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John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
But Christ as a Son over his own house,.... As Moses was not, though the Jews say that he was מאריה דבית (a) and בעל הבית (b), "lord and master of the house"; yea, and בן בית, "the Son of the house" (c); but this he was not: Christ is the Son and heir, the Lord and master; he is a Son, not by creation, or by adoption, or by office, but by nature:...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Whose house are we, Christ built the house; he laid us together like stones upon the great foundation, Moses is but a caretaker in the house. Heb_3:6. If we hold fast the confidence and the rejoicing of the hope from unto the end. Final perseverance is an absolute necessity of a child of God. We do not prove ourselves to be a part of the house if...
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
Wherefore, as the Holy Ghost saith,.... In Psalms 95:7 today if you will hear his voice; either the precepts of Christ, to hear which is to obey them; and this is an acknowledgment to Christ as King of saints, and is a testimony of love to him, and is wellpleasing in his sight; and in which the saints find pleasure themselves, and profit also: or...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Wherefore (as the Holy Ghost saith, Today if ye will hear his voice, harden not your hearts, as in the provocation, in the day of temptation in the wilderness: You are his house, give him rest, do not provoke him. If you belong to him be holy, do not grieve him. If you are his house be not defiled: surely he should dwell in a holy place.
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Wherefore — Now comes a long parenthesis: —
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
(As the Holy Ghost saith, Today if ye 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 said, They do alway err in their heart; and they have not known my ways. So I...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Wherefore (as the Holy Ghost saith, today if ye 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. That was a house in which it was hard to dwell. It had been Moses’ prayer, “if thy presence go not with us, carry us...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Wherefore (as the Holy Ghost saith, Today if ye 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 said, They do alway err in their heart; and they have not known my...
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
Harden not you hearts,.... There is a natural hardness of the heart; the heart of man is like a stone, destitute of spiritual life, motion, and activity; it is senseless, stupid, impenitent, stubborn, and inflexible, on which no impressions can be made, but by powerful grace: and there is an acquired, habitual, and voluntary hardness of heart, to...
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
When your fathers tempted me,.... This the apostle cites and repeats, to expose the glorying of the Jews in their ancestors; to dissuade them from following their sinful practices; to deter them from the same by observing both their sin and punishment; and to heighten their regards to the voice and Gospel of Christ: proved me; this is either an...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
When your fathers tempted me, proved me, and saw my works forty years. Oh, children of God, you have some of you been more than forty years now in the Lord’s service: do not vex him. You have been long called out of Egypt and brought into the separate place in this wilderness world: be careful to be fit for the Divine indwelling.
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
Wherefore I was grieved with that generation,.... דור המדבר, "the generation of the wilderness", as the Jews often call them; and which they say was more beloved than any generation (e); and yet they will not allow them a part in the world to come; [See comments on Hebrews 3:11]. When God is said to be grieved with them, it is to be considered as...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Wherefore I was grieved with that generation, and said, They do alway err in their heart; and they have not known my ways. So I sware in my wrath, They shall not enter into my rest.) God grant that none of this congregation may be of that mind, who having named the name of Christ and being known as his people, continue to grieve him one way and...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Wherefore I was grieved with that generation, and said, They do always err in their heart; and they have not known my ways. They do err; they did always err in their heart. God is very tender to errors of judgment — errors of the head. But to err in the heart — this is the heart of erring, and very provoking to the Most High; and for it always to...
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
So I sware in my wrath,.... Swearing is ascribed to God, to show the certainty of the thing spoken of; as of mercies, when he swears in love, and by his holiness; so here, of punishment, when he swears in wrath, in indignation, in sore displeasure, and the threatened evil is irrevocable and inevitable: they shall not enter into my rest; into the...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
So I sware in my wrath, They shall not enter into my rest.) What a dreadful warning this is to us! If God has had forty years’ patience with you, take heed, sinner, take heed, lest he swear in his wrath that ye shall not enter into his rest, for your entrance into that rest depends upon his good will and pleasure. He will have mercy on whom he...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
So I sware 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. There was that “evil heart” in the Israelites, is there not a danger that it may be in you also who are partakers of the like nature?
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
Take heed, brethren,.... This exhortation is grounded upon the state and case of their ancestors before given, as a warning and caution to the then present Hebrews; and whom the apostle styles "brethren", to show that he had no hard thoughts of them, and that his jealousy was a godly one, and not an evil suspicion; and may teach us that all...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Take heed, brethren, lest there be in any of you an evil heart of unbelief, in departing from the living God. Here the charge is not to the outside world but to those whom he had called “holy brethren.” He drops the word “holy” for there are some brethren so called who would not deserve that name, and to them he speaks very pointedly, “Take heed,...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
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. Watch over each other as well as over yourselves. Take heed lest sin hardens you before you are aware of it; even while...