When you're tired, weary, worn
out, exhausted from labor, exhausted from trouble, exhausted from
anxiety, exhausted from heartache, when you're tired, troubled,
and weary, the sweetest thing in the world is rest. You lay down at night and you
can't rest. There's so much on your mind,
so much anxiety. so much heartache, so much apprehension,
so much trouble, and you think, oh, if I could just get some
rest. If I could just go to sleep and
get a little rest. Nothing is sweeter when it's
needed than rest. What would you give to be at
rest in your heart? at rest in your soul. What would you give to be done
with the turmoil that causes so many such horrid anxiety,
heaviness, and weariness? The Lord Jesus Christ, God's
darling son, calls sinners to himself with a sweet, sweet promise. The sweetness of it can only
be known in the experience of it. He says, come unto me, all
ye that labor and are heavy laden, and I will give you rest. I will give you rest. Take my yoke upon you and learn
of me, he says. for I am meek and lowly in heart. And ye shall find rest unto your
souls. For my yoke is easy and my burden
is light. Rest. It is this rest promised
in the gospel to all who come to Christ. This rest that is
promised to all who believe on the Son of God that was typified
and portrayed in the Old Testament Sabbath day. It was God's purpose
in giving all the sabbatical laws, all of those laws in the
Old Testament scripture that demanded men and women rest on
the seventh day. All of those laws connected with
the Sabbath in every way. God's purpose in giving those
laws was so that they should be a sign of this blessed rest
of faith in Christ Jesus the Lord. As God the Holy Ghost will
enable me, I wanna talk to you about Sabbath rest. Sabbath rest. Keeping the Sabbath
rest in Christ the Lord. You'll find my text in Leviticus
chapter 25. But before we get to that text,
I want us to look at some other portions of Scripture. Turn with
me, if you will, to the book of Exodus first, chapter 31. Like circumcision, the Passover,
and all other aspects of legal ceremonial worship during the
Old Testament era. Now, did you hear me? circumcision,
the Passover, and all other services. all other ceremonies of that
Old Testament legal carnal age when God commanded men to worship
Him by carnal ordinances. Those things were all, like the
Sabbath day, established by God to be a sign, a picture, a type
of redemption, grace, and salvation in Christ. Now, I want you to
see that I'm not just pulling this out of my head. It's not
a matter of guesswork. Folks say, well, that's the way
you interpret it. No, this is what God says. Right here next
to us, 31 verse 13. Why did God require people to
keep the Sabbath in the Old Testament? Now, understand me. I'm going
to say this over and over again. He doesn't require that today.
In fact, he forbids that. He forbids that. Back years ago,
and there still are some around, folks would call themselves Seventh-day
Baptists, like Seventh-day Adventists. They said the Sabbath day is
still intact. There are multitudes who do not
observe a Seventh-day Sabbath on Saturday, but they observe
a Sabbath on Sunday, or they pretend to, and I do mean pretend,
they call Sunday the Sabbath. God forbids carnal Sabbath observance. It's just as wrong to pretend
to keep the Sabbath day as it would be to offer a sacrifice
on an altar and call it keeping the Passover. God forbids those
things. Why? Because they were intended,
while they existed, only to be types, pictures, patterns, shadows
of God's salvation in Christ. Look here, next is 31 verse 13.
Speak thou also unto the children of Israel, saying, Verily my
sabbaths ye shall keep, for it is a sign between me and you
throughout your generations. Now watch the sign. that you
may know that I am the Lord that doth sanctify you. The reason
I gave you the Sabbath is to teach you something, to teach
you that I am the Lord who saves you. I am the Lord who makes
you holy. I am the Lord, your God and Savior. Now let's look at three Sabbaths
as they're set before us in the scripture. First, Christ's Sabbath
rest. And then our Sabbath rest of
faith. And then a third Sabbath. First,
our great Savior, the Lord Jesus Christ, has entered into his
rest, his Sabbath, and his rest is glorious because he has finished
his work. Turn over to the 11th chapter
of Isaiah. Isaiah chapter 11. I want you
to see it for yourself in the scripture. This is Isaiah's prophecy,
one of his many prophecies of this day of grace, which began
when the Lord Jesus came into this world and accomplished redemption
for us. Isaiah chapter 11 and verse 10. In that day, there shall be a
root of Jesse, that is the Lord Jesus, David's son, who is David's
Lord, which shall stand for an ensign, a banner of the people.
