Heb 3:7, 8 – Wherefore (as the Holy Ghost saith, To day IF ye will HEAR his voice, Harden NOT your HEARTS, as in the provocation, in the day of temptation in the wilderness:
Heb 3:15 – While it is said, To day if ye will hear his voice, harden not your hearts, as in the provocation.
Like radio waves from the Divine world above, the VOICE of God continually speaks to the earth and the whole inhabitants, to every man. The voice is gone out to the whole world unceasingly day and night. But who can hear?
Who can hear, indeed? All who have not hardened their hearts before God are capable of hearing from heaven if hearts are not hardened. But, what would harden a heart? Sin is the main culprit as is rank unbelief is also. But what of those who are of the church, the called out of the world? Do they all hear even if there is no sin and wicked unbelief?
When the Word of God, the Spirit of Truth is commingled with falsities, the spirit of error, the heart is increasingly hardened by degree until the Word of God can no longer be heard. Hence, the ever increasing advent of error begetting even more error and error that it begets beget even more error still.
The amazing thing that ASTOUNDS me is….that so many who, (supposedly) have the Holy Ghost, Christ in You, the Spirit of Truth are so much tossed and battered by so many winds of error and doctrines contrived of men and yet do not realize what is happening to them.
I’ve seen good men, ordinarily speaking, become so angry with a brother for believing differently than they do on some point, most often having to do with Revelation and (so called) End-times. I’ve been around when some of them were almost ready to go to blows over it. In fact, I heard a District Superintendent say, “I’m so against POST-tribulation doctrine that I will not eat POST cereals and hate to go to the POST office, but when I do, I will go POST haste. Oh how hardened do they become in their particular opposing views.
That would be hilarious if it was not so sad. On both sides of that particular argument, hearts are hardened. Yet, the very soft, gentle voice of the great Shepherd of the sheep unceasingly calls to His own beloved, “this is the way, walk ye in it.” It is sad since sheep of the pasture need to be led beside still waters and into green pastures but are stymied in progress from the hard hearts of God’s under-shepherds, the Pastors who should be hearing from heaven moment by moment, but are unable to.
Last, but not least of all, Pride and arrogance is no doubt the chief hindering factor, maybe more than all the other factors. These kind of hearts cannot be taught anything at all. Just try it. You might become a direct conduit from heaven speaking directly from the mouth of God, from mouth to mouth, yet it would be rejected from pride and an unteachable spirit. He who alone can see the heart, will seldom goad them to change and to humble themselves. Hardly to never, does this happen. The Lord sees the heart and simply passes on without looking in their direction the second time.
So sad. So sad.
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