Shalom to everyone. I want to continue today in the book of Hebrews in the third chapter where we stopped in our last meeting together. We have covered so far up till the sixth verse of Hebrews chapter 3. I want today to begin with verse 7 and I'm really going to read all the way from verse 7 to chapter 4 and verse 13. And this passage, Hebrews 3.7 all the way to 4.13, gives us, the readers, and gave the Hebrew recipients of this letter 2,000 years ago, the second warning that they as believers received from the writer. They have already received one warning. He have already gave them a warning in verses 1 to 4 of chapter 2. There the warning was do not neglect that which you have already heard about. Don't neglect it. Don't set it aside because you will drift and it will drift. Now that we come to chapter 3, verses 7 to verse 13 of chapter 4. He gave them the second warning in the book of Hebrews. And this is the warning of to be careful not to doubt God's Word. Let me read those verses. Verse 7. Wherefore the Holy Spirit saith, Today if you will hear His voice, Harden not your hearts, as in the provocation, in the day of temptation in the wilderness, when your fathers tempted me, proved me, and saw my works forty years. Wherefore I was grieved with that generation, and I said, They do always err in their heart, and they have not known my ways. So I swear in my wrath, They shall not enter into my rest. Take heed, brethren, lest there be in any of you an evil heart of unbelief in departing from the living God. But exhort one another daily, while it is called that today lest any of you be hardened through the deceitfulness of sin. For we are made partakers of the Messiah, since, in the King James says, if, but since we hold the beginning of our confidence steadfast unto the end. While it is said today, if you will hear his voice, harden not your hearts as in the provocation. For some, when they had heard, did provoke. Howbeit not all that came out of Egypt by Moses, but with whom was he grieved forty years? Was it not with them that had sinned, whose carcasses fell in the wilderness? And to whom swear he that they should not enter into rest, but to them that believe not? So we see that they could not enter because of unbelief. Chapter 4, verse 1, Let us therefore feel, lest a promise been left us of entering into his rest, if any of you should seem to come short of it, For unto us was the gospel preached, as well as unto them. But the word preached did not profit them, not being mixed with faith in them that heard it. For we which have believed do enter into rest, as he said, as I have sworn in my wrath, if they shall enter into my rest. Although the works were finished from the foundation of the earth, For he spake in a certain place of the seventh day on this wise, and God did rest the seventh day from all his works, and in this place again, if they shall enter into my rest. Seeing therefore it remaineth that some must enter therein. And they to whom it was first preached entered not in because of unbelief. Again he limiteth a certain day, saying in David, Today, after so long a time, as it is said, Today, if ye will hear his voice, harden not your hearts. And if Joshua had given them rest, then would he not afterwards have spoken of another day. There remaineth, therefore, rest to the people of God. For he that is entered into his rest, he also hath seized from his own works, as God did from his. Let us labor, therefore, to enter into that rest, lest any man fall after the same example of unbelief. For the word of God is quick and powerful and sharper than any two-edged sword, piercing even to the dividing asunder of soul and spirit, and of the joints and marrow, and is a discerner of the thought and the intent of the heart. Neither is there any creature that is not manifest in his sight, but all things are naked and open unto the eyes of him with whom we have to do." Very long passage, but that long passage really deals with the second warning that the first century Hebrews have received from the writer. And the reason, remember, dear brothers and sisters, that he write to these Hebrews is because of the danger that they have had in going back into the system, which have typified the coming Messiah, which have spoken about the Messiah. But when the Messiah Yeshua have come, that which have been the shadow and the type have been done away in the person of the Lord Yeshua, the Messiah. So there would have been almost because of the influence of others, because of the families and because of the temple sacrifices, because of the priesthood and all this, they were ready to... Yes, they believe in Yeshua, but they will go back now to offer sacrifices. Go back now to a religious activity which will not help them to grow in maturity. And they were in danger of this. And now, beloved, here is the writer, the apostle, right to these Hebrew believers and giving them this second red light, second warning. Do not neglect to believe what God has said in his word. Do not doubt what God said. Move on to maturity. Continue to follow after the Lord Yeshua the Messiah. Now let me build a little bit upon this and all that you and I will understand where we are. Let's