Wednesday, June 28, 2006

There is a Sabbath rest for the people of God

 There is a Sabbath rest for the people of God

 

Aesop explained, "If you keep a bow always bent, it will break eventually; but if you let it go slack, it will be more fit for use when you want it."

 

There is a rest for the people of God.  There is a Sabbath for the people of God.  Celebrate the rest of God the Son, and the finishing the work of our redemption.

 

 Rest tbX , Shabath, shaw-bath'  , to cease, desist, rest (from labour) cease , rest , away, fail, celebrate, to keep or observe the Sabbath. 

Rest is a:

  • Divine Decree  "Seeing, therefore, it remaineth that some must enter into it, and they to whom it was first preached entered not in because of unbelief"

  • Immediate Action  Today if ye will hear his voice, harden not your hearts."

  • Spiritual Hebrews 4:9 (Amplified Bible) 9So then, there is still awaiting a full and complete Sabbath-rest reserved for the [true] people of God;

God is the convoy and body guard of his saints. soon as sleep falls on the tired camp, when the moving camp is nightly pitched in strange fields, it becomes absolutely necessary to apply to the nearest authorities for a nocturnal guardian, before one can safely lie down to rest.

 

There's no music in a rest, but there is the making of music in it. In our whole life-melody the music is broken off here and there by 'rests,' and we foolishly think we have come to the end of the tune...not without design does God write the music of our lives. Be it ours to learn the tune, and not be dismayed at the 'rests.' They are not to be slurred over, not to be omitted, not to destroy the melody, not to change the keynote. If we sadly say to ourselves, 'There is no music in a rest,' let us not forget that there is the making of music in it.

"Carry some quiet around inside thee," the well-known Quaker, George Fox, used to say. "Be still and cool in thy own mind and spirit, from thy own thoughts, and then thou wilt feel the principle of God to turn thy mind to the Lord from whence cometh life; whereby thou mayest receive the strength and power to allay all storms and tempests."

 

"If you keep a bow always bent, it will break eventually; but if...the Sabbath was appointed; and clearly for all succeeding generations also. The Christian Sabbath, which we observe, is a seventh day, and in it we celebrate the rest of God the Son, and the finishing the work of our redemption.

 

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