Therefore, as the Holy Spirit says, “Today, if you hear his voice,
For he is our God, and we are the people of his pasture, and the sheep of his hand. Today, if you hear his voice, do not harden your hearts, as at Meribah, as on the day at Massah in the wilderness, when your fathers put me to the test and put me to the proof, though they had seen my work. For forty years I loathed that generation and said, “They are a people who go astray in their heart, and they have not known my ways.” Therefore I swore in my wrath, “They shall not enter my rest.”
As it is said, “Today, if you hear his voice, do not harden your hearts as in the rebellion.”
Incline your ear, and come to me; hear, that your soul may live; and I will make with you an everlasting covenant, my steadfast, sure love for David.
Behold, I stand at the door and knock. If anyone hears my voice and opens the door, I will come in to him and eat with him, and he with me.
again he appoints a certain day, “Today,” saying through David so long afterward, in the words already quoted, “Today, if you hear his voice, do not harden your hearts.”
My sheep hear my voice, and I know them, and they follow me.
Oh, that my people would listen to me, that Israel would walk in my ways!
But exhort one another every day, as long as it is called “today,” that none of you may be hardened by the deceitfulness of sin.
Working together with him, then, we appeal to you not to receive the grace of God in vain. For he says, “In a favorable time I listened to you, and in a day of salvation I have helped you.” Behold, now is the favorable time; behold, now is the day of salvation.
He was still speaking when, behold, a bright cloud overshadowed them, and a voice from the cloud said, “This is my beloved Son, with whom I am well pleased; listen to him.”
“But my people did not listen to my voice; Israel would not submit to me.
To him the gatekeeper opens. The sheep hear his voice, and he calls his own sheep by name and leads them out.
“Truly, truly, I say to you, an hour is coming, and is now here, when the dead will hear the voice of the Son of God, and those who hear will live.
“Seek the Lord while he may be found; call upon him while he is near;
And I have other sheep that are not of this fold. I must bring them also, and they will listen to my voice. So there will be one flock, one shepherd.
Whatever your hand finds to do, do it with your might, for there is no work or thought or knowledge or wisdom in Sheol, to which you are going.
For no prophecy was ever produced by the will of man, but men spoke from God as they were carried along by the Holy Spirit.
“The Spirit of the Lord speaks by me; his word is on my tongue.
By this the Holy Spirit indicates that the way into the holy places is not yet opened as long as the first section is still standing
He said to them, “How is it then that David, in the Spirit, calls him Lord, saying,
Do not boast about tomorrow, for you do not know what a day may bring.
And disagreeing among themselves, they departed after Paul had made one statement: “The Holy Spirit was right in saying to your fathers through Isaiah the prophet:
David himself, in the Holy Spirit, declared, “‘The Lord said to my Lord, “Sit at my right hand, until I put your enemies under your feet.”’
Come now, you who say, “Today or tomorrow we will go into such and such a town and spend a year there and trade and make a profit”— yet you do not know what tomorrow will bring. What is your life? For you are a mist that appears for a little time and then vanishes. Instead you ought to say, “If the Lord wills, we will live and do this or that.”
“Brothers, the Scripture had to be fulfilled, which the Holy Spirit spoke beforehand by the mouth of David concerning Judas, who became a guide to those who arrested Jesus.
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