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 Please do have a seat, it's super to see you here this morning.

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 If I could invite you to take your Bibles again and turn back to the book of Hebrews.

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 We are in our series and this is the fourth installment and our series is called Out from the Shadows.

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 As we start to see Jesus maybe in a different way to how we've seen him before this morning,

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 we're looking in chapter 4 at Jesus, our promised rest.

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 Hebrews is written to a disturbed group of Jewish Christians who are facing persecution, pressure and doubts.

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 And they're starting to drift away from the Lord Jesus.

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 Jesus is starting to be in their rear view mirror as they continue on their journey of life.

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 And so the writer to the Hebrews writes them this letter to intercept them and bring them back.

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 To get in front of them and point them back to the Lord Jesus.

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 He writes this wonderful letter to thrill their hearts with who Jesus is.

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 And to say if you lose Jesus you lose everything.

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 He's telling them don't do a U-turn on the gospel but stick in with Jesus Christ.

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 In chapter 1 we saw that Jesus was 100% God.

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 The one given the name that is superior to angels and illustrates how superior Jesus is to all other people.

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 In chapter 2 we saw that Jesus was 100% man.

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 That he took on flesh.

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 That he is our unashamed brother.

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 That he became lower than the angels for a little while.

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 And as such he conquers our eternal enemies of sin, Satan and death.

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 And then last week with Graham we saw this great challenge.

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 This great warning to these people about the danger of hearing from God and turning away.

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 Just like the Exodus generation who all died in the desert because of their unbelief.

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 Which brings us nicely into chapter 4 which carries on that same argument.

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 That same argument about the rest that Jesus offers.

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 So I'm going to read Hebrews chapter 4 verses 1 to 13.

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 And as I read I want you to listen for a word that's repeated 10 times in these 13 verses.

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 So we'll need to listen carefully.

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 Here we go.

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 Hebrews chapter 4 verse 1.

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 Therefore since the promise of entering his rest still stands.

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 Let us be careful that none of you be found to have fallen short of it.

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 For we also have had the good news proclaimed to us just as they did.

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 But the message they heard was of no value to them.

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 Because they did not share the faith of those who obeyed.

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 Now we who have believed enter that rest.

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 Just as God has said.

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 So I declared on an oath in my anger they shall never enter my rest.

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 And yet his works have been finished since the creation of the world.

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 For somewhere he has spoken about the seventh day in these words.

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 On the seventh day God rested from all his works.

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 And again in the passage above he says they shall never enter my rest.

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 Therefore since it still remains for some to enter that rest.

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 And since those who formerly had the good news proclaimed to them did not go in because of their disobedience.

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 God again set a certain day calling it today.

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 This he did when a long time later he spoke through David.

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 As in the passage already quoted.

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 Today if you hear his voice do not harden your hearts.

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 For if Joshua had given them rest.

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 God would not have spoken later about another day.

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 There remains then a Sabbath rest for the people of God.

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 For anyone who enters God's rest also rests from all his works.

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 Just as God did from his.

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 Let us therefore make every effort to enter that rest.

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 So that no one will perish by following their example of disobedience.

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 For the word of God is alive and active.

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 Sharper than any double edged sword.

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 It penetrates even to dividing soul and spirit.

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 Joints and marrow.

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 It judges the thoughts and attitudes of the heart.

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 Nothing in all creation is hidden from God's sight.

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 Everything is uncovered and laid bare before the eyes of him.

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 To whom we must give an account.

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 Anybody tell me what the word was?

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 God?

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 That was repeated a lot of times.

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 It wasn't the one I was thinking of.

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 I'll give you a clue.

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 The four dashes on the screen might give us an idea.

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 Rest.

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 There we go.

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 Ten times God mentions rest or rests or rested.

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 See as well at the beginning and end of our passage there's an exhortation.

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 Kind of like a sandwich.

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 Chapter 4 verse 1b.

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 Let us be careful that none of you be found to have fallen short of it.

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 And then in verse 11.

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 Let us therefore make every effort to enter that rest.

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 So that no one will perish by following their example of disobedience.

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 What is really on offer here is rest.

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 And the writer is saying make every effort.

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 Leave no stone unturned.

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 Don't hold back.

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 Don't be lazy.

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 But persevere and pursue the rest that God is offering.

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 The average person is exposed to 3,500 adverts a day.

