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Therefore, just as the Holy Spirit says,
“Today if you hear His voice,
Do not harden your hearts as when they provoked Me,
As in the day of trial in the wilderness,
Where your fathers tried Me by testing Me,
And saw My works for forty years.
“Therefore I was angry with this generation,
And said, ‘They always go astray in their heart,
And they did not know My ways’;
As I swore in My wrath,
‘They shall not enter My rest.’ ”
Take care, brethren, that there not be in any one of you an evil, unbelieving heart that falls away from the living God.
But encourage one another day after day, as long as it is still called “Today,” so that none of you will be hardened by the deceitfulness of sin.
For we have become partakers of Christ, if we hold fast the beginning of our assurance firm until the end,
while it is said,
“Today if you hear His voice,
Do not harden your hearts, as when they provoked Me.”
For who provoked Him when they had heard? Indeed, did not all those who came out of Egypt led by Moses?
And with whom was He angry for forty years? Was it not with those who sinned, whose bodies fell in the wilderness?
And to whom did He swear that they would not enter His rest, but to those who were disobedient?
So we see that they were not able to enter because of unbelief.
How many times is the heart and hardening the heart referred to in 3:7-11
Do not harden your hearts as when they provoked Me,
As in the day of trial in the wilderness,
What does hardening your heart mean?
As I swore in My wrath,
‘They shall not enter My rest.’ ”
What is God referring to when He says, "They shall not enter My rest."?
while it is said,
“Today if you hear His voice,
Do not harden your hearts, as when they provoked Me.”
What does "today" refer to? Does the author literally mean this 24-hour period, or is he only referring to an unspecified and open-ended period of time? When do we pass from the possibility of being saved to the impossibility of being saved?
For who provoked Him when they had heard? Indeed, did not all those who came out of Egypt led by Moses?
And with whom was He angry for forty years? Was it not with those who sinned, whose bodies fell in the wilderness?
And to whom did He swear that they would not enter His rest, but to those who were disobedient?
So we see that they were not able to enter because of unbelief.
The author summarizes his argument from Scripture in these four verses. Try to restate his summary and conclusion in your own words.
