Today’s post entitled PERFECT PEACE, was inspired by the reading of God’s Word from the book of Hebrews 3:7-19 (NIV)
we must pay careful attention
so that we do not
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like the generation in the desert
whose hearts were always
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for God declared an oath in his anger
” They shall never enter my rest”
let us
see to it
dear brothers and sisters
that we
do not
put God to the test
but encourage one another
daily
as long as it is called
today
that none of us
may be hardened
by sin’s deceitfulness
and
decay
for we have come
to share in Christ
if we hold firmly
to
The End
the confidence
we had at first
when the
ministry
of Christ
began
His Spirit judges the heart
nothing
in all creation
is hidden
from
God’s sight
everything is
uncovered
and laid
b a r e
before
The Cross
let us make
every effort
to get
it
right
So not one
f
a
l
l
s
by following an example of disobedience
that not one
at Heaven’s Gate
is turned away
and ALL will enter
into God’s
Perfect Peace
when we stand before
The King
on
Judgement Day
Hebrews 3:7-19 New International Version (NIV)
Warning Against Unbelief
7 So, as the Holy Spirit says:
“Today, if you hear his voice,
8 do not harden your hearts
as you did in the rebellion,
during the time of testing in the wilderness,
9 where your ancestors tested and tried me,
though for forty years they saw what I did.
10 That is why I was angry with that generation;
I said, ‘Their hearts are always going astray,
and they have not known my ways.’
11 So I declared on oath in my anger,
‘They shall never enter my rest.’ ”[a]
12 See to it, brothers and sisters, that none of you has a sinful, unbelieving heart that turns away from the living God. 13 But encourage one another daily, as long as it is called “Today,” so that none of you may be hardened by sin’s deceitfulness. 14 We have come to share in Christ, if indeed we hold our original conviction firmly to the very end. 15 As has just been said:
“Today, if you hear his voice,
do not harden your hearts
as you did in the rebellion.”[b]
16 Who were they who heard and rebelled? Were they not all those Moses led out of Egypt? 17 And with whom was he angry for forty years? Was it not with those who sinned, whose bodies perished in the wilderness? 18 And to whom did God swear that they would never enter his rest if not to those who disobeyed? 19 So we see that they were not able to enter, because of their unbelief.
What a soft,sweet message. Very compeling yet
attainable.