Over in Hebrews 3, I'll begin reading there in the
first verse. We've kind of looked at some
of that, but I want to begin there to get the context. It
says, Wherefore, holy brethren, partakers of the heavenly calling,
Consider the apostle and high priest of our profession, Christ
Jesus, who was faithful to him that appointed him, as also Moses
was faithful in all his house. For this man was counted worthy
of more glory than Moses, inasmuch as he who had built the house
hath more honor than the house. For every house is built by some
man, but he that built all things is God. And Moses verily was
faithful in all his house as a servant for a testimony of
those things which were to be spoken after. But, and that's
a big but, but Christ as a son over his own house, whose house
are we if we hold fast the confidence of the rejoicing of the hope
firm unto the end? Wherefore, as the Holy Ghost
saith, Today if ye will hear his voice, harden not your hearts,
as in the provocation, in the day of temptation in the wilderness,
when your fathers tempted me, proved me, and saw my works forty
years. Wherefore, I was grieved with
that generation, and said, They do always err in their heart.
They have not known my ways. So I swear in my wrath, they
shall not enter into my rest. Take heed, brethren, lest there
be in any of you an evil heart of unbelief in departing from
the living God. But exhort one another daily
while it is called today, lest any of you be hardened through
the deceitfulness of sin. For we are made partakers of
Christ if we hold the beginning of our confidence steadfast unto
the end. While it is said today, if ye
will hear his voice, harden not your hearts, as in the provocation. For some, when they had heard,
did provoke, howbeit not all that came out of Egypt by Moses. But with whom was he grieved
forty years? Was it not with them that did
sin, whose carcasses fell in the wilderness, and to whom swear
he that they should not enter into his rest? But to them that
believed not. So we see that they could not
enter in because of unbelief. Let us therefore fear, or let
us beware, lest a promise being left us of entering into his
rest, any of you should seem to come short of it. For unto
us was the gospel preached as well as unto them. But the word
preached did not profit them, not being mixed with faith in
them that heard it. For we which have believed do
enter into his rest, as he said, as I have sworn in my wrath,
if they shall enter into my rest, although the works were finished
from the foundation of the world. For he spake in a certain place
of the seventh day on this wise, and God did rest the seventh
day from all his works. And in this place again, if they
shall enter into my rest, Seeing, therefore, it remaineth that
some must enter therein, and they to whom it was first preached
entered not in because of unbelief. Again he limiteth a certain day,
saying in David, Today, after so long a time, it is said, Today,
if ye will hear his voice, harden not your hearts. For if Jesus
had given them rest, then would he not afterward have spoken
of another day. There remaineth therefore a rest
to the people of God. For he that is entered into his
rest, he also hath ceased from his own works, as God did from
his. Let us labor therefore to enter
into that rest, lest any man fall after the same example of
unbelief. For the word of God is quick,
powerful, sharper than any two-edged sword, piercing even to the dividing
asunder of soul and spirit and of the joints and marrow, and
is a discerner of the thoughts and intents of the heart. Neither
is there any creature that is not manifest in his sight, but
all things are naked and opened unto the eyes of him with whom
we have to do. Seeing then that we have a great
high priest that is passed into the heavens, Jesus the Son of
God, let us hold fast our profession. For we have not an high priest
which cannot be touched with the feeling of our infirmities,
but was in all points tempted like as we are, yet without sin. Let us therefore come boldly
unto the throne of grace, that we may obtain mercy and find
grace to help in time of need." Now this, of course, the book of Hebrews
as we have said on more than one occasion is given, was written
specifically to the Hebrews as it is the epistle to the Hebrews,
and I believe was written by the apostle Paul, but there is
no concrete proof of that. But it is very much like many
of the writings of Paul. But that's beside the point.
