Sermons citing Hebrews 3:12–4:11

^3:14 We have come to share in Christ if we hold firmly to the end the assurance we had at first.

^3:15 As it has been said: “Today, if you hear His voice, do not harden your hearts, as you did in the rebellion.”

^3:16 For who were the ones who heard and rebelled? Were they not all those Moses led out of Egypt?

^3:17 And with whom was God angry for forty years? Was it not with those who sinned, whose bodies fell in the wilderness?

^3:18 And to whom did He swear that they would never enter His rest? Was it not to those who disobeyed?

^3:19 So we see that it was because of their unbelief that they were unable to enter.

^4:1 Therefore, while the promise of entering His rest still stands, let us be careful that none of you be deemed to have fallen short of it.

^4:2 For we also received the good news just as they did; but the message they heard was of no value to them, since they did not share the faith of those who comprehended it.

^4:3 Now we who have believed enter that rest. As for the others, it is just as God has said: “So I swore on oath in My anger, ‘They shall never enter My rest.’” And yet His works have been finished since the foundation of the world.

^4:4 For somewhere He has spoken about the seventh day in this manner: “And on the seventh day God rested from all His works.”

^4:5 And again, as He says in the passage above: “They shall never enter My rest.”

^4:6 Since, then, it remains for some to enter His rest, and since those who formerly heard the good news did not enter because of their disobedience,

^4:7 God again designated a certain day as “Today,” when a long time later He spoke through David as was just stated: “Today, if you hear His voice, do not harden your hearts.”

^4:8 For if Joshua had given them rest, God would not have spoken later about another day.

^4:9 There remains, then, a Sabbath rest for the people of God.

^4:10 For whoever enters God’s rest also rests from his own work, just as God did from His.

^4:11 Let us, therefore, make every effort to enter that rest, so that no one will fall by following the same pattern of disobedience.