November 28, 2025 • 33 mins
Feeling crushed by busyness, pressure, and the never-ending push to be “good enough”? We walk through Hebrews chapter 4 to show how belief opens a real, present rest and why the promise of a lasting Sabbath rest still stands. This isn’t spiritual avoidance or self-help spin; it’s a rooted claim that Christ finished the work of righteousness, and that changes how we face fear, failure, and the future.
Hebrews 4:3 takes us deeper: God’s works were finished from the foundation of the world. God is timeless; his completed work unfolds in our time. That truth reframes anxious questions about career, money, family, and culture. We don’t have to control outcomes; we learn to obey in small steps and rest in a power that never runs dry. And when the text says “there remains a Sabbath rest,” we look forward to the Millennial Kingdom and the Final State—when our mission is complete and our rest is whole. Until then, we live under Christ’s easy yoke, practicing trust over striving and presence over panic.
If you’ve been trying to earn peace, stop and breathe. The invitation repeats like a heartbeat: today. Don’t postpone trust to a tomorrow you can’t guarantee. Hit play, reflect with us through Hebrews 4, and take the next faithful step toward real rest. If this encourages you, subscribe, share it with a friend who’s weary, and leave a review to help others find the show.
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SPEAKER_00 (00:20):
Our world today often gets quite hectic and it
gets quite busy and we're pulledin a lot of directions.
It seems that there's increasingways for our flesh to be tempted
to get pulled into dailyactivities, some of which are
sinful, but many of which arejust daily activities that are
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just busyness.
Oftentimes what we need iscalmness and rest.
Well, today we're going to findout what the Word of God says
about taking advantage of God'srest.
There is an opportunity, apromise that we can have in
Christ for rest.
I trust that today you canbenefit for some rest.
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I know I can.
If you have your Bible, open itto Hebrews chapter 4, and we're
going to learn about what thewriter of Hebrews says about
entering into God's rest.
There's a rest that we can havetoday, but there's also an
eternal Sabbath rest.
And we're going to learn aboutthat today as well.
Steve, can you start at Hebrews4 3 and read down to verse 7?
SPEAKER_01 (01:27):
For we who have believed enter that rest, just
as he has said, as I swore in mywrath, they shall not enter my
rest, although his works werefinished from the foundation of
the world.
For he has said somewhereconcerning the seventh day, and
God rested on the seventh dayfrom all his works.
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And again in this passage, theyshall not enter my rest.
Therefore, since it remains forsome to enter it, and those who
formerly had good news preachedto them failed to enter because
of disobedience, he again fixesa certain day today, saying
through David, after so long atime, just as has been said
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before, today, if you hear hisvoice, do not harden your
hearts.
SPEAKER_00 (02:20):
And of course, the book of Hebrews is written to
just that Hebrew people.
These were Jewish believers inJesus Christ, and he's writing
to a group that would know verywell the Old Testament stories
and accounts that he's talkingabout.
When verse 3, he says, he quotesthe Old Testament once again, as
I swore in my wrath, they shallnot enter my rest.
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Of course, he's talking aboutwhen the ancient Israelites
wandered in the wilderness for40 years because they did not
believe God, that God wascapable of bringing them into
the promised land when it wasfull of a lot of dangers.
That's the reference here.
He's saying that there is aprerequisite for entering God's
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rest.
Steve, what is in verse three,what is the prerequisite for
entering God's rest?
SPEAKER_01 (03:09):
It says right there at the very first part, for we
who have believed enter therest.
Belief is the prerequisite.
SPEAKER_00 (03:17):
Belief is just that.
It is the key for entering God'srest.
Do we truly trust God?
In verse three, it also saysthat God determines that Israel
will not enter his rest.
The ancient Israelites, ofcourse, did not, as we said,
enter God's rest.
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Does unbelief have consequencesstill today?
SPEAKER_01 (03:42):
Yes, it has consequences today.
If it's what we were talkingabout in our last session, as
far as someone who actually hasbelieved in Jesus Christ and
they have salvation through thatbelief, but yet there's an
outstanding part of rest intheir life while they're in this
world and they forsake itbecause they don't follow
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through and study God's word andget involved with fellowship of
other Christians, or the otherunbelief of believing in Jesus
Christ and what he has donethrough his death, burial, and
resurrection in the first place.
If you don't even advance tothat belief, then you have no
hope or promise of eternal lifeat all.
And most certainly you're notgoing to enter into any type of
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God's rest if you don't have abelief and faith and trust in
Jesus Christ.
SPEAKER_00 (04:34):
Unbelief does indeed have consequences.
We cannot enter into God's restbecause we don't follow his ways
and we don't trust that he canclear the path for us.
Just like unbelief hasconsequences, belief and trust
in God does also haveconsequences, but these are
positive.
They are rewards.
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Steve, are there rewards andgood things that happen today in
our lives because of trustingGod?
And then are there future onesas well?
SPEAKER_01 (05:04):
There are.
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Then I think people are missingout on the ultimate future rest
and the future rewards that wehave by the deeds and the things
that we do in this world.
Christians or believers aregoing to have a judgment at
what's called the Bima seat.
And that judgment is not goingto be for our salvation or not.
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That's not the questionnaire.
That judgment is going to be areview of all of our deeds,
whether good or bad, and ourrewards that we get are going to
be dependent on what we havedone here.
That's not talked about verymuch.
It's not taught.
It's not preached from thepulpit very much.
And I think there's going to bea lot of people who are going to
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be very surprised at that beamof seat judgment to find out
that they're going to miss outon some of the rewards that they
could have in eternity becauseit was never revealed to them
and taught them that what you'redoing now, after you have become
a believer, your impact is goingto be one of in your eternal
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life of the rewards that you'regoing to get.
And therefore, they're not goingto be expecting to lose some of
those rewards.
But scripture is very clear inJames and other epistles that
some of the activities that wetake and actions we take here in
this life, as Christians,believers, are going to have an
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impact eternally as to therewards that we might have
received.
