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Great Plains Reformed Baptist Church, 300 E Main Street, Blair, OK (2026)

06/04/2026

How long is forever?

For a child, it might be a timeout. For an adult, it might feel like a 30-year mortgage, a difficult season of life, or waiting through a long night in the hospital. Yet when we look back on our entire lives, even decades, they seem to pass like a breath.

Why? Because we were created in the image of an eternal God.

On Lord’s Day in Hebrews 7:23-28, we were reminded of a truth that changes everything: Jesus continues forever and holds His priesthood permanently. Under the old covenant, priests came and went. They served, they aged, and they died. But Jesus is different. He lives forever. He intercedes forever. And because He lives forever, He is able to save forever those who draw near to God through Him.

The author of Hebrews calls us to lift our eyes beyond the temporary and fix them on eternity.

• This world is temporary.
• Our sufferings are temporary.
• Our comforts are temporary.
• Our possessions are temporary.
• But Christ is forever.

The temptation we face is not always persecution—it is often distraction. We become so consumed with our schedules, our comforts, our entertainment, and our plans that we forget what we were created for. We spend our lives preparing for tomorrow while neglecting eternity.

Yet believers throughout history have understood something the world cannot. They knew that forever matters more than today. They knew that losing everything for Christ is not loss at all when eternity is secured in Him.

Hebrews tells us that our High Priest is “holy, innocent, undefiled, separated from sinners, and exalted above the heavens.” He offered Himself once for all, accomplishing what no earthly priest could ever accomplish. Our hope does not rest in repeated sacrifices, religious effort, or our own faithfulness. It rests in the finished work of the One who lives forever.

So the question before us is simple:

What are you living for? The temporary or the eternal?

Jesus continues forever. His priesthood is forever. His salvation is forever.

Watch the full sermon here: https://-4DK37J.subspla.sh/9ch3xcy

05/25/2026

On Lord’s Day we were in Hebrews 7:11–20 and were again brought face-to-face with one of the most sobering and glorious truths in all of Scripture: God has never changed His requirement for those who would be His children - Perfection. Not improvement. Not sincerity. Not religious effort. But holiness, blamelessness, and righteousness that fully satisfies His perfectly holy character.

Jesus makes this explicit when He says, “You therefore must be perfect, as your heavenly Father is perfect” (Matthew 5:48). That is not an elevated ideal for advanced believers, it is the unchanging standard of God’s kingdom. From Adam, to Abraham, to Israel, the call has always been the same: “Be holy, for I am holy.”

The law was never given to make sinners righteous, but to reveal God’s holiness and expose our inability to reach it. It reaches beyond outward behavior into the heart itself; where anger is murder and lust is adultery within. The result is unavoidable: the law is perfect, but it cannot make anyone perfect.

That is why the Levitical priesthood existed. Every sacrifice, every offering, every ritual testified to one reality. We need cleansing we cannot achieve. And Hebrews presses the argument forward: if that system could bring perfection, there would be no need for another priesthood.

But God did raise another.

Not from Aaron. Not from human lineage. But according to the order of Melchizedek. Pointing forward to Christ, the eternal High Priest. Psalm 110 declares it plainly: “You are a priest forever.” A priesthood that does not fade, fail, or end.

The early Hebrew Christians needed this because they were under pressure. Tempted to drift back to what was visible, familiar, and socially accepted while the temple still stood. So the author anchors them not in experience, but in Scripture. And that same truth remains: when the Word is neglected, hearts grow dull and hope weakens. When the Word is central, Christ becomes clear and hope becomes unshakable.

Hebrews then draws the contrast with clarity: the Levitical priests were limited: mortal, repeated, and unable to finish the work. But Jesus is High Priest according to the power of an indestructible life. He does not repeat sacrifices, He offered Himself once for all. He does not serve in an earthly shadow. He enters the true presence of God. And He does not serve temporarily. He reigns forever.

This is why the veil was torn. What the Old Covenant restricted, Christ opened. What the law pointed toward, Christ fulfilled.

And here is the gospel glory: the law demands perfection, and in Christ, perfection is given. Not earned, but credited. Not achieved, but received.

