Good morning and welcome to our second service on Sunday mornings. First service is our Bible prophecy update,

and second service is our verse by verse study. Through God's Word, we find ourselves today in the book of Hebrews,

amazing book of Hebrews, and today, Chapter 3, the entirety, Lord willing of the chapter,

verses 1 through 19. So we'll encourage

you to turn there if you're not there already. And those of you that are here if you're able,

I'll ask you to stand. You can follow along as I read. If not, where you're seated is fine.

The writer of Hebrews by the Holy Spirit, verse 1, says, therefore, holy brothers and sisters,

who share in the heavenly calling, fix your thoughts on Jesus, whom we acknowledge as our apostle and high priest. He was faithful to the one,

verse two, who appointed him, just as Moses was faithful in all God's house. Jesus has been found worthy of greater honor than Moses,

just as the builder of a house has greater honor than the house itself. For every house, verse four, is built by someone, but God is the builder

of everything. Moses was faithful as a servant in all God's house, bearing witness to what would be spoken by God in the future.

But Christ is faithful as the Son over God's house, and we are His house, if indeed we hold firmly to our confidence and the hope in which we glory.

So, verse seven, as the Holy Spirit says, today, if you hear his voice, do not harden your hearts as you did in the rebellion during

the time of testing in the wilderness, where your ancestors tested and tried me, though for 40 years they saw what I did. That is why I was angry with that generation.

I said, their hearts are always going astray, and they have not known my ways. So, verse 11, I declared on oath in my anger, they shall never enter my rest.

See to it, brothers and sisters, that none of you has a sinful, unbelieving heart that turns

away from the living God. But, verse 13, encourage one another daily as long as it is called today so that none of you may be hardened by

sins deceitfulness. We have come to share in Christ, verse 14, if indeed we hold our original conviction firmly to the very end.

As has just been said, today, if you hear his voice, do not harden your hearts as you did in the rebellion? Who were they, verse 16, who heard and

rebelled? Were they not all those Moses led out of Egypt? And with whom was he angry for 40 years?

Was it not with those who sinned, whose bodies perished in the wilderness?

And verse 18, to whom did God swear that they would never enter his rest, if not to those who disobeyed.

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