There's going to be others whoare going to receive great
rewards because of theactivities that they have done
here to further the gospel ofJesus Christ.
SPEAKER_00 (07:33):
The human condition for all people across all time
is to run into scarycircumstances, risky
circumstances.
We get things that we foreseeahead of us on our path through
life to where we say, okay,here's a risk.
This might happen, this disastercould happen.
We end up with concerns aboutour finances or about our
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relationships or aboutinternational politics or our
business or how our church isgoing to run.
We have risks and things that wehave to concern ourselves with.
If we're not resting in Christ,then these circumstances loom
large over our life.
If we're worried aboutcircumstances, what does that
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tell us about God's ability toovercome those circumstances?
SPEAKER_01 (08:23):
That's just what they become as a worry to us.
And we're focused on thecircumstances themselves rather
than on He who can help us overthose difficulties that we might
find ourselves in.
Those difficulties might be onesthat are small to
life-threatening.
But through all of them, doesn'tmatter what the degree they are,
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if we always go to God first andtrust in him, then we can find
out and have a rest that he isgoing to ultimately take care of
them, whether that be seeing usthrough those circumstances in
this life or ultimately beingable to take us and see him
through the circumstance in thenext life.
SPEAKER_00 (09:07):
The passage here talks about this rest in Christ.
And the true rest is trusting inChrist and following his ways,
his commands on how to livelife.
We should all ask ourselves (09:19):
am I trusting in Christ or am I
trusting in my own effort to getthrough life or my own effort to
be righteous enough to appearbefore God?
If we're thinking our ownefforts are going to get us to a
point where we're rested inrighteousness or rested in our
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ways through life, then we'rewrong.
We're sadly mistaken.
Our ways are flawed, and we'renever going to work our way
enough to be righteous before aperfectly holy God.
All you're going to get istired.
We're never going to achieverest on our own, not in this
world.
We can only rest if we'retrusting in Christ for our
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righteousness, trusting in himfor our salvation, and trusting
in him to know how to live on adaily basis.
Once we just yield to him andhis ways, then we can rest in
Christ.
Now it also says at the end ofverse 3, it steps waist deep
into a thought about God herethat's quite profound.
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The end of verse 3 says,although his works were finished
from the foundation of theworld.
Now that's a little peek behindthe curtain into God's side of
things.
It says that his works werefinished from the foundation of
the world.
This is a very deep and profoundteaching about the nature of God
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and the nature of time.
God, as we know, is eternal,which is timeless.
He doesn't get older, he doesn'tget wiser, he doesn't grow
larger or smaller.
He is the same yesterday, today,and forever.
It says in this book, Hebrews13, 8.
So verse 3 here says not onlyGod was complete from before the
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world, but his works werecomplete from the foundation of
the world.
Yet we know that God's actionsoccur to us in time sequences.
God's actions occur just acrossthe scriptures.
There was a time before Jesuscame, there was a time that
Jesus came, and then there was atime after he came.
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There was a time that he laterrose from the dead.
His actions occur in sequences.
From all of this, we canconclude some quite profound
theological concepts.
God, in his person, in hisbeing, is timeless and
changeless.
He never changes.
He is the same forever.
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God performed his works ineternity, not in time.
He didn't perform his works intime, he performed them from
eternity.
Hebrews 4.3 says they arecomplete from the foundation of
the world.
God's works occur in the time hedetermined them to happen.
He worked from eternity, but hedetermined that the results
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would happen in time sequences.
And that we also know that God'somnipotence, his
all-powerfulness, is true, eventhough humans have free will.
The analogy is simple andstraightforward.
If we have a doctor who isseeing a patient, and the doctor
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makes one prescription and hesays, I want you to take this
pill three times a day for thenext three weeks.
He gives the prescription andthe pills to the patient.
The patient then takes them.
Well, there was one order, oneprescription.
The doctor said it one time, andit was carried out in time three
times a day for the next threeweeks.
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So a directive is given once byGod and it's complete, but it
plays out in time.
The occurrence happens manyinstances over time.
Then the next few verses we seehere in this passage draw a very
logical conclusion about God.
Verse 4 says God rested on theseventh day from all his works.
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This is what is called God'sSabbath rest.
God rested on the seventh day.
The next verse, verse 5, theIsraelites did not enter God's
rest.
Verse 6, because it remains thatsome people still have an open
invitation to enter God's rest,then verse 7, today is the day
to enter God's rest.
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Today is the day to enter God'srest.
Steve, is the invitation stillopen for people out there to
enter God's rest?
SPEAKER_01 (13:55):
It's open every day to enter God's rest.
You mentioned it in our lastsession that once you become a
believer, that you get salvationand the ability to enter into
that rest of faith that we'vebeen talking about.
And now we're introduced intothis Sabbath rest, which is the
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next rest after this life.
It's something that we mightcall the millennial kingdom and
then the final state after that.
That's the Sabbath rest.
When is it that you enter that?
You enter that on the day ofyour belief.
You are able to enter into thoserests, even though that Sabbath
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rest is something that's goingto be in the future.
You have a past rest wheneversomeone becomes a believer.
You have a present rest wheneversomeone is living their life out
and becoming more Christ-like,as we've talked about many
times.
And you have a future restwhenever we go into our
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glorified bodies and are in thatmillennial kingdom, and then
further on into the final state.
But when do we get to it?
It's always on the day that webecome believers in Jesus
Christ.
And the imitation is always openevery day.
That's why it says there inverse 7, today is the day if you
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hear his voice.
Do not harden your hearts.
It's today.
Don't postpone some decisionthat you might have that says,
Oh, I will come to believing inJesus Christ sometime down the
road.
I'll do it tomorrow.
I want to take care of somethings before I do.
I want to clean up my lifebefore I do that.
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I want to go off and have alittle bit more time of partying
in my life before I do that.
We are not promised tomorrow.
And there are very many storiesof tragedies that happen to
people on days when they do noteven know when it's going to
happen.
Their life is taken from them.
Today is the day of salvation.
