(Through the Bible) Hebrews 3-4 — Chuck Smith

Shall we turn now in our Bibles to Hebrews, the third chapter. Wherefore, holy brethren. The word wherefore immediately leads us back to that which is immediately preceding. And that is the declaration of the superiority of Jesus over the angels.

Because He is superior over the angelic beings, being the Son of God. Wherefore, holy brethren, partakers of the heavenly calling, consider the apostle and high priest of our confession, Jesus Christ, or Christ Jesus.

Jesus Christ as the Superior Apostle and High Priest

So, here we are called upon to consider Jesus. And that's what the book of Hebrews really is all about. And again, later on, we'll be called to consider Jesus. Paul calls them holy brethren and partakers of the heavenly calling.

He calls Jesus the apostle and high priest of our confession. The book of Hebrews was written to Hebrews. Those who had grown up and had been thoroughly trained in the religion of the Hebrews in Judaism, who were used to having a high priest, used to the ceremonies in the temple, used to all of the regalia and the worship of the priesthood.

They were used to the high priest going in on the day of atonement and making the atonement for the sins of the people. Now He is going to declare we have a high priest. And in time, He is going to show the superiority of our high priest over the priests who were after the order of Levi.

But for the time being, in chapter 3, He is going to show us the superiority of Jesus over Moses, through whom the priesthood was established. In other words, God established His house, the spiritual house, through Moses.

And it was through Moses that the tabernacle was set up and the dimensions and all declared. And so He is going to show the superiority of Jesus. Consider now the apostle and high priest of our confession, the Messiah Jesus, who was faithful to Him that appointed Him, as also Moses was faithful in all of his house.

For this man was counted worthy of more glory than Moses, inasmuch as he who has built the house has more honor than the house. Now it is interesting that the figure of the house is used for the congregation of the people of God.

We are told in the New Testament that the church is the building of God. We are the royal priesthood. We are of the household of faith. And this idea of the house of God being the church, God's people, where God dwells.

Now in the Old Testament, Israel was the house of God. And the temple was known as the house of the Lord. And when Solomon built the temple, he called it the house of the Lord. I know that the heavens of heavens cannot contain you.

How much less this house that we have built. The interesting thing to me, the glorious thing to me, is that God desires to dwell with His people. Now, He could dwell anywhere in the universe that He pleased.

And He does fill the universe. But it is the Lord's desire to come and to dwell among His people. God just loves dwelling among His people. Oh, that we would recognize the presence of God as He comes to dwell among His people.

And so tonight, as we lifted our voices in worship and praise unto Him, God dwelling here in the midst of His people. Just an awesome reality. How God loves to dwell among His people. Now, the one who builds the house is greater than the house itself.

It was the Lord who built the house. Thus He is greater than the house. Is deserving more honor and glory. For every house is built by some man. And that is the idea of the effect and a cause. You cannot have an effect without a cause.

Every house is built by some man. You look at a house, and you like the architecture and the style, and you say, I wonder who built that house. I wonder who drew up the design. And if I would try and snow you and say, Hey, nobody built that house.

Just one day it appeared there. You know, we had an earthquake, and all of the earth was shaking and all, and pop, right out of the earth. There this thing is. Beautiful dormers, and stained glasses, and you know, the whole thing.

Just marvelous. You say, you're crazy, man. You can't have an effect without a cause. You can't have a house without a builder. Things just don't happen that way. Unless they're man. According to the evolutionary theory.

Every house has a builder. The cause and effect. And the builder of all things is God. It's the argument of cause and effect. Here's the house, right? If you got a house, you have to have a builder of the house.

Here's the church. You have to have one who built the church. Jesus said, upon this rock, I will build my church. And so he who has built the house is greater than the house itself. And he that has built all things is God.

Now Moses, verily, was faithful in all his house as a servant for a testimony of those things which were to be spoken after. So Moses was faithful. He gave to us the laws of God. He was a servant. And he declared unto us the commandments and the statutes and the judgments, the worship, the ordinances, which were all a shadow of Jesus Christ.

As Paul wrote in Colossians, these things were all a shadow of things to come. The real substance is Jesus. So if you go back in the law, if you go back in the sacrifices, if you go back in the ordinances and in those things, you will find that Jesus is behind it all.