To it shall the Gentiles seek, now watch this, and his rest
shall be glorious. If you have a marginal translation,
the marginal translation reads it this way, His rest shall be
glory. Our Lord Jesus Christ, having
finished His work, the work for which He came into this world,
has entered into heaven and His rest in heaven is His glory. He, having finished His work,
has entered into His rest. God the Father rested on the
seventh day because his work of creation was finished. Even
so, God the Son rested in the seventh day of time. He entered
into his rest forever because he has finished the work of making
all things new for his people. He has finished his work. Listen to the scriptures. thou
shalt call his name Jesus, for he shall save his people from
their sins. having saved his people by the
sacrifice of himself, our Lord Jesus has entered into his rest. And having entered into his rest,
he has fulfilled everything required in the law so that Christ is
the end of the law, the finishing of the law, the fulfillment of
the law, the termination of the law. And he has begun a new day. a new Sabbath, an entirely new
kind of Sabbath. He's done away with the carnal
Sabbath that we may know a real Sabbath. He's done away with
the picture of rest that we may know real rest. And that's the
rest of faith in Christ our Lord. Look in Matthew's gospel, chapter
28, Matthew 28. This is a remarkable, remarkable
passage of scripture. I wish all of you could read
it as it is in the original Greek language. Matthew 28, verse one. In the end of the Sabbath, our
Lord Jesus was crucified, he was buried, and now the third
day has come. The Sabbath is ending, the beginning,
the dawning of the first day of the week. In the end of the
Sabbath, as it began to dawn toward the first day of the week,
came Mary Magdalene and the other Mary to see the sepulcher. Now
let me read that to you as it literally reads in the Greek
text. In the end of the Sabbath, as
it began to dawn toward the Sabbath. In the end of the Sabbath, as
it began to dawn toward the Sabbath. When the Lord Jesus Christ died
at Calvary and rose again, the old Sabbath of law ended and
the new Sabbath of grace began. Behold, our exalted Savior seated
yonder on his throne. He, having finished his work,
is crowned with glory and honor. The Father, the triune Jehovah,
has given the God-man, our mediator, a name. A name that's above every
name, that at the name of Jesus, every knee should bow of things
in heaven and things in the earth and things under the earth. And
every tongue confess that Jesus is Lord to the glory of God the
Father. He has given him his glory. You remember in John 17, our
Lord Jesus said in verse four, I have glorified thee upon the
earth. I have finished the work thou
gavest me to do. But how can that be? He hasn't died yet. He hasn't
redeemed us yet. He hasn't put away our sin yet.
In fact, in John chapter 19 and verse 30, as he is finishing
his work of redemption, he says, it is finished. Which one is
true? Both of them are. Our Lord Jesus
came here to perform a specific work, to fulfill all righteousness
for His elect as our mediator and our representative. He came
here to establish righteousness, to bring in everlasting righteousness,
to fulfill every requirement of God's holy law. As a man,
to love God with all his heart, all his soul, all his mind, all
his being. To walk before God in the perfection
of manhood through the full age of manhood with no sin. with
no ill will, with no corrupt thought, absolute sinless holiness
is what he must do. And our Lord Jesus, when he comes
to the end of his days on this earth, having walked on this
earth for 33 years, says, Father, I finished the work you gave
me to do. He didn't do that, Mark, for
himself. He didn't do that for himself. He did that for us. He did that as our surety. You
read in the bulletin about Christ our surety, before the world
was, all responsibility was shifted by God from us to our surety. He became utterly responsible
for us. And for 33 years, He walked on
this earth and obeyed God for me. That doesn't quite say it, Lindsay. For 33 years, I walked on this
earth and obeyed God perfectly in Him. A preacher, you can't say it
that way. Why not? That's what God says. That's
what God says. We are in Him. Our representative
doesn't just represent us like a legislature in Washington represents
us. He doesn't just represent us
like a lawyer in court represents us. Rather, he represents us
like Abraham represented Levi, and the book of God says Levi
paid taxes or paid tithes in Abraham, his father, when Abraham
made a sacrifice to Melchizedek. Even so, we in the loins of our
Father, our Lord Jesus Christ, that one whose seed we are, in
him we obeyed God perfectly. Loving God with all our heart,
all our soul. all our mind and all our being
and our neighbor as ourselves. And then he comes to the end
of his agony and his suffering, bearing our sin in his own body
on the tree. The Lord Jesus suffers all the
horror of the hot wrath and just fury of the holy God against
sin, when he who knew no sin was made sin for us, and God
slaughters his son. And just before he bowed his
head and commended his spirit to the Father, giving up the
ghost, he cried with a loud voice, it is. Everything done, everything done
that God can require of a man, Jesus Christ did. And I am crucified
with Christ. When he died, I died in him. When he suffered the wrath of
God, I suffered the wrath of God in him. When he was forsaken
of God, I was forsaken of God in him. When he was slaughtered
by the hand of justice, I was slaughtered by the hand of justice. Christ died as a substitute,
as a surety, and we who are his died in him, and now he has finished
his work. The works were finished from
the foundation of the world, and the works were finished in
time when the God-man took his seat at the right hand of the
majesty on high as our forerunner in heaven. What does that mean?
