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LESSON 1 * PART 4 * BOOK 48
Hebrews 3:12-19 - Part 2
Hebrews chapter 3 and well take a shot at verse 15 again, where it says:
Hebrews 3:15a
It’s not limited to any one class of people but it’s for the whosoever will! Now verse 15 again.
Hebrews 3:15-16a
Alright, so let’s finish the verse:
Hebrews 3:16b-17a
Unbelief! Now you see for people today, unbelief is not going to be forty years, it’s going to be eternity lost and with no hope. Alright, so here is the warning.
Hebrews 3:15b-17a
"…To day if ye will hear his voice, harden not your hearts, as in the provocation. It wasn’t the calf, the golden calf at Sinai. Unbelief! God said they could take it and they said what? God told Adam and Eve in simplistic terms, "Don’t eat of that tree." It was their unbelief, but what prompted their unbelief? They’ve got the same old Adamic nature as we do, and that old Adamic nature is lawless, and so it precipitated their unbelief. Now of all these children of Israel who came out of Egypt under Moses’ leadership, as they walked through that Red Sea, did any of them stay behind and say, "Well, I’m scared to death the water will come crashing down." Faith!
So that Red Sea must have opened, I think, miles. Faith. Were all those Israelites lost? Because even in Israel’s history when the nation, for the most part, was going down the tube and they were succumbing to idolatry. Even though we have a percentage as Abraham had when he bargained with God over Sodom and Gomorrah. What did Abraham say? "Now, Lord if there’s ten in Sodom, would you spare it?" Send us back to Egypt. Don’t forget what can happen to people when their hearts are hardened by unbelief, and when they can no longer trust the Word of God. We have been singularly blessed as a nation. No other nation on earth has enjoyed the Spiritual and material blessings that we have in America. But does that mean that God will never, never change blessing us? I think the day is coming when God is going to have to come up and judge America for the responsibilities that we have walked under foot.
Hebrews 3:17a
Hebrews 3:17b-18
It just repeats unbelief and repeats it and repeats it! The biggest tragedy for Israel, as well as for the human race in general, is unbelief. God says it and He expects us to believe it. Let’s see what Peter even calls it. In II Peter, chapter 1.
II Peter 1:15-16a
II Peter 1:16b-17
Now you remember, that was on the Mount of Transfiguration when Peter, James and John were met with Moses and Elijah. And God spoke from Heaven. Alright now verse 18. Peter says, "This voice which came from Heaven, we heard!" Proof positive that God is real. He is the Living God as we saw earlier.
II Peter 1:18-19
(The Mount of Transfiguration. We can believe them and we don’t have to doubt them because we understand that God has proven Himself over and over by fulfilling prophetic statements. Now verse 20.
II Peter 1:20
You have to compare Scripture with Scripture. II Peter 1:21
"For the prophecy (the Word of God,) came not in old time by the will of man: (they didn’t sit around a campfire and concoct these things.) but holy (or set apart) men of God spake as they were moved (or inspired) by the Holy Ghost."
That’s how our Book came together. This is not cunningly devised fables. It is the Word of God and consequently God expects us to believe it. Faith! Alright now, Abraham is just the opposite. Now verse 1 of chapter 4 of Romans.
Romans 4:1-2
2. For if Abraham were justified by works, (see that is what all religion demands. Religion will always give you a set of works) he hath whereof to glory; but not before God." Now verse 3.
Romans 4:3a
(What does the Word of God say? The Word of God says) Abraham believed God,…"
All Abraham did was took God at his Word, plus nothing! He believed God. Romans 4:3b
God declared him righteous because he could believe. The moment a sinner believes, God accounts him as righteous. But, at the same time God empowers him to live righteously. Verse 4.
Romans 4:4a
I’m putting God in debt to me!" Now, if somebody owes you, he’s in debt. Romans 4:5a
Israel at Kadesh, how much were they going to have to do to enjoy the Promised Land? Nothing! Just walk in and enjoy it. Romans 4:5
Alright, chapter 3 again verse 19. Hebrews 3:19
So then, they entered not because of unbelief. Unbelief. Now you see had they been able to believe God and if they would have gone in as a nation of believers, do you see what God could have done? Let’s look at the Nation of Israel with a second opportunity and that was when Christ came in His first advent. The Nation could have had everything.

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