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Mark Pannell

If you should hear His voice

Hebrews 3:7-11
Mark Pannell • August, 5 2007 • Audio
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As the children of Israel hardened their hearts and did not believe God concerning the promise land. God gives warning to us today. When the Gospel is preached, hear and believe God's testimony concerning His Son the Lord Jesus Christ. Do not hardened your heart through the deceitfulness of sin.

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Let me add my welcome to Winston's
this morning. I'm glad that the Lord providentially
directed you here today. I hope that you'll receive a
blessing from the preaching of the gospel. As I said, my text
will be Hebrews chapter 3. And those of you who are here
all the time know that I preached from this a couple of weeks ago,
and we dealt primarily with one verse here, one of these ifs.
in the scripture in chapter 3 and verse 6. And I told you that that if is
often times preached as a condition for salvation, if we hold fast
the boldness and the confidence in verse 6 there. But it's not
a condition. It's an evidence of those who
are truly looking to Christ alone for all of salvation. It's an
evidence and that's what I told you. I also told you that the
context of these verses that we're going to look at here today
is a warning. And it's a warning to those who
sit under the gospel, who claim to believe that Christ preached
out in the gospel, that Savior who was none other than God the
Son, who came to this earth and took on human flesh and died
that sacrificial death to put away the sin of His people. It's
none other than Him. Those who claim to be resting
all of their salvation in His finished work and that justification
and redemption and all those benefits that He accomplished
there for those sinners that the Father gave Him, those that
He lived and died for. And this context is in a warning
to just those people. And you say, well, it would always
be to those people, because who else is listening to the gospel?
It's always. Whatever is said from this word
is always directed at whoever is sitting under the gospel.
Of course, anybody who hears it, well, those that hear some
semblance of the gospel, some historical truth out in the world,
they're hearing, that's truth. But you haven't really heard
the truth until you understand how God can be just to justify
an ungodly sinner. A sinner who by nature and by
practice deserves nothing but his eternal wrath. How that God
can remain just, true to himself in every attribute of his character,
and yet still justify that sinner. And that can only be accomplished
in one way. And that's by the imputed righteousness of the
Lord Jesus Christ. So this warning is to those resting
in that Christ who have that hope that we talked about. It's
written to Hebrews. This letter is written specifically
to Hebrews. You can look back in the first
chapter. Paul addresses, and I say Paul, as I said, we don't
know that Paul wrote this book. It could have been somebody else.
It sounds a lot like Paul. But he's writing to those Hebrews,
Jews scattered about in this world. If you look at verse 12, you
can see this warning. I promised you a little bit that I was going to
preach a warning, but I'm not going to get to this warning. But I
want to mention this warning in verse 12. He says in verse 12
of Hebrews chapter 3, take heed brethren, that's spiritual brethren,
those that this writer counted his spiritual brethren in the
faith. If you look back at verse 1,
he said, wherefore holy brethren, partakers of the heavenly calling,
consider the apostle and high priest of our calling. So this
warning is to those that this writer considers to be his spiritual
brethren. Take heed, lest there be in any
of you an evil heart of unbelief in departing from the living
God. That's a warning. That's an imperative. Take heed
there. And we'll look at that in another
message. But before we get to that, we
have a strong exhortation in verses 7 through 11 that I wanted
to cover with you this morning. It's a strong exhortation. Let's
read these verses together starting in verse 7. To those who are
of the house of Christ, who are holding the boldness and the
confidence and the boasting of the hope, the absolute certain
expectation of salvation found in Christ alone. This is what
he writes to them in verse 7. Wherefore, as the Holy Ghost
saith, today if you will hear his voice. Now this is the quote
from Psalm 95 that I just read right here. Verse 8, Harden not
your hearts, as in the provocation, in the day of temptation in the
wilderness, when your fathers tempted me, proved me, and saw
my works forty years. Wherefore, I was grieved with
that generation, and said, They do always err in their heart,
and they have not known my ways. So I swear in my wrath, they
shall not enter into my rest. He says here in verse 7, Wherefore,
as the Holy Ghost says, and continues to say, If you should hear his
voice, it says if you will hear his voice here, but this is that
tense of a condition. If you should hear his voice,
or as we will see when we start in the explanation here, when
you have heard his voice. Now, who does the Holy Spirit
always point sinners to? Who does He always direct our
attention to? Who does He point us to to find
our confidence and assurance of standing before God and being
declared just to none other than Christ alone? So, when He's talking
about hearing His voice, He's talking about hearing the voice
of Christ. Not only the voice of the words which he spoke while
he was here on this earth, but the voice of these words that
speak of him. And like Ken said in the message,
every word in here speaks of him. Every word is talking about
some aspect of the person, the offices, and the work of the
Lord Jesus Christ. If you don't see that, then you've
just missed the message of the Scriptures, because it's all
about him. Now, the translators say here,
if you will hear his voice. In other words, the emphasis
is on will you. Won't you? Won't you hear his
voice? But it's not a plea here. The mood, as I said, is subjunctive.
