<p>3:18 <i>And to whom swore He that they should not enter into His rest, but to those that were disobedient?- </i>Disobedience is paralleled here with &quot;unbelief&quot; (:19) in that faith and works are related. Faith without works is dead. If we really believe that we shall be saved, and can say at this moment of time that in this &quot;today&quot; I shall be saved... then we will naturally seek to be obedient. But what was Israel's particular act of disobedience in the wilderness which led to their being excluded from entering the land? I suggest the reference is to Dt. 1:26: &quot;Yet you wouldn&rsquo;t go up AV &quot;refused to go up&quot;, but rebelled against the commandment of Yahweh your God&quot;. They were told to enter the land but refused. Refusal to accept the Kingdom of God is tantamount to disbelief we shall enter it (:19). This is where it is critical to understand &quot;faith&quot; as not simply belief in the rightness and logical correctness of a set of theological propositions. Faith is trust / confidence that we shall be saved. It is to say &quot;Yes&quot; to the command to enter the Kingdom. If we cease believing this, then we are in that sense disobedient to the command to enter the Kingdom prepared for us from the foundation of the world. We thereby judge ourselves as those who shall be rejected from the Kingdom, in that we did not wish to be there ourselves.</p>