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Again, as it's put here in verse7.
Today, if you hear his voice, donot harden your hearts.
If you're listening to this,you're hearing the plea of God,
you're hearing his voice throughhis word.
Today is the day of salvation.
Do not harden your hearts.
Become a believer and trust inJesus Christ.
SPEAKER_00 (16:28):
That's exactly the point.
And he's made it twice now.
Verse 7, today, if you hear hisvoice, don't harden your hearts.
He mentioned that in the lastchapter.
This promise, this opportunityis open to us today.
There's other places in thescriptures that play this out.
2 Corinthians 6 2 says, quote,Behold, now is the acceptable
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time.
Behold, now is the day ofsalvation, it says.
And it's saying here at the endof verse 7 in Hebrews that if we
hear God's voice, we should notharden our heart.
If we feel God's Spirit pullingus towards him, we should yield
to that now.
And we should not push back.
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We should not harden our heartsin unbelief.
The reason is because, as youjust said, Steve, not only do we
not know how long we're going tobe here, in the book of James it
says, quote, you do not knowwhat your life will be like
tomorrow.
You are just a vapor thatappears for a little while and
then vanishes away.
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It says in James 4.14.
So not only do we not know howmuch longer we're going to be
here, we also don't know howmuch longer God's Spirit is
going to draw us in, because weneed his Holy Spirit drawing us
towards him, or we never wouldaccept Christ.
The message here in this sectionof Hebrews is that the ancient
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Israelites had this opportunity.
And all they had to do wasaccept the promise.
But because they looked at thecircumstances around them, they
thought, well, there's no wayGod's going to be able to solve
this problem.
That is unbelief.
They were pushing back on Godand his promises, and therefore
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they did not get into God'srest.
We don't know how much longerGod's going to draw us in.
There are times where God says,You can walk your way because
I've given you up.
There are times when the HolySpirit stops drawing us in.
There's times when our heartsget so hard that it will not
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hear the still small voice.
What is the day of salvationtoday is the day of salvation.
That is the message here.
He said it over and over again.
Even those of us that haveconfidence in our salvation, we
should check ourselves and makesure that our daily walk is
really believing God.
Do I believe God in my dailywalk or am I trying to do it
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myself?
If I'm trying to do it myself,all I'm going to get is tired.
This carries over into the nextsection.
Steve, can you start at verse 8and go down to verse 11?
SPEAKER_01 (19:08):
For if Joshua had given them rest, he would not
have spoken of another day afterthat.
So there remains a Sabbath restfor the people of God.
For the one who has entered hisrest has himself also rested
from his works, as God did fromhis.
Therefore, let us be diligent toenter that rest, so that no one
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will fall through following thesame example of disobedience.
SPEAKER_00 (19:37):
In that section we just read, the first part of it
speaks of Joshua.
What does it mean here when it'ssaying that Joshua did not give
them rest?
What's the events that he'stalking about?
SPEAKER_01 (19:53):
Well, as they went into the land, God did go before
them and drove out the peoplegroups before them, but they
faltered many times.
Right after they went in andtook Jericho, for example, they
had a very small town of Ai, andthey tried to take Ai on their
own power without consultingGod, and they were soundly
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defeated by this little smalltown.
You can hear that through ourstudy of the book of Joshua.
Then as it progressed, theyweren't able to take certain
parts.
We see through that that yes,they conquered the land, but
they didn't completely conquerthe land the way God had told
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them to do it.
So there was going to be a timein the future that they were
still going to have to work inorder to completely take the
land out.
Joshua told them at the very endof Joshua, he pulled them
together and told them, You needto swear today to follow the
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ordinances and statutes of Godso that you might be able to
live in the land.
This day you need to choose whoyou're going to follow.
Are you going to follow God ornot?
As for me and my house, we'regoing to follow the Lord.
Of course, the people famouslysaid, yes, we're going to follow
the Lord, but then before theygot out of Joshua, they were
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already disobeying once again.
This concept here is thatthere's always going to be this
Sabbath rest.
There's always going to be arest beyond what we have now in
our life today of a life andrest in the faith that we have,
we still have something to lookforward to in the Sabbath rest.
SPEAKER_00 (21:45):
That's exactly right.
If we also look at the historyat the end of the book of
Joshua, there were still placesand peoples that had not yet
been conquered.
There was still work to do.
If you follow the historythrough the book of Judges, they
never did conquer some of thepeople.
They never did go into a landthat was really restful.
So that's what he's saying hereis that Joshua, yes, he led them
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into the land, but they neverdid really achieve that true
rest.
In verse 9, it says there,quote, there remains a Sabbath
rest for the people of God,unquote.
That's referring back to versefour that says God rested on the
seventh day.
It's making a teaching here thatsays God's Sabbath rest is that
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permanent rest.
If you remember, God rested onthe seventh day of creation.
The seventh day had no end.
There was no end of the seventhday.
So God was in a permanent rest.
God's Sabbath rest is forever.
It has no end.
He's still in his Sabbath resttoday.
Therefore, when it says here,quote, there remains a Sabbath
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rest for the people of God, it'sspeaking of a permanent rest, a
complete rest.
I think the book of Joshua istalking not only about a daily
walk through life with our dailyactivities and how we handle our
all of our cares of the world,we can get rest if we do those
things God's way, but it's alsotalking about a Sabbath rest, a
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permanent rest, a rest therethat is eternal.
Steve, is there a place and isthere a time when Christians
will have a permanent Sabbathrest?
SPEAKER_01 (23:32):
Yeah, that's what we've talked about earlier, is
in this millennial time periodof the kingdom, the restored
kingdom of Israel, where Jesusis going to rule from Jerusalem,
rule all the nations.
David is going to be the princeover Israel.
And there's going to be certainbelievers in the body of Christ
that are going to rule withJesus across the world.
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Now, that is a millennialkingdom rest.
But then after that, there iswhat we call the final state of
a new heavens and a new earth.
We're not really told very muchof what that's going to be, but
those are time periods ofwhenever we're going to be able
to live restfully in JesusChrist.