remember one thing. This is very important to remember when we study such a chapter and such a book as Hebrews. Again, and again, and again, I would like to emphasize that the Apostle wrote to Hebrew believers. Let's remember that. Always remember that. He doesn't write to unbelievers. He doesn't write to people who rejected the Messiahship of Yeshua. No. He's writing to people that have already have accepted Yeshua the Messiah as their Lord and Savior. He's writing to you and I who confess that we have already accepted Yeshua as our Lord and as our Savior. That's the important thing to remember. Now, the second thing. We also have to remember that in the story that we have here before us, or in the passage that we have here before us, we have an important lesson that when God saved us, He didn't save us in order that we will live for the world, live for self, live for Satan, live for that which is not of God. God saved us, so we will live for Him. God did not save us. And He says, you know what? I gave you a ticket to go to heaven. Hallelujah. Praise the Lord. And you can go and live the way you want to live. Don't forget about me. Forget about Yeshua the Messiah. Forget about the Bible. Forget about praying. Forget about the church congregational meeting. Just go and live your life for yourself. You see, you got the ticket. You're going to heaven anyway. No, when God saved us, he saved us in order that we will live for him in this world. He knows we are not a perfect people. He knows we are failing people, but he wants us to mature and to grow into spiritual men and women of the Lord Jesus the Messiah. So whenever we see Israel in the history of Israel in bondage in Egypt, it is a picture of us being in bondage to sin and satan. Israel being in Egypt under the taskmasters is a picture of you and I being in this world under the authority and the power of Satan and all his desires for us. That's the one picture. When Israel had been delivered out of Egypt in the power of the blood of the Lamb, It is a picture of you and I being delivered from the world and from Satan and from sin by the power of the blood of the Lord Yeshua, the Messiah. For we were not redeemed with corruptible things of silver and gold, Peter said to the early Hebrew believers, but with the precious blood of the Messiah, as of a lamb that is without blemish. Israel is in Egypt? Picture of you and I in bondage. Israel delivered by the blood of the Lamb? Picture of you and I being delivered by the blood of Yeshua, the Messiah. Now thirdly, Israel's journey from Egypt to the Promised Land, Canaan, and Israel going into Canaan is a picture of you and I been enjoying today the spiritual blessings that God have for us. Canaan, by the way, it's not a picture of heaven. Because when Israel entered into Canaan, they had a lot of problems. They have never had any rest in Canaan yet. Canaan is a picture of the spiritual blessings that you and I can enjoy today in this world while waiting to go to heaven. Don't make a mistake. Canaan is not a picture of heaven. Because in Canaan, Israel had so many problems and they still have so many problems today. Canaan is not a picture of heaven, but Canaan is a picture of the spiritual blessings that we have in the Lord Jesus the Messiah. You find it in Ephesians 1. Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus the Messiah, who had blessed us with every spiritual blessings in heavenly places in Christ Jesus, in the Messiah Yeshua and finally, the wilderness wanderings of Israel is a picture of the experiences that we all are experiencing all the way from the day that we were saved up to the day that we are going to be with the Lord in heaven. That's the lesson that we learn. The wilderness wandering is a type of our challenges and wanderings and many times because of our unbelief we experience all the trials and we're facing a lot of challenges in our life because of this. These are the things that I just wanted to begin with in order to build upon the passage that I'm going to speak with you today in Hebrews 3-7 to 4-13. Now, in this passage, You will also notice that the word rest is mentioned many, many times. You notice that? If you go back to our chapter, Hebrews 3 and verse 11, So I swear in my wrath that they shall not enter into my rest. If you go down a little bit, you will notice further. If you come further down, you go to chapter 4 and verse 1, it said, Let us therefore fear, lest a promise be left us of entering into His rest. You notice? If you go down to verse 3 of chapter 4, For we which have believed do enter into rest. Again in verse 3, If they shall enter into My rest. Chapter 4 and verse 4. For he speaketh in a certain place of the seventh day on this wise, and God did rest the seventh day. Verse 5 of chapter 4 of Hebrews. And in this place again, if they shall enter into my rest. And we can go down into verse 8. If Joshua had given them rest. Verse 9, there remains therefore a rest to the people of God. And then in verse 10, for he that enters into his rest. And finally in verse 11, let us labor therefore to enter into that rest. You notice how many times the word rest is mentioned? Well, here in this particular verses, chapter