The Word and Faith

Hebrews chapters 3 and 4 are sobering warnings about the importance about how we hear:  "but the word preached did not profit them, not being mixed with faith in them that heard [it]."  Heb 4:2

The graphic example in both chapters three and four of Hebrews is that of the Hebrew children who were led out of Egypt but were left to die in the wilderness because they would not accept by faith God's command to enter the promised land (the new Sabath of faith rest).  How many of us refuse to enter the fullness of the stature of Christ out of either unbelief or unwillingness to exchange our "works" for His; or even worse for longing for the pleasures of Egypt.  "Let us labor therefore to enter into that rest, lest any man fall after the same example of unbelief." Heb. 4:11