The Faithful Lord

Behold, I set before you this day a blessing and a curse; A blessing, if ye obey the commandments of the Lord your God, which I command you this day: And a curse, if ye will not obey the commandments of the Lord your God, but turn aside out of the way which I command you this day, to go after other gods, which ye have not known—Deuteronomy 11:26-28.

Some five hundred years after these words were spoken by Moses, the Lord God gave utterance through His prophet to a wondrous Psalm in which we read these words, “Today, if ye will hear His voice, harden not your hearts” (Psalms 95:7-8). That Psalm teaches us that God could not give His people rest because they had not sufficient faith in Him. In Hebrews 3-4 which treat of the rest of God, we find the same cry going up, “Today, if ye will hear His voice.” In Hebrews 4, we are told that Jesus (Joshua) did not give the people full rest—a very remarkable sentence. It would appear at first sight as if that were a contradiction to the facts which are so frequently detailed in the earlier