希伯來書3:12-19

3:12 弟兄們，你們要謹慎，免得你們中間或有人存著不信的惡心，把永生上帝離棄了。
3:13 總要趁著還有今日，天天彼此相勸，免得你們中間有人被罪迷惑，心裡就剛硬了。
3:14 我們若將起初確實的信心堅持到底，就在基督裡有分了。
3:15 經上說：「你們今日若聽他的話，就不可硬著心，像惹他發怒的日子一樣。」
3:16 那時，聽見他話惹他發怒的是誰呢？豈不是跟著摩西從埃及出來的眾人嗎？
3:17 上帝四十年之久，又厭煩誰呢？豈不是那些犯罪、屍首倒在曠野的人嗎？
3:18 又向誰起誓，不容他們進入他的安息呢？豈不是向那些不信從的人嗎？
3:19 這樣看來，他們不能進入安息是因為不信的緣故了。

¹² See to it, brothers and sisters, that none of you has a sinful, unbelieving heart that turns away from the living God. ¹³ But encourage one another daily, as long as it is called “Today,” so that none of you may be hardened by sin’s deceitfulness. ¹⁴ We have come to share in Christ, if indeed we hold our original conviction firmly to the very end. ¹⁵ As has just been said:

“Today, if you hear his voice,
    do not harden your hearts
    as you did in the rebellion.”^[c]

¹⁶ Who were they who heard and rebelled? Were they not all those Moses led out of Egypt? ¹⁷ And with whom was he angry for forty years? Was it not with those who sinned, whose bodies perished in the wilderness? ¹⁸ And to whom did God swear that they would never enter his rest if not to those who disobeyed? ¹⁹ So we see that they were not able to enter, because of their unbelief.

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    《希伯來書》之段教訓是來自《詩篇》95篇7-11節，《詩篇》在這當中引用了兩個地名：「米利巴」（原意是「紛爭」）和「瑪撒」（原意是「試驗」）。這正是當年以色列在曠野的寫照。

    然而為什麼會「紛爭」和「試驗」是出於「不信」，也就是悖逆上帝，必以上帝為心中的首位，而是以自己做心中的首位。自以為是、自以為義、自意為有，而不知其實是：一無所是、一無所有、一無可誇！

    也因此，人要信靠與敬畏上帝；並且承認意一切的財富和才能，都是上帝所賜的，都是從上帝而來的！要接受聖靈的光照，知道自己是有罪的，是不義的，永遠需要靠耶穌基督的寶血，不是靠自己或聖徒有什麼善行，那些是無法讓自己得救的！