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 They see them on billboards, on bus stops, on the side of buses, in newspaper magazines, junk mail, TV commercials, those emails you never sign up for but always come, placards, posters, sponsorship logos.

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 A million different ways the consumerist mantras enter our field of existence.

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 And at base level all advertising is promise making.

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 All advertising is promise making.

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 The advertisers are promising you things.

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 And they say if you buy these you will not be disappointed.

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 You will be utterly fulfilled.

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 It will be everything that you wanted it to be.

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 Will Rogers, the early 20th century actor said advertising is the art of convincing people to spend what they don't have on something they don't need.

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 And advertising executive B.O. Puckett described his company like this.

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 It is our job to make women unhappy.

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 Unhappy with what they have and who they are.

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 And once that is achieved to show them our products that promise to make them happy.

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 So we have beauty products that convince us that to look old is a great problem.

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 You should be very worried about looking old.

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 And therefore if you buy this cream you needn't worry about looking old.

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 You can rest in peace because this will solve all your problems.

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 A promise is made by our product.

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 Problem solved.

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 Rest accomplished.

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 Or the person with a cluttered life who misses all his phone calls, never gets his emails responded to in time,

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 is utterly amazed in chaos.

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 He is shown an iPhone that will solve all his problems.

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 And in this one device will be efficiency, organisation and straightforwardness.

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 Worried about missing, buy an iPhone.

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 No problem.

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 That's not a promise.

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 That's true.

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 Or the man terrified by what his car says about him.

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 Worried about his unreliability and its pollution level.

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 And he's shown a top spec, ultra gleaming new one and suddenly worry is over.

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 Rest assured.

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 We've got you covered.

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 Our car will fit the bill.

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 Or you're trying to book the family holiday and you've been on TripAdvisor.

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 You're terrified about wasting money getting stuck at a hotel covered in tarantulas.

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 And being accosted and ripped off by the locals.

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 And then you're showing this family on a beautiful holiday by a reputable holiday company.

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 Don't worry.

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 Rest assured.

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 We've got you covered.

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 Don't fear anymore.

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 Loads of products promise peace of mind.

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 Rest from worry.

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 And to solve any and every problem.

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 Real rest.

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 Super satisfaction.

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 No more worry.

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 Okay.

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 British essayist Samuel Johnson commented,

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 Promise.

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 Life-changing promise is the soul of all advertising.

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 What we have before us this morning in Hebrews chapter 4 is kind of like an advert written by God himself to us.

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 An advert about life-changing promise.

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 An advert about where we find ourselves in our lives.

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 Worried.

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 Stressed.

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 Tired.

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 Exhausted.

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 Dissatisfied.

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 And he writes this advert to tell us about something that he's promising us.

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 But it's not hollow promise or transient hope.

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 It is absolute reality that he holds out to each of us this morning.

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 It is the promise of his rest.

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 If there was an advertising slogan, it would be this.

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 God's real rest really delivers.

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 Don't miss out.

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 God's real rest.

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 God's real rest really delivers.

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 Don't miss out.

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 It's not the most straightforward passage.

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 It's kind of in line with rabbinic argument where he's trying to take Psalm 95 and that concept of rest and Genesis 2.2 and that concept of rest and merge them together.

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 That's why it reads a little bit clunky to our Western ears.

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 But if you were a first century Jew, this would be right where you're at.

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 You would understand it.

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 No problem.

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 So I think our task this morning is relatively easy.

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 We're going to look at rest, what it is.

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 And rest, how do we get it?

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 Rest, what it is.

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 Rest, how do we get it?

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 So let's do some work.

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 Rest, what is it?

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 Rest, what is this rest?

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 Is it just simply that we get a slumber light duvet, a nice mattress, a onesie, and we can just curl up?

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 Is that what God is offering us?

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 Well, I think we can say three things from this passage about what this rest is.

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 First of all, it is better than what Joshua secured.

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 Look at verse 8.

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 Do you know that feeling when you arrive home after a busy day?

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 You just put everything on, don't you?

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 Onesie on, slippers on, heating on, telly on, kettle on.

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 And there's that great feeling as your feet get put on the footstool, you think, wow.

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 Finally rest at the end of a busy day.

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 That feeling of being home at last.

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 Well, that must have been how the Exodus generation, how Joshua's generation felt when they got into the promised land.

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 They've been walking there for a long time.

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 They've been hoping for it.

