A Rest Remaining
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Introduction
Introduction
Summary: This passage of scripture is dealing with hardened hearts and a people that were disobedient to the Lord. However there is much to gain as believers from this lesson in the Word of God, as it gives us clear instruction and wisdom to search our own hearts and allow it to be tender towards God. It deals with victory and defeat, where there is one hanging on the balance of battle that could go either way. We must remember we are in a battle and though the victory to the war is won, we must win the daily battles life presents to us.
Listening Rest
Listening Rest
Wherefore (as the Holy Ghost saith, To day if ye will hear his voice, Harden not your hearts, as in the provocation, in the day of temptation in the wilderness: When your fathers tempted me, proved me, and saw my works forty years. Wherefore I was grieved with that generation, and said, They do alway err in their heart; and they have not known my ways. So I sware in my wrath, They shall not enter into my rest.)
Take heed, brethren, lest there be in any of you an evil heart of unbelief, in departing from the living God. But exhort one another daily, while it is called To day; 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 stedfast unto the end; While it is said, To day if ye will hear his voice, harden not your hearts, as in the provocation.
God Commanded
God Commanded
God was Speaking the entire time, yet they heard the words but never listened. We often associate listening as hearing when someone speaks, however listening is hearing and doing or clearly taking heed to the words that are being spoken.
God was Clear
God was Clear
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And the Lord spake unto Moses, saying, Send thou men, that they may search the land of Canaan, which I give unto the children of Israel: of every tribe of their fathers shall ye send a man, every one a ruler among them. And Moses by the commandment of the Lord sent them from the wilderness of Paran: all those men were heads of the children of Israel. And these were their names: of the tribe of Reuben, Shammua the son of Zaccur. Of the tribe of Simeon, Shaphat the son of Hori. Of the tribe of Judah, Caleb the son of Jephunneh. Of the tribe of Issachar, Igal the son of Joseph. Of the tribe of Ephraim, Oshea the son of Nun. Of the tribe of Benjamin, Palti the son of Raphu. Of the tribe of Zebulun, Gaddiel the son of Sodi. Of the tribe of Joseph, namely, of the tribe of Manasseh, Gaddi the son of Susi. Of the tribe of Dan, Ammiel the son of Gemalli. Of the tribe of Asher, Sethur the son of Michael. Of the tribe of Naphtali, Nahbi the son of Vophsi. Of the tribe of Gad, Geuel the son of Machi. These are the names of the men which Moses sent to spy out the land. And Moses called Oshea the son of Nun Jehoshua. And Moses sent them to spy out the land of Canaan, and said unto them, Get you up this way southward, and go up into the mountain: And see the land, what it is; and the people that dwelleth therein, whether they be strong or weak, few or many; And what the land is that they dwell in, whether it be good or bad; and what cities they be that they dwell in, whether in tents, or in strong holds; And what the land is, whether it be fat or lean, whether there be wood therein, or not. And be ye of good courage, and bring of the fruit of the land. Now the time was the time of the firstripe grapes. So they went up, and searched the land from the wilderness of Zin unto Rehob, as men come to Hamath. And they ascended by the south, and came unto Hebron; where Ahiman, Sheshai, and Talmai, the children of Anak, were. (Now Hebron was built seven years before Zoan in Egypt.) And they came unto the brook of Eshcol, and cut down from thence a branch with one cluster of grapes, and they bare it between two upon a staff; and they brought of the pomegranates, and of the figs. The place was called the brook Eshcol, because of the cluster of grapes which the children of Israel cut down from thence. And they returned from searching of the land after forty days.
