Hebrews 4:7
So God again ordains a certain day,“Today,” speaking through David after so long a time, as in the words quoted before,“Oh, that today you would listen as he speaks! Do not harden your hearts.”
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- Ps 95:7 : 7 For he is our God; we are the people of his pasture, the sheep he owns. Today, if only you would obey him!
- Heb 3:7-8 : 7 Exposition of Psalm 95: Hearing God’s Word in Faith Therefore, as the Holy Spirit says,“Oh, that today you would listen as he speaks! 8 “Do not harden your hearts as in the rebellion, in the day of testing in the wilderness.
- Heb 3:15 : 15 As it says,“Oh, that today you would listen as he speaks! Do not harden your hearts as in the rebellion.”
- 2 Sam 23:1-2 : 1 David’s Final Words These are the final words of David:“The oracle of David son of Jesse, the oracle of the man raised up as the ruler chosen by the God of Jacob, Israel’s beloved singer of songs: 2 The LORD’s Spirit spoke through me; his word was on my tongue.
- 1 Kgs 6:1 : 1 The Building of the Temple In the four hundred and eightieth year after the Israelites left Egypt, in the fourth year of Solomon’s reign over Israel, during the month Ziv(the second month), he began building the LORD’s temple.
- Matt 22:43 : 43 He said to them,“How then does David by the Spirit call him‘Lord,’ saying,
- Mark 12:36 : 36 David himself, by the Holy Spirit, said,‘The Lord said to my lord,“Sit at my right hand, until I put your enemies under your feet.”’
- Luke 20:42 : 42 For David himself says in the book of Psalms,‘The Lord said to my lord,“Sit at my right hand,
- Acts 2:29 : 29 “Brothers, I can speak confidently to you about our forefather David, that he both died and was buried, and his tomb is with us to this day.
- Acts 2:31 : 31 David by foreseeing this spoke about the resurrection of the Christ, that he was neither abandoned to Hades, nor did his body experience decay.
- Acts 13:20-23 : 20 All this took about four hundred fifty years. After this he gave them judges until the time of Samuel the prophet. 21 Then they asked for a king, and God gave them Saul son of Kish, a man from the tribe of Benjamin, who ruled forty years. 22 After removing him, God raised up David their king. He testified about him:‘I have found David the son of Jesse to be a man after my heart, who will accomplish everything I want him to do.’ 23 From the descendants of this man God brought to Israel a Savior, Jesus, just as he promised.
- Acts 28:25 : 25 So they began to leave, unable to agree among themselves, after Paul made one last statement:“The Holy Spirit spoke rightly to your ancestors through the prophet Isaiah
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- Heb 3:7-137 verses86%
7 Exposition of Psalm 95: Hearing God’s Word in Faith Therefore, as the Holy Spirit says,“Oh, that today you would listen as he speaks!
8 “Do not harden your hearts as in the rebellion, in the day of testing in the wilderness.
9 “There your fathers tested me and tried me, and they saw my works for forty years.
10 “Therefore, I became provoked at that generation and said,‘Their hearts are always wandering and they have not known my ways.’
11 “As I swore in my anger,‘They will never enter my rest!’”
12 See to it, brothers and sisters, that none of you has an evil, unbelieving heart that forsakes the living God.
13 But exhort one another each day, as long as it is called“Today,” that none of you may become hardened by sin’s deception.
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15 As it says,“Oh, that today you would listen as he speaks! Do not harden your hearts as in the rebellion.”
- Heb 4:1-66 verses80%
1 God’s Promised Rest Therefore we must be wary that, while the promise of entering his rest remains open, none of you may seem to have come short of it.
2 For we had good news proclaimed to us just as they did. But the message they heard did them no good, since they did not join in with those who heard it in faith.
3 For we who have believed enter that rest, as he has said,“As I swore in my anger,‘They will never enter my rest!’” And yet God’s works were accomplished from the foundation of the world.
4 For he has spoken somewhere about the seventh day in this way:“And God rested on the seventh day from all his works,”
5 but to repeat the text cited earlier:“They will never enter my rest!”
6 Therefore it remains for some to enter it, yet those to whom it was previously proclaimed did not enter because of disobedience.
