Lest You Miss the REST

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Lest You Miss the REST
Heb. 41-13
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The Rest RemainsHeb. 41-10

• Key words a promise still stands
• Psa. 95 In Davids day, God repeated the threat
  of losing the rest
• Vs. 4-6 Emphasis on His rest (see vs. 10)
• Vs. 7 Today the promise remains
• Vs. 8-9 Joshua did not give rest therefore the
  rest remains

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Lest the Warning

• Vs. 1 Let us fear lest
• Grace never excludes a healthy fear
• It is possible to fail to reach the rest
• Vs. 2 they were not united by faith with those
  who listened (ESV)
• Vs. 3 As the promise remains, so does Gods
  threat

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Lest the Warning

• Vs. 6, 11 Since therefore it remains that some
  must enter itlet us therefore be diligent to
  enter that rest, lest

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Lest the Warning

• Vs. 6, 11 Since therefore it remains that some
  must enter itlet us therefore be diligent to
  enter that rest, lest
• Hard work urgency

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Lest the Warning

• Vs. 12 For living, powerful, sharper
• 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?

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Lest the Warning

• Vs. 13 And He sees all
• to whom we must give an account

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Lest the Warning

• Rev. 614-17 Then the sky receded as a scroll
  when it is rolled up, and every mountain and
  island was moved out of its place. And the kings
  of the earth, the great men, the rich men, the
  commanders, the mighty men, every slave and every
  free man, hid themselves in the caves and in the
  rocks of the mountains, and said to the mountains
  and rocks, "Fall on us and hide us from the face
  of Him who sits on the throne and from the wrath
  of the Lamb! For the great day of His wrath has
  come, and who is able to stand?"

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The Rest

• Gen. 2 indicates we are entering a greater,
  eternal rest
• Rev. 1413 And I heard a voice from heaven
  saying, Write this Blessed are the dead who die
  in the Lord from now on. Blessed indeed, says
  the Spirit, that they may rest from their
  labors, for their deeds follow them!

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The Rest

• 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

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The Rest

• Rest with.
• The saints
• All the faithful of old
• The Lord God Himself
• We Enter His Rest