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Holding Firmly to the End III

Hebrews 3:1-19

Grace Fellowship Church

August 12, 2007

Series 3 Sermon 9

 

Therefore, holy brothers, you who share in a heavenly calling, consider Jesus, the apostle and high priest of our confession, 2 who was faithful to him who appointed him, just as Moses also was faithful in all God’s house. 3 For Jesus has been counted worthy of more glory than Moses—as much more glory as the builder of a house has more honor than the house itself. 4 (For every house is built by someone, but the builder of all things is God.) 5 Now Moses was faithful in all God’s house as a servant, to testify to the things that were to be spoken later, 6 but Christ is faithful over God’s house as a son. And we are his house if indeed we hold fast our confidence and our boasting in our hope.  7 Therefore, as the Holy Spirit says, “Today, if you hear his voice, 8 do not harden your hearts as in the rebellion, on the day of testing in the wilderness, 9 where your fathers put me to the test and saw my works 10 for forty years. Therefore I was provoked with that generation, and said, ‘They always go astray in their heart; they have not known my ways.’ 11 As I swore in my wrath, ‘They shall not enter my rest.’ ”   12 Take care, brothers, lest there be in any of you an evil, unbelieving heart, leading you to fall away from the living God. 13 But exhort one another every day, as long as it is called “today,” that none of you may be hardened by the deceitfulness of sin. 14 For we share in Christ, if indeed we hold our original confidence firm to the end. 15 As it is said, “Today, if you hear his voice, do not harden your hearts as in the rebellion.”  16 For who were those who heard and yet rebelled? Was it not all those who left Egypt led by Moses? 17 And with whom was he provoked for forty years? Was it not with those who sinned, whose bodies fell in the wilderness? 18 And to whom did he swear that they would not enter his rest, but to those who were disobedient? 19 So we see that they were unable to enter because of unbelief.

 

Introduction

One of the lost privileges in the modern church that has tried to be recaptured by groups like the Promise Keepers is the idea of spiritual accountability.  I used the word privilege on purpose.  I also said that it was a lost privilege.  God never intended human beings to be alone.  Being a hermit or a loner is not God’s intention and furthermore being a Christian and being alone is not God’s design either.  God has created us to need one another.   None of us can do it all.  There are things that I can do well that you can’t do.  There are things that each of you can do well that I can not do.  And all of these things are very important. 

 

When God placed Adam in the Garden of Eden he had the privilege of the presence of God every day in his life.  But God said that it was not good that Adam was alone and He formed Eve and gave her to Adam as a companion.  They were told to be fruitful and multiply and fill the earth.  What were they to fill the earth with?  More people.   Why?  Because people need people.  God has placed within each person the need and desire for relationship and companionship. 

I like to be around people.  If Dani and the kids go somewhere and leave me at home by myself I am not real happy.  I like them around me and I don’t like them away from me.  I like being around all of you at church.  Sunday is my favorite day of the week and I enjoy being here and fellowshipping with all of you.  Is that because I am special?  No, it’s because that is how God has created each of us. 

 

Some of the most wonderful music and poetry and writings ever penned have been written about relationships between people.  But something has happened.  Christianity, at least modern American Christianity, has ignored this need.  Many have embraced the fast food version of church where you walk into a massive building and sing alone, pray alone, listen to a sermon alone, and then walk out the door back into the world alone.  It’s a “me and Jesus” attitude that is destructive to true biblical Christianity. It is a “fast food” approach to Christianity that is just not biblical.    

 

I have a friend that while in seminary was on staff at a very large church in Kansas City.  They had literally several thousand people in their worship services on Saturday and Sunday.  The pastor was invited to speak all over because of the success the church had experienced.  But my friend began to see some problems and the biggest one was the lack of accountability and fellowship among the church members.  People could walk in and no one would have a clue who they were and people could leave and never come back and no one would know it.  People could come to church and be living a debauched lifestyle and the church leaders would not even know who they were. 

 

This can lead to some major problems.  Even in the mid 20^th Century this was a problem.  Martin Lloyd Jones, pastor of the famed Westminster Chapel in London struggled with how to get his growing church membership to fellowship with one another.  He wrote to his daughter that he was not sure that he could call Westminster a church but rather felt like it was more of a preaching station or an evangelistic centre.  The Doctor recognized the problem of individual Christianity that ignored the need for fellowship. 

