1 00:00:00,000 --> 00:00:02,400 That's what happens. 2 00:00:02,400 --> 00:00:05,320 That won't work with the message, OK? 3 00:00:05,320 --> 00:00:07,120 I'm going to preach till I'm done, amen? 4 00:00:09,800 --> 00:00:10,800 I'm thankful for it. 5 00:00:10,800 --> 00:00:13,280 You know, it seems like the only time people notice the sound 6 00:00:13,280 --> 00:00:14,640 booth is when something goes wrong. 7 00:00:14,640 --> 00:00:17,440 I am thankful these guys work so hard every week. 8 00:00:17,440 --> 00:00:18,240 They're here all the time. 9 00:00:18,240 --> 00:00:19,200 Let's give them a hand. 10 00:00:19,200 --> 00:00:25,240 And that's about the only time we appreciate them 11 00:00:25,240 --> 00:00:26,400 is when something goes wrong. 12 00:00:26,400 --> 00:00:28,720 So we got to do better on that. 13 00:00:28,720 --> 00:00:30,480 I'm going to ask you this morning. 14 00:00:30,480 --> 00:00:31,680 This is going to be a little awkward. 15 00:00:31,680 --> 00:00:32,360 It's going to be fun. 16 00:00:32,360 --> 00:00:34,280 You've got to be self-disclosing a little bit. 17 00:00:34,280 --> 00:00:35,960 I want to know something about you. 18 00:00:35,960 --> 00:00:38,960 And I want you to be willing to share that with those around you. 19 00:00:38,960 --> 00:00:41,520 But we're all doing it at the same time, so it's not a big deal. 20 00:00:41,520 --> 00:00:45,960 How many of you are people who love naps? 21 00:00:45,960 --> 00:00:48,560 Naps. 22 00:00:48,560 --> 00:00:49,200 Raise your hand. 23 00:00:49,200 --> 00:00:50,200 Come on, be proud. 24 00:00:50,200 --> 00:00:51,880 Be proud of the lazy people, amen. 25 00:00:51,880 --> 00:00:52,680 All right. 26 00:00:52,680 --> 00:00:53,280 No, I'm joking. 27 00:00:53,280 --> 00:00:54,760 You guys, who here? 28 00:00:54,760 --> 00:00:57,280 OK, I'm figuring something about you 29 00:00:57,280 --> 00:00:59,720 when it comes to your sleeping patterns. 30 00:00:59,720 --> 00:01:01,680 How many people are night people? 31 00:01:01,680 --> 00:01:02,440 Night people. 32 00:01:02,440 --> 00:01:03,320 Where are my night people at? 33 00:01:03,320 --> 00:01:04,840 OK, very cool. 34 00:01:04,840 --> 00:01:07,400 Who are morning people? 35 00:01:07,400 --> 00:01:10,040 Yeah, this is, yeah, OK. 36 00:01:10,040 --> 00:01:13,280 Very, very, very good. 37 00:01:13,280 --> 00:01:15,400 We talked, I've talked about this before. 38 00:01:15,400 --> 00:01:20,080 My wife and I have very different sleeping patterns. 39 00:01:20,080 --> 00:01:21,840 I can literally sleep anywhere. 40 00:01:21,840 --> 00:01:24,480 It doesn't take me long to fall asleep. 41 00:01:24,480 --> 00:01:33,280 And apparently, I'm loud when I sleep, whatever that means. 42 00:01:33,280 --> 00:01:35,000 She's very quiet when she sleeps. 43 00:01:35,000 --> 00:01:36,680 And here's what happens. 44 00:01:36,680 --> 00:01:39,680 She has to have complete silence when she sleeps. 45 00:01:39,680 --> 00:01:44,600 And so if there's like the cord on the fan bumping 46 00:01:44,600 --> 00:01:46,440 against the fan, she can't. 47 00:01:46,440 --> 00:01:47,080 Who's like that? 48 00:01:47,080 --> 00:01:47,760 Anybody like that? 49 00:01:47,760 --> 00:01:49,800 Can't sleep if that's going on? 50 00:01:49,800 --> 00:01:52,280 She's literally looked at me at one point and said, 51 00:01:52,280 --> 00:01:54,680 please stop breathing. 52 00:01:54,680 --> 00:01:59,760 And I'm like, I don't think I want to do that. 53 00:01:59,760 --> 00:02:01,400 I don't. 54 00:02:01,400 --> 00:02:02,080 Kind of weird. 55 00:02:04,960 --> 00:02:06,200 Why am I talking about rest today? 56 00:02:06,200 --> 00:02:11,520 You know, as human beings, we're not very good at rest. 57 00:02:11,520 --> 00:02:14,680 Or maybe either we do too much resting. 58 00:02:14,680 --> 00:02:17,720 Some of you are really too good at rest, right? 59 00:02:17,720 --> 00:02:20,800 Or we don't rest enough. 60 00:02:20,800 --> 00:02:24,200 Have you ever felt like you were working very, very hard, 61 00:02:24,200 --> 00:02:26,840 working really hard at something and getting nowhere? 62 00:02:26,840 --> 00:02:28,560 Have you ever been that way? 63 00:02:28,560 --> 00:02:33,400 Or maybe you're working very hard and going no. 64 00:02:33,400 --> 00:02:34,880 Or maybe you're really working hard. 65 00:02:34,880 --> 00:02:37,720 And then after a period or a time of life, 66 00:02:37,720 --> 00:02:39,080 of working very hard at something, 67 00:02:39,080 --> 00:02:43,200 you realize I've been working in the wrong direction. 68 00:02:43,200 --> 00:02:46,120 That's a scary thing to do, to work all your life 69 00:02:46,120 --> 00:02:47,040 to achieve something. 70 00:02:47,040 --> 00:02:49,000 And then when you achieve it, I think 71 00:02:49,000 --> 00:02:50,920 that's, I won't bring up his name, 72 00:02:50,920 --> 00:02:52,760 but I think that may be what's going on sometimes 73 00:02:52,760 --> 00:02:54,760 when a sports star retires. 74 00:02:54,760 --> 00:02:58,080 It's like, OK, now what do I do? 75 00:02:58,080 --> 00:02:59,800 Because they've worked really hard. 76 00:02:59,800 --> 00:03:01,280 And I'm not saying they did it in the wrong direction. 77 00:03:01,280 --> 00:03:03,040 You guys probably know what I'm talking about. 78 00:03:03,040 --> 00:03:05,000 But I'm not saying they did something wrong. 79 00:03:05,000 --> 00:03:07,760 I'm just saying that if your life is completely consumed 80 00:03:07,760 --> 00:03:09,840 with being this sports star and then you're no longer 81 00:03:09,840 --> 00:03:14,160 the sports star, something happens. 82 00:03:14,160 --> 00:03:15,680 I believe that there are a lot of parents 83 00:03:15,680 --> 00:03:17,760 that are pushing their kids to be successful. 84 00:03:17,760 --> 00:03:20,440 And we'll find that they have discipled their children 85 00:03:20,440 --> 00:03:24,880 to be being successful at the wrong things. 86 00:03:24,880 --> 00:03:28,080 We rush around life trying to fill it with activity 87 00:03:28,080 --> 00:03:32,080 and experiences and fun and wealth. 88 00:03:32,080 --> 00:03:34,360 And I don't think that that's necessarily wrong. 89 00:03:34,360 --> 00:03:36,400 I'm not voting for not having fun. 90 00:03:36,400 --> 00:03:39,160 I'm not voting for not having some good experiences. 91 00:03:39,160 --> 00:03:42,520 I'm not saying that there's something righteous automatically 92 00:03:42,520 --> 00:03:43,400 about being poor. 93 00:03:43,400 --> 00:03:45,360 That's not what I'm saying. 94 00:03:45,360 --> 00:03:46,920 But I'm just saying that sometimes we 95 00:03:46,920 --> 00:03:49,760 can pursue the wrong things. 96 00:03:49,760 --> 00:03:52,680 It is in our Declaration of Independence, 97 00:03:52,680 --> 00:03:57,840 which speaks life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness. 98 00:03:57,840 --> 00:03:58,960 You guys know it. 99 00:03:58,960 --> 00:04:04,240 And it isn't necessarily wrong, but those things themselves 100 00:04:04,240 --> 00:04:06,400 won't satisfy. 101 00:04:06,400 --> 00:04:08,960 You could pursue some things and give your life 102 00:04:08,960 --> 00:04:11,880 to some things that won't satisfy. 103 00:04:11,880 --> 00:04:15,240 And there is a busyness and there is a lack of rest 104 00:04:15,240 --> 00:04:19,000 when you pursue the wrong things. 105 00:04:19,000 --> 00:04:21,120 When you think about the word rest, 106 00:04:21,120 --> 00:04:24,000 here are some synonyms, some similar words. 107 00:04:24,000 --> 00:04:30,600 You think of words like peace, calm, comfort, composure, 108 00:04:30,600 --> 00:04:36,400 refreshment, recreation, relief, tranquility. 109 00:04:36,400 --> 00:04:37,920 Sometimes you think of the word sleep. 110 00:04:37,920 --> 00:04:40,440 I told Nate Wallen when I came in, hey, 111 00:04:40,440 --> 00:04:42,200 I'm talking about rest today, but that is not 112 00:04:42,200 --> 00:04:44,480 a license to nap in my sermon. 113 00:04:44,480 --> 00:04:46,480 Don't be sleeping in my sermon, amen. 114 00:04:46,480 --> 00:04:48,040 But we think about those words. 115 00:04:48,040 --> 00:04:49,200 But then there's the antonyms. 116 00:04:49,200 --> 00:04:57,360 Those are the opposites, anxiety, burden, busyness, worry, 117 00:04:57,360 --> 00:05:02,520 stress, distress, noise, angst, disturbance. 118 00:05:02,520 --> 00:05:04,400 I want to ask you a question. 119 00:05:04,400 --> 00:05:06,760 Which one of these most describes your life? 120 00:05:06,760 --> 00:05:11,160 If you were to pick a list, which list most describes 121 00:05:11,160 --> 00:05:12,240 your life? 122 00:05:12,240 --> 00:05:16,320 If I were to ask you which list most describes your spiritual 123 00:05:16,320 --> 00:05:17,760 life, which one would it be? 124 00:05:17,760 --> 00:05:22,680 I hope it would be list number one and not number two. 125 00:05:22,680 --> 00:05:24,880 I'm not saying that if you follow God, 126 00:05:24,880 --> 00:05:26,840 that life will be perfect and comfortable. 127 00:05:26,840 --> 00:05:27,920 That's not what I'm saying. 128 00:05:27,920 --> 00:05:29,520 But there is a contentment that can 129 00:05:29,520 --> 00:05:32,520 happen in the midst of all of that. 130 00:05:32,520 --> 00:05:38,240 Augustine said this, you arouse us so that praising, 131 00:05:38,240 --> 00:05:41,920 you may bring us joy because you have made us and drawn us 132 00:05:41,920 --> 00:05:43,080 to yourself. 133 00:05:43,080 --> 00:05:48,920 And our heart is restless until it rests in you. 134 00:05:48,920 --> 00:05:51,120 Have you felt that before? 