The document is a sermon about Hebrews 3:7-13 that discusses not hardening one's heart and hearing God's voice today. It provides commentary on verses 7-10, 16-19 noting how the Israelites rebelled in the wilderness and were punished. The sermon urges listeners to hear God today by visiting the sick, studying the Bible, not forsaking church, teaching others, giving, and living for Christ. It encourages Christians to exhort one another daily lest they become hardened by sin and discusses how believers are part of God's household if they hold fast to hope.

1. Hebrews 3:7-13
Tallapoosa church of Christ
Sunday Morning
January 8, 2012

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4. • Today translated 29 times in 28 verses in the New Testament.
• 8 Times alone in the book of Hebrews.

5. Will You Hear His Voice?
Hebrews 3:7-8 NKJV Therefore, as the Holy Spirit says: "TODAY,
IF YOU WILL HEAR HIS VOICE, (8) DO NOT HARDEN YOUR
HEARTS AS IN THE REBELLION, IN THE DAY OF TRIAL IN
THE WILDERNESS, (Repeated in 3:15)

6. Today Will You Hear His Voice
Hebrews 3:8-10 NKJV DO NOT HARDEN
YOUR HEARTS AS IN THE REBELLION,
IN THE DAY OF TRIAL IN THE
WILDERNESS, (9) WHERE YOUR
FATHERS TESTED ME, TRIED ME, AND
SAW MY WORKS FORTY YEARS. (10)
THEREFORE I WAS ANGRY WITH THAT
GENERATION, AND SAID, 'THEY ALWAYS
Quotes Ps. 95:7-11
GO ASTRAY IN THEIR HEART, AND THEY
HAVE NOT KNOWN MY WAYS.’

7. Today Will You Hear His Voice
Hebrews 3:8-10 NKJV DO NOT HARDEN
YOUR HEARTS AS IN THE REBELLION,
IN THE DAY OF TRIAL IN THE
WILDERNESS, (9) So he called the name of the place Massah and
Exodus 17:7 NKJV WHERE YOUR
FATHERS TESTED ME, TRIED ME, AND children of Israel, and
Meribah, because of the contention of the
SAW MY WORKS FORTY YEARS. saying, "Is the LORD among us
because they tempted the LORD, (10)
THEREFORE I WAS ANGRY WITH THAT
or not?”
GENERATION, AND SAID, 'THEY ALWAYS
Quotes Ps. 95:7-11
GO ASTRAY IN THEIR HEART, AND THEY
HAVE NOT KNOWN MY WAYS.’

8. Today Will You Hear His Voice
Hebrews 3:16-19 ASV For who, when they
heard, did provoke? nay, did not all they
that came out of Egypt by Moses? (17) And
with whom was he displeased forty years?
was it not with them that sinned, whose
bodies fell in the wilderness? (18) And to
whom sware he that they should not enter
into his rest, but to them that were
Quotes Ps. 95:7-11
disobedient? (19) And we see that they
were not able to enter in because of
unbelief.

9. Today Will You Hear His Voice
Romans 10:17 NKJV So then faith comes
by hearing, and hearing by the word of
God.
John 3:36 ASV He that believeth on the
Son hath eternal life; but he that
obeyeth not the Son shall not see life,
but the wrath of God abideth on him.

10. Today Will You Hear His Voice
Do We Hear Today?
• Do we visit the sick? (Matt. 25:43)
• Do we study the Bible? (2 Tim. 2:15)
• Do we forsake the assembly? (Heb. 10:25)
• Do we teach others? (Matt. 28:19-20; 2 Tim. 2:24)
• Do we give as we have been prospered? (1 Cor. 16:2)
• Do we live each day for Christ? (Philippians 1:21)

11. Today Exhort One
Hebrews 3:12-13 NKJV Beware,
brethren, lest there be in any of you an
evil heart of unbelief in departing from
the living God; (13) but exhort one
another daily, while it is called
"TODAY," lest any of you be hardened
through the deceitfulness of sin.

12. Today Exhort One
Hebrews 10:25 NKJV not forsaking the
assembling of ourselves together, as is
the manner of some, but exhorting
one another, and so much the more as
you see the Day approaching.

13. Today Whose House
are We?
Hebrews 3:4-6 NKJV For every house is built by someone, but He
who built all things is God. (5) And Moses indeed was faithful in
all His house as a servant, for a testimony of those things which
would be spoken afterward, (6) but Christ as a Son over His own
house, whose house we are if we hold fast the confidence and the
rejoicing of the hope firm to the end.

14. Today Whose House
are We?
Ephesians 2:19-22 NKJV Now, therefore, you are no longer
strangers and foreigners, but fellow citizens with the saints and
members of the household of God, (20) having been built on the
foundation of the apostles and prophets, Jesus Christ Himself
being the chief cornerstone, (21) in whom the whole building,
being fitted together, grows into a holy temple in the Lord, (22)
in whom you also are being built together for a dwelling place of
God in the Spirit.