“Mistakes We Make”



“Mistakes We Make”

Hebrews 3:1-10

INTRO. Someone has said, “to err is human, to forgive divine.” What

does the word err mean? According to Webster’s dictionary, it

means “to go astray; fall into error.” One of the definitions

that Webster gives for error is “a mistake.” Making mistakes

are part of our human nature. Some of our mistakes are

great and others are small, but all of us make mistakes. God

said through the writer of Hebrews, that the generation of

Israelites that fell in the wilderness, “..do always err in their

heart.” They saw all God’s marvelous works, His providence,

and His care, and still they rebelled and murmured against

Him!

I want to speak on this subject this morning, “Mistakes We

Make.” If we don’t keep our eyes on the LORD, if we don’t

don’t walk by faith, if we don’t follow Him with all our hearts,

we will find ourselves making these mistakes.

(1) We Undervalue The Preciousness Of Our Salvation

A. The word precious means “highly prized; valuable, be-

loved; cherished.” What does your salvation mean to you? Is it precious to you? Why is our Salvation pre-

cious? Because:

1. It was obtained at a Great Price (1 Peter 1:

18-19). Precious blood.

2. It was obtained by a Great Person

(Hebrews 2:9; 1 Peter 2:5-10). Precious

Savior. Our attitude toward Jesus Christ

determines how dearly we value our

salvation. How dear is He to you? “I can-

not describe all Christ is to us, for what is

He not to us? He is the sun of our day; he

is the star of our night; he is our life; he is

our life’s life; he is our heaven on earth,

and he shall be our heaven in heaven” (1).

“In Jesus we discover all of God we can

know; in Jesus we have all of God we can

need” (2).

(2) We Underestimate the Power of Satan

1 Peter 5:8—“Be sober, be vigilant; because your

adversary the devil, as a roaring lion,

walketh about, seeking whom he may

devour.”

Ephesians 6:10-18

Satan is very powerful and very tricky. The devil is like

a prowling lion seeking its prey. He is looking for weak

areas in our lives to attack. Areas that we have not fully yielded to God, areas we failed to protect.

ILLUS. He is more cunning than the wisest: How soon

he entangled Solomon! He is stronger than

the strongest: How fatally he overthrew Sam-

son! Yes, and men after God’s own heart, like

David, have been led into most grievous sins

by his seductions (3).

B. Satan has seen to it that he is not feared in our world

today. Some of this is the result of televangelists who

incite crowds to wage war against the devil and even

engage in fighting him themselves for all to see! But

Satan is no one to be trifled with. He is more powerful

than our minds can comprehend.

ILLUS. There is a humorous and poignant story from

the early days of football in Dallas. The Dallas

Texans were the first attempt at professional

football in the Lone Star State. They had a

brief history lasting just one year, 1952, and

going 1-11. Their training camp was in Kerr-

ville, Texas. Willie Garcia was their equipment

manager and he had one wooden leg. The first

a football bounced off the playing field into the

tall grass, no one wanted to go after it because

of snakes. Garcia volunteered to retrieve the

ball and wittingly said, “I’ve got a 50-50

chance the snake will go for the wrong leg.”

Many Christians underestimate the power of

Satan and dash through the tall grass of life

thinking he will “go for the wrong leg” (4).

*The best defense we have against Satan is to put on

the whole armor of god and walk in the Spirit without

it we will underestimate his power and fall to his

deceits.

(3) We Underestimate the Value of a Soul

Proverbs 29:18—“Where there is no vision, the

people perish…”

A. What is the value of a soul? Well, it is so valuable

that the King of Glory laid aside His heavenly robes

and was robed in sinful flesh, made like unto us, but

without sin to die on an old Cruel Cross that we might

be redeemed. (Hebrews 2:9; Isaiah 53:5-6).

B. A soul is so valuable that He was mocked, ridiculed,

spit upon, slapped, beaten and crucified that we might

be redeemed.

ILLUS. Charlemagne (742-814) was the most famous

ruler of the Middle Ages and a key figure in

European history. It is reported that after his

death, King Charlemagne was buried wrapped

in royal robes sitting in a marble chair. On his

lap was a Bible opened to Mark 8. His finger

pointed to verse 36.

ILLUS. One soul is worth more than all the world; our

own souls are of greater value..than all the

wealth, honor, and pleasures of this present

time..Here is the whole world set in a scale

against one soul, and ‘Tekel’ written upon it;

it is weighed in the balance, and found too

light to weigh it down. This is Christ’s judg-

ment upon the matter, and he is a competent

Judge; he had reason to know the price of

souls, for he redeemed them; nor would he

underrate the world, for he made it (5).

C. God gave heaven’s fairest jewel to redeem the souls of

mankind (1 John 4:19) (6).

D. If a soul is that valuable to the LORD should not a soul

be valuable to us? Valuable enough to weep over, pray

for, witness to, and intercede for; that that soul might

be saved by the Grace of God! (Psalm 126:5-6; 1

Peter 3:15).

CLOSING: The “Mistakes We Make” are: undervaluing the precious-

ness of our salvation, underestimating the power of Satan,

and underestimating the value of a soul. Are you guilty of

any of these? Unless we walk in Spirit, keep our eyes on

the LORD, walk by faith, and follow His Word we will find

ourselves making these mistakes and failing in our service

for the LORD!

NOTES: 1. Charles H. Spurgeon. 2200 Quotations From The Writings

of Charles H. Spurgeon. Pg. 111.

2. Albert M. Wells, Jr. Inspiring Quotations-Contemporary &

Classical. Pg. 102.

Spurgeon. Pg. 57.

Raymond McHenry. The Best Of In Other Words. PP.

220-221.

Matthew Henry. The Quotable Matthew Henry. Pg. 293.

Grady Scott. From a sermon “The Value of A Soul.”

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