Turn your eyes upon Jesus: Finding Rest

Hebrews 4:1–13 HCSB

Therefore, while the promise to enter His rest remains, let us fear that none of you should miss it. For we also have received the good news just as they did; but the message they heard did not benefit them, since they were not united with those who heard it in faith (for we who have believed enter the rest), in keeping with what He has said: So I swore in My anger, they will not enter My rest. And yet His works have been finished since the foundation of the world, for somewhere He has spoken about the seventh day in this way: And on the seventh day God rested from all His works. Again, in that passage He says, They will never enter My rest. Since it remains for some to enter it, and those who formerly received the good news did not enter because of disobedience, again, He specifies a certain day—today—speaking through David after such a long time, as previously stated: Today, if you hear His voice, do not harden your hearts. For if Joshua had given them rest, God would not have spoken later about another day. Therefore, a Sabbath rest remains for God’s people. For the person who has entered His rest has rested from his own works, just as God did from His. Let us then make every effort to enter that rest, so that no one will fall into the same pattern of disobedience. For the word of God is living and effective and sharper than any double-edged sword, penetrating as far as the separation of soul and spirit, joints and marrow. It is able to judge the ideas and thoughts of the heart. No creature is hidden from Him, but all things are naked and exposed to the eyes of Him to whom we must give an account.

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Four Views on the Warning Passages in Hebrews

© 2007 by Herbert W. Bateman IV

Distrust

Concise Oxford English Dictionary Distrust

verb have little trust in; regard with suspicion.

Misinformation

Conspiracy Theories

Misinterpretation -

Merriam-Webster’s Collegiate Dictionary (Eleventh Edition) Misinterpret

mis•in•ter•pret \ˌmi-sən-ˈtər-prət, -pət\ verb transitive

1547

1: to explain wrongly

2: to understand wrongly

Disobedience

Negligence/abandonment of duties or commands

Time-

the indefinite continued progress of existence and events in the past, present, and future, regarded as a whole. (Catherine Soanes and Angus Stevenson, eds., Concise Oxford English Dictionary (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2004).

Denial

Is the rejection of reality and truth, the neglecting of logic and reason; leading to a refusal of admittance in unpleasantries, opposition, and hardships.

Diligence

Two-edged Sword

Critical - discerning, judging, expressing, transitioning from one point to another or from problem to solution

and

Cynical - believing that people are motivated purely by self-interest. (Catherine Soanes and Angus Stevenson, eds., Concise Oxford English Dictionary (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2004).

Communion