three, verse seven, all the way to chapter four, verse 13, we have these words rest mentioned a few times, but it's really mentioned in three different ways. One time, it is a rest that has to do with the rest of salvation. Another time, it is another word mentioned rest that does not speak about salvation, but is a rest of spiritual maturity. And the third time the word rest that is mentioned is a rest that is yet remaineth for the people of God that is heaven rest. This is the eternal rest. And so while there are so many times the words rest is mentioned, Sometimes the rest has to do with the rest of salvation, which we receive once when we became believers. Another time is the rest of spiritual maturity. It's a rest that we receive as we walk with the Lord every day of our life. And the third rest, of course, it's in verse 9 of chapter 4, is the eternal rest. There remains a rest for the people of God. And as we are talking about those verses, you will notice that we are going to see the difference between the three rests that is here before us. okay so let me just begin now in our passage and really there are three things that we learn here in this passage three things and i'm not going to go so much verse by verse on this one because it's a long passage but i want us to understand three things about this passage there is an admonition by the writer There is an admonition by the Hebrew writers to the Hebrew believers, three admonitions. One of them is to take heed. The second one is to fear. And the third one is to label. The first one is be careful, take heed, watch it. The second one is let us feel. Let us be careful, but let us feel. It's not so much a feel of our eternal relationship with the Lord, but there is a godly feel that we are to have. And the third one is let us label. Let us work. Again, it is not work for salvation, but it is a work that demands communication with the Lord, commitment to the Lord. It is labor, not labor for salvation, but labor to please the Lord and to be a blessing to mankind here in this world. And that's how I'm going to talk about this today. The first admonition from the apostle to those Hebrew believers found in verses 7 to verse 19. The remaining of the chapter 3 of the book of Hebrews. Verse 7 to verse 19. And you know what he does? In verse 7, 8, 9, 10 and 11, He began by giving them this take heed by quoting a psalm. He's quoting a psalm, Psalm 95. And the background of this psalm is the history of our own people Israel in the wilderness journey when they came out of Egypt. And you notice what he tells them. Look at this. He's quoting the whole part, the second half of this psalm. Wherefore, as the Holy Spirit say, today, if you will hear his voice, do not harden your heart, as in the provocation, as in the day of temptation in the wilderness, when your fathers tempted me and provoked me and saw my works for 40 years. Wherefore, I was grieved with this generation, and I said, there do always err. in their heart, and they have not known my ways. So I swear in my anger, they shall not enter into my rest." Now, beloved, look at this. He, by the way, he's quoting a Psalm to those Hebrew people. Now remember, the Psalms were not written when Israel were in Egypt. The Psalms were not written when Israel was in the wilderness. The Psalms were written by the psalmists, many of them, David the King of Israel, who later on, many, many years after Israel came out of Egypt, entered into the land, the kingdom had been established, Israel became a great kingdom, and David is writing some of these Psalms. And in Psalm 95, He's warning the people of his days, what God have warned the people of earlier days in the wilderness, in the same way he's warning them. He's saying to them, look, he's saying to them today, if you will hear his voice, do not harden your hearts. Remember, he doesn't write to unbelievers. Many times people ask the question, can a believer have a hard heart? Oh, definitely. A believer in the Lord Jesus, the Messiah, can definitely have his heart hardened. Not hardened in a sense of him losing his salvation. Again, I want to remind you, he or she never gained their salvation on their own anyways. They received it as a gift. There is no condemnation for those who are in the Messiah Yeshua. But there is a heart that had been hardened because of the way, because of the challenges that they are going in this wilderness, because of problems in life, because of discouragement around. And so the heart is being hardened. The heart has been so hardened that a person can no longer, if you will, for time, for a season, do not listen to the word of God. And what's happening that these people doubt and begin to doubt the word of God. Is really God true about his promises to me? He promised me that He's going to take care of me, and to watch over me, and to provide for me. And look at the situation that I find myself in. I have no jobs, and I have problems with my family, and I have my health situation is not so good, and I lost a lot of friends, and I lost a lot of my family members. Oh, what is going to happen to me? Is God is really faithful to what He told me? Well, He's telling to those Hebrews, and you can remember