Hebrews chapter 4. Let's begin reading the first
two verses. Hebrews 4 verses 1 and 2. Let us therefore, therefore takes
us back to chapter 3 and we'll look at that in just a moment.
Let us therefore fear 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, and again,
them are the ones he spoke of in chapter 3. But the word preached
did not profit them, not being mixed with faith in them that
heard it. In chapter 3 is the record of
the story of Israel during those 40 years of wandering in the
wilderness after leaving Egypt. Therefore, let's read a few verses
there and we'll have a better idea of what Paul talks about
in chapter 4. Look at verse 7 of chapter 3.
Verse 7 of Hebrews 3. Wherefore, as the Holy Ghost
saith, today if you hear his voice, my soul, Don't think it's possible to
overemphasize the importance of that. He that hath ears to hear our
Lord said, let him hear. Today, if you hear his voice,
if God Almighty, by his Spirit, condescend to speak to our hearts,
oh my soul, let's listen up, let's pay attention. He deserves
it. He deserves it. The day you hear
his voice, harden not your hearts, as in the provocation, in the
day of temptation in the wilderness, when your fathers tempted me,
and proved me, and saw my works for 40 years. Wherefore, I was
greed with that generation, and said, they do always ear in their
hearts, and they have not known my way. So I swear in my wrath,
They shall not enter into my rest. The writer uses what happened
to them and warns us to be sure that the same thing doesn't happen
to us. That's exactly what we're reading
here. Look at, you will, at verse 12
of Hebrews 3. He makes application of what
he just said. And he tells us, this is the
reason I'm saying. Hebrews 3 and 12, take heed, brethren, brethren,
take heed, lest there be in any of you, in any of you, an evil
heart of unbelief in departing from the living God. Now, Paul uses the same story
that is the children of Israel wandering for 40 years in the
wilderness in 1 Corinthians chapter 10. Would you turn there? First Corinthians chapter 10, verse 1. Paul writes, moreover
brethren, I would not have you to be ignorant without knowledge
that all our fathers were under the cloud and all passed through
the sea and were all baptized unto Moses in the cloud and in
the sea and did all eat the same spiritual meat and did all drink
the same spiritual drink, for they drank of that spiritual
rock that followed them, and that rock was Christ. But with
many of them God was not well pleased, for they were overthrown
in the wilderness." And then just like he did in Hebrews 3
and 4, here in 1 Corinthians 10, Paul makes application of
what we just read, verse 6 of 1 Corinthians 10. Now these things
were our examples. to the intent that we should
not lust after evil things as they also lusted. God did not
inspire that record in his word to be kept just to take up space. Paul says these are for your
examples. They're examples to you and I
not to do what they did. Look at verse 7 now of 1 Corinthians
10. We're still in 1 Corinthians
10. Verse 7, neither be ye adulterers, as were some of them, as it is
written, the people sat down to eat and drink and rose up
to play. Doesn't that sound familiar?
That's what most folks call worship today. Neither let us commit
fornication, as some of them committed. My soul, that's an
accepted practice now, isn't it? People living together, not
getting married, people don't bat an eye about that. It's just
accepted. Well, God doesn't accept it.
