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- "THERE REMAINS, THEN, A SABBATH-REST FOR THE PEOPLE OF GOD;"
- -HEBREWS 4:9
-
- Do you or your church have any idea what this passage of scripture
- means? After all look at the eating, drinking, buying, selling and
- playing that takes place on the Christian "Sabbath- rest". Recreation
- is not the rest of the Lord.
-
- Our "Sabbath-rest" day of Sunday, should be one of quietness, deep
- worship and soul searching. It should not be a day filled with play
- activity, buying and selling, or getting those needed jobs done around
- the house. It should be a time of waiting on God.
-
- "THERE REMAINS, THEN, A SABBATH-REST FOR THE PEOPLE OF GOD; FOR
- ANYONE WHO ENTERS GOD'S REST ALSO RESTS FROM HIS OWN WORK, JUST AS GOD
- DID FROM HIS." -HEBREWS 4:9-10
-
- This is true godliness. To rest from our work. After all scripture
- tells us to, "Be imitators of God, therefore, as dearly loved
- children...", {Ephesians 5:1}. So rest from your working and your
- doing. Let your church find out how to please the Lord on our
- Sabbath-rest. Stop shopping and playing on Sunday and learn how to rest
- before a Holy God.
-
- Isaiah was right when he prophesied about you thieves in the Lord,
-
- "THIS IS WHAT THE SOVEREIGN LORD, THE HOLY ONE OF ISRAEL, SAYS: 'IN
- REPENTANCE AND REST IS YOUR SALVATION, IN QUIETNESS AND TRUST IS YOUR
- STRENGTH, BUT YOU WOULD HAVE NONE OF IT." -ISAIAH 30:15
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- REST OR RECREATION
-
- "SEED THAT FELL AMONG THORNS STANDS FOR THOSE WHO HEAR, BUT AS THEY
- GO ON THEIR WAY THEY ARE CHOKED OUT BY LIFE'S WORRIES, RICHES AND
- PLEASURES, AND THEY DO NOT MATURE." -LUKE 8:14
-
- The thorns, of course, are the churches that do not teach the need
- to keep the Sabbath rest of God. The ones that are choked out are of
- course those who do not pick up a daily cross but love the "worries",
- "riches" and "pleasures" of this world. They love recreation and not
- the rest that is in God. They love the church baseball teams, ski
- trips, shopping and folly of this world. Such people and churches will
- come to rest in the company of the damned.
-
- "HER PRIESTS {Preachers} DO VIOLENCE TO MY LAW AND PROFANE MY HOLY
- THINGS; THEY DO NOT DISTINGUISH BETWEEN THE HOLY AND THE COMMON; THEY
- TEACH THAT THERE IS NO DIFFERENCE BETWEEN THE CLEAN AND THE UNCLEAN;
- AND THEY SHUT THEIR EYES TO THE KEEPING OF MY SABBATHS, SO THAT I AM
- PROFANED AMONG THEM." -EZEKIEL 22:26
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- God is calling you to a rest on His Sunday. It should be a time in
- which we rest only in God. Are you listening to the Holy Spirit? If you
- were, you would not have come out to the EXPO '87 on Sunday. God called
- His people in the past to a Holy Rest as an example for us to follow,
- {1 Corinthians 10:11}. But they would not listen, no more than we seem
- to be listening to the Holy Spirit today.
-
- "...TO WHOM HE SAID, 'THIS IS THE RESTING PLACE LET THE WEARY REST'
- AND , 'THIS IS THE PLACE OF REPOSE'--BUT THEY WOULD NOT LISTEN." -1
- SAMUEL 28:12
-
- It is time we begin to follow Jesus and find our rest in Him. And in
- Him alone! Let Jesus fulfill Psalm 23:2 in your life so that you will
- not sin against Him. "He leads me beside quiet waters, he restores my
- soul."
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- GOD ALONE
-
- Part of carrying our daily crosses is to deny ourselves activity on
- the Sabbath-rest day.
-
- "IT IS A SABBATH OR REST, AND YOU MUST DENY YOURSELVES; IT IS A
- LASTING ORDINANCE." -LEVITICUS 16:31
-
- It must not be the slothfulness of the world, but a finding of rest
- only in the Spirit of the living God, {Proverbs 24:33-34}. For those
- churches and individuals who know the power of the cross and how to
- enter the rest of God they will be blessed by the living God. However,
- is God your only joy? Your first love? Have you denied your flesh the
- pleasures of this world?
-
- "MY SOUL FINDS REST IN GOD ALONE; MY SALVATION COMES FROM HIM. HE
- ALONE IS MY ROCK AND MY SALVATION; HE IS MY FORTRESS, I WILL NEVER BE
- SHAKEN." -PSALM 62:1
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- Only those who know how to enter the rest of God dare take this
- promise on their lips! The rest are thieves and liars - worthy of hell
- and all it's fire! One must weep, for most so-called Christians are
- really worshippers of pleasure and self. It is the last days,
-
- "But mark this there will be terrible times in the last days. People
- will be lovers of themselves...lovers of pleasure rather than lovers of
- God..."
-
- Turn off that football game on Sunday and find your rest in "God
- alone". Otherwise do not profess to be a Christian. You have no right
- to. For if you do not keep it you are a fallen Christian.
-
- "Therefore, since the promise of entering still stands, let us be
- careful that none of you be found to have fallen short of it...for
- anyone who enters God's rest also rests from his own work, just as God
- did from his. Let us therefore, make every effort to enter that rest,
- so that no one will fall by following their example of disobedience."
- {Hebrews 4}
-
- If you're a Christian businessman, be sure your business is closed
- on Sunday. Families be sure you're leading your household all day long
- into a Sabbath type rest. Don't you dare go skiing on Sunday. Get
- before the Lord and be really blessed.
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- SOUND DOCTRINE BBS
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