Hebrews 3:1 Wherefore holy brethren, partakers of the heavenly calling, consider the Apostle and High Priest of our profession Christ.Emmanuel;

And consider Paul.

Hebrews 3:2 Who was faithful to him that appointed him.(Psalms 2:7), as also Moses was faithful in all his house.

Hebrews 3:3 For this man was counted worthy of more glory than Moses, inasmuch as he who has builded the house has more honour than the house.

Hebrews 3:4 For every house is builded by some man, but he that built everything is God.(what's the 'everything'?).

Exodus 19:5; Revelation 4:11.

Hebrew 3:5 And Moses verily was faithful in all his house, as a servant, for a testimony of those things which were to be spoken after;

Hebrews 3:6 But Christ as a son over his own house;.whose house are we.(Ephesians 2:10), if we hold fast the confidence and the rejoicing of the hope firm unto the end.

We don't want to be like the ancients who were wandering about for 40 years after leaving their bondage in Egypt and basically learned nothing about the Creator's higher consciousness ways. How can we rise above their fate?

Whose house have you chosen to live in, the house of the true only God or the house of the dark ones?.Proverbs 15:6 "In the house of the righteous is much treasure, but with the revenues of the wicked is trouble."

Hebrews 3:7 Wherefore as the Holy Ghost says, Today.(Psalms 95:8).if you will.(or, if you want to).hear his voice.(*),

Hebrews 3:8 Harden not your hearts, as in the provocation, in the day of temptation in the wilderness.

Hebrews 3:8 Harden.(harsh, closed-minded, not interested, don't want to hear it, avoiding commonsense:.Jeremiah 6:15-17).not your hearts, as in the provocation.(the time the ancient Israelites spent in the wilderness, carping and complaining, which prevented them from physically going into the promised land {Numbers 32:11,12}, a better place {Exodus 3:17}; they just got stuck in their attitudes), in the day.(or 'time', as it was not one day, it was 40 years they spent in the wilderness after coming out of Egyptian bondage they were in for 430 years; lesson being, one can be made free, yet still not change:.Deuteronomy 5:29).of temptation.(a trial on them, giving them time to modify their attitudes, which they didn't).in the wilderness.

Why didn't they change? What was missing to keep them locked in the prison of their own making?.Malachi 4:2; 2Corinthians 3:15,16.

Hebrews 3:9 When your fathers tempted me, proved me and saw my works forty years.

Hebrews 3:9 When your fathers tempted me, proved.(Barnes Notes: "proved me"; as if they would have made an experiment how much it was possible for me to bear; Doddridge: the meaning is, they put my patience to a thorough trial:.Numbers 14:27-29).me and saw my works forty years.(but they just, just like their fathers {Zechariah 1:4}, didn't have the heart to learn {Deuteronomy 5:29}, as they continued to grumble and complain, never being thankful).

Hebrews 3:10 Wherefore I was grieved with that generation and said, They do always err in their heart.(Hebrews 9:9).and they have not known my ways.

Deuteronomy 5:29; Psalms 95:10.

Hebrews 3:11 So I swore in my wrath.(Psalms 95:11), They shall not enter into my rest.

The Creator was fed up with the way they were for so long, so He decided to not allow them into the land He promised them because they had 40 years to get themselves into line with the agreement they made with God, but just never did.

Barnes Notes: God is often represented in the Scriptures as swearing and usually as swearing by himself, by his own existence. Of course this is figurative and denotes a strong affirmation or a settled and determined purpose. An oath with us implies the strongest affirmation or the expression of the most settled and determined purpose of mind. The meaning here is, that so refractory and perverse had they showed themselves, that he solemnly resolved that they should never enter into the promised land, that being the land of Canaan:.Numbers 32:11,12. Today, it refers to the kingdom of God.

Hebrews 3:12 Take heed brethren lest there be in any of you an evil heart of unbelief in departing from the living God.

Paul here applies the ancient scripture (Deuteronomy 29:18) to those of his day who are of higher consciousness.

Hebrews 3:13 But exhort.(original 'to bring others alongside':.James 3:17).one another daily while it is called Today lest any of you be hardened through the deceitfulness of sin.

Sin (what really is 'sin') is deceitful because the perpetrator is blinded to what he or she is doing to themselves and or others.

Hebrews 3:14 For we are partakers of Christ, if we hold the beginning of our confidence stedfast unto the end;

Hebrews 3:14 For we are made partakers of Christ.(what is Christ that we partake of?.1Corinthians 16:24), if.we hold.(*).the beginning of our confidence.stedfast unto the end.(and why not have stedfast confidence? for all there is, is God).

Learn from the example way back when in Moses time:.Exodus 17:11. Why should I?.1Corinthians 10:11.

Original Greek for the word translated 'end' is 'telos', meaning its 'termination and the limit at which a thing ceases to be', that is, that which is always of the end of some act or state, but not of the end of a period of time, for example, the end of the project of landscaping your home.

Rotherham Translation.of this verse:."For, partners of the Christ, have we become, if at least the beginning of the confidence, throughout, firm we hold fast."

Hebrews 3:15 While it is said, Today if you will hear his voice, harden not your hearts, as in the provocation.(verse 8 just above).

So then, such an incredible opportunity available for all of us today, which involves even far better rewards than the ancient Israelites had (Deuteronomy 26:18,19; 27:1-3) for themselves and it has nothing to do with religion, only with a relationship with God:.1Corinthians 2:9; 2Peter 1:11. So, let's not let it slip as they did:.Hebrews 4:1.

Hebrews 3:16,17 For some, when they had heard, did provoke.(original 'got bitter in attitude'). Howbeit not all that came out of Egypt by Moses.(they weren't all like that, but most seemed to be that way)...But with whom was he grieved forty years? Was it not with them that had sinned, whose carcases fell in the wilderness.

None of all those (except a few, such as Caleb. but not even Moses because of his anger:.Deuteronomy 34:4,5), who came out of captivity in Egypt after 430 years, got to go into the land God promised them, only their children:.Numbers 32:11,12).

Barnes New Testament Notes.makes it a little clearer:.'But who were they who when they had heard did provoke? Were they not all, indeed, who came out of Egypt under Moses? And with whom was he angry forty years? Was it not with those who sinned, whose carcasses fell in the wilderness?'

Hebrews 3:18 And to whom sware he that they should not enter into his rest.(Matthew 11:28,29), but to them that believed not?

These were humanity steeped in their ego level:.Jeremiah 6:10.

Hebrews 3:19 So we see that they could not enter in because of unbelief.

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