Hebrews 3:7-12a

"Wherefore (as the Holy Ghost saith, Today if ye will hear his voice. 8. Harden not your hearts, as in the provocation, in the day of temptation in the wilderness: 9. When your fathers (now remember, Paul is writing to Hebrews so he's referring all the way back to the forefathers of Israel) tempted (or tested is a better word) me, proved me, and saw my works forty years. 10 Wherefore I was grieved with that generation, and said, They do always err in their heart; and they have not know my ways. 11. So I sware in my wrath, They shall not enter into my rest.) (Now we have to take the next verse to pick up God's number one controversy with the human race as well as Israel, as I pointed out in the last program, so he says) 12. Take heed, brethren, lest there be in any of you an evil heart of unbelief,..."


Now he doesn't mention any of the other sins of the flesh, but rather unbelief! Oh that's what God hates more than anything, is a lack of faith. So looking at that last verse again:


Hebrews 3:12

"Take heed, brethren, lest there be in any of you an evil heart of unbelief, (and when there is no faith, then it's an easy step to do what?) in departing from the living God."


You've heard me say it on the program over the last several years, as you come back to Exodus chapter 23, "What is America's number one problem?" It's not politics, or economics, but rather it's spiritual. We've lost our faith! As a nation of people we no longer have any respect for the absolutes of this Book, and we're suffering the consequences. Restore America back to the faith of our fathers, and most of our problems will disappear. But they will not because they will not believe what God says. Well here is the lesson for us now from Israel's experience going into the Promised Land.