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Not like we're living today,even though we've had this rest
that we've described of thefaith life, and that we can have
peace in our spirit as we gothrough the many bumps and turns
of the life that we have here.
God still gets us through it,and we have that type of a rest,
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but it's not the ultimate rest.
We've got one more coming inwhat's called this Sabbath rest.
It's the end state.
It's one where we're going tohave an eternal rest in God.
SPEAKER_00 (24:49):
When it says here that there remains a Sabbath
rest for the people of God, yes,it is.
It's talking about thispermanent rest.
It's referring back to thecreation week.
On creation day seven, it saysGod rested.
Well, it wasn't because he wastired.
It wasn't because, well, God'ssaying, well, I had a long week,
so I'm going to take a day off.
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That's not the point.
That's a misunderstanding of theword rest.
The word rest there means thework was finished.
The work was complete, so hecould rest.
And even today, if we have atask before us and we've
completed every step of thattask, the work is finished, then
we can stop, we can rest, we cansit down.
That's the sense here is that herested because the work was
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finished.
It was good.
At the end, he made the people,they were very good.
His work was finished so hecould rest.
Therefore, the Jews did notfully enter God's rest when they
entered the promised land underJoshua because there was still
some unrest.
The work was not finished.
They still had things to do.
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Today, we can have a walk withGod that is restful.
We can have a daily walk that'srestful.
The work of righteousness isfinished, but our daily
activities with the world isnever done.
So we are looking forward tothat Sabbath rest when our role
here, the job that God has givenus, is complete.
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We've done all that God had forus to do.
Therefore, we can have apermanent Sabbath rest.
Therefore, the rest spoken ofhere is rest in the name of the
Son, Jesus Christ.
Verse 10 is speaking aboutChristians entering God's rest.
If we're in Christ and we'veentered God's rest and we can no
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longer work to prove ourrighteousness, we can enter
God's rest because the work ofrighteousness is finished.
Steve, what does it feel like tobe able to say that our rest in
Christ because He finished thework?
Therefore, I don't have to doanything.
What does that feel like?
SPEAKER_01 (26:55):
Well, I don't know exactly what it feels like
because I'm not there yet.
But what it does feel good toknow that it's out there in the
future and that there's gonna bea day whenever I am truly going
to be able to rest.
I'm not gonna be tied to thisworld with this body.
I'm gonna have a glorified bodythat is not gonna be tied to the
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world that we have today.
I think it's a very good feelingto know that that is something
to look forward to out in thefuture.
It gives me hope and it shouldgive all of us hope.
SPEAKER_00 (27:29):
You know, there are churches in the world that teach
that we have to keep working toearn our righteousness.
We have to be good enough.
If I ask myself, what does thatfeel like?
Well, it's just tiring becausethe work of righteousness is
never finished.
By contrast, I can tell you whatit feels like to realize that
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Christ finished his work.
What was the last thing Christsaid on the cross?
It is finished.
Well, what was finished?
The work that he had to do, thework to pay for my sins and for
your sins.
Therefore, I don't have to workfor my righteousness.
And that feeling is tremendous.
I can rest today in Christ.
And there will become a day whenmy daily activities are finished
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and he calls me home.
That's going to be the greatday.
Verse 11 in the passage tellsfor us to be diligent in resting
in Christ rather than followingthe same bad example of ancient
Israel.
The word here for diligent, someof the translations say strive
or make every effort.
The word actually means tohurry, to expedite.
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When verse 11, let us thereforehurry to enter that rest so that
no one will fall.
He's making this big deal aboutentering God's rest.
It's been going on for severalpassages now.
Why do you think he's spendingso much time talking about and
addressing to people in thechurch that you can have rest?
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It's available today.
You don't have to work for yourrighteousness.
You can rest in Christ.
Why is he spending so much timeon that?
SPEAKER_01 (29:08):
I think it's because it's human nature for us to
think that we have to dosomething more in order to have
salvation.
And since we think that way, ourmind is on what do I need to do?
What can I do to please God?
When you have that type of amindset, you're never going to
be at rest because you're alwaysgoing to be thinking, whatever I
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did isn't going to be goodenough for God.
Whatever I did is only going tobe temporary because I have
these thoughts and I have theseways about me that I know that
don't necessarily please God.
So I believe that He isemphasizing this rest to these
believers here at this timebecause they're under great
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persecution and pressure to goback where it's nice and easy in
Judaism with something thatthey're familiar with, where if
you Kept all of those laws, youwere perceived to have a
righteous standing before God.
In our case, we've been able tomake great application to it in
our way, in that if we arealways fighting this world, then
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if we can just do things thatwill think that would satisfy
God, then we can have ourrighteousness with God.
In many cases, it's going to acertain church or a certain
religion, and we getsatisfaction from them.
We get from them that says, ifyou do these rules, then you
will have righteousness withGod.
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But that's not how it works.
And that's not what the authoris telling the Hebrews of that
day.
That's not what the author istelling us in the application
that we can make.
We can have rest in Jesus Christtoday.
It's a direct rest with him.
And the verses that are going tocome is going to talk about him
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being our high priest.
He is going to be arepresentative between us and
God.
We no longer have to go throughan intermediary person or
organization.
Through salvation and belief andtrust in Jesus Christ, we have
direct access to him, directaccess to the throne of God
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through him being our advocate.
I think that is why the authoris stressing this rest over and
over again.
It's because of our humannature, our thick skulls that
have to get through to us thatsays, yes, it is that simple.
Once you have salvation, nowit's time to become more
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Christ-like.
Now it's time that you can havefellowship with fellow believers
and that you can have rest andpeace from this world by taking
that type of an approach versusalways having to think that you
have to do something else inorder to please God.
SPEAKER_00 (32:01):
Hebrews 11:4 says, Therefore, let us be diligent or
hurry, make haste to enter thatrest.
So that's my message for youtoday.
Jesus over in the Gospels said,Come to me, all who are weary
and heavy laden, and I will giveyou rest.