135 00:05:51,120 --> 00:05:54,960 Our hearts are restless until it rests in you, 136 00:05:54,960 --> 00:05:56,160 speaking to God. 137 00:05:56,160 --> 00:06:00,000 This quote expresses the truth about the pursuit of happiness 138 00:06:00,000 --> 00:06:05,240 that so many people embark on without thought of God. 139 00:06:05,240 --> 00:06:09,120 Like the man on the life raft surrounded by water, 140 00:06:09,120 --> 00:06:12,640 so many people find themselves trying to drink the salt water 141 00:06:12,640 --> 00:06:15,960 and getting no satisfaction for their thirst. 142 00:06:15,960 --> 00:06:21,280 Water, water, everywhere, and not a drop to drink. 143 00:06:21,280 --> 00:06:25,440 I think that's exactly a great picture of our world 144 00:06:25,440 --> 00:06:26,360 if we're not careful. 145 00:06:26,360 --> 00:06:31,000 So many people long to be satisfied by money and drink 146 00:06:31,000 --> 00:06:33,000 and drugs and sex. 147 00:06:33,000 --> 00:06:36,920 So many try to be satisfied even with religious activity 148 00:06:36,920 --> 00:06:42,040 and find themselves still longing and still unsatisfied. 149 00:06:42,040 --> 00:06:46,320 Their hearts are restless. 150 00:06:46,320 --> 00:06:50,880 Solomon expressed it this way, vanity, vanity, all is vanity. 151 00:06:50,880 --> 00:06:54,520 It's a chasing after the wind. 152 00:06:54,520 --> 00:06:56,120 It was felt by the Samaritan woman 153 00:06:56,120 --> 00:06:59,520 when Jesus said to her, whoever, who soever 154 00:06:59,520 --> 00:07:01,360 drinketh of this water shall thirst again. 155 00:07:01,360 --> 00:07:03,720 But who soever drinketh of the water that I shall give him 156 00:07:03,720 --> 00:07:05,840 shall never thirst. 157 00:07:05,840 --> 00:07:07,760 But the water that I shall give him 158 00:07:07,760 --> 00:07:09,960 shall be in him a well of water springing up 159 00:07:09,960 --> 00:07:12,520 into everlasting life. 160 00:07:12,520 --> 00:07:17,000 The woman saith unto him, Sir, give me of this water. 161 00:07:17,000 --> 00:07:18,880 Give me this water that I thirst not. 162 00:07:18,880 --> 00:07:21,200 Neither come hither to draw. 163 00:07:21,200 --> 00:07:24,080 I need satisfaction. 164 00:07:24,080 --> 00:07:28,240 I need my thirst quenched. 165 00:07:28,240 --> 00:07:31,360 Now, why am I bringing all this up? 166 00:07:31,360 --> 00:07:32,960 I have a commitment. 167 00:07:32,960 --> 00:07:34,840 I'm not saying every message I ever do 168 00:07:34,840 --> 00:07:36,320 will be in this pattern. 169 00:07:36,320 --> 00:07:38,640 But I have a commitment to go verse by verse 170 00:07:38,640 --> 00:07:40,120 as I teach to the Bible. 171 00:07:40,120 --> 00:07:43,720 And I'll admit to you that when I read Hebrews chapter 4 172 00:07:43,720 --> 00:07:49,080 verses 1 through 11 today, Matt told me before the service, 173 00:07:49,080 --> 00:07:50,000 he was the one reading it. 174 00:07:50,000 --> 00:07:51,520 He goes, man, this is a tough one to read. 175 00:07:51,520 --> 00:07:54,480 I said, this will be a tough one to preach. 176 00:07:54,480 --> 00:07:55,840 These are some deep thoughts in here. 177 00:07:55,840 --> 00:07:57,800 But you know what? 178 00:07:57,800 --> 00:07:59,880 I'm in Hebrews 4 this week because last week I 179 00:07:59,880 --> 00:08:06,800 was in Hebrews chapter 3. 180 00:08:06,800 --> 00:08:08,920 And when you dive into this passage, 181 00:08:08,920 --> 00:08:13,120 I'm telling you, it is an amazing thing. 182 00:08:13,120 --> 00:08:16,560 Who wants rest? 183 00:08:16,560 --> 00:08:19,720 You guys look tired. 184 00:08:19,720 --> 00:08:22,200 You need some rest. 185 00:08:22,200 --> 00:08:26,280 Today's text uses the word rest nine times between verses 1 186 00:08:26,280 --> 00:08:28,160 and 13. 187 00:08:28,160 --> 00:08:30,880 So I've entitled today's sermon simply with that one word, 188 00:08:30,880 --> 00:08:34,000 rest, rest. 189 00:08:34,000 --> 00:08:36,600 When we get to these verses in Hebrews chapter 4, 190 00:08:36,600 --> 00:08:39,880 we find ourselves in the middle of an exposition 191 00:08:39,880 --> 00:08:44,440 or a commentary by the author of Hebrews on Psalm chapter 95. 192 00:08:44,440 --> 00:08:46,640 And we talked about that last week. 193 00:08:46,640 --> 00:08:48,840 The author used three different expressions 194 00:08:48,840 --> 00:08:53,880 to talk about this illustration of the journey 195 00:08:53,880 --> 00:08:55,320 that the children of Israel took. 196 00:08:55,320 --> 00:08:57,600 They came out of Egypt. 197 00:08:57,600 --> 00:08:59,320 You guys remember this? 198 00:08:59,320 --> 00:09:03,240 Out of Egypt, they entered into the wilderness. 199 00:09:03,240 --> 00:09:06,560 And then eventually they were making a decision 200 00:09:06,560 --> 00:09:09,160 to go into his rest, the Bible says, 201 00:09:09,160 --> 00:09:12,680 or into the promised land, into Canaan. 202 00:09:12,680 --> 00:09:14,920 Last week I made this statement. 203 00:09:14,920 --> 00:09:16,720 I've made it the last two weeks. 204 00:09:16,720 --> 00:09:20,880 Jesus is incredible at transformation. 205 00:09:20,880 --> 00:09:25,440 Jesus is incredible at transformation. 206 00:09:25,440 --> 00:09:28,920 And some people have looked at this idea of into my rest 207 00:09:28,920 --> 00:09:32,000 or into Canaan as exclusively talking 208 00:09:32,000 --> 00:09:36,040 about going into heaven, into salvation, that kind of a thing. 209 00:09:36,040 --> 00:09:38,200 But that's what we said last week. 210 00:09:38,200 --> 00:09:42,320 And I'm sticking by this interpretation of the passage. 211 00:09:42,320 --> 00:09:45,480 Rest here is not exclusively talking about heaven. 212 00:09:45,480 --> 00:09:49,920 The children of Israel go into Canaan and they still fight. 213 00:09:49,920 --> 00:09:56,360 There's no fighting in heaven. 214 00:09:56,360 --> 00:10:00,160 There's no fighting in heaven. 215 00:10:00,160 --> 00:10:02,360 Who's done with the drama, amen? 216 00:10:02,360 --> 00:10:04,520 And sin and all that comes from that? 217 00:10:04,520 --> 00:10:08,120 I'm so excited about that. 218 00:10:08,120 --> 00:10:10,080 So when we get to Hebrews chapter 4, 219 00:10:10,080 --> 00:10:16,960 we find him continuing to teach about this idea of rest 220 00:10:16,960 --> 00:10:18,000 entering into Canaan. 221 00:10:18,000 --> 00:10:20,360 What we said is that Canaan is this idea 222 00:10:20,360 --> 00:10:23,560 of the victorious, transformed Christian life. 223 00:10:23,560 --> 00:10:27,000 And I want to prove it to you in this passage today. 224 00:10:27,000 --> 00:10:31,080 We got to talk about what rest is. 225 00:10:31,080 --> 00:10:33,600 He's been giving us a warning using an illustration that's 226 00:10:33,600 --> 00:10:36,120 talked about in the Book of Numbers in the Old Testament 227 00:10:36,120 --> 00:10:37,400 and then referred to again. 228 00:10:37,400 --> 00:10:39,200 This is so important to understand. 229 00:10:39,200 --> 00:10:44,640 It happened and it's written down the Numbers chapter 13 and 14. 230 00:10:44,640 --> 00:10:47,640 If you want to get a lot out of this sermon after this is done, 231 00:10:47,640 --> 00:10:51,880 I hope you do, go back today and read Numbers 13 and 14. 232 00:10:51,880 --> 00:10:56,040 Because that's the story of the children of Israel coming to, 233 00:10:56,040 --> 00:10:59,120 and this is what he talked about, coming to the edge 234 00:10:59,120 --> 00:10:59,880 of the promised land. 235 00:10:59,880 --> 00:11:01,200 They came out of Egypt. 236 00:11:01,200 --> 00:11:03,240 They walked through the wilderness. 237 00:11:03,240 --> 00:11:05,640 They're going to this land that God had promised them. 238 00:11:05,640 --> 00:11:08,240 And when they get to the land, they have a decision to make. 239 00:11:08,240 --> 00:11:09,560 Are we going to obey God? 240 00:11:09,560 --> 00:11:11,960 Are we going to believe God and go in? 241 00:11:11,960 --> 00:11:16,280 And what we learned last week is that the Psalmist, David, 242 00:11:16,280 --> 00:11:18,760 refers back to that time and says, 243 00:11:18,760 --> 00:11:25,320 be careful people today who are reading my song that I wrote. 244 00:11:25,320 --> 00:11:27,800 That you don't have an evil heart of unbelief 245 00:11:27,800 --> 00:11:32,040 like your ancestors did in Egypt because when they had a chance 246 00:11:32,040 --> 00:11:34,840 to go in, but they didn't go into the promised land 247 00:11:34,840 --> 00:11:38,760 because of unbelief. 248 00:11:38,760 --> 00:11:42,480 They didn't experience all that God had for them 249 00:11:42,480 --> 00:11:45,960 because of unbelief. 250 00:11:45,960 --> 00:11:49,280 And so this is the second warning passage 251 00:11:49,280 --> 00:11:51,080 in the book of Hebrews, there's several of them. 252 00:11:51,080 --> 00:11:54,240 The first one we read in Hebrews chapter two. 253 00:11:54,240 --> 00:11:59,920 We get to chapter four and here's another warning passage. 254 00:11:59,920 --> 00:12:01,800 The rest that I'm talking about today 255 00:12:01,800 --> 00:12:05,400 is not dealing specifically with physical rest, 256 00:12:05,400 --> 00:12:09,720 although the concept I express can impact our physical lives. 