The Song of Saints on Higher Ground

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The Song of Saints on Higher Ground

• What is the church and do I need it?

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The Importance of Encouraging One Another

• The church is Gods establishment for Christian
  fellowship and mutual encouragement
• What the church does
• Romans 14.9 15.15
• Philippians 2.110
• 1 Corinthians 14.14, 12, 17, 26, 31
• Ephesians 2.1922 4.1116
• 1 Thessalonians 5.11
• Acts 2.42

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The Importance of Encouraging One Another

• Hebrews 10.25 and Its Context
• The larger context of Hebrews
• An exhortation concerned with the salvation of
  Christians
• The immediate context of chapter 10
• Ensuring that no one shrinks back to destruction
• Hebrews 10.25 and Grammar
• A participle is not a command
• The command of Hebrews 10 is to consider one
  another
• Assembly or Assembling?
• Should our assembling be confined to the assembly?

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The Real Song of Saints

• Entrance into the Heavenly Kingdom (Matt 16.18)
• Not that the church is safe from Hades, but that
  Hades is not safe from the church
• Hades will fall to the church
• Two parts
• The King (Heb 2.14 1 Cor 15.5457)
• The Kingdom (1 Cor 15.2024, 5154)
• A Glimpse of the Second Garden (Rev 22.15)