Warnings
2. God remembering your work should be motivating
Going back to what you know/ comfortable with
Take for granted what you have and despise it
Christmas is a time to remember that God remembered his people in their hurt and sent His Son.
Maturing is important.
Not wanting to follow Jesus
Obeying when it's easy
Wanting to go our own way
Earnest
Wandering
Listening
God wants all of you.
Forgetting
Seeking
Dull
Struggling with desire to obey vs desire to get
Desiring to read the Word
Sacrificially loving others
Delight in distinguishing right from wrong in order to glorify God and love others well
Trying to have it both ways
Desiring to apply the Word
1. The danger of not growing and falling away should be a warning.
The point: It's impossible for God to provide another way of repentance. Rejecting God's Son is like you are recrucifying Him and mocking Him - why would God want to provide another way?
The illustration: Farm land
What it produces is agreeable or needing destruction.