257 00:12:09,720 --> 00:12:13,360 Today, I want to talk about God's rest 258 00:12:13,360 --> 00:12:17,480 and how it can be a place of transformation and victory 259 00:12:17,480 --> 00:12:19,480 for the child of God. 260 00:12:19,480 --> 00:12:21,880 Do you want to get to heaven and stand before God 261 00:12:21,880 --> 00:12:25,800 without regretting how you invested your time? 262 00:12:25,800 --> 00:12:27,400 Who's for that? 263 00:12:27,400 --> 00:12:30,360 Want to get to heaven and go, man, I live my life the way 264 00:12:30,360 --> 00:12:33,400 God wanted me to live it. 265 00:12:33,400 --> 00:12:36,600 Do you want to get to heaven and say, man, 266 00:12:36,600 --> 00:12:40,040 I invested in people, I invested in things that are eternal, 267 00:12:40,040 --> 00:12:42,480 I invested in my relationship with God, 268 00:12:42,480 --> 00:12:46,160 I invested in all that I did and I didn't do it, 269 00:12:46,160 --> 00:12:49,920 God did it through me and I experienced his rest. 270 00:12:49,920 --> 00:12:51,680 That's what we want. 271 00:12:51,680 --> 00:12:56,680 So I believe that although this is a difficult passage 272 00:12:57,000 --> 00:13:00,160 and although there's gonna be a lot that we do here, 273 00:13:00,160 --> 00:13:02,920 this concept is connected all throughout scripture, 274 00:13:02,920 --> 00:13:04,400 I'm gonna show you that. 275 00:13:04,400 --> 00:13:08,120 And this particular concept of rest and trust, 276 00:13:08,120 --> 00:13:09,760 we'll talk about it. 277 00:13:09,760 --> 00:13:14,760 It's the key to having a spiritual satisfaction, 278 00:13:15,120 --> 00:13:17,040 a fulfilling life with God, 279 00:13:17,040 --> 00:13:19,760 the transformation that God wants to do in your life, 280 00:13:19,760 --> 00:13:22,120 you understand, you aren't just saved to get you out of hell 281 00:13:22,120 --> 00:13:23,240 and get you to heaven. 282 00:13:24,200 --> 00:13:26,600 Who's glad you're not going to hell? 283 00:13:26,600 --> 00:13:28,320 Going to heaven. 284 00:13:28,320 --> 00:13:32,440 But you're saved for a reason now. 285 00:13:32,440 --> 00:13:34,320 God wants you to have something in your life now. 286 00:13:34,320 --> 00:13:35,800 He wants to transform you now. 287 00:13:35,800 --> 00:13:37,600 He wants to use you now. 288 00:13:37,600 --> 00:13:40,840 This is the key to the Christian life 289 00:13:40,840 --> 00:13:42,560 that we're gonna talk about today. 290 00:13:42,560 --> 00:13:44,360 And so here's what I'm saying to you today. 291 00:13:44,360 --> 00:13:48,000 You can express transformation through the rest 292 00:13:48,000 --> 00:13:50,160 that only God can give. 293 00:13:50,160 --> 00:13:55,160 Think about the seeming contradiction in that statement. 294 00:13:57,320 --> 00:13:59,820 You can be transformed by rest. 295 00:14:01,800 --> 00:14:02,880 It gives you a clue to the fact 296 00:14:02,880 --> 00:14:04,480 that you can't do it on your own. 297 00:14:04,480 --> 00:14:06,920 God's the one who's gonna have to do it in you. 298 00:14:06,920 --> 00:14:10,520 You can experience transformation through the rest 299 00:14:10,520 --> 00:14:11,840 that only God can give. 300 00:14:11,840 --> 00:14:16,200 Here are three keys to experiencing God's transforming rest. 301 00:14:16,200 --> 00:14:18,040 The first key is this. 302 00:14:18,040 --> 00:14:20,240 You need to know what God's rest is. 303 00:14:21,240 --> 00:14:23,240 What is God's rest? 304 00:14:23,240 --> 00:14:25,560 Now, he mentions it throughout this passage. 305 00:14:25,560 --> 00:14:29,640 And I'm not necessarily gonna go at it one verse sequentially. 306 00:14:29,640 --> 00:14:31,320 I wanna just give you some of the rest 307 00:14:31,320 --> 00:14:32,680 that he talks about here. 308 00:14:32,680 --> 00:14:34,640 The first rest I wanna talk about 309 00:14:34,640 --> 00:14:37,520 is what he mentions in verse four. 310 00:14:37,520 --> 00:14:38,520 Look at what he says. 311 00:14:38,520 --> 00:14:40,000 We've already read the passage. 312 00:14:40,000 --> 00:14:41,040 Let's read verse four. 313 00:14:41,040 --> 00:14:42,120 Here's what it says. 314 00:14:42,120 --> 00:14:44,640 For he's spake in a certain place of the seventh day 315 00:14:44,640 --> 00:14:48,600 on this wise and God did rest the seventh day 316 00:14:48,600 --> 00:14:50,280 from all his works. 317 00:14:50,280 --> 00:14:51,680 Now, one of the things you gotta realize 318 00:14:51,680 --> 00:14:53,680 when you're reading Hebrews, 319 00:14:53,680 --> 00:14:56,040 Hebrews is all about better. 320 00:14:56,040 --> 00:14:57,320 Jesus is greater. 321 00:14:57,320 --> 00:15:00,120 There's a part of me that's saying to you today. 322 00:15:00,120 --> 00:15:02,120 Jesus is greater at transformation. 323 00:15:02,120 --> 00:15:04,360 He's way better than legalism. 324 00:15:04,360 --> 00:15:07,360 He's way better than everything we try to use to change us. 325 00:15:07,360 --> 00:15:11,360 God has an incredible resume at life satisfaction, 326 00:15:11,360 --> 00:15:13,320 transformation, salvation, all of it. 327 00:15:14,320 --> 00:15:17,440 And so, and of course he's talking to the Hebrews 328 00:15:17,440 --> 00:15:20,880 and he keeps going back and quoting passages 329 00:15:20,880 --> 00:15:21,880 in the Old Testament. 330 00:15:21,880 --> 00:15:23,920 So the study in the book of Hebrews 331 00:15:23,920 --> 00:15:26,320 is only a study on this new testament book. 332 00:15:26,320 --> 00:15:28,480 It keeps pointing us back, have you noticed? 333 00:15:28,480 --> 00:15:31,120 It keeps pointing us back to the Old Testament. 334 00:15:31,120 --> 00:15:34,280 Here he talks about this Old Testament concept 335 00:15:34,280 --> 00:15:36,320 of creation rest. 336 00:15:36,320 --> 00:15:37,920 You guys remember what happened? 337 00:15:37,920 --> 00:15:40,920 When God created the world, he did it in six days. 338 00:15:43,920 --> 00:15:46,320 Yeah, he did. 339 00:15:46,320 --> 00:15:47,320 Six days. 340 00:15:48,320 --> 00:15:53,320 On the seventh day, the Bible tells us that he rested. 341 00:15:53,320 --> 00:15:55,320 The Jews called this the Sabbath. 342 00:15:55,320 --> 00:15:56,320 It was the Sabbath. 343 00:15:56,320 --> 00:15:57,320 It was the Sabbath. 344 00:15:57,320 --> 00:15:58,320 It was the Sabbath. 345 00:15:58,320 --> 00:15:59,320 It was the Sabbath. 346 00:15:59,320 --> 00:16:01,320 It was the Sabbath. 347 00:16:01,320 --> 00:16:03,320 It was to be a day of rest. 348 00:16:03,320 --> 00:16:05,320 It's in the Ten Commandments. 349 00:16:05,320 --> 00:16:09,320 God gave man work to do before the fall, 350 00:16:09,320 --> 00:16:12,320 but his relationship with man was characterized by, 351 00:16:12,320 --> 00:16:15,320 and his relationship with man at that time 352 00:16:15,320 --> 00:16:17,320 was characterized by intimacy with man. 353 00:16:17,320 --> 00:16:21,320 God walked with Adam in the cool of the day. 354 00:16:21,320 --> 00:16:23,320 Who thinks that sounds pretty cool? 355 00:16:23,320 --> 00:16:27,320 To experience that kind of closeness with God. 356 00:16:27,320 --> 00:16:30,320 And he gave him one law, one command, 357 00:16:30,320 --> 00:16:33,320 eat of any tree of the garden, 358 00:16:33,320 --> 00:16:35,320 but if you eat of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, 359 00:16:35,320 --> 00:16:39,320 in that day you will surely die. 360 00:16:39,320 --> 00:16:40,320 You'll die. 361 00:16:40,320 --> 00:16:43,320 He asked man to trust him. 362 00:16:43,320 --> 00:16:47,320 Adam did not trust God, though, did he? 363 00:16:47,320 --> 00:16:49,320 Eve was tempted by the serpent. 364 00:16:49,320 --> 00:16:51,320 He told her that God could not be trusted. 365 00:16:51,320 --> 00:16:55,320 He told her that God only said that command 366 00:16:55,320 --> 00:16:58,320 because he knew that they would be as God's knowing, 367 00:16:58,320 --> 00:17:00,320 good and evil. 368 00:17:00,320 --> 00:17:03,320 He said that Adam and Eve would not surely die, 369 00:17:03,320 --> 00:17:05,320 remember? 370 00:17:05,320 --> 00:17:09,320 And Eve believed the serpent over God. 371 00:17:09,320 --> 00:17:12,320 A lack of faith. 372 00:17:12,320 --> 00:17:14,320 Adam took of the freedom and he ate it 373 00:17:14,320 --> 00:17:17,320 because he saw that his wife had eaten and he did it. 374 00:17:17,320 --> 00:17:20,320 In that moment they realized their own sinfulness. 375 00:17:20,320 --> 00:17:22,320 They realized their own shame. 376 00:17:22,320 --> 00:17:24,320 They saw that they were naked. 377 00:17:24,320 --> 00:17:26,320 They hid themselves from God. 378 00:17:26,320 --> 00:17:29,320 They even tried to stitch an apron of fig leaves 379 00:17:29,320 --> 00:17:34,320 to cover themselves and we've been covering ourselves ever since. 380 00:17:34,320 --> 00:17:37,320 Fellowship between God and man was broken. 381 00:17:37,320 --> 00:17:40,320 And interestingly, one of the consequences of this sin 382 00:17:40,320 --> 00:17:43,320 is that there was now toil and work. 383 00:17:43,320 --> 00:17:45,320 When God created the world and saw that it was good 384 00:17:45,320 --> 00:17:51,320 and it was perfect, before sin came, before the curse, 385 00:17:51,320 --> 00:17:53,320 man had work. 386 00:17:53,320 --> 00:17:56,320 Work is not part of the curse. 387 00:17:56,320 --> 00:17:58,320 People in our culture need to understand that. 388 00:17:58,320 --> 00:18:00,320 Work is a good thing. 389 00:18:00,320 --> 00:18:03,320 God says if you don't work, you don't eat. 390 00:18:03,320 --> 00:18:07,320 There's like a war on work in our culture, have you noticed? 391 00:18:07,320 --> 00:18:10,320 Okay, so work is not a bad thing, 392 00:18:10,320 --> 00:18:12,320 but there was toil and work. 393 00:18:12,320 --> 00:18:14,320 Look at what God told Adam. 394 00:18:14,320 --> 00:18:17,320 In Genesis 3.17-19, I'll put it on the screen. 395 00:18:17,320 --> 00:18:19,320 And unto Adam he said, 396 00:18:19,320 --> 00:18:23,320 Because thou hast harkened under the voice of thy wife, 397 00:18:23,320 --> 00:18:25,320 And as eaten of the tree of which I commanded thee, 398 00:18:25,320 --> 00:18:28,320 saying, Thou shalt not eat of it, cursed is the ground for... 399 00:18:28,320 --> 00:18:29,320 Thou shalt not eat of it. 400 00:18:29,320 --> 00:18:33,320 Then he says this, Cursed is the ground for thy sake. 401 00:18:33,320 --> 00:18:36,320 In sorrow shall thou eat all thy days of thy life. 402 00:18:36,320 --> 00:18:39,320 How many of you have noticed that the ground is cursed? 