Guard your potentiality in reality
Hebrews 3:7-15
How do you know you hear his voice? You do not harden your heart. How do you know you do not harden your heart? You exhort yourself and any
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Published June 30th, 2022
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For those who harden their hearts against God wrath comes, but for those who hear God, Jesus is our portion.
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Hebrews 3:7-15
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Therefore, as the Holy Spirit says, b “Today, if you hear his voice,
do not harden your hearts as in the rebellion,
on the day of testing in the wilderness,
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where your fathers put me to the test
and saw my works for c forty years.
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Therefore I was provoked with that generation,
and said, ‘They always go astray in their heart;
they have not known my ways.’
d As I swore in my wrath,
‘They shall not enter my rest.’”
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Take care, brothers,
lest there be in any of you an evil, unbelieving heart,
leading you to fall away from e the living God.
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But f exhort one another every day,
as long as it is called “today,”
that none of you may be hardened by g the deceitfulness of sin.
For we have come to share in Christ,
h if indeed we hold our original confidence firm to the end.
As it is said, b “Today, if you hear his voice,
do not harden your hearts as in the rebellion.”
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works being associated with wrath. It is an adulterous generation that looks for a sign. And adulterous generations also receive them.
a parallel between 7-8 and 9-10. It is an interesting parallel, suggesting equitable results of wrath matching the preceding parallel actions of mutiny.
Not sold on the Ac/Pur but it does the best job of reflecting the potentiality behind "lest".
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