UBF Daily Bread

ENCOURAGE ONE ANOTHER DAILY

Passage: Hebrews 3:7~19

Key verse: 13

Warning Against Unbelief

⁷So, as the Holy Spirit says:^(A)

“Today, if you hear his voice,
⁸    do not harden your hearts^(B)
as you did in the rebellion,
    during the time of testing in the wilderness,
⁹where your ancestors tested and tried me,
    though for forty years they saw what I did.^(C)
¹⁰That is why I was angry with that generation;
    I said, ‘Their hearts are always going astray,
    and they have not known my ways.’
¹¹So I declared on oath in my anger,^(D)
    ‘They shall never enter my rest.’ ^(E)”^[a]^(F)

¹²See to it, brothers and sisters, that none of you has a sinful, unbelieving heart that turns away from the living God.^(G) ¹³But encourage one another daily,^(H) as long as it is called “Today,” so that none of you may be hardened by sin’s deceitfulness.^(I) ¹⁴We have come to share in Christ, if indeed we hold^(J) our original conviction firmly to the very end.^(K) ¹⁵As has just been said:

“Today, if you hear his voice,
do not harden your hearts
as you did in the rebellion.”^[b]^(L)

¹⁶Who were they who heard and rebelled? Were they not all those Moses led out of Egypt?^(M) ¹⁷And with whom was he angry for forty years? Was it not with those who sinned, whose bodies perished in the wilderness?^(N) ¹⁸And to whom did God swear that they would never enter his rest^(O) if not to those who disobeyed?^(P) ¹⁹So we see that they were not able to enter, because of their unbelief.^(Q)

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Hebrews 3:11 Psalm 95:7-11
Hebrews 3:15 Psalm 95:7,8

1. Do not harden your hearts (7-11,16-19)

Psalm 95 is about the people of Moses' day. Although God rescued them from Egypt and provided everything they needed in the wilderness, they hardened their hearts, testing and trying God. God patiently bore with them, but his anger burned. As they persisted in sinful unbelief (19), they were prevented from entering God's rest (11), and perished in the wilderness (17). Their story is a sobering warning to us about the deceitfulness of sin and unbelief.

2. Hold our original conviction firmly (12-15)

How are we to avoid their fate? The author makes us responsible: See to it that none of you has a sinful, unbelieving heart that turns away from the living God. We are to encourage one another daily to hold firmly to what we share in Christ, our original conviction to the end. Is it "today"? Then let's encourage someone to live by faith in Jesus.

Prayer: Father, thank you for Jesus. Help me encourage someone to live by faith in Jesus today.

One Word: Do not turn away from the living God

Daily Bread

ENCOURAGE ONE ANOTHER DAILY

Passage: Hebrews 3:7~19

Key verse: 13

Warning Against Unbelief

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