Sunday, June 1, 2014

Enter the True Rest in Christ Alone


Isaiah 58:13 
“If you turn away your foot from the Sabbath, From doing your pleasure on My holy day, And call the Sabbath a delight, The holy day of the Lord honorable, And shall honor Him, not doing your own ways, Nor finding your own pleasure, Nor speaking your own words,

Hebrews 4:9-10  There remains therefore a rest for the people of God. 10 For he who has entered His rest has himself also ceased from his works as God did from His.

Mark 2:27-28  And He said to them, “The Sabbath was made for man, and not man for the Sabbath. 28 Therefore the Son of Man is also Lord of the Sabbath.”

What is the Sabbath rest?  It is honoring God by doing what pleases Him, not continuing to live for the things we want to do - we are bought at a price that cost us only who we live for.  This is the rest from our good works that attempt to earn His favor, instead resting in The Lord of rest who by mercy and great grace  has worked the works for us up to and out of the cross.  We now enter that rest, not seeking more works of "do not" on the Sabbath or Lord's Day, but resting in the finished work of Jesus Christ.  Let us enter that true rest in Christ alone.  

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