It is all pointing to Jesus. The offerings for sin and all. They're all pointing to Jesus. So he was a faithful servant as he testified of those things which were to be spoken after. So there is the prophetic aspect to the writings of Moses that were fulfilled in Jesus.

But Christ, as a son over his own house. Now Moses is a servant in the house. Faithful. But Christ is as the son over the house whose house we are. The house of Jesus Christ. The building of God. The church.

The place where God has chosen to dwell. Whose house we are if we hold fast the confidence and the rejoicing of the hope firm unto the end. And so here is the exhortation towards perseverance. There was a danger.

And it was happening. That some of these Jews who had come out of Judaism and all of its traditions, they were beginning to slip back into Judaism. Going back to the traditions. And so Paul is warning them.

Or I believe it is Paul. Whoever it was that wrote Hebrews is warning them. And if I slip and say Paul, you'll know that that's my opinion. Is warning them to maintain their hope that they have come to in Christ.

And hold fast that confidence and the rejoicing of hope unto the end. Wherefore, as the Holy Spirit saith, today if you will hear His voice, harden not your hearts. As in the provocation. In the day of the temptation in the wilderness.

When your fathers tempted me, proved me and saw my works for 40 years. Wherefore, I was grieved with that generation and said, they do always err in their heart and they have not known my ways. So I swore in my wrath, they shall not enter into my rest.

Israel’s Unbelief and Failure to Enter God’s Rest

So he is going to make reference to this 95th Psalm a couple of times here in chapters 3 and 4. As he is going to be pointing out the superiority of Jesus over Moses. For Moses, a servant in the house, bringing them the testimony of God and the law of God, could not lead them into the rest.

Moses could not lead them into the promised land. They came to the water of Meribah, which means strife. They came to the wilderness to the area of Meribah and they cried unto Moses and said, you know, you brought us out here to die.

We don't have any water. We're going to perish. We've been better to have stayed in Egypt. Moses had been hearing this stuff for 40 years. He had had it. He couldn't take it anymore. He went in before God and said, God, I've had it.

I can't stand it. Nothing but murmuring and griping for 40 years. They're not my children. I didn't produce all of these people. And I'm sick of trying to carry them. And God said, Moses, they're thirsty.

They need water. Now you go out and speak to the rock that it might bring forth water. But Moses was angry. He was upset. He was sick of their murmuring. And so he went out and said, you bunch of hypocrites!

Always murmuring and complaining. Must I take my rod and smite this rock again to give you water? And he took his rod and he smote the rock and the water came forth and the people drank. But God said, Moses, come here, son.

Did I tell you to strike the rock? No. What did I tell you? He said, speak to the rock. Why did you smite it? I was angry. Yes. Moses, you are my representative to those people. They look to you to understand me, my attitudes.

Moses, you misrepresented me. You represented me as angry and upset. I'm not angry and upset with them, Moses. They need water and I know that. I'm compassionate. I'm cognizant of their need. And because you failed to represent me before the people, Moses, I just can't let you lead them into the land.

Oh, come on, Lord. You can't be serious. Yes, I am, Moses. Lord, that's been the ambition of my life. It's the only reason why I've been hanging around. Sorry, Moses. Oh, please. No way. And though Moses besought the Lord, the Lord would not let him lead them into the land.

He could not take them into the rest. Now, that is significant in that Moses being representative of the law through history, it is interesting to observe the fact that the law or the works of the law can never bring you into the place of rest in the Lord.

By your obedience to the law, by your keeping the law, it will never bring you into rest. The law cannot bring you into the rest of God. And so, the people provoked God. Well, earlier actually in their history, then they came to Kadesh Barnea as they were journeying from Mount Horeb.

It is an 11-day journey from Mount Horeb to Kadesh Barnea, the Scripture says. But it took them 40 years. They came to Kadesh Barnea in the beginning. They sent spies into the land of which 10 came back with an evil report bringing fear into the hearts of the people which ultimated in unbelief.

And they said, We can't go in. We can't do it. We can't take the land. And because of that heart of unbelief, God was provoked. And He said, All right. Because you're not trusting in Me, you say that you're afraid if you go in there, your children will all be killed.

I'll tell you what. This is going to be the longest funeral procession in history. You're going to stay here in the wilderness until you all die and your children for whom you feared, they will be the ones that will go in and take the land.