It's if you should hear his voice. It's not in your will or my will
to hear his voice. It's in God's good providence.
You're not here today by accident to hear His voice, the declaration
of a finished salvation, an accomplished work that Christ took care of
there at the cross for every sinner He lived and died for.
You didn't just wander in here by chance. God brought you here
by His good providence. If God should set you down under
the gospel, then and only then will you hear His voice. If the
Spirit of God gives you ears to hear, then and only then will
you hear His voice. The exhortation here is to those
who have heard His voice, the voice of Him who, by His death,
reconciled a people unto God, a multitude of sinners no man
can number, the voice of Him who appeared in these last times
to put away sin by the sacrifice of Himself, of Him who bore the
sins of a multitude in His body on the tree and put those sins
away in a just satisfaction. That voice, it's His voice, that
voice, that voice of a Savior who accomplished all of salvation
by His death alone. That's the voice that sinners
harden their hearts to. That's the voice we have to be
wary not to harden our hearts to. In other words, not to look
away from Him. and finding all of our confidence
and assurance before God in Him and His finished work alone.
Not to find confidence in what God's doing in me. God's enabled
all of us to understand a lot of truth since we've been here,
but I'm not to find confidence in all that God's brought me
to. But to look to that Savior alone who accomplished salvation. Now who in the world has heard
his voice, the voice I'm talking about? Who in this world has
heard the words that rightly testify of this Savior? Well,
it's not those who've heard of a so-called Savior who died for
all men without exception, but wouldn't save or will not save
any sinner until they meet a condition of faith or of reformation or
walking an aisle or praying a prayer. That's not the Savior of this
world. That's not the voice I'm encouraging you to hear today,
nor the one I'm attempting to deliver to you. And it's not
the voice of a so-called Savior who secured are guaranteed the
salvation of a certain number of sinners. I'm not encouraging
you to hear that voice. But it's this voice I'm encouraging
you to hear. The Savior who saved from God's
eternal wrath and who put in God's eternal favor every sinner
God the Father gave Him, every sinner He represented on that
cross, every sinner He lived and died for. The exhortation
here is when you have heard that Word, that voice that you should
not harden your hearts against it. Now, the tense here is continuous. It means that you should continue
not to harden your hearts. Let me give you a couple of examples
of what I'm talking about here. What he's saying here, I believe,
is when you have heard the declaration of the Lord Jesus Christ, how
God can be just and justify ungodly sinners such as we are. When
you've heard that voice, Don't harden your hearts against that.
And if anybody comes in preaching that you need more than the finished
work of Christ, if you need more than the imputed righteousness
of the Lord Jesus Christ, and you explain to him, now you understand
that I believe the only way God is just and justifier is based
on that work, that very righteousness that Christ established by His
obedience unto death. You understand that I'm putting
all of my hope and trust in that Savior who satisfied the law
and justice of God in the name and nature of a multitude of
sinners. And I'm trusting that righteousness that God the Father
imputed, charged to the account of every sinner that He lived
and died for. That's my hope. And you're saying
I need more than that? Y'all know that we were under
just such a confrontation not too long ago right here in this
very audience. And what did we do? What were we supposed to do?
Were we just supposed to ignore it? Were we supposed to consider
what He was telling us in the light of the Scriptures. Yes,
we were to consider it. And what did we do when we considered
it in the light of the Scriptures? And understood exactly that He
was telling us we need a work within to actually make us righteous
before God. What did we do? We rejected Him. We sent Him back in. Because
we are trusting in a righteousness that Christ Himself established,
and that God the Father charged to our account, not one that
the Holy Spirit puts within us in regeneration. So, that was
one confrontation we had. Well, let me give you a more
positive confrontation we had over the last several years.