 

Today many are trying to solve the problem by what is called small group ministries.  They have a big church meeting and then split up into groups in another meeting for fellowship.  But it seldom works because it is unnatural.  So many have the attitude of “lone ranger” Christian that they see no need for fellowship and accountability.  They think they can handle everything on their own.  But I want you to think about how the early church was set up.  Listen to Acts 2:42-47 and pay attention to the plural pronouns.

They were continually devoting themselves to the apostles' teaching and to fellowship, to the breaking of bread and to prayer. (Who were these people?  They were the people converted in Peter’s sermon on the Day of Pentecost.)
⁴³ Everyone kept feeling a sense of awe; and many wonders and signs were taking place through the apostles. ⁴⁴ And all those who had believed were together and had all things in common; ⁴⁵ and they began selling their property and possessions and were sharing them with all, as anyone might have need. ⁴⁶ Day by day continuing with one mind in the temple, and breaking bread from house to house, they were taking their meals together with gladness and sincerity of heart, ⁴⁷ praising God and having favor with all the people. And the Lord was adding to their number day by day those who were being saved.

 

Those in the early church recognized their need for one another.  Another great example of this is in Romans 1.  Paul desired to come to Rome and visit the church there not just for their spiritual benefit but for his.  Listen to Romans 1:9-12.

⁹ For God, whom I serve in my spirit in the preaching of the gospel of His Son, is my witness as to how unceasingly I make mention of you, ¹⁰ always in my prayers making request, if perhaps now at last by the will of God I may succeed in coming to you. ¹¹ For I long to see you so that I may impart some spiritual gift to you, that you may be established ; ¹² that is, that I may be encouraged together with you while among you, each of us by the other's faith, both yours and mine.

 

The great apostle to the Gentiles recognized his own need to be encouraged by the ones he wanted to go encourage.  He recognized that not only could he benefit this church in Rome but this church in Rome could benefit him spiritually.   

 

I say all of this to insist to you this morning that we need one another.  The minute we say that it is just me and Jesus we have put ourselves in great spiritual danger.  I remember a praise chorus that was very popular a while back and some of you may remember it.  The title is “All that I need is You Jesus.”  The words go like this. 

All that I need is you Jesus, all that I need is You.  From early in the morning, till late at night.  All that I need is You.” 

 

I am sure the person that wrote that little chorus did not intend to convey the message that it sends.  Is Jesus all that we need?  Or do we also need the other two members of the Holy Trinity?  Do we really not need the Father or the Holy Spirit?  Do we really not need other believers?  Of course we need the Father, the Holy Spirit, and we need other believers.

 

Over the past two weeks we have been looking at the dangers of unbelief.  Let me remind you as verses 15-19 tell us that Moses lost his opportunity to enter the promised land and so did all of those except two who came out of Egyptian bondage. Look at verses 15-19.

15 As it is said, “Today, if you hear his voice, do not harden your hearts as in the rebellion.”  16 For who were those who heard and yet rebelled? Was it not all those who left Egypt led by Moses? 17 And with whom was he provoked for forty years? Was it not with those who sinned, whose bodies fell in the wilderness? 18 And to whom did he swear that they would not enter his rest, but to those who were disobedient? 19 So we see that they were unable to enter because of unbelief.

 

We have looked at two of four ways we can inoculate ourselves against the sin of unbelief.  For the false Christian the trials that accompany the Christian life are overwhelming and will cause them to fall.  For the true Christian unbelief can lead to the loss of rewards just like Moses lost his opportunity to enter the Promised Land.  Two weeks ago we saw that in order to inoculate ourselves against unbelief we must remained focused on the Lord Jesus Christ.  Look at verse 1.

Therefore, holy brothers, you who share in a heavenly calling, consider Jesus, the apostle and high priest of our confession

To take our eyes off our savior and put them on our circumstance is the first step in falling into unbelief.  Last week we saw that we are to take constant careful inventory of our hearts to make sure that we do not have an evil unbelieving heart that falls away from the Lord.  Look at verse 12. 

Take care, brothers, lest there be in any of you an evil, unbelieving heart, leading you to fall away from the living God.

