Excellent job. We enjoyed the
song you picked up, too. Hebrews 4. Now, we talked to Pastor on the
telephone yesterday, and he said that he has excellent services
down in Orlando Sunday, which The Pope's service this Sunday,
the church pastor died, one of the elders, and he'll preach
again tonight, if the Lord will, and he'll be back here at home
tomorrow evening. They've had some of their prayers
spoken of, the visiting of the public there. Huberto or Ronaldo, but Huberto
is like that. He serves the people, he enjoys
the people, him. Hebrews 4, Brother Sands just
read this, and it's quite evident, quite evident what this chapter
is all about. It's obvious. Because six times
in the first eleven verses we read these words, enter into
His grace. Let's look at it and just, if
you don't mark it in your Bible, mark it with your mind. Verse
one, and it's therefore clear, like the promise being left of,
that entering into His grace, entering into His grace. I look at verse 3, For we which
have believed do enter into rest, as I have sworn in my wrath.
Now, if you look over in Hebrews 3 at verse 11, Hebrews 3, 11,
So I swear in my wrath they shall not enter into my rest. Look
in your margin now, that little number two, most of your Bibles
are Cambridge Bibles. And if they shall enter, shall
they enter into my wrath? I swore in my wrath they shall
not enter into my wrath. So, both of those places over
here in verse three also, I swore in my wrath, The question is
asked, if they shall enter into my rest, or the Satan that lays
eggs shall not enter into my rest. So already we see entering
into his rest. Verse three, entering into rest.
Verse three again, entering into my rest. God said, my rest. All that down in verse five.
And here's this place again. If they shall enter into my rest,
or they shall not enter into my rest," the people he was talking
to, they didn't. And they couldn't, because of
one fact only, they're not in my rest. So that's verse ten.
For he that is entered into his rest, He has ceased from his own works
as God is. He is. Verse 11, Let us labor
therefore to enter into that grass. Talk like that. That's
clear, isn't it? The subject of this chapter is
entering into His grass. God says, My grass. That grass. He's talking about. So this is
going to be interesting, I think. It'll be a blessing to you. The Lord give me some liberty
to preach it and use some for interest in receiving it and
understanding of this scripture. All right, we'll start with verse
one. Two things, it says, for the people. Let us therefore
fear lest the promise being left us of entering into, if rest,
any of us should come short. Two things, people. God has promised
rest. The promise is left up to the
individual. That's what it says. Who's promising? There's not one who can make
a promise to his people, and that's God. Titus said, God,
who cannot lie, promised eternal life before the word began to
be promised. And Abraham, that was the very
foundation of Abraham's faith. What? He believed God's promise.
That's the foundation. Let me show you that in Romans
4. Romans chapter 4. This is the foundation of Abraham's
faith. Verse 21. Verse 20. Romans 4.20. Abraham staggered
not at the promise of God. through unbelief, but strong
in faith, giving glory to God, and being fully persuaded what
God had promised, he was able to perform." That's the foundation
of Abraham. That's the Word of God, the promise
of God. So it says here in Hebrews 4,
the very first thing it says is, there's a promise left us
of anything to risk. God's promise. Now what's the
second thing in this first statement? The only thing we have to fear,
let us therefore fear. We don't fear the enemy. We don't
fear what Satan can do. We don't fear them to kill the
body. But we fear one thing, not entering into that place. That's right. Let us therefore
fear lest the promise of God being left to us in Christ, of
entering into His rest, any of you should seem to come short
of it. Verse 2 shows us an example of people who did. The nation Israel is an example of
people who the gospel was promised. They hadn't promised it to God.
Hey, for them, it even was Jesus' birth, Israel, not them. The
promise of God, the gospel was promised to them, prophesied
to them. Virtue shall conceive and bring
forth the Son. It's called in the name of man,
Lord God bless you. God himself will give you a sign,
that's what he said. So it was promised to them, it
was prophesied, and it was pictured to them. The gospel picture,
the Passover feast, it's the gospel. They took a lamb, first
thing of the clock, without spot or blemish, put it up for four
days, observed it, to be sure there was no blemish or spot.
