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Review
So before we pick up in Chapter 4 lets take a moment to review and get our minds engaged.
Who are this letters intended readers?
What is the problem the writer is addressing?
What is the message of Ch 1? Jesus is God’s ultimate messenger & Jesus is better than the prophets & the angels.
Ch 2? Warning to not neglect “so great a salvation”.
Jesus Christ became fully human.
Ch 3? Be faithful as Jesus is faithful.
Beware of an evil heart of unbelief and a hardened heart.
What are some ways our heart can became hardened?
Some harden their hearts by relapsing into their old indifference.
Some harden their hearts by unbelief.
Some harden their hearts by asking for more signs.
Some harden their hearts by presuming upon the mercy of God.
Some harden their hearts by ignoring God’s voice.
Some harden their hearts through the deceitfulness of sin.
Entering God’s Rest
Let’s begin by reading 3: 16-19 and then 4: 1 - 16
Here we continue with the quotation of and the idea of entering into God’s rest.
Therefore, since a promise remains of entering His rest, let us fear lest any of you seem to have come short of it.
For indeed the gospel was preached to us as well as to them; but the word which they heard did not profit them, not being mixed with faith in those who heard it.
This section again begins with therefore telling us that what he is about to say is built on the points he had just made.
What do you think is meant by “His rest” and how do we enter it?
What ever is meant, and we will deal with that in a moment, the writer warns us to ”fear lest any of you seem to have come short of it.”
First lets deal with the idea of His Rest.
An old puritan commentator describes it like this:
· Rest means peace with God.
· Rest means freedom from a servile, bondage-like spirit in the worship and service of God.
· Rest means deliverance from the burden of Mosaic observance.
· Rest means the freedom of worship according to the gospel.
· Rest means the rest that God Himself enjoys.
How does one fall short of His Rest?
One commentator sees the idea of falling short as an illusion to the ancient Grecian games.
As it doesn’t matter how much you lose the race by.
If you lose you lose.
Close doesn’t matter.
Peter tells us: -12
10 Therefore, brethren, be even more diligent to make your call and election sure, for if you do these things you will never stumble; 11 for so an entrance will be supplied to you abundantly into the everlasting kingdom of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ.
He continues: For indeed the gospel was preached to us as well as to them; but the word which they heard did not profit them, not being mixed with faith in those who heard it.
Do you ever wonder why two people can hear the same message and with one hearing God’s voice and another getting nothing out of it?
Salvation is a work of God in a receptive heart.
It is a God thing as I like to call it.
But without faith it doesn’t work.
Jesus told the parable of the soils only the good soil produced fruit.
The great news is that God has given to each a “measure of faith” and it only takes a tiny “mustard seed” faith to move mountains.
For we who have believed do enter that rest, as He has said: “So I swore in My wrath, ‘They shall not enter My rest,’ ” although the works were finished from the foundation of the world.
For He has spoken in a certain place of the seventh day in this way: “And God rested on the seventh day from all His works”; and again in this place: “They shall not enter My rest.”
Since therefore it remains that some must enter it, and those to whom it was first preached did not enter because of disobedience, again He designates a certain day, saying in David, “Today,” after such a long time, as it has been said: “Today, if you will hear His voice, do not harden your hearts.”
For if Joshua had given them rest, then He would not afterward have spoken of another day.
There remains therefore a rest for the people of God.
In this section the writer is explaining that this “rest” is available to all believers and proving his case through scripture.
So swore in My wrath: This quote from demonstrates that God has a rest available to us.
This rest is after the pattern of God’s own rest on the seventh day from all His works, as described in the quote from .
Why do you think God rested on the seventh day, He certainly wasn’t tired?
There remains therefore a rest for the people of God: All this together proves the point that there is a rest for the people of God.
This is a rest that is spiritual, yet patterned after the rest provided through Joshua.
The mention of Joshua reminds us that the name “Jesus” is the same as “Joshua.”
The second Joshua will finish what the first Joshua left unfinished.
Jesus is greater than both Moses and the second Joshua.
This rest is in a person – in Jesus Christ, not so much in doctrines and ideas.
If you meet a troubled, crying child and try to comfort him and give him rest using ideas and logic, it won’t do much good.
But when mommy comes, the child is happy again.
For he who has entered His rest has himself also ceased from his works as God did from His.
Entering this rest means no longer needing to work.
The idea isn’t that there is no longer any place for doing good works.
The idea is that there is no longer any place for works as a basis for our own righteousness.
The Word of God
Let us therefore be diligent to enter that rest, lest anyone fall according to the same example of disobedience.
Be diligent to enter that rest: The rest is there, but God does not force it upon us.
We must enter that rest.
Clearly, the rest is entered by faith; but it takes diligent faith.
This shows us that faith is not passive; it takes diligence to trust in, rely on, and cling to Jesus and His work for us.
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Lest anyone fall according to the same example of disobedience: If we are not diligent to enter that rest, the result can be a disaster.
We may fall according to the same example of disobedience.
We may fall, even as the children of Israel did in the wilderness.
We are warned over and over to “be not deceived”.
Self deception is a kind of willing blind spot.
The Word of God is a mirror that reveals the truth about us.
For the word of God is living and powerful, and sharper than any two-edged sword, piercing even to the division of soul and spirit, and of joints and marrow, and is a discerner of the thoughts and intents of the heart.
And there is no creature hidden from His sight, but all things are naked and open to the eyes of Him to whom we must give account.
For the word of God: God’s Word diagnoses the condition of man with a surgeon’s precision.
It lays open our heart and discerns our spiritual health.
Living and powerful: When the word of God exposes our weakness and unbelief like this, it demonstrates its inherent power, sharpness, and accuracy.
It bears constant reminding that as we submit ourselves to the word of God, we do it for far, far more than intellectual knowledge or to learn Bible facts.
We do it for the ministry of the Word, because God meets us in His Word and the Holy Spirit works powerfully through the word of God.
This spiritual work of God’s Word goes far beyond the basic educational value of learning the Bible.
i. God’s Word brings true health, fruitfulness, prosperity and success to what we do ().
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The Word of God has healing power and the power to deliver from oppression (, , ).
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God’s Word cleans us.
If we take heed according to God’s word, our way will be cleansed (, , ).
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The Word of God, hidden in our hearts, keeps us from sin ().
v. God’s Word is a counselor.
When we delight in God’s word, it becomes a rich source of counsel and guidance for us ().
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God’s Word is a source of strength ().
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