403 00:18:39,320 --> 00:18:43,320 Anybody have weeds? 404 00:18:43,320 --> 00:18:44,320 Yeah? 405 00:18:44,320 --> 00:18:48,320 You ever plant something that didn't grow like you thought it should? 406 00:18:48,320 --> 00:18:50,320 And it's work. 407 00:18:50,320 --> 00:18:51,320 But there's toil in it. 408 00:18:51,320 --> 00:18:54,320 He says, Out of the sweat of thy face, 409 00:18:54,320 --> 00:18:57,320 Shalt thou eat bread till thou return unto the ground, 410 00:18:57,320 --> 00:19:00,320 for out of it was thou takest, from dust thou art, 411 00:19:00,320 --> 00:19:03,320 and unto dust shalt thou return. 412 00:19:03,320 --> 00:19:07,320 There was toil in work now. 413 00:19:07,320 --> 00:19:11,320 Distance between God and man came to be. 414 00:19:11,320 --> 00:19:13,320 There was a break in the relationship, 415 00:19:13,320 --> 00:19:16,320 since separated men from God. 416 00:19:16,320 --> 00:19:18,320 Just a few verses later we see God drove man 417 00:19:18,320 --> 00:19:21,320 even out of that perfect place, the garden. 418 00:19:21,320 --> 00:19:25,320 And our relationship with God was broken. 419 00:19:25,320 --> 00:19:29,320 It was not characterized anymore by intimacy or closeness 420 00:19:29,320 --> 00:19:32,320 or anything even resembling rest. 421 00:19:32,320 --> 00:19:35,320 It was broken because of sin. 422 00:19:35,320 --> 00:19:39,320 But God gives this example of rest and even puts rest 423 00:19:39,320 --> 00:19:41,320 into the Ten Commandments and says, 424 00:19:41,320 --> 00:19:45,320 You're gonna rest on this seventh of the Sabbath day. 425 00:19:45,320 --> 00:19:47,320 So you have creation rest. 426 00:19:47,320 --> 00:19:49,320 You also have Canaan rest. 427 00:19:49,320 --> 00:19:52,320 Look at verse five, chapter four verse five. 428 00:19:52,320 --> 00:19:54,320 Look at what it says. 429 00:19:54,320 --> 00:19:57,320 And in this place again, here's another place that he's quoting. 430 00:19:57,320 --> 00:20:00,320 This is what the writer of Hebrews is saying. 431 00:20:00,320 --> 00:20:03,320 Hey, here's another place where it talks about rest. 432 00:20:03,320 --> 00:20:05,320 If they shall enter into my rest. 433 00:20:05,320 --> 00:20:07,320 Here the author is pointing out the connection 434 00:20:07,320 --> 00:20:10,320 between these words for rest. 435 00:20:10,320 --> 00:20:12,320 God talked about rest after creation. 436 00:20:12,320 --> 00:20:14,320 It was the seventh day rest. 437 00:20:14,320 --> 00:20:16,320 He talks about it again here in Psalm 95. 438 00:20:16,320 --> 00:20:19,320 It's speaking about going into Canaan verse six. 439 00:20:19,320 --> 00:20:20,320 Look at what it says. 440 00:20:20,320 --> 00:20:22,320 Sing therefore it remains that some must enter therein 441 00:20:22,320 --> 00:20:25,320 and they to whom it was first preached enter in. 442 00:20:25,320 --> 00:20:28,320 Not, not in because of unbelief. 443 00:20:28,320 --> 00:20:30,320 Why would David warn his reader? 444 00:20:30,320 --> 00:20:32,320 This is what he's trying to say. 445 00:20:32,320 --> 00:20:35,320 He's quoting Psalm 95, which was written by David. 446 00:20:35,320 --> 00:20:37,320 You guys know who David was, right? 447 00:20:37,320 --> 00:20:41,320 David's the boy that God used to kill the giant 448 00:20:41,320 --> 00:20:44,320 who became the king, who wrote all the Psalms. 449 00:20:44,320 --> 00:20:45,320 Singer, songwriter. 450 00:20:45,320 --> 00:20:48,320 I mean, he's a great guy. 451 00:20:48,320 --> 00:20:50,320 You guys just got that. 452 00:20:50,320 --> 00:20:52,320 Okay. 453 00:20:52,320 --> 00:20:57,320 David, what the writer of Hebrews is saying is 454 00:20:57,320 --> 00:21:00,320 why would David warn his reader in Psalm 95 455 00:21:00,320 --> 00:21:02,320 about not entering rest? 456 00:21:02,320 --> 00:21:04,320 The children of Israel did not enter into the promise land 457 00:21:04,320 --> 00:21:06,320 the first time they approached it. 458 00:21:06,320 --> 00:21:08,320 Why not? 459 00:21:08,320 --> 00:21:10,320 Why did they not go in? 460 00:21:10,320 --> 00:21:11,320 Unbelief, right? 461 00:21:11,320 --> 00:21:12,320 Who agrees? 462 00:21:12,320 --> 00:21:13,320 Unbelief. 463 00:21:13,320 --> 00:21:14,320 Okay. 464 00:21:14,320 --> 00:21:16,320 The author is saying something about David bringing this up 465 00:21:16,320 --> 00:21:19,320 again years later. 466 00:21:19,320 --> 00:21:20,320 He says verse seven. 467 00:21:20,320 --> 00:21:23,320 Again, he limited the certain day saying in David, 468 00:21:23,320 --> 00:21:27,320 today after so long a time, as it is said, 469 00:21:27,320 --> 00:21:30,320 today if you will hear his voice, hard not your hearts. 470 00:21:30,320 --> 00:21:33,320 For if Jesus had given them rest, they would, 471 00:21:33,320 --> 00:21:37,320 then would he not after it has spoken of another day? 472 00:21:37,320 --> 00:21:41,320 This seems complicated, but it's really not. 473 00:21:41,320 --> 00:21:44,320 He says that David is referencing the Canaan rest 474 00:21:44,320 --> 00:21:47,320 that was to be experienced by the children of Israel. 475 00:21:47,320 --> 00:21:49,320 When he talks about rest, he's saying, 476 00:21:49,320 --> 00:21:50,320 remember, they didn't enter into rest. 477 00:21:50,320 --> 00:21:52,320 They didn't enter into Canaan. 478 00:21:52,320 --> 00:21:55,320 But he's saying today. 479 00:21:55,320 --> 00:21:58,320 He's not saying yesterday, he's saying today. 480 00:21:58,320 --> 00:22:00,320 David is saying today, meaning the day that he wrote it, 481 00:22:00,320 --> 00:22:02,320 the day he was in. 482 00:22:02,320 --> 00:22:04,320 David is saying to enter his rest today. 483 00:22:04,320 --> 00:22:07,320 He's saying, listen to God's voice today. 484 00:22:07,320 --> 00:22:09,320 Don't harden your hearts to God. 485 00:22:09,320 --> 00:22:11,320 When? 486 00:22:11,320 --> 00:22:12,320 When? 487 00:22:12,320 --> 00:22:13,320 Today. 488 00:22:13,320 --> 00:22:15,320 Believe God. 489 00:22:15,320 --> 00:22:18,320 So the author of Hebrews is making the point that the rest 490 00:22:18,320 --> 00:22:21,320 that God is offering to them is not just a land, 491 00:22:21,320 --> 00:22:24,320 it's not just freedom of bondage from Egypt. 492 00:22:24,320 --> 00:22:30,320 It was, it was just, if it was just Joshua getting them into Canaan, 493 00:22:30,320 --> 00:22:35,320 then David would not have spoke, if rest, here's what I'm getting at. 494 00:22:35,320 --> 00:22:36,320 Are you getting it? 495 00:22:36,320 --> 00:22:38,320 I hope you get it. 496 00:22:38,320 --> 00:22:45,320 If rest was just the term that was being used only about the children of Israel 497 00:22:45,320 --> 00:22:48,320 getting into Canaan, why is David bringing it up? 498 00:22:48,320 --> 00:22:55,320 Because Joshua is referred to as Jesus in verse eight, but don't get confused. 499 00:22:55,320 --> 00:23:02,320 The Old Testament name, Joshua, is the New Testament name Jesus, Yeshua. 500 00:23:02,320 --> 00:23:12,320 My brother's name, my name is Benjamin, son of the right hand, favorite son. 501 00:23:12,320 --> 00:23:20,320 My brother's name is Shadrach, which means it's a name to pagan God. 502 00:23:20,320 --> 00:23:25,320 But his second name, his first name is Joshua, Yeshua, it's Jesus. 503 00:23:25,320 --> 00:23:30,320 So when he says Jesus here, it's just the New Testament form of Joshua. 504 00:23:30,320 --> 00:23:31,320 It's very clear. 505 00:23:31,320 --> 00:23:33,320 Look at verse eight. 506 00:23:33,320 --> 00:23:40,320 For if Joshua, Jesus had given them rest, if they had gotten into Canaan and gotten rest, 507 00:23:40,320 --> 00:23:43,320 then would he not have afterwards spoken of another day? 508 00:23:43,320 --> 00:23:45,320 David wouldn't still be talking about rest. 509 00:23:45,320 --> 00:23:48,320 If all rest was, was them getting into Canaan. 510 00:23:48,320 --> 00:23:50,320 That's what he's saying. 511 00:23:50,320 --> 00:23:52,320 This is bigger than just getting into Canaan. 512 00:23:52,320 --> 00:23:55,320 This is bigger than just creation rest. 513 00:23:55,320 --> 00:23:58,320 What is it? 514 00:23:58,320 --> 00:24:02,320 He says that David is referencing the Canaan rest that was to be experienced by the children of Israel. 515 00:24:02,320 --> 00:24:08,320 But David is saying to enter into his rest, God's rest today. 516 00:24:08,320 --> 00:24:11,320 He is saying, listen to God's voice today. 517 00:24:11,320 --> 00:24:13,320 Don't harden your hearts. 518 00:24:13,320 --> 00:24:14,320 Believe God. 519 00:24:14,320 --> 00:24:23,320 The author of Hebrews is making the point that the rest that God is offering to them is not just a land and a freedom of bondage from Egypt. 520 00:24:23,320 --> 00:24:30,320 If it was just Joshua getting him into Canaan, then David would not have spoken after another of this rest that's still available. 521 00:24:30,320 --> 00:24:33,320 So remember what we're trying to see. 522 00:24:33,320 --> 00:24:35,320 This is what it is. 523 00:24:35,320 --> 00:24:38,320 Megan started doing something different, keeping the main point on the bottom. 524 00:24:38,320 --> 00:24:40,320 She makes my power points for me. 525 00:24:40,320 --> 00:24:42,320 Aren't you guys, isn't that awesome? 526 00:24:42,320 --> 00:24:44,320 She does that. 527 00:24:44,320 --> 00:24:46,320 What is God's rest? 528 00:24:46,320 --> 00:24:48,320 That's what we're asking the question. 529 00:24:48,320 --> 00:24:50,320 There's a creation rest that's referenced. 