He's writing to those Hebrews. They look at themselves and they see, look how many problems I have because I just accepted Yeshua the Messiah as my Lord and Savior. Look at the problems that I have. And he gave them almost a half of a psalm. Verses 7 to 11, he is reminding them of what David said a long time ago. Today, if you will hear his voice, don't harden your heart. Don't allow yourself, brothers and sisters, I tell you, when a person hardens his or her heart, they cannot receive anymore from the Lord. They block themselves. They lock themselves. They separate themselves and they are in a sense not giving God the room of touching them and moving them and giving them joy that is unspeakable. Why? Because they harden their hearts. They harden their hearts. And you don't tell me that you and I cannot do that. You and I, I know that and I know it from experience. That I close my heart sometimes because I was disappointed from a brother or a sister. And I close my heart to these people. And I close my heart and I kind of start to blame God. And you start to stop yourself. You don't want to hear the word of God. When somebody phone you and somebody tell you about the things of the Lord. You don't want to hear it. And you block yourself and you separate yourself. And you think that you are just in doing that. And then you realize when you look back, there's the waste of the time, the weeks and the month and the years in some cases that a person have stopped from growing spiritually. Oh, he didn't lose his salvation. She never stopped to be a child of God. Oh, they didn't pay to be a child of God. They got it for free. God chosen us and saved us, but they didn't grow spiritually. They couldn't come and enjoy more of the possessions that belong to them. They couldn't enjoy it because they have blocked their hearts. They have not heard the voice of the Lord. And you see, He remind them. in Psalm 95, he says, harden not your heart, verse 8 here, as in the provocation in the day of temptation in the wilderness. You see, he takes them to the wilderness. And you remember when our own people, Israel, came out of the land of Egypt. You know, the first thing that they had to face is the Amalekites in Exodus. And they were scared and then God have chosen the victory that He took care of them. He provided for them. He watched over them and He blessed them. And then later on, if you remember, they came to a place that there was no water. The book of Numbers in the wilderness. And Israel complained and murmured against God and said, why did you bring us to here? Take us back to Egypt. It was better for us in Egypt. God had to teach them a lesson. And they got him again. He had to show them that he is providing water in the midst of the wilderness and he took care of them. And then later on they were complaining about no food and he provided for them manna, man from heaven. He gave them bread in the desert in a miraculous way he provided for them. And then later on, if you remember, when they finally got into the entrance of the land in Numbers 13 and 14, he sent 12 spies to go into the land to spy the land. And when he sent those 12 spies, all the 12 came back. 10 of them gave an evil report, and they said, we are not able to enter into the land. And only two of them, by the name of Kalev ben Yefunei and Yehoshua bin Nun, those two men, gave a good report about the land. We are able! This is a great land! We are able to get in and God is able to take care of His people and to give us this land. But you see what happened? If you read, And I'm not going to turn there now. Numbers 13 and 14. Do it for your reading. You will see how God had to discipline the people of Israel. They were saying to God, you know, they were saying to Moses, would to God that we were in Egypt. Would to God that we were back. Let us make a lead there and go back to the land of Egypt. And God was so righteous angered against them. But you know what he did? He disciplined them for every day that the spies were in the land. He gave them one year to wander in the wilderness. One day, one year for one day, for 40 years, He kept them in this desert because of their unbelief. He judged them and He caused them to be disciplined. And the very children that they were saying that they were concerned about are the very children who enter into the land and the very adults people above 20 years and up. who grumble and complain, end up to die in the wilderness and not to enter into the Promised Land. How interesting this passage is! And so, you notice now, after he quoting Psalm 95 in verses 7 to 11, here is the first thing that he mentioned. Remember I told you, he's using three words here. The first one is, take heed. Notice what he says now in verse 12. take heed brethren I was impressed with the fact that he wrote brethren many times here in the book of Hebrews he called them brethren they were not only his brothers in the flesh they were his brothers in Messiah Yeshua as well take heed brethren lest there be in any of you an evil heart of unbelief in departing from the living God but exhort one another daily, while it is called today, lest any of you be hardened through the deceitfulness of sin. Now there