Consider Jesus
Jesus is Greater
Hebrews 3:7–11
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 ancestors tested me, tried me, and saw my works 10 for forty years. Therefore I was provoked to anger with that generation and said, “They always go astray in their hearts, and they have not known my ways.” 11 So I swore in my anger, “They will not enter my rest.”,
Psalm 95:7–11
7 For he is our God, and we are the people of his pasture, the sheep under his care., Today, if you hear his voice: 8 Do not harden your hearts as at Meribah, as on that day at Massah in the wilderness 9 where your ancestors tested me; they tried me, though they had seen what I did. 10 For forty years I was disgusted with that generation; I said, “They are a people whose hearts go astray; they do not know my ways.” 11 So I swore in my anger, “They will not enter my rest.”
Exodus 17:2
2 So the people complained to Moses, “Give us water to drink.” “Why are you complaining to me?” Moses replied to them. “Why are you testing the LORD?”
“Not that I am (I think) in much danger of ceasing to believe in God. The real danger is of coming to believe such dreadful things about Him. The conclusion I dread is not ‘So there’s no God after all,’ but ‘So this is what God’s really like. Deceive yourself no longer.” - C.S. Lewis (A Grief Observed)
Faith is
The Gospel
Hebrews 3:7–8
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,
Hebrews 1:2
2 In these last days, he has spoken to us by his Son. God has appointed him heir of all things and made the universe, through him.
Hebrews 3:12–19
12 Watch out, brothers and sisters, so that there won’t be in any of you an evil, unbelieving heart that turns away from the living God. 13 But encourage each other daily, while it is still called today, so that none of you is hardened by sin’s deception. 14 For we have become participants in Christ if we hold firmly until the end the reality that we had at the start. 15 As it is said: Today, if you hear his voice, do not harden your hearts as in the rebellion., 16 For who heard and rebelled? Wasn’t it all who came out of Egypt under Moses? 17 With whom was God angry for forty years? Wasn’t it with those who sinned, whose bodies fell in the wilderness? 18 And to whom did he swear that they would not enter his rest, if not to those who disobeyed? 19 So we see that they were unable to enter because of unbelief.
The root of sin is
Hebrews 3:13 (emphasis added)
13 But encourage each other daily, while it is still called today, so that none of you is hardened by sin’s deception.
Challenging one another to find everyday opportunities to pursue and point to Jesus (NRC Mission Statement)
Hebrews 3:14
14 For we have become participants in Christ if we hold firmly until the end the reality that we had at the start.
Hebrews 3:16–18
16 For who heard and rebelled? Wasn’t it all who came out of Egypt under Moses? 17 With whom was God angry for forty years? Wasn’t it with those who sinned, whose bodies fell in the wilderness? 18 And to whom did he swear that they would not enter his rest, if not to those who disobeyed?
Hebrews 3:19
19 So we see that they were unable to enter because of unbelief.
Challenge:
*Look to God’s Word*
Love God’s People
*Live Sent*
This week I will:
Pursue Jesus by:
Point to Jesus by:
Memorize: Hebrews 3:13
Next Sunday: Hebrews 4