The purpose of this Word is to lead God’s people in deliverance to the way of the kingdom. Likewise, the author of Hebrews admonishes, “Therefore we must pay much closer attention to what we have heard, lest we drift away from it”; and “Today, if you hear his voice, do not harden your hearts as in the rebellion” (Heb. 2:1; 3:15). The Word comes to us “today” because, in the Spirit, God’s Word still speaks. The Word of God is not dead and lifeless, but alive and active; and it exposes the depth of the human heart before God (Heb. 4:12–13).