are many sins that we are committing in our lives, many sins. Sins in our action, sins in our thoughts, sins in our words, sins in our hearing, many sins that we have committed in our life. But that sin, is the sin of unbelief in God is able to provide for us on a journey, in a wilderness journey. That's why He said to them, Exhort one another, verse 13, daily. Why it is called today, lest any of you be hardened through the deceitfulness of sin. This is the sin of unbelief. Verse 14, For we are made partakers of Messiah, if we hold the beginning of our confidence steadfast unto the end. While it is said today, if you hear his voice, do not harden your heart as in the provocation. So he's taking them back to the time that they were in the wilderness journey. And he's telling them, listen, what happened historically to Israel. may very well can happen to you what happened to your own brethren historically in the desert can happen to you today those people of Israel that have come out of Egypt they were all under the blood they were forgiven they have confessed their sins and they were under the blood otherwise they couldn't come out of Egypt but they were not believing what God has said, and therefore God had to deal with them in the wilderness. And that's why it's saying here to them, while it is said today, if you will hear His voice, do not harden your hearts as it is in the provocation. He continue here in verse 16, and I'm reading Hebrew 3.16 now. For some, when they had heard, did provoke, howbeit not all that came out of Egypt by Moses. But with whom was he grieved for forty years? Was it not with them that had sinned, whose carcasses fell in the wilderness? And to whom swore he that they should not enter into his rest, but to them that believed not? So we see that they could not enter because of unbelief. You know what unbelief will do for us, spiritually speaking? It's not going to keep us out of heaven because we have already accepted the Messiah. He's not talking to unbelievers. He's talking to us about our day-by-day living. When we don't trust the Lord and believe that the Lord is able, actually we are not going to enter into the enjoyment of the spiritual blessing that God had for us today while we are still here in this world. And so the first warning that he gives them in verses 7 to 19, he gives them the warning of take heed, take heed, do not doubt God's word, but believe what the Lord has said. So many times we find out that Israel did not believe in the wilderness journey. And because they didn't believe what happened, they couldn't enter into the promised land, into Canaan. And they didn't enter into Canaan. Moses, by the way, was also, and Aaron, by the way, were those two men who also didn't enter into Canaan. Moses did not listen to God when God said to him not to smite the rock, to speak to the rock. And he did not believe God and he did not listen to God. God kept him outside of Canaan. Was Moses unsaved? Was Moses not the child of God? No, of course he was a child of God. But sometime God had to take someone outside of this scene because of something that he or she have done. while these people are still belong to the Lord. But the lesson here, brothers and sisters, the sin of unbelief, the sin of doubt will cause us not to enjoy the spiritual blessings that God has for us today. not to enjoy it and become a carnal believer, weak believer, not a strong believer, not a happy believer in the Lord Jesus, the Messiah. Now moving on, I know there's a lot of meat here, but I just want to put this package together. The second warning and the second warning, do not doubt the word of God. Now in chapter four, The second part here is in verses one to eight. In verses one to eight, he gives them, the second part in this warning is, let us fear, lest we fail to believe God's word. You know, we have to have a sense of fear, lest we believe not God's word. And so I'm reading in these verses. First of all, verses one and two. It says, let us therefore fear, lest a promise be left us of entering into his rest. Any of you should seem to come short of it, for unto us was the gospel preached, as well as unto them. But the word preached did not profit them, nor being mixed with faith. in them that heard of it. You notice the first thing in verses one and two is that God's word had been preached to them just as much it had been preached to us. See that word for gospel, it's much more than merely the gospel of salvation, but it is the total presentation of the word of God. To them the gospel was preached, the message of the word of God was preached, just the same like it was preached to us. What is the message of the Word of God? Is that God sent His Son, God provided for us a way of escape, redemption through the blood and He wants to bring us into the promised land. He wants to bring us into heaven. He wanted to bring Israel into the land of Canaan. Well, it says here, do you see what happened? They have heard the message. They were responsible to obey the Word of God. Let us therefore fear lest the promise being left us of entering into his rest. If any of you should seem to come short of it. He says, you know, we need to take heed. He's saying to