PERFECT PEACE

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

So, as the Holy Spirit says:

“Today, if you hear his voice,
    do not harden your hearts
as you did in the rebellion,
    during the time of testing in the wilderness,
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.