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Hebrews 3:7

‘Today, if ye will hear his voice’

Read Luke 19:1-10

Our Lord said to Zacchaeus, ‘Zacchaeus, make haste, and come down; for today I must abide at thy house’ (Luke 19:5). Every word is important; but I call your attention particularly to these two words of that text: ‘haste’ and ‘today’. God’s call is urgent. It demands an immediate response. Sinners sit under the ministry of the Word year after year, hearing God’s servant faithfully and earnestly preach the gospel, urging them to repent and believe on Christ, but they reply, ‘Tomorrow, perhaps. Tears may run down their cheeks, but they are wiped away. Some good feelings and good desires appear, but like the morning dew they quickly disappear before the still of temptation. The sinner may say, ‘I solemnly vow from this day forth to become a reformed man. After I have once more indulged in my darling sin, I will renounce my lust, and decide for God.’ You see, he has only heard the preacher’s voice. The preacher’s voice can never reach your heart and that is where the problem lies. The sign-post on the road to hell reads’, ‘Tomorrow’.

But God’s call is not for tomorrow. It is written, ‘Today if ye will hear his voice, harden not your hearts: as in the provocation, when your fathers tempted me.’ God’s grace always comes with urgent dispatch. If God draws you, you will run after him. If God calls you, you will come, immediately, without delay. Tomorrow is not written in the almanac of time. Tomorrow is in Satan’s calendar, but nowhere else. Tomorrow is a rock upon which many a man has wrecked his soul. Tomorrow is the fool’s cup which none has which he thinks is at the end of the rainbow, but it is a cup which none have ever found. Tomorrow is a dream. Tomorrow is a delusion. Tomorrow you will lift up your eyes in hell, being tormented in its flame. The ticking of the clock says, ‘Today’. The pulse of your body whispers, ‘Today’. I hear my heart speak as it beats within me and it says, “Today’. Everything cries, ‘Today’. And the Holy Spirit, in union with these things, says, ‘Today if ye will hear his voice, harden not your hearts.’

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