LIFE ALTERING WORDS
Thursday, February 28, 2019
Hebrews 3:1-12
Wherefore, holy brethren, partakers of the heavenly calling, consider
the Apostle and High Priest of our profession, Christ Jesus; Who was faithful
to him that appointed him, as also Moses was faithful in all his house. For
this man was counted worthy of more glory than Moses, inasmuch as he who hath
builded the house hath more honour than the house. For every house is builded
by some man; but he that built all things is God. And Moses verily was faithful
in all his house, as a servant, for a testimony of those things which were to
be spoken after; But Christ as a son over his own house; whose house are we, if
we hold fast the confidence and the rejoicing of the hope firm unto the end. Wherefore
(as the Holy Ghost saith, To day if ye will hear his voice, Harden not your
hearts, as in the provocation, in the day of temptation in the wilderness: When
your fathers tempted me, proved me, and saw my works forty years. Wherefore I
was grieved with that generation, and said, They do alway err in their heart;
and they have not known my ways. So I sware in my wrath, They shall not enter
into my rest.) Take heed, brethren, lest there be in any of you an evil heart
of unbelief, in departing from the living God.
Hebrews 3:11, 18 So I sware in my wrath, They shall not enter
into my rest.) … And
to whom sware he that they should not enter into his rest, but to them that believed not?
Hebrews 4:1,
3-5, 8-11 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. For
we which have believed do enter into rest, as he said, As I have sworn in my wrath, if they shall
enter into my rest:
although the works were finished from the foundation of the world. For he spake
in a certain place of the seventh day on this wise, And God did rest the seventh day from
all his works. And in this place again, If they shall enter into my rest. … For if Jesus had
given them rest,
then would he not afterward have spoken of another day. There remaineth
therefore a rest to
the people of God. For he that is entered into his rest, he also hath ceased from his own
works, as God did from his. Let us labour therefore to enter into that rest, lest any man fall
after the same example of unbelief.
Mr. Hanley taught
High School World History. Two words he spoke continues to make a difference in
the way I think. He told us to not focus on why there is war, but “Why peace?”.
. . the two words being a useful model for pondering many situations. Two words
in particular that when I finally surrendered to studying the letter to the
Hebrews gained me access beyond the hindering barrier of angst.
Far too many professing Christians live fretfully
forever expressing need for God’s care. Not accepting, trusting, living in God’s
provision of rest; reposed in Him (Ps.23). Living in the position of angst will
keep us from serving with our utmost for His highest. We cannot “seek first the
kingdom of God” while embroiled in personal war dominating our days and nights.
Let us “rest”.
EBB4
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