That means there is no more work to be done. There is no more work to be done. There is no more work to be done. Well, preacher, I heard that.
No, you didn't. If you did, you'd quit trying to work. There is
no more work to be done. When I was a young man and I
began to have some sense of guilt and some sense of God's wrath
upon me, some sense of judgment of my desert of hell, and I began
to be terrified of God and terrified
of eternity. I started doing everything I
could to get rest, to get easy with God, to make up to God. I started going to church, even
started reading the Bible, started trying to pray, started trying
to do better. Started looking for some feeling
of repentance. Some suitable sense of remorse. I heard people talking about
conviction. I want to have some experience of conviction. Something
I can bring to God and say, God, now look at me and accept me. There's no more work to be done. Christ did it all. And he said,
it's finished. Now, let's look at faith's rest. Every sinner who believes on
the Lord Jesus Christ keeps the Sabbath of faith by entering
into Christ's rest. Turn back to that passage we
read earlier in Hebrews chapter four. Hebrews chapter 4. Verse 3, We which had believed do enter
into rest. We, which have believed, do enter
into rest. We don't keep a carnal, literal
Sabbath day of any kind. Ours is a Sabbath of faith. It's
a spiritual Sabbath. Because Sabbath keeping was a
legal type of our salvation in Christ during the age of carnal
ordinances. Like the Passover and circumcision,
Once Christ came and fulfilled the tithe, the carnal ordinance
ceased. We are strictly forbidden, in
Colossians chapter 2, we are strictly forbidden to keep any
of those carnal ordinances, and particularly the Sabbath days
are named. Paul tells us plainly that those
who pretend to keep a carnal literal Sabbath, a legal Sabbath,
in this gospel age, for any reason, are simply making an outward
show of spirituality, an outward display of wisdom, but it's all
will worship, a pretense of humility, just to the satisfying of the
flesh. Oh, I pray God will never let
you satisfy your flesh with works of righteousness. Oh, now, boy, I didn't walk too
far today, and my wife didn't cook today. We just had cold
sandwiches, and we didn't cut any wood today. and we didn't
drive too far, and we didn't watch TV today, didn't watch
any ball games. Well, maybe I thought about it
a little bit, but I didn't actually do it. I read my Bible today,
read 10 chapters. Went to church twice today. Oh,
I've had a good Sabbath day. Just satisfying the flesh. Hear me, hear me. pretense of
Sabbath keeping, all pretense of law obedience, all pretense
of righteousness you perform, Merle, it is nothing but satisfying
the flesh. It is satisfying the flesh. Righteousness is not by your
obedience. Righteousness is God's free gift
accomplished by Christ's obedience. Not only that, but the Sabbath
being strictly forbidden, you and I keeping the Sabbath simply
enter into rest. We enter into rest. But Pastor Don, what about the
law and our relationship to the law? I'm still asked, people
still do actually call or write to me or fuss at me and ask,
well, what's our relationship to the law? Let's see if I can get this right. Dead. Dead. You are dead to the law. and married to another. Moses
is dead, we're married to Christ. The law is dead, we're married
to Christ. Christ is the end of the law
for righteousness to everyone that believe it. That word end
is exactly the same word our Lord Jesus used in John 19 30
when he says, it is finished. Christ is the finishing of the
law. He is the termination of the
law. He is the E-N-D-E-N period of
the law. And there is no relationship
between my soul and God's holy law. I'm dead to the law. Stand fast therefore in the liberty
wherewith Christ has made us free. And be not entangled again
with the yoke of bondage. Don't let anyone bring you in
any way for any reason in subjection to the law. For we which had
believed do enter in to his rest. We keep the Sabbath the faith.
