2015 - A Year of Rest In The
LORD
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.
Heb 4:1 KJV
God’s Promise to us of entering His Rest still holds.
Only the one who believes has the right to God’s divine
Rest.
“For we which have
believed do enter into Rest…” (v.3a KJV).
Verses 9 to 11 says,
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 (KJV).
Our Rest in the Lord is called “Sabbath.”
There remains, then, a
Sabbath — Rest for the people of God.
Heb 4:9 NIV
Worship is our Sabbath. The coming move of God is going
to be a move of worship and exaltation.
In Creation, God rested, and today, our Rest in Him is by
faith.
"Rest" means you don't have to work; God will
do it all. He is "the Man of War"; He will fight your battles.
Psalm 95 is a Call to Worship and Obedience which
reverberates with Hebrews 4 that the Promise to enter God’s Rest has been from
past times—many, who formerly were given the Message of the GoodNews of the
Kingdom, failed to appropriate it and could not enter God’s divine Rest because
of their disobedience.
O come, let us worship
and bow down: let us kneel before the Lord our Maker.
For He is our God; and
we are the people of His pasture, and the sheep of His hand. To day if ye will
hear His Voice,
Harden not your heart,
as in the provocation, and as in the day of temptation in the wilderness:
When your fathers
tempted Me, proved Me, and saw My work.
Forty years long was I
grieved with this generation, and said, It is a people that do err in their
heart, and they have not known My ways:
Unto whom I sware in My
Wrath that they should not enter into My Rest.
Ps 95:6-11 KJV
This Promise of “Rest” was not a reference to the
Israelites entering into Canaan. For if Joshua had given them rest, God would
not speak afterward about ‘another day.’
God sets a definite day, [a new day]—“Today”—another
opportunity of securing divine Rest [Sabbath-Rest reserved for the people of
God; for this, the Lord says through David after so long a time in the words:
"To
day if ye will hear His Voice, Harden not your heart, as in the
provocation..."
Why do many fail to enter into God's Rest?
The reason why many fail to enter into God's Rest is
disobedience. Rebellion is a barrier that disconnects man from God.
Hardness of heart results in ‘provocation.’
“The spirit of error” prevents a man from walking in
God's divine path which leads to "Rest."
A man who goes astray in his heart—who do not know God’s
Way is unable to enter His divine Rest.
How do we enter into God's Rest?
We enter into His Rest through worship.
Intercessory brings us into worship.
When we hear the Voice of the Shepherd and follow Him;
when we become the people of His pasture, and the sheep of His hand, surely, we
will find the way into His Presence—in His Presence is Rest.