Don't Throw Away Your Confidence -- Hebrews 10:31-38 - Pastor Rick Soto

Don't Throw Away Your Confidence - Pastor Rick Soto SCRIPTURE REFERENCES: Primary: Hebrews 10:31-38 Supporting: Genesis 35:5, 2 Chronicles 17:9, Acts 5:11, Matthew 3:15, John 1:38, John 3, John 5:6, John 5:47 MESSAGE SUMMARY: Finishing out Hebrews 10, Pastor Rick builds the case that true confidence in God is inseparable from the fear of the Lord. Using free climber Alex Honnold as an illustration, he reframes fear not as terror but as the highest form of respect, the kind that produces unstoppable people. Drawing on three Old Testament examples where the fear of the Lord fell on surrounding nations, he shows that this posture toward God is a power key for the church. The heart of the message lands on three principles of confidence: knowing who you are, accepting who you are, and being who you are, illustrated through both Jesus and John the Baptist at the Jordan. The message closes with Jesus asking four questions that anchor faith and draw people to himself. MAJOR THEMES: Fear of the Lord as reverence, respect, and awe rather than terror Confidence rooted in the fear of the Lord, not in self-reliance Three principles of godly confidence: knowing, accepting, and being who you are Endurance as a product of confidence in where you are going Faith as the normal operating mode of every human life Jesus walking in your heart the same way he once walked in Galilee   Most people think confidence and fear are opposites. In Hebrews 10, they are the same thing. In this message, Pastor Rick Soto finishes out Hebrews 10 with a teaching on what it actually means to fear the Lord, and why that fear is the foundation of genuine, unshakeable confidence. Using free climber Alex Honnold as a window into what it looks like to respect something greater than yourself, Pastor Rick shows how this posture toward God produces people who are, as the text puts it, absolutely unstoppable. Three principles anchor the message: knowing who you are, accepting who you are, and being who you are. Jesus and John the Baptist at the Jordan River become a masterclass in all three. The sermon closes with four questions Jesus asks in the Gospels that he is still asking today. This is part three from Hebrews 10. Start with Draw Near and Lines Not to Cross for the full arc. For more information and service times, visit ranchchurch.com.