God speaks today Thursday | January 2, 2025
For unto us was the gospel preached, as well as unto them: but the word preached did not profit them, not being mixed with faith in them that heard it.
(Hebrews 4:2) Good seed, but bad soil
The Hebrews had been slaves in Egypt for centuries before God sent Moses to deliver them and bring them to the Promised Land of Canaan. God had prepared this land for them, a land of great abundance, and had decreed that the wicked nations occupying it had to be eradicated for their sins. Centuries before, Abraham had marked these lands for God and his future people. In Numbers 13, the Hebrews are on the brink of entering this blessing, but their unbelief prevents them from receiving it, except for Caleb and Josué, who believed God. We should strive to be like Caleb and Josué, fertile ground for the seeds of blessing that God wants to plant in us.
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For this cause also thank we God without ceasing, because, when ye received the word of God which ye heard of us, ye received it not as the word of men, but as it is in truth, the word of God, which effectually worketh also in you that believe.
(1 Thessalonians 2:13)Seeing therefore it remaineth that some must enter therein, and they to whom it was first preached entered not in because of unbelief:
(Hebrews 4:6)For bodily exercise profiteth little: but godliness is profitable unto all things, having promise of the life that now is, and of that which is to come.
(1 Timothy 4:8)And though I bestow all my goods to feed the poor, and though I give my body to be burned, and have not charity, it profiteth me nothing.
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