Title: Rest
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Sabbath is to finish all work and rest in peace. The rest of the old covenant given through Moses is not the true rest. Regarding the Sabbath, the Old Covenant said, “Six days you shall work hard to do all your work, but the seventh day is a sabbath to the LORD your God. Do not do any work” (Exodus 20:9-10).
The rest of the old covenant is not true rest, so there is no comfortable rest in the old covenant. Six days do not end on the seventh-day Sabbath, but after the seventh-day Sabbath, six days begin again, and you have to work again. Therefore, the rest of the old covenant is the rest of the shadows, not the true rest.
The Bible says, “Do not harden your hearts, as at Meribah, and as in the days of Massa in the wilderness, when your fathers tried me and searched me and saw my works. They were grieved for generations, saying, They are a deceived people, and they do not know my ways. Therefore in my wrath I swore, 'They shall not enter my rest' (Psalm 95:8-11). There is.
Therefore, again in the word of truth, it is said, “Today it is said, If you hear his voice, do not harden your hearts as when wrath is stirred. Who was your wrath during these forty years? Was it not against the one who sinned and whose body fell in the wilderness, and to whom did God swear that he would not enter into his rest? Was it not against the disobedient? Because they did not believe, they could not enter” (Hebrews 3:15-19).
Therefore, God's rest is not in the old covenant, but in the new covenant. It is as it is written, “The law was given through Moses, but grace and truth came through Jesus Christ” (John 1:17).
For this reason, eternal rest is not in the works of the law, which was given through Moses, but in the faith in the grace and truth of Jesus Christ.
Regarding true rest, the Bible says, “To those who work, their wages are not counted as grace, but as debts; but to those who do not work but believe in him who justifies the ungodly, his faith is counted as righteousness. As David said about the happiness of the recipient, blessed is the man whose iniquity is forgiven, and whose sins are covered, blessed is the man whose sins the Lord will not acknowledge.” (Romans 4: 4-8) proves that
True rest comes not from man's righteousness, but from God's righteousness. Therefore, if anyone puts off himself and puts on Christ, all things will be finished and there will be eternal rest.
It is written, “...Now there is no condemnation for those who are in Christ Jesus, for the law of the Spirit of life in Christ Jesus has set you free from the law of sin and death” (Romans 8:1-2). It is the same as the words of the testimony, “Therefore, if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation; the old has passed away; behold, the new has come” (2 Corinthians 5:17).
Man's rest seems to be resting, but he works again, but God's rest is eternal rest in which he does not work again. Therefore, concerning the true rest, it is testified, “He who has entered into his rest rests from his work, just as God rests from his work” (Hebrews 4:10).
Therefore, concerning the children who enter the rest of God, “But Christ, having offered one eternal sacrifice for sins, is seated at the right hand of God, waiting until after that he has made his enemies his footstool, who has been sanctified by one sacrifice. And the Spirit testifies to us, saying, This is the covenant I will make with them after those days, saith the Lord. I will put my law in their heart and write it in their minds. And then, their sins and their iniquities, He said, “I will remember no more.” Now that these have been forgiven, there is no more offering for sins” (Hebrews 10:12-18).
Therefore, a place where sin and iniquity are remembered no more, and where there is no more sacrifice for sin, is the place where you can rest with Christ forever. Amen, thank you Lord.