Are You Rested?

“Take rest; a field that has rested gives a bountiful crop.”

    Ovid;  (Ancient Roman Classical Poet)

 

Hebrews 4:6-11

      Therefore, since it remains for some to enter it, and those who formerly had good news preached to them failed to enter because of disobedience, He again fixes a certain day, “Today,” saying through David after so long a time just as has been said before, “Today if you hear His voice, Do not harden your hearts.”  For if 1Joshua had given them rest, He would not have spoken of another day after that.  So there remains a Sabbath rest for the people of God.  For the one who has entered His rest has himself also rested from his works, as God did from His.     Therefore let us be diligent to enter that rest, so that no one will fall, through following the same example of disobedience. (NASB95)

Have you rested from your works?  A lot of what defeats us is our own fault. We are either trying to meet someone’s approval or have set up a standard for our flesh and we are trying to prove our worth to society or to God.

Well are you ready for a rest? i hope so, I know that I am. I want to rest in the worth of what Jesus did for me on the cross and tell the world that it was enough. If we would all do that we would not feel defeated as much as we do.

Christ has paved the way for you and I and all we have to do is follow in His footsteps. Yes, He will carry you at times, but He still expects us to find His trail for ourselves and do our best to follow Him, and He will cover our mistakes. If we all sought the approval of Christ on our lives, many of our struggles would end…God Bless.

Pastor William

Truth…The Basis of Belief

 

“Whoever is careless with the truth in small matters cannot be trusted with important matters.”

Albert Einstein

John 8:43-47

     “Why do you not understand what I am saying? It is because you cannot hear My word.  “You are of your father the devil, and you want to do the desires of your father. He was a murderer from the beginning, and does not stand in the truth because there is no truth in him. Whenever he speaks a lie, he speaks from his own nature, for he is a liar and the father of lies. “But because I speak the truth, you do not believe Me. “Which one of you convicts Me of sin? If I speak truth, why do you not believe Me? “He who is of God hears the words of God; for this reason you do not hear them, because you are not of God.”

(NASB95)

In John  Chapter 14: vs 16-17 Jesus promised us a “Helper” ( The Holy Spirit) whose nature was described for us by Jesus as, “The Spirit of Truth.” The Spirit of Truth abides in each of us, and with each of us. He is an internal assurance and an outward witness of God’s truth in each of us.

Today’s world cannot receive the Holy Spirit of Truth. Christ told us that they could not see Him or know Him.  That means that truth only abides within the hearts of those that walk with The Holy Spirit and as Jesus said in John 16:13, it is because “The Spirit guides us into “ALL” truth.

The Holy Spirit will give us guidance for today and will give us knowledge of what is yet to come. That is why “Truth” is tied so tightly to “Hope.” We have confidence because the Holy Spirit is God’s lifeline for us while we are here. Do you “Love” the Truth? John 4:24 says it all, “God is Spirit and all who worship Him must worship Him in “Spirit and in “Truth…God Bless

Pastor William

Getting to The Point

 

The whole process of enlightenment and acceptance may be called coming to the knowledge of the truth

Wood, D. R. W. ;New Bible Dictionary

John 8:31-32  The Truth Will Make You Free

 So Jesus was saying to those Jews who had believed Him, “If you continue in My word, then you are truly disciples of Mine;   and you will know the truth, and the truth will make you free.” (NASB95)

    Coming to a knowledge of the truth is an important truth so often ignored within the Christian community. 2 Timothy Chapter 3 foretold this day, and we would be wise to listen to Bro. Tim’s advice.

The characteristics of last days behavior is described well in these verses, “unloving, without self-control, lovers of pleasure than of good,” are major statements within these verses that describe the reason it is so hard to get Christians committed to the church, much less a lost world.

It is time that we took seriously the words of Christ in John 12:46 “I have come as Light into the world, so that everyone who believes in Me will not remain in darkness.” That is strait to the point isn’t it, if you really love Him you remain in His Word and in His Light, you will not walk in darkness…God Bless.

Pastor William