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Welcome to Day 2236 of Wisdom-Trek, and thank you for joining me. This is Guthrie Chamberlain, Your Guide to Wisdom Hebrews-5 Beware of a Hard Heart – Daily Wisdom Putnam Church Message – 05/14/2023 “Beware of a Hard HEART” HEBREWS 3:7-19 Last week, we continued our extended series through the book of Hebrews in the New Testament. We explored how the Messiah (Jesus) is greater than Moses. Today, in Hebrews 3:7-19 we are warned of having a hard heart. As we read this passage, look for references to unbelief and remember the concept of believing loyalty. Let’s begin by reading today’s passage on page 1865 in the Pew Bibles.  7 So, as the Holy Spirit says: “Today, if you hear his voice, 8     do not harden your hearts as you did in the rebellion, during the time of testing in the wilderness, 9 where your ancestors tested and tried me, though for forty years they saw what I did. 10 That is why I was angry with that generation; I said, ‘Their hearts are always going astray, and they have not known my ways.’ 11 So I declared on oath in my anger, ‘They shall never enter my rest.’ ”[b] 12 See to it, brothers and sisters, that none of you has a sinful, unbelieving heart that turns away from the living God. 13 But encourage one another daily, as long as it is called “Today,” so that none of you may be hardened by sin’s deceitfulness. 14 We have come to share in Christ, if indeed we hold our original conviction firmly to the very end. 15 As has just been said: “Today, if you hear his voice, do not harden your hearts as you did in the rebellion.”[c] 16 Who were they who heard and rebelled? Were they not all those Moses led out of Egypt? 17 And with whom was he angry for forty years? Was it not with those who sinned, whose bodies perished in the wilderness? 18 And to whom did God swear that they would never enter his rest if not to those who disobeyed? 19 So we see that they were not able to enter, because of their unbelief.   Warning signs and signals bombard us every day. From a simple “notification” that your smartphone battery is getting low (Pull out board) to a flashing yellow light telling you to slow down, to countless similar alerts: “Watch Out for Falling Rocks,” … “Road Ends,” … “Slow! Children at Play” … “Speed Zone” … “Slippery When Wet.” Add to these the constant beeps, buzzes, bells, and blaring horns that keep us up-to-date on impending doom, and it’s easy to miss the alarms in life placed there to protect us from harm. As most of you can probably attest, one of the most annoying alarms (Alarm on Phone) is to wake you in the morning -  it is so easy to press that snooze button in the morning, to silence the alarm.   Firmly planted along the winding path of the letter to the Hebrews are several passages delivering stern...