Thursday, November 1, 2012

An evil heart of unbelief

Heb 3:7  Wherefore (as the Holy Ghost saith, To day if ye will hear his voice,
Heb 3:8  Harden not your hearts, as in the provocation, in the day of temptation in the wilderness:
Heb 3:9  When your fathers tempted me, proved me, and saw my works forty years.

The HOLY GHOST SAITH-

How important is it when we hear these words- the HOLY GHOST SAITH, that we listen? We know that the Bible is inspired by God. Men wrote as they were convicted by the HOLY SPIRIT. We know this and so when we read the words- 'the Holy Ghost saith' it's REEMPHASIZING the point that is being made. 

The Holy Ghost saith-

To day - IF you WILL HEAR HIS VOICE-

HARDEN NOT YOUR HEARTS.

What does He mean by this, He goes on to tell us.

Harden not our hearts as they did in the day of temptation in the wilderness, in the provocation, when our ancestors tempted GOD, proved GOD and saw GOD the Holy Spirit's works for forty years!

They'd been given so MUCH and it wasn't enough for them. They chose rather to doubt to NOT believe! Those who were shown miracle after miracle, after miracle and still they doubted!

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.)

God was GRIEVED with them. They were ERRING in their hearts, NOT knowing God's ways.

They didn't WANT to believe, their hearts chose NOT to believe, not to know God's ways.  And they did that when God had shown them miracles!

WE though, have something they didn't have- we have the history of having a Savior born into our world, the promised Messiah, God's Son became man who lived and died as one of us, yet without sin, bringing Salvation into the world.

Those in Moses day had the future promise of the Messiah, we have the reality of that promise made good in our day.  And yet even with that wondrous miracle we still choose not to believe like those long, long, long ago and we are WARNED.

Heb 3:12  Take heed, brethren, lest there be in any of you an evil heart of unbelief, in departing from the living God.

An evil heart of UNBELIEF.

We don't want to think of unbelief as being evil. We'd rather once again just tiptoe around evil as if it doesn't really exist, and as long as we tiptoe it won't affect us. The truth is evil surrounds us daily, real, real evil.

I read something today - someone saying they believe 99% of people are good and only 1% aren't. 

Not true.

Not in the sense of good being those who believe in Jesus Christ our Lord and Savior.  Yet we do NOT want to say that people NEED to believe.  As long as they're good.  As long as they're not hurting anyone, as long as they're sweet, kind, and seemingly loving then they're good.  But there are thousands if not millions of people who are good- but choose not to believe in Jesus Christ as their Savior.

Love- GOD'S love.  Love given to us by God, His love, not the made up love of mankind, HIS love is truth and life in Christ Jesus. The love we've come to know is a warped love.  And we're told not to question kindness, and goodness because then we are bad for questioning.  Satan himself could feed us kindness to the point we believe he is pure goodness, but Satan will never ever accept Christ as His Savior, He cannot, He made His choice. Satan wants all to make the same choice- to NOT accept Christ as our personal Savior, as our Redeemer.  Satan doesn't care if we are as sweet as can be as long as we do not have a true relationship, a true belief in Jesus Christ.

An evil heart of unbelief.

All hearts that refuse to believe in the love of our God through Jesus Christ our Lord, are evil.  He along with His Father, along with the Holy Spirit only know the hearts of people- we cannot even begin to know the hearts of one another, we can scarcely even know our own hearts. We cannot judge anyone's eternal life, we aren't meant to! But we have to understand the reality of why we are being admonished not to harden our hearts as they did in the days of Moses, not to have an evil hear of unbelief- departing from the living God.

More tomorrow on this… by the GRACE and LOVE of our GOD, all through HIS MERCY!

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