The Holiest of All by Andrew Murray eBook & audio book

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THE SECOND WARNING.
Chap. iii. 7-iv. 13.
Not to come short of the promised Rest.
XXII.
ON HEARING THE VOICE OF GOD.
III.— 7. Wherefore, even as the Holy Ghost saith,
To-day, if ye shall hear his voice,
8. Harden not your hearts, as in the provocation,
Like as in the day of temptation in the wilderness,
9. Wherewith your fathers tempted me by proving me,
And saw my works forty years.
10. Wherefore I was displeased with this generation,
And said. They do alway err in their heart:
But they did not know my ways;
11. As I sware in my wrath.
They shall not enter into my rest.
The writer has such a deep impression of the low and
dangerous state into which
the Hebrews liad sunk, that, having
mentioned the name of Moses, he makes a long digression to
warn them against being like their fathers and hardening themselves
against Him who is so much more than Moses. From
Ps. xcv. he quotes what God says of Israel in the wilderness,
hardening its heart against Him, so that He sv/are that they
should not enter into His rest. The words of the quotation
first point us to what is the great privilege of God's people