1 00:00:00,000 --> 00:00:20,760 I will tell you this is not going to be an easy message but it's an amazing scripture. 2 00:00:20,760 --> 00:00:25,240 Oh, in my studies as you know you guys go through studying, you're spending time in 3 00:00:25,240 --> 00:00:29,960 the Word and all of a sudden you're doing Word study, you're going deeper and then you 4 00:00:29,960 --> 00:00:38,320 come across this truth that you've, it's like it's brand new and I had one of those moments 5 00:00:38,320 --> 00:00:46,140 and I'm like whoa, that's it and then I just start typing crazy and this is one of those 6 00:00:46,140 --> 00:00:47,140 moments. 7 00:00:47,140 --> 00:00:53,800 I'm telling you what a powerful, powerful doctrine and truth this is. 8 00:00:53,800 --> 00:01:00,880 I think many times because the way it's written we have a tendency to miss because you think 9 00:01:00,880 --> 00:01:04,240 about it and you don't know how to, we don't know how to explain it. 10 00:01:04,240 --> 00:01:09,760 So this is so good. 11 00:01:09,760 --> 00:01:15,160 I will tell you there are parts in here that are really convicting and so I hope you're 12 00:01:15,160 --> 00:01:16,160 ready for that. 13 00:01:16,160 --> 00:01:21,520 It is going to challenge each and every one of us here which God's Word is supposed to 14 00:01:21,520 --> 00:01:27,120 do that which we find out in this chapter in verse 12 and 13. 15 00:01:27,120 --> 00:01:34,680 So you will experience the sharpness of God's Word, the piercingness of God's Word and the 16 00:01:34,680 --> 00:01:40,320 ultimate judgment of our thoughts and intents of our heart in God's Word. 17 00:01:40,320 --> 00:01:43,040 It's an amazing, amazing scripture. 18 00:01:43,040 --> 00:01:47,200 So we're going to start off in verse 16 so you can see the context. 19 00:01:47,200 --> 00:01:48,200 We're going to read it. 20 00:01:48,200 --> 00:01:50,080 It's going to be a little bit long but it's important. 21 00:01:50,080 --> 00:01:55,120 As we go through each verse we're going to pull a lot of stuff out. 22 00:01:55,120 --> 00:02:01,440 Verse 16, for who were those who heard and yet rebelled? 23 00:02:01,440 --> 00:02:06,040 Was it not all those who left Egypt led by Moses? 24 00:02:06,040 --> 00:02:07,040 Let me pray. 25 00:02:07,040 --> 00:02:09,160 Father I want to thank you so much for your goodness. 26 00:02:09,160 --> 00:02:10,920 Lord guide us through your Word. 27 00:02:10,920 --> 00:02:12,680 Teach us the full counsel of your Word. 28 00:02:12,680 --> 00:02:19,200 May it produce in us the maturity in Christ that we may come to the full knowledge of 29 00:02:19,200 --> 00:02:22,240 Him who has saved us for your glory in Jesus' name. 30 00:02:22,240 --> 00:02:23,240 Amen. 31 00:02:23,240 --> 00:02:28,320 Verse 17, and with whom was he provoked for 40 years? 32 00:02:28,320 --> 00:02:33,360 Was it not those who sinned, whose bodies fell in the wilderness? 33 00:02:33,360 --> 00:02:41,120 And to whom did he swear they would not enter his rest but those who were disobedient? 34 00:02:41,120 --> 00:02:46,920 So we see that they were unable to enter because of unbelief. 35 00:02:46,920 --> 00:02:53,680 Therefore while the promise of entering his rest still stands, let us fear lest any of 36 00:02:53,680 --> 00:02:57,440 you should seem to have failed to reach it. 37 00:02:57,440 --> 00:03:03,720 For good news came to us just as them but the message they heard did not benefit them 38 00:03:03,720 --> 00:03:09,200 because they were not united by faith with those who listened. 39 00:03:09,200 --> 00:03:18,480 For we who have believed entered that rest as he has said, as I swore in my wrath they 40 00:03:18,480 --> 00:03:20,480 shall not enter my rest. 41 00:03:20,480 --> 00:03:26,960 Although his works were finished from the foundation of the world, for he has somewhere 42 00:03:26,960 --> 00:03:29,960 spoken of the seventh day in this way. 43 00:03:29,960 --> 00:03:35,000 And God rested on the seventh day from all his works. 44 00:03:35,000 --> 00:03:41,960 And again in this passage he said, they shall not enter my rest. 45 00:03:41,960 --> 00:03:47,820 Since therefore it remains for some to enter it and for those who formerly received the 46 00:03:47,820 --> 00:03:52,760 good news failed to enter because of disobedience. 47 00:03:52,760 --> 00:04:00,000 Again he appoints a certain day, today, saying through David so long afterward in the words 48 00:04:00,000 --> 00:04:06,540 already quoted, today if you hear his voice do not harden your hearts. 49 00:04:06,540 --> 00:04:13,880 For if Joshua had given them rest, God would have spoken of another day later on. 50 00:04:13,880 --> 00:04:16,560 God would not have spoken of another day later on. 51 00:04:16,560 --> 00:04:21,480 So then there remains a Sabbath rest for the people of God. 52 00:04:21,480 --> 00:04:29,160 And for whoever has entered God's rest has also rested from all his works as God did 53 00:04:29,160 --> 00:04:30,640 from his. 54 00:04:30,640 --> 00:04:37,560 Let us therefore strive to enter that rest so that no one may fall by the same sort of 55 00:04:37,560 --> 00:04:38,920 disobedience. 56 00:04:38,920 --> 00:04:43,400 For the word of God is living and active, sharper than a two-edged sword, piercing the 57 00:04:43,400 --> 00:04:48,000 division of soul and spirit, of joints and marrow, and discerning the thoughts and intents 58 00:04:48,000 --> 00:04:49,200 of the heart. 59 00:04:49,200 --> 00:04:55,840 And no creature is hidden from his sight, but all are naked and exposed to the eyes 60 00:04:55,840 --> 00:05:00,200 of him to whom we must give an account. 61 00:05:00,200 --> 00:05:02,240 Wow. 62 00:05:02,240 --> 00:05:06,480 You read that and you go, what is all that? 63 00:05:06,480 --> 00:05:09,960 How do we unpack all that? 64 00:05:09,960 --> 00:05:12,120 And what is it about this rest thing? 65 00:05:12,120 --> 00:05:16,400 And what does he mean that some get the rest and some don't get the rest? 66 00:05:16,400 --> 00:05:21,420 It's a lot here and it's not easy. 67 00:05:21,420 --> 00:05:25,640 And so let's start off with principle number one. 68 00:05:25,640 --> 00:05:31,560 God's rest comes through only the gospel. 69 00:05:31,560 --> 00:05:38,560 God's rest comes only through the gospel, the promise of Christ. 70 00:05:38,560 --> 00:05:47,320 Rest is only given and it is given to a person through a promise and given by Christ through 71 00:05:47,320 --> 00:05:49,200 the cross. 72 00:05:49,200 --> 00:05:53,560 That's important to understand because the rest that people are thinking about, many 73 00:05:53,560 --> 00:06:00,240 of us think about is rest from having to work and to toil the land. 74 00:06:00,240 --> 00:06:05,120 But you remember why Adam toiled the land? 75 00:06:05,120 --> 00:06:07,640 Because of sin. 76 00:06:07,640 --> 00:06:09,540 Sin is to toil. 77 00:06:09,540 --> 00:06:15,120 And so this promise that we receive given by Christ, and it's only given, it's not 78 00:06:15,120 --> 00:06:17,120 something you decide for yourself. 