- Heb 4:8-114 verses79%
8 For if Joshua had given them rest, God would not have spoken afterward about another day.
9 Consequently a Sabbath rest remains for the people of God.
10 For the one who enters God’s rest has also rested from his works, just as God did from his own works.
11 Thus we must make every effort to enter that rest, so that no one may fall by following the same pattern of disobedience.
- Ps 95:7-82 verses78%
7 For he is our God; we are the people of his pasture, the sheep he owns. Today, if only you would obey him!
8 He says,“Do not be stubborn like they were at Meribah, like they were that day at Massah in the wilderness,
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5 But because of your stubbornness and your unrepentant heart, you are storing up wrath for yourselves in the day of wrath, when God’s righteous judgment is revealed!
- Heb 3:17-182 verses69%
17 And against whom was God provoked for forty years? Was it not those who sinned, whose dead bodies fell in the wilderness?
18 And to whom did he swear they would never enter into his rest, except those who were disobedient?
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2 For he says,“I heard you at the acceptable time, and in the day of salvation I helped you.” Look, now is the acceptable time; look, now is the day of salvation!
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12 In the past he said to them,“This is where security can be found. Provide security for the one who is exhausted! This is where rest can be found.” But they refused to listen.
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11 The Need to Move on to Maturity On this topic we have much to say and it is difficult to explain, since you have become sluggish in hearing.
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1 Warning Against Drifting Away Therefore we must pay closer attention to what we have heard, so that we do not drift away.
- Ps 95:10-112 verses68%
10 For forty years I was continually disgusted with that generation, and I said,‘These people desire to go astray; they do not obey my commands.’
11 So I made a vow in my anger,‘They will never enter into the resting place I had set aside for them.’”
- Heb 12:25-273 verses68%
25 Take care not to refuse the one who is speaking! For if they did not escape when they refused the one who warned them on earth, how much less shall we, if we reject the one who warns from heaven?
26 Then his voice shook the earth, but now he has promised,“I will once more shake not only the earth but heaven too.”
27 Now this phrase“once more” indicates the removal of what is shaken, that is, of created things, so that what is unshaken may remain.
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6 Why harden your hearts like the Egyptians and Pharaoh did? When God treated them harshly, didn’t the Egyptians send the Israelites on their way?
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8 Now, dear friends, do not let this one thing escape your notice, that a single day is like a thousand years with the Lord and a thousand years are like a single day.
- Exod 7:13-142 verses67%
13 Yet Pharaoh’s heart became hard, and he did not listen to them, just as the LORD had predicted.
14 The First Blow: Water to Blood The LORD said to Moses,“Pharaoh’s heart is hard; he refuses to release the people.
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8 as it is written,“God gave them a spirit of stupor, eyes that would not see and ears that would not hear, to this very day.”
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5 So also Christ did not glorify himself in becoming high priest, but the one who glorified him was God, who said to him,“You are my Son! Today I have fathered you,”
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30 And do not grieve the Holy Spirit of God, by whom you were sealed for the day of redemption.
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8 Jesus Christ is the same yesterday and today and forever!
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7 For I solemnly warned your ancestors to obey me. I warned them again and again, ever since I delivered them out of Egypt until this very day.
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40 How often they rebelled against him in the wilderness, and insulted him in the wastelands!
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4 But to this very day the LORD has not given you an understanding mind, perceptive eyes, or discerning ears!
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18 Now today you dare to turn back from following the LORD! You are rebelling today against the LORD; tomorrow he may break out in anger against the entire community of Israel.
- Acts 13:33-342 verses66%
33 that this promise God has fulfilled to us, their children, by raising Jesus, as also it is written in the second psalm,‘You are my Son; today I have fathered you.’
34 But regarding the fact that he has raised Jesus from the dead, never again to be in a state of decay, God has spoken in this way:‘I will give you the holy and trustworthy promises made to David.’
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51 “You stubborn people, with uncircumcised hearts and ears! You are always resisting the Holy Spirit, like your ancestors did!
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8 Now, don’t be stubborn like your fathers! Submit to the LORD and come to his sanctuary which he has permanently consecrated. Serve the LORD your God so that he might relent from his raging anger.
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37 For just a little longer and he who is coming will arrive and not delay.
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14 But they did not pay attention and were as stubborn as their ancestors, who had not trusted the LORD their God.