What does this solar system body tell us about how we must relate to God?
In this chapter, the writer seeks to improve upon his warning exhortations to his readers, and to draw the example of the Exodus generation close to their present-day consciousnesses. After all, essentially the same invitation into the life of faith had been given to his audience as that with which the Exodusi (the members of the Exodus generation -- I invented this term) had been graced.
What went wrong was their lack of faith - the writer has been saying the same thing over and over again. The author provides an important weapon against encroaching unbelief at the beginning of chapter four. However, this weapon has fallen upon unpopular times these days. We will try to diagnose the situation.
Also this week, I plan to assign homework that will involve reading and blog-work. Gird up your loins, folks, things are going to heat up in our class this week, and we need to do a good job. It will take effort to enter into God's rest!
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