Then they slew it, took the blood, put it on the doorpost, and the
lamb got passed away. That's the gospel. That's Christ
with the lamb. Abraham said that before Moses
ever slew that man. He said, God will provide himself. That outfit had the gospel promised
to them, prophesied to them, pictured, and it says here in
verse 2, for unto us was the gospel preached as well as unto
them. We know we've heard the gospel.
They did too. Why do they arrest? Read on. But the word preached didn't
profit them. It didn't help them. What was
wrong? Not being mixed with pain. They didn't believe it. They
didn't believe it all. That's why they didn't get into
arrest. Look back at chapter 3 again. Verse 17. Verse 16, Hebrews 3, 16, look
at it. For some, when they had heard,
they heard, did provoke God, albeit not all that came out
of Egypt by Moses. But with whom was he grieved
forty years? Was it not with them that sin,
whose carcasses fell in the wilderness? What was their sin? Read at verse
18, And to whom swear he that they should not enter into his
rest, but to them that they should not. Read verse 19. So, we see,
they could not enter into his rest. All right, promise of God
is that we'll enter into his rest. The only fear we have,
I'm sure of that, These people didn't come short of it. Why?
They didn't believe it. They didn't believe God. All right, watch verse three.
By we which have believed. We which have believed. There's
just one way to enter into this rest, that's belief. We which
have believed will someday enter this rest. No, it doesn't say
that. It says we who have believed do enter this rest. We always
enter this rest. This rest we're talking about
is not a future rest. It's a rest right now. How do
we enter into it? By faith. By faith. We, for we which have believed
God, believed Christ, believed His Word, do enter into rest. We do right now. As He said,
I swore in my wrath, they'll not enter into my rest, although
the works were finished for the foundation of the world. What
does the Scripture say? Sir, as the Philippians and Jacob
said to Paul on Sinai, sir, what must I do to be saved? All right,
Paul, now is the time. If there's some work to be done
by him, or some mission to be fulfilled, or some healing to
be had, tell him, Paul. He's asking you, what must I
do to be saved? That's a plain question. And Paul gave him a plain answer.
It leans on the Lord Jesus Christ. That's the one way of entering
him to rest, to believe he's God. That's how Abraham—what
was Abraham to say? I'll tell you what he would say
when he believed God. That's what the Scriptures say. Over here in Genesis 12, isn't
that where the first time that righteousness, imputed righteousness,
is mentioned? In Genesis 12? Let's look over
there and see if we can find this. in Genesis chapter, chapter,
this is chapter 12, where he, God took him out, and under the
stars, in 15, Genesis 15, Genesis 15, verse 5, Genesis 15, and
he brought him forth across and said, look, Look now, Genesis
15, 5. He brought him forth a frog and
said, Look now, poor heathen, tell me the stars, if thou be
able to know them. And he said unto him, So shalt
thou see me. And he believed in the Lord,
and he counted it to him a righteous man. There it is right there. They perhaps believed and counted
it to them a righteous man. Our Lord Jesus said to the centurion,
you know, the centurion said, if you can do anything, help
me. Our Lord looked at him and said,
if you can believe, all things are possible in heaven. He that believeth on the Son
hath everlasting life. He that believeth not the Son
shall not see life. The wrath of God abides on him. Mark 16,
our Lord sent his disciples forth and said, Go and preach the gospel
to every creature. He that believeth and is baptized
shall be saved. He that believeth not shall be
damned. So in the way that enter into his breath, we, verse 3,
we which have believed, do enter into rest. Now these three things,
three things have been said here so far. Number one, God has promised. What rest? He calls my rest,
his rest. Secondly, this rest is entered
only by faith, by belief. We who believe do enter this
rest. Thirdly, there's but one thing
that will keep you from this rest, and that's a heart of honor. I trust that's what he said over
here in chapter three. Chapter 3, look back there at
verse 12. Take heed, brethren. Take heed,
brethren, lest there be found in you an evil heart of unbelief
that departeth from the living God. and exhort one another daily
while it's called a day, lest any of you be hardened through
the deceitfulness of sin. But we are made partakers of
Christ if we hold the beginning of our confidence steadfast in
His good." This way to enter into this rest, I believe. All
right, starting with verse four, where he tells us what this rest
is not. what this rest is not. Verse
4, 5, 6, 7, 8 gives us an example of what this rest is not. In
verse 4, for he spake in a certain place of the seventh day on this
rite, that God did rest the seventh day from all his works. So this
rest we're talking about, that we do enter into by faith, is
not a rest that follows a finished work. We're talking about God
created His work on six days. The first day, the second day,
the third day, the evening and morning. But the sixth day, on
the seventh day, God rested. Rested from all His works and
creation. But that's not the rest we're
talking about, that's reserved for others. You see, God didn't
stop His providence. He still works in providence.
