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Questions:
What do you think of Lordship salvation?
Are we able to tell who is saved and not saved?
What happens if someone is doubting their salvation?
Unbelief = disobedience = unrest = wrath of God
Belief = obedience = rest = presence of God
Pharisees, Works-based salvation not heritage
Intro
Who is Jesus revealed as in ?
My Burden
Christian and heavy weight
My heavy weight.
How do we know we’re in the rest?
Have someone read large portions
Heb 4:
Imagery-we’re in the desert
Jewish Culture
Photosynthesis
Hearing is not enough to enter promised land
Rest is the goal - 2 types of Jews
Seekers of YHWH
Beneficiaries of YHWH
One is obvious, the other is subtle
“Seem to have failed to reach it”
Not exhibiting the right vitals
Difference between strong vitals and ambiguous vitals
In our congregation - Spiritual vitals are either strong or ambiguous
Author is speaking to ambiguous
2 options:
Spiritual desert
Lost in desert
Is the TV plugged in?
Obvious question, but still needs to be asked
Is your spiritual life and answers and information sitting on a shelf, but not plugged in?
Christ is the connection!
Christ is the rest!
Believing in Christ is access to the rest!
Jesus says “Come to me”
Not come to Church, not come to the Promised Land, come to a good moral compass, come to do good works.
Without coming to Yeshua, the Jewish life is in vain
Rest
Entered through what means?
Belief - Obedience, same thing
One person read:
Heb 4:
Author depicts rest in a few ways:
7th day at Creation
Promise Land
“Today”
What is the rest?
Is this something immediate, or eschatological?
Heb 4:
Spiritual reality now that will be consummated later
The Wrath and Rewards of God
Sabbath
Rest on the 7th day
Every festival was also a sabbath to cease work
Day of Atonement
Deny yourself
Wilderness adventures were self reliance
We need YHWH reliance.
Less stress, less punishment, more rest, more delight
Not about following the Sabbath literally - Friday to Sat
Spiritual reality
Attending Synagogue, or being a legalistic pharisee, or an obedient Jew were insufficient
Doing all the right things as a Christian are not enough to rest
“Today”?
Indicates spiritual reality, not just a festival or 7th day
Disobedience is unbelief
Urgency and immediacy clear
“Today if you hear His voice”
Promised Land?
Joshua was not the second Moses
After wilderness, they entered and experienced relief, but not the true rest of Christ
Jewish cornerstone was the Sabbath
Author indicates the Jews have no rest in what they expected
Looked for it in the patterns instead of the real thing!
Like someone looking for romantic satisfaction by ready love novels or chic-flics
Sabbath not restful, festivals and Jewish customs not restful, nor liberated Israel restful!
Rest is found somewhere else
Belief in Christ
Read
Delightful and terrifying
Reassuring to the faithful
Morbid for the disobedient
Parallel to armor piercing rounds in battle, or a scalpel on the operating table
Imagery of the Word being a Sword
Believers are to wield the sword of the Spirit
Jesus having sword protrude from mouth at judgement
Jesus’ words unlike any other words
Offend
Convict
Change
Enliven
Set at rest
“Come to me all you who are weak and heavy laden”
All are naked
Imagery of the Garden of Eden - the animal that died to cover
There are some who are on the brink of entering the Promised Land, the rest of God, but disobey
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