Do You Believe, Enough?
Hebrews 3:7-14
In the Books of Exodus and Numbers, we have the record of Israel’s relentless lack of faith in God. If you’ve ever studied these two books, you know. It becomes almost tedious – the cycle of faith, of no faith, of judgment, of mercy, of faith again – it’s an incredible cycle.
After God brought the ten plagues in Egypt
The miraculous Exodus
The phenomenal parting of the Red Sea
The incredible Mount Sinai experiences
Pillar of Fire/Pillar of Cloud
Manna from Heaven/Quail from the sky/Water from the Rock
And a dozen other massive miracles…
The Israelites saw God work, they saw his miracles, they believed in God. If you go through the ten plagues, especially the last one where the blood on the door saves your firstborn, you start believing in God. They believed in God.
Through it all, the Israelites mostly grumbled, murmured, and complained. You would think the more times God miraculously provided, the more their faith would have grown. But when God finally got them to the edge of the Promised Land, in Kadesh Barnea, Moses sent in the twelve spies.
In Numbers Chapter 13, Moses sent twelve spies into the land to bring back a report, and only two came back believing God was big enough to do what he had promised to do. After enough miracles to fill a big section of the Bible, only two truly believed God enough to have their faith actually impact their decisions. The remainder of Israel all turned against God and complained to Moses, “We want to go back to Egypt.” And in Numbers 14, the two spies who believed enough to actually act on their faith, tried to convince the Israelites to have that level of belief.
Numbers 14:6–9 (NLT)
6 Two of the men who had explored the land, Joshua son of Nun and Caleb son of Jephunneh, tore their clothing.
7 They said to all the people of Israel, “The land we traveled through and explored is a wonderful land!
8 And if the Lord is pleased with us, he will bring us safely into that land and give it to us. It is a rich land flowing with milk and honey.
9 Do not rebel against the Lord, and don’t be afraid of the people of the land. They are only helpless prey to us! They have no protection, but the Lord is with us! Don’t be afraid of them!”
What an incredible exhortation of faith from Joshua and Caleb. And then, a million Israelites – who ALL believed in God, who’d seen too many miracles to count – responded like this.
Numbers 14:10(a) (NLT)
10 But the whole community began to talk about stoning Joshua and Caleb.
Guys, these people believe in God… they believed… just NOT enough to ACT on their belief, and we get a clear picture of How God feels about it.
Numbers 14:10(b)-11 (NLT)
10 …Then the glorious presence of the Lord appeared to all the Israelites at the Tabernacle.
11 And the Lord said to Moses, “How long will these people treat me with contempt? Will they never believe me, even after all the miraculous signs I have done among them?
Israel believed IN God! They just didn’t believe enough to have it affect their lives. And God made sure that every one of these adult Israelites fell dead in the Wilderness. NOT because they didn’t believe IN God, but because
They didn’t believe in him enough to actually follow him
They didn’t believe in him enough to actually obey him
And after Moses pleads with God to save them, we read the following.
Numbers 14:20-22 (NLT)
20 Then the Lord said, “I will pardon them as you have requested.
21 But as surely as I live, and as surely as the earth is filled with the Lord’s glory,
22 not one of these people will ever enter that land. They have all seen my glorious presence and the miraculous signs I performed both in Egypt and in the wilderness, but again and again they have tested me by refusing to listen to (obey) my voice.
If Barna would have taken a survey, every one of those Israelites would’ve said they believed IN God. But God swore that they would never enter (or even see) his Promised Land (a picture of the abundant Christian life). The Promised Land is not a picture of Heaven (read about it in Joshua). It’s all about war, overcoming an enemy, and standing for Christ in an enemy land, and that’s a picture of our life here. It’s a picture of the abundant, fulfilled, victorious Christian life.
And so, God says these million who believe in me, they’re going to drop dead in their wilderness and they are never going to see my promised life that I have for them. They’re never going to experience what I have already set up and guaranteed for them because they don’t believe me enough to actually follow me. They don’t believe me enough to actually have it impact their decisions. They have a casual belief. But it’s not enough to change their lives – so I’m going to drop them here in the desert.
And so, today we’ve got to ask ourselves… do WE believe God ENOUGH to have it actually affect our lives (to follow, to obey). Do we believe God enough to actually obey him just because he’s God? Not because it makes sense to us, not because we can see what he’s doing, not because we know how it’s going to turn out.
