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2
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- “See to it, brothers, that none of you has a
sinful, unbelieving heart that turns away
from the living God.” (12)
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3
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- “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 desert, where your fathers tested and tried me and for
forty years saw what I did. That is why I was angry with that
generation, and I said, ‘Their hearts are always going astray, and they
have not known my ways.’ So I declared on oath in my anger, ‘They shall
never enter my rest …’”
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4
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- “See to it, brothers, that none of you has a sinful, unbelieving heart
that turns away from the living God. But encourage one another daily, as
long as it is called Today, so that none of you may be hardened by sin’s
deceitfulness. We have come to share in Christ if we hold firmly till
the end the confidence we had at first. As has just been said: ‘Today,
if you hear his voice, do not harden your hearts as you did in the …’”
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5
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- “‘rebellion.’ Who were they who heard and rebelled? Were they not all
those Moses led out of Egypt? And with whom was he angry for forty
years? Was it not with those who sinned, whose bodies fell in the
desert? And to whom did God swear that they would never enter his rest
if not to those who disobeyed? So we see that they were not able to
enter, because of their unbelief.” (NIV)
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6
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- “So, as the Holy Spirit says …”
(3:7)
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7
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- “So, as the Holy Spirit says …”
(3:7)
- “Today …” (3:7, 13, 15; 4:7; 4:7)
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8
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- “Today, if you hear his voice, do not harden your hearts as you did in
the rebellion …” (7-8)
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9
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- 5—Moses sent to Pharoah (staff/serpent)
- 7-11—Ten Plagues
- blood (7); frogs, gnats, flies (8); livestock, boils, hail (9); locust,
darkness (10); first-born (11-12)
- 12—Passover
- 13—Exodus (guided by cloud/pillar of fire)
- 14—Crossing Red Sea
- 15—Sour water turned sweet
- 16—Manna/Quail
- 17—Water from the Rock
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10
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- “And he called the place Massah [testing] and Meribah [quarreling]
because the Israelites quarreled and because they tested the Lord
saying, ‘Is the Lord among us or not?’” (NIV)
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11
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- Before crossing the Red Sea (Ex 14)
- At Marah when water was bitter (Ex 15)
- In wilderness when they lacked food (Ex 16)
- At Rephidim when they lacked water (Ex 17)
- At Sinai because Moses was slow (Ex 32)
- At Taberah because of the Manna (Num 11)
- At Kibroth because of the Quail (Num 11)
- At Kadesh Barnea with spies report (Num 14)
- At Zin because of water (Num 20)
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12
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- “So I declared on oath in my anger, ‘They shall never enter my rest’ …
so we see that they were not able to enter, because of their unbelief.”
(NIV)
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13
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- Do not “be hardened by
sin’s deceitfulness.” (3:13)
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14
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- Do not harden your hearts (4x)
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15
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- Do not harden your hearts
- See to it that none of you has a sinful heart that turns away from the
living God
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16
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- Do not harden your hearts
- See to it that none of you has a sinful heart that turns away from the
living God
- Encourage one another daily
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17
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- “And let us consider how we may spur one another on toward love and good
deeds. Let us not give up meeting together, as some are in the habit of
doing, but let us encourage one another—and all the more as you see the
Day approaching.” (NIV)
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18
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- “They were not able to enter,
because of their unbelief.” (3:19)
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19
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- “We have come to share in Christ if we hold firmly till the end the
confidence we had at first.”
(NIV)
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20
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21
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- “The greatest proof of salvation is the continuance in the Christian
life. The true believer stays with Christ.”
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22
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- “A relapse from Christianity into Judaism would be comparable to the
action of the Israelites when they turned back in their hearts unto
Egypt.”
- “But our fathers refused to obey him [Moses]. Instead, they rejected
him and in their hearts turned back to Egypt.” (Acts 7:39)
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23
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- “See to it, brothers, that none of you has a
sinful, unbelieving heart that turns away
from the living God.” (12)
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Notes
