Hebrews 3:7-8 Why (as the Holy Ghost said, To day if you will hear his voice,… I. TAKE HEED OF ALL AND EVERY OF THOSE CAUSES WHENCE HARDNESS OF HEART ARISETH. 1. Regeneration. Hereby natural hardness is removed. 2. Faith. Hereby unbelief is redressed. 3. Sincerity. This keeps out hypocrisy. 4. Humility Hereby pride and other like vices are kept down. 5. A fear of God. This will withhold us from gross sins. 6. Christian prudence. This will make men weary of multiplying sins and long lying therein. 7. Spiritual watchfulness. This will uphold in such a course as will preserve us from relapse. 8. Holy jealousy, lest we should by company be drawn aside. 9. Contempt of this world and of the things thereof, that we be not ensnared and overcome thereby. 10. Patience under all crosses, as laid on us by our heavenly Father for our good. II. LABOUR TO FEEL THE HEAVY BURTHEN OF SIN (Psalm 38:4). (W. Gouge.) Parallel Verses KJV: Wherefore (as the Holy Ghost saith, To day if ye will hear his voice,WEB: Therefore, even as the Holy Spirit says, "Today if you will hear his voice, |
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