79 00:06:17,120 --> 00:06:19,240 It's not something that you work for. 80 00:06:19,240 --> 00:06:21,600 It's not something that you get. 81 00:06:21,600 --> 00:06:24,640 You don't have the power to rest. 82 00:06:24,640 --> 00:06:28,800 Only God can give rest to a person. 83 00:06:28,800 --> 00:06:38,400 Verse one, therefore while the promise of entering his rest still stands. 84 00:06:38,400 --> 00:06:45,800 You see if his rest was about the land, then there would not be a need for a promise. 85 00:06:45,800 --> 00:06:55,040 Okay, this promise that still stands, this rest, this kata pausis, kata pausis is the 86 00:06:55,040 --> 00:06:57,800 word here, stands. 87 00:06:57,800 --> 00:07:05,040 Kata pausis is a resting place, metaphorically, the heavenly blessedness in which God dwells 88 00:07:05,040 --> 00:07:15,760 and of which he has promised to make preserving believers in Christ partakers after the Torah 89 00:07:15,760 --> 00:07:19,640 toils and trials of life on earth are ended. 90 00:07:19,640 --> 00:07:21,280 That's what this word means. 91 00:07:21,280 --> 00:07:25,920 In other words, your rest is not rest from working. 92 00:07:25,920 --> 00:07:29,080 There's no retirement. 93 00:07:29,080 --> 00:07:35,720 The rest he's talking about here is in Christ with Christ, period. 94 00:07:35,720 --> 00:07:41,680 The kata pausis is the blessedness in which God dwells by which we will be in and with 95 00:07:41,680 --> 00:07:43,200 him. 96 00:07:43,200 --> 00:07:46,000 That's the idea in the Old Testament too. 97 00:07:46,000 --> 00:07:49,280 God made a promise to Abraham, did he not? 98 00:07:49,280 --> 00:07:53,360 And that promise was then given to Isaac and Isaac gave it to Jacob. 99 00:07:53,360 --> 00:07:59,040 Well Jacob took it by God's divine will. 100 00:07:59,040 --> 00:08:05,400 And Israel was born and God sets that promise with Moses and he says, I will take my people 101 00:08:05,400 --> 00:08:11,480 to a land that I will give them and I will be their God and they will be my people. 102 00:08:11,480 --> 00:08:12,560 That was the promise. 103 00:08:12,560 --> 00:08:14,400 You will be in me and with me. 104 00:08:14,400 --> 00:08:16,680 Where I go, you go. 105 00:08:16,680 --> 00:08:20,720 And they were like, no, I don't want that. 106 00:08:20,720 --> 00:08:23,140 Why did you take us out of Egypt? 107 00:08:23,140 --> 00:08:24,440 You brought us out here to kill us. 108 00:08:24,440 --> 00:08:27,160 You remember all that? 109 00:08:27,160 --> 00:08:30,040 Gratefulness, terrible. 110 00:08:30,040 --> 00:08:35,880 But just because they didn't enter it doesn't mean that it doesn't still stand. 111 00:08:35,880 --> 00:08:45,080 The promise of being in Christ and with Christ where he is still stands. 112 00:08:45,080 --> 00:08:50,640 And this is what he says, the rest of verse one, let us fear Fabio. 113 00:08:50,640 --> 00:08:59,360 Let us, lest any of you should seem to have failed, be devoid, lack in worth to reach 114 00:08:59,360 --> 00:09:00,360 it. 115 00:09:00,360 --> 00:09:01,360 To reach what? 116 00:09:01,360 --> 00:09:02,360 To reach rest in Christ. 117 00:09:02,360 --> 00:09:03,640 What does Fabio mean? 118 00:09:03,640 --> 00:09:06,000 Now this is an amazing little word. 119 00:09:06,000 --> 00:09:15,600 This word fear means to reverence or venerate or to treat with difference or reverential 120 00:09:15,600 --> 00:09:19,440 obedience. 121 00:09:19,440 --> 00:09:20,500 Reverential obedience. 122 00:09:20,500 --> 00:09:25,080 Now let's go back and read it from this perspective. 123 00:09:25,080 --> 00:09:34,360 Therefore the promise to enter his place where he dwells of which he has promised to make 124 00:09:34,360 --> 00:09:42,440 preserving believers in Christ partakers after the toil and trials of life. 125 00:09:42,440 --> 00:09:43,440 That's what that means. 126 00:09:43,440 --> 00:09:53,400 Still stands, let us with reverential obedience, lest any of you should seem to have been devoid 127 00:09:53,400 --> 00:09:57,080 or lack worth to reach it. 128 00:09:57,080 --> 00:10:01,560 In other words, how important is Christ? 129 00:10:01,560 --> 00:10:02,840 How much do you love him? 130 00:10:02,840 --> 00:10:04,920 Jesus says if you love me, you obey me. 131 00:10:04,920 --> 00:10:09,160 That's one of the main sticking points in the scripture we're reading here. 132 00:10:09,160 --> 00:10:13,480 The issue of Israel's disobedience. 133 00:10:13,480 --> 00:10:20,360 The reason why they could not enter the rest is because they were disobedient. 134 00:10:20,360 --> 00:10:30,280 So verse two, for good news, here it is, came to us just as to them, but the message they 135 00:10:30,280 --> 00:10:38,200 heard did not benefit them because they were not united by faith with those who listened. 136 00:10:38,200 --> 00:10:43,200 There were a few of the Jews who did listen and we know them. 137 00:10:43,200 --> 00:10:46,200 Moses, Joshua, Caleb. 138 00:10:46,200 --> 00:10:48,320 Do you remember? 139 00:10:48,320 --> 00:10:53,200 And all the saints before, but those who did not listen, those who did not accept the good 140 00:10:53,200 --> 00:10:58,920 news, interesting word, same word for gospel, they didn't answer. 141 00:10:58,920 --> 00:10:59,920 Why? 142 00:10:59,920 --> 00:11:01,440 Because they wanted what they wanted. 143 00:11:01,440 --> 00:11:03,040 They wanted their calves. 144 00:11:03,040 --> 00:11:04,820 They wanted their food in Egypt. 145 00:11:04,820 --> 00:11:06,840 They never really wanted Egypt. 146 00:11:06,840 --> 00:11:08,320 They never really wanted to leave Egypt. 147 00:11:08,320 --> 00:11:15,960 They wanted what they wanted because their hatred of God. 148 00:11:15,960 --> 00:11:17,880 Disobedience is hatred toward God. 149 00:11:17,880 --> 00:11:20,760 That's what you see. 150 00:11:20,760 --> 00:11:26,520 Now that being said, it brings us to principle number two. 151 00:11:26,520 --> 00:11:35,680 So if our rest comes only through the gospel, then all who believe in Christ have true rest 152 00:11:35,680 --> 00:11:42,320 in him because rest comes by faith alone in Christ alone. 153 00:11:42,320 --> 00:11:47,560 The only way you can get rest from your toil is in Christ. 154 00:11:47,560 --> 00:11:51,080 By faith alone in Christ alone. 155 00:11:51,080 --> 00:11:58,280 Verse three, for we who have believed enter that rest. 156 00:11:58,280 --> 00:11:59,280 What rest? 157 00:11:59,280 --> 00:12:00,880 In Christ. 158 00:12:00,880 --> 00:12:01,960 We are in Christ. 159 00:12:01,960 --> 00:12:07,800 If you are in me and I am in you and I am in the Father, you are in the Father, rest. 160 00:12:07,800 --> 00:12:09,760 Do you get it? 161 00:12:09,760 --> 00:12:16,160 So when Jesus talks about that in John 14, about us being in him and him in the Father 162 00:12:16,160 --> 00:12:20,480 in John 13, don't you understand what it means to be in? 163 00:12:20,480 --> 00:12:22,160 It means to be at rest. 164 00:12:22,160 --> 00:12:23,160 Okay? 165 00:12:23,160 --> 00:12:26,720 Now here we go. 166 00:12:26,720 --> 00:12:32,880 As he said, as I swore in my wrath, they shall not, who are they? 167 00:12:32,880 --> 00:12:36,240 Those who did not believe. 