And so, they never entered into God's rest. Moses couldn't bring them into God's rest. And so, he quotes from this psalm as the psalmist talking about the goodness of God and the mercies of God and all turns to the subject of their failure in the wilderness to enter into the rest.

Harden not your hearts, he said, as in the day of provocation when your fathers tempted me, proved me, saw my works for forty years, and I said they have not known my ways, so I swore my wrath, they shall not enter into my rest.

Take heed, brothers, lest there be in any of you an evil heart of unbelief in departing from the living God. Again, the departing from God. These people have been delivered from Egypt. They come out of the bondage of Egypt.

The issue isn't the deliverance from sin. The issue is the entering into the fullness that God has for you. There are many people who have peace with God. They've been delivered from the power of sin, from darkness, into the kingdom of light, but they don't have the peace of God.

They have not entered into the rest. They haven't entered into that full, rich, abundant life of the Spirit that God has promised unto us. Their Christian experience is a wilderness experience. As they wander through the wilderness, they don't really enjoy the walk with the Lord as they should be enjoying it.

It's sort of a trial, constant trial, where God wants you to come into that fullness of the life and the Spirit and know the victory of the Spirit of God within your life, entering into that rich fullness of the Lord.

And so they wandered for 40 years as an example of what happens when we, by our unbelief, fail to receive the promises of God. So, we are needing to take heed that we not depart from the living God, but exhort one another daily while it is called today, lest any of you be hardened through the deceitfulness of sin.

For we are made partakers of Christ if we hold the beginning of our confidence steadfast unto the end. Again, the exhortation towards perseverance. Twice here in the text. Actually, three times within the text.

If we hold our confidence steadfast to the end. While it is said today, if you will hear His voice, harden not your hearts, as in the provocation. For some, when they had heard, did provoke, how be it not all that came out of Egypt by Moses.

But with whom was He grieved for 40 years? Was it not with them that had sinned, whose carcasses fell in the wilderness? And to whom sware He that they should not enter into the rest, but to them that believed not?

So, we see that they could not enter in because of unbelief. Now, it is important for us to notice their failure was the failure of faith. They did not believe God was able to bring them into the land.

They somehow were looking at their own resources and looking at the power of the enemy and they were saying, we can't do it. We're unable to go in. Many times we find that it is our unbelief that keeps us from entering into that full, rich life that God would have us to experience and to enjoy.

And again, our problem is our looking at our own resources and looking at the power of the enemy. And always, when we get our eyes off of the Lord and onto the enemy, terror fills our hearts and unbelief.

But we've got to know that there is greater power with us than that which is against us. Greater is He that is in you than He that is in the world. And so, Jesus, the high priest of our confession, greater than Moses, in that Moses was only a servant in the house, Jesus the Son ruling over the house, the builder of the house, Moses unable to take them into God's rest, whereas Jesus will bring us into God's rest.

Entering God’s Rest Through Faith

Let us therefore fear, lest a promise being left us of entering into His rest, any of you should seem to come short of it. As you look at your own heart tonight, is it at rest? Have you entered into the rest of God?

Do you have that deep peace of Christ tonight filling your mind, your heart, your life? Or is there anxiety, strife, turmoil, unrest? What is the condition of your heart tonight? Now, let us beware. Let us be careful.

God has given us the promise of rest. Let's take heed that we enter into that rest. For it is very possible that even though God has a rest and is desiring you to come into the rest, it's possible that you don't know or experience that rest that God would have you to know and experience in Christ.

Jesus said, Come unto Me, all ye that labor and are heavy laden. I will give you rest. Take My yoke upon you. Learn of Me. For My yoke is easy, My burden is light, and ye shall find rest for your souls.

Have you found that rest for your soul? Are you resting in Jesus tonight? That's the issue. For there are many who are not. There are many Christians who do not know that rest in Christ but are still laboring under a works ethic in order to be pleasing unto God.

Or just who, through unbelief, have not made that total commitment of their life and the affairs of their life unto Him, knowing that He is faithful and will keep that which I have committed. But they haven't made that commitment.

And thus, they do not know the rest. For unto us was the good news preached as well as unto them. But the word preached did not profit them because it wasn't mixed with faith in them that heard it. God has promised a rest.

I've got to believe that. I enter into it by faith. If I don't by faith enter into it, then I will remain in my mental turmoil and strife. Do you believe that God wants you to experience His rest? Do you believe that God is in control of your life?