530 00:24:50,320 --> 00:24:53,320 There's a Canaan rest that's referenced. 531 00:24:53,320 --> 00:24:59,320 God rested after he created the world and man's relationship to him and creation rest was intimacy with him. 532 00:24:59,320 --> 00:25:07,320 When they sinned, toil, brokenness and a lack of intimacy with God and death came to be the experience. 533 00:25:07,320 --> 00:25:09,320 There was a Canaan rest. 534 00:25:09,320 --> 00:25:13,320 There was a Canaan rest that was a promise to his promised land entering in his rest. 535 00:25:13,320 --> 00:25:17,320 There's a connection between this word rest though and something else. 536 00:25:17,320 --> 00:25:22,320 So if it's not just this land, if it's not just what happened at creation, then what is God's rest? 537 00:25:22,320 --> 00:25:24,320 Well, there's a salvation rest. 538 00:25:24,320 --> 00:25:26,320 There's rest by salvation. 539 00:25:26,320 --> 00:25:29,320 Look at verse 10. 540 00:25:29,320 --> 00:25:32,320 Let us therefore fear. 541 00:25:32,320 --> 00:25:34,320 Sorry, this is verse one. 542 00:25:34,320 --> 00:25:39,320 Let us therefore fear lest a promise being left us of entering into his rest. 543 00:25:39,320 --> 00:25:41,320 Any of you should seem to come short of it. 544 00:25:41,320 --> 00:25:47,320 For unto us was the gospel preached as well as unto them, but the word preach did not profit them, 545 00:25:47,320 --> 00:25:52,320 not being mixed with faith in them that heard it. 546 00:25:52,320 --> 00:25:54,320 Let me read that again. 547 00:25:54,320 --> 00:25:56,320 Take it slow. 548 00:25:56,320 --> 00:26:04,320 Let us therefore fear lest a promise being left of us of entering into his rest. 549 00:26:04,320 --> 00:26:07,320 Any of you should seem to come short of it, short of what? 550 00:26:07,320 --> 00:26:10,320 Short of his rest. 551 00:26:10,320 --> 00:26:16,320 For unto us was the gospel preached as well as unto them. 552 00:26:16,320 --> 00:26:18,320 Who's the them? 553 00:26:18,320 --> 00:26:21,320 The children of Israel. 554 00:26:21,320 --> 00:26:22,320 There's a comparison here. 555 00:26:22,320 --> 00:26:26,320 The children of Israel had a gospel, some good news preached to them. 556 00:26:26,320 --> 00:26:28,320 We've had some good news preached to us. 557 00:26:28,320 --> 00:26:31,320 Do you see the connection? 558 00:26:31,320 --> 00:26:35,320 But the word preached did not profit them. 559 00:26:35,320 --> 00:26:37,320 Why? 560 00:26:37,320 --> 00:26:41,320 Not being mixed with faith in them that heard it. 561 00:26:41,320 --> 00:26:45,320 There's a way to miss the rest. 562 00:26:45,320 --> 00:26:47,320 Do you get it? 563 00:26:47,320 --> 00:26:50,320 You can miss out on this rest that God is giving. 564 00:26:50,320 --> 00:26:54,320 Do not believe the good news that is preached to you. 565 00:26:54,320 --> 00:26:56,320 That's how you miss out on it. 566 00:26:56,320 --> 00:27:02,320 The children of Israel in Numbers 13 and 14 were preached to by Moses and Caleb and Joshua. 567 00:27:02,320 --> 00:27:06,320 Those guys' message was that God has given us this land. 568 00:27:06,320 --> 00:27:08,320 It's already ours. 569 00:27:08,320 --> 00:27:10,320 Rest is available. 570 00:27:10,320 --> 00:27:12,320 We just got to go in and take it. 571 00:27:12,320 --> 00:27:14,320 We got to go get it. 572 00:27:14,320 --> 00:27:18,320 And they were scared and they didn't go in. 573 00:27:18,320 --> 00:27:20,320 They said a couple things. 574 00:27:20,320 --> 00:27:22,320 This is even in my notes. 575 00:27:22,320 --> 00:27:25,320 They said, ooh, there's a laptop there. 576 00:27:25,320 --> 00:27:27,320 I'll step on the laptop. 577 00:27:27,320 --> 00:27:33,320 They said, we're not going to go in because there's giants in the land. 578 00:27:33,320 --> 00:27:35,320 You guys remember this? 579 00:27:35,320 --> 00:27:38,320 We're like grasshoppers in their sight. 580 00:27:38,320 --> 00:27:40,320 They said this about the land. 581 00:27:40,320 --> 00:27:43,320 There were probably some big people in the land. 582 00:27:43,320 --> 00:27:47,320 But then they also said that land is a land that eats people alive. 583 00:27:47,320 --> 00:27:49,320 That's what gentling is trying to do. 584 00:27:49,320 --> 00:27:51,320 It eats people up. 585 00:27:51,320 --> 00:27:55,320 What's interesting is God tells them, okay, fine, you won't believe. 586 00:27:55,320 --> 00:27:57,320 He says to Moses, this is so funny. 587 00:27:57,320 --> 00:27:59,320 Go back and read it. 588 00:27:59,320 --> 00:28:03,320 He says to Moses, I'm just going to wipe them all out and I'm starting over with you, Moses. 589 00:28:03,320 --> 00:28:05,320 These people are heart-hearted. 590 00:28:05,320 --> 00:28:07,320 They're heart-headed. 591 00:28:07,320 --> 00:28:09,320 I did all this stuff. 592 00:28:09,320 --> 00:28:11,320 I just released it from Egypt. 593 00:28:11,320 --> 00:28:13,320 I got them through the Red Sea. 594 00:28:13,320 --> 00:28:15,320 There's a cloud. 595 00:28:15,320 --> 00:28:20,320 What more do you need for me to know that I'm God and that I'm going to get you through to this promised land? 596 00:28:20,320 --> 00:28:22,320 You're scared of tall people? 597 00:28:22,320 --> 00:28:25,320 Seriously? 598 00:28:25,320 --> 00:28:28,320 Seriously? 599 00:28:28,320 --> 00:28:29,320 That's what Caleb is saying. 600 00:28:29,320 --> 00:28:31,320 Listen, you've got to go in. 601 00:28:31,320 --> 00:28:33,320 Then Moses says, I'm starting over with you, Moses. 602 00:28:33,320 --> 00:28:38,320 Moses says, if you do that, your reputation with the people that we just left would be that. 603 00:28:38,320 --> 00:28:39,320 So God says, fine. 604 00:28:39,320 --> 00:28:42,320 Everybody 20 years older is not going to go in. 605 00:28:42,320 --> 00:28:45,320 Except for Caleb and Joshua. 606 00:28:45,320 --> 00:28:47,320 And then he says, the rest are going to fall. 607 00:28:47,320 --> 00:28:50,320 This is the last chapter he's quoting. 608 00:28:50,320 --> 00:28:52,320 Numbers, your carcasses are going to fall in the wilderness. 609 00:28:52,320 --> 00:28:54,320 You know what happened? 610 00:28:54,320 --> 00:28:55,320 They said, we're not going in. 611 00:28:55,320 --> 00:28:57,320 This is kind of like a brief summary. 612 00:28:57,320 --> 00:28:59,320 The children of Israel, we're not going in. 613 00:28:59,320 --> 00:29:03,320 Moses goes to God and God tells them, go tell them, you can't go in. 614 00:29:03,320 --> 00:29:05,320 I'm not going to let you go in. 615 00:29:05,320 --> 00:29:09,320 And then they were like, some of them, we're going to go in. 616 00:29:09,320 --> 00:29:12,320 And you know what happens? 617 00:29:12,320 --> 00:29:14,320 They try to go in. 618 00:29:14,320 --> 00:29:20,320 And all the Malachi, they came and killed them. 619 00:29:20,320 --> 00:29:22,320 Is that dumb or what? 620 00:29:22,320 --> 00:29:25,320 They were scared of them, so they disobeyed God. 621 00:29:25,320 --> 00:29:28,320 But then they weren't scared to go in without God. 622 00:29:28,320 --> 00:29:31,320 And they died. 623 00:29:31,320 --> 00:29:32,320 That is a stupid plan. 624 00:29:32,320 --> 00:29:34,320 Who agrees? 625 00:29:34,320 --> 00:29:36,320 And then later on, they rebelled against God. 626 00:29:36,320 --> 00:29:41,320 And what did God do? He opened up the ground and the land ate them. 627 00:29:41,320 --> 00:29:48,320 The very things that they were scared of, they experienced rather than just trusting God. 628 00:29:48,320 --> 00:29:50,320 Do you get it? 629 00:29:50,320 --> 00:29:57,320 Okay, so they didn't believe Joshua and Caleb and because they didn't believe Moses, 630 00:29:57,320 --> 00:29:59,320 they didn't believe God. 631 00:29:59,320 --> 00:30:02,320 And so God said, I will not let them enter into my rest. 632 00:30:02,320 --> 00:30:07,320 This didn't mean that all of them that did not go into Canaan because of unbelief were not regenerate, 633 00:30:07,320 --> 00:30:09,320 were not saved. That's not the point. 634 00:30:09,320 --> 00:30:13,320 There was a rest that they did not experience because they didn't believe God. 635 00:30:13,320 --> 00:30:16,320 There's a rest that we experience when we do believe God. 636 00:30:16,320 --> 00:30:18,320 Look at verse 10. 637 00:30:18,320 --> 00:30:20,320 Here it is. We're talking about salvation rest. 638 00:30:20,320 --> 00:30:22,320 Look at it. 639 00:30:22,320 --> 00:30:30,320 For he that has entered into his rest, he also has ceased from his own works as God did from his. 640 00:30:30,320 --> 00:30:36,320 You're saved. You stop depending on your own works to make you right with God. 641 00:30:36,320 --> 00:30:39,320 You know how you get into heaven? 642 00:30:39,320 --> 00:30:43,320 Jesus' works. 643 00:30:43,320 --> 00:30:46,320 Jesus' righteousness. 644 00:30:46,320 --> 00:30:51,320 Jesus' substitutionary death for you on the cross. 645 00:30:51,320 --> 00:30:56,320 Jesus being poured out, God's wrath being poured out on Jesus, 646 00:30:56,320 --> 00:31:01,320 Jesus giving his good works to our account. That's how you get in. 647 00:31:01,320 --> 00:31:03,320 That's so cool. 648 00:31:03,320 --> 00:31:08,320 We don't get in because of our works. We get in because of his righteousness. 649 00:31:08,320 --> 00:31:11,320 So you believe God and God counts it for righteousness. 650 00:31:11,320 --> 00:31:14,320 The rest is to cease from labor. 651 00:31:14,320 --> 00:31:16,320 And this is what he's saying. 652 00:31:16,320 --> 00:31:21,320 So this idea of rest includes salvation, but I believe it means more than that. 653 00:31:21,320 --> 00:31:25,320 Why? Well, there's another part of this idea to rest. 654 00:31:25,320 --> 00:31:31,320 There's a salvation rest, but there's also rest through sanctification. 