God still says it's sin and he'll judge people for it. And fell
in one day three and twenty thousand, verse 10. Neither let us tempt
Christ, as some of them also tempted and were destroyed of
the serpents. Neither murmur ye, as some of
them also murmured, and were destroyed of the destroyer. And
in verses 11 and 12, in that same chapter, 1 Corinthians 10,
Paul once again makes application of what he just now wrote. Now
all these things, he repeats, happen unto them for examples,
and they are written for our ammunition upon whom the ends
of the world are come. Wherefore, wherefore, let him
that thinketh he standeth take heed lest he fall." The same
story is used here in Hebrews 3. And the same application is
made of that story to warn us. Look at verse 19, verse 19, the
last verse in Hebrews 3. Here the writer makes application,
begins to. So we see that they could not
enter in because of unbelief. Let us therefore, ignore the
chapter break, let us therefore fear lest a promise be left us
of entering into his rest, any of you should seem to come short
of it. Israel did not enter the land
of promise, Canaan. And you know well, that was just
a type of heaven. Canaan was a type of the believer's
eternal rest in heaven, in glory. They didn't enter in because
of unbelief. And the writer tells us, be sure
that we do not miss heaven for the very same reason, that we
really don't possess faith. It's one thing to say it, It's
one thing to possess it. You've heard me say it, you probably
get tired of hearing me say it. Just about everybody I know professes
faith in Christ. But only those who receive the
grace of God and the gift of faith through grace really are
believers. It's exactly what we read again
and again in the word of God. You need not turn there, you're
familiar with this. Examine yourselves. whether you
be in the faith. That's important, isn't it? Notice
where Paul puts the emphasis. Examine yourself whether you
be in the faith, not whether you be in the church, whether
you be in the water, whether you be in the doctrine, whether
you be at an altar, but whether you be in the faith, whether
you believe on the name of the Son of God. Prove your own selves,
know ye not your own selves, how that Jesus Christ is in you,
except ye be reprobates? And again, 1 John 5, I love this. These things have I written unto
you, John said, that believe, that believe, not that have become
Baptist or Calvinist or Catholic or Protestant, no, you that believe
on the name of the Son of God, that you may know Oh, I like
John's dogmatism. Some people hate dogmatism. They
don't like dogmatic preachers. Oh, but my, so look what John
said. I want you to know. I don't want
you to doubt. I don't want you to pout. I want
you to know. You that truly believe, that
truly believe on the Son of God, not just with your lips, but
from your heart, I want you to know this. You've got eternal
life. You've got eternal life. I give my sheep eternal life,
Christ said. I give them everlasting life.
And I've heard people all my life say, well, you can still
be lost and go to hell. Really? Then why'd he call it
eternal life? Billy, if you can lose it, it's
not eternal, call it something else. But don't call it eternal
life. Christ said, no, no, no. I give
my sheep eternal life. The same life that's in the Son
of God is the same life, not a different life, that's in every
child of God right now. It'll never end. It'll never
end. That same everlasting glorious
life that flows from our head, it flows to every member of his
body. John said, I want you to know
that. I want you to know that you have eternal life and just
keep doing what you're doing. Just keep doing what you're doing
that ye may believe on the name of the Son of God. And Peter
was of the same mind as Paul, being inspired by the same Holy
Spirit when he wrote in his second epistle, chapter 1, verse 10,
Peter wrote to those suffering believers, wherefore the rather
brethren, give diligence. Don't take this for granted.
Don't take this for granted. Give diligence. I don't know. If I had a dollar for everybody
I've talked to that say they made a decision, that trust in
an old decision that stays old, that points back to a decision
they made when they were four years old or five years old,
somebody drug them to the altar and say, you don't want to go
to hell, no, I don't want to go to hell, we'll accept Jesus and blah, blah,
blah. That's it. That's it. Never give it a thought
afterwards. You ask them, where do you base
that hope? Well, I made a decision. Made a decision, I've been a
good boy all my life. Yeah, yeah, yeah, I'm fine, I'm fine. Never
give it serious consideration. Peter says don't do that, don't
be like that. Give diligence to make your calling and your
election sure. Oh, man, if you're called by
God, you're elect. You're elect, that's proof of
it. If you do these things, Peter
wrote, you will never fall. And then Peter went on in verse
13 of 2 Peter 1, he said, I think it is meet. That means it's fit,
it's proper, it's the right thing for me to do. As long as I'm
in this tabernacle, in this body, as long as I'm still alive in
this world, I think it's right. as long as I am in this tabernacle,
to stir you up by putting you in remembrance, knowing that
shortly I must put off this my tabernacle. Shortly, Peter said,
I'm going to lay this old body down. Dust thou were taken and
the dust shall return, even as our Lord Jesus Christ has showed
me. How important was this to Peter? Peter said, after I'm
gone, after I'm gone, after the body is in the ground, and I'm
in glory, I still want you to remember what I've told you now.
Don't forget this. Moreover, I will endeavor that
ye may be able after my decease, after my exodus, to have these
things always in remembrance. Don't forget. Is anything then
obviously? Can anything be of greater importance?
