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Be Faithful

7 Therefore, as athe Holy Spirit says:
b“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.
10 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.’ ”
12 Beware, brethren, lest there be in any of you an evil heart of unbelief in departing from the living God;
13 but1 exhort one another daily, while it is called “Today,” lest any of you be hardened through the deceitfulness of sin.  
Commentaries:
Jamieson, Fausset, and Brown
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Hebrews 3:7-11

Exhortation from Psalms 95:7-11, not through unbelief to lose participation in the spiritual house. Seeing that we are the house of God if we hold fast our confidence . . . (Hebrews 3:6). Jesus is "faithful," be not ye unfaithful (Hebrews 3:2, Hebrews 3:12). The sentence beginning with "wherefore," interrupted by the parenthesis confirming the argument from Psalms 95:7-11, is completed at Hebrews 3:12, "Take heed," etc.

Holy Ghost saith—by the inspired Psalmist; so that the words of the latter are the words of God Himself.

To-day—at length; in David's day, as contrasted with the days of Moses in the wilderness, and the whole time since then, during which they had been rebellious against God's voice; as for instance, in the wilderness (Hebrews 3:8). The Psalm, each fresh time when used in public worship, by "to-day," will mean the particular day when it was, or is, used.

hear—obediently.

his voice—of grace.


 
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