655 00:31:31,320 --> 00:31:32,320 Here's what that means. 656 00:31:32,320 --> 00:31:37,320 Transformation, spiritual growth. That's what it means. 657 00:31:37,320 --> 00:31:40,320 Because look at the next verse. 658 00:31:40,320 --> 00:31:42,320 Let's read them together. Verse 10. 659 00:31:42,320 --> 00:31:49,320 For he that has entered into his rest has also ceased from his own works as God did from his. 660 00:31:49,320 --> 00:31:57,320 Let us therefore, let us what? Labor. What? 661 00:31:57,320 --> 00:32:02,320 You just said we don't have to do what? Let us labor therefore what? 662 00:32:02,320 --> 00:32:06,320 To enter into that rest. 663 00:32:06,320 --> 00:32:12,320 Let's send a man fall after the same example of unbelief. 664 00:32:12,320 --> 00:32:17,320 The Bible makes it very clear that we don't go to heaven based on our own works. 665 00:32:17,320 --> 00:32:18,320 Do you get it? 666 00:32:18,320 --> 00:32:21,320 We do not get saved based on our works. 667 00:32:21,320 --> 00:32:26,320 The Bible says in Ephesians 2, 8 and 9, for by grace are you saved through faith. 668 00:32:26,320 --> 00:32:28,320 And that not of yourselves, it's a gift of God. 669 00:32:28,320 --> 00:32:30,320 Here's what clarity? 670 00:32:30,320 --> 00:32:33,320 Not of works, less than any man should boast. 671 00:32:33,320 --> 00:32:36,320 And if you know a man, you know he'd boast. 672 00:32:36,320 --> 00:32:37,320 Right? 673 00:32:37,320 --> 00:32:40,320 If we got there on our own, we get to heaven. 674 00:32:40,320 --> 00:32:43,320 Go look at how good I did. 675 00:32:43,320 --> 00:32:45,320 We didn't do anything. 676 00:32:45,320 --> 00:32:47,320 He did. 677 00:32:47,320 --> 00:32:51,320 All we do is believe, not of work. 678 00:32:51,320 --> 00:32:55,320 That's a whole coffee conversation if you want to have it. 679 00:32:55,320 --> 00:32:57,320 Not of works, less than any man should boast. 680 00:32:57,320 --> 00:33:00,320 We're not saved by works, we're saved through faith. 681 00:33:00,320 --> 00:33:03,320 But we are saved for good works. 682 00:33:03,320 --> 00:33:10,320 Look at the next verse, Ephesians 2, 10, for we are his workmanship. 683 00:33:10,320 --> 00:33:11,320 You know what workmanship is? 684 00:33:11,320 --> 00:33:13,320 That word is poema. 685 00:33:13,320 --> 00:33:14,320 Poem. 686 00:33:14,320 --> 00:33:19,320 You know poems don't write themselves? 687 00:33:19,320 --> 00:33:22,320 Sculptures don't sculpt themselves. 688 00:33:22,320 --> 00:33:24,320 Paintings don't paint themselves. 689 00:33:24,320 --> 00:33:25,320 Who does it? 690 00:33:25,320 --> 00:33:26,320 The artist. 691 00:33:26,320 --> 00:33:29,320 Who sculpts the sculpture? 692 00:33:29,320 --> 00:33:31,320 The sculptor. 693 00:33:31,320 --> 00:33:34,320 Who writes the poem? 694 00:33:34,320 --> 00:33:35,320 Sissy men. 695 00:33:35,320 --> 00:33:39,320 Right, sissy men write poems. 696 00:33:39,320 --> 00:33:43,320 I'm joking. 697 00:33:43,320 --> 00:33:50,320 I wrote my wife a poem after our second or third date about Chinese food. 698 00:33:50,320 --> 00:33:57,320 Something like, General Sal's and Lo Main, would you go with me again? 699 00:33:57,320 --> 00:34:05,320 Something like that. 700 00:34:05,320 --> 00:34:08,320 Sissy men, amen. 701 00:34:08,320 --> 00:34:14,320 Here he says, we're his workmanship, his work of art created in Christ Jesus. 702 00:34:14,320 --> 00:34:15,320 Don't miss the point. 703 00:34:15,320 --> 00:34:16,320 Here's the point. 704 00:34:16,320 --> 00:34:18,320 I gave an illustration at the wrong time. 705 00:34:18,320 --> 00:34:19,320 Don't miss the point. 706 00:34:19,320 --> 00:34:29,320 We're created in Christ Jesus unto good works, which God has beforedened that we should walk in them. 707 00:34:29,320 --> 00:34:33,320 After we get saved, we're gods to work on. 708 00:34:33,320 --> 00:34:36,320 We are his poema, his masterpiece. 709 00:34:36,320 --> 00:34:41,320 And that's why the writer of Hebrews is saying, so let us labor, what? 710 00:34:41,320 --> 00:34:44,320 Let us labor, therefore, to enter into that rest. 711 00:34:44,320 --> 00:34:48,320 Lesson in the man should fall after the same example of unbelief. 712 00:34:48,320 --> 00:34:50,320 Work to enter rest. 713 00:34:50,320 --> 00:34:52,320 What does that mean? 714 00:34:52,320 --> 00:34:56,320 This isn't talking about working to enter salvation. 715 00:34:56,320 --> 00:35:00,320 So rest has to be more than salvation. 716 00:35:00,320 --> 00:35:03,320 It's talking about labor to enter in God's rest. 717 00:35:03,320 --> 00:35:17,320 A good way of thinking about this word labor in verse 11 is to give diligence to, to stay focused on, to pay attention to this, to make this the bullseye of your walk with the Lord. 718 00:35:17,320 --> 00:35:20,320 Now, remember the question we're trying to answer. 719 00:35:20,320 --> 00:35:22,320 What is the concept of the word rest here? 720 00:35:22,320 --> 00:35:25,320 What exactly is God's rest? 721 00:35:25,320 --> 00:35:30,320 If it's not just the day that the children of Israel took so seriously that Sabbath day. 722 00:35:30,320 --> 00:35:34,320 If it's not just an expression of a land. 723 00:35:34,320 --> 00:35:38,320 If it includes salvation, but isn't just referring to salvation. 724 00:35:38,320 --> 00:35:42,320 It has something to do with being made more like Jesus. 725 00:35:42,320 --> 00:35:47,320 If something that we are to labor, it is something that we're to labor towards. 726 00:35:47,320 --> 00:35:51,320 You can't have God's rest without being saved. 727 00:35:51,320 --> 00:35:54,320 You can't have God's rest without being saved. 728 00:35:54,320 --> 00:35:56,320 You get it? 729 00:35:56,320 --> 00:35:58,320 You can't. 730 00:35:58,320 --> 00:36:00,320 Not God's rest. 731 00:36:00,320 --> 00:36:03,320 You can have like a false sense of rest. 732 00:36:03,320 --> 00:36:08,320 And there's some of us that need to go wake a world up that's dying. 733 00:36:08,320 --> 00:36:11,320 Trying to find their rest. 734 00:36:11,320 --> 00:36:13,320 And who are restless until they find the rest in him. 735 00:36:13,320 --> 00:36:15,320 You get it? 736 00:36:15,320 --> 00:36:18,320 You can't have God's rest if you're not saved. 737 00:36:18,320 --> 00:36:23,320 But you can be saved and not be experiencing the rest of God. 738 00:36:23,320 --> 00:36:24,320 So what is it? 739 00:36:24,320 --> 00:36:25,320 Well, let's put it all together. 740 00:36:25,320 --> 00:36:28,320 This is what I wrote down this week, trying to define this. 741 00:36:28,320 --> 00:36:30,320 Because if you get this, then you'll get the whole sermon. 742 00:36:30,320 --> 00:36:31,320 Are you ready? 743 00:36:31,320 --> 00:36:39,320 God's rest is a settled and spiritual state of being that includes being right with God. 744 00:36:39,320 --> 00:36:41,320 Close to God. 745 00:36:41,320 --> 00:36:51,320 Walking with God and living out his will in your life in a way that brings him glory and you joy despite your circumstances. 746 00:36:51,320 --> 00:37:00,320 It includes salvation by necessity and is the pathway to a growing spiritual maturity. 747 00:37:00,320 --> 00:37:02,320 Let me say that again. 748 00:37:02,320 --> 00:37:04,320 I know this is a big concept. 749 00:37:04,320 --> 00:37:10,320 God's rest is a settled and spiritual state of being that includes being right with God. 750 00:37:10,320 --> 00:37:12,320 Close to God. 751 00:37:12,320 --> 00:37:19,320 Walking with God and living out his will in your life in a way that brings him glory and joy despite your circumstances. 752 00:37:19,320 --> 00:37:26,320 It includes salvation by necessity and is the pathway to a growing spiritual maturity. 753 00:37:26,320 --> 00:37:32,320 What was lost in the garden, the ability to walk with God and enjoy a thriving fellowship with him, 754 00:37:32,320 --> 00:37:37,320 has been made possible by salvation. 755 00:37:37,320 --> 00:37:40,320 But just because, you know what I mean? 756 00:37:40,320 --> 00:37:45,320 You can talk to God. 757 00:37:45,320 --> 00:37:48,320 You can talk to God. 758 00:37:48,320 --> 00:37:50,320 Every day. 759 00:37:50,320 --> 00:37:52,320 You don't have to pray. 760 00:37:52,320 --> 00:37:54,320 You get to pray. 761 00:37:54,320 --> 00:37:56,320 You don't have to read your Bible. 762 00:37:56,320 --> 00:38:01,320 God can speak to you through the Bible. 763 00:38:01,320 --> 00:38:06,320 You can have a thriving relationship with God. 764 00:38:06,320 --> 00:38:09,320 Where he begins to change. 765 00:38:09,320 --> 00:38:13,320 I'm not saying you can be a good church member, attend and get no one to stand up. 766 00:38:13,320 --> 00:38:21,320 There's so much more than just showing up on Sunday. 767 00:38:21,320 --> 00:38:28,320 What was lost in the garden, the ability to walk with God and enjoy a thriving fellowship and rest with him, 768 00:38:28,320 --> 00:38:31,320 has been made possible by salvation. 769 00:38:31,320 --> 00:38:35,320 But just because you're saved doesn't mean that you have this thriving relationship with God. 770 00:38:35,320 --> 00:38:37,320 You have access to God. 771 00:38:37,320 --> 00:38:39,320 He comes to live inside of you. 772 00:38:39,320 --> 00:38:43,320 You spend time with him and rest in him and fellowship with him. 773 00:38:43,320 --> 00:38:49,320 We experience his rest even when difficulties are part of our life. 774 00:38:49,320 --> 00:38:56,320 That's why Paul and Silas can be in jail and sing. 775 00:38:56,320 --> 00:38:59,320 Do you get it? 776 00:38:59,320 --> 00:39:02,320 The jail cell is horrible. 