LET US LABOR TO REST! (1 OF 12)
Scripture: Hebrews 4:1-13
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Let Us Labor to Rest! (1 of 12)
Series: Let Us
Dennis Marquardt
Hebrews 4:1-13
INTRO: We live in a very harried world today! The word ''rest'' is almost missing from our vocabulary! I hear all the time people talking about trying to get some ''rest.'' The frantic lifestyle we live today has crept into the spiritual realm also, we can have frantic activity spiritually and fail to enter into God's rest! It is possible to acknowledge God and fail to enter into His rest, it happened to Israel in the wilderness, and it can happen to us today too.
The only way to enter God's rest is through faith in His Word and obedience to that Word - failure to obey God's Word will leave us unrested! We ultimately rest in the person of Jesus Christ who has finished the work of redemption for us, so that if we live in a true relationship with Jesus ''rest'' is possible! Even in our modern age this has been noted, listen to the words of J.I. Packer;
ILLUS: J. I. Packer said, ''Certainty about the great issues of the Christian faith and conduct is lacking all along the line. The outside observer sees us staggering on from gimmick to gimmick and stunt to stunt like so many drunks in a fog, not knowing at all where we are or which way we should be going. Preaching is hazy; heads are muddled; hearts fret; doubts drain strength; uncertainty paralyzes action. Unlike the first Christians who in three centuries won the Roman world, and those later Christians who pioneered the Reformation, and the Puritan awakening and the Evangelical revival, and the great missionary movement of the last century, we lack certainty. Why is this? We blame the external pressures of modern secularism, but this is like Eve blaming the serpent. The real truth is that we have grieved the Spirit ... we stand under divine judgment. For two generations our churches have suffered from a famine of hearing the words of the Lord.'' That's a tragic truth.
We are living in a time when we blame everything arou ...
Series: Let Us
Dennis Marquardt
Hebrews 4:1-13
INTRO: We live in a very harried world today! The word ''rest'' is almost missing from our vocabulary! I hear all the time people talking about trying to get some ''rest.'' The frantic lifestyle we live today has crept into the spiritual realm also, we can have frantic activity spiritually and fail to enter into God's rest! It is possible to acknowledge God and fail to enter into His rest, it happened to Israel in the wilderness, and it can happen to us today too.
The only way to enter God's rest is through faith in His Word and obedience to that Word - failure to obey God's Word will leave us unrested! We ultimately rest in the person of Jesus Christ who has finished the work of redemption for us, so that if we live in a true relationship with Jesus ''rest'' is possible! Even in our modern age this has been noted, listen to the words of J.I. Packer;
ILLUS: J. I. Packer said, ''Certainty about the great issues of the Christian faith and conduct is lacking all along the line. The outside observer sees us staggering on from gimmick to gimmick and stunt to stunt like so many drunks in a fog, not knowing at all where we are or which way we should be going. Preaching is hazy; heads are muddled; hearts fret; doubts drain strength; uncertainty paralyzes action. Unlike the first Christians who in three centuries won the Roman world, and those later Christians who pioneered the Reformation, and the Puritan awakening and the Evangelical revival, and the great missionary movement of the last century, we lack certainty. Why is this? We blame the external pressures of modern secularism, but this is like Eve blaming the serpent. The real truth is that we have grieved the Spirit ... we stand under divine judgment. For two generations our churches have suffered from a famine of hearing the words of the Lord.'' That's a tragic truth.
We are living in a time when we blame everything arou ...
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