Once for all, sinners receiving.
Once for all, Christ the Lord. That's a good hymn, isn't it?
Philip Bliss. He wrote some good ones. Surely
his grace will keep us from falling. Yes, it will. I'm certain of
it. Genesis chapter 2, now. Genesis chapter 2, if you mark
Hebrews 4, keep that place. Genesis chapter 2. I know I told
you that we would be talking about Adam tonight, but no, there's
no way we could pass over these three verses here in Genesis
2. And besides this, there are other things here also that we
will deal with, Lord willing, on Sunday. There are two trees
it talks about and three rivers. that we must deal with and see
Christ in those. But here in Genesis chapter 2,
let's read three verses, and this is what we're going to dwell
on tonight, three verses here in Genesis 2. Thus the heavens
and the earth were finished, and all the host of them. And on the seventh day God ended
his work which he had made. and he rested on the seventh
day from all his work which he had made. And God blessed the
seventh day and sanctified it, set it apart, because that in
it he had rested from all his work which God created and made. I don't need to tell you what Our
subject is going to be tonight, too, Christ our Sabbath. But
let me lay a foundation, though. Let me establish some things
from the outset. I want you to give me your undivided
attention. These things are good and practical
and needful and good instructions for the Church. Brother Bell,
incidentally, I was speaking to him, and as I do with other
men, we discuss what we're going to preach. And we discussed this
and talked about it, and the two of us agreed, as concerning
this, that it would be profitable, these things, to deal with these
things. He said, say hello, by the way. God Almighty, in absolute wisdom. sanctified a day. Yes, a day. That's what it says there, didn't
it? He set apart and sanctified a day. Actually, he set apart
a day. First, he did it for himself.
A day of rest and a day, for lack of any other way to put
it, a day of reflection. on what he had done. A day of
rest. Not that God needed rest in the
sense that he was tired. But it was a, after work is done,
it was a, you're not always tired after you do work. But you, if
it's finished, then you rest. There's nothing left to do. And
that's what the rest of God was. He was satisfied with what he
had done. He was satisfied. And he rested. He was satisfied. He sanctified
a day. And later on, he made this into
a law for man. The Sabbath. The Sabbath. He made it into a law. Now, the
Scripture says that God's commandments are not grievous. God's commandments
are not grievous. God never made one law to afflict
men with, to make them miserable. You know how we used to think
about our parents growing up, that they handed down rules that
we thought they did it just to make us miserable, just to bind
us down under their rule. What God They may have. We need it. But God never does
that. He never did do that. He never
made a law to afflict or just bind men down. God's commandments
are not grievous. His commandments are infinitely
wise, just, and good. They're good. They're altogether
good. Everything about them, for our
edification, for our benefit, for our spiritual and our material
good. Everything God did, everything
God ordained, he did it for our spiritual and our material good. Everything. All right? You with
me? No law, no law was without a
perfectly wise reason, and no law was made that was not absolutely
the best for man. You understand that? Every law.
The law is good. That's what David said. I love
thy law. The law is good and holy and
just, isn't it? Sure it is. God wouldn't have
made it were it not. But man. Man is so ignorant,
so foolish, so base, he cannot understand God's purpose. And
being depraved, the strength of sin, you know, is the law.
He naturally rebels against it. He rebels again. He can't understand
it, and then he rebels against it, even though it's for his
best and for his good. And that's, again, that's what
I did as a young man, the things my parents handed down were for
my good, they were for the best. But I rebelled against them,
and I suffered accordingly." OK? Now the Sabbath. The seventh
day, a day of rest. God rested, or ceased, from his
works. That's what we read there in
Hebrews 4, wasn't it? God ceased from his works, and
he saw that this was a purpose, that it would not only be a type
of Christ, This Sabbath, not only a type of Christ, but it
would be good for man. We all need a day of rest, don't
we? God, in his goodness, saw that we needed a day of rest,
or else we'd work seven days a week. Right? Carry on seven
days a week. Rest. The word rest, and I enjoyed
reading that Hebrews 4. I always do. The word sounds
restful. Rest with us. I love that chapter,
that passage in Thessalonians. To you who are troubled, rest
with us. Rest with us. Rest. It means
repose. Sit back and recline and relax
and rest and enjoy yourself. Rest. You always enjoy yourself
when you're really resting. Have you ever laid in bed? I
know you have. And you didn't really rest. Your mind was wandering,
and you were so tired you couldn't even rest. Well, real rest is
enjoyable. It's relaxing. It's a sweet thing. Rest is a sweet thing. It's needful.