168 00:12:36,240 --> 00:12:37,240 Believe what? 169 00:12:37,240 --> 00:12:39,080 Believe the promise. 170 00:12:39,080 --> 00:12:40,080 Now think about that. 171 00:12:40,080 --> 00:12:41,080 I want you to think about that. 172 00:12:41,080 --> 00:12:43,400 How did they not believe? 173 00:12:43,400 --> 00:12:50,160 God shows up through Moses, tells Moses, you'll be my representative. 174 00:12:50,160 --> 00:12:51,960 You're gonna redeem my people out of Egypt. 175 00:12:51,960 --> 00:12:53,480 He pulls them out of Egypt. 176 00:12:53,480 --> 00:12:55,040 He guides them in a cloud. 177 00:12:55,040 --> 00:13:01,080 He guides them in a pillar of fire, a pillar of a cloud. 178 00:13:01,080 --> 00:13:05,240 Takes them to the Red Sea. 179 00:13:05,240 --> 00:13:10,600 Crosses the Red Sea in a pillar of a cloud and a pillar of fire. 180 00:13:10,600 --> 00:13:12,520 Brings them to the wilderness. 181 00:13:12,520 --> 00:13:16,320 Takes them to the mountain by which he's gonna give them the standard. 182 00:13:16,320 --> 00:13:20,400 They turn around and they do exactly what he says not to do. 183 00:13:20,400 --> 00:13:22,640 They build a calf. 184 00:13:22,640 --> 00:13:24,920 After that, they complain. 185 00:13:24,920 --> 00:13:25,920 I'm hungry. 186 00:13:25,920 --> 00:13:27,520 I have no food. 187 00:13:27,520 --> 00:13:28,520 God gives them manna. 188 00:13:28,520 --> 00:13:29,760 They complain about that. 189 00:13:29,760 --> 00:13:30,760 You guys know the whole story. 190 00:13:30,760 --> 00:13:33,960 I've talked about this for like three weeks. 191 00:13:33,960 --> 00:13:38,680 And then they end up saying, let's go take the land. 192 00:13:38,680 --> 00:13:40,840 And they're like, send spies. 193 00:13:40,840 --> 00:13:41,840 You guys know that. 194 00:13:41,840 --> 00:13:44,080 I talked about that last week. 195 00:13:44,080 --> 00:13:45,280 And they were like, we ain't going in. 196 00:13:45,280 --> 00:13:46,280 Why? 197 00:13:46,280 --> 00:13:49,880 Because we don't believe that God will do what he says he's gonna do. 198 00:13:49,880 --> 00:13:51,300 That's basically what they said. 199 00:13:51,300 --> 00:13:52,360 We're not going in. 200 00:13:52,360 --> 00:13:56,020 So because of their disobedience and their disbelief in what God said he would do, if 201 00:13:56,020 --> 00:13:59,280 I go with you, I will go before you. 202 00:13:59,280 --> 00:14:05,600 I will hem you in as a mother does her chicks. 203 00:14:05,600 --> 00:14:06,880 You will be fine. 204 00:14:06,880 --> 00:14:07,880 Take the land. 205 00:14:07,880 --> 00:14:10,720 We're not gonna take the land. 206 00:14:10,720 --> 00:14:13,280 What? 207 00:14:13,280 --> 00:14:14,400 So what does God do? 208 00:14:14,400 --> 00:14:16,280 You can't enter the land with me. 209 00:14:16,280 --> 00:14:23,240 See, the only way to go into the real true promised land is that God must go before you 210 00:14:23,240 --> 00:14:26,920 and you must go in with him and be with him. 211 00:14:26,920 --> 00:14:29,520 And they didn't want him. 212 00:14:29,520 --> 00:14:31,120 That clarifies in these verses. 213 00:14:31,120 --> 00:14:33,480 You're gonna see that in a minute. 214 00:14:33,480 --> 00:14:36,200 And so let's keep reading. 215 00:14:36,200 --> 00:14:42,880 He says, as I swore in my rest, they shall not, who are they? 216 00:14:42,880 --> 00:14:45,920 Those who did not believe enter my rest. 217 00:14:45,920 --> 00:14:55,600 Although his, meaning Christ's works were finished from the foundation of the world. 218 00:14:55,600 --> 00:14:58,240 What? 219 00:14:58,240 --> 00:15:04,080 So many of you guys would think the works that he's talking about is his work of creation. 220 00:15:04,080 --> 00:15:06,760 I mean, he created everything in six days. 221 00:15:06,760 --> 00:15:07,880 On the seventh day he rested. 222 00:15:07,880 --> 00:15:11,200 So if God rested on the seventh day, he stopped creating. 223 00:15:11,200 --> 00:15:13,720 That's not what it says. 224 00:15:13,720 --> 00:15:17,480 It says on the seventh day, God rested from what? 225 00:15:17,480 --> 00:15:19,080 All. 226 00:15:19,080 --> 00:15:20,800 All. 227 00:15:20,800 --> 00:15:22,920 All his works. 228 00:15:22,920 --> 00:15:28,400 All of his created works and all of his self-vific work. 229 00:15:28,400 --> 00:15:31,040 All of his work was done. 230 00:15:31,040 --> 00:15:34,200 And he sat and he rested. 231 00:15:34,200 --> 00:15:35,760 Now think about that. 232 00:15:35,760 --> 00:15:37,640 How can I prove this out? 233 00:15:37,640 --> 00:15:39,840 What's it say in Revelation 13? 234 00:15:39,840 --> 00:15:47,100 Does it not say that his works were completed in Christ before the beginning of creation? 235 00:15:47,100 --> 00:15:52,280 That we are in the Lamb's book of life before the foundation of the world, which means the 236 00:15:52,280 --> 00:15:59,200 Lamb of God was slain before the foundation of the world, that we may be in the book. 237 00:15:59,200 --> 00:16:01,400 Think about this work. 238 00:16:01,400 --> 00:16:05,360 The work of justification done since the creation of the world. 239 00:16:05,360 --> 00:16:09,560 The work of sanctification done since the creation of the world. 240 00:16:09,560 --> 00:16:14,120 The work of his redemption done since the creation of the world. 241 00:16:14,120 --> 00:16:15,480 Forgiveness done. 242 00:16:15,480 --> 00:16:17,400 Renewal done. 243 00:16:17,400 --> 00:16:19,240 Regeneration done. 244 00:16:19,240 --> 00:16:24,680 All the works that God had done were done. 245 00:16:24,680 --> 00:16:27,520 And he rested on the seventh day. 246 00:16:27,520 --> 00:16:30,920 Everything, all works. 247 00:16:30,920 --> 00:16:37,840 What an amazing, powerful, omnipotent and sovereign God we have. 248 00:16:37,840 --> 00:16:46,960 That God sits on his throne in glory and rejoices in the accomplishments of his character displayed 249 00:16:46,960 --> 00:16:50,280 to all creation in Christ. 250 00:16:50,280 --> 00:16:54,200 And there's nothing that the enemy can do about it. 251 00:16:54,200 --> 00:16:56,680 Not a single thing. 252 00:16:56,680 --> 00:16:58,160 No he tries. 253 00:16:58,160 --> 00:17:00,040 That's why the scripture says that God laughs. 254 00:17:00,040 --> 00:17:03,360 I was like, are you kidding me? 255 00:17:03,360 --> 00:17:06,280 It's already done. 256 00:17:06,280 --> 00:17:09,920 But yet you strive in vain. 257 00:17:09,920 --> 00:17:12,280 Whoa. 258 00:17:12,280 --> 00:17:17,160 Powerful God we have. 259 00:17:17,160 --> 00:17:22,200 And so, next principle. 260 00:17:22,200 --> 00:17:26,080 True rest can never be found in a day. 261 00:17:26,080 --> 00:17:28,120 Can never be found in a law. 262 00:17:28,120 --> 00:17:31,240 And can never be found in a place. 263 00:17:31,240 --> 00:17:32,440 So I'm gonna say this. 264 00:17:32,440 --> 00:17:34,200 Wow, that just totally reset my stuff. 