Do you believe that God loves you? If you believe these things, then you have entered into that rest because after all, why should I worry? God is in control. God's going to take care of it. The way we sometimes act, you would think that God abdicated the throne, that He wasn't in control anymore.

But God is in control if you have surrendered and submitted your life to Him. And you have to just believe Him and trust Him, knowing that He is able to take care of you. For we which have believed do enter into the rest.

And that's the key to entering into the rest. It is the rest that can only come through faith. Now, a lot of people say, but it's so hard to rest in faith. It would be a lot easier to rest if God would just show me what He's doing.

If God would just explain to me why He has allowed this to happen to me and what He's going to work out of it, the good that's going to come from it. If I could just see that, then I could probably rest more easily.

It's hard to rest in faith. You may find it hard to rest in faith, but the only place you'll ever rest is in faith. You cannot rest in your works, in your skills, in your efforts. Never will you find rest until you come to that rest of faith.

Lord, I've committed it completely unto You. I can't do anything about it, Lord. I have no control over these circumstances, Lord. I turn it over to You and I place it in Your hands, God, and I'm just going to trust You and I'm going to watch and see what You do, knowing that You've promised that You will work.

I'm going to just believe You, Lord, to work out a perfect plan in my life and in these circumstances by which I'm surrounded. And so I rest. An incomplete commitment is complete rest. That total commitment and abandonment to God is the place of perfect peace.

And God will keep you in perfect peace if your mind is stayed on Him. So, we which have believed do enter into rest, as He said, as I have sworn in my wrath, if they shall enter into my rest, although the works were finished from the foundation of the world.

Now, as far as the works are concerned, they have been wrought by God. All I am to do is to believe the work of God. What must we do, they said to Jesus, to do the work of God? And Jesus said, this is the work of God.

Believe on Him who He has sent. It is a finished work that Christ has accomplished for us. You cannot add one thing to your salvation. You cannot add one thing to your acceptance by God. He has accepted you in and through the finished work of Jesus Christ.

You cannot add to your righteousness. As Paul wrote to the Galatians, O foolish Galatians, who has bewitched you that you should so soon turn from the truth? Having begun in the Spirit, are you now going to be made perfect in the flesh?

As the children of Israel began a spiritual relationship with God, being brought out of Egypt by the power of God, now they thought that by their own efforts they were going to have to go in and take the land.

And thinking that they were going to have to by their own works and efforts take the land, they looked at the giants and they looked at the problems and they said, we can't do it. And thus they failed to enter into the rest.

Now there are so many Christians delivered miraculously by the power of God's Spirit from the life of sin. And now God holds before them this full, rich life in the Spirit. Walking in the Spirit. Walking after the Spirit.

Walking a life of complete obedience unto God. And they say, oh, I could never do that. That's beyond my capacity. I can't be that good. And having begun in the Spirit, somehow they think that God has said, alright, now you see what you can do from here on.

And they even quote you that verse of Scripture, work out your own salvation with fear and trembling. You know how that Scripture used to shake me up. I had that preached to me so long. Work out your own salvation with fear and trembling.

But they never completed the Scripture for it is God who works in you both to will and to do of His good pleasure. Don't quote a half a verse. You don't have the truth, the whole truth, in half a verse.

When you finish the verse, it makes all the difference in the world. It takes it off of me and puts it on Him. Takes it off of my strength and puts it on His. My abilities and it puts it on His. It is God who is working in me both to will and to do.

I don't have it. I can't do it. But God is able to do for me what I can't do for myself. And so I am believing and trusting God to do it. And I'm resting in God. And as I rest in God, I have that glorious peace within.

I'm not perfect. Not by a long shot. But I'm on the way. God's working. And He is able to do what I can't do for myself. Having begun in the Spirit, I must remain in the Spirit, walking after the Spirit, yielding to the Spirit that God might work.

But in the meantime, I'm resting. So I fail, so I rest. God is able to make me to stand. He is able to keep me from falling. And I am believing Him and trusting Him. Resting in Him and in His finished work.

The Sabbath as a Picture of Christ’s Rest

For He spake in a certain place of the seventh day on this wise. And God did rest the seventh day from all of His works. And in this place again He said, if they shall enter into my rest. Now, God rested on the seventh day from all of His works.

