Unbelief is deadly

Heb 3:14 For we are made partakers of Christ, if we hold the beginning of our confidence stedfast unto the end;


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Heb 3:1 Wherefore, holy brethren, partakers of the heavenly calling, consider the Apostle and High Priest of our profession, Christ Jesus;


Heb 3:15 While it is said, To day if ye will hear his voice, harden not your hearts, as in the provocation.


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Heb 3:8 Harden not your hearts, as in the provocation, in the day of temptation in the wilderness


These verses are being repeated with slight variations in the same chapter- why? We have to note it, we have to ask ourselves why and the only real answer to that is the usual one. Something is repeated for emphasis, right? When you repeat an instruction you're doing so in hopes the one you are instructing won't forget what you're saying and understand its importance.


We are PARTAKERS of Christ, PARTAKERS of the heavenly calling. This is something so amazing we don't appreciate what it really means. We've been so jaded that we can scarcely comprehend this let alone feel the joy, or the importance of what it all means. How can we lightly say or even think- I am a partaker of Christ, I am a partaker of the heavenly calling? How can we read these words and not understand how incredibly blessed and honored we are by having this opportunity? We're so jaded, so incredibly beaten down spiritually that we can't truly comprehend what this means. It's deliverance! As surely as God's people were enslaved in Egypt we are enslaved today to Satan in so many ways. We need to be set free in Christ. We need to look forward past the here and now. We need to understand that this life is so very temporary. It weighs on us though. Life with all its problems weigh us down heavily- the 'cares of this life' can be so heavily they over come us if we let them. Satan would blind us to our heavenly calling at every opportunity. We are called to remember we are partakers of Christ. We are called NOT to harden our hearts. How does a heart become hardened? Through disbelief, through forgetfulness of the heavenly calling, through letting this world and ALL it's awful problems be overwhelming and consuming.


Heb 3:16 For some, when they had heard, did provoke: howbeit not all that came out of Egypt by Moses.
Heb 3:17 But with whom was he grieved forty years? was it not with them that had sinned, whose carcases fell in the wilderness?
Heb 3:18 And to whom sware he that they should not enter into his rest, but to them that believed not?
Heb 3:19 So we see that they could not enter in because of unbelief.


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Heb 3:10 Wherefore I was grieved with that generation, and said, They do alway err in their heart; and they have not known my ways.
Heb 3:11 So I sware in my wrath, They shall not enter into my rest.)
Heb 3:12 Take heed, brethren, lest there be in any of you an evil heart of unbelief, in departing from the living God.



Unbelief is deadly.


We have to believe in our Hope, Jesus Christ our LORD and SAVIOR! We have to believe in our HEAVENLY CALLING and make that heavenly calling our life, our reason for living- Jesus! Living for our Savior, NOT for ourselves.


By the grace of God may we do this before our hearts become hardened, before we lose faith and unbelief overtakes us.


In His Love


Amen