265 00:17:34,200 --> 00:17:36,920 Really, you're just gonna do your own thing right now. 266 00:17:36,920 --> 00:17:37,920 Okay. 267 00:17:37,920 --> 00:17:41,240 It just totally did that and I'm like really upset about it. 268 00:17:41,240 --> 00:17:43,600 Leave it alone. 269 00:17:43,600 --> 00:17:44,600 Alright. 270 00:17:44,600 --> 00:17:50,240 So, here's one of the things I want us to understand. 271 00:17:50,240 --> 00:17:56,880 If rest cannot be found in the day, I'm gonna say this respectfully, but I'm gonna be honest 272 00:17:56,880 --> 00:17:57,880 with you. 273 00:17:57,880 --> 00:18:01,520 The seventh day of Venice are wrong. 274 00:18:01,520 --> 00:18:06,680 They put their hope in the day to determine their righteousness before God. 275 00:18:06,680 --> 00:18:08,800 And the only righteousness that we get is through Christ. 276 00:18:08,800 --> 00:18:11,320 It is not based on what day you keep. 277 00:18:11,320 --> 00:18:15,080 It's based on you giving every day to him. 278 00:18:15,080 --> 00:18:18,560 Every day is his. 279 00:18:18,560 --> 00:18:20,100 And our rest is not in a day. 280 00:18:20,100 --> 00:18:23,440 Our rest is in the person of Jesus Christ. 281 00:18:23,440 --> 00:18:24,980 That's the point. 282 00:18:24,980 --> 00:18:33,600 So for all our seventh day guys and our law keeping fellows and those who think that we 283 00:18:33,600 --> 00:18:39,000 can find rest by going to a place, you'll never find rest for your lives outside of 284 00:18:39,000 --> 00:18:41,180 Jesus ever. 285 00:18:41,180 --> 00:18:43,580 He is your only rest. 286 00:18:43,580 --> 00:18:44,580 How do we know that? 287 00:18:44,580 --> 00:18:49,200 I'm gonna show you in a minute. 288 00:18:49,200 --> 00:18:51,880 That's hard to grasp. 289 00:18:51,880 --> 00:18:53,480 Why? 290 00:18:53,480 --> 00:18:57,160 Because rest is not a ceasing of work. 291 00:18:57,160 --> 00:19:04,920 But by repentance and belief in a promised one, we find rest. 292 00:19:04,920 --> 00:19:07,640 It's Christ is our rest. 293 00:19:07,640 --> 00:19:15,720 If rest meant ceasing of work and you came to Jesus, why are you still working? 294 00:19:15,720 --> 00:19:22,720 Hebrews chapter four verse four and five, for he has somewhere spoken of the seventh 295 00:19:22,720 --> 00:19:24,720 day in this way. 296 00:19:24,720 --> 00:19:34,280 God rested on the seventh day from all his works. 297 00:19:34,280 --> 00:19:37,760 The word works here means act or deed. 298 00:19:37,760 --> 00:19:45,640 God has rested from all his acts, from all his deeds, from all his works. 299 00:19:45,640 --> 00:19:49,400 Everything. 300 00:19:49,400 --> 00:19:55,520 And again in this passage, he said, they shall not enter my rest. 301 00:19:55,520 --> 00:20:03,680 So if rest is in him and where he is and he is our rest, that means they, those who live 302 00:20:03,680 --> 00:20:10,280 disobedient lives will never enter his rest. 303 00:20:10,280 --> 00:20:11,280 Here's the proof. 304 00:20:11,280 --> 00:20:19,240 Isaiah 30 verse 15, for thus said the Lord God, the Holy one of Israel in returning and 305 00:20:19,240 --> 00:20:27,160 rest, you shall be saved in quietness and in trust shall be your strength. 306 00:20:27,160 --> 00:20:29,080 Do you get that? 307 00:20:29,080 --> 00:20:38,840 In repentance and being in Christ, in rest, you shall be saved. 308 00:20:38,840 --> 00:20:41,760 Apart from Christ, you cannot be saved. 309 00:20:41,760 --> 00:20:45,360 You have to be in him and he in you. 310 00:20:45,360 --> 00:20:49,080 And you must turn from your wicked ways. 311 00:20:49,080 --> 00:20:51,040 How do we know that? 312 00:20:51,040 --> 00:20:53,960 Next principle. 313 00:20:53,960 --> 00:20:59,400 Rest is only given to God's people and now is the time for your rest. 314 00:20:59,400 --> 00:21:01,800 The rest from the toil of sin. 315 00:21:01,800 --> 00:21:04,360 And here's the proof of what I just said previously. 316 00:21:04,360 --> 00:21:05,760 Today is your rest. 317 00:21:05,760 --> 00:21:11,160 As I said, the time is fulfilled and the kingdom of God is at hand. 318 00:21:11,160 --> 00:21:18,320 Repent, return and believe in the gospel. 319 00:21:18,320 --> 00:21:20,800 You want real true rest? 320 00:21:20,800 --> 00:21:26,580 Be in Christ because you will never find rest anywhere else. 321 00:21:26,580 --> 00:21:30,520 So Hebrews chapter four, verse six through seven says this. 322 00:21:30,520 --> 00:21:38,040 Therefore it remains for some to enter it. 323 00:21:38,040 --> 00:21:39,760 Some does say all. 324 00:21:39,760 --> 00:21:43,640 No, only some enter the rest. 325 00:21:43,640 --> 00:21:49,880 And those who formerly received the good news failed to enter because of disobedience. 326 00:21:49,880 --> 00:21:56,400 So what causes, what is the root cause of those not entering the rest of Christ? 327 00:21:56,400 --> 00:21:58,080 Disobedience. 328 00:21:58,080 --> 00:21:59,640 Sin. 329 00:21:59,640 --> 00:22:10,000 The only way you can enter is through Christ and those who enter through Christ are obedient 330 00:22:10,000 --> 00:22:12,520 to Christ. 331 00:22:12,520 --> 00:22:17,120 You coming to Christ as a work, in the work of the Holy Spirit as he does in your life 332 00:22:17,120 --> 00:22:23,000 in your heart and changes you and you repent and you come in the gospel, what you end up 333 00:22:23,000 --> 00:22:30,240 coming to the realization is the very obedience of you coming was done in Christ. 334 00:22:30,240 --> 00:22:41,040 So it says this and again he appoints a certain day, not tomorrow. 335 00:22:41,040 --> 00:22:43,380 Tomorrow is not the day of your salvation. 336 00:22:43,380 --> 00:22:45,060 Today is. 337 00:22:45,060 --> 00:22:46,060 Not tomorrow. 338 00:22:46,060 --> 00:22:49,120 It's not I have to get my life right before I come to Jesus. 339 00:22:49,120 --> 00:22:51,000 I have to stop smoking before I come to Jesus. 340 00:22:51,000 --> 00:22:54,560 I have to stop watching things I shouldn't watch before I come to Jesus. 341 00:22:54,560 --> 00:22:55,560 No. 342 00:22:55,560 --> 00:22:58,520 You don't get yourself right to come to Jesus so you can find rest. 343 00:22:58,520 --> 00:23:01,080 You come to Jesus to get rest. 344 00:23:01,080 --> 00:23:09,880 So today saying through David is so long after in words already quoted, today if you hear 345 00:23:09,880 --> 00:23:17,960 his voice do not, do not heart in your hearts but many do because they love their wickedness. 346 00:23:17,960 --> 00:23:24,080 Pastor says in John 3, they love the darkness, they hate the light and everything they do 347 00:23:24,080 --> 00:23:27,120 is exposed to Jesus. 348 00:23:27,120 --> 00:23:31,000 There's nothing hidden from his eyes. 349 00:23:31,000 --> 00:23:33,680 Here's the hard part. 350 00:23:33,680 --> 00:23:39,480 Many times we try to find rest in putting our hope in man. 351 00:23:39,480 --> 00:23:43,080 Man will disappoint. 352 00:23:43,080 --> 00:23:46,080 So rest comes from no other person. 353 00:23:46,080 --> 00:23:53,160 It does not come from a pastor nor of a leader, not from a doctor nor from a government and 354 00:23:53,160 --> 00:23:58,880 not from a constitutional document. 