the Hebrews, be careful. You heard the message. You heard the word of God. You are responsible to respond to it as God would enable us. You're responsible to not neglect it and not set it aside. For unto us was the gospel preached just as much as it was preached unto them. They heard the word of God. We heard the word of God. The word that had been preached did not profit them. And isn't it true? How many times we hear the word of God? It's like children, you know, like children, like our own children, we tell them, watch it. When you cross the road, You watch it, look left and right. Why daddy? Why Abba? Why Ima? Why mom? Why dad? Why? Because you might get into an accident. You will not see the car. Watch it. Watch the signs. That's what mother and father do. It's exactly what God did with them and God does with us. Watch it. Stay close to me, he's saying. But when we hear the word, it's come from the right side, going out on the other side, it's not mixed with faith. Then what happened? We neglected, we rejected, we set it aside and we end up not growing spiritually. We end up defeated as believers in the Lord Yeshua the Messiah. And so verses one and two, They heard the message and they were responsible to respond to it. Now verses 3 and 4. We also, we have entered into God's rest by accepting the message. For we which have believed do enter into rest, as it says. As I have sworn in my wrath, if they shall enter into my rest, although the works were finished from the foundation of the world, for he spake in a certain place of the seventh day on this wife, and God did rest the seventh day from all his works. You see, the Shabbat rest, the seventh day rest, is a picture of a person getting salvation rest because he has accepted the finished work of God. God on the seventh day finished the work of creation. Yeshua had finished the work of redemption. And so we have entered, those Hebrews have entered into God's salvation rest, or God's saving rest. Now verses 5 and 6. We are to enter into a spiritual maturity rest now in verses 5 and 6. Seeing, therefore, it remaineth that some must enter therein, and they to whom it was first preached enter not because of unbelief, again he limiteth a certain day, saying in David, Today, after so long a time, As it is said, today, if you will hear His voice, do not harden your heart. So here He is telling them in verse 6 and 7 that there is a necessity not to neglect, but to enter into rest. This is spiritual maturity. Today, after so long time, If you will hear His voice, do not harden your heart. So you can see how He built upon it. And of course, right now, in verse 7 and 8, there is a need to be exalted again and again and again and again, just like you and I need it. You see he's saying now in verse 7 and 8, Again, he limiting a certain day, saying in David, Today, for after such a long time, as it is said today, if you will hear his voice, do not harden your hearts. For if Joshua had given them rest, then would he not afterwards have spoken of another day. See Joshua, by the way, when Joshua brought Israel into the Promised Land, into Canaan, He didn't give them a full rest because they still had to fight. Constantly Israel had to fight against the Philistine, against the Amalekites, against all those nations. Constantly they had to fight. And that's what you and I have to do every day. Every day you and I, just like the people of Israel in Joshua time, we are fighting and we are day by day. fighting not against flesh and blood but we are fighting this the fight is the day by day fight that we have to fight and therefore he is reminding us of this and so verses 1 to 8 be careful and fear lest the promise be left us from entering into a rest by the way you notice that he says in verse 7 he limits a certain day saying in David You notice it says in David, today if you will hear his voice, harden not your heart. You look in Psalm 95, you don't find that it is a Psalm of David. We find out that Psalm 95 was written by David only because of New Testament passage. You notice then, New Testament, Hebrews 4 verse 7, in David. David is the one who wrote Psalm 95. But we only learn that from the book of Hebrews, not from the Psalms. So if you will ask today a religious reader of the Old Testament, of the Tanakh, ask him, who wrote Psalm 95? He will not know, because he doesn't have that New Testament passage that you and I have, but it is written by David and not by any other person. Now thirdly, quickly here, verses 9 to 13. In verses 9 to 13, this is the last part of this warning here, not only take heed, not only fear, But labour, verse 9, there remaineth therefore rest to the people of God. For he that is entered into his rest, he also hath seized from his own works, as God did from his. Let us labour therefore to enter into that rest, lest any man fall after the same example of unbelief. Now notice this. The remainders therefore rest for the people of God. That takes us to the third rest that I'm speaking about here today. The remainders rest. This has to do with the future rest that we're all going to have in heaven. We are tired from the journey. We are facing a lot of challenges and we are looking forward for heaven. One