Our bodies, our minds, everything needs it. Enjoyable. Rest is
so enjoyable, it's delightful. We need rest. We need it. Because
we're so busy and careful over so many things, some are necessary
and some are not. Most are not. We need a day of rest. All right? Now, you remember what I've said
preceding that. We need a day of rest, relaxation,
and to rejuvenate our bodies and our spirits, replenish the
body. Replenish the mind, replenish
the spirit. So, God in his goodness, he declared
a universal day of rest, complete rest. Let there be—now, is this
an unkind law? Let there—everybody just stop
and just rest. That's a good law, wasn't it? The Sabbath, wasn't that a good
law, practically speaking? We're going to see a glorious
type of Christ in a moment, but practically speaking, wasn't
that good of God? Just quit what you're doing.
Just rest. I have to tell my wife that sometimes.
And she has to tell me. Just rest. Let's just sit down. Let's just rest. Wow. Real rest. Now, if you're really going to
rest, you can't do anything. Real rest means total relaxation. You don't rest when you're recreating. You know, some people call these
games we play rest. Golf, you know, there's no rest
in that. You want to tie your nerves up
in knots, don't go play golf or whatever. There's no rest
in recreation or anything like that. enjoyable as it may be,
if it requires expending some energy and some thought and so
forth and some anxiety, it's not real rest, is it? So God
said, concerning the Sabbath, He said, don't do anything. Don't
pick up sticks. Don't cook. Don't do anything. Rest. Don't recreate. Just rest. Rest. Nothing to create. It's been created. Don't recreate.
But rest. They meditate, and here's what
I'm getting at. When God first—this is a spiritual
type of Christ, first of all. A spiritual type of Christ, this
Sabbath and this wrath. Yet it's a good and a practical
thing for man's material welfare. Okay? It's a good and a practical
thing. All right? Now, that was the
law. under the law of Moses. God gave that law to Moses, didn't
He? The law came through Moses, and now we're not under the law. Is that right? I don't know what
the Scripture said, but what are we under? We're under grace. See, that was the law, and it
was very strict. In other words, there was what
God put it down to be not only a type of Christ, but a beautiful,
just a day to relax. Why would anybody want to, you
know, rebel against that? Just relax. But people did. And
the punishment for it was severe. At times it was death. Picking
up sticks on Sabbath. Things like that. And there's
a type in that. Do anything. Don't do anything.
Well, that was under the law, but now we're under grace, okay?
We're under Greek. The law was given to Moses, but
grace and truth, the truth of the law, or true rest, grace,
compassion, love, grace, and truth, true rest, came by Christ. Isn't it? Now, we're no longer
obligated to keep a day of rest. It's a good thing though, you
know? Did you hear what I said to start? It was a good thing,
wasn't it? Was there anything bad about it? No. I don't want to ever be guilty
of saying anything bad about God's holy law. God made that
for man. Isn't it? It's a good thing.
God's mercy and love and grace is Sabbath. So good of God to
do that. who are no longer obligated under
penalty to keep a day, a day of rest. Jesus Christ is the
day, spring, wherein we rest. We rest in Christ, not a day. OK? And since the day that Christ
arose from the grave, since the day—now Christ kept the Sabbath. He did. He kept the Sabbath. He healed, and so forth, on the
Sabbath. But it didn't say anywhere in
God's law you can't heal on the Sabbath. Those nitpicking Jews,
you know, tried to say it did. Well, since the day that Christ
arose from the grave and appeared to his disciples, and that day
that he appeared to them on the first day of the week, right?
The first day of the week They worshiped him on that day, and
from that day forward, believers, the apostles, and all believers
in Christ began to meet together on the first day of the week.
You may be confused about this subject of the seventh day, as
opposed to the first day. Are you? I bet you are. I bet some are. Where it says
in the Scriptures that you shall keep my Sabbath. It's an eternal
thing. Never. It's a perpetual day of
Sabbath. Well, since the day that Christ
arose, God's people began to meet on the first day of the
week. From that day forward, they began to meet on the first
day of the week. And they didn't do it because
it was law. Nobody said it. And this is what
the Roman people And this is what throws people at it. There's
no commandment that says you must lead on the first day of
the week. Why? Because it's not law. We're not
under the law. We're under grace. He gave it
to us. He instituted it. It's implied,
but it's not commanded. You see that? It's not commanded. But it's a good thing. Isn't
it? That first day that we meet together
on Sunday, a good thing, to meet together on the first day of
the week. And that's typical of Christ rising from the grave,
and we rise to walk in newness of life, not in oldness of the
letter. You see that? Not under the oldness
of the letter, which is death, the law, but in newness of life. believing in Christ, who is risen.
