(Heb 3:7) “Wherefore (as the Holy Ghost saith, To day if ye will hear His voice, 8) Harden not your hearts, as in the provocation, in the day of temptation in the wilderness: 9)  When your fathers tempted Me, proved Me, and saw My works forty years.”   Their historical reaction – rebellion. Result: temptation brought judgment; testing Him found He was faithful; His works – always, always right.

(Heb 3:7) “Wherefore (as the Holy Ghost saith, To day if ye will hear his voice,”  One needs to take heed to the Holy Spirit’s voice – “today”. As Israel proved over and over again, the average person lacks a heart to turn in obedience to walk God’s way. God’s desire: (Deu_5:29) “O that there were such an heart in them, that they would fear Me, and keep all My commandments always, that it might be well with them, and with their children for ever!”

(Heb 3:7) “Wherefore (as the Holy Ghost saith, To day if ye will hear his voice,”  One needs to take heed to the word “today”. We often speak one being saved tomorrow. That is an offer not made in Scripture. The call to respond is today. Count the privilege and respond rightly today.

(Heb 3:7) “Wherefore (as the Holy Ghost saith, To day if ye will hear his voice,”  God gave man a freewill to exercise either to his good or evil. One has a choice whether to listen or ignore Him. If listening results in obedient response – one lives. If listening results in inaction on our part – we bear God’s judgment.

(Heb 3:6) “But Christ as a son over his own house; whose house are we, if we hold fast the confidence and the rejoicing of the hope firm unto the end.”     Our “rejoicing of the hope” is why we have the “confidence” – assurance of heart. “Hope” means a confident waiting for a sure coming event! I stand not upon my goodness, nor my efforts, but upon having been put “in” Christ Jesus my Lord.

(Heb 3:6) “But Christ as a son over his own house; whose house are we, if we hold fast the confidence and the rejoicing of the hope firm unto the end.”   “If we hold fast the confidence”: the word confidence has to do with a strong faith that speaks out with boldness. At the heart of doubt is a question as to the truthfulness of God to keep His promise. 

(Heb 3:6) “But Christ as a son over his own house; whose house are we, if we hold fast the confidence and the rejoicing of the hope firm unto the end.”   This book holds forth that Bible “faith” is the action of resting, acting, upon what God says. God sees such and bestows – in this case salvation. The result is that it continues all the way through whatever this life brings. Such are a part of “The House of Christ”.

(Heb 3:5) “And Moses verily was faithful in all his house, as a servant, for a testimony of those things which were to be spoken after;”  Moses was not simply faithful in heart, fidelity, devotion, and love toward the builder – the Lord God. He was also faithful in communication and penning God’s direction and commands of both conduct and reconciliation. His testimony says we are to and can do the same.

(Heb 3:5) “And Moses verily was faithful in all his house, as a servant, for a testimony of those things which were to be spoken after;”   Notice that Moses did not look upon the house as his own, but belonging to God. He never lost sight that he was the servant of the Lord. May we always remember that it is God Who is everything. It is a privilege to be the servant of God.

(Heb 3:3) “For this man was counted worthy of more glory than Moses, inasmuch as He who hath builded the house hath more honour than the house. (4) For every house is builded by some man; but He that built all things is God.” Here the Lord Jesus is being plainly acknowledged as God, as did all of Chapter One. There is only one true “builder” – God Almighty, the First and the Last. All other things will cease to exist.