day the Lord Yeshua is going to come. He's going to take us to be with Him in glory in heaven. but it's still yet future that's why he said there remains yet a rest There is a rest that remains. We have already one rest. This is the rest of salvation. We are to labor for another rest. This is the rest of spiritual maturity. And there is remaining another rest. This is the rest of the eternal rest in the presence of God, of the Lord Jesus in heaven. So in verse 9, there remains therefore a rest to the people of God. In verse 10, It says that we have already the breast of salvation. For he that enter into his breast, he also has seized from his own works, as God did from his. It is so sad to see believers in the Lord Jesus that are not sure about their salvation. So what do they do? They are laboring, as it says here, to work out for to please God to be saved in order to be redeemed. They're not sure that they are saved. So they're working in order to keep themselves saved. Notice what he says in verse 10. He that is enter into his rest, He is seized from all his own works. Salvation is not by works. Salvation is by faith. And just like God stopped the works of creation on the seventh day, you and I have to seize or to stop to seek to work for our salvation because we already have it. We have already entered into this salvation rest. And so let's not make mistake. There are those who will teach us today that you gotta pay for your salvation. You gotta work for your salvation. You gotta do something in order to get saved. It's not only by faith, but it's faith plus works equals salvation. That is not what the Bible teach. Ephesians chapter two, by grace are you saved, through faith. And that is not of yourself, it is a gift of God, lest any man should boast. Not of works. Ephesians 2, 8 and 9. Lest any man should boast. See, we probably would boast even if we would move our finger. I would say I'm saved because of something that I have done. No, God says no. He that is entered into his rest, he also has stopped from his own works. just like God has stopped his own works when he finished the work of creation but then he tells them in verse 11 we need to labor not to labor to receive salvation but to labor to get closer in our relationship with the Lord spiritual maturity spiritual maturity that's what verse 11 teaches us it says let us labor therefore to enter into his rest, lest any man fall after the same example of unbelief. You see, that's where we have to labor. We have to labor to enter into the rest of spiritual maturity, not the rest of salvation, not the rest of the future heavenly rest, the eternal rest, that's we have already, that's the promise of God. but we are to labor for the day by day relationship with the Lord. And that's why in Philippian chapter 2 we read, work out your own salvation with fear and troubling. You notice he doesn't say work out for your own salvation, but work out the salvation that you already have. with the help of God, with fear and with troubling, as it is before the Lord. And the conclusion is simply this. Verse 12. The word of God is quick and is powerful, sharper than two-edged sword, piercing even to the dividing asunder of soul and spirit, and of the joints and marrow, and a discerner of the thoughts and the intent of the heart. Verse 13, neither is there any creature that is not manifest in his sight, but all things are naked and open unto the eyes of him with whom we have to do. You know what? God knows our hearts. We can hide our hearts from each other, but God knows our hearts. And that's why it says that the Word of God is sharp. is powerful and is quick and is sharper than two-edged sword. He knows, as it says here, he's a discerner of the thoughts and the intent of the heart. God knows us. God knows our hearts. He knows our weaknesses. He knows our strength. He knows our sins. It is nothing that is hidden from him. And that's why he's saying to them, he says, I don't want you to come to a point that you would not trust and not believe God and his word because he discern everything. Unbelief will not go undetected. That's what he's really saying by God himself. The spirit of God will detect unbelief in our lives in order to help us to turn around and trust in the Lord for the challenges that are ahead of us. And that's the lesson, beloved brothers and sisters, in the second warning that those Hebrew believers have received from the writer. And the warning is, be careful not to doubt the word of God. May the Lord just remind us, you know, every day when we are discouraged from the way, when you have problems that facing you, in every area of our life. We might be discouraged for a while, but let us turn to the Lord and seek His guidance, seek His counsel, ask Him to help us, to counsel us, to encourage us, so we will be able to please Him and not doubt His word. It's better to doubt the word of men, it's better to doubt our own words, but not to doubt the word that God has given to us in the Scripture. So warning number two, do not doubt, do not have unbelief in your heart to doubt the word of God because God will discern it and you will lose out in your spiritual progress. Can you say amen to that? Amen.