Take my yoke upon you, for myyoke is easy and my burden is
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light.
Hurry to that rest and stoptrying to do it on your own.
All you're gonna do is gettired.
Why don't you rest in him today?
SPEAKER_01 (32:32):
That's exactly right, Glenn.
Resting in him today.
We hope that you have enjoyedthe session that we've had
today.
We've got a lot more to gothrough in the book of Hebrews.
We ask that you stay with us.
There's gonna be a lot of greatthings that are going to come.
And as always, we want you tocome back and reason with us
through the Bible.
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Thank you so much for watchingand listening.
May God bless you.
Our world today often gets quite hectic and it
gets quite busy and we're pulledin a lot of directions.
It seems that there's increasingways for our flesh to be tempted
to get pulled into dailyactivities, some of which are
sinful, but many of which arejust daily activities that are
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just busyness.
Oftentimes what we need iscalmness and rest.
Well, today we're going to findout what the Word of God says
about taking advantage of God'srest.
There is an opportunity, apromise that we can have in
Christ for rest.
I trust that today you canbenefit for some rest.
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I know I can.
If you have your Bible, open itto Hebrews chapter 4, and we're
going to learn about what thewriter of Hebrews says about
entering into God's rest.
There's a rest that we can havetoday, but there's also an
eternal Sabbath rest.
And we're going to learn aboutthat today as well.
Steve, can you start at Hebrews4 3 and read down to verse 7?
SPEAKER_01 (01:27):
For we who have believed enter that rest, just
as he has said, as I swore in mywrath, they shall not enter my
rest, although his works werefinished from the foundation of
the world.
For he has said somewhereconcerning the seventh day, and
God rested on the seventh dayfrom all his works.
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And again in this passage, theyshall not enter my rest.
Therefore, since it remains forsome to enter it, and those who
formerly had good news preachedto them failed to enter because
of disobedience, he again fixesa certain day today, saying
through David, after so long atime, just as has been said
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before, today, if you hear hisvoice, do not harden your
hearts.
SPEAKER_00 (02:20):
And of course, the book of Hebrews is written to
just that Hebrew people.
These were Jewish believers inJesus Christ, and he's writing
to a group that would know verywell the Old Testament stories
and accounts that he's talkingabout.
When verse 3, he says, he quotesthe Old Testament once again, as
I swore in my wrath, they shallnot enter my rest.
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Of course, he's talking aboutwhen the ancient Israelites
wandered in the wilderness for40 years because they did not
believe God, that God wascapable of bringing them into
the promised land when it wasfull of a lot of dangers.
That's the reference here.
He's saying that there is aprerequisite for entering God's
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rest.
Steve, what is in verse three,what is the prerequisite for
entering God's rest?
SPEAKER_01 (03:09):
It says right there at the very first part, for we
who have believed enter therest.
Belief is the prerequisite.
SPEAKER_00 (03:17):
Belief is just that.
It is the key for entering God'srest.
Do we truly trust God?
In verse three, it also saysthat God determines that Israel
will not enter his rest.
The ancient Israelites, ofcourse, did not, as we said,
enter God's rest.
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Does unbelief have consequencesstill today?
SPEAKER_01 (03:42):
Yes, it has consequences today.
If it's what we were talkingabout in our last session, as
far as someone who actually hasbelieved in Jesus Christ and
they have salvation through thatbelief, but yet there's an
outstanding part of rest intheir life while they're in this
world and they forsake itbecause they don't follow
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through and study God's word andget involved with fellowship of
other Christians, or the otherunbelief of believing in Jesus
Christ and what he has donethrough his death, burial, and
resurrection in the first place.
If you don't even advance tothat belief, then you have no
hope or promise of eternal lifeat all.
And most certainly you're notgoing to enter into any type of
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God's rest if you don't have abelief and faith and trust in
Jesus Christ.
SPEAKER_00 (04:34):
Unbelief does indeed have consequences.
We cannot enter into God's restbecause we don't follow his ways
and we don't trust that he canclear the path for us.
Just like unbelief hasconsequences, belief and trust
in God does also haveconsequences, but these are
positive.
They are rewards.
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Steve, are there rewards andgood things that happen today in
our lives because of trustingGod?
And then are there future onesas well?
SPEAKER_01 (05:04):
There are.
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Then I think people are missingout on the ultimate future rest
and the future rewards that wehave by the deeds and the things
that we do in this world.
Christians or believers aregoing to have a judgment at
what's called the Bima seat.
And that judgment is not goingto be for our salvation or not.
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That's not the questionnaire.
That judgment is going to be areview of all of our deeds,
whether good or bad, and ourrewards that we get are going to
be dependent on what we havedone here.
That's not talked about verymuch.
It's not taught.
It's not preached from thepulpit very much.
And I think there's going to bea lot of people who are going to
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be very surprised at that beamof seat judgment to find out
that they're going to miss outon some of the rewards that they
could have in eternity becauseit was never revealed to them
and taught them that what you'redoing now, after you have become
a believer, your impact is goingto be one of in your eternal
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life of the rewards that you'regoing to get.
And therefore, they're not goingto be expecting to lose some of
those rewards.
But scripture is very clear inJames and other epistles that
some of the activities that wetake and actions we take here in
this life, as Christians,believers, are going to have an
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impact eternally as to therewards that we might have
received.
There's going to be others whoare going to receive great
rewards because of theactivities that they have done
here to further the gospel ofJesus Christ.
SPEAKER_00 (07:33):
The human condition for all people across all time
is to run into scarycircumstances, risky
circumstances.
We get things that we foreseeahead of us on our path through
life to where we say, okay,here's a risk.
This might happen, this disastercould happen.
We end up with concerns aboutour finances or about our
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relationships or aboutinternational politics or our
business or how our church isgoing to run.
We have risks and things that wehave to concern ourselves with.
If we're not resting in Christ,then these circumstances loom
large over our life.
If we're worried aboutcircumstances, what does that
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tell us about God's ability toovercome those circumstances?