But it’s this thing where you say, “Yes, Lord.” Or you say, “No.” But you don’t say, “No, Lord.” But we do that all the time because we say, “Yeah I believe in God. I want to make sure I’m going to Heaven. But I don’t really get into the whole Bible thing, you know. I mean there’s all kinds of stuff in there I’d have to change in my life if I started reading the Bible.” “God, I’ve seen your miracles, but don’t ask me to actually trust you. Don’t ask me to actually obey you. You’re crossing the line there, God.” A million Israelites dropped dead in the Wilderness because of that same attitude.
The Book of Hebrews is a fearful book. It’s a book of warnings – Hebrews and 2 Peter. Your salvation is secure because it’s in Christ, and Christ has finished that work, but you just study Hebrews and 2 Peter and you’ll challenge yourself. 1 John, and Jude as well. Do I actually care enough about my soul to respond to God’s Word?
The Book of Hebrews tells us that we need to fear the exact same possibility in our own lives as the Israelites. Is it possible for us to have this same spirit of unbelief that the Israelites had? Is it possible for us to believe IN God but not believe ENOUGH to actually follow him (obey him)? Is it possible to believe in God but not enough to actually change our lives? Is it possible for us who believe in God to harden our hearts toward his promises and commands and end up falling dead in our own wilderness, just like the Israelites?
Those should be rhetorical questions but, just in case you’re wondering, the answer is yes. Yes. We can be just like the Israelites, our hearts can be hardened to God’s promises and his commands, we can live our entire life saying believe God but never having it impact our lives. Chances are we’ll fall dead in our own wilderness, just like the Israelites did.
Am I saying you won’t go to Heaven? No, I’m not. You can deal with God on that. My encouragement is: make sure. Make sure. But the Promised Land is a picture of the Promised Life. And when you, as a Christian, are living a defeated, burdened life where we would say, “Wow, a Christian shouldn’t really live that life,” well, the Israelites shouldn’t have been dropping dead in the Wilderness either. And God made a way for them to enter into the Promised Land, but it was their unbelief that kept them from the life that God had.
Let’s go to Hebrews Chapter 3 where the writer is talking (to Jewish Believers, but Believers like us) about this same event we just looked at.
Quoting Psalm 95…
Hebrews 3:7-11 (NLT)
7 That is why the Holy Spirit says, “Today when you hear his voice,
8 don’t harden your hearts as Israel did when they rebelled, when they tested me in the wilderness.
9 There your ancestors tested and tried my patience, even though they saw my miracles for forty years.
10 So I was angry with them, and I said, ‘Their hearts always turn away from me. They refuse to do what I tell them.’
11 So in my anger I took an oath: ‘They will never enter my place of rest.’”
And then, in the next verse, God applies that exact same danger to us.
Hebrews 3:12 (NLT)
12 Be careful then, dear brothers and sisters. Make sure that your own hearts are not evil and unbelieving, turning you away from the living God.
That’s a pretty clear warning to every one of us to make sure we don’t have the same unbelieving heart the Israelites had in the Wilderness. The evil and unbelieving heart is the one that says, “I want to go to Heaven, but I want to live my way until then. I want to have the pleasures of the world, now. And I want to make sure I slip into the ‘amusement park of Heaven’ when my time comes.”
This is a warning.
The heart God calls an evil and unbelieving heart that the end of verse 12 says, will turn you away from the living God.
But what (specifically) was it that kept the Israelites out of God’s Promised Rest and had them all die in the wilderness instead? It wasn’t that they did not believe IN God. They believed IN God – that’s for sure… they just didn’t believe enough to trust him, to follow him, to obey him. They didn’t believe enough to have it actually affect their lives.
And so, God warns us of this same danger in verse 12, and then, he adds another command in the next verse.
Hebrews 3:13 (NLT)
13 You must warn each other every day, while it is still “today,” so that none of you will be deceived by sin and hardened against God.
The writer of Hebrews is addressing Believers and God is saying through him – to Believers – warn each other every day so that none of you will be deceived by sin and hardened against God by a level of unbelief like the Israelites had, who believed IN God, but didn’t believe in him enough to truly follow him, to truly obey him.
We have to have enough “guts” to hold each other accountable where we say, “Listen, do you realize that you’re blatantly disobeying God? Have you caught on to your rebellion? Are you at least acknowledging?”
