Do you hear His voice?

Psalm 95 / Hebrews 3:7-11

Hebrews Context

Sermon

Jewish Believers sinking back

Warnings about false faith

Entering God’s Rest

Deuteronomy 1:34–38 “And the Lord heard your words and was angered, and he swore, 35 ‘Not one of these men of this evil generation shall see the good land that I swore to give to your fathers, 36 except Caleb the son of Jephunneh. He shall see it, and to him and to his children I will give the land on which he has trodden, because he has wholly followed the Lord!’ 37 Even with me the Lord was angry on your account and said, ‘You also shall not go in there. 38 Joshua the son of Nun, who stands before you, he shall enter. Encourage him, for he shall cause Israel to inherit it.”

The Promised Land as a type of Heaven

Not everyone went in

God’s wrath

John 3:36 “36 Whoever believes in the Son has eternal life; whoever does not obey the Son shall not see life, but the wrath of God remains on him.”

Hearing God’s Voice - v7

Prophets & Apostles

Samuel (1 Samuel 3)

John 5:28–29 “Do not marvel at this, for an hour is coming when all who are in the tombs will hear his voice 29 and come out, those who have done good to the resurrection of life, and those who have done evil to the resurrection of judgment.”

John 10:27–28 “My sheep hear my voice, and I know them, and they follow me. 28 I give them eternal life, and they will never perish, and no one will snatch them out of my hand.”

Hearing in Reading

Psalm 95:7–11 “For he is our God, and we are the people of his pasture, and the sheep of his hand. Today, if you hear his voice, 8 do not harden your hearts, as at Meribah, as on the day at Massah in the wilderness, 9 when your fathers put me to the test and put me to the proof, though they had seen my work. 10 For forty years I loathed that generation and said, “They are a people who go astray in their heart, and they have not known my ways.” 11 Therefore I swore in my wrath, “They shall not enter my rest.””

5 truths about Hearing from God:

It may not be what you want Him to say. Habakkuk 1:5

It will always lead away from sin and self Proverbs 3:5-6

It will always point to Jesus John 16:13-14

It will always match what is actually IN the Bible Hebrews 3:7-11

It will always lead to God’s rest Matthew 11:28-30