Charles Spurgeon Commentary Hebrews 3:11

"As I sware in my wrath, They shall not enter into my rest." — Hebrews 3:11 (ASV)

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

What a dreadful warning this is to us! If God has had forty years' patience with you, take heed, sinner, take heed, lest he swear in his wrath that you shall not enter into his rest, for your entrance into that rest depends upon his good will and pleasure.

He will have mercy on whom he will have mercy, and he will have compassion on whom he will have compassion. If, then, you provoke him to swear that you shall not enter into his rest, into that rest you never can enter, for then the gates of hell are barred upon you, and the gates of heaven fast locked against you.

Beware, then, lest you provoke him.