And we rise to walk in newness of law, free from the law. Oh,
we sang it. Happy condition. The Jews couldn't
sing that on a Sabbath day. They were supposed to rest. And
they were miserable, resting. Some, all of them, that's what
it said in Hebrews 4, that some of them didn't enter in because
It's not mixed with faith. They kept the Sabbath, but they
didn't rest. Hmm? Well, we're free from the
law, though. And like sons. And that passage
that says he lets us go in and out and find pasture. In and
out. We can come and go. We can come
on Sunday. We cannot come. Right? No punishment. No penalty. We
will suffer spiritually. We'll suffer the consequences
if we miss the meal, because it was ordained for our good
the first day of the week. The disciples everywhere got
together and met together on the first day of the week. God
in his wisdom set aside a day for man's good, and it's still
a good and a necessary thing. And like I said, this is what
our brother and I were talking about. Concerning this thing
of worship, you're right now, you're right now, you're struggling
so hard to pay attention. I'm struggling. We're struggling
with this thing. All right? The flesh lusts against
the Spirit. The flesh. The flesh. Talk about, we're told to mortify
the deeds of the flesh. The flesh lusts against the Spirit. So we cannot do the things that
we would. Terry, did you want to come here to worship tonight?
Are you struggling? Sure you are. The flesh gets
in the way, doesn't it? Well, concerning this thing of
worship, it requires—and Wednesday is particularly difficult, I
know, and I need to keep that in mind every Wednesday night—but
to worship To really enter into a spirit of worship requires
a mind and a heart free of distractions. Doesn't it? Sure it does. A body
that's rested and relaxed. We spent a whole message one
time on preparing to worship. It was good. It was profitable.
I guarantee you if you go back and listen to that and heed those
things, you will profit more from the preached word, from
the hearing of the word. Things like when You know, going
to bed in the wee hours of the night and getting up early and
expecting to be fresh to worship, can't do it. Can't do it. You need a body that's rested
and relaxed. You need a mind that's free from distractions
and so forth. That requires a little preparation
beforehand. Sunday. Sunday is a good day to just
do nothing. Unless you have to work. But
you're not on the law, John. You're under J.P. Stevens. Right? Aren't you glad? Aren't you glad
that you're, I mean, aren't you glad you're not under the law?
Aren't you glad you're under J.P. Stevens? Aren't you glad
you got the job? Sure you are. Be thankful for
it. But otherwise you'd be, we'd have stoned you. But Sunday, nevertheless, for
those who can, is a good day to just do nothing. Just do nothing
but worship and enjoy your family, your spiritual family, and your
flesh and blood relations. And like I said, preparation
is necessary to true worship. It's necessary. It's for our
good. Now, turn over to Romans 14. Keep Genesis 2 there. and turn over to Romans fourteen.
Are you surprised that I'm advocating Sunday be a day of rest. I didn't advocate it. I didn't do it and I'm not telling
you it's a requirement. By no means am I making it a
legal thing, a legal requirement. I'm just telling you it's a good
thing. It's a good thing. It's for our good. Romans 14. You know, we're not bound by
the law. We don't worship a day. Some
people do. And we do observe a day, though.
I mean, we set aside a day, not because we're required to, but
because we want to. There's a difference. It is merely
this day, the first day of the week, is the day we set aside
to worship our God and fellowship with his people. It's a good
day. I look forward to it. Do you look forward to it? I don't always look forward to
it, and neither do you. It's not me. Liars. But most of the time, we do.
Don't we? I was glad when they said to
me, let's go to the house of the Lord. Sunday. Rolling around. That's good. That's good. worship
God, a joyful day, peaceful and relaxing, rejuvenating. Thank
God for it. Romans 14, verse 5, "...one man
now esteems one day above another, and another esteems it every
day alike. Let every man be fully persuaded
in his own mind. He that regardeth the day, regardeth
it unto the Lord. He that regardeth not the day,
to the Lord he doth not regard it." Now, a lot of the old Puritans
And, you know, we quote Charles Spurgeon. Spurgeon was right
bordering on legalism when it came to Sunday. He called—they
called it the Sabbath. No, no, no, no. Don't you dare
call it the Sabbath. It's the day of rest, but it's
not the Sabbath. The Sabbath will always be Saturday. Saturday. But a lot of the old
Puritans, and even Spurgeon and some other ones, day observed
a day. Well, it says there in verse
four, Who art thou that judges another man's servant? Verse
seven, None of us live as to himself. No man die to himself.