355 00:23:58,880 --> 00:24:03,440 Rest is not a political party nor from what it promises. 356 00:24:03,440 --> 00:24:08,840 Rest is not found or given by a political candidate nor the promises they make. 357 00:24:08,840 --> 00:24:15,160 Rest and hope is never found in the president of the United States. 358 00:24:15,160 --> 00:24:22,440 For any church to demand that there is a hope outside of Jesus Christ is sin. 359 00:24:22,440 --> 00:24:25,320 Repent it is evil and it's wrong. 360 00:24:25,320 --> 00:24:27,760 There is no hope outside of Jesus. 361 00:24:27,760 --> 00:24:31,840 You better hope that the president puts his faith and hope in Jesus Christ because if 362 00:24:31,840 --> 00:24:36,880 he doesn't you put your hope in the wrong man. 363 00:24:36,880 --> 00:24:38,360 I'm just being honest. 364 00:24:38,360 --> 00:24:44,320 This is something I'm extremely passionate about. 365 00:24:44,320 --> 00:24:55,480 Now I know I'm getting a little excited. 366 00:24:55,480 --> 00:25:02,520 Rest and hope is only given by Jesus Christ, the King of all kings and the Lord of all 367 00:25:02,520 --> 00:25:04,440 lords. 368 00:25:04,440 --> 00:25:07,000 He alone rules. 369 00:25:07,000 --> 00:25:13,080 He alone sits on the throne of all creation and rules sovereignly and providentially at 370 00:25:13,080 --> 00:25:14,920 all things. 371 00:25:14,920 --> 00:25:21,920 Every president, every single leader, every single person is used by God to accomplish 372 00:25:21,920 --> 00:25:22,920 his glory. 373 00:25:22,920 --> 00:25:33,680 If you have any question about that look at Judas Iscariot or Nebuchadnezzar. 374 00:25:33,680 --> 00:25:44,600 That being said, rest will not come by a political election, Hebrews 4 chapter 4 verse 8 through 375 00:25:44,600 --> 00:25:45,600 10. 376 00:25:45,600 --> 00:25:50,560 For if Joshua had given them rest, how? 377 00:25:50,560 --> 00:25:57,160 By leading them into the promised land then God would not have spoken of another day later 378 00:25:57,160 --> 00:25:58,200 on. 379 00:25:58,200 --> 00:25:59,200 Why would I say that? 380 00:25:59,200 --> 00:26:04,200 Because if you remember when God was about to bring them into the promised land, guess 381 00:26:04,200 --> 00:26:06,840 who was not leading them in? 382 00:26:06,840 --> 00:26:13,720 Guess who was not walking in by a pillar of fire or by a pillar of cloud? 383 00:26:13,720 --> 00:26:15,640 God. 384 00:26:15,640 --> 00:26:16,920 God had left them. 385 00:26:16,920 --> 00:26:17,920 Fine. 386 00:26:17,920 --> 00:26:19,360 Is this what you want? 387 00:26:19,360 --> 00:26:22,760 You go take it. 388 00:26:22,760 --> 00:26:25,360 And guess who leads them in? 389 00:26:25,360 --> 00:26:27,920 Joshua. 390 00:26:27,920 --> 00:26:34,640 Though Joshua was a godly man, though Joshua and Caleb were the only two out of all the 391 00:26:34,640 --> 00:26:39,040 people of Israel that could enter the land because God said they could because they kept 392 00:26:39,040 --> 00:26:45,100 the promise, God was with them. 393 00:26:45,100 --> 00:26:46,100 Think about that. 394 00:26:46,100 --> 00:26:54,040 They had an opportunity to go into the promised land into the rest of God by knowing that 395 00:26:54,040 --> 00:27:00,360 he will lead them in by the pillar of cloud and destroy their enemies. 396 00:27:00,360 --> 00:27:03,840 And they were like, no. 397 00:27:03,840 --> 00:27:08,320 Not only did they do that once, their children ended up doing it. 398 00:27:08,320 --> 00:27:09,320 Do you remember? 399 00:27:09,320 --> 00:27:11,320 We talked about that last week. 400 00:27:11,320 --> 00:27:12,320 Wow. 401 00:27:12,320 --> 00:27:21,480 But do you know that we can enter his rest and as a result boldly go into the throne room 402 00:27:21,480 --> 00:27:25,800 of God unabated, unappeated in any way. 403 00:27:25,800 --> 00:27:30,920 We can go to the father and say, hey, wow. 404 00:27:30,920 --> 00:27:38,800 So verse eight and 10, this is what it says, for if Joshua had given them rest, God would 405 00:27:38,800 --> 00:27:40,680 not have spoken of another day later on. 406 00:27:40,680 --> 00:27:51,280 So then there remains a sabbath, a sabbath rest for the people of God. 407 00:27:51,280 --> 00:27:59,000 For all mankind, the people of God, through the gospel, the gospel is crucial to the reality 408 00:27:59,000 --> 00:28:01,600 of coming to rest in Christ. 409 00:28:01,600 --> 00:28:06,200 Without the gospel, there is no rest. 410 00:28:06,200 --> 00:28:13,260 For whoever has entered God's rest has also rested from his works as God did his. 411 00:28:13,260 --> 00:28:15,500 What works? 412 00:28:15,500 --> 00:28:20,580 The works that he's talking about, his works are the salvific work of Christ through the 413 00:28:20,580 --> 00:28:25,280 cross and our being brought and forgiven through him. 414 00:28:25,280 --> 00:28:29,320 And he is the end of our toil and suffering of sin. 415 00:28:29,320 --> 00:28:33,840 He is the end of our works of sin. 416 00:28:33,840 --> 00:28:38,740 He is, it is final and true rest. 417 00:28:38,740 --> 00:28:40,600 That's what this means. 418 00:28:40,600 --> 00:28:47,400 Your toil, your work is the work of your sin that you do every single day and through Christ, 419 00:28:47,400 --> 00:28:50,720 he puts an end to that toil. 420 00:28:50,720 --> 00:28:51,720 Why? 421 00:28:51,720 --> 00:28:56,840 Because he doesn't count it against you. 422 00:28:56,840 --> 00:29:03,240 He has cleansed us, past, present, and future from all sin. 423 00:29:03,240 --> 00:29:05,120 And if God loves us, then he'll discipline us. 424 00:29:05,120 --> 00:29:10,460 We read that later on in Hebrews 14. 425 00:29:10,460 --> 00:29:13,480 He loves us in Hebrews 9, sorry. 426 00:29:13,480 --> 00:29:21,000 And so this word sabbatismos, this Sabbath rest, this is what it means. 427 00:29:21,000 --> 00:29:29,080 The blessed rest from toils and troubles looked for in the age to come by the true worshipers 428 00:29:29,080 --> 00:29:31,760 of God and the true Christians. 429 00:29:31,760 --> 00:29:35,440 The rest from toils and troubles. 430 00:29:35,440 --> 00:29:36,440 Wow. 431 00:29:36,440 --> 00:29:40,120 Mary Ellen, that's going to be a beautiful day. 432 00:29:40,120 --> 00:29:44,720 And it's a beautiful day for us now. 433 00:29:44,720 --> 00:29:45,800 How do we know? 434 00:29:45,800 --> 00:29:47,400 How do we know this is true? 435 00:29:47,400 --> 00:29:53,000 How do we know that everything we talked about so far is true? 436 00:29:53,000 --> 00:29:59,760 Matthew chapter 11, verse 27 through 30. 437 00:29:59,760 --> 00:30:09,320 He says, all things have been handed over to me by my father and no one knows the son 438 00:30:09,320 --> 00:30:14,640 except the father and no one knows the father except the son and anyone to whom the son 439 00:30:14,640 --> 00:30:16,880 chooses to reveal him. 440 00:30:16,880 --> 00:30:25,160 Then all of a sudden, everybody forgets about that verse because they love verse 28. 