We do know that it is specifically written to the Hebrews and specifically
to those who had professed faith in Christ. And so what he's saying
here is giving them a warning. He said, Wherefore, today if
ye will hear his voice, harden not your hearts. Now what he's
doing here is quoting from Psalm 95. says, For he is our God, and
we are the people of his pasture, the sheep of his hand. Today,
if ye will hear his voice, harden not your heart, as in the provocation,
and as in the day of temptation in the wilderness, when your
fathers tempted me, and saw my work. Forty years long was I
grieved with this generation, and said, It is a people that
do err in their heart, and they have not known my ways, unto
whom I swear in my wrath, that they should not enter into my
rest. Now over in the book of Exodus, and I believe it's chapter 17, and the people thirsted, this
is verse 3, Well, let's back up and begin
in verse 1. This is chapter 17 of Exodus. And all the congregation of the
children of Israel journeyed from the wilderness of sin after
their journeys according to the commandment of the Lord, and
pitched in Rephidim, and there was no water for the people to
drink. Wherefore the people did chide
with Moses, and said, Give us water that we may drink. And
Moses said unto them, Why chide ye with me? wherefore do ye tempt
the Lord? And the people thirsted there
for water, and the people murmured against Moses, and said, Wherefore
is this, that thou hast brought us up out of Egypt, to kill us
and our children and our cattle with thirst? And Moses cried
unto the Lord, saying, What shall I do unto this people? they be
almost ready to stone me. And the Lord said to Moses, Go
on before the people, and take with thee of the elders of Israel,
and thy rod, wherewith thou smotest the river, take it in thy hand,
and go. Behold, I will stand before thee
there upon the rock in Horeb, and thou shalt smite the rock,
and there shall come water out of it that the people may drink. And Moses did so in the sight
of the elders of Israel, and he called the name of that place
Massah and Meribah because of the chiding of the children of
Israel and because they tempted the Lord, saying, Is the Lord
among us or not? Now we know that the example
that is given to us of the nation of Israel as they were greatly
blessed by God, and He brought them out of Egypt. But it didn't
take them long before they were gotten free from the deliverance
from the slavery that they were in Egypt before they had started
complaining to the Lord. And we see them complaining first
off whenever they were at the Red Sea, And they saw the host
of the Egyptians coming down in their mines to destroy them. And they said, Moses, you brought
us out here into the wilderness to just get us killed. And of
course, we know that the Lord showed them the salvation. As
Moses said, stand still and see the salvation of the Lord. And
the Lord delivered them. They complained that they didn't
have any meat there. They were being fed with manna
from heaven that they didn't expend any labor or whatever
to get. And the Lord brought it to them,
and they ate that. But it didn't take them long
before they were upset about that. They didn't like that.
They said, we're tired of eating this manna every day, and we
want some meat. And the Lord brought in the quail.
And it ain't that, but it didn't take them long in every case
to grow weary of it. And that's a demonstrative of
how people are by nature. We're never satisfied with what
we have. We think that if we just had
something, boy, if I could just make another $50 a week, I'd
be happy. All my problems would be solved
and I'd be good to go. And we just think, boy, if we
could just get this, or if we could just get that, or if we
could just go here, if we could just do this, all our problems
would be solved. And then when we get those things,
we begin that same situation over and over again, because
such is the nature of men. And so the Lord would demonstrate
that even those who are blessed of God, as the Israelites were,
are never satisfied in this flesh. And so it is that the sin of
the Israelites was that they did not trust the Lord. They
did not rest in the blessing of God to them. They were not
satisfied in that, but they were always murmuring. They said,
we're thirsty. And the Lord grew weary of them,
and He told them that they would not enter into the Promised Land.
And so for forty years they wandered in the wilderness until all of
those that had come out of Egypt died except for Joshua and Caleb. And they were the only ones that
entered in to that promised land. And so that's what he says here.
He said, Harden not your hearts as in the provocation or the
day of temptation in the wilderness. Talking about how the nation
of Israel were. He said, when your fathers tempted
me and proved me and saw my works for forty years, they saw these
things take place, but they were unable to enter in. And they
died without having received the promise. And so he said,
now keeping that in your mind, He said, think about this. He
said, take heed, brethren, lest there be in you an evil heart
of unbelief in departing from the living God. Now, we live
in a day and age when the primary consideration of what faith in
Christ is, is beginning. Now, if you ask the average person
if they are a believer, The average person who claims to be a believer
will tell you, yes, I began so-and-so. Well, of course, all things must
have a beginning. The Lord said to Nicodemus, except
the man be born again. That's a beginning, is it not?
But you see, the beginning is not what he's speaking about
here. We read in the Scriptures that
he which hath begun a good work in you will perform it until
the day of Jesus Christ. So beginning in the faith is
important, but it is certainly not the faith. The faith that
God's people are called to is not the beginning, but it is
a continuation. Now men in the flesh can often
begin things very easily, but they can't sustain it. How easy
it is to begin a diet, for instance. Easiest thing you ever did. It's
like quitting smoking. I mean, Mark Twain said, I've
done it hundreds of times. It says nothing to it. It's easy to begin something,
but you see, it's only by the power of God that a man will
continue on. Now, men can in the flesh look
at the things of God, the promises of God, just like the Israelites. They said, man, look over here
at the Egyptians. They've got us under all this
bondage. We want to get out from here.