We had another man come in here, and he preached unto us a doctrine
that was really pretty opposed to a very significant part of
our teaching here. He taught us that justification
didn't take place at the point of faith as we had believed.
It took place at the cross. That God actually justified every
sinner Christ lived and died for there at the cross. And He
rocked us back. Did He not? He rocked me back.
What do we do? Did we just send him packing?
No. We consider what he says in the light of God's testimony.
And that's what we did. And what did we do? We came to
the conclusion that he was right. That we had preached wrongly
the imputation of righteousness at the point of faith and the
justification of sinners at the point of faith. Because God said
that Christ was raised from the dead because of our justification. Now what does that mean? Well,
it means that when Christ was raised from the dead, the sinners
that He lived and died for were already justified. That's all
it could mean. So, what I'm saying here, what I think the writer
here is pointing us to, is when you hear what God's Word has
to say on a subject, any subject, When you understand the clear
teaching of the Scripture, don't harden your hearts against that
clear teaching. Now, you might be hesitant, but
consider what he says in the light of this Word. And check
it out. If it's true, bow to that Word. Don't harden your heart against
the clear teaching of the Scripture. That's what we're going to learn
as we go down through these verses here. As I said, the tense here,
is continuous, continually. In other words, this is something
we're on guard against every time anybody stands in this pulpit. Listen to what they say. But
if they're telling you something that's contrary to what you've
heard, don't harden your heart against it. Check it out by this
Word. Is He telling the truth or not?
I might have been wrong all this time. And I'll find it out by
a study of this Word, a prayerful study of this Word. When you've
heard the voice of Christ and Him crucified, when you've heard
of that salvation conditioned on Christ alone, when you've
heard of the God who is just in dealing with sinners, when
you've heard, you should not harden your heart. Now, sinners won't harden their
heart to a potential Savior, as I said, one who gives them
something to do in salvation. Sinners won't harden their hearts
to that Savior. You and I didn't harden our hearts to that Savior
when we heard of Him, so-called Savior, when we heard of Him
before God brought us to the Gospel. We embraced that Savior. We heartily embraced Him. We
were zealous in our efforts to go about in this world and promote
such a Savior. So sinners don't harden their
hearts to a potential Savior who gives them a condition to
meet. Nor that Savior who entitled them to salvation, but left them
owing a debt to God's law and justice until He works faith
and repentance in them. We embrace that Savior, so-called
Savior. But not now. These are popular,
and they're acceptable to natural men. The hardening, though, that
he's talking about here comes at the revelation of the Savior,
the one Savior, who has already accomplished the salvation of
every sinner he lived and died for. And it's the hardening against
that gospel that is revealing that salvation to all those already
redeemed and already justified. Like Ken said in the Bible study
this morning, are you willing to accept the fact that When
you were wallowing around in your self-righteous religion
before God brought you to the gospel, God had already justified
every sinner that Christ lived and died for. If you embrace
that gospel today, you were already justified then. You didn't know
it. You came to understand it by believing on this Christ set
forth in truth in the gospel. Now, the word of Christ, and
that's what we're listening for, His voice, the word that tells
of Christ and a finished, accomplished salvation. That word, that voice
does two things. One of two things. It either
converts those who hear it and who bow to it, or it hardens
those who refuse to hear it and refuse to bow to it. Paul said
that same thing this way in 2 Corinthians 2 verse 16. He said that the
gospel is unto God a sweet savor of Christ, both in them that
are saved and in them that perish. The gospel, preached out, is
a sweet savor to God in both. To the one, we are a savor of
death unto death, and to the other, the savor of life unto
life, and who is sufficient for these things. Hardening of the
heart is the natural response of sinners to a salvation already
worked out by Christ alone. I mean, that's our natural response.
Everybody wants to think No, you can't be saved that simply.