This thing of genuine faith will determine where I spend eternity. Me not figuring out who 666 is,
that's not gonna determine whether I go to heaven or hell. Me understanding
all the mysteries and all the prophecies and all this stuff,
that won't determine, but whether I know Jesus Christ, that will
determine. That's the one thing that will
determine where I spend eternity. No wonder Peter said, oh, don't
forget, remember, whether when I stand before God Almighty and
hear these wonderful words, And even as I'm about to read these
words, I'm thinking, oh, Larry, I can't help it. In my mind,
I'm thinking, oh, how soon, how soon it might be. I may be like
Peter right now this morning. I may be preaching you the last
sermon I'll ever preach. You may be hearing me for the
last time. And oh, by God's grace, with
Peter, I want to say, after my decease, remember these things. The faith in the Son of God will
determine whether I hear these wonderful, gracious words. Come,
ye blessed of my Father. Oh boy, what do you reckon that'll
be like? Come, ye blessed of my Father,
inherit the kingdom prepared for you from the foundation of
the world. And I go marching in the glory.
A trophy of Jesus Christ mighty redeeming grace, or these words,
depart from me. Can you think of anything more
awful than that? To hear the Son of God say, depart
from me, ye cursed into everlasting fire, prepared for the devil
and his angel. Oh, I pray to God none of y'all
hear those, hear those awful words. In Luke chapter 13, concerning
our Lord Jesus Christ, he went through the cities and villages,
teaching and journeying toward Jerusalem, and said one unto
him, Lord, are there few that be saved? Are there few that
be saved? Listen to what he said. Listen
to his answer. Luke 13 verse 24. He said to
them, strive to enter in at the straight gate. Strive. Strive. Don't take it for granted. Strive. Make your calling and election
sure. Strive to enter into the straight gate. For many, not
one or two deceived moonies or some other nut. No, but many,
I say unto you, will seek to enter in and shall not be able. Why? Because once the master,
the master, The Lord Jesus Christ himself, once the master of the
house has risen up and have shut the door, and ye begin to stand
without him to knock at the door, saying, Lord, Lord, open unto
us. And he shall answer and say unto you, I tell you not, I know
not from whence ye are. In John chapter 6, I've not forgot
where my text is. I'm just laying this down as
a foundation for the message. In John chapter six, you remember
the disciples found themselves in a desert place, I think it's
called. And there's been multitudes following
Christ, listening to him, his message. And they don't have
anything to eat. And the day's almost gone, it's
evening time, supper time's back. You know the story. And our Lord,
with five fishes and two loaves, some little fellow's lunch, he
took it and fed 5,000 men besides the women and the children. What
a miracle. What a sight that must have been.
Afterwards, he and the disciples get in the ship and cross to
the other side. When these people looked around
and said, where did he go, where did he go? I don't know how many,
it was a multitude of them. They took ships and they crossed
the other side looking for him. This is where we pick up the
story, John 6 verse 25. And when they had found him on
the other side of the sea, they said unto him, Rabbi, Master,
when comest thou hither? Jesus answered them and said,
Verily, verily, I say unto you, You seek me not because you saw
the miracles. You really don't believe they
testify as to who I really am. But because you did eat of the
loaves and were filled. I can't help but think how this
sounds so much like most people's religion today. Preachers, so-called
preachers, God's got a miracle with your name on it. You just send me a love offering
and I'll send you this miracle water or some other nonsense.
No. They serve God for profit, make
merchandise out of men's souls. That was sort of like these folks.
Our Lord said, you follow me just because you're hungry again.
That's the only reason you follow me. because I fed you, now you
want me to feed you again. And listen to what he said, labor
not for the meat which perisheth, but for that meat which endureth
unto everlasting life, which the Son of God shall give you,
you can't earn it. Oh, but you ask him, he'll give
it to you. Shall give unto you, for him
have God the Father sealed. And then in verse 11, back in
Hebrews four. Let's go back to Hebrews four,
verse 11. The apostle, the writer, makes
application to what he said and he said in verse 11, let us labor,
that's what our Lord said then, labor for that meat which perishes
not. Let us labor therefore to enter into that rest, lest any
man fall after the same example of unbelief. Now looking at verses
9 and 10 of this same chapter, the subject is the believer's
rest. Verse 10 speaks of the true child of God's present rest,
resting in the grace of Jesus Christ. Religion makes you tired,
don't it? Religion will wear you out. You'll
work your fingers to the bone and still be lost, still don't
know God, all but come to Christ and you have the sweet rest of
trusting his finished work. That's what verse 10 speaks of.