That is why there is now no condemnation for those who are in Christ Jesus. And that is why our hope is not in ourselves, but in the finished work of our great High Priest.

This truth does not lead to indifference, it leads to worship, repentance, and deeper holiness. Because those who have been united to Christ begin to desire what they have been given in Him.

So the call of Hebrews remains urgent:

Do not neglect such a great salvation. Our prayer is let us O Lord not grow dull in hearing, lest we will drift from the Word.

Instead, let's anchor our life in the unchanging Word of God, behold the supremacy of Christ, and rest in the perfection that only He provides.

Jesus Christ is supreme above all creation, especially in salvation. And in Him alone, God has given what He has always required: perfection.

Watch the full sermon here: https://-4DK37J.subspla.sh/bdt9jmk

05/22/2026

Where is your hope anchored today?

Last Sunday we were reminded by God to think about what hope is and examine ourselves. What is our hope, what is our faith? When life becomes uncertain, trials increase, prayers seem delayed, and doubts begin to whisper in your mind, what is the thing you run to for stability? What is the foundation beneath your soul?

In Hebrews 7:1-10 we are reminded that biblical hope is not grounded in circumstances, emotions, possessions, or worldly security. Our hope is anchored in the unchangeable character and eternal purpose of God fulfilled in Jesus Christ, our eternal High Priest.

The writer of Hebrews points us to the mysterious figure of Melchizedek, the king of righteousness and king of peace, who suddenly appears in Genesis 14 without genealogy, without recorded beginning or end. This was not random. God intentionally placed Melchizedek in Scripture as a prophetic type pointing us to Christ, the greater and eternal High Priest who was always God's plan from before the foundation of the world.

The early Hebrew Christians were under intense pressure. They were being ridiculed, rejected by family, persecuted, and tempted to turn back because Jesus did not fit their expectations of what the Messiah or High Priest should look like. Yet Hebrews reminds them, and now us, that God's covenant and purposes are unchangeable. Christ was never an afterthought. He is supreme above all creation and eternally sufficient to save His people.

This passage forces us to reflect deeply:

• Is your hope anchored in Christ, or in temporary things that can be taken away overnight?

• Are you building your life on God's unchanging Word, or on your constantly changing feelings?

• When suffering comes, do you cling tighter to Christ or drift toward worldly comforts?

• Do you know Scripture deeply enough to fight against the voices of doubt when they arise?

• Are you living for eternity, or simply trying to make this present life more comfortable?

One of the clearest lessons from Hebrews 7 is this: God's redemptive plan has always centered on Jesus Christ. Before the Levitical priesthood, before the temple, before the Law itself, God had already established the greater Priest who would come forever in the order of Melchizedek.

That means your salvation is not fragile because it does not rest upon you. It rests upon the finished work of the resurrected Christ who entered beyond the veil on your behalf. Our hope is secure because He is unchangeable.

Make God's Word the single thing you know best in this life. Saturate your heart and mind with Scripture. Fix your eyes on Christ and not on the fading things of this world. As Hebrews 6:19 declares, “This hope we have as an anchor of the soul, a hope both sure and confirmed.”

The world offers temporary comfort. Christ offers eternal hope.

The question is: what does your life prove your hope is truly anchored in?

Watch the full sermon here: https://-4DK37J.subspla.sh/mf2ywvh

05/04/2026

What are you placing your hope in today?

This Lord’s Day we walked through Hebrews 6:13-20, and we were forced to redefine what we mean when we say “hope.” Because biblically, hope is not wishful thinking. It is not optimism about circumstances. It is not rooted in possessions, comfort, or success. Hope is a Person! Jesus Christ Himself.

God, desiring to show the unchangeable character of His purpose, swore by Himself when He made His promise to Abraham. And Abraham waited… not days, not months, but 25 years. And when he obtained the promise, it proved something far greater than patience. It proved that God cannot lie. His Word is sure, and His promises are certain.

And yet here is the sobering reality: many who have been given eternal life still live as though they have none. We set our hopes on the same temporary things as the world: money, stability, comfort, recognition. As if this life is all there is. We live like spiritual paupers while possessing eternal riches.