And they got out from there. They were glad to go. And they
were all just happy and having a good time until things started
looking better in Egypt than they did where they were going. And then they started saying,
Oh, but wait a minute, we need to go back. Now, the writer here
to the Hebrews is saying this in the form of a warning. It's
said in the form of a warning that men might know and understand
that true faith not only has a beginning, but it has a continuation. It is not only the starting,
but it is the finishing, because that's what true faith is. You
see, I have no faith at all if I believe today, but I cease
to believe tomorrow. That was not true faith. It was
a work of the flesh. It was something that was stirred
up in me by somebody. Now you get a persuasive enough
guy that's a good orator and he's got skill, he can get folks
to commit, can't he? Oh man, we had so many folks
got saved yesterday. Well, wait about a year and see
how many of those folks are around. Now was that true faith? Dear brethren, true faith is
that which continues on. It is the work of God. It is
the calling of God. It is that which is not begun
by men, but it is that which is begun by God. And that which
is begun by God will carry on even to the very end. And so
we are to be warned of that. Not as though those who are true
believers could fall away. Now, why can we not fall away? It's certainly not because of
anything in us, but just that scripture I quoted a moment ago,
He which hath begun a good work in you will perform it to the
day of Jesus Christ. If men fall away from the gospel,
it is because they've never had a good work begun in them by
Christ. And so we do exhort one another
and we remind one another of that fact, lest we be carried
away with some spurious idea of what faith is. But we need
to know and understand that true faith is that which continues
on. Take heed, brethren, lest there
be in you an evil heart of unbelief in departing from the living
God. Now the work of God in the soul
of a man is to cause him to delight in the things of God. Paul said
that if any man be in Christ, he is a new creation. Old things are passed away. Behold,
all things are become new. There's a different outlook that
the man who's given true faith and the work of the Spirit of
God is given. And he says here, "...that exhort
one another daily." That is, we are to warn one another of
this. That's the reason God's people
come together. Not because we fear that God's
people are going to fall away, but we understand that men in
the flesh do fall away. And we exhort one another that
we examine yourselves, as he said, to see if you be in the
faith. Know you not how that Jesus Christ is in you, except
you be reprobate? But exhort one another today
what is called today, lest any of you be hardened through the
deceitfulness of sin. Now sin in itself is deceitful. Because sin always promises something
that it can't deliver, doesn't it? Eve said, well, I'll do this
and this is going to be great. Adam said, yes, it sure is. I'm
going to do it with you. And they had the promise of something
that was going to be wonderful. But it was deceitful, was it
not? And so is all sin. It promises something that it
cannot deliver. And so he said, exhort one another
today, not next week. Well, we'll wait later on down
the road. No, every day we need to be examining
ourselves, looking to see if there be in us an evil heart
of unbelief in departing from the living God. For we are made
partakers of Christ, if we hold the beginning of our confidence
steadfast unto the end. What if a man walks with Christ
for twenty years, at least insofar as men look at it and examine
it and know it? And he walks with Christ for
twenty years, but then after twenty years he says, eh, I don't
believe that stuff anymore. What does that prove? Well, it
proves, number one, that it wasn't begun by Christ because if Christ
had begun the work, He would have performed it until the day
of Jesus Christ. But it is important here, brethren,
that we understand that faith is that which continues on. Now
there's a lot of people When they're raising a family
and all, they say, oh, we need to get involved in church and
we need to raise our children up in church and all that. And
they do, and then a strange thing happens later on. They just decide, well, they
don't need that anymore. And they go on and do something.
