Father Mike Schmitz

For every house is built by someone, but the builder of all things is God.

Now, Moses was faithful in all God's house as a servant to testify to the things that were to be spoken later.

But Christ was faithful over God's house as a son.

And we are his house if we hold fast our confidence and pride in our hope.

warning against unbelief.

Therefore, as the Holy Spirit says today, when you hear his voice, 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 40 years.

Therefore, I was provoked with that generation and said, they always go astray in their hearts.

They have not known my ways.

As I swore in my wrath, they shall never enter my rest.

Take care, brethren, 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 share in Christ, if only we hold our first confidence firm to the end.

While it is said, today, when you hear his voice, do not harden your hearts as in the rebellion.

Who were they that heard and yet were rebellious?

Was it not all those who left Egypt under the leadership of Moses?

And with whom was he provoked forty years?

Was it not with those who sinned whose bodies fell in the wilderness?

And to whom did he swear that they should never enter his rest but to those who were disobedient?

So we see that they were unable to enter because of unbelief.

Therefore, while the promise of entering his rest remains, let us fear lest any of you be judged to have failed to reach it.