777 00:39:02,320 --> 00:39:05,320 They're like, man, I love this cell. 778 00:39:05,320 --> 00:39:08,320 It's so... 779 00:39:08,320 --> 00:39:11,320 Who wants to go to prison? 780 00:39:11,320 --> 00:39:13,320 Me either. 781 00:39:13,320 --> 00:39:15,320 Let's vote not to go to prison. 782 00:39:15,320 --> 00:39:19,320 Who's for some religious liberty? 783 00:39:19,320 --> 00:39:28,320 But if I believe this word, if I end up going to prison, I just have a different ministry. 784 00:39:28,320 --> 00:39:32,320 Because guess who goes to prison with me? 785 00:39:32,320 --> 00:39:37,320 They can't get him out of me. 786 00:39:37,320 --> 00:39:39,320 They can't get him out of you. 787 00:39:39,320 --> 00:39:44,320 Are you with me? 788 00:39:44,320 --> 00:39:47,320 It's not about our external circumstances. 789 00:39:47,320 --> 00:39:50,320 It's about an internal peace with God. 790 00:39:50,320 --> 00:39:57,320 It's about an internal joy that can't be taken away no matter how bad it is. 791 00:39:57,320 --> 00:39:58,320 How do you get there? 792 00:39:58,320 --> 00:40:02,320 Well, number two, if that's what rest is, 793 00:40:02,320 --> 00:40:08,320 and he says, labor, what's the labor? The labor is don't get distracted by everything else. 794 00:40:08,320 --> 00:40:13,320 Stay focused on my satisfaction is not in my job. 795 00:40:13,320 --> 00:40:15,320 My satisfaction is not in my position. 796 00:40:15,320 --> 00:40:18,320 My satisfaction isn't in what people think of me. 797 00:40:18,320 --> 00:40:20,320 My satisfaction isn't in my stuff. 798 00:40:20,320 --> 00:40:22,320 Stuff goes away. 799 00:40:22,320 --> 00:40:25,320 Where's your first car? 800 00:40:25,320 --> 00:40:29,320 Unless you're like 18 or 19, it's gone. 801 00:40:29,320 --> 00:40:33,320 Stuff goes away. 802 00:40:33,320 --> 00:40:36,320 Who's the only one that satisfies? 803 00:40:36,320 --> 00:40:37,320 That's it. 804 00:40:37,320 --> 00:40:41,320 So how do you need to know how to access this rest? 805 00:40:41,320 --> 00:40:43,320 How do we do it? 806 00:40:43,320 --> 00:40:46,320 It's complex and simple at the same time. 807 00:40:46,320 --> 00:40:49,320 You access it by faith. 808 00:40:49,320 --> 00:40:51,320 By faith. 809 00:40:51,320 --> 00:40:53,320 Look back at verse one again. 810 00:40:53,320 --> 00:40:55,320 Let us therefore fear. 811 00:40:55,320 --> 00:40:57,320 Let us promise being left of us, 812 00:40:57,320 --> 00:41:00,320 entering into his rest, any of you should come short of it. 813 00:41:00,320 --> 00:41:05,320 There's a coming short of God's rest by not being saved in the first place. 814 00:41:05,320 --> 00:41:09,320 And what I want to tell you today is just because you're in the church building, 815 00:41:09,320 --> 00:41:12,320 doesn't make you a Christian. 816 00:41:12,320 --> 00:41:16,320 Just being in the garage doesn't make you a car. 817 00:41:16,320 --> 00:41:18,320 Right? 818 00:41:18,320 --> 00:41:24,320 And so if you're not saved, the Bible says today is the day of salvation. 819 00:41:24,320 --> 00:41:25,320 Jesus died for you. 820 00:41:25,320 --> 00:41:28,320 You can believe in that. 821 00:41:28,320 --> 00:41:31,320 But if you're here and you've been doing the Christian life, 822 00:41:31,320 --> 00:41:36,320 and you're not satisfied, it's not Jesus that's bad. 823 00:41:36,320 --> 00:41:39,320 It's not Jesus that's messed up. 824 00:41:39,320 --> 00:41:40,320 It's you. 825 00:41:40,320 --> 00:41:41,320 It's me. 826 00:41:41,320 --> 00:41:42,320 It's me. 827 00:41:42,320 --> 00:41:43,320 It's me. 828 00:41:43,320 --> 00:41:48,320 There's days this past week where I wasn't in God's rest in that way. 829 00:41:48,320 --> 00:41:49,320 I wasn't sad. 830 00:41:49,320 --> 00:41:51,320 Do you owe me? 831 00:41:51,320 --> 00:41:54,320 Saved. 832 00:41:54,320 --> 00:41:57,320 Not always satisfied. 833 00:41:57,320 --> 00:41:58,320 So if you're not saved, get saved. 834 00:41:58,320 --> 00:42:01,320 Your heart will be restless until you find your rest in him. 835 00:42:01,320 --> 00:42:04,320 If you're saved by trying to get your satisfaction from the world, 836 00:42:04,320 --> 00:42:06,320 stop! 837 00:42:06,320 --> 00:42:07,320 Stop! 838 00:42:07,320 --> 00:42:10,320 Your heart will be restless until you find rest in him. 839 00:42:10,320 --> 00:42:12,320 Some of the most defeated and discouraged people I've ever met 840 00:42:12,320 --> 00:42:16,320 are people who are saved but are living a defeated Christian life. 841 00:42:16,320 --> 00:42:21,320 They can enjoy their sin because the Holy Spirit is convicting of their sin. 842 00:42:21,320 --> 00:42:27,320 They can't like it like they used to like it. 843 00:42:27,320 --> 00:42:33,320 They do not have the joy that God produces that's a fruit of the Spirit. 844 00:42:33,320 --> 00:42:37,320 For the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, patience. 845 00:42:37,320 --> 00:42:39,320 It's something God produces. 846 00:42:39,320 --> 00:42:41,320 They're grieving the Holy Spirit. 847 00:42:41,320 --> 00:42:44,320 And that's why the writer of Hebrews says in verse 11, 848 00:42:44,320 --> 00:42:51,320 let us labor, therefore, to enter into that rest. 849 00:42:51,320 --> 00:42:52,320 Warren Wearsby said this. 850 00:42:52,320 --> 00:42:54,320 This is so good. 851 00:42:54,320 --> 00:42:56,320 About this rest. 852 00:42:56,320 --> 00:43:03,320 The Canaan Rest for Israel is a picture of the spiritual rest we find in Christ 853 00:43:03,320 --> 00:43:05,320 when we surrender to him. 854 00:43:05,320 --> 00:43:09,320 When we come to Christ by faith, we find salvation rest. 855 00:43:09,320 --> 00:43:12,320 When we yield and learn of him and obey him by faith, 856 00:43:12,320 --> 00:43:14,320 we enjoy submission rest. 857 00:43:14,320 --> 00:43:16,320 The first is peace with God. 858 00:43:16,320 --> 00:43:19,320 The second is the peace of God. 859 00:43:19,320 --> 00:43:20,320 Do you get it? 860 00:43:20,320 --> 00:43:23,320 It is by believing that we enter into rest. 861 00:43:23,320 --> 00:43:28,320 It is by obeying God by faith and surrendering to his will 862 00:43:28,320 --> 00:43:32,320 that the rest enters into us. 863 00:43:32,320 --> 00:43:35,320 Do you get it? 864 00:43:35,320 --> 00:43:39,320 This concept of rest is all over the Word of God. 865 00:43:39,320 --> 00:43:42,320 When we rest in God, he transforms us. 866 00:43:42,320 --> 00:43:45,320 Jesus told his disciples in John 15, verse 1, 867 00:43:45,320 --> 00:43:48,320 I am the true vine. 868 00:43:48,320 --> 00:43:50,320 And my father is the husbandman. 869 00:43:50,320 --> 00:43:53,320 Every branch in me that beareth not fruit, he taketh away. 870 00:43:53,320 --> 00:43:55,320 And every branch that beareth fruit, he purgeth it, 871 00:43:55,320 --> 00:43:57,320 that it might bring forth more fruit. 872 00:43:57,320 --> 00:44:00,320 Now you are clean through the Word which I have spoken unto you. 873 00:44:00,320 --> 00:44:02,320 Abide in me. 874 00:44:02,320 --> 00:44:04,320 Abide in me. 875 00:44:04,320 --> 00:44:06,320 Remain in me. 876 00:44:06,320 --> 00:44:10,320 Rest in me. 877 00:44:10,320 --> 00:44:14,320 And I in you, as the branch cannot bear fruit of itself 878 00:44:14,320 --> 00:44:18,320 except it abideth in the vine, no more can ye accept ye abideth me. 879 00:44:18,320 --> 00:44:22,320 I in the vine, ye are the branches, he that abideth in me 880 00:44:22,320 --> 00:44:27,320 and I in him the same bringeth forth much fruit. 881 00:44:27,320 --> 00:44:31,320 For without me you can do some stuff. 882 00:44:31,320 --> 00:44:33,320 Is that what it says? 883 00:44:33,320 --> 00:44:37,320 For without me you can do nothing. 884 00:44:37,320 --> 00:44:39,320 Verse 7, a few verses later. 885 00:44:39,320 --> 00:44:44,320 If ye abideth me in my words and my words abideth in you, 886 00:44:44,320 --> 00:44:47,320 ye shall ask what ye will and it shall be done unto you. 887 00:44:47,320 --> 00:44:51,320 Herein is my father's glorified that ye bear much fruit. 888 00:44:51,320 --> 00:44:54,320 So shall ye be my disciples, as the father hath loved me, 889 00:44:54,320 --> 00:44:56,320 so I have loved you, continue in my love. 890 00:44:56,320 --> 00:44:59,320 If ye keep my commandments, ye shall abide in my love. 891 00:44:59,320 --> 00:45:02,320 Even as I have kept my father's commandments and abideth in his love. 892 00:45:02,320 --> 00:45:04,320 These things have I, this is so good. 893 00:45:04,320 --> 00:45:06,320 You get this. 894 00:45:06,320 --> 00:45:08,320 Why am I telling you to abide in me? 895 00:45:08,320 --> 00:45:10,320 Why am I telling you to rest in me? 896 00:45:10,320 --> 00:45:17,320 These things I have written unto you that my joy might remain in you 897 00:45:17,320 --> 00:45:22,320 and that your joy might be adequate. 898 00:45:25,320 --> 00:45:26,320 Whose joy? 899 00:45:26,320 --> 00:45:30,320 His joy in us being full. 900 00:45:30,320 --> 00:45:32,320 Who's for that? 901 00:45:32,320 --> 00:45:33,320 Man, I'm for that. 902 00:45:33,320 --> 00:45:38,320 Stay, remain, abide, and when you do, God will produce fruit in your life. 903 00:45:38,320 --> 00:45:39,320 He'll help you to obey. 904 00:45:39,320 --> 00:45:42,320 He'll help to change you from the inside out. 905 00:45:42,320 --> 00:45:47,320 And then verse 11 happens that my joy might remain in you 906 00:45:47,320 --> 00:45:49,320 and your joy might be full. 907 00:45:49,320 --> 00:45:51,320 This is what we get to happen, what happened. 908 00:45:51,320 --> 00:45:55,320 I'm watching this happen in our church. 909 00:45:55,320 --> 00:45:57,320 It's incredible. 