a spiritual Sabbath, not a carnal one. By resting in Christ, trusting
His finished work, by faith we enter into His rest. We enter
into His rest. We trust Him alone for righteousness. We trust Him alone for redemption. We trust Him alone for sanctification. We trust Him alone for holiness. We don't attempt to make ourselves
righteous or more righteous. We don't attempt to sanctify
ourselves or make our sanctification more perfect. We don't attempt
to make ourselves holy or make ourselves more holy. This is
the perfecting of holiness. This is the perfecting of holiness,
faith in Jesus Christ. He is that holiness without which
no man shall see the Lord. Our Lord Jesus says, come unto
me, all you that labor and are heavy laden, and I will give
you rest. I heard the voice of Jesus say,
come unto me and rest. Lay down, thou weary one, lay
down thy head upon my breast. I came to Jesus as I was, weary
and worn and sad. I found in him a resting place. And he has made me glad. The Lord Jesus gives us rest. Rest. I've been working on this message
a while. And I've been working on the message a while in the
midst of some difficulties. And I'm here to tell you how
sweet it is to rest. Bill Raleigh, I have in Christ,
The rest of complete, free, perfect, absolute pardon of all my sin. The rest, listen to me now, of
guiltlessness. Guiltlessness. I'm not guilty. I'm not guilty. I'm not guilty. Christ took my sin away. He has taken my guilt away. I have nothing, no debt, no obligation
to pay for anything. Christ paid it all. I have the
rest of perfect reconciliation with
God. perfect atonement. God was in
Christ reconciling me to himself, not imputing my trespasses unto
me, but having made him sin, imputing my trespasses to him,
who knew no sin, who made him to be sin, that he might make
me the righteousness of God in him. I have in Christ the rest
of absolute security. Absolute security. When I was
a young man, I hadn't been converted long, and I don't remember exactly
what the cause was, but Satan just almost convinced me that
this is all just a sham, it's fake, you ain't gonna last, you
can't make it, you won't hold out, you won't persevere, you
won't get through the end of the day. I don't suggest you do this for
reading the Bible, but I just had my Bible in my hand and I
laid it down just like that and I looked at the text of scripture. It's 1 Thessalonians chapter
five, verse 24. Faithful is he that calleth you,
who also will do it. Faithful is he that calleth you,
who also will do it. The Savior said, I give to Don
Fortner eternal life. Don Fortner shall never perish. That's just how I read his promise,
can you? I have rest, the rest of absolute security. I have
the sweet rest of God's good providence. I know He works all
things after the counsel of his own will. He works all things
together for good. He works all things together
for good for me, for me, for Don Fortner, for me. He said
he did. He works all things together
for good to them that love God, to them worth calling according
to his purpose. Oh, but preacher, I don't love God like I ought
to. I didn't say I did. I so know. Now, she won't tell
you this. No need to ask her, she won't
tell you this. But sometimes I don't act much like
I love her. Sometimes I act just the opposite. I wish it weren't so, but I'd
be lying to tell you otherwise. But you ask her if I love her
or not. You go ahead and ask her. Be all right. Go ahead and
ask her. She knows that I love her. I stand like Peter before the
Lord. Simon, lovest thou me? Lord, you know all things. You know my ups and downs, my
ins and outs, my backsliding, my sin, my ungodliness, my darkness,
my depravity, my unbelief. You know all things. And I have
this great, perfect, blessed peace. You know that I love you. We love him because he first
loved us. And his love in us is perfect
love. I'm convinced. I'm convinced. I'm convinced. I'm convinced,
Mark, the triune God loves me with everlasting love. Let me
tell you what that means. I have no fear, just rest. Perfect love. Not my perfect
love for him, Skip, I don't have that. His perfect love for me,
revealed in the sacrifice of his son, revealed in the gift
of faith, revealed and causing me to enter into rest. That gives me no fear, no fear. We keep the Sabbath of faith
when we fully, deliberately take the yoke of Christ. Take my yoke
upon you, he says, and learn of me. Slip under my yoke. Bow down to my yoke. My yoke
is easy, my burden is light. To keep the Sabbath involves
much, much more than living in religious austerity one day a
week. Most people, Protestants and
Baptists, treat Sundays the same way as papers do. They have a day or at least an
