God is a consuming
  fire.

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