And verse 9 speaks of the believer's future resting glory in heaven
with Christ. Verse 10, resting in the grace
of Christ. Verse 9, resting with the Christ
of all grace in heaven. First of all, and I won't be
long, the title of my message, and I hope you like this, Rest
Here and Rest Hereafter. Rest here and rest hereafter. This is the blessed rest Our
Lord promised in Matthew 11, verse 10, is the rest now. For he that is entered into his
rest, he also has ceased from his own works as God did from
his. Rest. Oh, don't you get physically
get tired? So I've got a list I put on my
phone, reminders. A to-do list. And they're not
all honeydoons. Things I want to do. It seems
like it never, it never stops. I like to look at that thing
sometimes, the day you don't have nothing you have to do.
You just get tired, just get tired. I like to have a day just
to rest. Just lay down and rest. Rest
your body, rest your mind. How sweet, how sweet that is. The rest now. This is the rest that our Lord
spoke of in Matthew 11. Have you experienced this? Have
you experienced this? Matthew 11 and 28, we know them
just about by heart, don't we? These words, come unto me all
ye that labor. And there were people around
him laboring. That's what the Pharisees did. If you wanna enter
heaven, you gotta labor. You gotta touch not, taste not,
and believe everything we say. You gotta dot every I and cross
every T. You got to live an upright moral
life. You got to be like us. Labor
to do that. And they just make people two-fold
more a child of hell as they were themselves. The Lord said,
watch out for them hypocrites. And then he turned to the multitude
and said, you really want to rest? You really want peace? You want more than what the Pharisees
teach you? You want more than living under
the law? You want more than what Moses
instructed? He says, then this is where you
get it. This is what you do. Come with me. Come unto me. My prayer right now, child of
God, is that our Lord would draw back the curtain of our memories
right now and remind us, oh, how sweet it was when he allowed
us to do that very thing. Come unto me, all ye that labor
and are heavy laden, and I will give you rest. Nobody else can. Mama tried, didn't work. Grandma
tried, didn't work. Preacher tried, it didn't work.
Saul Winters tried, it didn't work. I tried, it didn't work.
Oh, but when the Son of God said, come to me, Larry, come to me.
You're going everywhere else but to me. People are pointing
you in every direction but me. Come unto me. I will give you
rest. Take my yoke upon you. Learn
of me. For I am meek and lowly in heart,
and you shall find rest. That's the rest that our text
speaks of. Ye shall find rest unto your souls. My burden is
easy. My yoke is easy, rather, and
my burden is light. Robin and I, while we were staying
in Danville with Rex and Debbie Bartley, they took us out to
a place called Shaker Town, not too many miles from where they
lived. I'd lived in that area for 20 years, and I never did
go to Shaker Town. I'd heard of it, but I'd never
gone there. We took the tour through Shaker
Town. These were people that founded the village and town
there in the early 1800s, I think it was. And the tour guide gave
us the history of the Shakers. They were religious folks, you
know, withdraw from the world and touch, not taste, not handle
that. And we visited the old buildings. After the guide finished
her tour, we walked through the building, still standing there,
wonderful workmanship. I mean, 200, over 200 years old,
the building's still standing. They've been, of course, upkept. The original pillars and stuff,
I mean, marvel, but they had pictures in these rooms, just
plain rooms. They had the dresses of the women
still hanging on pegs. That's how they hung stuff, on
pegs in the wall, just long dresses, and they had pictures. And one
thing I noticed in these pictures, these women dressed from head
to cover, they had everything but their eyeballs. The men just
about did too, and I looked at it. In every building I went
in where there was a picture, I looked at it. I never saw a
smile. I never saw a smile on any face.
And it's no wonder. They all looked sad. They all
looked miserable. And you know why? I'm not surprised.
Because those folks thought they were working their way to heaven.
That's exactly right. They thought they were working
their way to heaven. They were in the same boat. that
Paul said his brethren were in. He said, I bear them record.
I have a heart's desire and prayer to God that Israel might be saved. They have a zeal for God. I'll
give them that. But it's wrong. It's not right.
