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While it is called To-day - while the "to-day" lasts.
There wont always be a tomorrow.
"But exhort one another daily, while it is called To day; lest any of you be hardened through the deceitfulness of sin." - Hebrews 3:13
"To provoke God, when he is letting us see that we entirely depend and live upon him, is a provocation indeed.
The hardening of the heart is the spring of all other sins.
The sins of others, especially of our relations, should be warnings to us.
All sin, especially sin committed by God's professing, privileged people, not only provokes God, but it grieves him.
God is loth to destroy any in, or for their sin; he waits long to be gracious to them.
But sin, long persisted in, will make God's wrath discover itself in destroying the impenitent; there is no resting under the wrath of God.
Take heed: all who would get safe to heaven must look about them; if once we allow ourselves to distrust God, we may soon desert him.
Let those that think they stand, take heed lest they fall. Since to-morrow is not ours, we must make the best improvement of this day.
And there are none, even the strongest of the flock, who do not need help of other Christians.
Neither are there any so low and despised, but the care of their standing in the faith, and of their safety, belongs to all.
Sin has so many ways and colors, that we need more eyes than ours own.
Sin appears fair, but is vile; it appears pleasant, but is destructive; it promises much, but performs nothing.
The deceitfulness of sin hardens the soul; one sin allowed makes way for another; and every act of sin confirms the habit.
Let every one beware of sin.
[Matthew Henry commentary]
Heb 3:7 Therefore, as the Holy Spirit says, "Today, if 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 forty years. Therefore I was provoked with that generation, and said, 'They always go astray in their heart; they have not known my ways.' As I swore in my wrath, 'They shall not enter my rest.'" Take care, brothers, lest there be in any of you an evil, unbelieving heart, leading you to fall away from the living God.
"The oldest manuscripts read, "tempted (Me) in the way of testing," that is, putting (Me) to the proof whether I was able and willing to relieve them, not believing that I am so."
"To-morrow is the day when idle men work, and fools repent."
"To-morrow is Satan's to-day; he cares not what good resolutions you form, if only you fix them for to-morrow."
Hebrews 3 Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Bible Commentary
Heb 3:6 But Christ is faithful as the Son in charge of God's house. We are his house if we keep up our courage and our confidence in what we hope for.
There wont always be a tomorrow.
"But exhort one another daily, while it is called To day; lest any of you be hardened through the deceitfulness of sin." - Hebrews 3:13
"To provoke God, when he is letting us see that we entirely depend and live upon him, is a provocation indeed.
The hardening of the heart is the spring of all other sins.
The sins of others, especially of our relations, should be warnings to us.
All sin, especially sin committed by God's professing, privileged people, not only provokes God, but it grieves him.
God is loth to destroy any in, or for their sin; he waits long to be gracious to them.
But sin, long persisted in, will make God's wrath discover itself in destroying the impenitent; there is no resting under the wrath of God.
Take heed: all who would get safe to heaven must look about them; if once we allow ourselves to distrust God, we may soon desert him.
Let those that think they stand, take heed lest they fall. Since to-morrow is not ours, we must make the best improvement of this day.
And there are none, even the strongest of the flock, who do not need help of other Christians.
Neither are there any so low and despised, but the care of their standing in the faith, and of their safety, belongs to all.
Sin has so many ways and colors, that we need more eyes than ours own.
Sin appears fair, but is vile; it appears pleasant, but is destructive; it promises much, but performs nothing.
The deceitfulness of sin hardens the soul; one sin allowed makes way for another; and every act of sin confirms the habit.
Let every one beware of sin.
[Matthew Henry commentary]
Heb 3:7 Therefore, as the Holy Spirit says, "Today, if 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 forty years. Therefore I was provoked with that generation, and said, 'They always go astray in their heart; they have not known my ways.' As I swore in my wrath, 'They shall not enter my rest.'" Take care, brothers, lest there be in any of you an evil, unbelieving heart, leading you to fall away from the living God.
"The oldest manuscripts read, "tempted (Me) in the way of testing," that is, putting (Me) to the proof whether I was able and willing to relieve them, not believing that I am so."
"To-morrow is the day when idle men work, and fools repent."
"To-morrow is Satan's to-day; he cares not what good resolutions you form, if only you fix them for to-morrow."
Hebrews 3 Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Bible Commentary
Heb 3:6 But Christ is faithful as the Son in charge of God's house. We are his house if we keep up our courage and our confidence in what we hope for.
