God's Love Post

THE GREAT REST

“And it shall be in that day that the Root of Jesse

shall stand as a signal for the peoples,

of Him shall the nations inquire and seek knowledge,

and His dwelling shall be glory

(His rest glorious)!”

(Isaiah 11.10).

“Therefore, while the promise of entering His rest still holds

and is offered today, let us fear to distrust it

lest any of you should come short of reaching it.

For indeed we have had the glad tidings (The Best News Ever)

proclaimed to us just as truly as they (the Israelites of old

did when the good news of deliverance from bondage came

to them), but the message they heard did not

benefit them, because it was not mixed with faith

(with the absolute trust and confidence in God’s

power, wisdom and goodness) by those who heard it,

neither were they united in faith with the ones

(Joshua and Caleb) who heard (did believe).

For we who have believed ( trusted in and relied on God)

do enter that rest in accordance with His declaration that

those who did not believe should not enter when He said,

As I swore in My wrath, They shall not enter My rest;

and this He said although (His works had been completed and

prepared and waiting for all who would believe) from the

foundation of the world.

For in a certain place He has said this about the seventh day:

And God rested on the seventh day from all His works.

And they forfeited their part in it, for in this passage He said,

They shall not enter My rest.

Seeing that the promise remains over (from past times) for

some to enter that rest, and that those who formerly were

given the  good news about it and the opportunity,

failed to seize it and did not enter because of

disobedience,

Again He sets a definite day, Today, and gives another

opportunity of securing that rest, saying through

David after so long a time in the words already quoted,

Today, if you would hear His voice and when you

hear it, do not harden your hearts.

This mention of a rest was not a reference to their

entering into Canaan. For if Joshua had given them rest,

He (God) would not speak afterward about another day.

So then, there is still awaiting a full and complete

Sabbath-rest reserved for the true people of God;

For he who has entered God’s rest also has ceased

from the (weariness and pain) of human labors,

just as God rested from  those labors peculiarly

His own.

Let us therefore be zealous and exert ourselves and

strive diligently to enter that rest (of God,

to know and experience it for ourselves), that no

one may fall or perish by the same kind of unbelief

and disobedience (into which those in the wilderness fell).

For the Word that God speaks is alive and full of power

(making it active, operative, energizing and

effective); it is sharper than any two-edged sword,

penetrating to the dividing line of the breath of

life and spirit, and of joints and marrow, exposing

and sifting, analyzing and judging the very thoughts

and purposes of the heart.

And not a creature exists that is concealed from His sight,

but all things are open and exposed, naked

and defenseless to the eyes of Him with Whom we have to do.

Inasmuch as we have a High Priest Who has already ascended

and passed through the heavens, Jesus the Son of God,

let us hold fast our confession.

For we do not have a High Priest Who is unable to understand

and sympathize with our weaknesses and infirmities and

liability to the assaults of temptation, but One Who has been

tempted in every respect as we are, yet without sinning.

Let us then fearlessly and confidently and boldly draw near

 to the throne of grace (the throne of God’s unmerited favor

to us sinners), that we may receive mercy (for our failures)

and find grace to help in time for every need.”

(Hebrews 4.1-16).

“All things have been entrusted and delivered to Me by my

Father, and no one fully knows the Son except the Father

and no one fully knows the Father except the Son and

anyone to whom the Son makes Him known.

Come to Me, all you who labor and are heavy-laden and

overburdened, and I will cause you

to rest.

Take my yoke upon you and learn of Me, for I am gentle and

humble in heart, and you will find rest for your souls

For my yoke is wholesome and My burden is light and easy to be

borne.”

(Matthew 11.27-30).

THANK YOU LORD JESUS FOREVERMORE!