Scripture makes a clear distinction between breathing and living. Every person you pass today is breathing, but not all are alive. True life is found only in Christ. He did not come merely to improve your circumstances. He came to give you life, and life abundantly. A life anchored not here, but in eternity.

Hebrews tells us to take hold of the hope set before us, a hope that is both sure and confirmed, an anchor for the soul that enters within the veil, where Jesus has gone as our forerunner and High Priest forever. That means our hope is not tied to what happens here. It is fixed in where Christ is.

So what does that look like?

It looks like Abraham, who did not ultimately place his hope in Isaac, but in the promises of God. It looks like a life that is no longer driven by what we can gain here, but by what has already been secured for us there. It looks like fixing our eyes on Jesus and living in light of eternity.

It looks like living out this hope in action, by living a life of hope.

Because those who truly have this hope will not sit idle. They will serve the saints. They will invest in the body of Christ. They will deny the fading pleasures of this world and live for the glory that is to come.

So examine your life.

What are you actually hoping in? What anchors your soul when everything else is stripped away?

Because everything in this world will fade. But this hope, this Christ, is sure. It is unbreakable. Our hope is eternal.

Take hold of Him. If you are in Christ, your hope is already secured beyond the veil.

Watch the full sermon here: https://-4DK37J.subspla.sh/gsd4rf3

04/27/2026

What kind of person are you within the church?

This Sunday’s message from Hebrews 6:9-12 presses that question directly into our lives. After one of the most severe warnings in Scripture, the author turns and says, “But, beloved, we are convinced of better things concerning you, things that accompany salvation.” In other words, true salvation is never alone. It comes with evidence.

Throughout Hebrews 5 and 6, we are shown three kinds of people who sit under the same preaching, hear the same Word, and exist within the same body. There are those who are truly saved but have become dull of hearing, still infants, slow to apply what they know. There are those who profess faith but do not possess it, those who taste, participate, and remain unchanged. And then there are those who demonstrate that they belong to Christ, those whose lives are marked by love for His people and perseverance in obedience.

And the difference is not found in what we claim, but in what our lives produce.

Because salvation is not from you. It is not sustained by you. It is not accomplished by you. It is from God, through God, and for God. Those whom He foreknew He predestined. Those He predestined He called. Those He called He justified. Those He justified He glorified. From beginning to end, it is His work. And because it is His work, it will bear fruit.

Hebrews 6:10 tells us that God is not unjust to forget your work and the love you have shown toward His name in serving the saints. That is not a call to earn salvation, it is the evidence of it. When a heart has been changed, when a life has been redeemed, it will move toward the people of God in love.

So what is the cure for spiritual dullness? Not more information. Not just hearing more sermons. It is obedience. It is taking the Word of God and treasuring it in such a way that it reshapes how you live. It is making the body of Christ your life. It is ministering to the saints, not occasionally, but continually.

The author goes on to say that we are to show the same diligence so as to realize the full assurance of hope until the end, so that we would not be sluggish, but imitators of those who through faith and patience inherit the promises. That means this life is not passive. It is marked by endurance. It is marked by faith that continues and a life that proves it.

So examine yourself.

In the past week, what work and love toward His name can God point to in your life? Not what you intended to do. Not what you felt. What have you actually done for the sake of His people?

This is not about earning anything, this is about revealing everything.

You have been chosen, sealed by the Spirit, and given an inheritance in Christ. You have been predestined to be conformed to His image. And if that is true, your life will not remain unchanged. You will love what He loves and you will serve who He calls His own.

So stop settling for dullness, stop merely consuming. Live as one who has been given everything in Christ.

Because if you are His sheep, you will hear His voice… and you will follow Him.

Watch the full sermon here: https://-4DK37J.subspla.sh/nmfgrm5

04/23/2026

These verses are given for two purposes:

1. To strengthen the assurance of true believers,
so that they would rest in the certainty of God’s promise in Christ.
(Hebrews 6:17–19; John 10:28–29)
2. To warn those who are only outwardly associated with the faith,
to examine themselves and not fall away through unbelief.
(Hebrews 3:12; 2 Corinthians 13:5)

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If you are troubled and examining yourself,
that is something Scripture actually calls you to do.
(2 Corinthians 13:5)

If you are hardened or indifferent to Christ,
that is where the warning is directed.
(Hebrews 3:13; Hebrews 6:7–8)

“Hold fast to Christ, for this hope is a sure and steadfast anchor of the soul.”
(Hebrews 6:18–19)

04/21/2026

Can you lose your salvation?

