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Spiritual work when done in the Spirit is not neglecting our physical needs. We are nurtured and sustained by it. Moses in the mount twice and Jesus in the desert after His baptism attests to this.
The Sabbath is a physical rest. We who are living in and through the Spirit can now enter the day that God had sanctified and set apart and not defile it by our presence. @quevaraj is right when he shares that Israel as a whole had not been keeping the Sabbath, but his reasoning is wrong. It isn't that they were keeping the wrong time because of Joshua (Yah's Salvation) the son of Nun (posterity, increase). If that were the case as you probably know Jesus would have corrected them. He didn't. It was the fact that an unholy, unsanctified being cannot enter the Sabbath without defiling it. Hence why in verse four he starts with the word for. Which means as you know, what is about to be said is the reason for what was just said.I did not say neglect, I said without regard for, thus you are not with me.
The issue is trust: "take no thought". Living worry free is a spiritual rest, not physical.
He said the works for the rest which he called the Gospel in verse 2. this Gospel rest which we who believe enter. The works for said rest have been finished since the foundation of the world. And what is even more interesting is the fact that the writer through the Spirit uses the word although. This implies that said rest in and through the Spirit, through Christ was always available. The Lamb slain from the foundation of the world.
As proof in respect to the works for said rest being finished from the foundation of the world. He says, He Spake in a certain place concerning the seventh day. And God did rest from all His works. All His works according to context include the works for our rest in Christ.
Heb 4:2 For unto us was the gospel preached, as well as unto them: but the word preached did not profit them, not being mixed with faith in them that heard it.
Heb 4:3 For we which have believed do enter into rest, as he said, As I have sworn in my wrath, if they shall enter into my rest: although the works were finished from the foundation of the world.
Heb 4:4 For he spake in a certain place of the seventh day on this wise, And God did rest the seventh day from all his works.
Heb 4:5 And in this again, If they shall enter into my rest.
Jesus succors, helps us that are tempted. So let's hear His voice now when we are tempted. And Harden not our hearts as in the day of temptation in the wilderness. For some who had heard did provoke and he was grieved due to their sin, so their carcasses fell in the wilderness because they heeded not to His voice, His rest due to their evil heart of unbelief hardened through the deceitfulness of sin. So fear lest any of us should come short of entering into His rest. For the GOSPEL, this rest, the Good News was preached to us as well as unto them. But it did not profit them due to them departing from the living God, not heeding His voice because of the deceitfulness of sin. But we which have believed do enter into the rest, the Gospel and thereby are succored when we are tempted because we heed His voice. This rest for which the works were finished from the foundation of the world. For he spake in a certain place of the seventh day on this wise, And God did rest the seventh day from all his works. Including the works for the rest which we have believed enter, which is the Gospel. "For he spake in a certain place of the seventh day on this wise, And God did rest the seventh day from all his works." And that certain place that He spake was Mt Sinai.
And that brings us to verse 5 which is said in context to verse for. It says, "In this again".
In this again what?
He speaks.
He speaks what?
Of the Seventh Day if they shall enter into My Rest.
If we follow the context and grammar, what we have here is a speaking of the Seventh Day IF we shall enter into His Rest in Christ which is the Gospel.
Hence why it says in verses 9 and 10 that there remains a Sabbath keeping for the people of God. For he that has entered into his rest which is the Gospel ALSO cease from their own works AS God did from His.
There are two things being brought up in Hebrews 4. The rest which is the Gospel. And we who have entered into this rest ALSO cease from our own work AS, God did from His.
The word also means in addition and as means just like.
God did not enter into a spiritual rest on the Seventh Day. He is Spirit and He who is spirit ceased from His work on the Seventh day. So we who are now spirit in and through Christ Also cease from our own work AS, just like God did. Because He speaks of it agfain IF we have entered into His rest which is the Gospel.
Brother, the Gospel of Jesus does not fit the context of another “day”. A "day" Joshua was prevented from entering with manna by keeping the seventh day of the week near Jerusalem for 40 years by an “oath” that he later entered within Jerusalem without manna until the time of Jesus, without understanding God's true day of rest to give Israel the biblical Sabbath free of human tradition.
Now if Joshua had succeeded in giving them this rest, God would not have spoken about another day of rest still to come. (Hebrews 4:8 NLT)
United in our hope for the soon return of Jesus, Jorge
But what about verses 6-8?
Verse 6 goes back to what verse two brought out. That some had not heeded His voice in respect to sin through Christ and His Spirit and have been hardened through the deceitfulness of sin. And therefore have not entered into His rest of the Spirit which is the Gospel. This brings us to verses 7 and 8 which is a call to repentance from this hardened state. He, through the Spirit says, again He limiteth a certain day, saying in David,.
And that certain day is Today, RIGHTY NOW!, As it is said, Today, RIGHT NOW. if ye will hear his voice, harden not your hearts and heed to the Spirit through Christ. For if Joshua leading them into the promised land had given this Rest in Christ, then David would not afterward spoken of another day. And that Day is today, RIGHT Now if you will hear His voice as verse 7 brings out.
Heb 4:6 Seeing therefore it remaineth that some must enter therein, and they to whom it was first preached entered not in because of unbelief:
Heb 4:7 Again, he limiteth a certain day, saying in David, To day, after so long a time; as it is said, To day if ye will hear his voice, harden not your hearts.
Heb 4:8 For if Jesus had given them rest, then would he not afterward have spoken of another day.
And that brings us to verses 9 and 10. These verses are said in context to verses 4-5.
How do we know?
For one it is the first time the Greek word translated rest in Heb 4:9 is used. And as you probably know it means Keeping of a Sabbath, Sabbath keeping, Sabbath rest, observance.
This fact brings us back to verses 4 and 5 speaking of a seventh day which is the Sabbath, not 7 and 8 and it's call to repentance. In that verses 4 and 5 say that he speaks again of the seventh day IF we have entered into the rest which is the Gospel. For we that have entered into his rest which is the Gospel ALSO, in addition to that, also ceases from his own work AS. just like God did from His.
Heb 4:9 There remaineth therefore a rest (Sabbath keeping) to the people of God.
Heb 4:10 For he that is entered into his rest, he also hath ceased from his own works, as God did from his.
AmenMatthew 6:
25 Therefore I say unto you, Take no thought for your life, what ye shall eat, or what ye shall drink; nor yet for your body, what ye shall put on. Is not the life more than meat, and the body than raiment?
26 Behold the fowls of the air: for they sow not, neither do they reap, nor gather into barns; yet your heavenly Father feeds them. Are ye not much better than they?
27 Which of you by taking thought can add one cubit unto his stature?
28 And why take ye thought for raiment? Consider the lilies of the field, how they grow; they toil not, neither do they spin:
29 And yet I say unto you, That even Solomon in all his glory was not arrayed like one of these.
30 Wherefore, if God so clothe the grass of the field, which to day is, and to morrow is cast into the oven, shall he not much more clothe you, O ye of little faith?
31 Therefore take no thought, saying, What shall we eat? or, What shall we drink? or, Wherewithal shall we be clothed?
32 For after all these things do the Gentiles seek for your heavenly Father knows that ye have need of all these things.
33 But seek ye first the kingdom of God, and his righteousness; and all these things shall be added unto you.
34 Take therefore no thought for the morrow: for the morrow shall take thought for the things of itself. Sufficient unto the day is the evil thereof.
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