Heb 4

Because, even Moses did not enter into the city because of the expressions of anger that he allowed to be expressed upon the rock of provision that God had sent them. The writer of the Hebrews warns and warns, God is clear from the Old Testament that there will be a new day coming which the sins that in OT times were at the cost of the bulls and goats and other creatures, the Jews were not to put their trust in these fleshly sacrifices. The rest for the people of God had come in Christ. Be careful that you do not miss the reality that the redeemer has come and sacrificed the very last time for sins. If your sins are not in Christ, you are smiting the true Rock of Provision for our eternal sustenance. Jesus said it to the woman at the well. She got it too. I am the water that, if you drink it and (if your people drink it) They will never have to offer the sacrifices for sins again. I think Mary got it before the crucifixion and washed his feet with her hair. Will I be able to place, even my sins upon my Saviour and know that attonement has been made and propitiation for the sins of my soul. I think that is why Jesus was particular to make spectacle almost of the vilest of sinners, being in his own acquaintance with Himself. Because, as religious people, we would be tempted to think that such sinners were beyond the reach of the precious blood of Jesus. The writer to the Hebrews reasons, Joshua and Caleb and none of the other generation entered into the rest in the promise land. Let us not be trusting even in the faith of Moses. Let us reach on and trust the true Messiah, who has shown by His obedience unto death that He is the last and only sacrifice for sins. Yesterday was the day of animal sacrifice, but today, if you will hear His voice don't harden your heart.

He seems to equat this rest from works as the rest from the works after the creation with God. God is showing us that there was a time where we worked to carry our sacrifices and have them cut, but now the Word of God is sharper than the two edged sword and our souls are on the altar of God's throne room and He divides the thoughts and intents of the heart. We all know that there were times when we presumptuously sinned as humans and carried sacrifices to God thinking that we could cover our sins with these. God's scalpel is far more knowing and seeing than the scalpel of the priest helping us bring our sins payment to God. Let us therefore, he reasons be diligent to enter and not to try to cover our multitude of sins in masks of pretense before God. No creature is hidden from His sight. We couldn't get away with presumption in the OT and we certainly will not have any covering to pretend under in the rest for the people of God, in Christ. Our souls are laid bare in the throneroom of the living God. Our souls are the new living sacrifice and God with the scalpel of the Word is reconning us His or not His and our labors true or invalid based on the reality of our hearts and not the purity of the looks of the dove or lamb that we are able to bring before Him. Don't miss the rest from animal sacrifice for the people of God. Don't let the Gentiles alone enter into the rest from animal sacrifices as an atonement for sins. Righteousness is the standard and Christ is the sacrifice. The sins that He will not bear before the Father will not be atoned for and the wicked heart of unbelief is that sin the keeps us outside of the grace and the throne room of the Most High.













Perceptions of Christ, enhanced or hampered. Therefore since a promise remains of entering His rest, let us fear lest any of you seem to have come short of it.

How can we hear without a preacher? We cannot know what God is doing and what He intends for us, if we are not building faith upon faith, from generation to generation. If we are not reading the heart of God in His Word and seeing the outworkings of God through providence, we are missing a preciousness of the rest in Christ that God has intended for us. The gospel, profits us in our souls or it does not. We are either growing more and more to love Him everyday and seeing Him great and ourselves less, or we are running away from His rest. Have we come short of it in our experiences. Let us mix the Word of God with faith.