Greater Assurance

•  Ingredients for greater assurance are promise and oath

•  Designed effect of greater assurance is motivation to never give up

•  Guarantee of great assurance is the finished work of Jesus

Greater Maturity

•  You’ve got to let go of what’s primordial

•  You’ve got to go on to what’s final

• You’ve got to keep going with the faithful

The Greater High Priest

•  Because of Jesus' great faithfulness we can stand firm in our faith

•  Because of Jesus’ great sympathy we can come to him boldly

A Greater Rest

• A rest to believe towards

• A rest you were made for

• A rest that awaits you

• A rest within your reach

• A rest that will endure

Greater Exhortation

• The pathology of hard heartedness shows a great danger

• The prescription for a hard heart brings guaranteed healing

• Because the gospel is supremely potent

Greater Deliverance

•  Set your gaze on Jesus as the epicenter of faith-life (1-2)

•  Jesus is the infinitely greater Deliverer (3-6a)

•  Stay the course with Jesus because the Son will get you home (6b)

Our Greater Help

• Jesus’s help is greater than our greatest fear

• Jesus came to rescue us by becoming like us

• Application

• Receive his help

• Remember his work 

• Resist temptation with his rescue

The Greater Destiny

•  Our great destiny squandered (5-8)

•  A greater destiny secured (9-10)

•  That great destiny shared (11-13)

The Greater Salvation

•  The gospel requires greater attention

•  The gospel carries greater consequences

•  The gospel is established by a greater declaration

The Greater Word

• What God spoke through Jesus makes him final

• The superiority of Jesus makes him trustworthy

• The effect of Jesus is life-changing