if we hold fast our confidence and the glorying of our hope
firm to the end.
003:007 Therefore, even as the Holy Spirit says, "Today if you will
hear his voice,
003:008 don't harden your hearts, as in the provocation, like as in
the day of the trial in the wilderness,
003:009 where your fathers tested me by proving me, and saw my works
for forty years.
003:010 Therefore I was displeased with that generation, and said,
'They always err in their heart, but they didn't know my ways;'
003:011 as I swore in my wrath, 'They will not enter into
my rest.'"{Psalm 95:7-11}
003:012 Beware, brothers, lest perhaps there be in any one of you
an evil heart of unbelief, in falling away from the living God;
003:013 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.
003:014 For we have become partakers of Christ, if we hold fast
the beginning of our confidence firm to the end:
003:015 while it is said, "Today if you will hear his voice,
don't harden your hearts, as in the rebellion."{Psalm 95:7-8}
003:016 For who, when they heard, rebelled? No, didn't all those who
came out of Egypt by Moses?
003:017 With whom was he displeased forty years? Wasn't it with those
who sinned, whose bodies fell in the wilderness?
003:018 To whom did he swear that they wouldn't enter into his rest,
but to those who were disobedient?
003:019 We see that they were not able to enter in because of unbelief.
004:001 Let us fear therefore, lest perhaps anyone of you should seem
to have come short of a promise of entering into his rest.
004:002 For indeed we have had good news preached to us, even as they
also did, but the word they heard didn't profit them,
because it wasn't mixed with faith by those who heard.
004:003 For we who have believed do enter into that rest, even as
he has said, "As I swore in my wrath, they will not enter
into my rest;"{Psalm 95:11} although the works were finished
from the foundation of the world.
004:004 For he has said this somewhere about the seventh day, "God rested
on the seventh day from all his works;"{Genesis 2:2}
004:005 and in this place again, "They will not enter into
my rest."{Psalm 95:11}
004:006 Seeing therefore it remains that some should enter therein,
and they to whom the good news was before preached failed
to enter in because of disobedience,
004:007 he again defines a certain day, today, saying through David
so long a time afterward (just as has been said), "Today if you
will hear his voice, don't harden your hearts."{Psalm 95:7-8}
004:008 For if Joshua had given them rest, he would not have spoken
afterward of another day.
004:009 There remains therefore a Sabbath rest for the people of God.
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