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 They've seen lots of generation die in the desert.

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 And they get, as they cross the Jordan, they think, wow, we're finally home.

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 And yet, though that was real rest that God really offered,

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 and in the law, the land is described as God's rest.

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 Of being safe on Canaan side is real rest really arrived at.

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 We see that it's still not everything that it's meant to be.

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 So at the end of Joshua, we read,

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 And the Lord gave them rest on every side, just as he had sworn to their fathers.

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 Not one of all their enemies had withstood them,

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 for the Lord had given all their enemies into their hands.

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 So God is saying, I've really given you rest.

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 And yet, when David writes Psalm 95, which is hundreds of years later after this,

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 he's still saying there's rest on offer.

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 That if that was real rest, why then is David talking about rest again?

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 David is in the land.

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 He's the king of the land.

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 It's the golden era of Israelite life.

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 So if Joshua had been final rest, why is David still going on about a rest still to come?

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 Why does he pen Psalm 95, picking up this theme of rest, saying you can enter it today?

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 This is real prosperity in God's land of rest.

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 And yet, David is saying, there's another rest.

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 There's more rest.

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 There's a better rest to come.

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 So God's rest that he's offering us today is better than what Joshua secured.

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 But we also see that it's participation in God's own rest.

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 Look at verse 3.

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 They shall never enter my rest.

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 God speaking, or verse 9.

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 There remains a Sabbath rest for the people of God.

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 That God seems to say this rest, this rest on offer is his rest.

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 He says it is my rest.

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 It is the rest that I experience, that I own, that I am governor of.

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 This is earth-shattering.

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 That the rest on offer in Hebrews 4 in this advert is entry into the divine rest enjoyed by God himself.

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 It is rest of the magnitude of a master painter standing back from the canvas and resting in what he's done.

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 And resting in a completed work and taking real satisfaction from what he sees.

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 That rest experience by God on the seventh day when he stands back after six days of creation and says, no, it's perfect.

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 That rest.

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 It's like the satisfaction.

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 I'm sure I've never experienced it.

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 Of standing on top of the podium with a gold medal.

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 After years of toil and sweat and struggle and getting up early and doing countless reps.

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 And you stand on top of the podium and you're satisfied.

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 I've done it.

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 It's completed.

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 It's completed.

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 It's completed.

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 Or like the unstoppable smile and thrill of parents being handed their newborn child for the first time.

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 It's been a long time coming.

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 About nine months I'm led to believe.

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 And the last bit's apparently rather painful.

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 And then you get handed a baby and there's a satisfaction.

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 We're parents.

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 It's like all those things.

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 Master painter, Olympic gold medalist, new parents.

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 It's like all those but on a God-sized scale.

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 Satisfaction of creating a very good world and unspeakable perfection and unfathomable genius.

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 And standing back and resting from that work.

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 I've done it.

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 It is that rest that God is inviting us into this morning.

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 There remains a Sabbath rest.

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 A rest like God experiences himself.

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 I think a helpful way to explain it is this rest is being in God's perfect world with God enjoying us and us enjoying God.

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 This rest is to be in God's perfect world with God enjoying us and us enjoying God.

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 That's what's on offer.

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 That's what he's holding out to us this morning.

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 And that is what we're all longing for deep down.

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 That kind of rest that we were created for.

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 We were created to be in God's perfect world with God enjoying us and us enjoying God.

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 That's what he's holding out.

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 That's what's being recovered and held out to us this morning.

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 So Augustine, the early church father, wrote,

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 This rest of being in God's perfect world with God enjoying us and us enjoying God,

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 which brings us nicely to the third thing we can say about what this rest is.

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 It is both a present reality, but also a future hope.

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 Look with me at verse 3.

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 Now we who have believed enter that rest.

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 Now we who have believed enter that rest, present tense.

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 But just flick down to verse 11.

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 Let us therefore make every effort to enter that rest,

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 so that no one will perish by following their example of disobedience.

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 That seems to be a future reality.

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 We who have believed enter that rest now, but we're also to make every effort to enter that rest future.

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 That this rest on offer is both a present reality and a future hope.

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 So which one is it?

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 Is rest now or is it later?

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 And the answer is it's both.

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 God's rest is a present reality.

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 It is possible now to know something of that rest.

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 If you like the second half of our definition,

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 it is possible now for God to enjoy you and you to enjoy God.

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 That is available.