SPEAKER_01 (08:23):
That's just what they become as a worry to us.
And we're focused on thecircumstances themselves rather
than on He who can help us overthose difficulties that we might
find ourselves in.
Those difficulties might be onesthat are small to
life-threatening.
But through all of them, doesn'tmatter what the degree they are,
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if we always go to God first andtrust in him, then we can find
out and have a rest that he isgoing to ultimately take care of
them, whether that be seeing usthrough those circumstances in
this life or ultimately beingable to take us and see him
through the circumstance in thenext life.
SPEAKER_00 (09:07):
The passage here talks about this rest in Christ.
And the true rest is trusting inChrist and following his ways,
his commands on how to livelife.
We should all ask ourselves (09:19):
am I trusting in Christ or am I
trusting in my own effort to getthrough life or my own effort to
be righteous enough to appearbefore God?
If we're thinking our ownefforts are going to get us to a
point where we're rested inrighteousness or rested in our
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ways through life, then we'rewrong.
We're sadly mistaken.
Our ways are flawed, and we'renever going to work our way
enough to be righteous before aperfectly holy God.
All you're going to get istired.
We're never going to achieverest on our own, not in this
world.
We can only rest if we'retrusting in Christ for our
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righteousness, trusting in himfor our salvation, and trusting
in him to know how to live on adaily basis.
Once we just yield to him andhis ways, then we can rest in
Christ.
Now it also says at the end ofverse 3, it steps waist deep
into a thought about God herethat's quite profound.
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The end of verse 3 says,although his works were finished
from the foundation of theworld.
Now that's a little peek behindthe curtain into God's side of
things.
It says that his works werefinished from the foundation of
the world.
This is a very deep and profoundteaching about the nature of God
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and the nature of time.
God, as we know, is eternal,which is timeless.
He doesn't get older, he doesn'tget wiser, he doesn't grow
larger or smaller.
He is the same yesterday, today,and forever.
It says in this book, Hebrews13, 8.
So verse 3 here says not onlyGod was complete from before the
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world, but his works werecomplete from the foundation of
the world.
Yet we know that God's actionsoccur to us in time sequences.
God's actions occur just acrossthe scriptures.
There was a time before Jesuscame, there was a time that
Jesus came, and then there was atime after he came.
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There was a time that he laterrose from the dead.
His actions occur in sequences.
From all of this, we canconclude some quite profound
theological concepts.
God, in his person, in hisbeing, is timeless and
changeless.
He never changes.
He is the same forever.
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God performed his works ineternity, not in time.
He didn't perform his works intime, he performed them from
eternity.
Hebrews 4.3 says they arecomplete from the foundation of
the world.
God's works occur in the time hedetermined them to happen.
He worked from eternity, but hedetermined that the results
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would happen in time sequences.
And that we also know that God'somnipotence, his
all-powerfulness, is true, eventhough humans have free will.
The analogy is simple andstraightforward.
If we have a doctor who isseeing a patient, and the doctor
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makes one prescription and hesays, I want you to take this
pill three times a day for thenext three weeks.
He gives the prescription andthe pills to the patient.
The patient then takes them.
Well, there was one order, oneprescription.
The doctor said it one time, andit was carried out in time three
times a day for the next threeweeks.
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So a directive is given once byGod and it's complete, but it
plays out in time.
The occurrence happens manyinstances over time.
Then the next few verses we seehere in this passage draw a very
logical conclusion about God.
Verse 4 says God rested on theseventh day from all his works.
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This is what is called God'sSabbath rest.
God rested on the seventh day.
The next verse, verse 5, theIsraelites did not enter God's
rest.
Verse 6, because it remains thatsome people still have an open
invitation to enter God's rest,then verse 7, today is the day
to enter God's rest.
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Today is the day to enter God'srest.
Steve, is the invitation stillopen for people out there to
enter God's rest?
SPEAKER_01 (13:55):
It's open every day to enter God's rest.
You mentioned it in our lastsession that once you become a
believer, that you get salvationand the ability to enter into
that rest of faith that we'vebeen talking about.
And now we're introduced intothis Sabbath rest, which is the
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next rest after this life.
It's something that we mightcall the millennial kingdom and
then the final state after that.
That's the Sabbath rest.
When is it that you enter that?
You enter that on the day ofyour belief.
You are able to enter into thoserests, even though that Sabbath
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rest is something that's goingto be in the future.
You have a past rest wheneversomeone becomes a believer.
You have a present rest wheneversomeone is living their life out
and becoming more Christ-like,as we've talked about many
times.
And you have a future restwhenever we go into our
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glorified bodies and are in thatmillennial kingdom, and then
further on into the final state.
But when do we get to it?
It's always on the day that webecome believers in Jesus
Christ.
And the imitation is always openevery day.
That's why it says there inverse 7, today is the day if you
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hear his voice.
Do not harden your hearts.
It's today.
Don't postpone some decisionthat you might have that says,
Oh, I will come to believing inJesus Christ sometime down the
road.
I'll do it tomorrow.
I want to take care of somethings before I do.
I want to clean up my lifebefore I do that.
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I want to go off and have alittle bit more time of partying
in my life before I do that.
We are not promised tomorrow.
And there are very many storiesof tragedies that happen to
people on days when they do noteven know when it's going to
happen.
Their life is taken from them.
Today is the day of salvation.
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Again, as it's put here in verse7.
Today, if you hear his voice, donot harden your hearts.
If you're listening to this,you're hearing the plea of God,
you're hearing his voice throughhis word.
Today is the day of salvation.
Do not harden your hearts.
Become a believer and trust inJesus Christ.
SPEAKER_00 (16:28):
That's exactly the point.
And he's made it twice now.
Verse 7, today, if you hear hisvoice, don't harden your hearts.
He mentioned that in the lastchapter.
This promise, this opportunityis open to us today.
There's other places in thescriptures that play this out.
2 Corinthians 6 2 says, quote,Behold, now is the acceptable
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time.
Behold, now is the day ofsalvation, it says.