441 00:30:25,160 --> 00:30:30,480 When you're struggling in life and things are difficult, you take this Bible verse and 442 00:30:30,480 --> 00:30:35,160 you read it to yourself and you go, oh, this is so nice. 443 00:30:35,160 --> 00:30:37,560 But they totally forget why he gives it. 444 00:30:37,560 --> 00:30:46,500 Come to me, all who labor and are heavy laden and I will give you rest. 445 00:30:46,500 --> 00:30:48,760 Labor and heavy laden of what? 446 00:30:48,760 --> 00:30:55,520 Keeping of the law, which you can't do because you're a sinner. 447 00:30:55,520 --> 00:30:57,880 Labor and heavy laden with what? 448 00:30:57,880 --> 00:31:00,020 The consequences of your sin. 449 00:31:00,020 --> 00:31:02,640 Labor and heavy laden with what? 450 00:31:02,640 --> 00:31:07,600 The burden that you carry because of your sin. 451 00:31:07,600 --> 00:31:11,200 Come to me, all who labor and heavy laden, I will give you rest. 452 00:31:11,200 --> 00:31:12,200 Why? 453 00:31:12,200 --> 00:31:16,440 Because my yoke, take my yoke upon you. 454 00:31:16,440 --> 00:31:20,480 Take my burden because it's a lot lighter than yours. 455 00:31:20,480 --> 00:31:23,560 You don't walk through life without burden. 456 00:31:23,560 --> 00:31:26,120 You have a responsibility in life. 457 00:31:26,120 --> 00:31:27,120 What's that? 458 00:31:27,120 --> 00:31:32,600 To live in obedience and righteously with God and through God. 459 00:31:32,600 --> 00:31:38,360 And this is what he continues to say, take my yoke upon you and learn from me. 460 00:31:38,360 --> 00:31:39,740 Where do you learn from him? 461 00:31:39,740 --> 00:31:43,020 Through his word. 462 00:31:43,020 --> 00:31:49,260 For I am gentle and lowly in heart and you will find rest for your souls. 463 00:31:49,260 --> 00:31:55,600 For my yoke is easy and my burden is light. 464 00:31:55,600 --> 00:32:00,360 To love God is not a burden. 465 00:32:00,360 --> 00:32:06,200 To trust God is not a burden that can't be carried. 466 00:32:06,200 --> 00:32:13,160 But if you want to carry your sin, you will walk with your back bent. 467 00:32:13,160 --> 00:32:14,160 How many of you guys watched? 468 00:32:14,160 --> 00:32:17,480 Have you ever read the book Pilgrim's Progress? 469 00:32:17,480 --> 00:32:22,480 It's exactly what he means. 470 00:32:22,480 --> 00:32:25,740 Christ is not a burden that we can't carry. 471 00:32:25,740 --> 00:32:28,040 What a glorious burden it is. 472 00:32:28,040 --> 00:32:31,960 What a glorious yoke to carry. 473 00:32:31,960 --> 00:32:37,760 Proudly Christ wrapped around my neck. 474 00:32:37,760 --> 00:32:44,400 Confidence knowing that I can with him do all things. 475 00:32:44,400 --> 00:32:47,200 So more proof. 476 00:32:47,200 --> 00:32:51,560 Turn to Daniel chapter 9 please. 477 00:32:51,560 --> 00:32:59,320 This is going to wreck some people, it's meant to a little bit I guess. 478 00:32:59,320 --> 00:33:02,520 Daniel chapter 9. 479 00:33:02,520 --> 00:33:05,680 This is going to challenge many of you. 480 00:33:05,680 --> 00:33:07,680 Trust me. 481 00:33:07,680 --> 00:33:12,140 I know, I know this is going to challenge, this is going to stretch you. 482 00:33:12,140 --> 00:33:13,640 This is meant to stretch you. 483 00:33:13,640 --> 00:33:19,600 It's meant for you to really understand where your faith lies. 484 00:33:19,600 --> 00:33:21,480 Where your faith comes from. 485 00:33:21,480 --> 00:33:25,720 Let's turn to Daniel 9 verse 24. 486 00:33:25,720 --> 00:33:36,960 This is important because in order for us to really understand this idea of where our 487 00:33:36,960 --> 00:33:43,800 Sabbath rest rests upon him, you have to understand that the work that was completed is completed 488 00:33:43,800 --> 00:33:44,800 and done. 489 00:33:44,800 --> 00:33:50,860 There's no other hope. 490 00:33:50,860 --> 00:33:53,920 Our glorious days in Christ. 491 00:33:53,920 --> 00:34:01,520 70 weeks are decreed about your people and about your holy city. 492 00:34:01,520 --> 00:34:04,520 So this is what happens. 493 00:34:04,520 --> 00:34:07,280 Daniel's praying to God. 494 00:34:07,280 --> 00:34:09,600 Our captivity is coming to an end. 495 00:34:09,600 --> 00:34:10,600 Where are we going to go? 496 00:34:10,600 --> 00:34:12,600 What's going to happen to your people? 497 00:34:12,600 --> 00:34:13,600 Please don't forget us. 498 00:34:13,600 --> 00:34:18,200 I know we deserve everything we get, but please, we're your people. 499 00:34:18,200 --> 00:34:20,140 You made a promise. 500 00:34:20,140 --> 00:34:25,200 So what God does is he sends Gabriel and Gabriel comes to him and he gives him this word. 501 00:34:25,200 --> 00:34:30,680 So this is Gabriel speaking on God's behalf. 502 00:34:30,680 --> 00:34:35,000 Seventy weeks are decreed about your people and about your holy city. 503 00:34:35,000 --> 00:34:37,840 To finish the transgression, there it is. 504 00:34:37,840 --> 00:34:41,000 To put an end to sin, number two. 505 00:34:41,000 --> 00:34:43,520 To atone for iniquity, number three. 506 00:34:43,520 --> 00:34:46,200 To bring in everlasting righteousness, number four. 507 00:34:46,200 --> 00:34:53,960 To seal both vision and prophet, number five, and to anoint a most holy place. 508 00:34:53,960 --> 00:34:56,680 How many weeks? 509 00:34:56,680 --> 00:34:59,200 Seventy weeks. 510 00:34:59,200 --> 00:35:01,580 To do what? 511 00:35:01,580 --> 00:35:04,800 Put an end to sin. 512 00:35:04,800 --> 00:35:09,360 And if you read the rest of the prophecy, you come to understand it's really about Christ, 513 00:35:09,360 --> 00:35:14,080 the prophet, the one who was going to come, the anointed one who was going to come and 514 00:35:14,080 --> 00:35:17,600 deliver his people because he's going to be cut off. 515 00:35:17,600 --> 00:35:20,720 And then there's an end to sacrifice. 516 00:35:20,720 --> 00:35:21,720 Sacrifice is done. 517 00:35:21,720 --> 00:35:27,360 I don't know about you, but there ain't no sacrifice in Israel right now because Jesus 518 00:35:27,360 --> 00:35:34,200 didn't end to it 2,000 years ago through a prophecy which he had given to Gabriel to 519 00:35:34,200 --> 00:35:38,960 bring to Daniel to say this is how it's going to end. 520 00:35:38,960 --> 00:35:40,560 I want you to get this. 521 00:35:40,560 --> 00:35:43,240 This is important. 522 00:35:43,240 --> 00:35:46,600 Who did all this work? 523 00:35:46,600 --> 00:35:47,920 Let's go through it. 524 00:35:47,920 --> 00:35:53,680 First, decree about the people of Israel and about Jerusalem. 525 00:35:53,680 --> 00:35:56,600 Put a finish to finish the transgression. 526 00:35:56,600 --> 00:35:57,920 What is transgression? 527 00:35:57,920 --> 00:35:58,960 Breaking God's law. 528 00:35:58,960 --> 00:36:01,060 How did Jesus finish the transgression? 529 00:36:01,060 --> 00:36:02,400 He fulfilled the law. 530 00:36:02,400 --> 00:36:03,400 Done. 531 00:36:03,400 --> 00:36:07,920 Do you remember when Jesus says it is finished? 532 00:36:07,920 --> 00:36:08,920 Okay. 533 00:36:08,920 --> 00:36:11,560 Two, to put an end to sin. 534 00:36:11,560 --> 00:36:12,960 What is sin? 535 00:36:12,960 --> 00:36:14,040 Missing the mark. 536 00:36:14,040 --> 00:36:15,720 What's missing the mark? 537 00:36:15,720 --> 00:36:18,040 Hitting the standard by which God given through the commandments. 