He said, now the sparrow falls to the ground, not your father.
God still works. He still works in providence.
He still works in redemption. He's redeeming his people. He's
calling out his people for his name. So God didn't stop working. And when Paul said, I've finished
my course, I've kept the faith, at the time of my departure,
he said, hey, that's not when he enters this rest, when he
finishes. So we're not talking about that.
And then another thing we're not talking about here is the
Sabbath days. He said God did rest the seventh
day from all his work, and he gave to Israel a Sabbath day.
Every seventh day they rested. They didn't do anything. They
walked with so many staff, didn't do any cooking, didn't do any
washing, didn't do anything like that. They kept the Sabbath day,
the seventh day. And they did that with their
fields. Every seventh day the fields had it. They planted wheat,
barley, rye, whatever they planted. Six years, they didn't rest on
that seventh year. And then the 7th and 7th, 1949,
the 15th year was the year of rest and jubilee. Nobody worked. And all the slaves were set free.
Anybody that owed anything, his debt was cancelled. But that's
not the rest we're talking about. We're not talking about the rest
of the completed work. We're not talking about the rest
of seven, seven, seven, seven, seven days, seven years. And
verse six, seeing therefore it remaineth that some must enter
therein, and they to whom it was first preached entered not
in because of one's belief. Verse seven. And again, he limited
a certain day, saying in David, today, after so long a time,
as it is said, today, if you'll hear it in Paul's heart, not
your heart. Or if Jesus, look at verse eight, if Jesus had
given them rest. Now, that word Jesus is a common
name in the Old Testament. It's named Joshua. Joshua. That's the name. It's Jesus.
It's Joshua. And what he's saying here, he's
not talking about our Lord Jesus Christ here, he's talking about
Joshua. You see, Moses didn't take them
into Canaan. Moses died. God buried him. But Joshua took them into Canaan.
But this rest we're talking about is not Canaan. Look here. If Joshua had given them rest,
then would he not afterward dispose of them another rest, another
day? Joshua spoke of another rest.
So, we're showing here what this rest is not. God has promised
rest. He calls it my rest, He calls
it His rest, He calls it that rest. He promises it. And we enter it by faith, I believe. And the only thing keeps us out
of unbelief He said, this rest is not God's rescue order to
settle the place of creation, or Israel keeping the Sabbath,
or Joshua taking the people into Canaan. They didn't rest in Canaan. They called good gracious Allah.
They called each other, and they called everybody around them,
and they didn't find any peace in Canaan. And it's not Jerusalem,
and it's not heaven we're talking about here. This rest is not
heaven, Canaan, or Jerusalem. What is this rest? Verse 9, there
remaineth, you can talk about the Sabbath, you can talk about
Canaan, you can talk about Jerusalem, you can talk about all these
things, but there remaineth therefore a rest to the peaceful living
God. Who are these people, God? He told us back here in verse
three, we which have belief do enter into the land. Whatever
this rest is, is for you and me, and we wish to live it. It's for the people of God. There
remains, therefore, a rest. His rest. My rest, God said. That rest for the people of God. Let John Hill tell us who they
are. You like John Hill? He's a great
old man, a great old man. Listen. There remains a rest
to the people of God, not to all mankind, but to believers
in Christ, both Jew and Gentile. The people of God whom He loves
with a special love. The people of God whom He chose
from the foundation of the world and gave to Christ. The people
of God with whom He entered into an everlasting covenant and saved
them by His blood, called them by His grace, called by the gospel,
people of God who believe on his name. This rest is theirs
right now. Right now. They can enter into
his rest the moment they believe. Christ said, They do enter into rest when
they believe, a spiritual rest of heart, soul, mind, and spirit,
into which they enter and remain on this walk through the world. We which believe is entered into
the rest, His rest, called my rest. I'll give you five things
that it includes. You might want to write these
down early. I'll give it to you later, but
listen to it. This rest in Christ into which we enter through faith
is the rest from the burden of the law. It's a rest from the
burden of the law of ceremony, sacrifice, and special days.
