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Resting In Our Salvation
Hebrews 4:1-13 Let us therefore fear, lest, a promise being left us of entering into his rest, any of you should seem to come short of it. 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. 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. 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 in this place again, If they shall enter into my rest. Seeing therefore it remaineth that some must enter therein, and they to whom it was first preached entered not in because of unbelief: 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. For if Jesus had given them rest, then would he not afterward have spoken of another day. There remaineth therefore a rest to the people of God. For he that is entered into his rest, he also hath ceased from his own works, as God did from his. Let us labour therefore to enter into that rest, lest any man fall after the same example of unbelief. For the word of God is quick, and powerful, and sharper than any twoedged sword, piercing even to the dividing asunder of soul and spirit, and of the joints and marrow, and is a discerner of the thoughts and intents of the heart. Neither is there any creature that is not manifest in his sight: but all things are naked and opened unto the eyes of him with whom we have to do.
Are you resting in your salvation? Have you stopped struggling to be saved? Have you accepted the free gift that Christ has offered to all? How many times have you wondered if you are saved? How many times have you doubted your salvation and prayed that prayer or gone forward to the altar again? This is not what Christ meant for you to be like.
Our salvation in Jesus Christ is a rest. It is a rest from the struggle and the labour to enter into the rest. It is a rest from the struggle that one goes through before making the decision to make Christ their Lord and Savior. In Hebrews it tells us that we labour to enter into that rest. We labour, we struggle to give up ourselves to follow God. We lay down our lives at His feet and accept His salvation. There are two groups of people in Hebrews here, them and us. The us representing those who have ceased the struggle and are resting in Christ and them, who are still examples of unbelief.
Do you remember when you accepted Christs salvation? Do you know that you are a child of God? Have you been redeemed by the blood of the Lamb? If so, stop striving to be saved! Our salvation is a free gift from God. Once we are saved we are firmly placed in His hand.
Jude 1:24 "Now unto him that is able to keep you from falling, and to present you faultless before the presence of his glory with exceeding joy,"
1 Peter 1:4-5 "To an inheritance incorruptible, and undefiled, and that fadeth not away, reserved in heaven for you, Who are kept by the power of God through faith unto salvation ready to be revealed in the last time."
2 Timothy 1:12 "For the which cause I also suffer these things: nevertheless I am not ashamed: for I know whom I have believed, and am persuaded that he is able to keep that which I have committed unto him against that day."
John 10:28-29 "and life age-during I give to them, and they shall not perish--to the age, and no one shall pluck them out of my hand; my Father, who hath given to me, is greater than all, and no one is able to pluck out of the hand of my Father;"
Once you have accepted Christ as your Savior, rest. Our labour that we do after we are saved, is a labour of love, because we are saved.
So strive, labour and struggle to enter in to the rest. But once you have made that decision, rest. You are in Gods hands and He will keep you.
God bless.
Hebrews 4:1-13 Let us therefore fear, lest, a promise being left us of entering into his rest, any of you should seem to come short of it. 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. 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. 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 in this place again, If they shall enter into my rest. Seeing therefore it remaineth that some must enter therein, and they to whom it was first preached entered not in because of unbelief: 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. For if Jesus had given them rest, then would he not afterward have spoken of another day. There remaineth therefore a rest to the people of God. For he that is entered into his rest, he also hath ceased from his own works, as God did from his. Let us labour therefore to enter into that rest, lest any man fall after the same example of unbelief. For the word of God is quick, and powerful, and sharper than any twoedged sword, piercing even to the dividing asunder of soul and spirit, and of the joints and marrow, and is a discerner of the thoughts and intents of the heart. Neither is there any creature that is not manifest in his sight: but all things are naked and opened unto the eyes of him with whom we have to do.
Are you resting in your salvation? Have you stopped struggling to be saved? Have you accepted the free gift that Christ has offered to all? How many times have you wondered if you are saved? How many times have you doubted your salvation and prayed that prayer or gone forward to the altar again? This is not what Christ meant for you to be like.
Our salvation in Jesus Christ is a rest. It is a rest from the struggle and the labour to enter into the rest. It is a rest from the struggle that one goes through before making the decision to make Christ their Lord and Savior. In Hebrews it tells us that we labour to enter into that rest. We labour, we struggle to give up ourselves to follow God. We lay down our lives at His feet and accept His salvation. There are two groups of people in Hebrews here, them and us. The us representing those who have ceased the struggle and are resting in Christ and them, who are still examples of unbelief.
Do you remember when you accepted Christs salvation? Do you know that you are a child of God? Have you been redeemed by the blood of the Lamb? If so, stop striving to be saved! Our salvation is a free gift from God. Once we are saved we are firmly placed in His hand.
Jude 1:24 "Now unto him that is able to keep you from falling, and to present you faultless before the presence of his glory with exceeding joy,"
1 Peter 1:4-5 "To an inheritance incorruptible, and undefiled, and that fadeth not away, reserved in heaven for you, Who are kept by the power of God through faith unto salvation ready to be revealed in the last time."
2 Timothy 1:12 "For the which cause I also suffer these things: nevertheless I am not ashamed: for I know whom I have believed, and am persuaded that he is able to keep that which I have committed unto him against that day."
John 10:28-29 "and life age-during I give to them, and they shall not perish--to the age, and no one shall pluck them out of my hand; my Father, who hath given to me, is greater than all, and no one is able to pluck out of the hand of my Father;"
Once you have accepted Christ as your Savior, rest. Our labour that we do after we are saved, is a labour of love, because we are saved.
So strive, labour and struggle to enter in to the rest. But once you have made that decision, rest. You are in Gods hands and He will keep you.
God bless.
