EXHORTATIONS FROM THE FATHER
["Reflections" Of The Father's Heart]
[february 11th 2010]
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enters into and abides [dwells] in the "promised land" [the fullness
of their inheritance and destiny, in Christ {true Sabbath rest}] through the
exercising of a continual faith, love and obedience - that "abiding"
faith, love and obedience being predicated [based] on a continual flow of
"revelation" to their heart.
...."[Therefore
beware] brethren, take care, lest there be in any one of you a wicked,
unbelieving heart [which refuses to cleave to, trust in, and rely on Him],
leading you to turn away and desert or stand aloof from the living God. But
instead warn (admonish, urge, and encourage) one another every day, as long as
it is called Today, that none of you may be hardened [into settled rebellion] by
the deceitfulness of sin [by the fraudulence, the stratagem, the trickery which
the delusive glamor of his sin may play on him]. For we have become fellows
with Christ (the Messiah) and share in all He has for us, if only we hold our
first newborn confidence and original assured expectation [in virtue of which
we are believers] firm and unshaken to the end. Then while it is [still] called
Today, if you would hear His voice and when you hear it, do not harden your
hearts as in the rebellion [in the desert, when the people provoked and
irritated and embittered God against them]. [Ps. 95:7, 8.] For who were they
who heard and yet were rebellious and provoked [Him]? Was it not all those who
came out of Egypt led by Moses? And with whom was He irritated and provoked and
grieved for forty years? Was it not with those who sinned, whose dismembered
bodies were strewn and left in the desert? And to whom did He swear that they
should not enter His rest, but to those who disobeyed [who had not listened to
His word and who refused to be compliant or be persuaded]? So we see that they
were not able to enter [into His rest], because of their unwillingness to
adhere to and trust in and rely on God [unbelief had shut them out][Num.
14:1-35]".... Hebrews 3:12-19 The Amplified Translation
...."If
because of the sabbath, you turn your foot from doing your own pleasure
on My holy day, and call the sabbath a delight, the holy day of the LORD
honorable, and honor it, desisting from your own ways, from seeking your
own pleasure and speaking your own word, THEN you will
take delight in the LORD, and I will make you ride on the heights of the earth;
And I will feed you with the heritage of Jacob your father, for the mouth of
the LORD has spoken".... Isaiah 58:13-14 NASB