 

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This morning from our text I want you to see the final two of four ways we can inoculate ourselves from the danger of unbelief.   This morning we will see that: 

3.  The third way we can inoculate ourselves from the danger of unbelief is by encouraging others and being encouraged by others. (13)

 

4.  The forth way we can inoculate ourselves from he danger of unbelief is by perseverance in the face of difficulty.  (14) 

 

Purpose

My prayer for you this morning is that you will both hear and heed these words and appropriate them into your lives so that you do not fall away into unbelief in a time of testing or if you are at present living in the condition of unbelief that the Lord will use His Word proclaimed to draw you back to Himself and strengthen your faith.  And that you will take full advantage of the benefits of Christian fellowship and accountability.

 

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So look with me at these two of four ways we can inoculate ourselves from the danger of unbelief.

 

3.  The third way we can inoculate ourselves from the danger of unbelief is by encouraging others and being encouraged by others.

Look at verse 13.

13 But exhort one another every day, as long as it is called “today,” that none of you may be hardened by the deceitfulness of sin.

 

Last week we looked at the dangers of any of us having an unbelieving, evil heart that falls away from the living God.  That was rather individualistic.  We were to examine our own hearts in light of the Scripture to make sure that we have had a heart change.  I can’t do that for you.  You can’t do that for me.  But now the writer switches gears in his exhortation from individual reflection to community responsibility.

 

Notice verse 13.  But exhort one another every day

In these six words the writer gives us a lot of information.  The verb exhort is much more complex than the English rendering states.  It is a 2^nd person plural and for those of you who understand southern English you know that means ya’ll.  Specifically it means all ya’ll.  So all of us are told we are to do something here.  The verb “exhort” in the text is a present, active, imperative verb.  Just like last week with our main verb, take care, we are to do this because it is a command, we are to do it ourselves, and we are to do it now and constantly.  What are we to do now and constantly in order to obey Scripture? 

 

We are to exhort.  But what does it mean to exhort?  The Greek word is the word parakaleo.  It is the same word the Lord Jesus used to describe the Holy Spirit when He told the disciples He would send them another helper.  Used in our context it means to encourage, to motivate, to help but also to warn and reprove.  And because this is a command from Scripture all of you and me are spiritually responsible to God and personally accountable to each other to make sure that we do this. 

 

So how often are we to do this?  Is there just a set up time where we meet for this?  Can we do it when we see each other on Sunday?  Look at the text again.

But exhort one another every day

This could mean that these early believers met everyday for worship and mutual edification.  I am sure if we were experiencing intense persecution we would find a way to get together daily for prayer and exhortation.  In our day we can be creative in keeping this command.  We can send an email, or make a phone call, or even drop by to visit someone.  Maybe even a letter in the mail would be sufficient.  The point is it is personal contact. 

 

What is obvious here in the text that most 21^st century Americans will miss is the fact that these early Christians knew each other very well.  They spent time together because often the church was the only family that they had.  As a matter of fact few of us have extended family that lives in this immediate area.  Most of our families live away from here and require some travel.  The reason these early Christians needed the church to be their family is because many of their families had probably disowned them for becoming Christians. 

 

Scripture calls the church the household or family of God.  Even in churches that show very little love toward each other and are not very close, in times of trial will come together to minister to one another.  A loved one of a church member may die and the church will come together to minister to that person.  The reason for this is because the Holy Spirit who lives within us as believers gives us this new found care and affection for our Christian brothers and sisters.  But this is a small part of what the writer is talking about.

 

In the context of the passage the writer is warning against the sin of unbelief.  He is warning against the great danger of spiritual apostasy.  So the word exhort here in the text will take on different definitions for different situations.  A brother or sister in Christ who loses a loved one will need a different exhortation than one falling into unbelief.  A brother of sister in Christ that is falling into unbelief will need some major warning and reproof.  This is a part of church discipline.

 

Here at Grace Fellowship we are committed to biblical church discipline.  Our Lord Jesus gave us the command for discipline within the church and even told us how to do it in Matthew chapter 18.  Paul the Apostle told the Corinthian church how to handle a man living in outright blatant sin who called himself a Christian in 1 Corinthians 5.  The Corinthians did what Paul told them to do and the man repented and was restored.  We read about that in 2 Corinthians. 

