This document discusses three key elements from Hebrews 3: circumstances, God's word, and our heart. It explores the nature of circumstances as times of testing or encouragement. God's word is described as living, active, and judging our hearts and thoughts. The document contrasts having a faithful, obedient heart that rests in God versus a sinful, unbelieving heart that hardens against God. It encourages readers to not harden their hearts and submit to God's voice and word so that God can shape them through testing times into his promised rest.

1. A little story about potatoes, eggs and
coffee beans

2. Today, if you hear his voice,
do not harden your heart…
(Heb.
3:7b-8a)
TODAY is God s moment of grace, God s fresh
call for us to choose.
Let us not allow past failures or future worries
hinder us from hearing God TODAY and deciding
to choose God, TODAY.

3. God s Voice/ Our Heart External
God s Word Circumstances
Three Elements in Hebrews 3 –
Circumstance, God s Word and Our
Heart.

4. Nature of
Circumstances
• Testing times
• Encouraging times
God s Voice/ Our Heart External
God s Word Circumstances

5. (Deut.1:34-39)
When the LORD heard what you said, he was angry
and solemnly swore: No one from this evil generation
shall see the good land I swore to give your ancestors,
except Caleb son of Jephunneh. He will see it, and I will
give him and his descendants the land he set his feet
on, because he followed the LORD wholeheartedly.
Because of you the LORD became angry with me also
and said, You shall not enter it, either. But your
assistant, Joshua son of Nun, will enter it. Encourage
him, because he will lead Israel to inherit it. And the
little ones that you said would be taken captive, your
children who do not yet know good from bad—they will
enter the land. I will give it to them and they will take
possession of it.

6. Nature of
Circumstances
• Testing times
• Encouraging times
God s Voice/ Our Heart External
God s Word Circumstances
Circumstances
Times of testing and trials are merely
opportunities for God s grace to act for us.

7. Nature of God s Word Nature of
Circumstances
• Living & Active
• Testing times
• Searching & Judging our
hearts • Encouraging times
God s Voice/ Our Heart External
God s Word Circumstances
For the word of God is alive and active. Sharper
than any double-edged sword, it penetrates even to
dividing soul and spirit, joints and marrow; it judges
the thoughts and attitudes of the heart. (Heb.3:12)

8. Nature of God s Word Nature of
Circumstances
• Living & Active
• Testing times
• Searching & Judging our
hearts • Encouraging times
God s Voice/ Our Heart External
God s Word Circumstances
Submissive to Hardened against Restlessness
Rest in God God God of Heart
Faithful & Obedient Heart Sinful & Unbelieving Heart
• Follow after God • Heart astray
• Know God s ways • Ignorance of God s ways
• Faithful & believing • Sinful & unbelieving

9. 12See to it, brothers and sisters, that none of
you has a sinful, unbelieving heart that turns
away from the living God. 13 But encourage
one another daily, as long as it is called
Today, so that none of you may be
hardened by sin s deceitfulness. (Heb.3;12-13)

10. Nature of God s Word Nature of
Circumstances
• Living & Active
• Testing times
• Searching & Judging our
hearts • Encouraging times
God s Voice/ Our Heart External
God s Word Circumstances
Submissive to Hardened against Restlessness
Rest in God God God of Heart
Faithful & Obedient Heart Sinful & Unbelieving Heart
• Follow after God • Heart astray
• Know God s ways • Ignorance of God s ways
• Faithful & believing • Sinful & unbelieving

11. You Are God s Workmanship

12. How Can You Be God s
Workmenship?
• Do not harden you heart.
• Submit to God s voice & word.
• Let God shape you through the testing
times that are often painful.
• Remember that through the pains God will
bring you into His promised rest.