That's right. Aren't you glad you didn't live
in the days of Israel? With all those laws, ceremonies,
sacrifices, these days, special days, they've remained in constant
period of something wrong. And they were. And they were. gets a rest from the work of
the law of ceremony, sacrifice, and special days. Let me just
read you some Scripture. Over here in the book of Romans
chapter eight, Paul said this, Romans eight chapter. He said,
For the law of the Spirit of life in Jesus Christ hath made
me free from the law of sin and death. I'm free from that law,"
he said. What the law could not do, in
that it was weak through the flesh. The law wasn't weak, the
flesh was weak. But it couldn't save me. It couldn't
give me sanctification. It couldn't give me righteousness.
But God sent me his own Son in the likeness of sinful flesh
and for sin, condemned sin in the flesh, that the righteousness
of the law might be fulfilled in earth. You walk out after
the spirit of that ball. Or as I'm concerned, that ball
has been full-filled in every jot and tittle and taken away.
How can I love you at that time? I regret it. Don't come preaching on a Saturday.
Don't come telling me I've got to tie this and tie that and
tie the other. I'm not under the law to tie.
I've got to act that God put on Israel, not on the church.
Don't come to me and tell me I can't use certain means of
patience, or I'm touching my hand a lot because the law says
this. I'm not under that law. Christ is my life. I'm under the law of the Spirit
of Christ, but I'm resting. I tell you, if I thought for
a minute, I'd stand in the liberty where it was Christ that made
you free, and don't you let anybody entangle you again under that
thought. Right. Liberty. We don't use that liberty
as a license to sin, I know that. Nobody who loves Christ is looking
for a reason to sin, or an alibi for his sin. So we're out for
much of that. This rest in Christ is a rest
from the curse of the law. The law says, Cursed is everyone
that continues not in every part of the law that doeth it. You
know what it says in Galatians 3.10? Cursed. When Christ redeemed
us from the curse of the law, he made a curse upon us, Galatians
3.13. So we're not under the curse
of the law no more. We're not under condemnation
any more. Don't talk to me about condemnation
and a curse. There's therefore now no condemnation
of the opening Christ Jesus. Paul says, who can lay the blame
to the charge of God today? It's God that justifies it. And
I'm not half justified, or partially justified. If we're just—if God's
justified, but he always does things right. God never does
anything half-way. Who can lay the blame to the
charge of God's election? God has justified it on us, and
we have completely justified it. God did it. Completely. Completely sanctified. Completely
righteous. Completely accepted. Don't talk
to me about the law. I'm not interested in the curse
of the law. I'm not interested in condemnation.
Don't talk to me about standing before Christ in the judgment
day and being judged for sin. My sin was purged on Calvary. Not other than that. Free! I've entered rest. I've
rested. Thirdly, this rest is a total
rest from the toil and labor of religious duties. The preachers out there in the
world are assigning to people religious duties to promote spirituality,
religious works to find acceptance with God. It's not by works of
righteousness we've been done, but according to His mercy we've
been sent to do the work of regeneration of the Holy Spirit. We've been under arrest for religious
duties and works. in order to find acceptance with
God. We don't work to be saved, we
do what we do to be called to be saved. Love is a labor of
love. It's a work of faith. It's produced
by love and produced by faith. It's not produced by requirements. Colossians 2 says, In him that
is all the fullness of the Godhead is populated. And we are what?
Complete. Complete just means one thing.
Complete. Nothing leaves the atom. We're
complete. When a little baby's born into
this world, it's complete. It'll never grow another arm
or another leg or another finger or another fingernail. Another
ear, another eye, it's complete. It's just an infant, but it's
complete. He's got everything he'll have when he's a full-grown
man or a full-grown girl. He'll just grow with it. When
you're born of God, you're complete in Christ. You've got everything
heaven requires, everything the laws of man, everything God requires. All the righteousness you need
is just in Christ. And we intend to not just wait
to grow, grow in faith, and grow in love, and grow in mercy, and
grow in patience, hope so, grow in humility, but we're complete. We rest. We rest. Some of these folks' hearts
rest around their soul posure, but now, you know, I don't buy
much rest in the confessional. Do you? I don't find worship
a risk. I find rest in the presence of
people, real people, who worship a real Savior, a real God, and
real faith, and real love, and real honesty in Jesus. That's right. We get a rest.