That is His creative works because the creation was finished once the creation was finished. There was no longer the necessity of creative works. And so God rested from His creative works on the seventh day.

Now, God established then the Sabbath day. And He said, six days shalt thou labor and do thy work, and the seventh day is a day of rest. Because the Lord rested on the Sabbath day. Now, this Sabbath day rest that was established in the law by Moses was a type of the rest that the believer is to experience in Jesus Christ.

The problem is they made a work out of the Sabbath day rest. And you ought to see how they work at it today. It's a real task to keep that Sabbath day rest. And it really takes working at. And they've made up all kinds of rules and regulations concerning the Sabbath day rest.

Thou shalt not bear any burden on the Sabbath day. What constitutes bearing a burden? Well, false teeth are something that you carry and so you can't wear your false teeth on the Sabbath day. I suppose false eyelashes would fall into the same category.

The rabbis really didn't have to deal with them. You're not to use money on the Sabbath day by yourself. But, nice little convenience, you can use a credit card. You're not paying for it today. There's some kind of a mental imbalance with credit cards where you think you're not paying.

It's sure a lot easier to shove the card across the counter than it is the bucks, isn't it? Somehow you get the feeling you're not paying for it. Here, it's just a card. You're not paying for this. But that Sabbath day was only a shadow of the rest that the people of God should experience in Jesus Christ.

The substances of Christ. Therefore, let no man judge you in respect to new moons, Sabbath days, and so forth, which all were a shadow of things to come. The real substance is Jesus. There are those today who would judge us because of the Sabbath day.

There are those that would even introduce the Sabbath day worship to the church and introduce the laws of the worship on the Sabbath day to the church. But, if you are going to seek to be justified by the law, you better also realize the curse that is involved with it because it says, Cursed is every man who continues not in the whole law to do all of the things that are written therein.

Now, one of the things on the Sabbath day you could not do was kindle a fire. The minute you turn the ignition switch on your car, you're kindling a fire. A little spark that ignites the fuel in the cylinder.

You're kindling a fire. Can't turn on a light switch. Kindling a fire within the bulb. Seeing, therefore, it remains that some must enter therein, and they to whom it was first preached did not enter in because of unbelief.

Again, he limited a certain day, saying to David, today. And notice through the text there's been today, today, today, today, today. Some five times or so. The emphasis is upon today. So, he limited it to a certain day.

Through David in Psalm 95. He said, today. And this was a long time after their failure in the wilderness. They had still not entered into the rest. God was still speaking of the day that they could long after their failures.

After so long a time, it is said, today if you will hear His voice, don't harden your hearts. So David was pleading with the people of his day. Today, hear God's voice. Don't harden your hearts. Don't follow the example of those in the wilderness.

For if Jesus... Now, this is Joshua. It's the Greek translation of Joshua. And it's a reference to Joshua who took over after Moses' death. Again, one of their great leaders. If Joshua had given them rest, then would he not have afterward have spoken of another day in which they could enter into that rest.

So Joshua, who brought them into the land, did not bring them into the rest. And that is an interesting thing. There are even those that have come into the land of promise who still haven't entered into the rest.

The rest that God wants you to experience is His child. The rest in the completed, finished work of Jesus Christ for our righteous standing before God. My hope is built on nothing less than Jesus' blood and righteousness.

I dare not trust the sweetest frame, but wholly lean on Jesus' name. I am resting in Him. He has done the work of salvation for me. He paid the price for my sins. He is the One who has made me righteous by my faith and trust in Him.

It is a completed, finished work. There's nothing that I can add to it to complement it. It is once and for all accomplished for me by Him. Now I have to, by faith, believe that and enter into the rest.

If I don't believe that, I can go on in my efforts, in my struggles, in my strivings, in my endeavors, and in all of these works that I seek to do in my fervish desire and activity to try to be better or to improve my relationship with God by my efforts.

Or I can just simply believe that Jesus did it all and enter into the rest of faith. For if Joshua had given them rest, then he wouldn't have spoken of another day. There remains, therefore, a rest to the people of God.

There is a place of rest for God's people. For he that has entered into His rest, he also has ceased from his own works as God did from His. Once the work was finished, God ceased. He rested the seventh day.

Once the work of redemption was finished by Jesus Christ, God rested. As far as man's redemption is concerned, Jesus said, I came to do the will of My Father and to finish His work. The work of redemption for man.