Warn each other every day so that none of you will be deceived by sin and hardened against God. You’ve seen Christians like that, right? Deceived by sin, hardened against God. “I know God says, ‘No’, but I’m going to do it anyway.” Why? “Because I want to!” “I know God says ‘Go’ but I say, ‘No!’ I want to go back to Egypt (a symbol of the world) and eat leeks and onions.” That doesn’t sound like a good decision.
Do we believe in God enough to have it actually impact our life with him? If we don’t, we will never get to where God is taking us. We will never experience his Promised Life, or his Rest – as Hebrews calls it.
We can be deceived just like the Israelites – deceived by our own sin. Even in the midst of all these miracles, our hearts can be hardened against God, and we can be dropped dead in the Wilderness, as Bible-carrying Christians, by God. Sometimes it’s okay to hear that God is actually serious about what he says. Sometimes it’s okay. God’s love is incredible for us but he is still a God of wrath. And, trust me, the wrath of God is falling somewhere. He can’t be God unless his wrath falls on sin. So, it either falls on Christ on the Cross in your place, or you receive it yourself by your choice, but God’s wrath is going to fall somewhere.
This is a strong warning and a strong command that we must not allow the sin of self, and the sin of unbelief and distrust in God to creep in and destroy our lives. And we have got to hold one another up in this area, exhorting one another daily that we would not allow our hearts to be hardened toward God by the sin of unbelief…not unbelief IN God, but unbelief in not trusting God, not following God, and not obeying God. Do you believe in God enough to have it actually change your life?
Hebrews 3, verse 19, is speaking to Believers about the Israelites who also believed.
Hebrews 3:19 (NLT)
19 So we see that because of their unbelief they were not able to enter his rest. (A picture of the abundant life in Christ)
Then continuing in Verse 1 of Chapter 4.
Hebrews 4:1 (NLT)
1 God’s promise of entering his rest still stands, so we ought to tremble with fear that some of you might fail to experience it.
The conclusion of the warnings in Chapter 3 is that we should fear… fear what?
Fear that we might fail to experience God’s Rest, what Jesus Christ died to give us freely, through the same level of unbelief.
It’s through unbelief that what Christ died to give you freely, you will never experience. It’s through unbelief. Not unbelief as in, “I don’t believe in God.” But NOT believing God ENOUGH to enter into his Rest! “I believe, but I don’t believe enough to actually walk with the Lord, to actually obey him, to actually follow him.”
I’m not saying you’re not going to go to Heaven, I’m telling you what the Bible says. You won’t enter the Rest that Christ has for you. You won’t enter the peace; you won’t enter the Promised Land or what we call the Promised Life.
If we fail to experience God’s Rest, his Promised Life for us, it’s because of the sin of unbelief. Because we chose our way instead of his. He said, “Go.” And we said “No.” Or he said “No.” And We said “Yes.”
“I believe you, God. I just don’t believe you enough to obey you.” And then we say, “God, why haven’t you blessed me? Why haven’t you given me peace and joy and all the fruit of the Holy Spirit?” And God says, “Because you’re dying of dehydration in the Wilderness, that’s why. So just come over to where I’ve asked you to come, by faith. Do what I’ve asked you to do, by faith, and you’ll experience all that I’ve promised you would.”
If you believe IN God, but you don’t believe enough for it to actually affect your life and impact your decisions… you will miss the life that God has promised you.
Look at Hebrews 4:3.
Hebrews 4:3 (NLT)
3 For only we who believe can enter his rest…
NOT believe as in “a casual acknowledgment.” A level of belief that brings trust, obedience, action. I’m not going to do that because God says, “No.” I am going to do that because God says “Yes.” I’m going to ask God, I am going to search his Word, and I’m going to follow him. THAT is believing enough to bring rest.
It’s a belief that is displayed in trust. I trust God, that’s why. It’s a belief that’s displayed in obedience. It’s a belief that is displayed in action. We’re actually living for Jesus.
The Christian life will only bring us rest (his Promised Life) if we forsake all of our unbelief and put our full belief in God, in his promises and commands.
You must forsake your unbelief and believe enough to actually have it change your life. That’s the only place that God promises rest and peace in your life.
Let’s close back up in Hebrews Chapter 3 verse 14.
Hebrews 3:14 (NLT)
14 For if we are faithful to the end, trusting God just as firmly as when we first believed, we will share in all that belongs to Christ.
That includes his Rest, his promised, abundant life.
If God is speaking to you today, please listen.