And fourthly, this rest is from the guilt of a sinful nature.
This rest is rest from the guilt of a sinful nature. Let me tell
you something. Paul talks about it here in Romans
7. Why don't you turn with me in
Romans 7. Romans chapter 7. Now everybody
here will admit publicly, everybody here that's redeemed, that believes
on Christ, will admit publicly that you have a new nature. You
have a new spirit, a new heart, a new nature. You have a new
love that God shed upon your heart for the bread of the Lord
Jesus. So all of a sudden, you've changed
as a person. God made the difference. You've changed. You're a different
person now. Everybody here in Memphis, some
out here, some of us, or part of us that hadn't changed, we've
still got an old nature. We've still got a sinful nature.
We've still got that nature that we were born with. It's still
there. Paul admits that. Listen to him
in Romans 7, verse 18. I know, for I know in me, that
is, in this flesh dwelleth no good thing, no perfect thing. To will is present with me. That's
that new nature. To will is present with me. But
how to perform that which is good, that which is perfect,
I can't find that in me, can you? For the good that I would,
I do not. But the evil that I would not,
that's what too often I do. Now if I do that, I would not,
it's no more what I would do, it's sin that dwelleth in me.
I'm a good creature in Christ. I'm a new person, I'm a son of
God, I'm redeemed, but I have a nature in me that battles against
this son of God, against this nature of Christ. I find then,
verse 21, a lot of it. When I would do good, an old
nature is present with me. I delight in the law of God after
the end of man. I do. Don't you delight in the
law of God? If you could have perfect holiness, would you like
that? If I could be just like God,
just like Christ, I'd want that more than anything. I'd want
that more than anything. But I'm not. I've still got problems,
don't you? There's a nature of the flesh
warped against the spirit, and the spirit against the flesh,
and the conflict. I say things I shouldn't say,
say things I shouldn't say. Verse 23, I found another law
in my members, warring against the law of my mind, bringing
me into captivity to the law of sin, which is in my members,
O wretched man that I am. I still am. Who shall deliver
me from this body, from the body of this sin? I thank God through
Jesus Christ our Lord. I'm already, I'm just waiting
for graduation, just waiting for emancipation. Now, I can't kill that old nature. I can't kill it, but I can do
all I can do to suppress it, and I've tried to suppress that
old nature, mortify that old nature, crucify that old man.
I'm not going to let that old man, though, destroy my rest
in Christ. I'm not going to let that old man destroy my rest
in Christ. He said, if I could just get
rid of these thoughts, if I could just get rid of this temptation,
if I could just get rid of the things I see and what I can't,
the way you're going to do it, I'm going to rest. I've got two deaf ears. I'm born
and raised here in Asheville. I think it's about 30 some odd
years old. My hearing gets worse and worse
and worse. It's embarrassing. It's humiliating. I can't hear people when they
talk to me. But I'm not going to go in a
room and shut the door and not preach and not visit anybody
and not try to talk to anybody. I'm just going to live with them.
I'm going to live with these deaf ears. And I'm going to live this old
life. You see what I'm trying to say? These ears are not going
to stop me from being happy. They're not going to stop me
from fellowship. And they're not going to stop
me from playing with my grandchildren even though I can't hear a word
they're saying. Not a word! I went to go to the doctor one
time about these ears. The doctor down in And a lecture
was recommended by Paul Walter. Dr. Walter told me to go see
the young man. Graduated from Mayo, Rochester
somewhere, Minnesota or somewhere. Anyway, I went in his office,
sat down in the chair, and he said, what can I do for you?
I said, why don't you check my hearing? Talk to me about my
hearing. And I said, if anything new has
come along, I'd like to try it. If anything to hear. He said,
what's it like? I said, well, I can hear you
pretty well. He had a good, strong, big voice.
