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And let us consider one another to provoke unto love and to good works:<\/span><\/h1>\n

Not forsaking the assembling of ourselves together, as the manner of some is; but exhorting one<\/p>\n

another: and so much more, as ye see the day approaching.\u00a0\u00a0 (Heb 10:23-24)<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

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As a pastor and father and a life-long church attendee, I have always taken these verses from Hebrews seriously.\u00a0 I\u2019m not one who makes Sunday a Christian Sabbath but I do believe that Scripture gives the pattern of New Testament worship, including attending church on Sunday, \u201cthe Lord\u2019s day,\u201d the \u201cfirst day of the week.\u201d\u00a0 I believe we should go to church at those times that our church has decided to meet together.\u00a0 For most of us that has been twice on Sunday and again on Wednesday night for mid-week prayer and study.\u00a0 Even around the world that pattern seems to work well.\u00a0 To meet on Sunday I think is imperative from biblical example whereas the times and other days\u00a0 are more negotiable.\u00a0 What cannot be excused is a neglect of the church services because we have fallen into a pattern of life like the world around us whether that is work, play, laziness, disorderliness, or simply lack of interest in the things of God.<\/p>\n

Let me give a few comments on the verses themselves.\u00a0 As the writer of Hebrews begins the concluding half of the book, he gives three applications from the fact that we have a High Priest (Jesus Christ) over the House of God.\u00a0 These three subjunctive participles are translated in the older version with \u201clet us\u201d (what I like to call the \u201clettuce\u201d patch):\u00a0 \u201clet us draw near\u201d (vs 22), \u201clet us hold fast\u201d (vs 23), and \u201clet us consider one another\u201d (vs 24).\u00a0 A.T. Robertson says these are volitive which gives them an imperative sense (Grammar, 930).\u00a0 In fulfilling our obligation to \u201cconsider one another\u201d in our own local assembly is the admonition (a present active participle with the negative) not to forsake assembling together with the church.\u00a0 This was the \u201cmanner\u201d (ethos, custom) of many in those days for various reasons not the least of which were embarrassment and harassment and ultimately unbelief.<\/p>\n

\u201cTo forsake\u201d is a unique but serious word.\u00a0 Jesus used it on the cross when He cried, My God, My God, why hast thou forsaken me? (Mt 27:46).\u00a0 Peter quoted David from Psalm 16, Thou wilt not leave my soul in hell (Ac 2:27).\u00a0 Paul used it of Demas, For Demas hath forsaken me, having loved this present world (2 Tim 4:10).\u00a0 With similar seriousness the writer of Hebrews was warning against forsaking the assembly times of the Christian congregation.<\/p>\n

Interestingly, the word translated \u201cassembling\u201d is not our familiar ekklesia but the less frequent epi-sunagoge (appearing only twice in this compound form).\u00a0 It is used also in 2 Thes. 2:1 of our gathering together unto him.\u00a0 Where ekklesia might denote more of a business-related gathering, the root sunagoge denotes merely the fact of gathering together.\u00a0 In other words, it is the fact of assembling that we are not to forsake, not simply making a choice to miss certain types of meetings.\u00a0 He didn\u2019t warn them to quit picking and choosing which services to attend, he admonished them not to miss the church services at all!<\/p>\n

The local church assembly is important for a number of reasons, of which a few are mentioned in these verses.\u00a0 We need to \u201cconsider\u201d one another.\u00a0 If we would do this more often we would like each other more.\u00a0 This considering or thinking of one another will help us \u201cprovoke\u201d each other to love and good works.\u00a0 It will also help us to \u201cexhort\u201d or come along side one another in times of need.\u00a0 All of this ought to be done with even more regularity as we see the day of Christ\u2019s coming drawing near.\u00a0 But none of this can be done unless we assemble together.\u00a0 This isn\u2019t an online chat room where we manipulate an image of ourselves but never face the realities about ourselves.\u00a0 No, this is ultimate reality about ourselves and our Christian condition.\u00a0 This makes us face our own spiritual growth every time we come together and rejoice that we have such a place that \u201cprovokes\u201d us in this way.<\/p>\n

In case you haven\u2019t noticed, these kinds of churches are becoming rare even in our own persecution-free country.\u00a0 Whereas there was a push away from them in biblical times due to persecution and hardship, now there seems to be a pulling away from them due to self-centeredness, gratification, and entertainment. R. Kent Hughes wrote, \u201cIt is my considered belief that those who do not have the local church at the very center of their lives are likely not to make it as Christians through the opening decades of the third millennium.\u201d1<\/sup> Here are a few reasons why I think these admonitions are needed now more than ever.<\/p>\n

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We really don\u2019t love the brethren.<\/h3>\n

John\u2019s first epistle admonishes us to love \u201cthe brethren\u201d (1 Jn 3:14).\u00a0 Peter says we are to \u201clove as brethren\u201d (1 Pet 3:8).\u00a0 These are not isolated statements that describe a misfit whom the church won\u2019t love.\u00a0 These are common biblical admonitions for worldly professing believers to stop forsaking the rest of the assembly.\u00a0 Those who \u201cwent out from us\u201d (1 Jn 2:19), as John describes them, are those who loved the world more than the church.<\/p>\n

We have a generation today which simply does not love God\u2019s church or, more specifically, those who make up the church.\u00a0 They are too pious; they are too boring; they are too heavenly-minded to be any earthly good; they just aren\u2019t cool enough for this generation to love.<\/p>\n

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We are guilty of respect of persons.<\/h3>\n