For if we are faithful to the end, trusting God just as firmly as when we first believed, we will share in all that belongs to Christ.
Including his Rest and his life.
Some of us need to make that commitment today, or maybe we need to make it again today.
After God brought the ten plagues in Egypt
The miraculous Exodus
The phenomenal parting of the Red Sea
The incredible Mount Sinai experiences
Pillar of Fire/Pillar of Cloud
Manna from Heaven/Quail from the sky/Water from the Rock
And a dozen other massive miracles…
The Israelites saw God work, they saw his miracles, they believed in God. If you go through the ten plagues, especially the last one where the blood on the door saves your firstborn, you start believing in God. They believed in God.
Through it all, the Israelites mostly grumbled, murmured, and complained. You would think the more times God miraculously provided, the more their faith would have grown. But when God finally got them to the edge of the Promised Land, in Kadesh Barnea, Moses sent in the twelve spies.
In Numbers Chapter 13, Moses sent twelve spies into the land to bring back a report, and only two came back believing God was big enough to do what he had promised to do. After enough miracles to fill a big section of the Bible, only two truly believed God enough to have their faith actually impact their decisions. The remainder of Israel all turned against God and complained to Moses, “We want to go back to Egypt.” And in Numbers 14, the two spies who believed enough to actually act on their faith, tried to convince the Israelites to have that level of belief.
Numbers 14:6–9 (NLT)
6 Two of the men who had explored the land, Joshua son of Nun and Caleb son of Jephunneh, tore their clothing.
7 They said to all the people of Israel, “The land we traveled through and explored is a wonderful land!
8 And if the Lord is pleased with us, he will bring us safely into that land and give it to us. It is a rich land flowing with milk and honey.
9 Do not rebel against the Lord, and don’t be afraid of the people of the land. They are only helpless prey to us! They have no protection, but the Lord is with us! Don’t be afraid of them!”
What an incredible exhortation of faith from Joshua and Caleb. And then, a million Israelites – who ALL believed in God, who’d seen too many miracles to count – responded like this.
Numbers 14:10(a) (NLT)
10 But the whole community began to talk about stoning Joshua and Caleb.
Guys, these people believe in God… they believed… just NOT enough to ACT on their belief, and we get a clear picture of How God feels about it.
Numbers 14:10(b)-11 (NLT)
10 …Then the glorious presence of the Lord appeared to all the Israelites at the Tabernacle.
11 And the Lord said to Moses, “How long will these people treat me with contempt? Will they never believe me, even after all the miraculous signs I have done among them?
Israel believed IN God! They just didn’t believe enough to have it affect their lives. And God made sure that every one of these adult Israelites fell dead in the Wilderness. NOT because they didn’t believe IN God, but because
They didn’t believe in him enough to actually follow him
They didn’t believe in him enough to actually obey him
And after Moses pleads with God to save them, we read the following.
Numbers 14:20-22 (NLT)
20 Then the Lord said, “I will pardon them as you have requested.
21 But as surely as I live, and as surely as the earth is filled with the Lord’s glory,
22 not one of these people will ever enter that land. They have all seen my glorious presence and the miraculous signs I performed both in Egypt and in the wilderness, but again and again they have tested me by refusing to listen to (obey) my voice.
If Barna would have taken a survey, every one of those Israelites would’ve said they believed IN God. But God swore that they would never enter (or even see) his Promised Land (a picture of the abundant Christian life). The Promised Land is not a picture of Heaven (read about it in Joshua). It’s all about war, overcoming an enemy, and standing for Christ in an enemy land, and that’s a picture of our life here. It’s a picture of the abundant, fulfilled, victorious Christian life.
And so, God says these million who believe in me, they’re going to drop dead in their wilderness and they are never going to see my promised life that I have for them. They’re never going to experience what I have already set up and guaranteed for them because they don’t believe me enough to actually follow me. They don’t believe me enough to actually have it impact their decisions. They have a casual belief. But it’s not enough to change their lives – so I’m going to drop them here in the desert.
And so, today we’ve got to ask ourselves… do WE believe God ENOUGH to have it actually affect our lives (to follow, to obey). Do we believe God enough to actually obey him just because he’s God? Not because it makes sense to us, not because we can see what he’s doing, not because we know how it’s going to turn out.