538 00:36:18,040 --> 00:36:19,040 Can we do that? 539 00:36:19,040 --> 00:36:20,040 Nope. 540 00:36:20,040 --> 00:36:21,120 Is sin dealt with? 541 00:36:21,120 --> 00:36:24,000 Did he not forgive you for your past, present, and future sin? 542 00:36:24,000 --> 00:36:26,600 Has God atoned for your sin? 543 00:36:26,600 --> 00:36:27,600 Done. 544 00:36:27,600 --> 00:36:29,540 Here we go. 545 00:36:29,540 --> 00:36:34,480 To atone, pay for the iniquity, the debt, the UO. 546 00:36:34,480 --> 00:36:35,560 That's what this means. 547 00:36:35,560 --> 00:36:36,560 Who paid the debt? 548 00:36:36,560 --> 00:36:37,880 Jesus. 549 00:36:37,880 --> 00:36:42,620 To bring in, oh, sorry, to atone for iniquity, to bring in everlasting righteousness. 550 00:36:42,620 --> 00:36:45,080 Did he not bring in everlasting righteousness? 551 00:36:45,080 --> 00:36:47,720 People would say no because there's still sin in the world. 552 00:36:47,720 --> 00:36:48,720 Christ is your righteousness. 553 00:36:48,720 --> 00:36:50,880 Is it not everlasting? 554 00:36:50,880 --> 00:36:55,880 Christ reigns whether we like it or not. 555 00:36:55,880 --> 00:36:57,760 Now last one. 556 00:36:57,760 --> 00:37:04,600 To anoint a most holy place. 557 00:37:04,600 --> 00:37:07,480 Where is that holy place? 558 00:37:07,480 --> 00:37:14,780 Where does God dwell now? 559 00:37:14,780 --> 00:37:18,000 In you. 560 00:37:18,000 --> 00:37:22,440 You are his holy place. 561 00:37:22,440 --> 00:37:27,400 You and you and you. 562 00:37:27,400 --> 00:37:33,680 And we sit back and we hear preachers teach a false doctrine stating there's still seven 563 00:37:33,680 --> 00:37:37,140 more years because Jesus isn't done yet. 564 00:37:37,140 --> 00:37:41,600 And the scripture says that he was done before the foundation of the world. 565 00:37:41,600 --> 00:37:44,640 And then when Jesus dies on the cross, he says it is finished. 566 00:37:44,640 --> 00:37:45,920 It's complete. 567 00:37:45,920 --> 00:37:49,400 And then we go, there's still seven more years left. 568 00:37:49,400 --> 00:37:51,960 My God reigns now. 569 00:37:51,960 --> 00:37:53,940 And he reigns forever. 570 00:37:53,940 --> 00:37:55,960 And he will never give up his throne. 571 00:37:55,960 --> 00:37:57,680 He is the King of kings and Lord of lords. 572 00:37:57,680 --> 00:37:58,680 How do we know that? 573 00:37:58,680 --> 00:38:00,180 Philippians chapter two. 574 00:38:00,180 --> 00:38:07,040 For every knee shall bow and every tongue confess that Jesus Christ is the King of kings 575 00:38:07,040 --> 00:38:10,320 and Lord of lords. 576 00:38:10,320 --> 00:38:12,080 He's not going to be. 577 00:38:12,080 --> 00:38:17,080 The days of that foolishness have got to end. 578 00:38:17,080 --> 00:38:19,040 And I'm going to tell you the truth. 579 00:38:19,040 --> 00:38:22,800 In Christ, it is completely finished for you. 580 00:38:22,800 --> 00:38:25,000 There is no need for anything else. 581 00:38:25,000 --> 00:38:30,520 He will come and will destroy all things that are contrary to him. 582 00:38:30,520 --> 00:38:34,360 That's a guarantee. 583 00:38:34,360 --> 00:38:36,580 And it's done already. 584 00:38:36,580 --> 00:38:38,360 So how should we walk? 585 00:38:38,360 --> 00:38:43,200 We walk in confidence with Christ, bringing the gospel to every living creature so that 586 00:38:43,200 --> 00:38:45,600 his people will come to him. 587 00:38:45,600 --> 00:38:47,080 That's the point. 588 00:38:47,080 --> 00:38:49,840 We don't stop preaching the gospel because he reigns. 589 00:38:49,840 --> 00:38:53,280 We preach the gospel all the more because he does reign. 590 00:38:53,280 --> 00:38:58,640 Because if you love him, you will obey him and you will go and preach the gospel. 591 00:38:58,640 --> 00:38:59,760 So we dealt with a couple of things. 592 00:38:59,760 --> 00:39:03,880 The issue of politics and the issue of false teaching. 593 00:39:03,880 --> 00:39:11,760 So rest can be found in his word through the gift of faith on the wings of the gospel. 594 00:39:11,760 --> 00:39:12,760 How do we know? 595 00:39:12,760 --> 00:39:16,820 So faith comes from hearing and hearing that of the word of Christ. 596 00:39:16,820 --> 00:39:22,200 So in order for us to be in rest, we have to be in rest by faith. 597 00:39:22,200 --> 00:39:28,080 Faith comes from the gospel that God brings into our lives and he plants it into you through 598 00:39:28,080 --> 00:39:29,080 the power of the Holy Spirit. 599 00:39:29,080 --> 00:39:32,140 And he does his work and you respond. 600 00:39:32,140 --> 00:39:36,320 Now look, verse 11 and 13, how do we know this is true? 601 00:39:36,320 --> 00:39:38,880 It's amazing. 602 00:39:38,880 --> 00:39:47,800 Verse 11, let us therefore strive, give diligence to enter the rest, to enter that rest so that 603 00:39:47,800 --> 00:39:54,760 no one may fall, come under condemnation is what that word means, by the same sort of 604 00:39:54,760 --> 00:39:56,320 disobedience. 605 00:39:56,320 --> 00:39:57,600 What disobedience? 606 00:39:57,600 --> 00:40:00,920 Not believing the promise. 607 00:40:00,920 --> 00:40:07,160 Faith being sure of what you hope for in the evidence of what you don't see. 608 00:40:07,160 --> 00:40:11,000 So how do we know that? 609 00:40:11,000 --> 00:40:14,200 Well we know that because verse 12 clarifies it. 610 00:40:14,200 --> 00:40:20,040 Here's how you know that you can know beyond a shadow of a doubt that you can know. 611 00:40:20,040 --> 00:40:21,040 Here it is. 612 00:40:21,040 --> 00:40:27,400 For the word of God is living and active, sharper. 613 00:40:27,400 --> 00:40:31,840 It cuts by a single stroke. 614 00:40:31,840 --> 00:40:39,680 I don't know about you, but I like those karate samurai guys. 615 00:40:39,680 --> 00:40:43,840 And they're like, and they cut a guy in half like completely one stroke. 616 00:40:43,840 --> 00:40:48,000 Like I wish that, you know, I don't know if I would wish that would happen to me, Ben, 617 00:40:48,000 --> 00:40:51,000 but I would love to do that to a tree. 618 00:40:51,000 --> 00:40:53,440 You know what I mean? 619 00:40:53,440 --> 00:40:59,120 One stroke, because we're like, it takes a while. 620 00:40:59,120 --> 00:41:01,120 But that's how powerful this is. 621 00:41:01,120 --> 00:41:05,360 This sword is no joke. 622 00:41:05,360 --> 00:41:11,780 So his word is living and active, sharper than a two-edged sword. 623 00:41:11,780 --> 00:41:18,640 And piercing, penetrating to the division of soul and of spirit, joints and of marrow, 624 00:41:18,640 --> 00:41:20,120 and discerning. 625 00:41:20,120 --> 00:41:24,560 This word discerning means fit and skilled to judge. 626 00:41:24,560 --> 00:41:33,520 The word of God is not only a sword that cuts with a single stroke, it penetrates and it 627 00:41:33,520 --> 00:41:37,920 is fit and skilled to judge the thoughts and intentions of your heart. 