You can't be saved by doing nothing. You can't be saved in ignorance. You can't be delivered from God's
wrath and put in His favor by ignorance. But you see, what
we learn when we come to the gospel is that the justification
of sinners before God has absolutely nothing whatsoever to do with
our character and conduct. It has absolutely nothing to
do with what we do or what we fail to do, but it has everything
to do with what Christ did that honored the Father in every attribute
of His character, satisfied His law and justice in every jot
and tittle, and put away the sin of His people and established
them in righteousness before God. That's what justification
has to do with. What is hardening? What is the
hardening of the heart? It's rebellion against the clear
teaching of the Scripture. And what's the context of the
Scripture? Christ's person, His work, His
offices, His mediatory glory, what He did to enable God to
be just in justifying ungodly sinners. And the bottom line
on all rebellion concerns that specific Savior and that specific
salvation set forth in God's Gospel. All rebellion is against
that Savior, that salvation purposed by God for a multitude of sinners
of His own choosing. He chose those who would be saved
before the world began. And it's rebellion against the
salvation worked out by Christ and accomplished by Him there
at the cross. And it's a salvation revealed
by the Holy Spirit in time to those who are chosen by God the
Father and redeemed and justified by Christ at the cross. The exhortation,
do not harden your hearts, do not rebel against the clear revelation
of that Savior and that salvation. Now why do brethren, why do those
who sit under the gospel, who claim like you and me to be resting
in the finished work of Christ alone, why do we need to be exhorted
against this hardening, against this hardening of the heart?
Here is the reason why. Because everything around us,
and that's including our own remaining sinful nature, everything
is prone to lean to, to run to disheartening. It's prone to
look elsewhere for confidence and assurance before God, elsewhere
besides the finished work of Christ alone. It's prone to look
within. It's prone to look at our faith.
It's prone to look at our knowledge. It's prone to look at our preaching.
It's prone to look at our growth in grace. It's prone to look
everywhere. But this Word always brings us
back to one place, the death of the Lord Jesus Christ, and
that alone. If you stand justified before God today, it's because
Christ died in your place and put away your sins. And God the
Father imputed His righteousness to your account. Now here's an
example that might help you understand why brethren need to be exhorted
not to harden our hearts. When you hear a familiar verse
of scripture interpreted by someone in a way that's different than
you've always heard it, you know a familiar verse, 2 Corinthians
5.21, a familiar verse of scripture that you know by heart. Isn't
your first inclination, you hear that interpreted a different
way than you've ever heard it, or maybe something added to it
that you've never heard. Isn't your first inclination
to outright reject that new way? It's mine. Wait a minute now,
that's not what I've always heard. Now I'm not, I don't know about
that. And perhaps we do that without
even considering that what we've always had in our mind might
not be the truth. They might be telling us the
truth about this verse. We ought to be hesitant and cautious,
but not unwilling to consider when anyone brings a different
interpretation of any verse of scripture. Unwillingness to consider
is a hardening of the heart. And unwillingness to change when
we stand in opposition to what is clearly revealed, even though
it might oppose what we previously revealed. unwillingness to change,
to bow to this Word. This Word is our authority. Our
conscience is not our authority. Men's commentaries are not our
authority. Our preacher is not our authority.
If he preaches what this Word reveals, then this Word, he's
our authority if he follows this Word, our preacher. This is our
authority, the Word of God. Do not harden your hearts no
matter who opposes you. If your father opposes you, if
your brother opposes you, if your preacher opposes you, if
your closest friend, this is not a popular message. The message
of salvation conditioned on and accomplished by nothing but the
doing and dying of the Lord Jesus Christ alone, that's not a popular
message. The message of a sovereign God
who chose a people, conditioned their salvation on Christ alone
and Christ met and satisfied those conditions and delivered
His people from God's wrath and put them in God's favor, that's
not a popular message. But don't harden your hearts
to this message no matter who opposes you in it. Don't harden
your hearts no matter how many stand in opposition to that salvation
that you see here in the scriptures. We'll always be in the minority. God's people have always been
in the minority. We'll never be that big downtown
church. I mean, I'd like for it to be
that way, but according to this Word, it won't be that way. And
don't harden your hearts no matter how contrary this message is
to what you've always heard and to what all those around you
are still hearing and still rejoicing in. Don't harden your hearts
against the clear teaching of the Gospel concerning the person
and work of Christ. Now, there's one source to combat
this hardening. And that's the Word of Truth
which we hold in our hands. It's not men. It's not men's
commentaries. It's not men's opinions. It's
not traditions. It's not even the conviction
of our own hearts. Now listen. You know, wait a
minute now. You're not to listen to the conviction
of your own heart. Not if it stands contrary to
this Word. This Word is our authority. Why can't we Why can't we trust
our own hearts over this Word? Because the heart of man is deceitful
above all things and desperately wicked. Who can know it? This
Word can know it. This Word can reveal it. This
Word can reveal the dead works and self-righteousness within
that heart in light of a finished salvation accomplished by Christ
alone. Now, we have an example of those
who did what we are being exhorted in this passage not to do. And
if we can understand some specifics of what they did, we can learn
what we're being exhorted here to avoid. So, let's look on further
in these verses. It says, As the Holy Ghost saith
today, if you will hear His voice, harden not your heart, as in
the provocation, in the day of temptation in the wilderness.
