DON’T HARDEN YOUR HEART! CLICK ON THE LINKS TODAY!
Clicking on the links is not a religious rule. Clicking on the links in this website will not make you holy or righteous. The only reason for clicking on the links is to hear God’s spoken voice sooner rather than later. Consider these scriptures:
Hebrews 3:7-19 So, as the Holy Spirit says: “Today, if you hear his voice, 8 do not harden your hearts as you did in the rebellion, during the time of testing in the wilderness, 9 where your ancestors tested and tried me, though for forty years they saw what I did. 10 That is why I was angry with that generation; I said, ‘Their hearts are always going astray, and they have not known my ways.’ 11 So I declared on oath in my anger, ‘They shall never enter my rest.’
COMMENTARY: The emphasis here is on “today.” Readers should keep in mind that the occasion of encountering a link to click is a “today” opportunity. Failure to click on a link, therefore, is an act of hardening the heart.
What this scripture says is that every time you resist hearing God’s spoken voice you harden your heart. This seems simple enough to grasp. What is not simple to grasp is the fact that choosing to listen to a false prophet (i.e. religious leader) instead of God’s voice spoken directly to the heart is an act of resistance and rebellion.
AUTHOR”S NOTE: We do not want to go so far as to say that failure to click on the links is an act of rebellion, but it does at least indicate a lack of childlike curiosity about new things that God might teach.
Religious people go astray every time they choose to listen to a false prophet. They will not enter into God’s rest as long as they make that choice. They break the Fourth Commandment.
God considers the act of listening to a false prophet a choice of turning away from him. Religious people who listen to pastors, priests, rabbis and so on choose intimacy with these religious leaders rather than intimacy with God.
See Fourth Commandment and Sabbath, Fasting and Rest for understanding of rest.
”12 See to it, brothers and sisters, that none of you has a sinful, unbelieving heart that turns away from the living God. 13 But encourage one another daily, as long as it is called “Today,” so that none of you may be hardened by sin’s deceitfulness.
COMMENTARY: Most of the links found in this website go to scriptures. Links that do not go directly to scriptures go to pages that include other links with scriptures. It can be said, therefore, that failure to click on a link is an act of turning away from God. For sure, failure to click links is not evidence of seeking God with your heart, mind, soul and strength.
The deception of sin is that God may be found in the teachings of religious leaders in religious settings such as churches and synagogues.
14 We have come to share in Christ, if indeed we hold our original conviction firmly to the very end.
COMMENTARY: The concept of “sharing in christ is wrongly interpreted as “sharing in Jesus”. Sharing in Christ means to share the qualities of a messiah (i.e. christ). Thus, sharing christlike qualities means to be like a messiah. That christlike qualities were not limited to a person named Jesus is affirmed in many scriptures that make it clear that persons other than Jesus were anointed. And several New Testament scriptures make it clear that New Covenant disciples are anointed.
The words “messiah” is not a proper name. Jesus is a proper name of a human who was anointed as a messiah. Jesus is one of many messiahs who were anointed prophets sent by God to speak for God.
15 As has just been said: “Today, if you hear his voice, do not harden your hearts as you did in the rebellion.” 16 Who were they who heard and rebelled? Were they not all those Moses led out of Egypt? 17 And with whom was he angry for forty years? Was it not with those who sinned, whose bodies perished in the wilderness? 18 And to whom did God swear that they would never enter his rest if not to those who disobeyed? 19 So we see that they were not able to enter, because of their unbelief.
COMMENTARY: The reason Israel spent forty years in the wilderness is that they did not trust that they would be strong enough to overcome the giants who lived there.
Giants are symbolic representations of religious leaders who are so spiritually strong that they would overcome Israel. In other words, Israel did not trust that the power of God’s spoken word in them was greater than the power of the words (i.e. swords) of the religious leaders. This, of course, made God very angry. Thus, lacking power, they would not be able to defeat these giant enemies.
Lack of trust in his spoken word is considered by God to be sin because belief in the greater power of the words of giants (i.e. religious leaders) elevates the power of the spoken words of false prophets (i.e. Trees of Knowledge of Good and Evil) above the power of God’s spoken word. This agrees with the basic definition of sin.
Hebrews 4:1-12 Therefore, since the promise of entering his rest still stands, let us be careful that none of you be found to have fallen short of it. 2 For we also have had the good news proclaimed to us, just as they did; but the message they heard was of no value to them, because they did not share the faith of those who obeyed. 3 Now we who have believed enter that rest, just as God has said, “So I declared on oath in my anger, ‘They shall never enter my rest.’ ”And yet his works have been finished since the creation of the world.
4 For somewhere he has spoken about the seventh day in these words: “On the seventh day God rested from all his works.”c
5 And again in the passage above he says, “They shall never enter my rest.”
6 Therefore since it still remains for some to enter that rest, and since those who formerly had the good news proclaimed to them did not go in because of their disobedience,
7 God again set a certain day, calling it “Today.” This he did when a long time later he spoke through David, as in the passage already quoted: “Today, if you hear his voice, do not harden your hearts.”
8For if Joshua had given them rest, God would not have spoken later about another day.
9 There remains, then, a Sabbath-rest for the people of God;
10 for anyone who enters God’s rest also rests from their works, just as God did from his.
11 Let us, therefore, make every effort to enter that rest, so that no one will perish by following their example of disobedience.
12 For the word of God is alive and active. Sharper than any double-edged sword, it penetrates even to dividing soul and spirit, joints and marrow; it judges the thoughts and attitudes of the heart.
Psalm 95:7
For He is our God, and we are the people of His pasture, the sheep under His care. Today, if you hear His voice,
For He is our God, and we are the people of His pasture, the sheep under His care. Today, if you hear His voice,
COMMENTARY: See this link for understanding of the importance of hearing God’s voice today.