Hebrews: Refusing To Be Released – Gage Henry (August 10)
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🗓️ 10 August 2025
⏱️ 39 minutes
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Summary
Our College + Community Pastor, Gage Henry, closes out Hebrews 11 by showing how it ends with an unfulfilled promise—challenging us with the question: Will you ask God to take away the pain, or will you ask Him to release His power through it?
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| 0:00.0 | If you need a title for this sermon, the title is going to be refusing to be released. |
| 0:06.7 | Refusing to be released. |
| 0:08.9 | All summer long, we've been camped out in Hebrews chapter 11. |
| 0:12.7 | And we're going to end this little mini-series in the Hall of Faith today, looking at one |
| 0:17.4 | particular group that refused to be released. Hebrews chapter 11, verse 32, |
| 0:23.6 | and what more shall I say? I do not have time to tell about Gideon, Barak, Samson, and Jephtha, |
| 0:30.8 | about David and Samuel and the prophets. We're going to talk about the prophets today. Now, if you don't know what a prophet is, |
| 0:40.0 | a prophet in the Old Testament is someone who spoke for God. God gave them a message, revealed |
| 0:44.8 | himself, and it was a specific message to cut to the heart of the people. Now, in the New Testament, |
| 0:51.1 | the Holy Spirit has gained access. We have access by the blood of Jesus, by the |
| 0:55.0 | power of the Spirit. Christ lives in us so that we can actually commune with God in the here and now. |
| 1:01.5 | And yet, God still, by the power of the Spirit, gifts some with prophetic vision, with prophetic |
| 1:07.5 | anointing, which means they call forth spiritual realities. This is a gift given to |
| 1:12.7 | New Testament believers. Paul talks about it throughout his letters. But what I want to argue today |
| 1:18.6 | is that ultimately, if you look at the life of the prophets here in Hebrews, the writer says that |
| 1:25.9 | they refuse to be released and then talks about the prophets, but what |
| 1:29.6 | does he say? |
| 1:30.9 | He does not say one thing that the prophets said in your Bible. |
| 1:36.9 | He focuses on what the prophets endured. |
| 1:40.3 | I don't know if you noticed this as you were reading the story just a second ago, but |
| 1:44.0 | Jeremiah was flogged and imprisoned. |
| 1:47.0 | Zechariah was stone to death. |
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