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Get Some Rest
Rest is a condition of the soul.
Rest is not just sleeping.
It's an intentional time set aside to replenish your spirit.
Vance Havner used to say if we didnt come apart to rest we would come apart
When God rested it wasn't because He was tired.
There are at least two reasons we should consider.
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He rested in the sense that the work was done.
He was finished... he rested because of the completion of the work.
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He rested to create a pattern for us.
This is where we will camp out.
For the Jews
The Sabbath is first mentioned here in this word rest.
The next time it comes up is Exodus 16 in relationship to gathering manna.
Then the next time is shows up is in Exodus 20 when the 10 commandments are given.
As the rest of the law was given other "Rests" or Sabbaths were given.
not just on the seventh day, sometimes extra days.
The land was to rest on the 7th year and lay fallow.
One of the things that we have to keep in mind is that the Sabbath was Jewish Religious Law and it was also uniform civil law.
One of the examples the prophets would give about the Jews abandoning their faith was how they abandoned the Sabbath Day.
The Sabbath in Jesus' Day
By the Time Jesus walked the earth, the Sabbath had become completely legalistic.
Jesus backed the pharisees down on this.
This occurrs in every Gospel.
But here is a good example:
The Sabbath in the Church Age
As you read through the book of Acts you will discover that the followers of Jesus went to places and started with the Jews on the Sabbath (because thats the best time to find Jews worshipping)
When Paul wrote to Gentile believers he said that no one should pass judgment about a Sabbath.
In Hebrews 4.9 there is a phrase translated a Sabbath rest, but it is one word.
There are some of you who are looking for rest.
Somehow you have bought into the lie that you have to work and be good for God to be pleased with you.
But let me be clear, you cannot work yourself into God loving you are liking you.
Jesus has already done the work.
Some of you need God's rest when it comes to your past.
The Devil will keep you from resting in God because you think you can't be forgiven.
You cant be restored.
Nothing could be further from the truth.
Some of you need emotional rest.
You keep thinking when I get this worked through then I can rest, but there will always be something to rob you of your rest, until you learn to commit yourself to the Lord and enter into his rest.
AND SOME OF YOU JUST NEED TO SLOW DOWN PHYSICALLY AND REST.
Especially this time of year.
Its ok to rest.
Spiritually is where you need to rest most.
Jesus wants to save you from your sins.
He wants you to enter into his rest because just like God finished the work of Creation and rested, Jesus finished the work of paying for your sins at the cross, and said IT IS FINISHED.
You cant ever pay off your sin debt but Jesus did it once and for all.
God doesn't want you to work for salvation, He wants you to rest in in the salvation Jesus has already completed the work for.
Sometimes life seems like words and music
That can't quite become a song.
So we cry inside, and we try it again
And wonder what could be wrong.
But, when we turn to the Lord at the end of ourselves
Like we've done a time or two before
We find His truth is the same
As it has always been
We'll never need more
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It's not in trying But in trusting
It's not in running But in resting
Not in wondering But in praying
That we find the strength of the Lord
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