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 But you're not yet in God's perfect world.

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 That is a future reality.

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 So we get like a foretaste now of what it is to have peace with God,

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 peace with others through the Lord Jesus.

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 It's possible to enjoy God too,

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 witness his glory and have to the sustaining satisfaction of being in relationship with him.

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 But as yet we're still in a sin-tainted world,

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 so it's not yet.

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 There is a present reality and a future hope.

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 So what we have on offer is revolutionary rest.

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 Rest that far exceeds the promised land.

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 Rest of divine nature that starts now and continues on into eternity.

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 It becomes ultimate rest.

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 Ultimate rest for being forever in God's perfect world,

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 with God enjoying us and us enjoying God.

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 That's what he's holding up to us.

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 That is the adverse.

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 This real rest really delivers.

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 And if you missed out, there's no rest.

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 There's no rest now and there's no rest in eternity.

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 You miss out.

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 You just lose.

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 And you lose everything.

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 It is rest on offer today.

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 But you can miss out.

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 That is what the writer is in such page to tell them.

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 Today if you hear his voice, don't harden your heart.

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 Don't miss out.

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 Make every effort to enter that rest.

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 Don't turn back.

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 Don't turn away.

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 Don't cash in.

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 Don't tap out.

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 They are flirting with falling short in danger of perishing.

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 They risk this life-changing news being of no value

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 because they're not acting on what they are hearing.

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 They're in church.

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 They're nodding along to the message,

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 but there's nothing going on in their hearts.

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 Which brings us to the second point.

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 Rest.

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 How do we get it?

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 If it's that good, that satisfying, that eternal, that beautiful,

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 how do we get it?

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 How do we know we've attained that rest?

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 How do we take hold of what God is offering?

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 I think the writer to the Hebrews again gives us real indicators in this passage.

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 He gives us four of them.

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 He says you've got to trust God's promise, verses 1 and 2.

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 Therefore, since the promise of entering his rest of stands,

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 let us be careful that none of you be found to have fallen short.

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 For we also have had the good news proclaimed to us just as they did.

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 But the message they heard was of no value to them

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 because those who heard did not combine it with faith.

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 They had the promise, but they just left it on the shelf.

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 God gave them this gift, but they left it unwrapped.

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 They left it wrapped under the tree.

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 He's saying that this is the promise,

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 and to take hold of it, you need to lean your whole life upon it.

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 You need to trust it.

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 You need to invest in it.

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 You need to believe what God is saying and trust what he's holding out.

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 This is good news that God promises us rest,

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 and it becomes efficacious if we trust it.

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 And say, God, yes, I believe that you can deliver what you're offering,

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 and I want it, so I trust you for it.

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 The Exodus generation, they didn't cash in.

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 They didn't trust God.

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 They did not enter God's rest.

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 So I love Amazon almost as much as I love Apple.

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 And in Amazon, you get a lightning deal,

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 which is a remarkable discount only available for a few hours.

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 And I'm always on there, and I always see things,

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 and I think, that would be great.

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 I'll look at it in a couple of hours, and it's gone.

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 The window closes.

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 The window is closing on this, God says.

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 Still remains for some to enter that rest today.

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 Enter that rest.

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 Don't miss out.

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 The window is closing.

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 This rest is unmissable.

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 And yet, if you don't act, you will miss it.

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 You will miss the chance,

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 through trusting this promise of being in God's perfect world,

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 with God enjoying you,

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 and you enjoying God.

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 The clock is ticking.

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 While it is still today, make sure you don't miss out.

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 Are you trusting God's promise today?

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 When he says, I want to give you rest,

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 are you saying, yes, God, I believe that?

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 Does it just wash over your head,

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 in one ear and out the other?

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 And does it provoke a heart response in our lives?

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 Second way we can be sure that we've got it,

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 is if we're obeying God's command,

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 and responding to God's voice.

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 In verse 2, the idea is of not having faith,

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 but in verses 6 and 11,

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 see how the words change to disobedience.

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 Now trust and obedience do go together.

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 If we trust what someone says,

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 we'll obey what they ask.

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 If someone gives the greatest gift imaginable,

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 like ever satisfying eternal rest,

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 then that will change the way we respond to what

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 is asked of us.

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 There's a great difference between trust and obedience.

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 The two go together,

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 but they're intrinsically necessary together.

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 So our national treasure, Tim Peake.