when your fathers tempted me, proved me, and saw my works forty
years." Now, most of you would know from the study of the Old
Testament that this provocation here he's talking about, he says,
the provocation, the day of the temptation in the wilderness,
a specific time, place, and circumstance out of Israel's history where
the nation Israel as a whole hardened their hearts against
the clearly heard, clearly understood voice of God. God brought Israel
to a land, a promised land, and it's described as a land flowing
with milk and honey. In that land, they would be delivered
from their instability, their wanderings in this world. Up
to that time, they just wandered about. Abraham wandered about. He lived in tents. He never had
a home. He never had a house to live in. He never had a walled
city. He wandered about and lived in
tents and in caves, it says in Hebrews. But in this land, Israel
would be delivered from their wanderings and established in
a land of their own. They weren't required to do one
thing to make this land flourish or to make it their own. All
they needed to do was just possess it. God had promised it to their
fathers. He had promised it to Abraham,
to Isaac, and to Jacob. And all they had to do was just
to go in at God's command and occupy this land. He said, I'll
fight for you. I'll fight the battles. Just
go in and possess it. That's all they had to do. In
Genesis 15, verse 18, God made a covenant with Abraham to give
Canaan to his descendants. He said it this way, In the same
day the Lord made a covenant with Abram, saying, Under thy
seed have I given this land. In other words, in his mind it
was already done. They didn't possess it yet, but
as far as he's concerned, it couldn't be stopped. Unto thy
seed have I given this land from the river of Egypt unto the great
river, the river Euphrates." He was describing that land,
that promised land. Look back with me here for just
a minute to Numbers. And let's see a little language
back here about how these people hardened their hearts at the
clear command and revelation of God. You remember this story
how they came to this land and Moses sent twelve spies to go
in and spy out the land. And they came back and ten of
them had an evil report. Two of them alone, Joshua and
Caleb, had a good report. Now they all had a good report
about the land. Look in Numbers 13 and look at
verse 25. These twelve spies, it says,
and they returned from searching out the land after forty days,
and they went and came to Moses, and to Aaron, and to all the
congregation of the children of Israel, unto the wilderness
of Paran, to Kadesh, and brought back word unto them, and to all
the congregation, and showed them the fruit of the land. And
they told him and said, We came unto the land with our sinners,
they are talking to Moses, And surely it floweth with milk and
honey. And this is the fruit of it. They had brought back
a cluster of grapes that they had to carry between two men. That's how bountiful the fruit
of this land was. So it was indeed a land, they
said, that flows with milk and honey. But look in verse 28.
Nevertheless, the people be strong that dwell in the land. We have
a few objections about this land, they're saying. And the cities
are walled and very great, and moreover, we saw the children
of Anak there. That's giants. And look on down
at verse 30. Here is the voice of God that
they should have listened to. It comes through the testimony
of Caleb. Verse 30, it said, Caleb stealed
the people. He was one of the ones that went
with these twelve. He was one of the twelve. He
stealed the people before Moses and said, Let us go up at once
and possess it, for we are well able to overcome it. You see,
he knew the God who made the promise to Abraham. He wasn't
worried about the giants and the land. He wasn't worried about
the walled cities. Why? Because he believed the
God who made the promise. Look on over These continued
on until they stirred the people up so much that the people said
in verse 4 of chapter 14, they said to one another, let us make
a captain and let us return to Egypt. And Moses and Aaron fell
on their faces before all the assembly of the congregation
of the children of Israel. And Joshua the son of Nun, and
Caleb the son of Jephunneh. which were of them that searched
the land, rent their clothes. And they spoke unto all the company
of the children of Israel, saying, Now here's another testimony
that tells these people why they ought to go on in and possess
this land. Verse 7, The land which we pass through to search
it is an exceeding good land. If the Lord delight in us, if
we are truly His people, if He's purposed to give us this land,
and He's promised to do so, if the Lord delight in us, then
He will bring us into this land and give it us, a land which
floweth with milk and honey. Only rebel not ye against the
Lord, neither fear ye the people of the land, for they are bred
for us. Their defense is departed from
them, and the Lord is with us. Fear them not. So what I wanted
you to see there from Numbers is these that he's talking about
here in the provocation. They had the voice of God. They
had the voice of God clearly revealed in God's promise to
their fathers that He would give them this land. And they had
the voice of Caleb and Joshua who told them, if God is pleased
with us, this is our land. All we've got to do is just go
in there and possess it. Now, I believe this is a picture.