Well, what was that? That was a work of the flesh. Because
you see, when God works in a man, both the will and the do of His
good pleasure, He works in him to perform a work that continues
on. Because you see, it's not like
he's following Christ for the loaves and the fishes and what
he's getting out of it for the particular time, but he says,
as Peter did, Lord, to whom shall we go? Thou hast the words of
eternal life. And we believe and are sure that
Thou art the Christ, the Son of the living God. Where are
we going to go? What are we going to do? Are
we going to say, well, okay, we've served the Lord, now we're
going to go off over here and serve ourselves? Not if Christ
has begun a good work in us. Because we are made partakers
of Christ if we hold the beginning of our confidence steadfast to
the end. That's the proof that a man is
a follower of Christ, is that he follows Him. While it is said
today, if you will hear his voice, harden not your hearts. And then
he gives the example. And to whom swear he that they
should not enter into his rest, but to them that believe not. So we see that they could not
enter in because of unbelief. Now, to believe Christ is to
believe Christ. It's not to believe Christ and
something. It's not to hold on to Christ
and something. See, this was the problem with
the Hebrews, is that many of them embraced the way of Christ
initially. They saw that, they believed
that Christ was the Messiah. But they became embroiled in
the keeping of the law, and they started to put the law on the
same level with Christ. They said, well, it is that we
need to follow Christ, but also we should follow the law. Now,
brethren, that's not far from the way that a lot of the mindset
of men is, especially when they embrace the external things of
religion. Because they say, well, it's
good to trust Christ, but you also need to do these things.
Whatever they are, a myriad of things. It may be the way you
dress. It may be the way you comb your hair, the way you grow
your hair, or, you know, whatever. It may be a thousand different
things. It doesn't make any difference.
Because that which is faith in Christ realizes that it's Christ
in Christ alone that is the hope of our salvation. It's not Christ
plus these things, but it's Christ. And this is the place wherein
those who are the sons of God are the most likely to err. Let
us therefore fear lest the promise being left us of entering into
His rest, any of you should seem to come short of it. The rest
of Christ is that. We rest in Him. He is that one
who is our salvation. He's that one in whom we safely
trust. We're not expecting to receive
something from some other source. We're not waiting upon some great
revelation that some great teacher is going to bring to us. There
are great teachers in the world. If you don't believe it, just
ask some of them. They'll tell you they're the
apostles sent from the Lord or, you know, you need to listen
to me because this is a prophetic message or whatever. Woods is
full of them, TV especially. I mean, you can turn it on and
there's plenty of them out there telling you all these things.
I'm telling you it's nothing but Christ and Him crucified. Paul said that I determined to
know nothing among you but Jesus Christ and Him crucified, because
He is our rest. That's the place that we are.
There's the mystery of God. If you want to know what the
unfolding of the mysteries of God are, you're not going to
find them in somebody's book about prophecy. You're going
to find it in Christ, because He alone is the unfolding. of the truth of God to men. And
in him, if a man sees and knows Christ, what else does he need
to have? I mean, if a man knows Jesus
Christ, what else, let me ask you this, what else could he
possibly need to know? Now, I'm not saying that because
you know the name of Christ, I'm talking about if you know
Christ, like Paul said, oh, that I might know Him and the power
of His resurrection be made conformable to His sufferings. You see, if
a man knows Christ, he doesn't need anything else. If a man
knows Christ, somebody can't come along and snatch it away
from him. If a man knows Christ, somebody can't come along and
say, Oh, but you need this. It's good that you know that,
but you're not quite there yet. You need to have this little
bit of information that I've got. Brethren, there's no other
information that we need other than that which is revealed in
Jesus Christ. Nobody can come along and enable
you to have anything that the Spirit of God has not brought
to you in Christ. It's impossible. And so we sit
here, let us therefore fear, lest the promise being left us
of entering into His rest. Now brethren, we are entered
into the rest of Christ. There is a Sabbath-keeping to
the children of God. That's what that word rest means,
the Sabbath-keeping. He uses the illustration of the
Lord. When he had completed his work, what did he do? He rested. Now, was he tired? No, he wasn't
tired. He was finished. And so when
Jesus Christ fulfilled that which God sent him to do, he rested. He finished the work. He was
done. And, dear brethren, alas, a promise
being left for us of entering into that which is complete. See, that's what he's saying
here. For unto us was the gospel preached as well as unto them.
But the word preached did not profit them, not being mixed
with faith in them that heard it. Now, many people hear the
gospel. Many people hear it. That is,
at least with the natural ears. But until God who is rich in
mercy is pleased to cause man to hear it with those ears that
only he can open, it is not of any profit to him. The word preached
did not profit them because it was not mixed with faith. Now
faith is the gift of God, not of works lest any man should
boast. But when God gives a man faith,
he has that which is true. For we which have believed do
enter into rest. Now that sums it up in a nutshell. For we that do believe, for we
which have believed do enter into rest. What is the rest?