For they're ignorant of God's righteousness, and they're going
about to establish their own righteousness. That's what the
Shakers were doing. And they have not submitted themselves
unto the righteousness of God. For Christ is the end of the
law, the purpose, the fulfillment. of the law for righteousness
to everyone that believe it. Oh, how vastly different. How
vastly different it is to enter into that rest that comes from
Jesus Christ himself when he speaks to our hearts words like
this, thy sins which are many are all forgiven thee. How about
that, Billy Cobb? How about that? The Shakers never experienced
that. Those Paul wrote about never experienced that. No one
experienced that except those who come to the Son of God. They
cease from their own works and they enter into rest. Thy sins,
which are many, are all forgiven thee, O my soul. That just sounds
good. That sounds refreshing just to
hear the word. Christ says, go in peace. Go
in peace. The preacher can't do it, the
priest can't do it, no man can do it, but the Prince of Peace,
when he speaks, it produces peace with God and peace of God in
your heart, in your heart. He is our peace, Ephesians 2,
the Lord Jesus Christ himself. He is our peace and he came and
preached peace to you which are afar off. How peaceful, how peaceful. What a rest entering into this
produces. As the hymn writer put it, my
sin, oh, the bliss of this glorious thought. My sin, not in part,
but the whole, is nailed to his cross and I bear it no more. Praise the Lord, praise the Lord,
oh, my soul. I think I can just lay down and
rest on that. Can't you? Ho, listen, listen. Ho, everyone that thirsteth. Am I, am I, addressing someone
like that. Ho, everyone that thirsteth,
come ye to the waters. And he that hath no money, come,
buy and eat, come, buy wine and milk, without money and without
price. Just come, come unto me. Wherefore do you spend money
for that which is not bread? I mean, you work, and you labor,
and you strive, and you get, and you're still not satisfied.
You go around, and you get all you can get, and you're still
not satisfied. You're still not happy. You still don't have peace.
Why do you spend money for that which is not bread, and your
labor for that which doesn't satisfy? Hearken diligently unto
me, and eat ye that which is good, and let your soul delight
itself in fatness. Incline your ear unto me. Come
here, and your soul shall live. And I will make an everlasting
covenant with you, even the sure mercies of David." What a joy
it is to be taught of God and to learn that. God made Christ
to be sin for me who knew no sin that I might be made the
very righteousness of God in him. Oh, I can rest there, can't
you? I can rest there like old Toplady
wrote. It's not the labors of my hands
that can fulfill your law's demands. Could my zeal no respite know?
Could my tears forever flow? All for sin could not atone.
God, you must save, and you alone. Oh, what a blessed relief it
was to learn that by grace are you saved through faith. And
that's not of yourselves, it's the gift of God, not of works,
lest any man should boast. Oh, what a sweet relief. It was
to learn that. What a sweet relief it was to
experience what old John Newton wrote about, didn't he? Everybody
knows the hymn Amazing Grace. Everybody can just about recite
it. Oh, but do they know the experience that old Newton was
talking about? Do you know why he said it's
amazing grace? It was grace that taught my heart
to fear and grace my fears relieved. Like old Burden, a redder old
Christian pilgrim coming up to the cross, and that Burden that
was on his back crushing his soul down to hell. When I came
up to the cross, that Burden fell off my back. And it started
rolling and tumbling, doing flip-flops all the way down, and it fell
into a scepter, and I saw it again no more forever. Oh, glory to his name. What a
relief. Grace that taught my heart to
fear and grace my fears to leave. Oh, how precious did that grace
appear the hour I first believed. Verse 9 speaks of the rest hereafter. Here's the rest hereafter. That's
the rest that's remaining. There remaineth therefore a rest
to the people of God. I first heard Don tell the story
and I've used it here before. You've heard it before. But I
think it fits good here. Someone's telling the story about
when they were at home, and I can identify with this. I can apply
this to my own time as a child growing up at home. Four brothers,
four sisters, nine of us at the table. My daddy never did make
a whole lot of money. Mom, I don't know how she did
it, but she did it. But I tell you what, desserts
for us were a rarity. They were a rarity. We didn't
get dessert after every meal. Only time we had dessert was
on Sunday. On Sunday. You know the story. Someone was
in a situation sort of like mine. And then when everyone had eaten,
and Mom would say, Mom would tell us, keep your fork. Hold
on to your fork. We knew something better was
coming. Child of God, something better is coming. Weeping is
enduring through the night. Oh, but joy, everlasting, eternal
joy, uninterrupted joy is coming in the morning. It's on its way.
