Hebrews 3:7-11 Psalm 3:7-11 Notes

Hebrews 3:7-11 (WEB)

7 Therefore, even as the Holy Spirit says,

"Today if you will hear his voice,

8 Don’t harden your hearts, as in the provocation,

Like as in the day of the trial in the wilderness,

9 Where your fathers tested me by proving me,

And saw my works for forty years.

10 Therefore I was displeased with that generation,

And said, 'They always err in their heart,

But they didn’t know my ways;'

11 As I swore in my wrath,

'They will not enter into my rest.'"

Psalms 95:7-11 (WEB)

7 For he is our God…​

Today, oh that you would hear his voice!

8 Don’t harden your heart, as at Meribah,

As in the day of Massah in the wilderness,

9 When your fathers tempted me,

Tested me, and saw my work.

10 Forty long years I was grieved with that generation,

And said, "It is a people that errs in their heart.

They have not known my ways."

11 Therefore I swore in my wrath,

"They won’t enter into my rest."
1 Corinthians 9:23 - 27 (WEB)

23 Now I do this for the gospel’s sake, that I may be a joint partaker of it. 24 Don’t you know that those who run in a race all run, but one receives the prize? Run like that, that you may win. 25 Every man who strives in the games exercises self-control in all things. Now they do it to receive a corruptible crown, but we an incorruptible. 26 I therefore run like that, as not uncertainly. I fight like that, as not beating the air, 27 but I beat my body and bring it into submission, lest by any means, after I have preached to others, I myself should be rejected.

1 Corinthians 10:1 - 15 (WEB)

1 Now I would not have you ignorant, brothers, that our fathers were all under the cloud, and all passed through the sea; 2 and were all baptized into Moses in the cloud and in the sea; 3 and all ate the same spiritual food; 4 and all drank the same spiritual drink. For they drank of a spiritual rock that followed them, and the rock was Christ.

5 However with most of them, God was not well pleased, for they were overthrown in the wilderness. 6 Now these things were our examples (types), to the intent

  • we should not lust after evil things, as they also lusted.

  • 7 Neither be idolaters, as some of them were. As it is written, "The people sat down to eat and drink, and rose up to play."

  • 8 Neither let us commit sexual immorality, as some of them committed, and in one day twenty-three thousand fell.

  • 9 Neither let us test the Lord, as some of them tested, and perished by the serpents.

  • 10 Neither grumble, as some of them also grumbled, and perished by the destroyer.

11 Now all these things happened to them by way of example (types), and they were written for our admonition, on whom the ends of the ages have come.

12 Therefore let him who thinks he stands be careful that he doesn’t fall. 13 No temptation has taken you except what is common to man. God is faithful, who will not allow you to be tempted above what you are able, but will with the temptation also make the way of escape, that you may be able to endure it.

14 Therefore, my beloved, flee from idolatry.

15 I speak as to wise men. Judge what I say.

Acts 7:1,2,3-5,15,17,18 (WEB)

1 The high priest said, "Are these things so?" 2 He said, "Brothers and fathers, listen. The God of glory appeared to our father Abraham, when he was in Mesopotamia, before he lived in Haran, 3 and said to him,

'Get out of your land, and from your relatives, and come into a land which I will show you.'

4 Then he came out of the land of the Chaldaeans, and lived in Haran. From there, when his father was dead, God moved him into this land, where you are now living. 5 He gave him no inheritance in it, no, not so much as to set his foot on. He promised that he would give it to him for a possession, and to his seed after him, when he still had no child.

15 Jacob went down into Egypt, and he died, himself and our fathers,…​ 17 "But as the time of the promise came close which God had sworn to Abraham, the people grew and multiplied in Egypt, 18 until there arose a different king, who didn’t know Joseph.

Acts 7:20-22, 23-27, 29 (WEB)

20 At that time Moses was born, and was exceedingly handsome. He was nourished three months in his father’s house. 21 When he was thrown out, Pharaoh’s daughter took him up, and reared him as her own son. 22 Moses was instructed in all the wisdom of the Egyptians. He was mighty in his words and works.

