Jesus Fellowship: Hear His Voice. 11/6/15

Day 309

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Hebrews 3

Jesus Greater Than Moses
3 Therefore, holy brothers,[a] you who share in a heavenly calling, consider Jesus, the apostle and high priest of our confession, 2 who was faithful to him who appointed him, just as Moses also was faithful in all God's[b] house. 3 For Jesus has been counted worthy of more glory than Moses—as much more glory as the builder of a house has more honor than the house itself. 4 (For every house is built by someone, but the builder of all things is God.) 5 Now Moses was faithful in all God's house as a servant, to testify to the things that were to be spoken later, 6 but Christ is faithful over God's house as a son. And we are his house if indeed we hold fast our confidence and our boasting in our hope.[c]

A Rest for the People of God
7 Therefore, as the Holy Spirit says,

“Today, if you hear his voice,
8 do not harden your hearts as in the rebellion,
on the day of testing in the wilderness,
9 where your fathers put me to the test
and saw my works for forty years.
10 Therefore I was provoked with that generation,
and said, ‘They always go astray in their heart;
they have not known my ways.’
11 As I swore in my wrath,
‘They shall not enter my rest.’”
12 Take care, brothers, lest there be in any of you an evil, unbelieving heart, leading you to fall away from the living God. 13 But exhort one another every day, as long as it is called “today,” that none of you may be hardened by the deceitfulness of sin. 14 For we have come to share in Christ, if indeed we hold our original confidence firm to the end. 15 As it is said,

“Today, if you hear his voice,
do not harden your hearts as in the rebellion.”
16 For who were those who heard and yet rebelled? Was it not all those who left Egypt led by Moses? 17 And with whom was he provoked for forty years? Was it not with those who sinned, whose bodies fell in the wilderness? 18 And to whom did he swear that they would not enter his rest, but to those who were disobedient? 19 So we see that they were unable to enter because of unbelief.

Supplied Life Devotional by Bill Freeman

What is the good? November 6th

“For whom He foreknew, He also predestined to be conformed to the image of His Son, that He might be the firstborn among many brethren.” ROMANS 8:29

As part of God’s plan, we were made with a spirit, a soul, and a body (Gen. 2:7; 1 Thess. 5:23). In His economy, the arrange- ment is that we would be born again and He would be dispensed into our spirit to begin the process of conforming us to His image. In the Bible God’s economy begins with creation and continues through the Old Testament with the called race, and into the New Testament with His Son. Then His Son is dispensed into our spirit. Now His arrangement is that our soul, with our mind, emotions, and will, would be conformed to the image of His Son. This takes place in the realm of the Spirit.

For this conformity, there is the absolute necessity of our being oriented to the Lord by walking according to spirit, by knowing that realm. For example, in the morning when I am exercising my spirit by saying, “Lord Jesus, I love You,” I am linked to the whole history of God’s economy. His life is being dispensed into my thoughts at

the very beginning of the day. To conform me to the image of His Son, He is using not only my touch with the Spirit, but also the “all things” mentioned in Romans 8:28. All things are working together for good. What is the good? The good is my being conformed to the image of His Son. This means I must handle my problems in an altogether new way now. If I see God’s economy, I am forbidden to murmur, to reason, or to complain about my spouse, my problems, my finances, my situation. I am forever forbidden if I am a person under the view of God’s economy.