MAKE STRAIGHT
PATHS
Sunday Morning: June 9,
2002
Text: Hebrews 12:12-17
"Wherefore lift up the hands which hang down, and the feeble knees; 13.
And make straight paths for your feet, lest that which is lame be turned out
of the way; but let it rather be healed. 14. Follow peace with all men, and
holiness, without which no man shall see the Lord: 15. Looking diligently lest
any man fail of the grace of God; lest any root of bitterness springing up
trouble you, and thereby many be defiled; 16. Lest there be any fornicator, or
profane person, as Esau, who for one morsel of meat sold his birthright. 17.
For ye know how that afterward, when he would have inherited the blessing, he
was rejected: for he found no place of repentance, though he sought it
carefully with tears."
Hebrews 12:12
"Wherefore lift up the
hands which hang down, and the feeble
knees;"
STRENGTHEN WEAK HANDS
Isaiah 35:3-4 "Strengthen ye the
weak hands,
and confirm the
feeble knees.
4. Say to them that are of a fearful heart,
Be strong,
fear
not:
behold, your God will come with vengeance, even God with a recompense; he will
come and save
you."
2 Chronicles 15:7
"Be ye strong therefore, and
let not your hands be weak:
for your work shall be rewarded."
Titus 3:8
"This is a faithful saying, and
these things I will that thou affirm constantly, that they which have believed
in God might be careful to
maintain good works. These things
are good and profitable
unto men."
Colossians 3:23-24
"And whatsoever ye do, do it heartily, as to the Lord, and not unto
men; 24. Knowing that of the Lord ye shall receive the
reward of the inheritance:
for ye serve the Lord Christ."
Daniel 5:6 "Then the king's countenance
was changed, and his thoughts
troubled
him,
so that the joints of his loins were loosed, and
his
knees
smote
one
against
another."
Hebrews 12:13
"And make straight paths for your
feet, lest that which is lame be turned out of the way; but let it rather be
healed."
Isaiah 40:3-4 "The voice of him that
crieth in the wilderness,
Prepare ye the way of the LORD,
make straight in the desert a highway for our God. 4. Every
valley shall be exalted,
and every mountain and hill shall be
made low:
and the crooked shall be made
straight, and the rough
places plain:"
Isaiah 57:14 "And shall say, Cast ye up,
cast ye up, prepare the way, take up the stumbling block out of the way of my
people."
Isaiah 62:10 "Go through, go through the gates; prepare ye the way of the people; cast up, cast up the highway; gather out the stones; lift up a standard for the people."
Hebrews 12:14 "Follow [pursue] peace with all men, and holiness, without which no man shall see the Lord:"
Matthew 5:9 "Blessed are the
peacemakers: for they shall be called the
children [sons]
of God."
Romans 3:12-18 "They are all
gone out of the way,
they are together become
unprofitable; there is none that doeth good, no, not one. 13. Their throat is an open
sepulchre; with their tongues they have used deceit; the poison of asps is
under their lips: 14. Whose mouth is full of cursing and bitterness: 15. Their
feet are swift to shed blood: 16. Destruction and misery are in their ways:
17. And the way of peace have
they not known: 18. There is
no fear of God before their eyes."
1 Thessalonians 4:7
"For God hath not called us unto uncleanness, but unto holiness."
2 Corinthians 6:17-18
"Wherefore come out from among them, and be ye
separate, saith the Lord, and touch not the unclean thing; and I will receive you,
18. And will be a Father unto you, and
ye shall be my
sons and daughters, saith the Lord Almighty."
2 Corinthians 7:1
"Having therefore these promises, dearly beloved, let us cleanse
ourselves from all filthiness of the flesh and spirit,
perfecting holiness in the fear of God."
Hebrews 12:15
"Looking diligently lest any man
fail of the grace of God;
lest any root of bitterness springing up trouble you, and thereby many be
defiled;"
Galatians 5:4
"Christ is become of no effect
unto you, whosoever of you are justified by the law; ye are fallen from
grace."
Hebrews 12:28 "Wherefore we receiving a
kingdom which cannot be moved, let us have grace, whereby we may serve God
acceptably with reverence and godly fear:"
Ephesians 4:31-32 "Let all bitterness, and wrath, and anger, and clamour, and evil speaking, be put away from you, with all malice: 32. And be ye kind one to another, tenderhearted, forgiving one another, even as God for Christ's sake hath forgiven you."
Hebrews 12:16
"Lest there be any fornicator, or
profane person, as Esau,
who for one morsel of meat sold his
birthright."
Deuteronomy 21:17
"But he shall acknowledge the son of the hated for the firstborn, by
giving him a double
portion
of all that he hath: for he is the beginning of his strength;
the right of the firstborn is his."
Genesis 25:34
". . . Esau despised his
birthright."
Hebrews 12:17
"For ye know how that afterward, when he would have
inherited
the blessing, he was rejected [disapproved]: for he found no place of repentance, though he
sought it carefully with tears."
1 Corinthians 9:27
"But I keep under my body, and bring it into subjection: lest that by
any means, when I have preached to others, I myself should be a castaway [disapproved]."
2 Corinthians 13:5
"Examine
yourselves,
whether ye be in the faith (pleasing God); prove your own selves. Know ye not your own
selves, how that Jesus Christ is in you, except ye be
reprobates [disapproved]?"