Christ. He is our rest. He's that resting
place. We don't want to go any farther.
I don't want to go any farther than that. I remember hearing
a story one time about B.B. Caldwell and some fellows. They
had had some kind of spiritual experience or something and they
came to B.B. Caldwell and they said to him,
Brother Caldwell says, you need to get this because this will
just carry you farther than you are now. He said, well, let me
ask you something. He says, is what I believe now
have me in Christ. And they said, well, yeah. He
said, that's as far as I want to go. Why? Because he was resting
in Christ. He didn't need anything else.
He went looking for something else. Now, the world is never
satisfied. Religious men are never satisfied. They're always looking for some
new experience. or something, you know, that's
greater and fuller and deeper and all of these things. But
I'm telling you that the fullness and the deepness of God is found
in Christ and nowhere else. For we which have believed do
enter into rest, as He said, as I sworn, if they shall enter
into my rest. Though the works were finished,
for He spoke in a certain place of the seventh day, And God did
rest the seventh day from all his works. And in this place,
if they shall enter into my resting, therefore it remaineth that some
must enter therein." If the Lord made a place wherein he would
have his people to enter, it remaineth that some must enter
in. Is that not true? I mean, does
God do things and then thwart it in His purpose? Of course
not. He purposed to save a people
in Christ, and those people shall be brought in. Therefore, it
remaineth that some must enter in, and they to whom it was first
preached entered not in. So there are some that hear the
Word, but they don't enter in. But there are some who hear the
Word and do enter in. Why do those that hear the Word
and don't enter in, not enter in? Because of unbelief. Why do those that enter in, enter
in? Because they believe. Now why
do they believe? Because of the grace of God,
the mercy of God, to give them the gift of faith. that they
embrace and say, Jesus Christ is all that I need. He is the
Savior, and I look no further. Again, He limiteth a certain
day, saying, Today, after so long a time, as it is said today,
if ye will hear His voice, harden not your hearts. Now, what is
the biggest worry that the child of God has when he reads the
Scripture like that? is that he'll harden his heart.
Why does a man fear that he'll harden his heart? Because the
Spirit of God is working in him. The Spirit of God is teaching
him what he is by nature. And he knows that this is speaking
to him. He knows, you see, we know, every
one of us, if we're born again by the Spirit of God, we have
that fear within us that we will turn and walk away. Because we
know how easily led astray we are. We know that. And we know
that we'll quit believing tomorrow. The man that thinks that he won't
ever quit believing is a man that's never been awakened to
the fact that he's lost. The man that thinks he'd never
be faithless is the man that's never known himself to be faithless.
Because when the Spirit of God teaches a man that he is faithless
by nature, then he fears that he could go back into that same
place again, does he not? But He knows there is one place
where He can find rest, and one place alone. And that's the only
place He wants to be. He doesn't want to be among those
that harden their heart. Now some people, they're not
worried about that at all. I mean, this falls on deaf ears.
A lot of people say, Oh, you know, we would never do that.
Well, be careful. The man that says he'll never
turn away from Christ is likely the man that will, because who
was it that voiced his determination to stand with Christ the loudest?
It was the Apostle Peter. He said, Oh no, not me. He said,
They all will, but buddy, you can count on me. The Lord said,
Peter, when you're converted, strengthen the brethren. Because
you see, when Peter was brought to a place to see what he was
by nature and know that he had no ability of his own self to
continue on, he was humbled at the feet of Christ. And so it
is. If Jesus had given them rest,
they would not afterward have spoken of another day. There
remaineth therefore a rest of the people of God." There is
a Sabbath-keeping for the people of God. It's not a day of the
week. It's not a time. It's not a season.
But the rest for the people of God is found in Christ. He is
our Sabbath. He is our Sabbath-keeper. He
is our Sabbath. He is our rest. Because we see
that in Him is all the work of God finished. When? From before the foundation of
the world. See, it was finished. The Scripture says here that
the Lord had finished His work before He ever did it. Huh? He said He finished it, but it
was already done. What does it mean? It means that
was His purpose. You see, when God purposes something,
it's as good as done. He doesn't have to carry it out
for it to be done. It's done because He purposed
it. The only reason that these things are carried out is so
that we might see them. See, you can't see the purpose
of God. You can't have any understanding
of the purpose of God. But the Lord Jesus Christ came
into the world to reveal the purpose of God. God who at sundry times and diverse
manners spake in time past, by the prophets hath in these last
days spoken unto us by His Son, who He has revealed, you see. God has revealed His purpose.