Whether we live, we live under the Lord. Whether we die, we
die under the Lord. He regards the day, regards it
under the Lord. Maybe they could do that. OK? Don't let us be guilty of condemning
someone who regards Sunday as a very special day. I regard
Sunday as a special day. I really did. A special day. I'm glad God set it aside in
his providence and set us aside for a while to rest and relax
and worship and so forth. I mean, let's not be guilty of,
you know, people just believe very strongly that that's a day
that they're to just observe and make a day of worship. That's
a good thing. It's a good thing. unless they make it a condition
of salvation. And that's the danger people
run into. Turn over to Galatians chapter 4. That's always the
danger you run into when you sanctify a thing, or a day, or
a time, or something, and set it apart above anything else
as being very, very special. You end up worshiping it and
becoming legal about it, make it a condition of salvation.
Now the Seventh-day Adventists, it's obvious from their denominational
name that they, that's what they worship. Isn't it? I've heard
their doctrine, I've talked to them, I've read it. And they
say some good things like others do, but nevertheless, their very
name implies that that day is what they're taking up with.
Right? Seventh-day Adventist. What's
the name of your church? Seventh-day Adventist. What's
the name of your church? Christ's Church. It's Christ's
Church. What do y'all do? We worship
Christ. What do y'all do? We observe the seventh day. That's
not worship, is it? Huh? And neither is first day
Adventist. Adventism. Galatians 4, it says
this in verse 9 and 10. Now, after you've known God,
or rather known of God, how turn you again? And some believers
do this. Like I said, the Puritans, Jenea,
some of the Puritans, and Spurgeon, they turn again to the weak and
beggarly elements. How turn you again to the weak
and beggarly elements, whereunto you desire again to be in bondage?"
Verse 10, you observe days and months and times and years. I'm afraid of you. I'm afraid
you didn't hear what I was saying. You didn't hear what I was saying.
And all through Galatians there, John, he keeps saying, oh foolish
Galatians, having begun this fear you made perfect by the
flesh and so forth. Turn over to Colossians 2, real
quickly, and then we'll run back to Genesis and stay there. Colossians
2. Christ is our Sabbath. Colossians
2, verses 14 through 16. Christ is our resting place. He is even that day. But, you
know, we set aside the first day of the week to come and rest
in Christ. and worshiping them. Colossians
2 verse 14, Christ is our day of rest because he blotted out
the handwriting of ordinances that are contrary against us.
Which ones? The Sabbath. Joe, he's the one that said,
when they accused him of breaking it, he said, Sabbath, man wouldn't
make the Sabbath. You do err. Man wouldn't make
the Sabbath. Sabbath is made for man. He brought
it out to the handwriting of the Lord, and it was against
us. It was for us, but it ended up being against us because of
our nature, the weakness of the flesh. It was contrary to us.
Christ took it out of the way and nailed it to the cross, having
spoiled principalities and powers, and made a show of them openly,
triumphing over them in it. Let no man therefore judge you
in meat or in drink or in respect of an holy day or of the new
moon or of the Sabbath. Doesn't that lay that to rest? Doesn't that lay that to rest?
And I'll tell you this, if a man wanted to worship Christ on the
seventh day, let him. If he really worshiped Christ.
Huh? Right? If he's really worshiping Christ
on the Sabbath, seventh, let him. Hallelujah. Fine. But don't worship the day. Huh? Don't worship that day.
A man wants to just set aside Sunday and worship. Good. I'm
all for that. Huh? Don't worship that day.
Because Christ is our Sabbath. Now Genesis chapter 2. Genesis
2. This was God's day of rest. God's
the one that ordained it. And I felt it necessary to say
those things to clear up some things about, some confusion
about the Sabbath and so forth. And let's not be quick to judge
somebody, you know. One man, we read that in Romans,
didn't we? One man observes a day under
the Lord and another man doesn't. We don't, unless we can know
beyond a shadow of a doubt that he's not, you know, we automatically
call somebody a legalist. Let's not, beware of that, right
Ed? Just beware of that. It'd be
better than a millstone we're tied about our neck than to thin
one of these little ones. And they're wrong. But, you know. But Genesis chapter 2. Let's
read it again, verses 1 through 3. And thus the heavens and the
earth were finished, and all the hosts of them. And on the
seventh day God ended his work which he had made, and he rested
on the seventh day from all his work which he had made. And God
blessed the seventh day and sanctified it because in it he rested, God
rested from all his works which God created in man. This was
God's day of rest. He didn't need it, he wasn't
tired, but he set it apart because everything was finished. He said
it's finished, nothing left to be done, so I'm just going to
just sit back and there's nothing left to do. I'm just going to
sit back and admire and enjoy what I've done, what we've done.
