Commands – 3

. Harden not your hearts

Hebrew 3:8-15

do not harden your hearts as in the rebellion,
on the day of testing in the wilderness,
  where your fathers put me to the test
and saw my works for forty years.
  Therefore I was provoked with that generation,
and said, ‘They always go astray in their heart;
they have not known my ways.’
  As I swore in my wrath,
‘They shall not enter my rest.’”

  Take care, brothers, lest there be in any of you an evil, unbelieving heart, leading you to fall away from the living God.  But exhort one another every day, as long as it is called “today,” that none of you may be hardened by the deceitfulness of sin.  For we have come to share in Christ, if indeed we hold our original confidence firm to the end.  As it is said,      
“Today, if you hear his voice,
do not harden your hearts as in the rebellion.”

. Have no respect of persons

1 Timothy 5:21
In the presence of God and of Christ Jesus and of the elect angels I charge you to keep these rules without prejudging, doing nothing from partiality.

. Have same love

Philippians 2:2
complete my joy by being of the same mind, having the same love, being in full accord and of one mind.

. Have no fellowship with works of darkness

Ephesians 5:11
Take no part in the unfruitful works of darkness, but instead expose them.

Thought 

. The wrath of God is never thought of in scripture as opposed to his holiness.  It is a necessary part of it.  Christ would have lost my soul if he had not refused to compromise with me. - Arthur J. Gossip

[Message No: 7220]