And it's saying here at the endof verse 7 in Hebrews that if we
hear God's voice, we should notharden our heart.
If we feel God's Spirit pullingus towards him, we should yield
to that now.
And we should not push back.
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We should not harden our heartsin unbelief.
The reason is because, as youjust said, Steve, not only do we
not know how long we're going tobe here, in the book of James it
says, quote, you do not knowwhat your life will be like
tomorrow.
You are just a vapor thatappears for a little while and
then vanishes away.
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It says in James 4.14.
So not only do we not know howmuch longer we're going to be
here, we also don't know howmuch longer God's Spirit is
going to draw us in, because weneed his Holy Spirit drawing us
towards him, or we never wouldaccept Christ.
The message here in this sectionof Hebrews is that the ancient
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Israelites had this opportunity.
And all they had to do wasaccept the promise.
But because they looked at thecircumstances around them, they
thought, well, there's no wayGod's going to be able to solve
this problem.
That is unbelief.
They were pushing back on Godand his promises, and therefore
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they did not get into God'srest.
We don't know how much longerGod's going to draw us in.
There are times where God says,You can walk your way because
I've given you up.
There are times when the HolySpirit stops drawing us in.
There's times when our heartsget so hard that it will not
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hear the still small voice.
What is the day of salvationtoday is the day of salvation.
That is the message here.
He said it over and over again.
Even those of us that haveconfidence in our salvation, we
should check ourselves and makesure that our daily walk is
really believing God.
Do I believe God in my dailywalk or am I trying to do it
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myself?
If I'm trying to do it myself,all I'm going to get is tired.
This carries over into the nextsection.
Steve, can you start at verse 8and go down to verse 11?
SPEAKER_01 (19:08):
For if Joshua had given them rest, he would not
have spoken of another day afterthat.
So there remains a Sabbath restfor the people of God.
For the one who has entered hisrest has himself also rested
from his works, as God did fromhis.
Therefore, let us be diligent toenter that rest, so that no one
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will fall through following thesame example of disobedience.
SPEAKER_00 (19:37):
In that section we just read, the first part of it
speaks of Joshua.
What does it mean here when it'ssaying that Joshua did not give
them rest?
What's the events that he'stalking about?
SPEAKER_01 (19:53):
Well, as they went into the land, God did go before
them and drove out the peoplegroups before them, but they
faltered many times.
Right after they went in andtook Jericho, for example, they
had a very small town of Ai, andthey tried to take Ai on their
own power without consultingGod, and they were soundly
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defeated by this little smalltown.
You can hear that through ourstudy of the book of Joshua.
Then as it progressed, theyweren't able to take certain
parts.
We see through that that yes,they conquered the land, but
they didn't completely conquerthe land the way God had told
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them to do it.
So there was going to be a timein the future that they were
still going to have to work inorder to completely take the
land out.
Joshua told them at the very endof Joshua, he pulled them
together and told them, You needto swear today to follow the
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ordinances and statutes of Godso that you might be able to
live in the land.
This day you need to choose whoyou're going to follow.
Are you going to follow God ornot?
As for me and my house, we'regoing to follow the Lord.
Of course, the people famouslysaid, yes, we're going to follow
the Lord, but then before theygot out of Joshua, they were
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already disobeying once again.
This concept here is thatthere's always going to be this
Sabbath rest.
There's always going to be arest beyond what we have now in
our life today of a life andrest in the faith that we have,
we still have something to lookforward to in the Sabbath rest.
SPEAKER_00 (21:45):
That's exactly right.
If we also look at the historyat the end of the book of
Joshua, there were still placesand peoples that had not yet
been conquered.
There was still work to do.
If you follow the historythrough the book of Judges, they
never did conquer some of thepeople.
They never did go into a landthat was really restful.
So that's what he's saying hereis that Joshua, yes, he led them
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into the land, but they neverdid really achieve that true
rest.
In verse 9, it says there,quote, there remains a Sabbath
rest for the people of God,unquote.
That's referring back to versefour that says God rested on the
seventh day.
It's making a teaching here thatsays God's Sabbath rest is that
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permanent rest.
If you remember, God rested onthe seventh day of creation.
The seventh day had no end.
There was no end of the seventhday.
So God was in a permanent rest.
God's Sabbath rest is forever.
It has no end.
He's still in his Sabbath resttoday.
Therefore, when it says here,quote, there remains a Sabbath
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rest for the people of God, it'sspeaking of a permanent rest, a
complete rest.
I think the book of Joshua istalking not only about a daily
walk through life with our dailyactivities and how we handle our
all of our cares of the world,we can get rest if we do those
things God's way, but it's alsotalking about a Sabbath rest, a
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permanent rest, a rest therethat is eternal.
Steve, is there a place and isthere a time when Christians
will have a permanent Sabbathrest?
SPEAKER_01 (23:32):
Yeah, that's what we've talked about earlier, is
in this millennial time periodof the kingdom, the restored
kingdom of Israel, where Jesusis going to rule from Jerusalem,
rule all the nations.
David is going to be the princeover Israel.
And there's going to be certainbelievers in the body of Christ
that are going to rule withJesus across the world.
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Now, that is a millennialkingdom rest.
But then after that, there iswhat we call the final state of
a new heavens and a new earth.
We're not really told very muchof what that's going to be, but
those are time periods ofwhenever we're going to be able
to live restfully in JesusChrist.
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Not like we're living today,even though we've had this rest
that we've described of thefaith life, and that we can have
peace in our spirit as we gothrough the many bumps and turns
of the life that we have here.
God still gets us through it,and we have that type of a rest,
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but it's not the ultimate rest.
We've got one more coming inwhat's called this Sabbath rest.
It's the end state.
It's one where we're going tohave an eternal rest in God.
SPEAKER_00 (24:49):
When it says here that there remains a Sabbath
rest for the people of God, yes,it is.
It's talking about thispermanent rest.
It's referring back to thecreation week.
On creation day seven, it saysGod rested.
Well, it wasn't because he wastired.
