We're going to talk about spiritual experience this morning. The writer has just issued a stiff warning to his readers. That warning was against repudiating Christ and falling away from the truth. It was set in the context of growing up to moral maturity, with the implication that if you are not growing up to moral maturity then you are in great danger of totally rejecting Christ and meeting with His total rejection as well. But though the writer talks like this, he is confident of better things. He does not believe that most of his readers are at the point of definitively rejecting Jesus. Instead, he sees that by and large they are the good field, the good hearers who are producing good fruit. He commends this fruit, and tells them about his desire that they diligently grow in hope by following the examples of the OT saints — a point he will make with much greater fullness in ch. 11. What we will see this morning — the text's main point — is that the pastor can have confidence in God's salvation by looking to the hallmarks of salvation and encouraging his people through the power of example.
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Caleb Nelson grew up in Ft. Collins, CO. Born into a Christian home, where he eventually became the eldest of 11 children, he has been a lifelong Presbyterian. He professed faith at the age of six, and was homeschooled through high school. He then attended Patrick Henry College...