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 Tim Peake, who spent eight years training to be an astronaut,

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 he's worn his space suit in swimming pools,

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 in zero-gravity simulators.

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 And yet, I dare say there's a real thing,

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 as he did a spacewalk two weeks ago,

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 when he opens the airlock,

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 and looks out into the abyss that is space.

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 And he thinks, will this really work?

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 He's gone through all the training he's heard,

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 all the scientists say all this,

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 but it's really going to come down to,

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 does he trust what they say,

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 and go out into deepest, darkest space,

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 to run some repairs on the International Space Station?

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 He's faced with gargantuan nothingness.

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 Does he really trust?

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 Is he going to obey when they say,

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 right, Tim, it's time to step out?

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 Because the Exodus generation failed.

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 They got to the edge of the Promised Land.

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 God said, go in.

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 They said, well, it's been good so far,

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 but we don't really trust you.

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 We're not going to obey.

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 You say, go, we're going to turn back.

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 The desert's not so bad.

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 His gift of rest is ours,

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 by trusting that God can deliver it.

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 And then we know that it's ours,

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 if we're obeying what God says.

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 If we're doing what he says,

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 loving what he loves,

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 then we can be pretty sure this rest is ours.

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 Our destiny will be rest.

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 Are we trusting God's promise?

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 Are we obeying God's voice?

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 That's their problem today.

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 If you hear his voice,

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 do not harden your heart.

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 He was speaking to them,

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 and they just put their fingers in their ears

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 and turned on their heels and went home.

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 What about us?

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 Is this rest shaping our lives?

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 Because God has got our eternity sorted.

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 Is that shaping how we live in the present?

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 Thirdly, be subject to God's word,

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 verse 12 and 13.

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 The biggest problem with the previous two

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 of trusting God's promise

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 and obeying God's command

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 is that I quite often deceive myself.

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 I think that I am obeying when I'm not,

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 and I think I am trusting

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 when I'm trusting wholly in myself

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 rather than in what God can do.

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 My heart is deceitful above all things.

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 I check myself and convince myself it's fine

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 when really it is anything but.

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 And that's where God's word comes in,

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 verses 12 and 13.

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 For the word of God is alive and active,

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 sharper than any double-edged sword.

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 It penetrates even to dividing soul and spirit,

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 joints and marrow.

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 It judges the thoughts and attitudes of the heart.

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 God's word is like the sharpest scalpel ever

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 that cuts deep down into my life

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 and exposes what's really going on deep down in my heart,

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 where my trust is,

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 the motivation for my obedience.

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 What is going on in the deepest recesses of my life?

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 It unearths what's really going on.

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 If, as verse 13 says,

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 that God sees everything,

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 then I'm not going to be able to blag it on that day.

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 I'm not just going to be able to bluff my way through

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 and fake it and cover it up.

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 So it's really important

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 that I know what's going on in my heart now.

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 And the way to know what's going on in my heart now

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 is through this word.

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 This word doing surgery on my life,

00:26:45.579 --> 00:26:48.720
 this perfect mirror showing what's really going on.

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 Because it's vital that I find out

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 what's really going on now

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 so I don't lose everything then.

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 So it's like this.

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 I'm in a hotel room.

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 And in the dim light of the bedside lamp,

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 I look on the floor

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 and it's covered with shiny black gems.

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 They look like jade.

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 This is amazing.

00:27:09.980 --> 00:27:12.019
 I got a great deal on this hotel room

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 and now I've got loads of black jades

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 to take home on quids in.

00:27:16.419 --> 00:27:17.439
 And so I'm there

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 and I'm picking up these jades

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 and I'm holding on to them

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 and I think this is great.

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 And then Aileen walks in

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 and turns the big light on,

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 screams in horror

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 because it turns out

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 these little black gems

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 are actually beetles

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 that are now,

00:27:32.139 --> 00:27:32.740
 they're ugly

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 and they're crawling all over me.

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 See, in our lives,

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 in the dim light

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 that we discern for ourselves,

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 we think these are beautiful things

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 that we pick up

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 and trust in.

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 And yet the light of God's word,

00:27:47.619 --> 00:27:49.519
 the incision and truth of God's word

00:27:49.519 --> 00:27:49.799
 says,

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 no,

00:27:50.079 --> 00:27:51.740
 they might be beetles.