It wasn't because, well, God'ssaying, well, I had a long week,
so I'm going to take a day off.
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That's not the point.
That's a misunderstanding of theword rest.
The word rest there means thework was finished.
The work was complete, so hecould rest.
And even today, if we have atask before us and we've
completed every step of thattask, the work is finished, then
we can stop, we can rest, we cansit down.
That's the sense here is that herested because the work was
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finished.
It was good.
At the end, he made the people,they were very good.
His work was finished so hecould rest.
Therefore, the Jews did notfully enter God's rest when they
entered the promised land underJoshua because there was still
some unrest.
The work was not finished.
They still had things to do.
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Today, we can have a walk withGod that is restful.
We can have a daily walk that'srestful.
The work of righteousness isfinished, but our daily
activities with the world isnever done.
So we are looking forward tothat Sabbath rest when our role
here, the job that God has givenus, is complete.
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We've done all that God had forus to do.
Therefore, we can have apermanent Sabbath rest.
Therefore, the rest spoken ofhere is rest in the name of the
Son, Jesus Christ.
Verse 10 is speaking aboutChristians entering God's rest.
If we're in Christ and we'veentered God's rest and we can no
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longer work to prove ourrighteousness, we can enter
God's rest because the work ofrighteousness is finished.
Steve, what does it feel like tobe able to say that our rest in
Christ because He finished thework?
Therefore, I don't have to doanything.
What does that feel like?
SPEAKER_01 (26:55):
Well, I don't know exactly what it feels like
because I'm not there yet.
But what it does feel good toknow that it's out there in the
future and that there's gonna bea day whenever I am truly going
to be able to rest.
I'm not gonna be tied to thisworld with this body.
I'm gonna have a glorified bodythat is not gonna be tied to the
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world that we have today.
I think it's a very good feelingto know that that is something
to look forward to out in thefuture.
It gives me hope and it shouldgive all of us hope.
SPEAKER_00 (27:29):
You know, there are churches in the world that teach
that we have to keep working toearn our righteousness.
We have to be good enough.
If I ask myself, what does thatfeel like?
Well, it's just tiring becausethe work of righteousness is
never finished.
By contrast, I can tell you whatit feels like to realize that
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Christ finished his work.
What was the last thing Christsaid on the cross?
It is finished.
Well, what was finished?
The work that he had to do, thework to pay for my sins and for
your sins.
Therefore, I don't have to workfor my righteousness.
And that feeling is tremendous.
I can rest today in Christ.
And there will become a day whenmy daily activities are finished
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and he calls me home.
That's going to be the greatday.
Verse 11 in the passage tellsfor us to be diligent in resting
in Christ rather than followingthe same bad example of ancient
Israel.
The word here for diligent, someof the translations say strive
or make every effort.
The word actually means tohurry, to expedite.
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When verse 11, let us thereforehurry to enter that rest so that
no one will fall.
He's making this big deal aboutentering God's rest.
It's been going on for severalpassages now.
Why do you think he's spendingso much time talking about and
addressing to people in thechurch that you can have rest?
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It's available today.
You don't have to work for yourrighteousness.
You can rest in Christ.
Why is he spending so much timeon that?
SPEAKER_01 (29:08):
I think it's because it's human nature for us to
think that we have to dosomething more in order to have
salvation.
And since we think that way, ourmind is on what do I need to do?
What can I do to please God?
When you have that type of amindset, you're never going to
be at rest because you're alwaysgoing to be thinking, whatever I
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did isn't going to be goodenough for God.
Whatever I did is only going tobe temporary because I have
these thoughts and I have theseways about me that I know that
don't necessarily please God.
So I believe that He isemphasizing this rest to these
believers here at this timebecause they're under great
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persecution and pressure to goback where it's nice and easy in
Judaism with something thatthey're familiar with, where if
you Kept all of those laws, youwere perceived to have a
righteous standing before God.
In our case, we've been able tomake great application to it in
our way, in that if we arealways fighting this world, then
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if we can just do things thatwill think that would satisfy
God, then we can have ourrighteousness with God.
In many cases, it's going to acertain church or a certain
religion, and we getsatisfaction from them.
We get from them that says, ifyou do these rules, then you
will have righteousness withGod.
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But that's not how it works.
And that's not what the authoris telling the Hebrews of that
day.
That's not what the author istelling us in the application
that we can make.
We can have rest in Jesus Christtoday.
It's a direct rest with him.
And the verses that are going tocome is going to talk about him
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being our high priest.
He is going to be arepresentative between us and
God.
We no longer have to go throughan intermediary person or
organization.
Through salvation and belief andtrust in Jesus Christ, we have
direct access to him, directaccess to the throne of God
(31:21):
through him being our advocate.
I think that is why the authoris stressing this rest over and
over again.
It's because of our humannature, our thick skulls that
have to get through to us thatsays, yes, it is that simple.
Once you have salvation, nowit's time to become more
(31:44):
Christ-like.
Now it's time that you can havefellowship with fellow believers
and that you can have rest andpeace from this world by taking
that type of an approach versusalways having to think that you
have to do something else inorder to please God.
SPEAKER_00 (32:01):
Hebrews 11:4 says, Therefore, let us be diligent or
hurry, make haste to enter thatrest.
So that's my message for youtoday.
Jesus over in the Gospels said,Come to me, all who are weary
and heavy laden, and I will giveyou rest.
Take my yoke upon you, for myyoke is easy and my burden is
(32:23):
light.
Hurry to that rest and stoptrying to do it on your own.
All you're gonna do is gettired.
Why don't you rest in him today?
SPEAKER_01 (32:32):
That's exactly right, Glenn.
Resting in him today.
We hope that you have enjoyedthe session that we've had
today.
We've got a lot more to gothrough in the book of Hebrews.
We ask that you stay with us.
There's gonna be a lot of greatthings that are going to come.
And as always, we want you tocome back and reason with us
through the Bible.
(32:52):
Thank you so much for watchingand listening.
May God bless you.
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