But it’s this thing where you say, “Yes, Lord.” Or you say, “No.” But you don’t say, “No, Lord.” But we do that all the time because we say, “Yeah I believe in God. I want to make sure I’m going to Heaven. But I don’t really get into the whole Bible thing, you know. I mean there’s all kinds of stuff in there I’d have to change in my life if I started reading the Bible.” “God, I’ve seen your miracles, but don’t ask me to actually trust you. Don’t ask me to actually obey you. You’re crossing the line there, God.” A million Israelites dropped dead in the Wilderness because of that same attitude.
The Book of Hebrews is a fearful book. It’s a book of warnings – Hebrews and 2 Peter. Your salvation is secure because it’s in Christ, and Christ has finished that work, but you just study Hebrews and 2 Peter and you’ll challenge yourself. 1 John, and Jude as well. Do I actually care enough about my soul to respond to God’s Word?
The Book of Hebrews tells us that we need to fear the exact same possibility in our own lives as the Israelites. Is it possible for us to have this same spirit of unbelief that the Israelites had? Is it possible for us to believe IN God but not believe ENOUGH to actually follow him (obey him)? Is it possible to believe in God but not enough to actually change our lives? Is it possible for us who believe in God to harden our hearts toward his promises and commands and end up falling dead in our own wilderness, just like the Israelites?
Those should be rhetorical questions but, just in case you’re wondering, the answer is yes. Yes. We can be just like the Israelites, our hearts can be hardened to God’s promises and his commands, we can live our entire life saying believe God but never having it impact our lives. Chances are we’ll fall dead in our own wilderness, just like the Israelites did.
Am I saying you won’t go to Heaven? No, I’m not. You can deal with God on that. My encouragement is: make sure. Make sure. But the Promised Land is a picture of the Promised Life. And when you, as a Christian, are living a defeated, burdened life where we would say, “Wow, a Christian shouldn’t really live that life,” well, the Israelites shouldn’t have been dropping dead in the Wilderness either. And God made a way for them to enter into the Promised Land, but it was their unbelief that kept them from the life that God had.
Let’s go to Hebrews Chapter 3 where the writer is talking (to Jewish Believers, but Believers like us) about this same event we just looked at.
Quoting Psalm 95…
Hebrews 3:7-11 (NLT)
7 That is why the Holy Spirit says, “Today when you hear his voice,
8 don’t harden your hearts as Israel did when they rebelled, when they tested me in the wilderness.
9 There your ancestors tested and tried my patience, even though they saw my miracles for forty years.
10 So I was angry with them, and I said, ‘Their hearts always turn away from me. They refuse to do what I tell them.’
11 So in my anger I took an oath: ‘They will never enter my place of rest.’”
And then, in the next verse, God applies that exact same danger to us.
Hebrews 3:12 (NLT)
12 Be careful then, dear brothers and sisters. Make sure that your own hearts are not evil and unbelieving, turning you away from the living God.
That’s a pretty clear warning to every one of us to make sure we don’t have the same unbelieving heart the Israelites had in the Wilderness. The evil and unbelieving heart is the one that says, “I want to go to Heaven, but I want to live my way until then. I want to have the pleasures of the world, now. And I want to make sure I slip into the ‘amusement park of Heaven’ when my time comes.”
This is a warning.
The heart God calls an evil and unbelieving heart that the end of verse 12 says, will turn you away from the living God.
But what (specifically) was it that kept the Israelites out of God’s Promised Rest and had them all die in the wilderness instead? It wasn’t that they did not believe IN God. They believed IN God – that’s for sure… they just didn’t believe enough to trust him, to follow him, to obey him. They didn’t believe enough to have it actually affect their lives.
And so, God warns us of this same danger in verse 12, and then, he adds another command in the next verse.
Hebrews 3:13 (NLT)
13 You must warn each other every day, while it is still “today,” so that none of you will be deceived by sin and hardened against God.
The writer of Hebrews is addressing Believers and God is saying through him – to Believers – warn each other every day so that none of you will be deceived by sin and hardened against God by a level of unbelief like the Israelites had, who believed IN God, but didn’t believe in him enough to truly follow him, to truly obey him.
We have to have enough “guts” to hold each other accountable where we say, “Listen, do you realize that you’re blatantly disobeying God? Have you caught on to your rebellion? Are you at least acknowledging?”
Warn each other every day so that none of you will be deceived by sin and hardened against God. You’ve seen Christians like that, right? Deceived by sin, hardened against God. “I know God says, ‘No’, but I’m going to do it anyway.” Why? “Because I want to!” “I know God says ‘Go’ but I say, ‘No!’ I want to go back to Egypt (a symbol of the world) and eat leeks and onions.” That doesn’t sound like a good decision.
