A Bible Preaching Baptist Church in the Waterloo Region

While It Is Called To Day

November 1, 2026 · Pastor Jerry A. Burns

“But exhort one another daily, while it is called To day; lest any of you be hardened through the deceitfulness of sin.” Hebrews 3:13

The writer of Hebrews gives the church a job to do, and he gives it a deadline. "But exhort one another daily, while it is called To day; lest any of you be hardened through the deceitfulness of sin."

Notice the word "daily." Not once a year at a revival meeting, not only on Sunday mornings, but every day. And notice who is to do it: "one another." This is not only the pastor's job, and I say that as the pastor. Every believer is to be exhorting every other believer.

Why so often? Because sin is deceitful. It never announces itself. Nobody wakes up and decides to grow cold toward God. It happens a little at a time, and the heart hardens so slowly that we do not feel it. I have watched it happen, and I have felt it begin in my own heart. A brother or sister who says a word at the right time can keep that from happening.

And the deadline is "To day." Not tomorrow, when it is more convenient, and not next week, when we have thought of the right thing to say. The verse before this warns of "an evil heart of unbelief, in departing from the living God." Hearts do not depart all at once, so the exhorting cannot wait.

I am thankful for the people who have said a timely word to me over the years. Some of them never knew how much it meant.