LoveGodsword: " There are two rests here. One is to the rest we enter into by believing and following Gods Word which is our rest and the rest we enter into by believing and following God’s Word to God’s rest which is the seventh day Sabbath.
"Hebrews 4:3-5 defines God's rest by saying [3], For we which have believed do enter into rest (our rest from or the gospel rest of believing and following God's Word), as he said, As I have sworn in my wrath, if they shall enter into my rest (God's rest): although the works were finished from the foundation of the world. [4], For he spoke in a certain place of the "seventh day" on this wise, And God did rest the "seventh day" from all his works. [5], And in this place again, If they shall enter into my rest ("seventh day")."
There is one rest. It is a sanctified rest, to remember how the Lord created the Heavens and the earth, and then Colossians tells us, Jesus Christ created all things, by Him and for Him ( For our Lord Jesus Christ.)
There is one rest, not self created, interpreted words saying , " (our rest from or the gospel rest of believing and following God's Word)"...
Here is God, which is Jesus Christ, creating the Heavens and the earth then sanctifying it ...
Genesis 2:3 And God blessed the seventh day, and sanctified it: because that in it he had rested from all his work which God created and made.
Colossians 1:16 For by him were all things created, that are in heaven, and that are in earth, visible and invisible, whether they be thrones, or dominions, or principalities, or powers: all things were created by him, and for him:
Jesus did all the works on earth this time, to shake the Heavens and the earth, to remove them, in order to replace them for ever so they never can be moved again, this is how the remembrance of the creations of the Heavens and the earth, is now a new creation, and works finished by Jesus Christ on earth ( the antichrist denies Christ came in the flesh) and how the sanctified day was replaced by the true sanctification and everlasting creation of the Kingdom of Heaven within us by Jesus Christ..
Hebrews 12:26 Whose voice then shook the earth: but now he hath promised, saying, Yet once more I shake not the earth only, but also heaven.
27 And this word, Yet once more, signifieth the removing of those things that are shaken, as of things that are made, that those things which cannot be shaken may remain.
So the works were finished from the foundation of the world, but new works Christ had to finish, and that was when Christ rested, when He was sanctified on the death and rising..
Hebrews 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.
John 5:36 But I have greater witness than that of John: for the works which the Father hath given me to finish, the same works that I do, bear witness of me, that the Father hath sent me.
Remember the day that God sanctified, to be remembered for the creation of Jesus Christ, of the Heavens and the earth.
That sanctification was improved, replaced, God that is Holy shall be sanctified in righteousness.
Jesus did this, He sanctified Himself ( by rising from the dead to glory) to also sanctify all who believe in Christ through the truth ( the truth of Jesus Christ which is the Holy Ghost given into us/the Spirit of truth)...
Genesis 2::3 And God blessed the seventh day, and sanctified it: because that in it he had rested from all his work which God created and made.
Isaiah 5:16 But the Lord of hosts shall be exalted in judgment, and God that is holy shall be sanctified in righteousness.
John 17:19 And for their sakes I sanctify myself, that they also might be sanctified through the truth.
The offering of the body of Christ sanctifies us ( keeping the sabbath rest sanctified nobody ever) the same as keeping the law, nobody lived, it is not of faith, it was therefore death in the letter, curse and only the ones who did them would live in them ( but all in Adam die in in and unbelief in the righteousness of Christ).
Jesus did sanctify us, and Sabbath day sancification keepers, deny the sanctification of Christ, once, and for all, but Jesus triumphed over all, therefore no man can judge us ( or Jesus Christ) in respect of the sabbath days, which are now a shadow, but all is of Christ ( sanctified in Him) now..
Hebrews 10:10 By the which will we are sanctified through the offering of the body of Jesus Christ once for all.
Hebrews 2:9 But we see Jesus, who was made a little lower than the angels for the suffering of death, crowned with glory and honour; that he by the grace of God should taste death for every man.
Colossians 2:15 And having spoiled principalities and powers, he made a shew of them openly, triumphing over them in it.
16 Let no man therefore judge you in meat, or in drink, or in respect of an holyday, or of the new moon, or of the sabbath days:
17 Which are a shadow of things to come; but the body is of Christ.
Here is example of all of this, the disciples of Jesus did not keep any sabbath days, they worked by plucking corn, of course LoveGodsword states that to do good on the sabbath day is lawful, yet, just like the Pharisees, he cannot support working on the sabbath days, or doing what is good for us ( our own pleasure on the sabbath as the disciples of Jesus did to the displeasure of the Pharisee, sabbath keepers) Jesus Christ is greater than the temple, as He is the Temple, and we are the Temple with Him ( sanctified by the Lord in us in Holiness all days the same...
Isaiah 58:13 If thou turn away thy foot from the sabbath, from doing thy pleasure on my holy day; and call the sabbath a delight, the holy of the Lord, honourable; and shalt honour him, not doing thine own ways, nor finding thine own pleasure, nor speaking thine own words:
Matthew 12:1 At that time Jesus went on the sabbath day through the corn; and his disciples were an hungred, and began to pluck the ears of corn and to eat.
2 But when the Pharisees saw it, they said unto him, Behold, thy disciples do that which is not lawful to do upon the sabbath day.
3 But he said unto them, Have ye not read what David did, when he was an hungred, and they that were with him;
4 How he entered into the house of God, and did eat the shewbread, which was not lawful for him to eat, neither for them which were with him, but only for the priests?
5 Or have ye not read in the law, how that on the sabbath days the priests in the temple profane the sabbath, and are blameless?
6 But I say unto you, That in this place is one greater than the temple.
The purpose of this answer is to clarify for the ones teaching law, ( which is against the faith of Christ) how they say we need to rest on the Sabbath, or if we do not, we break the Sabbath and are sinners ,( they even go so far as to say Jesus Christ is a sinner if He broke the Sabbath) but Jesus is not only not shown as resting on the sabbath days, He is shown to be non stop doing the works of God on those very same sabbath days, and not resting at all.
In John 5, what we notice here is the specific command of Jesus to the now healed man, to not only rise up and walk, but to carry his bed with him.
Naturally it was the Sabbath, as Jesus picked these days on purpose to confound the Jews , Acts and 1 Corinthians can remind some other confounded the Lord did on them, Acts 9:22, 1 Corinthians 1:27, but to the ones who believe, they are not confounded by Christ, unlke the Sabbath so called law keepers the Pharisees.
It was not lawful to carry ones bed, but the man answered why he did it, because Jesus said to him, take up your bed, and walk..
1 Peter 2:6 Wherefore also it is contained in the scripture, Behold, I lay in Sion a chief corner stone, elect, precious: and he that believeth on him shall not be confounded.
John 5:8 Jesus saith unto him, Rise, take up thy bed, and walk.
9 And immediately the man was made whole, and took up his bed, and walked: and on the same day was the sabbath.
10 The Jews therefore said unto him that was cured, It is the sabbath day: it is not lawful for thee to carry thy bed.
11 He answered them, He that made me whole, the same said unto me, Take up thy bed, and walk.