But I can't hear women and children. He said, why would you want to
hear women and children? So that won't live with me. Oh, that's—it's a good illustration,
though. We've got a handicapped affirmative
that God has permitted by His sovereign will. And that old
nation you've got is left in you by His sovereign will. So
they're with him. Suppress it, put it down, but
don't let it put you down. You raise, you enter his way.
He said, you come to me and I'll give you raise. What's the rest
of that? Our Lord said, Come unto me,
all ye that labor and have a labor, and I'll give you rest. Take
my yoke upon you, and learn of me, and you'll find rest for
your souls. In other words, you come to Christ
by faith, believing Him, and you immediately enter, and we
do enter into rest. Rest from the curse of the Lord.
Rest from the condemnation. Rest from the sermons and sacrifices. Rest from the guilt of this old
nature. Rest in Christ. The more you learn of Him, the
more you'll find rest. More rest. More rest. Just inner,
sweet inner rest. Deeper rest. Peace. My Jesus. Peace. And here's the fifth one. This
rest, it rests from the fear and doubts regarding death. Rests
from fear and doubts regarding death. Let's not be afraid to
die. Paul said for me to die is gain.
He said, really, I'm in a straitened position. I have a desire to
depart and be with Christ which is far back. Yeah, but Are you
sure that you're going to be with Christ? Wait a minute now.
The Lord is my shepherd. He is my shepherd. I shall not
want. Isn't that right? He's your shepherd.
We've entered into a rift because He's my shepherd. And if He's
my shepherd, He's a good shepherd, He's a great shepherd, He's a
chief shepherd, and He is chief to not want. He leads me in the
path of righteousness, what the name says. He leads me in green
pastures. He leads me beside still waters. He restored my soul. Either I
walk through the valley of the shadows there, I fear no evil.
He's with me. He has robbed me of his staff
of comfort, baby. He has prepared a table before me in the presence
of my enemies. He anoints my head with oil,
my cup runs over. Surely goodness and mercy have
and do and will follow me all the days of my life. And because
the Lord is my shepherd, I will dwell in the house of the Lord. We rest in our prayer. All right, watch this now. Verse
15. For he that is entered into his
rest He also has ceased from his own works as God did from
his." Who's that talking about? That's Christ. What's Christ
saying about that? For Christ is entered into his
rest. Christ has ceased from his own
works as God did from his. God created the world and said
it's good and restful. Christ died on the cross and
said it's finished. But the right-handed Lord said
that. And he entered into rest. I hear these preachers say the
Lord should walk in the streets of heaven and lead those who
banish from heaven, hoping you let him have his way. No. He
sat down. He sat down. Our Lord is sat
down, expecting that His enemies will be pleased with Him. Expecting
that all that the Father gives me shall come to me. All that
my Father giveth me shall come to me. That doesn't sound like
somebody walking to floor to me. And him that comes to me,
I don't know who I'll cast out. I came down from heaven not to
do my will, but the will of him that sent me. And this is the
will of him that sent me, that everyone that seeth the Son and
believeth on him hath everlasting life, and I will raise him up
at the last day. Christ is entered into His rest,
and He ceased from His works because they were finished as
God did from His. Now, verse 11, let us labor. You mean there's some work to
do? This labor is striving. This labor is endeavor. This
labor is to make it your soul's ambition and desire. But, therefore,
the enemy is at rest. At rest. What rest? Christ's
rest. Christ finished His work as God
finished His and sat down. Now you labor. Now you strive. You endeavor. By faith. Lord, I believe, help my heart
to believe. Help my heart to enter into that rest. That's
the less easy one to follow, that's the same example of one
of those sorts of tough stuff I'm telling you. We're not like
that. We're not going down in the L.R.O. completely. Well, I'll read this
and then I'll close. For the Word of God, who we're
talking about here? We're talking about Christ. The
Word of God is alive. The Word of God is powerful. The word was sharpened in the
two edges of the sword, piercing even to the dividing sunder of
soul and spirit, the joints of marrow is a discerner of the
thoughts and intents of the heart." Well, man, what makes you think
that's Christ? Well, I'll tell you, here's the first reason,
verse 13, "'Neither is there any creature that is not manifest
in his sight.'" Do you know that? For the Word of God is great
and powerful, sharper than any two-edged sword piercing. He's
the soul, the spirit, the discerner of your thoughts, and if not
a Christian, he doesn't know. He's talking about Him. He's the Word of God who spoke
for us in the everlasting covenant. He's the Word of God by whom
the world was created. He's the Word of God by whom
we were forgotten. He, of His own will, begatting
us with the Word of truth. Christ is the Word of truth. If by the Word we'll be raised
some day, for the Lord Himself shall descend from heaven with
a shout. The Lord shall descend from heaven
with a shout. The voice of the archangel, the
trump of God, said in Christ's arrival, Lazarus, come forth. When he comes back, it's a lot
of Lazarus that's going to come forth. He's going to sin with
a shout. Don't believe this thing about
the rapture. He's going to sneak in, a bunch of people are going
to sneak out, and nobody's going to know they're gone. Come on.
