Today If Ye Will Hear His Voice (Hebrews 3:1-4:13)

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Today If Ye Will Hear His Voice

Hebrews 3:1-4:13

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Hebrews 3:1-4:13

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This song belongs to the Hebrews collection. One recording is available to play here, with the complete lyrics below.

Bible book: Hebrews
Collection: Hebrews
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[Verse 1] Moses served faithfully inside the house; Christ is the Son who stands over his own. The builder receives more honor than the beams, and we are his house if our confidence holds. [Refrain] Today,hear his voice. Today,let the heart stay tender. Today,exhort one another. [Verse 2] Forty years watched wonders in the waste, yet error took root where his ways were refused. The promise stood open; the hearers drew back; the word brought no profit when faith was not mixed. [Pre-Chorus] While it is called Today, guard every brother from sin's deceit. [Bridge] A rest remains for the people of God. Labor to enter; hold the beginning firm. Living and powerful, sharper than a sword, the word divides motive and thought. [Outro] Nothing is hidden from the eyes before whom we answer. Today,hear his voice, and enter his rest.

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Hebrews 3: A faithful Son and a generation that would not hear

The Book of Hebrews honors Moses before it surpasses him. Moses is called faithful twice, so the distinction is not created by turning Israel's servant into a failure. The difference is between serving within God's house and standing over that house as Son. From there, Psalm 95 brings the wilderness into the room. A generation that saw God's works for forty years still hardened its heart, and the old warning is spoken in the present tense: "To day." Hearing, belonging to the delivered community, and even leaving Egypt did not by themselves guarantee entrance into rest. The chapter therefore makes unbelief visible in conduct and treats hardening as a danger that can spread through a community unless there is daily mutual encouragement. Its closing questions strip away every substitute explanation. Those who failed had heard, had experienced deliverance, and had travelled under Moses. They did not enter because of unbelief, and that conclusion opens the question of the rest that still remains.

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Hebrews 4: The rest still promised and the throne still open

The Book of Hebrews keeps the promise of rest open by reading creation, the wilderness, and Psalm 95 together. Canaan did not exhaust the word, because a later psalm could still say "To day" and speak of entrance. The rest reaches back further than Joshua to God's own completed work on the seventh day and forward to a Sabbath rest that remains for the people of God. The chapter then turns from promise to exposure. God's word is living and penetrating, able to discern what public appearance cannot reveal, and every creature stands open before the one to whom account is owed. Yet exposure is not the chapter's final note. The same people who cannot hide are given a high priest who can sympathize with weakness without sharing sin. Jesus has passed into the heavens, and the throne before which people stand uncovered is named as the throne of grace. The chapter joins seriousness and access without softening either one.

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