Tuesday, December 15, 2015

Harden Not Your Heart

12 - 15 - 2015

The Word of The Lord:
"So much hardness of heart and My people love it so.  They no longer delight in time with Me but seek after their
gods that they have erected in their hearts.  They are content as they are and do not desire to hear My voice or
change their ways.  They have pulled the blinders over their eyes themselves and shut their ears to My voice
saying, "I will do it my way".  They have believed a lie and love it so.  They do not want sound doctrine.  They do not
want to count the cost or bear the cross.  They say, " the price has already been paid and it is done!".  Such
misconception of My Word to hold on to their idols and gods.  But the day is coming soon, and surely it will not
delay, when every knee will bow and every tongue will confess that Jesus Christ is Lord!  So be not deceived, My
children, there is a cost and there is a cross to follow after Me."

Luke 9: 23 And He said to them all, If any man will come after me, let him deny himself, and take up his cross daily,
                   and follow Me.

Mat 10: 3 Whoever does not take up their cross and follow Me is not worthy of Me.

Ezek 14:3 Son of man, these men have set up their idols in their heart, and put the stumbling block of their iniquity
                  before their face:  should I be inquired of at all by them?

Phil 2: 10 That at the name of Jesus every knee should bow, in heaven and on earth and under the earth, 11 and every
                  tongue acknowledge that Jesus Christ is Lord, to the glory of God the Father.

Heb 3: 7  Therefore, just as the Holy Spirit says, "Today if you hear His voice, 8 Do not harden your hearts as when they
                  provoked Me, As in the day of trial in the wilderness, 9 where your fathers tried Me by testing Me, and saw
                 My works for forty years.  10 Therefore I was angry with this generation, and said, "they always go astray in
                 their heart, and they did not know My ways";  11 as I swore in My wrath, they shall not enter My rest."

The Lord has strongly been immpressing to me the seriousness of the sin of unbelief.  We confess with our mouths but
our hearts are far from Him as evidenced by our lack of time with Him for we make time for the things we love.  Also, as
evidenced by our fears, worries, and anxieties for His Word repeatedly states, "Fear not".