Jesus Famous With Nate Holdridge

Battling Creeping Unbelief (Hebrews 3:12-13) "Take care, brothers, lest there be in any of you an evil, unbelieving heart, leading you to fall away from the living God. 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." (Hebrews 3:12-13) Creeping, slowly and steadily, unbelief was ready to pounce on the early Jewish believers. They were, after all, outcasts in their culture, for their acceptance of Jesus as Messiah made them different, societal pariahs. So the author of Hebrews compared their generation to Moses'. When Moses took the Hebrew people out of Egypt, it was with God's plan to bring them into the Promised Land. But, on their way to the new territory God had promised them, unbelief took hold of their hearts and, sadly, they were kept from God's land. God still loved them and worked in their midst -- he gave them the law, the priesthood, and the manna -- but for forty years they lived outside of God's best. Only the next g