 

You need to understand that there are two kinds of church discipline.  The one most people think of first is called corrective church discipline.  That is what happens in Matthew 18 where a fellow believer is approached by another believer because of sin.  If there is a refusal of repentance then they are again approached by that same believer and one or two people as witnesses.  Refusal to repent then means they are brought before the church and if they still refuse to repent they are then put out of the fellowship.  The seriousness of the sin will dictate the length of time for the process.  That is corrective church discipline.  This is what you don’t want to have to do too much of.  This is what the Apostle Paul spoke of in Galatians 6:1-2. Paul says:

 Brethren, even if anyone is caught in any trespass, you who are spiritual, restore such a one in a spirit of gentleness; each one looking to yourself, so that you too will not be tempted. ² Bear one another's burdens, and thereby fulfill the law of Christ.

 

The more pleasurable form of church discipline, what I personally prefer is called formative church discipline.  This is the teaching ministry of the church.  That is what parents do in what many of us call “teaching moments.”  The church needs to know God’s Word and by knowing God’s Word you will know what God expects from you thus avoiding corrective church discipline for the most part. 

 

But I am not the only one who is supposed to teach and exhort.  Remember our verb?  Exhort means that all of us are involved in this teaching or formative church discipline.  We are urging one another on to walk in a manner that pleases the Lord.  We are urging one another on to life and faith.  We are there to help a brother or sister who is falling spiritually to stand back up.  This is done with familial love and care and at times with the attitude of a father or mother or brother or sister. Timothy had a lot of church discipline to do in Ephesus when Paul sent him there to pastor that church.  But Paul also tells him how to handle certain situations.  Listen to 1 Timothy 5:1-2.

Do not sharply rebuke an older man, but rather appeal to him as a father, to the younger men as brothers, ² the older women as mothers, and the younger women as sisters, in all purity.

 

Let me warn you though this morning.  Even though it my be done in love and according to Scripture corrective church discipline is shunned by much of the church and definitely by the world.  The church for the most part in America will allow a Christian to fully apostasize making no effort at all to bring them back into the fold.  They will allow all kinds of things to happen to avoid the uncomfortableness of the care and love required for church discipline.  They will call church discipline unloving and mean when in fact the total opposite is true. 

 

If unbelief leads to apostasy and apostasy to spiritual death then why would you allow a fellow believer to fall without trying to help them up?  That would be like two of us walking along and you fall off a bridge and I say, “Well, you need help but I know that you probably wanted to fall off that bridge and it would be unloving for me to help pull you back up so you enjoy those rushing waters.”  To refuse discipline is to really show a lack of love and compassion for your brothers and sisters in Christ.  It would be like letting your child play with a rattlesnake.  They are having a good time so why disturb them. 

 

But let me ask you, how urgent is this discipline or this exhortation?  Do we need to approach this with a sense of urgency or can we just sit back and take it easy?  Look at verse 13 again.         

13 But exhort one another every day, as long as it is called “today,”

Remember verse 7 and 8?  Look at those verses.

Therefore, as the Holy Spirit says, “Today, if you hear his voice, 8 do not harden your hearts as in the rebellion

Today is the sign of urgency.  Do it now while there is opportunity.  We are not promised tomorrow and yesterday is history so when we see a brother or sister in need of encouragement we do so now because now is all that we have.  Today’s exhortation may be all that we have to rescue an erring brother or sister. Why?  Look at verse 13 again.  

13 But exhort one another every day, as long as it is called “today,” that none of you may be hardened by the deceitfulness of sin.

There is the ever present danger that this could happen to any of us.  None of you and certainly not I am immune from my heart that hears God’s voice through His Word today to be so hard tomorrow that I become beyond the reach of my brothers and sisters in Christ exhorting me to continue in the faith. 

 

The Christian left alone is in grave danger.  There is no other way to describe it.  Sin is so pervasive that it will literally suck the spiritual life right out of you.  It will blind you to the truth.  Sin WILL KILL YOU! 

 

I want you to pay very close attention to the last four words of verse 13.  I seldom tell you to underline anything in your Bible but in all honesty we need to write these words on our foreheads so that every time we look in a mirror we see them.  It is that important.  What are these words?  the deceitfulness of sin

 

Sin will quickly deceive you.  “Oh, its not so bad what I am doing.  It won’t hurt anyone.  It’s just me that knows about it.  I can handle this.”  But this is the deceitfulness of sin. This is the fraudulence of sin.   The truth is you can’t handle sin it will handle you.  Sin masquerades itself as harmless when in fact it is more deadly to the believer than the most poisonous snake.  Sin will destroy you, your family, your children, and anything or anyone you come into contact with.  Sin can not be played with. 

