Transcript Slide 1

 A Promise that remains– vs. 1,6,7,9;
Titus 1:2
 Not the Sabbath rest – vs. 4; Gen 2:2; Exo
16:23; Exo 20:8-11; Deut 5:2-22; Neh 9:13-14;
Deut 5:12-15; Ep 2:14-15; Col 2:14-17
 Not the Canaan rest – vs. 8,9; Deut 3:20;
12:9-10; Josh 1:13-15; Josh 21:43-45; Ps 95:7-8
 Of entering “His Rest” – vs. 1,3,5,10;
3:11,18; Ps. 95:7-11; Rev 14:13
 Vs. 9-10 The rest comes when the labor
is done
 Rest from….
 Trials, tribulation, persecution, being a
minority
 Temptations, sin, Satan
 Evil people
 Weariness & physical drudgery of life
 Vs. 9-10 The rest comes when the labor
is done
 Rest with….
 The saints
 All the faithful of old
 The Lord Jesus Christ
 God Himself
 “Let us fear” – vs. 1,13; Ps. 33:8; 111:10; Prov.
1:7; Mat 10:28; Phili 2:12
 “The gospel was preached” - vs. 2,12; Mark
16:15; Rom 1:16; 10:14-17; Col. 1:5; 23
 “We who have believed do enter” – (Emphatic
futuristic present middle indicative of eiserchomai. We are sure to
enter in, we who believe.) vs.
1,2,7,11,12; cf. 3:14; John
8:24; Heb 11:6; Mk 16:16; Gal. 3:26,27; Rev 2:10
 “Let us therefore be diligent to enter that rest”
- vs. 11; 6:11; John 6:27; Phili 2:12; 2 Pet 1:5-11
 “Lest any of you seem to
have come short of it” –
vs. 1, 3:7-14; John 15:110; 1 Cor. 10:1-13
 “Did not enter because
of disobedience” – vs. 2,
6, 11; cf. 3:15-19; 5:8,9;
Mat 7:21-23; 2 John 9; 2
Pet 2:20-22
 “Today if you will hear His voice” – vs. 7
 “For the word of God is living . . .” vs. 12
 Timeless & permanently effective
 “Discerner of the thoughts & intents of
the heart”
 A response is demanded
 The honesty of the heart is exposed
 Any “wounds” from reading the Word?
Grace does not exclude conditions
Grace never excludes a healthy fear
Grace does not exclude faithfulness
It is possible to fall from grace - to “fail
to reach” the rest
 We must give an account to Him Who
sees all - vs. 13
 As the promise remains, so does God’s
threat
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