The Lord himself shall descend from heaven with a shout. You
ain't never heard a shout like that. And the dead in Christ
will rise. And we which live in the manger
will change. And call us together with them
to meet the Lord in heaven. That's not going to be a secret
rapture. That's going to be a whale of
a demonstration. We hire our God. That's the Word
of the Lord. Rest. All that verse 14 says, seeing
them, seeing them, that we have, not going to have, we have such
a great high priest that's passed into the heavens. He's not ministering
in a tabernacle or a badger's den. He's in heaven itself. Jesus
Christ, the Son of God, that's all about that. We don't have
the high priest that cannot be touched with the feeling of our
infirmities. We've got a high priest that was at all points
tempted just like we are. Just like we are. He lived here thirty-three and
a half years and all the time it was a time of temptation.
I've been here seventy-three and I've had a certain time of
temptation. That's right. And it's going
to be. But I've entered into the rest.
Now it's not about teaching or experience or profession or religion. It's rest. He says it's rest,
my rest, that rest. Let us therefore come boldly. And the only people that can
come boldly before Him is the lepers. You've got to believe
before you can be bold. You've got to believe before
you can be bold. But a man who really believes
can be bold. He can come without reservation
unto the throne. Now it's not a throne of judgment. I don't want anything to do with
judgment. It's not a throne of power and majesty. I'd just be
melt like a, I'd melt like a candle. But it's a throne of grace. Grace to the guilty, mercy to
the miserable, salvation to the sinner. I can feel that in me. I'm gonna come both ways. And
I'm gonna obtain mercy if you are there. And grace to help
in our times of need. When's your time of need? Right
now. When you get up in the morning
and you can't get your mobile phone to move, it's a time to
be. Every day is a time to be, a time to be. Find grace to help
you, a time to be. To forgive, to give, to show
mercy, to love, to grow, a time to be. To be what I'm supposed
to be and also being what I'm supposed to be is a time to be. But where are you going to find
it? You won't find it reading Harry Emerson Fossey's book on
positive thinking. You'll read it back on the day. All right. Our Father, we thank
you for this time together. It's been a pleasant, sweet,
precious time. Thank you for your Word. I pray you, make your words be
effectual in our hearts. We may fully, completely believe
in Christ, look to him, enter into his ways. Cease from our
fears and our worries. Rest in peace. Come unto me, I'll give you wisdom. Learn from me, you'll find a
way. Bless our pastor, he preaches
the knowledge, drives home the positive journey in Christ. Bless us on the Lord's day if
we come together again. Bless our friends who have gone
through surgery today. Praise the Lord. Healing of the
body. Bless those who are weary, troubled,
Those who are in Solomon, we commit unto thee, all thy dear
people, for your grace, which is sufficient, in the name of
our Lord Jesus Christ, amen. All right, you want to listen
to another song? You have one picked out? I've got mine going
on up here. We're standing while we sing.
That's our mission. One hundred and... Seventy-five. One hundred and seventy-five. That's our mission. And... First
we sing... I will come to the cross my King
And I will be set free, set free For it is the life that will
guarantee That I will come to the cross Spare me, spare me. Spare me, I'm the one who lives
without mercy. Spare me, spare me. Spare me,
I'm the one who's built the wall. Standing on the cross with a
hand of sin When I was young I had a fear of sin I was living
for a God that I'll preach in Name of the Father, Son, and
Holy Spirit Standing, standing, standing on the promises of God
my Savior. Standing, standing, standing
on the promises of God my Savior. I'll see you later.