351 - “TODAY, if you hear His Voice” Hebrews 1-4

                                                                 

Hebrews 1:2 - God holds everything together by what he says—powerful words!  Hebrews 1:2

WATCHING GOD WORK...DON'T REFUSE HIS PLAN "A"
"So, my dear Christian friends, companions in following this call to the heights, take a good hard look at Jesus. He's the centerpiece of everything we believe...now, if we can only keep a firm grip on this bold confidence...Today, please listen; don't turn a deaf ear as in the bitter uprising, that time of wilderness testing! Even though they watched me at work for forty years, your ancestors refused to let me do it my way." Hebrews 3:1-10.  A Christmas hope...watching God work His Plan A and finding my rest in God Alone.

ENTERING HIS REST….DATE IS SET FOR “TODAY”
We have received the same promises as those people in the wilderness, but the promises didn't do them a bit of good because they didn't receive the promises with faith. If we believe, though, we'll experience that state of resting.   Hebrews 4:2.  God keeps setting the date back to "Today" ...  And so this is still a live promise. It wasn't canceled at the time of Joshua; otherwise, God wouldn't keep renewing the appointment for "today." The promise of "arrival" and "rest" is still there for God's people.  Hebrews 4:7-10.

LISTENING TO GOD...HIS WORDS LAY US OPEN
God means what he says. What he says goes. His powerful Word is sharp as a surgeon's scalpel, cutting through everything, whether doubt or defense, laying us open to listen and obey. Nothing and no one is impervious to God's Word...We have a high priest with ready access to God.  Hebrews 4:12 -15 Today.
If you hear His Voice.
Do not harden your hearts.
Today. Heb 3:15

The Author of our Salvation suffered.
It's a peculiar thing to glory in the Cross.
Peculiar to arrogant minds beneath this.
It's our Savior. 
The Perfect Sacrifice. 
Sinless.
Not us.
But when we are first tempted.
We have been provided for, a way out.

Today.
If you hear His Voice.

The Lord is Mighty to save.  He will save us!
He will be God to us!  He will be our All!
The Mighty One!  For the least of all.  For the worst of all.
The Lord is in our midst, Zephaniah 3:17
the Mighty One to save.
He will rejoice over us.
No matter what has happened to us---what shame, contempt, dishonor---
the LORD will honor us.  He will take care of His own.

In this life there will be tribulation.
Many are the troubles of the righteous,
but the LORD delivers him from all.
We can always rejoice in the love of our God.
No matter what befalls.

PHOTO: The Sun peeked over the horizon and the brilliance silently screamed.