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히브리서 저자는 애굽에서 구원받았으나 광야에서 불순종하다 가나안 땅에 들어가지 못한 이스라엘의 역사를 교훈으로 삼아, 서로 도우며 믿음의 길을 끝까지 가라고 권면합니다.

[ 히브리서 3:7 - 3:19 ] (찬송359장)

마음을 완고하게 하지 말라 

7그러므로 성령이 이르신 바와 같이 오늘 너희가 그의 음성을 듣거든 8광야에서 시험하던 날에 거역하던 것 같이 너희 마음을 완고하게 하지 말라 9거기서 너희 열조가 나를 시험하여 증험하고 사십 년 동안 나의 행사를 보았느니라 10그러므로 내가 이 세대에게 노하여 이르기를 그들이 항상 마음이 미혹되어 내 길을 알지 못하는도다 하였고 11내가 노하여 맹세한 바와 같이 그들은 내 안식에 들어오지 못하리라 하였다 하였느니라

 조심하고 피차 권면하라 

 12형제들아 너희는 삼가 혹 너희 중에 누가 믿지 아니하는 악한 마음을 품고 살아 계신 하나님에게서 떨어질까 조심할 것이요 13오직 오늘이라 일컫는 동안에 매일 피차 권면하여 너희 중에 누구든지 죄의 유혹으로 완고하게 되지 않도록 하라 14우리가 시작할 때에 확신한 것을 끝까지 견고히 잡고 있으면 그리스도와 함께 참여한 자가 되리라

 믿지 않는 자의 최후 

 15성경에 일렀으되 오늘 너희가 그의 음성을 듣거든 격노하시게 하던 것 같이 너희 마음을 완고하게 하지 말라 하였으니 16듣고 격노하시게 하던 자가 누구냐 모세를 따라 애굽에서 나온 모든 사람이 아니냐 17또 하나님이 사십 년 동안 누구에게 노하셨느냐 그들의 시체가 광야에 엎드러진 범죄한 자들에게가 아니냐 18또 하나님이 누구에게 맹세하사 그의 안식에 들어오지 못하리라 하셨느냐 곧 순종하지 아니하던 자들에게가 아니냐 19이로 보건대 그들이 믿지 아니하므로 능히 들어가지 못한 것이라

[ Hebrews 3:7 - 3:19 ]

7Therefore, 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. 

Who is God like?

Thinking & Understanding

The Israelites, who had escaped from Egypt, the land of slavery, did not all enter Canaan, the land of rest. Those who complained to God about the struggles in the wilderness and tried to return to Egypt were judged (vv. 7-11). Likewise, anyone who complains about the struggles of the Christian life and tries to return to the Jewish faith will also be judged. Therefore, rather than being swept up in the complaining of ‘the rabble’ (Num. 11:4), believers must encourage one another and keep their faith to the end. False faith encourages us to retreat or give up in the wilderness, but true faith will keep us marching on until we reach the final resting place of heaven (vv. 12-19). 

Who is God?

V. 7 God speaks to us today. The ‘today’ (v. 7) spoken of in Psalms is connected to the ‘today’ (v. 13) of Hebrews and extends to our ‘today’.  What word of God must we obey today without hesitation? 

What lesson is God teaching me?

Vv. 14, 18-19 We need faith to achieve rest. Although we have already been saved, we are still in the wilderness journeying towards rest. Jesus leads us toward rest as our shepherd. Let’s follow Jesus’ words even if our current reality is characterised by destitution and discomfort. Faith and a life of obedience will help us to achieve true rest. 

Prayer

Lord, help us to pass through the wilderness by encouraging one another, with faith and obedience.