Keep The Faith

Unity Series — Faith, Obedience, and Entering God’s Rest Foundations of Unity I’ve been spending time in the New Testament book of Hebrews lately. I usually begin in my old New American Standard Bible—the one my wife gave me before we were married, almost forty-one years ago. Maybe that’s why I love this version so much. It carries history. It carries love. But every now and then, I come across a verse that makes me pause and ask, “Why did they translate it that way?” When that happens, I turn to the Ultimate Bible Study Suite on my Kindle for deeper study. Recently, the end of Hebrews 3 stopped me in my tracks. A Translation Difference That Matters Here is how the NASB reads: Hebrews 3:18–19 (NASB) 18 And to whom did He swear that they would not enter His rest, but to those who were disobedient? 19 So we see that they were not able to enter because of unbelief. But the King James Version reads: Hebrews 3:18–19 (KJV) 18 And to whom sware he that th...

How Does One Come to the Place of Repentance? How does a person come to the place in life where they truly want to repent? It seems to me that God Himself must open the eyes of one’s heart to see the wrong they have done. Without His mercy, we remain blind to our own condition. This is why I’ve come to believe that God is saving this deep awakening for the time just before Yeshua returns to rule. When that moment comes, none of us will be able to judge or question God by saying, “Why are You saving so‑and‑so?” Instead, the only honest question will be, “Why are You saving me?” We all find it easy to judge others, yet we struggle to see our own wretched condition. We think wrong thoughts, we do wrong things, and even the good that comes from us is not truly from us. It is from God — yet we often take the credit. Scripture Witness The Bible teaches that we are to be holy because God is holy ( Leviticus 19:2 ). But it also teaches that none of us is r...