And they went and came to Moses, and to Aaron, and to all the congregation of the children of Israel, unto the wilderness of Paran, to Kadesh; and brought back word unto them, and unto all the congregation, and shewed them the fruit of the land. And they told him, and said, We came unto the land whither thou sentest us, and surely it floweth with milk and honey; and this is the fruit of it. Nevertheless the people be strong that dwell in the land, and the cities are walled, and very great: and moreover we saw the children of Anak there. The Amalekites dwell in the land of the south: and the Hittites, and the Jebusites, and the Amorites, dwell in the mountains: and the Canaanites dwell by the sea, and by the coast of Jordan. And Caleb stilled the people before Moses, and said, Let us go up at once, and possess it; for we are well able to overcome it. But the men that went up with him said, We be not able to go up against the people; for they are stronger than we. And they brought up an evil report of the land which they had searched unto the children of Israel, saying, The land, through which we have gone to search it, is a land that eateth up the inhabitants thereof; and all the people that we saw in it are men of a great stature. And there we saw the giants, the sons of Anak, which come of the giants: and we were in our own sight as grasshoppers, and so we were in their sight.
God clearly told the children of Israel that they were able to take the land, in fact He already promised it to them. We are promised so much through the Word of God we must not falter but be faithful in serving God and claiming the victory that is already ours to claim.
Lost Rest
Lost Rest
For some, when they had heard, did provoke: howbeit not all that came out of Egypt by Moses. But with whom was he grieved forty years? was it not with them that had sinned, whose carcases fell in the wilderness? And to whom sware he that they should not enter into his rest, but to them that believed not? So we see that they could not enter in because of unbelief.
They Turned
They Turned
For some, when they had heard, did provoke: howbeit not all that came out of Egypt by Moses.
They provoked the Lord and turned from Him, They were given the blessing and still they turned from God in fear of man.
They Trusted Not
They Trusted Not
So we see that they could not enter in because of unbelief.
They didn’t even believe or trust God, the very God who delivered them out of the hands of the Egyptians. They very God who has fed and clothed them, cared for their every need. Yet after all of God’s love and care they chose rather not to trust Him.
The Location of Rest
The Location of Rest
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. For unto us was the gospel preached, as well as unto them: but the word preached did not profit them, not being mixed with faith in them that heard it. For 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. For he spake in a certain place of the seventh day on this wise, And God did rest the seventh day from all his works. And in this place again, If they shall enter into my rest.
The Place
The Place
God did rest in a certain place, God eternal rested in a certain place. God is giving us an example to have a place of rest, a time of rest.
The Presence
The Presence
God is present in our rest, He is the one who can inhabit our place of rest. If we rest in the secret place with God.
Lord’s Rest
Lord’s Rest
For if Jesus had given them rest, then would he not afterward have spoken of another day.
The Person
The Person
We have rest in Christ Jesus () that we can bring Him our burdens and cares. He will take them and give us rest in exchange but it is all anchored in the person of Christ Jesus.
But if I cast out devils by the Spirit of God, then the kingdom of God is come unto you.
Come unto me, all ye that labour and are heavy laden, and I will give you rest.
And when they were assembled with the elders, and had taken counsel, they gave large money unto the soldiers,
The Purpose
The Purpose
But if I cast out devils by the Spirit of God, then the kingdom of God is come unto you.
His purpose of giving rest is because He carried the burden and load. In the life of Christ we read one time where He was sleeping, but we know He slept more. I believe it is to show us that in His weariness as a man it was to supply us with rest.
Lasting Rest
Lasting Rest
There remaineth therefore a rest to the people of God.
Promised
Promised
Promised
Promised
It remaineth, it is yet stored up for us to an appointed time in the future. For us that are saved it is the promised rest of eternal life in the land that God has promised unto us.
People
People
It is for the “people of God” those that have trusted Christ as Savior. For the world there is no rest because of their unbelief.
Laboring Rest
Laboring Rest
For he that is entered into his rest, he also hath ceased from his own works, as God did from his. Let us labour therefore to enter into that rest, lest any man fall after the same example of unbelief.
Hebrews 4:
Entering
Entering
Through labor we live in this life, but when God calls us home we will then enter into His rest. Ceasing from the labor of life just as God ceased from His own labor, the blessed rest of heaven will now be haven of rest for us. We can then rest assured as our faith will be sight.
Example
Example
We must set the example of Christ and the rest He has given to us in our life so that others do not fall into the example of unbelief that has made a great sweep across the world today.