hour, a few minutes of some form of religious austerity or entertainments. I've got my religion done for
the week. Keeping the Sabbath is not keeping
a day of religious austerity once a week. Keeping the Sabbath
is bowing to the will of God, learning from Christ, bowing
to his dominion. learning from him what to believe,
how to live, how to honor God. How can a troubled, weary, heavy-laden,
tempest-tossed sinner obtain rest? Believe on the Son of God. Don't do anything. Tuck your hands under your seat
and sit on them. Fold your feet up under your seat and sit on
them. And don't bow your head. And don't say a prayer. Don't
move your lips. Don't walk down an aisle. Come
to Christ. Right where you are right now,
come to Christ. And he promises, him that cometh
unto me, I will in no wise cast out. And he promises, come unto
me. Ye that are weary and heavy laden,
and I will give you rest. All right, now, come back to
Leviticus 25. Leviticus 25. Let me talk to you for just a
minute about another Sabbath. There is a Sabbath that yet remains. A Sabbath yet to come. It is
the eternal rest of heavenly glory. There remaineth therefore
a rest to the people of God. Leviticus 25 verse one, the Lord
spake unto Moses in Mount Sinai saying, speak to the children
of Israel and say unto them, when you come into the land which
I give you, then shall the land keep a Sabbath unto the Lord. Every seventh day, God required
Israel to rest. In the seventh month of every
year, they were required to keep the Feast of Tabernacles and
keep a whole week of a Sabbath, seven-day Sabbath. Every seventh
year, they were required to keep a Sabbath year. How anxious God
is for us to be assured of the rest awaiting us. In the Mosaic
Age, the types and ceremonies he held constantly before their
eyes portrayed that which is in the gospel held before our
eyes continually. The glorious liberty of the sons
of God is portrayed as a Sabbath. A Sabbath we ought to anticipate,
even as the Jews would anticipate that seventh year Sabbath. A
Sabbath of rest, rest, everlasting, perpetual rest. Leviticus 25
is given like a beacon. It's a lighthouse drawing us
to that blessed haven of rest, eternal rest awaiting us in heavenly
glory. You see, this Sabbath year, was
never kept by Israel during their 40 years wandering in the wilderness.
They were always on the move. They weren't allowed to keep
this Sabbath until they came into the land of Canaan, into
the land God had promised them. We're told that in verse two.
The law was given at Sinai, but it was a law God would not allow
Israel to keep until they came into the land of Canaan. So it
is with us. We rest in Christ now by faith,
but there is a Sabbath yet to come. A Sabbath to be fulfilled
only in heavenly glory when our God makes all things new. This
Sabbath year, like the weekly Sabbath, was a Sabbath kept unto
the Lord, one by which God delighted himself in the picture. and by
which God would delight us in the picture. Oh, blessed, blessed
hope. In verses three, four, and five,
we have a picture of full, complete rest. The rest is pictured as an utter
cessation of work, of labor and toil. Look at verse three, six
years thou shalt sow thy field. Six years thou shalt prune thy
vineyard, and gather in the fruit thereof. But in the seventh year
shall be a Sabbath of rest unto the land, a Sabbath for the Lord. Thou shalt neither sow thy field
nor prune thy vineyard. That which groweth of its own
accord of thy harvest thou shalt not reap, neither gather the
grapes of thy winepress, or thy vine undressed, For it is a year
of rest unto the land. Six years, sow your field. Until the Sabbath rest came,
they had to toil. And until our Sabbath rest comes,
we must toil with the sweat of our brow, with thorns and thistles. all our days. These six years,
when they toiled, represent the whole of a man's life, the age
of a man. Here we serve God, serve one
another with gladness, but there's toil and labor involved in the
work. Not so in eternity. The sixth
year was a time of great expectation. We've been working for five years
now. Today we start the sixth year. Man, at the end of the
year, rest is coming. We got to sow the field, bring
me my sweatband, give me my hat, give me some water. It's going
to be toil and labor. But come the end of the year,
there'll be no toil and no labor. In the seventh year, shall be
a Sabbath of rest unto the land, a Sabbath for the Lord. There's a day coming when there'll
be no more curse, no more work to be done, no need to sow the
fields, no vines to be pruned, no reaping of anything. You walk
through Israel's land, try to get the picture. Every man sitting
with his family under the shade tree or on his porch on the veranda
drinking lemonade. There's not an ox under the yoke.
