Are you convicted of anything at the moment, Kenneth? Are you at Kadesh-Barnea in your life, as the Hebrews were? Shortly after receiving the 10 commandments at Mt Sinai, the ancient Hebrews were to enter the promised land from Kadesh-Barnea. 12 spies went; 10 gave a bad report: There are giants in the land; they gonna whup us. They failed to believe, to trust YHWH to protect them & give them the land. So then they got to die off during a 40 year wandering in the wilderness, until their children got to enter.
In 1st Century AD, the nation of Israel heard, "Repent for the Kingdom of Heaven is at hand." But Israel did not repent & got no kingdom. Nevertheless, the Hebrews in Judah had the opportunity to move on to a promised land, the Church. But apparently many who seemed to accept Jesus as the Messiah, kept on worshipping at the Temple & trying to follow Moses' Law, not moving on the the promised land of the new dispensation.
Then Hebrews warns them not to repeat the history at Kadesh-barnea now.
For who, when they heard, did provoke? nay, did not all they that came out of Egypt by Moses? 17 And with whom was he displeased forty years? was it not with them that sinned, whose bodies fell in the wilderness? 18 And to whom sware he that they should not enter into his rest, but to them that were disobedient? 19 And we see that they were not able to enter in because of unbelief.
4:1 Let us fear therefore, lest haply, a promise being left of entering into his rest, any one of you should seem to have come short of it. 2 For indeed we have had good tidings preached unto us, even as also they: but the word of hearing did not profit them, because it was not united by faith with them that heard. 3 For we who have believed do enter into that rest; even as he hath said,
As I sware in my wrath,
They shall not enter into my rest:
although the works were finished from the foundation of the world.
It seems to me that you are at such a point in your life as Kadesh-barnea. You can go on & enter the rest by faith, if you will abandon a commandment-works mentality, a mentality where the Lord Jesus is a judge who might let you into eternal life after some judgment in the future, but not a SAvior who can transform you now if you trust Him with Your destiny now. Now is the day of salvation. Now is the time to rest of your works. (Come to Me all ye who labor & are heavy-laden . . . & I will give you rest.)
Will this be the day when you repent of trusting water & works, & start actually depending upon the Savior whose word says, "Thou shalt call His name Jesus, for He shall save His people from their sins." Is it now time to call on the name of the Lord & actually start trusting the Savior?