Every sinner has tasted for himself that the Lord is gracious. Remember
this, grace, that grace now is a guarantee, is a proof, is a
foretaste of glory. Thank God there is something
even greater remaining for a child of God to be with him. The believer's rest here is just
a prelude to rest hereafter. Psalm 84 verse 7, they go from
strength to strength, a believer. Every one of them in Zion appeareth
before God. For the Lord God is our sun and
shield. The Lord will give grace. The
Lord will try to give grace. That's not what it says. The
Lord might give grace, if you allow him to give grace. No,
no, no. The Lord will give grace. Rest now, but that's not all.
And glory, rest hereafter. Not because of anything in us
or done by us, because he gives. Because God, who has saved us
and called us with a holy calling, not according to our works. Well,
then what? According to his own purpose
and grace, which was given us in Christ Jesus before the world
began. Mr. Spurgeon commented on the
Song of Solomon, verse 2 of chapter 6, which reads this way. My beloved
has gone down into his garden to the beds of spices that feed
in the gardens and to gather lilies. This is what old Spurgeon
said. Brethren, saints are prepared
to go before they go. Our Lord does not pluck his fruit
unwisely. Foolish people may tear the green
apples from the tree with a pull, and bruise them as they throw
them in the basket. But our Lord values his fruit,
and so he waits until it is quite ripe, and then he gathers it
tenderly. When he puts forth his hand,
the fruit bows down to him, and parts from the branch without
a strain. When the believer comes to die,
it will not be an end which he feared, but an end which he expected."
All that the Father giveth me shall come to me in time and
in eternity, every one of them. And him that cometh unto me I
will no wise cast out. I cannot imagine what this will
be like. I saw a new heaven and a new
earth, for the first heaven and the first earth were passed away
and there was no more sea. And I, John, saw the holy city,
new Jerusalem, the church, the bride of Christ, coming down
from God out of heaven, prepared as a bride, adorned for her husband. Oh, here comes the bride, without
spot or wrinkle or any such thing. And I heard a great voice out
of heaven saying, behold, behold, the tabernacle of God is with
men, and he will dwell with them, and they shall be his people,
and God himself shall be with them and be their God, and God
shall wipe away all tears from their eyes, and there shall be
no more death, What would that be like? No more
death, neither sorrow, no more crying,
neither should there be any more pain of any kind, not pain in
body, pain in mind, for the former things are passed away. As I
read those verses in Revelation chapter 1, what a sweet and sure
promise of rest hereafter, I remember In one of the conversations I
had with Brother Kenny, he said, Brother Larry, I can't help but
wonder why my life has turned out like
it has. I don't know why I'm the way
I am. It was on the phone. If he could
have seen me, he'd have seen me wiping tears away. I said,
Kenny, I don't know why. But I believe one day when you
see Jesus Christ as He is, and you're like Him, you'll know,
and you'll never again have any afflictions of any kind, not
in your body and not in your mind, ever, ever again. And He
that sat upon the throne said, Behold, I make all things new.
And He said unto me, Write, for these words are true and faithful.
And He said unto me, It is done, I'm Alpha and Omega, The beginning
and the end I will give unto him that is a thirst of the fountain
of the water of life freely. Yes, when this flesh and heart
shall fail and mortal life shall cease, I shall possess within
the veil a life of joy and peace. What will it be like to love
our God perfectly with an unsinning heart? An undivided heart. for him to have our full attention. My soul. Behold what manner of love the
Father hath bestowed upon us, that we should be called the
sons of God. Therefore the world knoweth us not, because it knew
him not. Beloved, now are we the sons
of God, and it doth not yet appear what we shall be, but we know
that when he shall appear we shall be like him, for we shall
see him as he is. When the passing world is done,
when it has sunk yon glaring sun, when we stand with Christ
in glory, looking o'er life's finished story, then, Lord, shall
I fully know, but not till then, how much I owe. When I hear the
wicked call on the rocks and hills that fall, when I see them
start and shrink on the fiery deluge brink, then, Lord, shall
I fully know, not till then, how much I owe, and when I stand
before the throne. And when I stand before thy throne,
dressed in beauty not my own, when I see thee as thou art,
love thee with unsinning heart, then, Lord, shall I fully know,
not to them, how much I owe them. And I heard a voice from heaven
saying unto me, Write, Blessed are the dead which die in the
Lord from henceforth. Yea, saith the Spirit, that they
may rest from their labors, and their works do follow them. Amen.