There's not a servant in the field. There's no wine in the
press. Throughout the whole land, everything
is resting, leisurely meditating. Meditating, if they were doing
as God instructed them, upon what God had done. Son, did I
ever tell you about the night we came out of Egypt? Did I ever
tell you about crossing the Red Sea? Son, did I ever tell you
what it's like to look back across that sea and see Pharaoh, his
chariots, his horsemen, his soldiers, all laying on the ground? You
know what we did? We went by and gathered up all
their weapons, and all their silver, and all their jewels,
and all their gold. And we lived on that stuff for
40 years in the wilderness. Oh, those were good days. And
then God brought us here. Oh, how good God's been to us. That's what the rest was. And that's a picture of what
our rest shall be. But doesn't it say in the scriptures
that we will serve the Lord day and night? Yep, we will serve
him day and night forever. But there will be no toil and
no sweat, no labor, just the service of joy, of life, of perfection. Listen to this scripture. You
read it week before last in your daily reading, in Ezekiel 44. They shall have linen bonnets
upon their heads, and shall have linen breeches upon their loins.
They shall not gird themselves with anything that causeth sweat. This Sabbath year, was a day
we're told in Deuteronomy 15 in which all debts were forgiven
and debtors released. The seventh year Sabbath portrayed
a blessed oneness. All the people rested. Read the
rest of this chapter, the rich and the poor, the strangers in
the land, those who were just brought into the land and incorporated
into Israel who were Gentiles by birth, the servants. maidservants and menservants,
boyservants and girlservants, even the ox and the ass were
commended to rest. And the creatures, all the vineyards,
all the vine trees, everything at rest. As if to say there is
complete union here. The rich and the poor, the male
and the female, the bound and the free, the young and the old,
they're all one, all one in Christ Jesus the Lord. So it shall be
in heavenly glory. And there will be peace, unity,
a blessed unity, a blessed unity in the hearts of God's elect
forever with all God's creation. with all God's creation. We will look over the ages of
time and see things God has done. Charles, I guess you're the oldest
man here. Wouldn't it be wonderful to look over your life and have
no regrets? No regrets, none. Soon, my brother, there'll be
no regrets. No regrets. No wishing it had
been otherwise. That's just the way I wanted
it. That's just the way I would have done that if I'd had good
sense. That's just like it ought to have been. Oh God, thank you
for your wisdom, for your goodness, for your boundless mercy, and
all your ways through which you've led us. A continual learning
of God. That's what that rest shall be.
Many, many years ago, I was just a young man And I had Brother
Farrell Griswold preaching for me. He and I spent several days
together. He stayed in our home. And we
visited a lot. I tried to learn from him. He
was a lot older than me. And I asked him about his thoughts
concerning heavenly glory. And he said, he said, Don, son,
I don't know, but I think, I think in heaven, we will be forever
learning of God. Forever learning of God. Learning him, knowing him, learning
his ways. That's what's portrayed in verses
20, 21 and 22. God inspired Israel in their
faith with a promise from which we should learn much. He says,
if you shall say, what shall we eat in the seventh year? Behold,
we shall not sow nor gather in our increase. Then I will command
my blessing upon you in the seventh year. And it shall bring forth
fruit for three years. And ye shall sow in the eighth
year, and eat yet of the old fruit until the ninth year. Until
her fruits come in, ye shall eat of the old store. Israel,
while they were in this land, were like us, full of unbelief,
as we are here. But God provided this store for
them. and taught them to believe him. For three years, they ate
off the old store. God said, I'll make the land
produce twice as much. Your sheep, every one of you
will have twins. I'll make them produce twice
as much. And you'll have everything you need. And the Lord God hereby
taught them, as he taught them for 40 years, those who are the
apple of his eye, he keeps perfectly. He protects perfectly. He provides for perfectly. And when they get done, I can almost hear the Savior
say, As you enter into glory, lack ye anything? Nothing, Lord, nothing. Now you hear me. Come, enter into rest, trust
in Christ. And you walk out those doors
forever lacking nothing. Lacking nothing to offer God.
Lacking nothing accepted of God. Lacking nothing of redemption.
Lacking nothing of righteousness. Lacking nothing for your soul.
Lacking nothing in your day-by-day need, lacking nothing forever. This is what you call Sabbath
keeping. I believe I'll just sit here
forever and do nothing. Oh, may God give you rest in
Christ. Amen.