Hebrews 13:20-25, "The God of Peace" - a podcast by Benjamin Glaser

As we closed out our sermon series on "Improving Your Baptism" with a look at selections from Hebrews 13:20-25 and Hebrews 10:26-31 we thought about ultimately what it means to call ourselves Christians. While Baptism is the outward sign of our place in the Kingdom of God what is the real benefit of living in light of this sign and what are the ways whereby we can grow because of it? The warning of the Apostle Paul in both of these passages is that if we are going to say we believe in Jesus and tell others about this hope our lives must show the fruit of this faith. If we are those who have been given the knowledge of salvation, but we do not rest in this justified peace, instead looking to the sign instead of the thing signified then we will face the same condemnation as people who have never even heard the word of truth, in fact we will be judged the more harshly. 

Fruit of faith matters, and we cannot grow in that faith unless we are making use of Christ's means of fertilizing and pruning our walk. We cannot call ourselves Christians and despise His holy Scriptures, nor can we say we are of His family if we do not stir up love for one another in prayer and Godly fellowship. At the end of the day we need one another and cannot stand in the face of trial without the means of God's grace founded in the Gospel and in the Cross. 

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