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Hebrews 4:1 KJV Let us therefore fear, lest, a promise being left us of entering into his rest, any of you should seem to come short of it.
Hebrews 4:9 KJV There remaineth therefore a rest to the people of God.
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Here, the Bible has plainly told us of something we must reach. A destination is given to us.
Hebrews 4 teaches the believer that they are to enter into His rest. The Bible says, "There remainth therefore a rest for the people of God"? What does that mean? That doesn't mean that there remains a place in God where you can just lay around and not work and have everything come to you. It means that "in Christ", in His finished and completed work, everything was accomplished to make you stop working to become spiritually successful. It is entering into what He did and to become more successful than you've every dreamed you could make yourself.
There is a rest that remains to the people of God. That's our inheritance. It's entering into the Promise Land, or the rest of the finished work of Christ, and then doing more than you've ever dreamed of for the Lord before.
We have tried and tried, preached this sermon and that, we have cried out for our loved ones to get saved. Tried to make Church's work and nothing seems to work. Finally we must come to the place where we rest in the finished work of God, give it to Him, and let Him get it done.
We believe that the Church as a whole is tired of working. They have done everything they know to do and they are completely worn out. They are spiritually and physically tired. Jesus is the one that takes us over into the land through testings and trials. It's resting in what He did. We must know enough about the death, burial and resurrection of Christ and ask ourselves, “Did the Cross already put me over into this situation?” And find out what the bble says the cross did for usm and rest in it and understand you do not need to work for it because it is already provided. That's the rest. You're not supposed to be the One whom you are to depend upon.
You do have some things to do, though! You're to renew your mind to the finished work of Christ. You're to find out what the Cross really bought and paid for and what is true of you today. Everything that the Word of God says about someone who is in Christ is true of you today if you are in Christ.
You’re not trying to become more than a conqueror. You read that Scripture in
Romans 8, "we are more than conquerors through Him that loved us" and people say, "Oh, I hope that takes place in my life someday!"
That is not a promise to reach for. That is already an existing fact about you. We erringly read statements of fact in the New Testament and then make promises out of them. The Bible doesn't say that a believer can become more than a conqueror. You were born more than a conqueror when you were born the second time.
These things are already true of you. But many people don't know how these things became true of them, so they do not think it is true of them. Therefore, they struggle to become someone they already are.
Hebrews 4:11 KJV Let us labour therefore to enter into that rest, lest any man fall after the same example of unbelief.
The struggle that we must enter into, the labor to enter into His rest, is the renewing of your mind. The giants that you have to overcome in the promise land are between your ears!
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