INTRODUCTION
Hebrews 3:12
Beware, brethren, lest there be in any of you an evil heart of unbelief in departing from the living God; (NKJV)
Beware, brethren, lest there be in any of you an evil heart of unbelief in departing from the living God; (NKJV)
SCRIPTURE
Hebrews 3:1
Therefore, holy brethren, partakers of the heavenly calling, consider the Apostle and High Priest of our confession, Christ Jesus, (NKJV)
Colossians 3:1-2
If then you were raised with Christ, seek those things which are above, where Christ is, sitting at the right hand of God. 2 Set your mind on things above, not on things on the earth. (NKJV)
Hebrews 12:2
looking unto Jesus, the author and finisher of our faith, who for the joy that was set before Him endured the cross, despising the shame, and has sat down at the right hand of the throne of God. (NKJV)
Hebrews 3:2
who was faithful to Him who appointed Him, as Moses also was faithful in all His house. (NKJV)
Hebrews 3:3
For this One has been counted worthy of more glory than Moses, inasmuch as He who built the house has more honor than the house. (NKJV)
Hebrews 3:4-5
For every house is built by someone, but He who built all things is God. 5 And Moses indeed was faithful in all His house as a servant, for a testimony of those things which would be spoken afterward, (NKJV)
Hebrews 3:6
but Christ as a Son over His own house, whose house we are… (NKJV)
Hebrews 3:6
…if we hold fast the confidence and the rejoicing of the hope firm to the end. (NKJV)
Hebrews 10:25
not forsaking the assembling of ourselves together, as is the manner of some, but exhorting one another, and so much the more as you see the Day approaching. (NKJV)
1 John 2:19
They went out from us, but they were not of us; for if they had been of us, they would have continued with us; but they went out that they might be made manifest, that none of them were of us. (NKJV)
Hebrews 3:6
but Christ as a Son over His own house, whose house we are if we hold fast the confidence and the rejoicing of the hope firm to the end. (NKJV)
Hebrews 3:14
For we have become partakers of Christ if we hold the beginning of our confidence steadfast to the end, (NKJV)
Therefore, holy brethren, partakers of the heavenly calling, consider the Apostle and High Priest of our confession, Christ Jesus, (NKJV)
Colossians 3:1-2
If then you were raised with Christ, seek those things which are above, where Christ is, sitting at the right hand of God. 2 Set your mind on things above, not on things on the earth. (NKJV)
Hebrews 12:2
looking unto Jesus, the author and finisher of our faith, who for the joy that was set before Him endured the cross, despising the shame, and has sat down at the right hand of the throne of God. (NKJV)
Hebrews 3:2
who was faithful to Him who appointed Him, as Moses also was faithful in all His house. (NKJV)
Hebrews 3:3
For this One has been counted worthy of more glory than Moses, inasmuch as He who built the house has more honor than the house. (NKJV)
Hebrews 3:4-5
For every house is built by someone, but He who built all things is God. 5 And Moses indeed was faithful in all His house as a servant, for a testimony of those things which would be spoken afterward, (NKJV)
Hebrews 3:6
but Christ as a Son over His own house, whose house we are… (NKJV)
Hebrews 3:6
…if we hold fast the confidence and the rejoicing of the hope firm to the end. (NKJV)
Hebrews 10:25
not forsaking the assembling of ourselves together, as is the manner of some, but exhorting one another, and so much the more as you see the Day approaching. (NKJV)
1 John 2:19
They went out from us, but they were not of us; for if they had been of us, they would have continued with us; but they went out that they might be made manifest, that none of them were of us. (NKJV)
Hebrews 3:6
but Christ as a Son over His own house, whose house we are if we hold fast the confidence and the rejoicing of the hope firm to the end. (NKJV)
Hebrews 3:14
For we have become partakers of Christ if we hold the beginning of our confidence steadfast to the end, (NKJV)
THE WARNING OF UNBELIEF
Hebrews 3:7-9
Therefore, as the Holy Spirit says:
“Today, if you will hear His voice,
8 Do not harden your hearts as in the rebellion, In the day of trial in the wilderness,
9 Where your fathers tested Me, tried Me,
And saw My works forty years. (NKJV)
Hebrews 3:10-11
Therefore I was angry with that generation,
And said, ‘They always go astray in their heart, And they have not known My ways.’
11 So I swore in My wrath, ‘They shall not enter My rest.’ ” (NKJV)
Hebrews 3:12
Beware, brethren, lest there be in any of you an evil heart of unbelief in departing from the living God; (NKJV)
Hebrews 3:13-15
but exhort one another daily, while it is called “Today,” lest any of you be hardened through the deceitfulness of sin. 14 For we have become partakers of Christ if we hold the beginning of our confidence steadfast to the end, 15 while it is said: “Today, if you will hear His voice, Do not harden your hearts as in the rebellion.” (NKJV)
Therefore, as the Holy Spirit says:
“Today, if you will hear His voice,
8 Do not harden your hearts as in the rebellion, In the day of trial in the wilderness,
9 Where your fathers tested Me, tried Me,
And saw My works forty years. (NKJV)
Hebrews 3:10-11
Therefore I was angry with that generation,
And said, ‘They always go astray in their heart, And they have not known My ways.’
11 So I swore in My wrath, ‘They shall not enter My rest.’ ” (NKJV)
Hebrews 3:12
Beware, brethren, lest there be in any of you an evil heart of unbelief in departing from the living God; (NKJV)
Hebrews 3:13-15
but exhort one another daily, while it is called “Today,” lest any of you be hardened through the deceitfulness of sin. 14 For we have become partakers of Christ if we hold the beginning of our confidence steadfast to the end, 15 while it is said: “Today, if you will hear His voice, Do not harden your hearts as in the rebellion.” (NKJV)
CONCLUSION
Hebrews 3:17-19
Now with whom was He angry forty years? Was it not with those who sinned, whose corpses fell in the wilderness? 18 And to whom did He swear that they would not enter His rest, but to those who did not obey? 19 So we see that they could not enter in because of unbelief. (NKJV)
Now with whom was He angry forty years? Was it not with those who sinned, whose corpses fell in the wilderness? 18 And to whom did He swear that they would not enter His rest, but to those who did not obey? 19 So we see that they could not enter in because of unbelief. (NKJV)