And on the cross, it was finished. He cried, It is finished. Man's redemption is complete. Now, if we have entered into His rest, then we have ceased from our own works, even as God did from His. There is nothing that God will do now to save you more than what He has already done in providing the way of salvation through Jesus Christ.

And now it is up to you to believe and to accept that which God has provided, the perfect, complete work of salvation and acceptance before God. And our endeavor and labor to be accepted by God. We are accepted in Christ.

As Paul said, one of the blessings is we are accepted in the Beloved. Let us labor therefore... And it sounds like a contradiction of terms. Let us labor therefore to enter into that rest. Hey, there is a rest.

Let's labor to enter into it. Let's work at it, entering into it. Because Satan is going to come and challenge you at every step. You can't do it. You can't live that kind of a life. You can't live a life of purity and righteousness and holiness.

Hey, that's His work in me as I believe and trust in Him. He is able to do for me what I can't do for myself. I must believe and trust in Him to do it. No, I can't myself, but through Him I can. I can be all that God would have me to be through the work of Jesus Christ within my heart and life.

Therefore, let us labor. I have to really work at it because Satan is constantly challenging my position of faith and trust in Jesus. Satan would come along and bring turmoil again into my heart. He would keep me in a state of restlessness as he would encourage me in my endeavors and works because he knows that I will fail.

Anything I try in my flesh is going to fail. I think that Satan is behind the incentives for every fleshly endeavor because he knows that all you can do in your flesh is fail and then you get discouraged and upset and you'll lose your rest and your peace in Christ.

How important that we labor to enter into that rest. Lest any man fall after the same example of unbelief as they did in the Old Testament because they were trusting in themselves and their power to whip the giants and they knew they couldn't.

And so through unbelief they fell. For the Word of God is alive and powerful and sharper than any two-edged sword, piercing even to the dividing asunder of the soul and spirit and of the joints and marrow and is a discerner of the thoughts and the intents of the heart.

The Word of God Discerns the Soul and Spirit

God's Word. Now again there is a scripture that people so often misquote and that is the scripture the letter killeth but the spirit giveth life. And people in misquoting that use that to refer to just the scriptures the teaching of the scriptures they say oh but the letter killeth.

Not so. He was talking in context of the letter of the law trying to be righteous by your works that will kill you. You try to live under the law that'll kill you it'll condemn you to death every time the letter kills.

The letter of the law will wipe you out every time. But the spirit gives life but here it declares the Word of God is alive. It's powerful. It's sharper than a two-edged sword. And as such piercing even to the dividing asunder of the soul and the spirit.

Now there is a lot of worship that is purely psychic and touches our emotions and is soulish but not necessarily spiritual. It doesn't really touch our spirits. The liturgy the incense, the candles the robes, the chants quite an experience.

As you sit there you're entranced by the beauty of the liturgy and you go away with a sense of having worshipped God. But if the Word of God was not really taught all you experienced was a soulish experience.

It didn't really feed your spirit. It is only the Word of God that is able to feed the spirit of man. You don't grow spiritually in psychic experiences or emotional experiences. You grow spiritually through the Word of God.

In the same token in the Pentecostal services with the highly emotionally charged meetings where when as the people leave they declare the blessedness of the service the preacher didn't even get a chance to preach.

You know the spirit came down and oh we were all so blessed tonight. And it seems that the height of the you know the pinnacle of the spiritual experiences to them is when the preacher doesn't get a chance to preach.

God intervened tonight. They've had a very powerful emotional experience but not necessarily a spiritual experience. For it is the Word of God that is able to divide between the soul and the spirit. That's something that's hard for us to divide.

Man's soul and spirit are so intertwined there's such a crossover network between the two that it's really hard for us to discern when it has really touched me spiritually or just touched me in a psychic way in an emotional way.

In fact the division is so fine that is only the Word of God that can make that distinction between that which is soulish and that which is spiritual. And then it is a discerner of the thoughts and the intents of the hearts.

Works, Motives, and the Judgment Seat of Christ

Now I'm going to trust in the finished work of Jesus or I'm going to trust in my own works and my own efforts to finish this work of redemption in me and perfection. Now if I'm trusting in my own works I can't rest because I'm not certain of my own works of what motive they really are.