Summary: <div class="version-ESV result-text-style-normal text-html "> <p><strong> Hi, this is Ricky and our Daily Devotional today is found in Hebrews 4. </strong><strong>Feel free to read along in the show notes below.</strong><br> <strong>Also, I’d love to hear your thoughts on this scripture so comment on this episode at <a href="http://dailydevotionalpodcast.com/podcast/hebrews-4/">http://dailydevotionalpodcast.com/podcast/hebrews-4/</a>.</strong></p> <p class="chapter-1"><span id="en-ESV-29999" class="text Heb-4-1"><span class="chapternum">1 </span>Therefore, while the promise of entering his rest still stands, let us fear lest any of you should seem to have failed to reach it.</span> <span id="en-ESV-30000" class="text Heb-4-2"><sup class="versenum">2 </sup>For good news came to us just as to them, but the message they heard did not benefit them, because they were not united by faith with those who listened.</span> <span id="en-ESV-30001" class="text Heb-4-3"><sup class="versenum">3 </sup>For we who have believed enter that rest, as he has said,</span></p> <div class="poetry top-1"> <p class="line"><span class="text Heb-4-3">“As I swore in my wrath,</span><br> <span class="text Heb-4-3">‘They shall not enter my rest,’”</span></p> </div> <p class="first-line-none top-1"><span class="text Heb-4-3">although his works were finished from the foundation of the world.</span> <span id="en-ESV-30002" class="text Heb-4-4"><sup class="versenum">4 </sup>For he has somewhere spoken of the seventh day in this way: “And God rested on the seventh day from all his works.”</span> <span id="en-ESV-30003" class="text Heb-4-5"><sup class="versenum">5 </sup>And again in this passage he said,</span></p> <div class="poetry top-1"> <p class="line"><span class="text Heb-4-5">“They shall not enter my rest.”</span></p> </div> <p class="first-line-none top-1"><span id="en-ESV-30004" class="text Heb-4-6"><sup class="versenum">6 </sup>Since therefore it remains for some to enter it, and those who formerly received the good news failed to enter because of disobedience,</span> <span id="en-ESV-30005" class="text Heb-4-7"><sup class="versenum">7 </sup>again he appoints a certain day, “Today,” saying through David so long afterward, in the words already quoted,</span></p> <div class="poetry top-1"> <p class="line"><span class="text Heb-4-7">“Today, if you hear his voice,</span><br> <span class="text Heb-4-7">do not harden your hearts.”</span></p> </div> <p class="first-line-none top-1"><span id="en-ESV-30006" class="text Heb-4-8"><sup class="versenum">8 </sup>For if Joshua had given them rest, God would not have spoken of another day later on.</span> <span id="en-ESV-30007" class="text Heb-4-9"><sup class="versenum">9 </sup>So then, there remains a Sabbath rest for the people of God,</span> <span id="en-ESV-30008" class="text Heb-4-10"><sup class="versenum">10 </sup>for whoever has entered God’s rest has also rested from his works as God did from his.</span></p> <p><span id="en-ESV-30009" class="text Heb-4-11"><sup class="versenum">11 </sup>Let us therefore strive to enter that rest, so that no one may fall by the same sort of disobedience.</span> <span id="en-ESV-30010" class="text Heb-4-12"><sup class="versenum">12 </sup>For the word of God is living and active, sharper than any two-edged sword, piercing to the division of soul and of spirit, of joints and of marrow, and discerning the thoughts and intentions of the heart.</span> <span id="en-ESV-30011" class="text Heb-4-13"><sup class="versenum">13 </sup>And no creature is hidden from his sight, but all are naked and exposed to the eyes of him to whom we must give account.</span></p> <p><span class="text Heb-4-14"><sup class="versenum">14 </sup>Since then we have a great high priest who has passed through the heavens, Jesus, the Son of God, let us hold fast our confession.</span> <span id="en-ESV-30013" class="text Heb-4-15"><sup class="versenum">15 </sup>For we do not have a high priest who</span></p> </div>
