Click here to open the Video Devotional Hebrews 4:12 God’s word speaks to our hearts; it teaches us of moral right and wrong; it gives us blessings and it convicts us to repentance.  “For the word of God is living and powerful” (Hebrews 4:12a, NKJV).  John 1:1-4 (NIV) states, “In the beginning was the Word, …

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Click here to open the Video Devotional Hebrews 4:11 The author of Hebrews bookends this passage between verses 1 and 11 being essentially the same verse and the warning to not fall to the same destruction of that of those in the rebellion of the Exodus.   This is a command to “take heed” of …

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Click here to open the Video Devotional Hebrews 4:8-10 The author of Hebrews brings into light Joshua, the assistant of Moses, who after the death of Moses led the Israelites into the promised land (Deuteronomy 34; Joshua 1).  Finally, after forty years of wandering in the wilderness the Israelites were permitted to enter the land …

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Click here to open the Video Devotional Hebrews 4:3-7 We find in Hebrews 4:3 that those who believe do enter God’s rest, but the author goes on to quote Psalm 95:11 which states (NKJV), “So I swore in My wrath, ‘They shall not enter My rest,’” which at first glance seems to be a immediate …

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Click here to open the Video Devotional Hebrews 4:2 The author of Hebrews tells us that the gospel was preached to those Israelites who wandered in the wilderness for forty years with Moses.  But the question quickly arises of how can this be since Jesus came many years later (in the flesh) preaching the gospel.  …

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