23 But when he was forty years old, it came into his heart to visit his brothers{The word for "brothers" here and where the context allows may be also correctly translated "brothers and sisters" or "siblings."}, the children of Israel. 24 Seeing one of them suffer wrong, he defended him, and avenged him who was oppressed, striking the Egyptian. 25 He supposed that his brothers understood that God, by his hand, was giving them deliverance; but they didn’t understand. 26 "The day following, he appeared to them as they fought, and urged them to be at peace again, saying, 'Sirs, you are brothers. Why do you wrong one another?' 27 But he who did his neighbor wrong pushed him away, saying, 'Who made you a ruler and a judge over us?

29 Moses fled at this saying, and became a stranger in the land of Midian, where he became the father of two sons.

Acts 7:30-36 (WEB)

30 "When forty years were fulfilled, an angel of the Lord appeared to him in the wilderness of Mount Sinai, in a flame of fire in a bush. 31 When Moses saw it, he wondered at the sight. As he came close to see, a voice of the Lord came to him, 32 'I am the God of your fathers, the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob.' Moses trembled, and dared not look. 33 The Lord said to him, 'Take your sandals off of your feet, for the place where you stand is holy ground. 34 I have surely seen the affliction of my people that is in Egypt, and have heard their groaning. I have come down to deliver them. Now come, I will send you into Egypt.'

35 "This Moses, whom they refused, saying, 'Who made you a ruler and a judge?'--God has sent him as both a ruler and a deliverer by the hand of the angel who appeared to him in the bush.

36 This man led them out, having worked wonders and signs in Egypt, in the Red Sea, and in the wilderness for forty years.

Acts 7:37-53 (WEB)

37 This is that Moses, who said to the children of Israel,

'The Lord our God will raise up a prophet for you from among your brothers, like me.{TR adds "You shall listen to him."}'

38 This is he who was in the assembly in the wilderness with the angel that spoke to him on Mount Sinai, and with our fathers, who received living oracles to give to us, 39 to whom our fathers wouldn’t be obedient, but rejected him, and turned back in their hearts to Egypt, 40 saying to Aaron, 'Make us gods that will go before us, for as for this Moses, who led us out of the land of Egypt, we don’t know what has become of him.' 41 They made a calf in those days, and brought a sacrifice to the idol, and rejoiced in the works of their hands.

42 But God turned, and gave them up to serve the host of the sky, as it is written in the book of the prophets,

'Did you offer to me slain animals and sacrifices Forty years in the wilderness, O house of Israel? 43 You took up the tent of Moloch, The star of your god Rephan, The figures which you made to worship. I will carry you away beyond Babylon.'

44 "Our fathers had the tent of the testimony in the wilderness, even as he who spoke to Moses commanded him to make it according to the pattern (type) that he had seen; 45 which also our fathers, in their turn, brought in with Joshua when they entered into the possession of the nations, whom God drove out before the face of our fathers, to the days of David, 46 who found favor in the sight of God, and asked to find a habitation for the God of Jacob.

47 But Solomon built him a house.

48 However, the Most High doesn’t dwell in temples made with hands, as the prophet says,

49 'heaven is my throne, And the earth a footstool for my feet. What kind of house will you build me?'

says the Lord;

'Or what is the place of my rest? 50 Didn’t my hand make all these things?'

51 "You stiff-necked and uncircumcised in heart and ears, you always resist the Holy Spirit! As your fathers did, so you do.

52 Which of the prophets didn’t your fathers persecute? They killed those who foretold the coming of the Righteous One, of whom you have now become betrayers and murderers. 53 You received the law as it was ordained by angels, and didn’t keep it!"

Acts 7:54-60 (WEB)

54 Now when they heard these things, they were cut to the heart, and they gnashed at him with their teeth. 55 But he, being full of the Holy Spirit, looked up steadfastly into heaven, and saw the glory of God, and Jesus standing on the right hand of God, 56 and said, "Behold, I see the heavens opened, and the Son of Man standing at the right hand of God!"

57 But they cried out with a loud voice, and stopped their ears, and rushed at him with one accord.

58 They threw him out of the city, and stoned him. The witnesses placed their garments at the feet of a young man named Saul. 59 They stoned Stephen as he called out, saying, "Lord Jesus, receive my Spirit!"

60 He kneeled down, and cried with a loud voice, "Lord, don’t hold this sin against them!" When he had said this, he fell asleep.