The Sin of Provocation || Pr. Gideon Byekwaso

This sermon by Pastor Gideon Byekwaso was preached on Sunday morning 13 June 2021 at Speckled Bird Tabernacle, Zzana, Kampala - Uganda.

Scripture Reading

Deuteronomy 8:1-7

1     All the commandments which I command thee this day shall ye observe to do, that ye may live, and multiply, and go in and possess the land which the LORD sware unto your fathers.

2     And thou shalt remember all the way which the LORD thy God led thee these forty years in the wilderness, to humble thee, and to prove thee, to know what was in thine heart, whether thou wouldest keep his commandments, or no.

3     And he humbled thee, and suffered thee to hunger, and fed thee with manna, which thou knewest not, neither did thy fathers know; that he might make thee know that man doth not live by bread only, but by every word that proceedeth out of the mouth of the LORD doth man live.

4     Thy raiment waxed not old upon thee, neither did thy foot swell, these forty years.

5     Thou shalt also consider in thine heart, that, as a man chasteneth his son, so the LORD thy God chasteneth thee.

6     Therefore thou shalt keep the commandments of the LORD thy God, to walk in his ways, and to fear him.

7     For the LORD thy God bringeth thee into a good land, a land of brooks of water, of fountains and depths that spring out of valleys and hills;

Hebrews 3:7-12

7     Wherefore (as the Holy Ghost saith, To day if ye will hear his voice,

8      Harden not your hearts, as in the provocation, in the day of temptation in the wilderness:

9      When your fathers tempted me, proved me, and saw my works forty years.

10     Wherefore I was grieved with that generation, and said, They do alway err in their heart; and they have not known my ways.

11     So I sware in my wrath, They shall not enter into my rest.)

12     Take heed, brethren, lest there be in any of you an evil heart of unbelief, in departing from the living God.