910 00:45:57,320 --> 00:46:00,320 People come to a service, they hear the word preach, 911 00:46:00,320 --> 00:46:03,320 and for the first time they choose to believe God for salvation, 912 00:46:03,320 --> 00:46:06,320 and they're saved, and they begin to change because God, 913 00:46:06,320 --> 00:46:10,320 now they know I'm not going to hell, I'm going to heaven. 914 00:46:10,320 --> 00:46:13,320 We see people get into a Sunday school class, 915 00:46:13,320 --> 00:46:15,320 and they connect with the word of God, 916 00:46:15,320 --> 00:46:17,320 and the people of God begins to impact them, 917 00:46:17,320 --> 00:46:20,320 and they belong sometimes before they believe, 918 00:46:20,320 --> 00:46:23,320 and then they start to believe, and God begins to grow them. 919 00:46:23,320 --> 00:46:25,320 We see people get into discipleship, 920 00:46:25,320 --> 00:46:27,320 and they take God's word on a more daily basis, 921 00:46:27,320 --> 00:46:29,320 and they experience God growing them 922 00:46:29,320 --> 00:46:32,320 because they're learning to be in the Bible every day, 923 00:46:32,320 --> 00:46:34,320 to talk to God, and to do that, 924 00:46:34,320 --> 00:46:37,320 and God is changing them slowly and surely. 925 00:46:37,320 --> 00:46:39,320 They're changes that they begin to see, 926 00:46:39,320 --> 00:46:41,320 the things that used to satisfy them 927 00:46:41,320 --> 00:46:44,320 don't satisfy them anymore. 928 00:46:44,320 --> 00:46:46,320 They begin to have an appetite for the things 929 00:46:46,320 --> 00:46:49,320 they never thought they would have a hunger for. 930 00:46:49,320 --> 00:46:52,320 Things they used to love, they despise, 931 00:46:52,320 --> 00:46:58,320 they begin to have an affection for things they never even knew existed. 932 00:46:58,320 --> 00:47:02,320 That's when the Bible goes from some old, dusty book 933 00:47:02,320 --> 00:47:04,320 to what's going to change, 934 00:47:04,320 --> 00:47:08,320 what's absolutely living and changing inside of me. 935 00:47:08,320 --> 00:47:10,320 Do you get it? 936 00:47:10,320 --> 00:47:14,320 Here's another verse, not just John 15, Romans 12, 937 00:47:14,320 --> 00:47:16,320 I beseech you therefore, brethren, 938 00:47:16,320 --> 00:47:19,320 by the mercies of God that you present your bodies 939 00:47:19,320 --> 00:47:22,320 a living sacrifice, 940 00:47:22,320 --> 00:47:25,320 laboring to enter to rest, right? 941 00:47:25,320 --> 00:47:26,320 Living sacrifice, 942 00:47:26,320 --> 00:47:29,320 holy, acceptable to God, which is your reasonable service, 943 00:47:29,320 --> 00:47:31,320 and be not conformed to this world, 944 00:47:31,320 --> 00:47:34,320 but be transformed by the renewing of your mind 945 00:47:34,320 --> 00:47:37,320 that you may prove what is that good and acceptable and perfect will of God. 946 00:47:37,320 --> 00:47:38,320 Notice when he says, 947 00:47:38,320 --> 00:47:40,320 but be ye transformed by the renewing of your mind 948 00:47:40,320 --> 00:47:43,320 that it's in the passive voice. 949 00:47:43,320 --> 00:47:45,320 Be ye transformed. 950 00:47:45,320 --> 00:47:50,320 He doesn't say transform yourself. 951 00:47:50,320 --> 00:47:53,320 He doesn't say transform yourself. 952 00:47:53,320 --> 00:47:56,320 He says be transformed how? 953 00:47:56,320 --> 00:47:57,320 By the renewing of your mind. 954 00:47:57,320 --> 00:48:06,320 You know how your mind's made new? 955 00:48:06,320 --> 00:48:08,320 The Holy Spirit wrote a book. 956 00:48:08,320 --> 00:48:11,320 When you get saved, the Holy Spirit comes to live inside of you. 957 00:48:11,320 --> 00:48:14,320 It's amazing. 958 00:48:14,320 --> 00:48:19,320 And he changes you from inside health. 959 00:48:19,320 --> 00:48:20,320 It's the renewing of your mind. 960 00:48:20,320 --> 00:48:21,320 You know what that is? 961 00:48:21,320 --> 00:48:22,320 It's rest. 962 00:48:22,320 --> 00:48:25,320 When you spend time with God hearing from his word, 963 00:48:25,320 --> 00:48:27,320 he changes your thinking, he changes your values, 964 00:48:27,320 --> 00:48:28,320 he changes your desires. 965 00:48:28,320 --> 00:48:31,320 His spirit interacts with his word and changes you. 966 00:48:31,320 --> 00:48:34,320 You work to stay close to Jesus and to hear from him. 967 00:48:34,320 --> 00:48:37,320 He works in you to transform you. 968 00:48:37,320 --> 00:48:43,320 You believe he transforms. 969 00:48:43,320 --> 00:48:46,320 That's the whole sermon in four words. 970 00:48:46,320 --> 00:48:56,320 You believe you rest, you abide, you remain, he transforms. 971 00:48:56,320 --> 00:48:58,320 You got a labor to do that because man sometimes 972 00:48:58,320 --> 00:49:01,320 everything is keeping you from that. 973 00:49:01,320 --> 00:49:03,320 Everything is keeping you from that. 974 00:49:03,320 --> 00:49:07,320 Are you with me? 975 00:49:07,320 --> 00:49:09,320 You work to stay close to Jesus to hear from him. 976 00:49:09,320 --> 00:49:10,320 He works to transform you. 977 00:49:10,320 --> 00:49:12,320 You live by faith, he does the rest. 978 00:49:12,320 --> 00:49:15,320 So, key number one, what's rest? 979 00:49:15,320 --> 00:49:18,320 Key number two, you need to pursue, 980 00:49:18,320 --> 00:49:21,320 you need to access God's rest. 981 00:49:21,320 --> 00:49:22,320 How do you do it? 982 00:49:22,320 --> 00:49:24,320 You do it by faith. 983 00:49:24,320 --> 00:49:25,320 You believe. 984 00:49:25,320 --> 00:49:30,320 Key number three, you need to pursue God's rest. 985 00:49:30,320 --> 00:49:31,320 Look at verse seven. 986 00:49:31,320 --> 00:49:33,320 This is so good. 987 00:49:33,320 --> 00:49:36,320 Again, he limits a certain day saying in David, 988 00:49:36,320 --> 00:49:39,320 today if you're so long a time as it is said today, 989 00:49:39,320 --> 00:49:42,320 if you will hear his voice hard, not your heart. 990 00:49:42,320 --> 00:49:44,320 For if Jesus had given them rest, 991 00:49:44,320 --> 00:49:47,320 then would they not afterwards have spoken of another? 992 00:49:47,320 --> 00:49:54,320 Therefore, there remaineth therefore a rest to the people of God. 993 00:49:54,320 --> 00:49:57,320 That word for rest is a different word 994 00:49:57,320 --> 00:50:00,320 than what's used in the whole rest of the passage. 995 00:50:00,320 --> 00:50:04,320 One word used for rest, this word for rest is sabatismos. 996 00:50:04,320 --> 00:50:07,320 It's sabath rest. 997 00:50:07,320 --> 00:50:13,320 There remaineth therefore a rest, a sabbath for the people of God. 998 00:50:13,320 --> 00:50:15,320 You know heaven's going to be a rest? 999 00:50:15,320 --> 00:50:18,320 It will, it will. 1000 00:50:18,320 --> 00:50:21,320 So this is what Isaiah says. 1001 00:50:21,320 --> 00:50:23,320 It's what I want you to feel today. 1002 00:50:23,320 --> 00:50:25,320 I don't want you to be like, 1003 00:50:25,320 --> 00:50:27,320 that's a really neat idea, Pastor Ben. 1004 00:50:27,320 --> 00:50:33,320 I want you to like decide today to pursue rest, 1005 00:50:33,320 --> 00:50:36,320 to pursue God, transform, to believe God. 1006 00:50:36,320 --> 00:50:40,320 There's a promised land, let's go in. 1007 00:50:40,320 --> 00:50:42,320 Let's go in. 1008 00:50:42,320 --> 00:50:45,320 Let this proclamation get stirred up with faith in you 1009 00:50:45,320 --> 00:50:47,320 and let's go in. 1010 00:50:47,320 --> 00:50:49,320 Can you imagine a church full of people 1011 00:50:49,320 --> 00:50:54,320 being transformed by Jesus and on his mission? 1012 00:50:54,320 --> 00:50:57,320 What could happen? 1013 00:50:57,320 --> 00:51:01,320 What I'm saying is Jesus could change the city 1014 00:51:01,320 --> 00:51:03,320 and change some family. 1015 00:51:03,320 --> 00:51:04,320 Are you with me? 1016 00:51:04,320 --> 00:51:06,320 If we'll let him. 1017 00:51:06,320 --> 00:51:08,320 Isaiah 556 says, 1018 00:51:08,320 --> 00:51:12,320 call ye upon him while he is near. 1019 00:51:12,320 --> 00:51:15,320 Let the wicked forsake his way and the unrighteous man his thoughts 1020 00:51:15,320 --> 00:51:18,320 and let him return unto the Lord and he will have mercy upon him 1021 00:51:18,320 --> 00:51:20,320 and to our God for he will abundantly pardon 1022 00:51:20,320 --> 00:51:22,320 for my thoughts are not your thoughts 1023 00:51:22,320 --> 00:51:26,320 and neither are my ways, your ways sayeth the Lord. 1024 00:51:26,320 --> 00:51:29,320 It's a simple invitation that God's making, 1025 00:51:29,320 --> 00:51:31,320 that Jesus is making. 1026 00:51:31,320 --> 00:51:34,320 Get trying to get satisfaction on your own. 1027 00:51:34,320 --> 00:51:37,320 Pursuing happiness in things or people or power, 1028 00:51:37,320 --> 00:51:42,320 even in ministry alone won't satisfy. 1029 00:51:42,320 --> 00:51:45,320 You know what Jesus said? 1030 00:51:45,320 --> 00:51:47,320 What a great way to end the sermon. 1031 00:51:47,320 --> 00:51:50,320 You know what Jesus said? 1032 00:51:50,320 --> 00:51:54,320 Come unto me, all ye that are labor, 1033 00:51:54,320 --> 00:51:56,320 that labor and are heavy laden, 1034 00:51:56,320 --> 00:52:01,320 and I will give you rest. 1035 00:52:01,320 --> 00:52:04,320 Take my yoke upon you and learn of me, 1036 00:52:04,320 --> 00:52:06,320 for I am meek and lowly in heart, 1037 00:52:06,320 --> 00:52:09,320 and ye shall find rest unto your souls, 1038 00:52:09,320 --> 00:52:18,320 for my yoke is easy and my burden is light. 1039 00:52:18,320 --> 00:52:22,320 Come unto me, all that are labor and heavy laden, 1040 00:52:22,320 --> 00:52:26,320 and I will give you rest. 1041 00:52:26,320 --> 00:52:44,320 Would you bow your head to close your eyes with me this morning? 1042 00:52:44,320 --> 00:52:54,320 Are you saved?