Hello Everyone,
There are too many reckless people who call themselves "Believers" today in the Church....we can make the same mistake as Israel did, that's why the warning in Heb. 4:1 is real!

¹Therefore, since the promise of entering his rest still stands, let us be careful that none of you be found to have fallen short of it.

The language here is strange and ironic in Heb. 4:11 "Let us LABOR therefore to enter that rest." (KJV)
NIV says we must "make every effort" or "labor" (KJV) to enter into this rest!

The idea here means simply that we do have choices: to obey the Word
of God by faith, or disobey it through unbelief!

Obedience to God’s Word can bring us into God’s rest; disobedience will
leave us outside without rest!

It is not enough to just get saved but then not live by the Word of God!

I read this recently and it is very true: It is not difficult in our world to get a person interested in the message of the Gospel; it is terrifically difficult to sustain the interest. Millions of people in our culture make decisions for Christ, but there is a dreadful attrition rate. Many claim to have been born again, but the evidence for mature Christian discipleship is slim. In our kind of culture anything, even news about God, can be sold if it is packaged freshly; but when it loses its novelty, it goes on the garbage heap. There is a great market for religious experience in our world; there is little enthusiasm for the patient acquisition of virtue, little inclination to sign up for a long apprenticeship in what earlier generations of Christians called holiness. -- A Long Obedience In the Same Direction

The Christian life does not consist in just the altar call experience...it is
also the lifestyle of obedience to the Word of God by faith that matters!

Oh How HE Loves Us!

Pastor Phil