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The Epistle to the Hebrews

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- Chapter 3 -

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Therefore, holy brothers, you share in a heavenly calling. Think about Jesus, the apostle and high priest of our confession.
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He was faithful to God, who appointed him, just as Moses was also faithful in God’s house.
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For Jesus has been considered worthy of greater glory than Moses, because the one who builds a house has more honor than the house itself.
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For every house is built by someone, but the one who built everything is God.
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On one hand, Moses was faithful as a servant in God’s entire house. He was a testimony about the things that were to be spoken of in the future.
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But Christ is the Son in charge of God’s house. We are his house if we hold fast to our courage and to our proud confidence.

Do Not Harden Your Hearts

(Psalm 95:1–11)
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Therefore, it is just as the Holy Spirit says: “Today, if you hear his voice,
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do not harden your hearts as in the rebellion, in the time of testing in the wilderness.
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This was when your ancestors rebelled by testing me, and when, during forty years, they saw my deeds.
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Therefore, I was displeased with that generation. I said, ’They are always being led astray in their hearts. They have not known my ways.’
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It is just as I swore in my anger: ‘They will never enter my rest.’”

The Peril of Unbelief

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Be careful, brothers, so that among you there will not be anyone with an evil heart of unbelief, a heart that turns away from the living God.
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Instead, encourage one another daily, as long as it is called “today,” so that no one among you will be hardened by the deceitfulness of sin.
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For we have become partners of Christ if we firmly hold to our confidence in him from the beginning to the end.
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About this it has been said, “Today, if you hear his voice, do not harden your hearts, as in the rebellion.”
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Who was it who heard God and rebelled? Was it not all those who came out of Egypt through Moses?
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With whom was he angry for forty years? Was it not with those who sinned, whose dead bodies fell in the wilderness?
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To whom did he swear that they would not enter his rest, if it was not to those who disobeyed him?
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And we see that they were not able to enter his rest because of unbelief.
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Therefore, holy brothers, partakers of a heavenly calling, consider the Apostle and High Priest of our confession: Jesus,
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who was faithful to him who appointed him, as also Moses was in all his house.
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For he has been counted worthy of more glory than Moses, because he who built the house has more honor than the house.
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For every house is built by someone; but he who built all things is God.
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Moses indeed was faithful in all his house as a servant, for a testimony of those things which were afterward to be spoken,
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but Christ (a) is faithful as a Son over his house. We are his house, if we hold fast our confidence and the glorying of our hope firm to the end.

Do Not Harden Your Hearts

(Psalm 95:1–11)
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Therefore, even as the Holy Spirit says, “Today if you will hear his voice,
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don’t harden your hearts as in the rebellion, in the day of the trial in the wilderness,
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where your fathers tested me and tried me, and saw my deeds for forty years.
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Therefore I was displeased with that generation, and said, ‘They always err in their heart, but they didn’t know my ways.’
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As I swore in my wrath, ‘They will not enter into my rest.’”(b)

The Peril of Unbelief

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Beware, brothers, lest perhaps there might be in any one of you an evil heart of unbelief, in falling away from the living God;
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but exhort one another day by day, so long as it is called “today”, lest any one of you be hardened by the deceitfulness of sin.
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For we have become partakers of Christ, if we hold the beginning of our confidence firm to the end,
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while it is said, “Today if you will hear his voice, don’t harden your hearts, as in the rebellion.”(c)
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For who, when they heard, rebelled? Wasn’t it all those who came out of Egypt led by Moses?
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With whom was he displeased forty years? Wasn’t it with those who sinned, whose bodies fell in the wilderness?
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To whom did he swear that they wouldn’t enter into his rest, but to those who were disobedient?
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We see that they weren’t able to enter in because of unbelief.

Footnotes

(a)3:6 “Christ” means “Anointed One”.
(b)3:11 ℘ Psalms 95:7-11
(c)3:15 ℘ Psalms 95:7-8
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