 

As a believer called to exhort fellow believers away from sin and toward Christ we need to be aware of the symptoms of someone being hardened by the deceitfulness of sin are.  What can we look for? 

 

I think the most obvious is someone’s withdrawal from fellowship.  If sin is deceiving a Christian you can bet that being involved with other Christians is the last thing they want to do.  There usually will be an unwillingness to listen to godly counsel.  Counsel will then come from their own self will or from unbelievers.  And when you confront sin like this, one of the first hard lessons you will learn is that this person who is a believer will no longer think like a believer.  You can say to them, “This is wrong, stop it!” and they will refuse.  They love their sin more than their Lord at that time and when someone is deceived to that point there is not much you can do except start the process of church discipline with hopes they will listen to others and ultimately the Lord. But we must do so understanding that true repentance and godly sorrow only come from the Lord.  Listen to 2 Timothy 2:24-26.

²⁴ The Lord's bond-servant must not be quarrelsome, but be kind to all, able to teach, patient when wronged, ²⁵ with gentleness correcting those who are in opposition, if perhaps God may grant them repentance leading to the knowledge of the truth, ²⁶ and they may come to their senses and escape from the snare of the devil, having been held captive by him to do his will.

 

So we need one another in order to avoid the deceitfulness, the fraudulence of sin. Specifically, in our context this morning, we are to encourage one another not to fall into the sin of unbelief. But this verse will apply itself to other sins as well.   And if necessary we are to follow the instructions of our Lord give to us in Matthew 18 in order to restore a wayward sheep back to the fold. 

 

The Lord taught the joy of restoration in Luke 15.  Listen as I read.

³ So He told them this parable, saying, ⁴ "What man among you, if he has a hundred sheep and has lost one of them, does not leave the ninety-nine in the open pasture and go after the one which is lost until he finds it? ⁵ "When he has found it, he lays it on his shoulders, rejoicing. ⁶ "And when he comes home, he calls together his friends and his neighbors, saying to them, 'Rejoice with me, for I have found my sheep which was lost!' ⁷ "I tell you that in the same way, there will be more joy in heaven over one sinner who repents than over ninety-nine righteous persons who need no repentance.

 

To not warn and encourage the believers around you to press on or to avoid the deceitfulness of sin is to show them that you truly do not love them the way you are supposed to.  The Lord Jesus said in John 13:35 that people would know that we were His disciples if we have love for one another.  And among the many ways we display that love is through the exhortation to continue in the faith and avoid sin. 

 

This morning we have seen that the third way we can inoculate ourselves from the danger of unbelief is to encourage and be encouraging others and being encouraged by others.      

 

Last I want you to see: 

4.  The forth way we can inoculate ourselves from he danger of unbelief is by perseverance in the face of difficulty.   

Finally look at verse 14. 

14 For we share in Christ, if indeed we hold our original confidence firm to the end.

 

There has been a build up to this point so far in Hebrews.  The writer has told us of the supremacy of Christ in chapter one and then in Hebrews 2:1 he warns:

Therefore we must pay much closer attention to what we have heard, lest we drift away from it.

 

Chapter 2 tells us that we are to look to Christ in the midst of difficulty and trials in order to maintain faith.  Chapter three tells us of the danger of falling into unbelief and that we are to constantly look to and consider Christ.  Then we have this warning in Hebrews 3:6.

And we are his house if indeed we hold fast our confidence and our boasting in our hope.

 

Then we have the warning of verse 12 and the command of verse 13.  The writer then lays down another admonition to persevere.  Chapter two we are to pay much closer attention to what we have heard.  Chapter 3 and verse 6 we are to hold fast our confidence.  Verse 12 we are to constantly take spiritual inventory of our hearts and verse 13 we are to exhort one another to keep from the danger of being hardened by the deceitfulness of sin.  We have all of these commands in order to make sure that we are indeed in the faith.

