4:12
The words in Psalm 95 were written about a thousand years before the time Hebrews was written, but the word of God is living and active. We do not read and study an ancient book, we read and study the living and active word of God. And this word is incisive, it gets to the heart of the matter, it divides soul and spirit. It reveals what is really going on inside.us.So how does this apply to the matter in hand? Suppose someone was looking back to the old covenant stuff? This shows a denial of all that Christ has done, a lack of belief in what God has done through Christ. It shows a reliance on what man can do. Suppose someone makes no effort, what does that show? It reveals a complete lack of repentance, a complete lack of seeking after God and His ways.
4:13
This verse contains a vital truth, and one that man is desperate to avoid facing up to. God knows everything, He knows all that we do along with the motives that lie behind the actions. And we must all give an account to God. Our Western society is increasingly pushing God out of the picture, we become our ultimate authority, instead of acknowledging that there is a higher authority to whom we must all one day give an account. This will lead, indeed is leading, to disaster. Have you noticed how keen secular societies are to kill people, but in the nicest possible way? It defends the right to abort babies as a human right, then at the other end of the age spectrum it is keen to help people die. We are not the ultimate authority, and authority we have is a delegated authority and we do well to remember that.
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