for us sitting here, a type of God delivering His elect from
their unstable wanderings in this world's religion, to the
salvation which He had purposed and promised to Christ in the
everlasting covenant of grace, and which Christ had accomplished
for them by His obedience unto death. In Israel's hardness of heart,
they refused to enter the land that was rightfully theirs for
one reason only, because God promised to give it to them.
They didn't work for it. They didn't do anything to deserve
it. But it was theirs if they would just go in and possess
it. They wouldn't. Under the Gospel, sinners are
exhorted to come to Christ alone for salvation. That Christ I've
already described to you who accomplished the salvation of
every sinner God gave Him, every sinner He lived and died for.
And they are to entertain under that Gospel no notions, that
is, harden not your hearts, Entertain no notions that your being saved
or being kept saved can be attributed to anything but the blood and
imputed righteousness of the Lord Jesus Christ alone. Now
those who come, who come to this Christ, who bow to Him, who rest
in Him alone, those who come are the products of God's mercy
and grace. If you believe this message,
if you're trusting Christ alone, there's only one reason why.
Because you found mercy and grace in God's sight. Those who refuse
to come, in other words, those who harden their hearts against
the clearly revealed declaration of the Christ of God's salvation,
they have no warrant to do so. They are the ones who are hardening
their hearts against what God's Word has clearly revealed. There
is only one salvation, and it is the one the Father purposed
before the world began when He chose a people and gave them
to Christ. It's the one that Christ accomplished for every
sinner that the Father gave Him. When He obeyed the law perfectly
and sacrificed Himself and established the very righteousness that God
imputed to every sinner He lived and died for. There's only one.
So to reject that Christ and that salvation is to harden your
hearts against what this Word clearly reveals to be the only
way of salvation. Now we've considered what this
hardening is. Look back at verse 7. Wherefore,
as the Holy Ghost saith today, if ye will hear his voice, harden
not your hearts. We've considered what it is.
And let me summarize what I think we've said, and I think I'll
probably just end right here, and I'll summarize what I was
going to say, and we'll pick them up next time. Here's what
I've been telling you. Here's what he's saying in these
two verses right here. In that day, when you have heard
His voice. In other words, in that day when
God brings you to a clear understanding of what the Scriptures are teaching
on any issue, but beginning with this issue, how can God justify
an ungodly sinner like me? When God's testimony, when you've
been brought to a clear understanding that God can only be just and
justify a sinner based on Christ's imputed righteousness alone,
That he can only save a sinner on that basis. A sinner who's
worthy of nothing but eternal death. Harden not your hearts. You should harden not your hearts.
Now, we're going to look at the reason behind this hardening,
but we'll do that in another message. The reason why sinners
harden their hearts, and the reason is because they're deceived. They're deceived by their own
hearts. They're deceived by the God of
this world who's blinded the minds of them that believe not.
They're deceived by the traditions of man. They're deceived by the
religion of this world. They're deceived. That's the
reason why men go on in their hardness of heart those who hear
God's gospel. That's the reason why they go
on. And then we'll look at another thing in verse 11, the result, the end result of
that hardening of the heart. God said, I swore, I did swear,
indicative, a matter of reality, I did swear in my wrath, they
shall not enter into my rest. Now, you see in your center marginal
reading there, that little phrase at the end of that verse 11,
it says in the Greek, it says, if they shall enter, but that
word sometimes translated, if, at the beginning of this sentence,
it is a strong negation. In other words, he's saying,
those who continue on hardening their hearts in unbelief of the
gospel set forth before them and the Christ who accomplished
the salvation of His people, those who continue on shall not,
in no wise, in no case, they shall never enter into my rest. So, my encouragement in closing
this message is if you've heard what God has said, if you've
heard the voice of this Savior who worked out the salvation
of His people by Himself, left them no contribution to complete
that salvation or to appropriate that salvation into them, if
you've heard His voice today, harden not your hearts.

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