James gave the perfect example of those who want beautiful people around them but shun those who aren\u2019t acceptable (James 2:1-13).\u00a0 To be partial toward those who are advantageous to us is to be guilty of this warning.\u00a0 Jude describes them as murmurers, complainers, walking after their own lusts; and their mouth speaketh great swelling words, having men\u2019s persons in admiration because of advantage (Jude 16).\u00a0 Peter\u00a0 said of them, And through covetousness shall they with feigned words make merchandise of you (2 Pet 2:3).<\/p>\n

The contemporary churches have targeted audiences that are acceptable and advantageous to them.\u00a0 Perhaps a generation ago (or two) people in suits and ties or dresses looked down at those who had less, but this has now been entirely turned around.\u00a0 Now the young, rich and beautiful, with their designer jeans, tattooed, and pierced bodies, have taken over the churches and pushed thousands of their elders and less appealing believers off the platforms and out of the pews.<\/p>\n

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We have lost our conviction about Scriptural commands.<\/h3>\n

Not only have we forgotten how to provoke and exhort one another to love and good works, we have specifically decided to keep on loving the world, to keep on forsaking the church for the concert hall, theater or other diversions.\u00a0 We have decidedly ignored biblical commands to public decency, modesty, manners and meekness in favor of belly buttons and cleavage, profanity and sourness, noisiness and brashness.\u00a0 Just try to confront such worldly behavior in the church and see where it gets you!\u00a0 You will be met with instant scorn not only from that person but also from a \u201cprotective\u201d parent or even staff person!<\/p>\n

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We have forgotten how NOT to be entertained.<\/h3>\n

We are in what Neil Postman called \u201cthe Sesame Street Generation.\u201d\u00a0 \u201cEntertain me and I\u2019ll learn.\u201d\u00a0 Today\u2019s kids are raised with wall-papered noise and images.\u00a0 It is never quiet around them and they seldom read and couldn\u2019t stop long enough to pray.\u00a0 Even expressions and imaginations are done for them by TV, radio, i-Pods, or monitors.\u00a0 They may not be couch potatoes but they certainly are ear phone junkies!<\/p>\n

The question over this generation has been one of expediency and pragmatism:\u00a0 how far can we change the biblical pattern of the church in order to meet their demands?\u00a0 Evidently, many can change it quite a bit!\u00a0 The problem is that God didn\u2019t!\u00a0 How do I know?\u00a0 Because the same Book said the same thing before this generation and It will say the same thing after this generation.\u00a0 The truth is, no amount of \u201csuccess\u201d in any form gives us the right to change the Word of God.<\/p>\n

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We have decided to love the world.<\/h3>\n

John plainly says that a person cannot love the world and love God (1 Jn 2:15).\u00a0 James calls one an adulterer and an adulteress who thinks being a friend of the world is not being an enemy of God (Jas 4:4).\u00a0 This is truly the apostasy of our day.\u00a0 A postmodern generation really believes that if they say something often enough that it will be true, at least for them!\u00a0 If they say that they love God even though they love the world, their \u201csincere\u201d and \u201cheart-felt\u201d belief will therefore be true.\u00a0 Even the Bible can\u2019t negate what they really \u201cbelieve.\u201d<\/p>\n

The fact that this is truly what we see around us makes this so strikingly sad.\u00a0 Take one short trip on your computer to MySpace.com.\u00a0 Start with the site of a Christian young person and see what is only a click or two away.\u00a0 Read the language that is used among so-called Christian young people.\u00a0 Listen to the sounds that are played and look (only if you can) at the graphics that are displayed.\u00a0 Then ask yourself, can I love this and love God also?\u00a0 But you may have to do the same thing with your local Christian bookstore or your own local church!\u00a0 But don\u2019t try to persuade anyone to actually walk away from it.\u00a0 You will be the bad guy for even suggesting such a thing!\u00a0 But, of course, we must try, for they are \u201cforsaking\u201d the assembly of the saints by either leaving it, changing it into what they want it to be, or by lying to themselves about the possibility of loving God and the world.<\/p>\n

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We have lost our urgency about the gospel.<\/h3>\n

The writer of Hebrews saw clearly the decline of the last days.\u00a0 Not only must Christians always be assembling together, but it will be even more urgent and necessary as we see the day approaching.\u00a0 Read again Paul\u2019s description of the perilous times that shall come (2 Tim 2:1-7).\u00a0 Almost every description in the paragraph is true of today:\u00a0 lovers of their own selves; boasters; disobedient to parents; heady; high-minded.\u00a0 But perhaps most dangerous of all:\u00a0 Having a form of godliness but denying the power thereof.\u00a0 If one cannot live it, he has denied the power of it.\u00a0 Paul\u2019s remedy was simple:\u00a0 From such turn away.\u00a0 Within the previous 14 verses, Paul uses these words:\u00a0 shun; depart; purge; flee; avoid.\u00a0 The reason those Words of God will not be heeded is because a generation that has forsaken the pure, biblical pattern of the New Testament local church has no urgency left.\u00a0 Jesus said of the end times, Many false prophets shall rise, and shall deceive many.\u00a0 And because iniquity shall abound, the love of many shall wax cold (Matt 24:11-12).\u00a0 At the Bema Seat of Christ we will not be asked, \u201cHow many?\u201d \u2014 only \u201cHow?\u201d\u00a0 Then we will see that God\u2019s way has always been the best way.<\/p>\n

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Notes:<\/address>\n
R.Kent Hughes, Set Apart: Calling a Worldly Church to a Godly Life (Wheaton: Crossway Books, 2003) 137.<\/address>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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