That's the only way you and I would have ever known what the purpose
of God is, is that God who is rich in mercy did come and send
His Son, Jesus Christ, into the world. made in the likeness of
sinful flesh. Did he do that for his benefit? No, he did it for ours. There remaineth therefore rest
to the people of God. Now look at this. For he that
is entered into his rest, he hath ceased from his own works. As long as a man is working, he's not resting, is he? Well, look at what it says in
the next verse. Let us labor. Wait a minute. See, that doesn't make any sense
to the natural man, does it? Well, here's the rest. Well,
brother, we're just going to rest. We're just not going to
do nothing. You don't say it back. He said,
let us labor therefore to enter in. Why? Because you see, when
God stirs up a man, He stirs him up to desire the way of Christ
and to desire to enter in there. And he's laboring to enter in
there. He's wanting to enter in there.
The Lord said that men up until the time of John, were entering
into the kingdom of God, he said, but now they take the kingdom
of God with violence. What does that mean? It means that the Spirit of God
calls a man to hunger and thirst after it. He wants it. He desires
it. He's not content just for somebody
to pat him on the back and say, well, you're a Christian. You
signed up. Here's your little card. This will do for you. No, sir. No, he wants to know
Christ. He wants to follow Him. He's
not interested in what men are telling him. He wants to know
the One who hung on Calvary's cross. He wants to follow His
way. Let us labor, therefore, to enter
into that rest, lest any man fall after the same example of
unbelief. Brethren, you see, It is a rest
in Christ that the Spirit of God causes the people of God
to hunger for, to labor after, to seek after, to go after, to
hunger and thirst for, to want with all that's within them.
That is the work of God. And that indicates that a man
has entered into the rest of Christ because he desires with
all that's in him. Not today. Not just today. Tomorrow. Next week. See, that's the work of God.
The work of God can always be known by the fruit that it bears.
I mean, it's an ongoing thing. Let us labor, therefore, to enter
into that rest, because he that has entered into his rest has
ceased from his own works. Now Cain, as Brother Al brought
up this morning, Cain was a man that rested in his own works. He said, Look what I've done
before the Lord. No faith involved in that. He
said, Look, here it is. This is what I've got. And such is the way of men. Dear
brethren, that's not the way to labor to enter into the rest.
That's the way to labor. See, a man can labor to labor,
or he can labor to enter into the rest. And every man on earth
is going to be doing one or the other by the grace of God. We've been made to labor to enter
into that rest because we know that Christ alone is the salvation
of sinners and no other help, no other hope. There's nothing
I can tell you to do or nothing you can tell me to do or whatever,
but it's to see Christ, to know Christ, to follow Christ, to
be in Christ. How does a man get there? By
the grace of God, by the mercy of God. Because those whom the
Lord has given grace to believe are those who call upon Him. For whosoever, the Scripture
says, for whosoever shall call upon the name of the Lord shall
be saved. Now why is that? It's because
God, which hath begun a good work in you, will perform it
until the day of Jesus Christ. You see, it's the Lord that causes
a man to call upon His name. Not just to say His name. A lot
of people say His name, but they never call upon the name. Whosoever
shall call upon the name of the Lord shall be saved. Now there
are many that call. They're told they're calling. They're given a formula to call.
They say, well, you called. Here it is. Write it down. If
you ever get a doubt in it, go back and read this card and you'll
know that you did. No. How does a man know that he's
calling upon the name of the Lord or that he called upon the
name of the Lord? It's because he's calling on
the name of the Lord. See, I don't look back and say,
well, I remember when I called on the Lord, then I can't do
anything else but call upon the Lord. He's my rest. He's my hope. I won't labor and
enter into His rest. I don't want to be found out
here trusting in something else but in that which is true. that
which has stood the test of time because it's established from
before the foundation of the world and it shall continue on
throughout eternity because of the fact that God has begun it
and He has caused it to come to pass. And He's given us a
desire to walk in His steps. What else can we do? Peter said
it. Lord, to whom shall we go? Thou
hast the words of eternal life. I've given up hope in everything
else. Some people, they're trying out new things every day. All
I want is Christ. I don't want to hear about new
things. I don't want somebody to come along and tell me some
new mystery or whatever. I just want Christ. May the Lord
give us grace that we might enter into that rest.