The Lord shines very brightly in His Word and I invite you to take your Bibles or one from the pew in front of you and turn to Hebrew chapter 4 verses 12 and 13 where the light becomes very very very penetrating as you will see from verse 12.

It's on page 1423 in the Pugh Bible.

If you're not familiar with where Hebrews is, 1423, Hebrews, chapter23 Hebrew chapter 4 verse 12

let's pray and ask God to make his light shine with life-changing intensity into us as we begin.

O Father in Heaven, I ask that your word would now come with power. It is living, it is active, it is sharper than a two-edged sword.

It penetrates and pierces to soul, spirit, joints, marrow, judging the thoughts and attitudes of the heart.

Would you cause it to have a life-changing effect in every heart. Let none of us, I plead with you, let none of us leave

unbelieving. Make us by the power of your word, believers. Faith comes by

hearing and hearing by the word of God.

We want to believe, Father, help our unbelief.

Beget strong faith in your promises among your people.

Banish belief in the lies of sin and cause us to cherish the promises of God. In his name we pray, our Lord Jesus,

Amen. Now before I read these two verses, I want to read

verse 11 and make sure that we

ended on last week and verse 12.

Verse says, let us therefore be diligent to enter that rest. Now the rest he's talking

about if you weren't here last week is the restful salvation of God being forgiven,

being welcomed into God's fellowship,

and ultimately into heaven when we die.

So be diligent to enter that rest, lest anyone fall through following the same example

of disobedience.

Now whose example is it talking about?

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