his son with Christ, the Word created without him. But sit
back and enjoy and admire our creation. And also, like I said,
we come here to worship God and admire and enjoy one another,
fellowship. God sat back and enjoyed what
he'd done, admired it, and enjoyed his son. Sitting there elbow
to elbow, shoulder to shoulder. Maybe arms entwined, humanly
speaking, with his son. Fellowship and enjoying what
they'd done. Do you see that picture there? And
Adam and Eve are in on it. You know, a little later, Adam
and Eve. You know, it doesn't tell us
how long Adam and Eve communed with God. Nobody knows that. Nobody knows. You could speculate
and say that they They communed and enjoyed unbroken fellowship
with God for thousands of years. We don't know that for a fact. But they did for a while anyway.
Just enjoyed one another and did nothing. Just relaxed. Don't you enjoy
doing that? One another, getting together,
fellowshipping over at one another's house or, you know, this house.
That's what's special about this place. It's God giving us this
wonderful place, this house, where all the family gets together
at one time. It's enjoyable staying when you
and I get together on your back porch, you know, in fellowship
and do nothing. Sure, it does everything. Would you rather work? Isn't
it, Henry? It's just enjoyable, isn't it?
That's what God did. That's what God did. Sat back, relaxed, everything
finished, enjoyed himself. Adam and Eve, everybody's family
all around him, had a big time. Huh? Think about it. Yeah, they
did. No telling how long that went
on. Well, this day, like I said, was God's day first. the day that God finished everything
and just rested. There's no work to be done. Everything's
finished. Just sit back and enjoy His Son.
Well, there in Hebrews 4, it says, Now let us enter into His
rest. Let us enter into His rest. A
day? No. It's like God's rest. His rest. He didn't enter into
a day, did He? Oh no, just rest. He admired
what he'd done and enjoyed his son. And that's what we do when
we rest in Christ. We admire what he's done for
us and rejoice in him. Worship God in the Spirit. Rejoice
in Christ Jesus. Put no confidence in a day. Right? It's a good day. It's a good
time. It's a good race. God forbid that we should enter
into rest in a day. Christ is our resting place.
God's Sabbath made for man. He said the Sabbath was made
for man. Christ was made flesh. Christ was made sin. Made of
the seed of David. Christ was made, made under the
law for us. The Sabbath, Christ, our Sabbath,
was made for man, wasn't it? Made for man. Let's just rest
in him. Christ, he accomplished the great
work of redemption. Now listen to this, and I'll
quit. Give me five more minutes. This is the climax. For millenniums,
for millenniums, thousands of years, millions of years, before
the world began, millennium, God and his Son purposed and
worked, planned and purposed and worked on the greatest work
of all. I'm not talking about creation.
But God's crowning glory is cheap work. salvation. He spent six days making the
earth. He spent millenniums purposing man's salvation. Then for thirty-three
and a third years, Christ walked this planet and perfectly fulfilled
every jot and tittle that they had written and purposed in that
law to save a people. people that God had chosen, an
innumerable company of people. Then Christ, after thirty-three
and a third years of exactly fulfilling every jot and tittle
of that law, Christ, after he fulfilled all righteousness for
us and imputed that righteousness to us, he was finally made sin. After that, he was made sin. All righteousness was fulfilled,
imputed, charged our account. Then God laid on him the iniquity
of us all. It took God—God spent, anyway,
a long time purposing it. We can say it in just a few minutes,
but the wisdom of it all. But he was finally, after thirty-three
and thirty years, made sin. God laid on him the iniquity
of us all, and he went to the cross and suffered God's wrath
against sin. Man couldn't have thought this
up. And then while hanging on that cross that day, righteousness
fulfilled, righteousness imputed, all the elect of God made holy,
declared righteous before God, past saints present at his death,
future saints, all made righteous by Christ, all in the purpose
and mind of God given to Christ, made righteous by Christ, all
done. All the sins of all the elect,
of all God's people, from the past and the present and the
future, laid on Christ, Christ hung on the cross, six hours'
time, put them away. Put every last sin away. Past,
present, future, no more sin. They're blotted out, every last
one of them. God remembers them no more. What'd
Christ say? It's finished. It is finished. There is nothing left to be done. What are we going to add, anyone? Did you hear what I said? It
took God millenniums, purposing it. It took Christ 33, the all-powerful
Son of God, 33 and a third years to fulfill it. Six hours, excruciating
hours of suffering the equivalency of eternal wrath and hail on
a cross to fulfill it, to pay for it. And finally he said,
it is finished. It's over. All over. And he bowed his head and gave
up the ghost and rested. And now we can rest in him. Listen
to this verse. Listen to this verse. This is
outstanding. I've always loved this verse.
