Welcome to this Daily PBJ devotional. Read Genesis 45, Job 11, and Hebrews 3 today. This devotional is about Hebrews 3. Therefore, holy brothers, who share in the heavenly calling, set your focus on Jesus, the Apostle and High Priest, whom we confess. He was faithful to the one who appointed him, just as Moses was faithful in all God's house. For Jesus has been counted worthy of greater glory than Moses, just as the builder of a house has greater honor than the house itself. And every house is built by someone. but God is the builder of everything. Now Moses was faithful as a servant in all God's house, testifying to what would be spoken later, but Christ is faithful as the Son over God's house, and we are His house if we hold firmly to our confidence and the hope of which we boast. Therefore, as the Holy Spirit says, today, if you hear his voice, do not harden your hearts as you did in the rebellion, in the day of testing in the wilderness, where your fathers tested and tried me. For forty years they saw my works. Therefore I was angry with that generation, and I said, Their hearts are always going astray, and they have not known my ways. So I swore on oath in my anger, they shall never enter my rest. See to it, brothers, that none of you has a wicked heart of unbelief, that turns away from the living God. But exhort one another daily, as long as it is called today, so that none of you may be hardened by sin's deceitfulness. We have come to share in Christ, if we hold firmly to the end, the assurance we had at first, As it has been said, today if you hear his voice, do not harden your hearts as you did in the rebellion. For who were the ones who heard and rebelled? Were they not all those Moses led out of Egypt? And with whom was God angry for forty years? Was it not with those who sinned, whose bodies fell in the wilderness? And to whom did he swear that they would never enter his rest? Was it not to those who disobeyed? So we see that it was because of their unbelief that they were unable to enter. This is God's word. Although the grace of God caused us to believe in Christ and keeps us believing in Him, the pull of sin never goes away in this lifetime. The sin nature that each of us has and each of us was born with pulls us toward temptation like a magnet pulls a nail. This chapter in Hebrews taught us that Christ was greater than Moses. But just as Moses, the great lawgiver, dealt constantly with sinful rebellion from the people, we, the church, see people who claim to be among us pulled into wickedness and unbelief. Verses 12 through 14 urge us to keep an eye on our hearts in order to guard against the pull of unbelief. Verse 13, in particular, reminds us how easy it is to be drawn back into sin. By calling it sin's deceitfulness, the author of Hebrews labels the tendency that we all know too well. That tendency is the tendency to think we can sin without anyone ever knowing, or that we can sin without any negative consequences, or that we can sin because, at least in our case, it's justifiable. Those are all lies, and those lies and other lies call to us and tempt us to disobey God's word and to pull away from following Christ. One of the defenses against sin's deceitfulness is the community of other believers we call the church. Verse 13 commands us to encourage one another daily so that none of you may be hardened by sin's deceitfulness. That's a call to fellowship that is much deeper than chatting over donuts and coffee on a Sunday morning. It's a call to fellowship that urges us to get involved in each other's lives, not so that we can pick each other apart and question each other's salvation. but so that we can redirect each other's attention back to Christ and away from the lies that sin is constantly telling us. Verse 14 tells us that continuing to cling to Christ to the end is really the only way to know that we belong to Him. That verse says, again, verse 14, and this is the NIV's rendering, We have come to share in Christ if, indeed, we hold our original conviction firmly to the very end. We don't hold to this conviction in order to become Christians. Rather, holding our conviction is the evidence that we did come to share in Christ on the day of our salvation. Think about your friends in church. Is there anyone who seems to be wavering in his or her faith? Anyone who seems like they are dropping out, they haven't been to church in a while and don't seem interested? Anyone whose commitment to the word of Christ seems to have cooled? Maybe the Lord is bringing that person to your mind right now so that you can encourage him or her to hold on to Jesus and not to trade Jesus in for the false promises that disobedience and unbelief make to us. 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