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The Importance of Today

Hebrews 3:7-19 Today is the only day we have any control over. Yesterday is past and the things done or missed are locked in history. Tomorrow has not arrived, nor do we have a guarantee that it will. The immediate moment of today is the only piece of time over which we have any kind of control. What we do today can soften some of the blows of a badly done yesterday, but it cannot undo it. Decisions made today can prepare for tomorrow; but only when a tomorrow becomes today can we really have possession of it. The children of Israel heard the warnings and promises of God. They experienced His daily provision of their needs; yet they refused to enter into relationship with Him. They constantly rebelled, they constantly complained and so the only ones that left Egypt over the age of 20 that entered into the Promised Land were Joshua and Caleb. The rest died in the wilderness. The call still continues today with the same warning, "today if you hear His voice, harden not your hearts." But, you say, "I don't hear any voice." God speaks through His Word and through His servants. When you hear the invitation to enter into His rest which is to enter into a relationship with God through Christ you will either except the Invitation and enter into that rest or you will turn your back on Him. To refuse is to do so at one' s own peril. Eventually you'll run out of tomorrows to which to put it off. We are admonished to encourage one another daily so that we will not be hardened by sins deceitfulness.

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Hebrews 3:7-19 (NKJV)

7 Therefore, as the Holy Spirit says: "Today, if you will hear His voice, 8 Do not harden your hearts as in the rebellion, In the day of trial in the wilderness, 9 Where your fathers tested Me, tried Me, And saw My works forty years. 10 Therefore I was angry with that generation, And said, 'They always go astray in their heart, And they have not known My ways.' 11 So I swore in My wrath, 'They shall not enter My rest.' " 12 Beware, brethren, lest there be in any of you an evil heart of unbelief in departing from the living God; 13 but exhort one another daily, while it is called "Today," lest any of you be hardened through the deceitfulness of sin. 14 For we have become partakers of Christ if we hold the beginning of our confidence steadfast to the end, 15 while it is said: "Today, if you will hear His voice, Do not harden your hearts as in the rebellion." 16 For who, having heard, rebelled? Indeed, was it not all who came out of Egypt, led by Moses? 17 Now with whom was He angry forty years? Was it not with those who sinned, whose corpses fell in the wilderness? 18 And to whom did He swear that they would not enter His rest, but to those who did not obey? 19 So we see that they could not enter in because of unbelief.

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