Hello Everyone,

The letters from God can be of no use if they are not received by faith...and obeyed! Disobedience is a form of unbelief!

This was Israel’s constant problem in the desert, they heard God’s Word

through His servant Moses, but they did not have enough faith in it to
obey it, the result was they never entered into God’s rest!

Israel loved the miracles and the displays of God’s POWER, but they did not obey God’s Word and so they missed the most important REST God had
to offer them!

If they failed to enter God’s rest even with God’s presence in their midst and the miracles, so can we!

They were RECKLESS with God and their own lives....they failed to see that disobedience WOULD lead to bad consequences later on!

Too many people who call themselves Believers today live this way! They are reckless with God’s Word! They can raise hands in worship, or praise God for miracles, but they do not live in obedience to God’s Word, in some cases they openly sin against God’s Word!...and then they wonder why their lives are anything but “rested" in God!

You cannot say you have faith in God without also having faith in His Word, and you cannot say that you have faith in the Word of God if you are not willing to obey it!

When we bypass God’s Word it doesn’t matter how we feel about God,
we are living reckless lives! (Hebrews 4:6).

⁶It still remains that some will enter that rest, and those who formerly had the gospel preached to them did not go in, because of their disobedience.

To ignore God’s Word is to put your spiritual life in jeopardy, it won’t
matter how many verses of the Bible you know by heart, how many
powerful experiences you had at the altar, or how intense you can sing...you will not find God’s rest without obedience to His Word!
This is what Israel’s example teaches us here!
They ran toward miracles, but away from God’s Word and the result was that they self-destructed!

Several years ago, newspapers told how a new Navy jet fighter shot itself down. Flying at supersonic speed, it ran into cannon shells it had fired only a few seconds before. The jet was traveling too fast!

You are also traveling too fast, if you don’t have time to worship God in regular church services, if you don’t have time to read Gods Word, if you don’t have time to pray.
If you’re neglecting any of these, you’re probably traveling too fast to hear God’s voice. If you can’t tell whether you are in the center of His will. Better slow down before, like the jet, you shoot yourself down.

Oh How HE Loves Us!

Pastor Phil