Do we believe in God enough to have it actually impact our life with him? If we don’t, we will never get to where God is taking us. We will never experience his Promised Life, or his Rest – as Hebrews calls it.
We can be deceived just like the Israelites – deceived by our own sin. Even in the midst of all these miracles, our hearts can be hardened against God, and we can be dropped dead in the Wilderness, as Bible-carrying Christians, by God. Sometimes it’s okay to hear that God is actually serious about what he says. Sometimes it’s okay. God’s love is incredible for us but he is still a God of wrath. And, trust me, the wrath of God is falling somewhere. He can’t be God unless his wrath falls on sin. So, it either falls on Christ on the Cross in your place, or you receive it yourself by your choice, but God’s wrath is going to fall somewhere.
This is a strong warning and a strong command that we must not allow the sin of self, and the sin of unbelief and distrust in God to creep in and destroy our lives. And we have got to hold one another up in this area, exhorting one another daily that we would not allow our hearts to be hardened toward God by the sin of unbelief…not unbelief IN God, but unbelief in not trusting God, not following God, and not obeying God. Do you believe in God enough to have it actually change your life?
Hebrews 3, verse 19, is speaking to Believers about the Israelites who also believed.
Hebrews 3:19 (NLT)
19 So we see that because of their unbelief they were not able to enter his rest. (A picture of the abundant life in Christ)
Then continuing in Verse 1 of Chapter 4.
Hebrews 4:1 (NLT)
1 God’s promise of entering his rest still stands, so we ought to tremble with fear that some of you might fail to experience it.
The conclusion of the warnings in Chapter 3 is that we should fear… fear what?
Fear that we might fail to experience God’s Rest, what Jesus Christ died to give us freely, through the same level of unbelief.
It’s through unbelief that what Christ died to give you freely, you will never experience. It’s through unbelief. Not unbelief as in, “I don’t believe in God.” But NOT believing God ENOUGH to enter into his Rest! “I believe, but I don’t believe enough to actually walk with the Lord, to actually obey him, to actually follow him.”
I’m not saying you’re not going to go to Heaven, I’m telling you what the Bible says. You won’t enter the Rest that Christ has for you. You won’t enter the peace; you won’t enter the Promised Land or what we call the Promised Life.
If we fail to experience God’s Rest, his Promised Life for us, it’s because of the sin of unbelief. Because we chose our way instead of his. He said, “Go.” And we said “No.” Or he said “No.” And We said “Yes.”
“I believe you, God. I just don’t believe you enough to obey you.” And then we say, “God, why haven’t you blessed me? Why haven’t you given me peace and joy and all the fruit of the Holy Spirit?” And God says, “Because you’re dying of dehydration in the Wilderness, that’s why. So just come over to where I’ve asked you to come, by faith. Do what I’ve asked you to do, by faith, and you’ll experience all that I’ve promised you would.”
If you believe IN God, but you don’t believe enough for it to actually affect your life and impact your decisions… you will miss the life that God has promised you.
Look at Hebrews 4:3.
Hebrews 4:3 (NLT)
3 For only we who believe can enter his rest…
NOT believe as in “a casual acknowledgment.” A level of belief that brings trust, obedience, action. I’m not going to do that because God says, “No.” I am going to do that because God says “Yes.” I’m going to ask God, I am going to search his Word, and I’m going to follow him. THAT is believing enough to bring rest.
It’s a belief that is displayed in trust. I trust God, that’s why. It’s a belief that’s displayed in obedience. It’s a belief that is displayed in action. We’re actually living for Jesus.
The Christian life will only bring us rest (his Promised Life) if we forsake all of our unbelief and put our full belief in God, in his promises and commands.
You must forsake your unbelief and believe enough to actually have it change your life. That’s the only place that God promises rest and peace in your life.
Let’s close back up in Hebrews Chapter 3 verse 14.
Hebrews 3:14 (NLT)
14 For if we are faithful to the end, trusting God just as firmly as when we first believed, we will share in all that belongs to Christ.
That includes his Rest, his promised, abundant life.
If God is speaking to you today, please listen.
For if we are faithful to the end, trusting God just as firmly as when we first believed, we will share in all that belongs to Christ.
Including his Rest and his life.
Some of us need to make that commitment today, or maybe we need to make it again today.