Devotion 614

“Today, If You Hear His Voice”

Reference: Psalms Chapter 95

God has always had a witness.

He had a witness in Noah.
He had a witness in Moses.
He had a witness in Joshua.
He had a witness in the major and minor prophets.
He had a witness in John the Baptist.
He had a witness in Jesus Christ.
He had a witness in the Disciples.
He had a witness in Stephen.
He had a witness in Paul, Silas, Luke.

Today, He has a witness in men and women. The same witness from the beginning.

The witness of God is the Holy Spirit.

Acts 1:7-8 “And he said unto them, It is not for you to know the times or the seasons, which the Father hath put in his own power. [8] But ye shall receive power, after that the Holy Ghost is come upon you: and ye shall be witnesses unto me both in Jerusalem, and in all Judaea, and in Samaria, and unto the uttermost part of the earth.”

Today, if you hear the Voice of the Witness, harden not your heart.

The Psalmist writes.

Let’s read:

Psalm 95:1-8 “O come, let us sing unto the LORD: let us make a joyful noise to the rock of our salvation. [2] Let us come before his presence with thanksgiving, and make a joyful noise unto him with psalms. [3] For the LORD is a great God, and a great King above all gods. [4] In his hand are the deep places of the earth: the strength of the hills is his also. [5] The sea is his, and he made it: and his hands formed the dry land. [6] O come, let us worship and bow down: let us kneel before the LORD our maker. [7] For he is our God; and we are the people of his pasture, and the sheep of his hand. To day if ye will hear his voice, [8] Harden not your heart, as in the provocation, and as in the day of temptation in the wilderness:”

The voice of the Witness is clear. He is calling every man, woman, boy or girl to repentance.

Hebrews 3:7-12 “Wherefore (as the Holy Ghost saith, To day if ye will hear his voice, [8] Harden not your hearts, as in the provocation, in the day of temptation in the wilderness: [9] When your fathers tempted me, proved me, and saw my works forty years. [10] Wherefore I was grieved with that generation, and said, They do alway err in their heart; and they have not known my ways. [11] So I sware in my wrath, They shall not enter into my rest.) [12] Take heed, brethren, lest there be in any of you an evil heart of unbelief, in departing from the living God.”

Throw away any unbelief and doubt.

Hebrews 3:15-19 “While it is said, To day if ye will hear his voice, harden not your hearts, as in the provocation. [16] For some, when they had heard, did provoke: howbeit not all that came out of Egypt by Moses. [17] But with whom was he grieved forty years? was it not with them that had sinned, whose carcases fell in the wilderness? [18] And to whom sware he that they should not enter into his rest, but to them that believed not? [19] So we see that they could not enter in because of unbelief.”

The unbeliever will never find rest.

Hebrews 4:6-11 “Seeing therefore it remaineth that some must enter therein, and they to whom it was first preached entered not in because of unbelief: [7] Again, he limiteth a certain day, saying in David, To day, after so long a time; as it is said, To day if ye will hear his voice, harden not your hearts. [8] For if Jesus had given them rest, then would he not afterward have spoken of another day. [9] There remaineth therefore a rest to the people of God. [10] For he that is entered into his rest, he also hath ceased from his own works, as God did from his. [11] Let us labour therefore to enter into that rest, lest any man fall after the same example of unbelief.”

Believe and receive the Witness; the Holy Spirit. He is the rest and the refreshing.

Isaiah 28:11-12 “For with stammering lips and another tongue will he speak to this people. [12] To whom he said, This is the rest wherewith ye may cause the weary to rest; and this is the refreshing: yet they would not hear.”

He is the same Witness from the Garden of Eden to this day. The Witness who told Adam and Eve to steer off the forbidden tree, calls us to Jesus Christ the Tree of Life.

Today, harden not your heart if you hear His voice.

We conclude our reading:

Psalm 95:9-11 “When your fathers tempted me, proved me, and saw my work. [10] Forty years long was I grieved with this generation, and said, It is a people that do err in their heart, and they have not known my ways: [11] Unto whom I sware in my wrath that they should not enter into my rest.”

Receive the Witness, the Holy Spirit of God. BELIEVE and confess Christ the Word as we’ve revealed Him from the First Adam. The same Witness from the beginning, in Christ!

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