The Deafening Power of Sin

The Deafening Power of Sin

". . . as the Holy Ghost saith. Today if ye will hear His voice, harden not your hearts" (Heb. 3:7-8). In verse 13, the hardening of the heart is attributed to "the deceitfulness of sin". The love of sin causes people to steel themselves against God, who is exactly opposite to sin. Thus, sin may be said to have a distinctly deafening effect with respect to one's hearing of God's voice. Sometimes our text is quoted as, "Today, if ye hear His voice, harden not your hearts"; but that is not what is said, or meant. The exhortation, rather, is for one not to harden his heart by indulgence in sin, that, unhardened by sin, he may hear the Divine voice. Not only do men hinder the truth by unrighteousness (Rom. 1:18), but they drown out the voice of God. The voice of God calls to holiness, and it is only as we are vitally interested in attaining thereto that we can hear and heed it.


荒野における試錬の日に、神にそむいた時のように、あなたがたの心を、かたくなにしてはいけない (Heb. 3:8)