628 00:41:37,920 --> 00:41:39,480 Now here's the crazy part. 629 00:41:39,480 --> 00:41:41,200 Verse 13 kind of shook me. 630 00:41:41,200 --> 00:41:47,640 I'll be honest with you because the word he uses here for exposed is kind of shocking. 631 00:41:47,640 --> 00:41:53,720 And no creature, that means any created thing is hidden from his sight but are naked. 632 00:41:53,720 --> 00:41:58,240 So we kind of know what naked is, laid bare, open, no covering. 633 00:41:58,240 --> 00:42:01,120 And exposed, now here's the freaky word. 634 00:42:01,120 --> 00:42:04,880 This word exposed means exposed by the bending of the neck. 635 00:42:04,880 --> 00:42:13,120 In other words, God would take your neck, bend it, and look deep into you. 636 00:42:13,120 --> 00:42:15,120 It's like, what? 637 00:42:15,120 --> 00:42:19,160 I don't know about you but that's kind of wild. 638 00:42:19,160 --> 00:42:22,240 Literally it means exposed by the bending of the neck. 639 00:42:22,240 --> 00:42:26,760 In other words, he just looks down, deep into the human. 640 00:42:26,760 --> 00:42:30,600 So not only does he deal with the issue of the physical but he deals with the issue of 641 00:42:30,600 --> 00:42:31,880 the spiritual. 642 00:42:31,880 --> 00:42:34,960 The deepest secrets of your heart are exposed before him. 643 00:42:34,960 --> 00:42:38,160 There is no secret he can't see. 644 00:42:38,160 --> 00:42:40,680 So keep trying to cover it up. 645 00:42:40,680 --> 00:42:42,680 You'll never cover it up. 646 00:42:42,680 --> 00:42:43,680 Why? 647 00:42:43,680 --> 00:42:53,640 Because he says this, but are naked are all, but all are naked and exposed by the bending 648 00:42:53,640 --> 00:43:01,000 of the neck to the eyes of him to whom we must give an account. 649 00:43:01,000 --> 00:43:03,760 Ouch. 650 00:43:03,760 --> 00:43:06,000 How's that feel? 651 00:43:06,000 --> 00:43:12,120 When you think about the sovereign, omnipotent, omniscient, omnipresent God who sits on the 652 00:43:12,120 --> 00:43:18,920 throne providentially guiding all things for his glory so that one day we can experience 653 00:43:18,920 --> 00:43:22,080 his glory forever. 654 00:43:22,080 --> 00:43:25,400 And he goes, there's no secret. 655 00:43:25,400 --> 00:43:28,960 Y'all are exposed. 656 00:43:28,960 --> 00:43:31,960 What? 657 00:43:31,960 --> 00:43:35,760 Now we understand why his word is living inactive. 658 00:43:35,760 --> 00:43:38,640 Gets down to the deepness of mankind. 659 00:43:38,640 --> 00:43:42,920 Not only physically, spiritually, no secrets. 660 00:43:42,920 --> 00:43:44,780 Wow. 661 00:43:44,780 --> 00:43:50,680 That is a powerful, amazing, omnipotent God. 662 00:43:50,680 --> 00:43:52,760 And how do we treat him? 663 00:43:52,760 --> 00:43:56,480 We treat him like he's still not in control. 664 00:43:56,480 --> 00:44:04,640 We put our hope in a seven year prophecy that doesn't exist. 665 00:44:04,640 --> 00:44:09,200 And we put our hope in a government or an official that they will make America great 666 00:44:09,200 --> 00:44:10,640 again. 667 00:44:10,640 --> 00:44:15,080 It's not the point. 668 00:44:15,080 --> 00:44:16,720 It's not an issue of who you should vote for. 669 00:44:16,720 --> 00:44:20,960 It's an issue of putting your trust and faith in the only God who is the King of Kings and 670 00:44:20,960 --> 00:44:23,080 Lord of Lords and who rules forever. 671 00:44:23,080 --> 00:44:24,840 That's really what it's about. 672 00:44:24,840 --> 00:44:33,640 If the church would get this, God's favor would be on America today. 673 00:44:33,640 --> 00:44:39,080 And the reason why America is in the situation she's in is because the church has abandoned 674 00:44:39,080 --> 00:44:41,120 the gospel. 675 00:44:41,120 --> 00:44:45,880 We have walked away from the one thing that matters. 676 00:44:45,880 --> 00:44:53,840 We have put our hope in things that don't, especially in broken men. 677 00:44:53,840 --> 00:44:58,480 And we toil in our lives with no rest. 678 00:44:58,480 --> 00:45:01,120 How do we get rest? 679 00:45:01,120 --> 00:45:09,480 Psalm 95 verse seven through eight, for he is our God and we are the people of his pasture 680 00:45:09,480 --> 00:45:12,960 and the sheep of his hand. 681 00:45:12,960 --> 00:45:17,240 Today if you hear his voice, do not harden your hearts. 682 00:45:17,240 --> 00:45:18,520 Why? 683 00:45:18,520 --> 00:45:23,240 Because Romans 10, 17, so faith comes from hearing and hearing through the word of Christ, 684 00:45:23,240 --> 00:45:27,560 which you are clearly hearing today. 685 00:45:27,560 --> 00:45:29,000 Hebrews 11, one. 686 00:45:29,000 --> 00:45:30,640 Why is faith so important? 687 00:45:30,640 --> 00:45:37,880 Because faith is the assurance of things hoped for and the conviction of things not seen. 688 00:45:37,880 --> 00:45:47,520 That if we trust him and believe his promise, when Jesus said the time is fulfilled, the 689 00:45:47,520 --> 00:45:51,760 kingdom of God is at hand now. 690 00:45:51,760 --> 00:45:55,920 Repent and believe the gospel. 691 00:45:55,920 --> 00:46:00,520 Jesus died for your sins, was buried and rose again on the third day according to the scriptures. 692 00:46:00,520 --> 00:46:07,520 1 Corinthians 15, there is no other way. 693 00:46:07,520 --> 00:46:09,560 Come to him, return to him. 694 00:46:09,560 --> 00:46:12,840 If you are his people, repent. 695 00:46:12,840 --> 00:46:17,240 If you're not, repent and believe and know. 696 00:46:17,240 --> 00:46:22,380 And if the spirit of God is speaking to you today, if you hear his voice, do not harden 697 00:46:22,380 --> 00:46:25,640 your hearts because you will not have tomorrow. 698 00:46:25,640 --> 00:46:32,320 There's no guarantee for God's works are the works of soteriology, salvation. 699 00:46:32,320 --> 00:46:37,880 He, Christ, is our rest from all toil and suffering of sin. 700 00:46:37,880 --> 00:46:47,280 And we come to rest in Christ's work and works through believing faith, which he gives thus 701 00:46:47,280 --> 00:46:51,460 through obedience brought by the gospel, the good news. 702 00:46:51,460 --> 00:46:57,720 We repent and believe in him who brings and is our rest. 703 00:46:57,720 --> 00:47:03,720 Father, I want to thank you so much for your goodness. 704 00:47:03,720 --> 00:47:05,600 Thank you that you are our rest. 705 00:47:05,600 --> 00:47:14,040 You are the only real true king that you reign sovereign, providentially, omnipotently over 706 00:47:14,040 --> 00:47:19,160 all things for your glory. 707 00:47:19,160 --> 00:47:24,280 You are absolutely magnificent and all the world's words that we could, all the adjectives 708 00:47:24,280 --> 00:47:29,280 we could use to try to describe you can't even come close. 709 00:47:29,280 --> 00:47:35,340 But Lord, we give you glory and your people scream hallelujah. 710 00:47:35,340 --> 00:47:43,880 We thank you and praise you, help us to really understand the importance of these truths 711 00:47:43,880 --> 00:47:46,680 that our rest is in a person. 712 00:47:46,680 --> 00:47:50,680 It is you, Lord Jesus. 713 00:47:50,680 --> 00:48:17,680 In Jesus name, Amen.