Listen. Would you listen to me? To God's
Word? Listen to it. After Christ said
it's finished. This is Christ speaking here
in Jeremiah 31. He said, I have satiated the
weary soul. Satisfied. Satiated. Replenished. I have replenished every sorrowful
soul. every last one of them. I have
regenerated, replenished every soul. Upon this, after this,
I awaked and beheld, and my sleep was
sweet to me." Did you hear that? I'll read
it again. I have satiated the weary soul. I have replenished every sorrowful
soul." Upon this, that's when Christ did his work on Calvary's
tree and died, was buried. After three days, I awaked and
beheld, and it was all so sweet to me. Who for the joy, consider
him, Jesus, who for the joy that was set before him endured the
cross, despised the shame. died, slept. He didn't die, he slept. Right? That's what it's called for believers.
God changes the name of death for believers to sleep. He giveth
his beloved sleep. And it says he awoke satisfied. My sleep was sweet unto me. I
tell you that to you who believe, Christ is sweet to you. That
read. So God Almighty in his wisdom
and did all this with Christ. It says there in Colossians 1,
he made all things with him, by him, for him. He purposed
all things for Christ. And he wrote this book about
Christ. That's what this book's about. There in verse 3 of Genesis,
it says that God sanctified, blessed the seventh day. Well,
God blessed and set apart his Son above all else, didn't it?
Because of what he did, he gave him a name which is above every
other. Sanctify. Set him apart. Set
him above. Set him forth. Bless the Son.
Didn't he bless the Son for what he'd done? Father, glorify thy
Son. I have. I have. I will. I have
blessed you. And bless all those in you. The
only begotten well-beloved Son. And in Christ, God's work is
complete. And the Scripture says you are
complete in him. So he tells us, just rest. Just
rest. Just sit back and do nothing,
and just enjoy the sun. Enjoy the sun, and you watch the sun go down, someday
you'll see the sun come up. Arise with healing in its wake.
So just rest. All right. Stand with me. Our Heavenly Father, we thank
You for Christ, our Sabbath. We're so thankful that grace
and truth came by Him, compassion and love and tenderness and kindness
and consideration for our frame, knowing that we're dust and the
weakness of the flesh and the penalty of the law. You came
down here and did what You did for us. Bless the Lord, O my
soul, when all is within me. Bless his holy name. Forget not
all his benefit. Thank you, Lord, for Christ our
Sabbath. Thank you, Lord, that we are
not under the law, free from the law. Oh, what a happy condition!
Our Lord Jesus Christ hath bled, and there is total, complete,
and final remission. We thank you for him. Enable
us to rest in him. And in resting, Lord, may we
be comforted and not be torn and tossed to and fro. Rest regard
involves so much more than just knowledge of the doctrine. Lord, we need to rest in Christ.
We need to relax, be comforted with the comfort and consolation
that we have in Christ. Enable us to do that, Lord. Give
us consolation and peace and rest in Christ. Let us enter
into rest, not like the Jews of old who did not enter in because
of unbelief. Let us labor to enter into that
rest. Mortify these members to enter
into that rest. Christ, make us understand this,
understand him, and rest in him. We pray these things, and we
are met together tonight in Christ's name, for his glory and honor
and for our good, we hope. We ask your blessings upon us.
Amen. I wanted to tell you one thing. Those of you who were
not here, I think it was either last Wednesday
or the Wednesday before that, there's a message from 2 Corinthians
13, verse 11, that I want everyone to have, every member of this
church, four exhortations from 2 Corinthians 13, 11, that'll
be a big help to you. If you weren't here, get that
tape. If somebody, a member of this
church, wasn't here, you know of, Give them that tape and give
it to them. It'll be a big help.