Hebrews 6:4-8 is one of the most sobering and often misunderstood warnings in all of Scripture, but it is not written to tell the redeemed that they can be lost. It is written to reveal something far more serious: not everyone in the church truly belongs to Christ.

There are those who have been enlightened… who have tasted the heavenly gift… who have witnessed the power of the Holy Spirit… who have sat under the Word of God and even rejoiced in it, and yet remain unregenerate. They experience the reality of Christ externally, but never possess Him internally. Like Judas, they walk closely with Jesus, hear His words, see His works, and still fall away. Not because they lost salvation but because they never had it.

And then there are those like Peter. He failed and denied Christ. Peter wept bitterly, but Peter remained. Why?

Not because Peter was stronger. Not because he was more committed. But because Christ is supreme over salvation. Jesus Himself said, “I have prayed for you that your faith may not fail.” And it didn’t. This is because salvation does not rest on our grip on Christ, but on His grip on us.

Hebrews 6 gives us two kinds of people within the church—and Hebrews 6:7–8 gives us the picture to understand them:

The same rain falls on the ground. One produces fruit and receives blessing and the other produces thorns and is burned. The difference is not the rain. The difference is the nature of the ground.

So the question is not: “Have I experienced Christian things?”
The question is: “Has Christ transformed me?”
Do you bear fruit? Do you respond to conviction with repentance? Do you cling to Christ as your only hope?

Because those who are truly His, though they may stumble, though they may struggle, will remain. Not by their strength, but by His.

Those whom He foreknew, He predestined.
Those He predestined, He called.
Those He called, He justified.
Those He justified, He glorified.
That is not a possibility, this is a certainty.

If these verses trouble you, if they cause you to examine your life and cling more tightly to Christ, that is not something to dismiss. That is often evidence of the Spirit at work within you. But if there is no concern… no conviction… no care at all, then this warning is meant for you.

Jesus is the source of eternal salvation for all who obey Him. He is the author and perfecter of our faith. And what He begins, He finishes. You cannot lose your salvation because it was never yours to begin with. It is His.

So examine your life. Cling to Christ, and rejoice in the salvation that is fully, finally, and eternally secure in Him.

Watch the full sermon here: https://-4DK37J.subspla.sh/h9zbrvn

04/14/2026

Hebrews calls us to press on to maturity (Hebrews 6:1).

Growth comes through obedience, not just hearing.

Are you making disciples? (Matthew 28:19)

Are you growing… or just becoming familiar with truth?

04/13/2026

Lord’s Day we were confronted with a sobering and necessary warning from Hebrews 5:11–6:3. In a letter that exalts the supremacy of Christ above all things, God turns the spotlight on us and asks whether we have become dull of hearing.

“Concerning him we have much to say, and it is hard to explain, since you have become dull of hearing” (Hebrews 5:11). The issue is not the depth of the truth, but the condition of the heart. By this time many ought to be teachers, yet still need milk and not solid food (Hebrews 5:12), remaining infants because they are “not accustomed to the word of righteousness” (Hebrews 5:13).

This is a wake up call. We are not called to remain at the level of the elementary truths: repentance from dead works, faith toward God, baptism, the resurrection of the dead, and eternal judgment (Hebrews 6:1-2). These are foundations, but we are commanded to build upon them, to “press on to maturity.” And Scripture is clear how that happens: not merely by hearing, but by practice. “Solid food is for the mature, who because of practice have their senses trained to discern good and evil” (Hebrews 5:14).

The warning echoes throughout Hebrews: “How shall we escape if we neglect so great a salvation?” (Hebrews 2:3). This dullness of hearing is not neutral, it is dangerous. It is the same hardening we see in Zechariah 7:11-12, where they “refused to pay attention… and made their hearts diamond hard,” and in Jeremiah 6:10, where the Word of the Lord became a reproach to them with no delight. And God’s response to such hardness is discipline, because “the Lord disciplines the one he loves” (Hebrews 12:6).

