1 C hristian brothers, you have been chosen and set apart by God. So let us think about Jesus. He is the One God sent and He is the Religious Leader of our Christian faith.

Wherefore, holy brethren, partakers of the heavenly calling, consider the Apostle and High Priest of our profession, Christ Jesus;

2 J esus was faithful in God’s house just as Moses was faithful in all of God’s house.

Who was faithful to him that appointed him, as also Moses was faithful in all his house.

3 T he man who builds a house gets more honor than the house. That is why Jesus gets more honor than Moses.

For this man was counted worthy of more glory than Moses, inasmuch as he who hath builded the house hath more honour than the house.

4 E very house is built by someone. And God is the One Who has built everything.

For every house is builded by some man; but he that built all things is God.

5 M oses was a faithful servant owned by God in God’s house. He spoke of the things that would be told about later on.

And Moses verily was faithful in all his house, as a servant, for a testimony of those things which were to be spoken after;

6 B ut Christ was faithful as a Son Who is Head of God’s house. We are of God’s house if we keep our trust in the Lord until the end. This is our hope.

But Christ as a son over his own house; whose house are we, if we hold fast the confidence and the rejoicing of the hope firm unto the end.

7 T he Holy Spirit says, “If you hear His voice today,

Wherefore (as the Holy Ghost saith, To day if ye will hear his voice,

8 d o not let your hearts become hard as your early fathers did when they turned against Me. It was at that time in the desert when they put Me to the test.

Harden not your hearts, as in the provocation, in the day of temptation in the wilderness:

9 Y our early fathers tempted Me and tried Me. They saw the work I did for forty years.

When your fathers tempted me, proved me, and saw my works forty years.

10 F or this reason, I was angry with the people of this day. And I said to them, ‘They always think wrong thoughts. They have never understood what I have tried to do for them.’

Wherefore I was grieved with that generation, and said, They do alway err in their heart; and they have not known my ways.

11 I was angry with them and said to Myself, ‘They will never go into My rest.’”

So I sware in my wrath, They shall not enter into my rest.)

12 C hristian brothers, be careful that not one of you has a heart so bad that it will not believe and will turn away from the living God.

Take heed, brethren, lest there be in any of you an evil heart of unbelief, in departing from the living God.

13 H elp each other. Speak day after day to each other while it is still today so your heart will not become hard by being fooled by sin.

But exhort one another daily, while it is called To day; lest any of you be hardened through the deceitfulness of sin.

14 F or we belong to Christ if we keep on trusting Him to the end just as we trusted Him at first.

For we are made partakers of Christ, if we hold the beginning of our confidence stedfast unto the end;

15 T he Holy Writings say, “If you hear His voice today, do not let your hearts become hard as your early fathers did when they turned against Me.”

While it is said, To day if ye will hear his voice, harden not your hearts, as in the provocation.

16 W ho heard God’s voice and turned against Him? Did not all those who were led out of the country of Egypt by Moses?

For some, when they had heard, did provoke: howbeit not all that came out of Egypt by Moses.

17 W ho made God angry for forty years? Was it not those people who had sinned in the desert? Was it not those who died and were buried there?

But with whom was he grieved forty years? was it not with them that had sinned, whose carcases fell in the wilderness?

18 W ho did He say could never go into His rest? Was it not those who did not obey Him?

And to whom sware he that they should not enter into his rest, but to them that believed not?

19 S o we can see that they were not able to go into His rest because they did not put their trust in Him.

So we see that they could not enter in because of unbelief.