 

Paul told the Corinthians in 1 Corinthians 15:1-11 the importance of holding fast their original confession.  This confession is the truth of the Gospel.  And by the way, all learning that is true learning from Scripture will further cement these truths into our lives.  Listen to what Paul said:

Now I make known to you, brethren, the gospel which I preached to you, which also you received, in which also you stand, ² by which also you are saved, if you hold fast the word which I preached to you, unless you believed in vain. (Then he explains the Gospel)
³ For I delivered to you as of first importance what I also received, that Christ died for our sins according to the Scriptures, ⁴ and that He was buried, and that He was raised on the third day according to the Scriptures, ⁵ and that He appeared to Cephas, then to the twelve. ⁶ After that He appeared to more than five hundred brethren at one time, most of whom remain until now, but some have fallen asleep; ⁷ then He appeared to James , then to all the apostles; ⁸ and last of all, as to one untimely born, He appeared to me also. ⁹ For I am the least of the apostles, and not fit to be called an apostle, because I persecuted the church of God. ¹⁰ But by the grace of God I am what I am, and His grace toward me did not prove vain; but I labored even more than all of them, yet not I, but the grace of God with me. ¹¹ Whether then it was I or they, so we preach and so you believed.

 

Now the writer of Hebrews caps off his encouragement to these believers to stay the course and to hold firmly to the end.  Look at verse 14.

14 For we share in Christ, if indeed we hold our original confidence firm to the end.

The verbs in this text clue us in to some very important information.  The verb translated here “share in” is a perfect verb.  Perfect verbs in Greek speak of past action with results that carry on into the future.  So what we need to understand is those who have indeed become sharers of Christ will indeed persevere holding their confession to the end.  False converts will never hold onto to the end. 

 

DA Carson in his book Exegetical Fallacies writing on this verse says this:

“It follows from this verse that although perseverance is mandated, it is also the evidence of what has taken place in the past.  Put another way, perseverance becomes one of the essential ingredients of what it means to be a Christian, of what a partaker of Christ is and does.  If persevering shows we have (already) come to share in Christ, it can only be because sharing in Christ has perseverance for its inevitable fruit.”

 

Conclusion

In conclusion, we have seen over the past three weeks four ways that we can inoculate ourselves from the danger of unbelief.  First we must have the right focus and our focus is constantly and consistently not our circumstances but to the Lord of our circumstances, the Lord Jesus Christ.  Second we are to take constant careful spiritual inventory of our hearts to make sure that they are not evil and unbelieving.  Third as we saw today, we are to encourage one another and be encouraged by our brothers and sisters in Christ to avoid being hardened by the deceitfulness of sin.  Finally we are to hold fast our original confidence to the end. 

 

What we have here is three ingredients to accomplish the goal and that is perseverance and falling into unbelief.  We are to look to Christ continually as our Lord and Savior. We are to look at our own hearts to make sure they have indeed been changed. And third we need our brothers and sisters in Christ to help us and to remind us to do these things. 

 

This is a rope of three chords.  We have Christ, ourselves, and our church family in order to continue in the faith.  The writer of Hebrews will touch on this later in chapter 10.  But listen to Hebrews 10:23-25. 

²³ Let us hold fast the confession of our hope without wavering, for He who promised is faithful; ²⁴ and let us consider how to stimulate one another to love and good deeds, ²⁵ not forsaking our own assembling together, as is the habit of some, but encouraging one another; and all the more as you see the day drawing near.

 

But I want to leave you with a warning.  You may be in a state this morning spiritually that puts you in great danger.  Your faith may be wavering and about to collapse under the weight of the trial you are enduring.  You may be trying to get through this trial by your own strength and by human effort and means.  But how quickly we can fall.  How quickly we can move away from the Lord and start being the captain of our own ship.  That is why we have the final plea or warning in verse 15.  Look at verse 15.

15 As it is said, “Today, if you hear his voice, do not harden your hearts as in the rebellion.” 

The danger is there for all of us.  No matter how much you have seen or heard from the Lord the danger for all of us is to harden our own sin prone hearts and no longer hear and heed the Word of God which is our only true guide.  Remember the Israelites?  Look at verses 16-19 one last time with me. 

16 For who were those who heard and yet rebelled? Was it not all those who left Egypt led by Moses? 17 And with whom was he provoked for forty years? Was it not with those who sinned, whose bodies fell in the wilderness? 18 And to whom did he swear that they would not enter his rest, but to those who were disobedient? 19 So we see that they were unable to enter because of unbelief.

 

 Let’s pray.