Hebrews 3 and 4
Do you need to rest?
God was explaining to you that you need to rest.
The Jews used to rest on the seventh day.
But God was instructing people to rest today!
Everyday is today!
Everyday is time to rest in the Lord!
Your salvation comes not from you, from your effort.
It´s done!
Jesus said that it was done!
No work for you!
You don´t need to do anything spiritually speaking.
It´s not because of you, but because of His grace.
"For we also have had the good news proclaimed to us, just as they did; but the message they heard was of no value to them, because they did not share the faith of those who obeyed." Hebrews 4:2
You sing: "- I believe!"
But if you don´t combine it with Faith it won´t do nothing.
"Now faith is confidence in what we hope for and assurance about what we do not see."
Hebrews 11:1
"And without faith it is impossible to please God, because anyone who comes to him must believe that he exists and that he rewards those who earnestly seek him." Hebrews 11:6
You must believe!
"So we see that they were not able to enter, because of their unbelief." Hebrews 3:19
You need to be built up in Faith!
Faith is the key to enter the rest of God!
"For it is by grace you have been saved, through faith —and this is not from yourselves, it is the gift of God — not by works, so that no one can boast." Ephesians 2:8-9
We can rest because the Lord worked hard!
Nobody works and gives up on his vacation for other to rest in his place!
But Jesus did!
He worked hard till the point of dying for us to rest in His place!
"But encourage one another daily, as long as it is called "Today," so that none of you may be hardened by sin's deceitfulness. We have come to share in Christ, if indeed we hold our original conviction firmly to the very end. As has just been said: "Today, if you hear his voice, do not harden your hearts as you did in the rebellion." Hebrews 3:13-15
Surrender to His voice!
Everything you do is not for salvation!
Salvation is real because of God´s grace.
Everything you do, you do because we understood His work.
Because you love Him!
"Therefore, my dear friends, as you have always obeyed —not only in my presence, but now much more in my absence —continue to work out your salvation with fear and trembling,
for it is God who works in you to will and to act in order to fulfill his good purpose."
for it is God who works in you to will and to act in order to fulfill his good purpose."
Phillippians 2:12-13
It´s God who works.
It´s not by your own work!
You must let Him work.
You want to do things. But God is saying: "-Rest!"
"Come to me, all you who are weary and burdened, and I will give you rest." Matthew 11:28
You don´t need to sacrifice!
Pr. Poliana
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