Enter Into My Rest

 

 

"There remains, then, a Sabbath rest for the people of God.  For whoever enters
God's rest also rests from his own work, just as God did from His. Let us, therefore,
make every effort to enter that rest, so that no one will fall by following
the same pattern of disobedience."
(Hebrews 4:9-11)

  

"Righteousness reigns and groaning creation is delivered
 and all the promised glory will be accomplished."
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 "What is the rest of which these verses speak?  It is generally explained as the rest
the true believer finds and has in the Lord Jesus Christ in believing; that his
 conscience has rest.  It is frequently identified with Matthew 11:28-29:

"Come to Me, all you who are weary and burdened, and I will give you rest. 
Take My yoke upon you and learn from Me, for I am gentle and humble
 in heart and you will find rest for your souls." 

While it is blessedly true that all who come to the Lord Jesus Christ as Saviour 
find rest in Him from the curse of the law and the burden of sin, while it is equally
true that those who follow Him in obedience and learn of Him find rest day by day
for their souls, yet it is not this present rest which is before us in these verses.

The rest which is meant is called by God, "My rest"; it is the rest of God and is
 future, the rest in coming glory, an eternal rest.  It is God's rest, because He made 
 it Himself and He will enjoy it in glory with those who have believed in Christ, in
whose perfect work God has His rest, because it satisfies His holiness and His love.

Into this rest the believer enters at His coming.  The work will be over and all
burdens cease.  Righteousness reigns and groaning creation is delivered and all
 the promised glory will be accomplished.  God rest then in His love and rejoices. 

"The LORD your God is among you; He is mighty to save. He will rejoice over you
with gladness; He will quiet you with His love; He will rejoice over you with singing." 
(Zephaniah 3:17)

Till that day God works, for sin and the curse is unremoved, but all will be changed
when His Son appears in glory and all things are put in subjection under Him.
That perfect, complete rest of God is in the new heaven and earth, when God
dwells among men and sin and death are forever gone. He then is all and all.
This is the rest which remains for the people of God. 

-Gaebelein's Annotated Bible

 

 

Let The Weight Of Your Glory Fall
(2002)
Paul Wilbur Ministries