To day if ye will hear his voice, harden not your hearts. Hebrews 4:7
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Why should I confess and repent of a certain sin if I know I will do it again, isn’t that hypocrisy?
We have all either made this argument or heard it made.
The main problem with this argument is that it assumes at least two things. It assumes we have a lot of years left to change our habits and/or it assumes that it is our self in charge of our salvation and we can pick and choose when to repent, most preferably the day or hour before we die.
But the reality of the situation is this, we never stay the same person as we are now. The daily decisions we make and the consequences of those decisions changes who we are as a person, for better or for worse.
If we willfully choose the path of sin we automatically begin to harden our heart. The rooster that crows in our heart today may not be there in the future. In fact, if we harden our heart to resist the cries of the Holy Spirit we may just be so successful that we may never hear that Spirit again. We may also be so hardened that we don’t even care, or we may think because we don’t hear the cries of the Holy Spirit anymore that all is well with us. We may even believe God knows we are just poor humans and sinful in nature therefore He will overlook our transgressions and by his Grace pull us into his kingdom. But Psalm 50 has some different words for us.
These things you have done,
and I have been silent;
and I have been silent;
you thought that I was one like yourself.
But now I rebuke you and lay the charge before you.
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Again, he limiteth a certain day, saying in David, To day, after so long a time; as it is said, To day if ye will hear his voice, harden not your hearts.
Hebrews 4:7
Hebrews 4:7
