The Better Covenant part 10 – If You Hear His Voice
The Better Covenant
If You Hear His Voice
Hebrews 4:1-10
1 Therefore, since a promise remains of entering His rest, let us fear lest any of you seem to have come short of it.
2 For indeed the gospel was preached to us as well as to them; but the word which they heard did not profit them, not being mixed with faith in those who heard it.
3 For we who have believed do enter that rest, as He has said: “So I swore in My wrath, ‘They shall not enter My rest,’” although the works were finished from the foundation of the world.
4 For He has spoken in a certain place of the seventh day in this way: “And God rested on the seventh day from all His works”;
5 and again in this place: “They shall not enter My rest.”
6 Since therefore it remains that some must enter it, and those to whom it was first preached did not enter because of disobedience,
7 again He designates a certain day, saying in David, “Today,” after such a long time, as it has been said: “Today, if you will hear His voice, Do not harden your hearts.”
8 For if Joshua had given them rest, then He would not afterward have spoken of another day.
9 There remains therefore a rest for the people of God.
10 For he who has entered His rest has himself also ceased from his works as God did from His.
(1) We have a real promise – eternal rest
- Undisturbed peace
- The joy of the Divine nature
- Nearness to God
(2) The promise is for the people of God alone
- To enter into this rest a person must:
- Confess your sins
- Believe in God
- Trust God with all your heart
- Die to self – live for God
- Live a life of Obedience
- The promised rest is only for those in covenant relationship with God
(3) The possibility of coming short of God’s promise
- Many of the Jews came short
- Many have rejected the Gospel
- Many refuse to believe
- Many refuse to take action on their beliefs
(4) How to guard against coming short
- Hear / listen to His voice
- Guard against unbelief.
- Guard against hardness.
- Cling to hope in God
