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if we hold firmly

Hebrews 3:1-19 (JDV)

Hebrews 3:1 For that reason – devoted brothers and sisters – who share a sky calling, consider Jesus, the missionary and high priest of our confession.
Hebrews 3:2 He was faithful to the one who appointed him, just as Moses was in all God’s household.
Hebrews 3:3 You see, Jesus is considered worthy of more glory than Moses, just as the builder has more honor than the house.
Hebrews 3:4 Now every house is built by someone, but the one who built everything is God.
Hebrews 3:5 Moses was faithful as a servant in all God’s household, as a testimony to what would be said in the future.
Hebrews 3:6 But Christ was faithful as a Son over his household. And we are that household if we hold on to our confidence and the hope in which we take pride.
Hebrews 3:7 Therefore, as the Sacred Breath says: Today if you hear his voice,
Hebrews 3:8 do not harden your hearts like you did in the rebellion, on the day of testing in the open country,
Hebrews 3:9 where your fathers tested me, tried me and saw my works
Hebrews 3:10 for forty years. That is why I was provoked to anger with that generation and said, “They always go astray in their hearts, and they have not known my ways.”
Hebrews 3:11 So I swore in my anger, “They will not enter my rest.”
Hebrews 3:12 Watch out, brothers and sisters so that there won’t be in any of you an evil, unbelieving heart that turns away from the living God.
Hebrews 3:13 But encourage each other daily, while it is still called today so that none of you is hardened by failure’s deception.
Hebrews 3:14 You see, we have become associates with Christ if we hold firmly until the end the reality that we had at the start.
Hebrews 3:15 As it is said: Today, if you hear his voice, do not harden your hearts as in the rebellion.
Hebrews 3:16 You see, who heard and rebelled? Wasn’t it all who came out of Egypt under Moses?
Hebrews 3:17 With whom was God angry for forty years? Wasn’t it with those who sinned, whose bodies fell in the wilderness?
Hebrews 3:18 And to whom did he swear that they would not enter his rest, if not to those who disobeyed?
Hebrews 3:19 So we see that they were unable to enter because of unbelief.

if we hold firmly

Christ was made lower for a short time, was faithful to his call, and prevailed. Now, we will also endure a short time of testing. We have the opportunity for the same glorification — to become associates with Christ in the dawning new age. But we must not become hardened and disobey like the Israelites did. We will have the eternal life we seek if we hold firmly.