Out of Our Bondage

The rest being spoken of here is not a single day once a week designated as a day of rest from one’s physical labors, as it was under the Old Covenant that God had with his people Israel. For, under the New Covenant that God has with his people Israel (now Jew and Gentile by faith in Jesus Christ), the rest being spoken of here, as it was for the Israelites of old who wandered in the wilderness, is a spiritual rest, an eternal rest where sin, sickness, decay, and wars will all cease and we will now be with our Lord for eternity.

But this eternal rest is not promised to all who just give lip service to God. It is for all who obey the Lord while they still live on the earth. For faith = obedience, and disobedience = unbelief. For biblical faith in Jesus Christ is persuasion of God as to his righteousness and holiness, and of our sinfulness, and of our need to die with Christ to sin and to now walk with him in obedience to his commands in holy living. So, by this God-gifted and God-persuaded faith, we die to sin and we now obey our Lord, in practice.

So, do not follow after the lies which are being so popularized in many “Christian churches” here in America, so many of whom have turned their gatherings into market places, forbidden by God, and are partnering with the ungodly via incorporating under the state, which is also forbidden by God. And so they are becoming more like the world to attract the world to their gatherings, and so they have also diluted the gospel to make it less offensive and more appealing to the ungodly, in order to grow their numbers.

[Matthew 21:12-13; John 2:13-17; Acts 5:27-32; 2 Corinthians 6:14-18; Philippians 3:18-19; Revelation 2-3; Revelation 13:5-8; Revelation 18:1-5]

Get your truth directly from the Scriptures, and put your faith in God, in Jesus Christ, and not in other humans, no matter who. But make certain you are reading the Scriptures in their proper context absent the filter of the world and the ungodly who are twisting the Scriptures to their advantage by teaching them out of context. For Jesus Christ, Paul, and the other New Testament apostles taught obedience to God and death to sin, in practice, as requirements of God for salvation from sin and eternal life with God.

And that is the message here in Hebrews 4:1-13, and in Hebrews 3:1-19, and in 1 Corinthians 10:1-22, all of which speak the same message.

[Matthew 7:13-14,21-23; Luke 9:23-26; John 1:12-13; John 6:44; John 10:27-30; Acts 26:18; Romans 2:6-8; Romans 6:1-23; Romans 8:1-14; 1 Corinthians 10:1-22; Galatians 5:16-24; Ephesians 2:8-10; Ephesians 4:17-32; Ephesians 5:3-6; Titus 2:11-14; Hebrews 3:1-19; Hebrews 4:1-13; Hebrews 12:1-2; 1 Peter 2:24; 1 John 1:5-10; 1 John 2:3-6; 1 John 3:4-10]

Jesus, I Come

Hymn lyrics by William T. Sleeper, 1887
Music by George C. Stebbins, 1887

Out of my bondage, sorrow and night,
Jesus, I come, Jesus, I come;
Into Thy freedom, gladness, and light,
Jesus, I come to Thee;
Out of my sickness, into Thy health,
Out of my want and into Thy wealth,
Out of my sin and into Thyself,
Jesus, I come to Thee.

Out of my shameful failure and loss,
Jesus, I come, Jesus, I come;
Into the glorious gain of Thy cross,
Jesus, I come to Thee;
Out of earth’s sorrows, into Thy balm,
Out of life’s storms and into Thy calm,
Out of distress to jubilant psalm,
Jesus, I come to Thee.

Out of unrest and arrogant pride,
Jesus, I come, Jesus, I come;
Into Thy blessed will to abide,
Jesus, I come to Thee;
Out of myself to dwell in Thy love,
Out of despair, into raptures above,
Upward for aye on wings like a dove,
Jesus, I come to Thee.

Out of the fear and dread of the tomb,
Jesus, I come, Jesus, I come;
Into the joy and light of Thy home,
Jesus, I come to Thee;
Out of the depths of ruin untold,
Into the peace of Thy sheltering fold,
Ever Thy glorious face to behold,
Jesus, I come to Thee.


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Out of Our Bondage
An Original Work / May 19, 2025
Christ’s Free Servant, Sue J Love