So the question is not how long you’ve been in church, but this: are you obeying the Word? Are you growing? Are you discipling others as Christ commanded in Matthew 28:19, and are you yourself being discipled? Or have you settled into comfort, content with hearing but not doing?

The reality is this: the resurrection of the dead is coming, and eternal judgment is real (Hebrews 6:2). The mature live like that is true. They order their lives around Christ, His Word, and His body. They pursue unity, practice hospitality, and pour themselves out for others because they have been united to the One who is supreme over all.

But here is the hope: “And this we will do if God permits” (Hebrews 6:3). Even our growth is dependent upon His grace. The same Christ who is exalted above all things is the One who has united us to Himself-“for both he who sanctifies and those who are sanctified are all of one” (Hebrews 2:11).

So hear the warning, but don’t stop there, respond. Examine your life in light of the Word, humble yourself, and walk in obedience. Don’t neglect such a great salvation. Press on to maturity.

Who are you discipling? Who is discipling you? And what will you do with the Word you’ve heard?

Watch the full sermon here: https://-4DK37J.subspla.sh/w9fznn6

04/07/2026

Who is Jesus Christ, and are we willing to think rightly about Him where Scripture speaks most clearly?

Hebrews 5:7-10 brings us into holy ground. There is danger here, since we are dealing with the very foundation of our salvation. Jesus is fully God, supreme over all creation, and yet He truly took on flesh. Not in appearance only, but in reality. “In the days of his flesh, Jesus offered up prayers and supplications, with loud cries and tears” (Hebrews 5:7). That is not symbolic language. That is the life of the God-man, living in true dependence upon the Father.

This is where we must be careful. If we strip Christ of His humanity, we lose the gospel. We must always guard this truth: Christ obeyed the law as a man, in the power of the Holy Spirit, so that His obedience might be imputed to us. He did not bypass the human condition. He entered it, fulfilled it, and redeemed it.

“Although he was a Son, he learned obedience through what he suffered” (Hebrews 5:8). Not that He moved from disobedience to obedience, but that He walked the full path of obedience in real time, under real pressure, through real suffering. Every step was faith-filled submission to the Father. Every moment was lived in perfect reliance upon the Spirit.

This matters more than we often realize, because that obedience is not just an example. It is our righteousness.

Christ’s life was not simply preparation for the cross. His life was part of the saving work itself. His perfect obedience under the law, His trust in the Father, His endurance through suffering, all of it culminates in this: “being made perfect, he became the source of eternal salvation to all who obey him” (Hebrews 5:9).

He is our High Priest, “designated by God… after the order of Melchizedek” (Hebrews 5:10), fully qualified because He truly lived as we live, yet without sin.

And because of that, we are not united to a distant Savior.
We are united to One who has walked this road.

He knows what it is to obey when obedience costs something. He knows what it is to pray with tears. He knows what it is to trust God when the path leads through suffering. And He did it not by stepping outside of humanity, but by living within it, perfectly, in the power of the Spirit.

That means two things for us.

First, our righteousness is secure. It does not rest on our imperfect obedience, but on His perfect obedience, accomplished as a true man and credited to us by grace.

Second, our path is clear. The same Spirit who upheld Christ in His obedience now dwells in us. We are not left to ourselves.

So the call is simple, but weighty - Learn obedience.

Not as those trying to earn favor with God, but as those who already have it in Christ. Not in your own strength, but in dependence upon the Spirit. Not shrinking back from suffering, but trusting that God uses it to conform us to His Son.

• When obedience is hard, remember Christ obeyed in suffering
• When prayer feels weak, remember Christ prayed with tears
• When faith is tested, remember Christ trusted the Father perfectly

You are not walking a different path, you are walking in Him.

May we hold fast to Christ. Rest in His righteousness; and by the Spirit, follow Him in a life that is learning obedience, just as He did, for the glory of God.

Watch the full sermon here: https://-4DK37J.subspla.sh/27xrpjc

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