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 We need to be really careful

00:27:54.279 --> 00:27:56.000
 what we're gripping onto

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 and God's word tells us

00:27:57.619 --> 00:27:58.939
 whether we're really gripping onto

00:27:58.939 --> 00:27:59.619
 God's promise

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 and really doing what God asks.

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 Your attitude to this word

00:28:06.579 --> 00:28:07.819
 reveals everything

00:28:07.819 --> 00:28:10.259
 about your relationship with God.

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 Casual about this,

00:28:12.119 --> 00:28:12.819
 casual about God's.

00:28:14.819 --> 00:28:16.079
 Loose with this,

00:28:17.019 --> 00:28:18.480
 pretty loosely affiliated

00:28:18.480 --> 00:28:19.399
 to the Lord Jesus.

00:28:20.700 --> 00:28:22.179
 Obsessed with this word,

00:28:23.179 --> 00:28:24.639
 obsessed with the Lord Jesus,

00:28:25.759 --> 00:28:28.819
 real rest is your real destiny.

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 Lastly, and then we're finished,

00:28:32.500 --> 00:28:33.700
 resting on God's grace.

00:28:33.839 --> 00:28:34.539
 Verse 10, I think,

00:28:34.579 --> 00:28:35.859
 is one of the most amazing verses

00:28:35.859 --> 00:28:36.519
 I've read.

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 For anyone who enters God's rest

00:28:40.359 --> 00:28:43.619
 also rests from their works,

00:28:44.299 --> 00:28:45.859
 just as God did from his.

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 The overarching indicator,

00:28:49.099 --> 00:28:50.299
 over and above trust

00:28:50.299 --> 00:28:51.000
 and obedience

00:28:51.000 --> 00:28:52.400
 and God's word,

00:28:52.700 --> 00:28:55.079
 the real indicator

00:28:55.079 --> 00:28:57.559
 of whether rest is yours

00:28:57.559 --> 00:28:59.500
 is where you're leaning upon.

00:28:59.500 --> 00:29:01.480
 If you're leaning upon

00:29:01.480 --> 00:29:02.819
 your own works,

00:29:03.140 --> 00:29:04.440
 pulling up your own socks,

00:29:04.519 --> 00:29:06.000
 trying to shine yourself up

00:29:06.000 --> 00:29:07.420
 and reach the standard

00:29:07.420 --> 00:29:08.640
 to get into God's rest,

00:29:08.700 --> 00:29:09.559
 you will fail.

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 You will fail miserably.

00:29:12.380 --> 00:29:13.859
 There is nothing we can do

00:29:13.859 --> 00:29:15.299
 to make ourselves

00:29:15.299 --> 00:29:16.619
 acceptable to God.

00:29:18.000 --> 00:29:19.880
 And so real rest is found

00:29:19.880 --> 00:29:21.619
 by resting from our works

00:29:21.619 --> 00:29:22.660
 to be good enough

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 and resting

00:29:25.160 --> 00:29:27.320
 on the performance

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 and perfection

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 of Jesus Christ.

00:29:29.580 --> 00:29:30.960
 For anyone who enters

00:29:30.960 --> 00:29:31.860
 God's rest

00:29:31.860 --> 00:29:33.860
 also rests from their works,

00:29:34.400 --> 00:29:35.060
 rests

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 from this insatiable labor

00:29:37.620 --> 00:29:38.640
 of trying to make God

00:29:38.640 --> 00:29:39.940
 pleased with us

00:29:39.940 --> 00:29:42.779
 and resting on Jesus

00:29:42.779 --> 00:29:44.620
 through whom God

00:29:44.620 --> 00:29:46.940
 is always pleased with us.

00:29:46.940 --> 00:29:49.279
 If we're resting

00:29:49.279 --> 00:29:50.539
 our lives upon Jesus,

00:29:50.700 --> 00:29:52.160
 then rest will be ours.

00:29:53.240 --> 00:29:54.080
 Because he lived

00:29:54.080 --> 00:29:54.960
 the life we could

00:29:54.960 --> 00:29:55.519
 and he died

00:29:55.519 --> 00:29:56.720
 the death we deserved

00:29:56.720 --> 00:29:58.519
 and he rose victorious

00:29:58.519 --> 00:29:59.059
 to say,

00:29:59.580 --> 00:30:00.100
 yes,

00:30:01.140 --> 00:30:03.480
 rest is available

00:30:03.480 --> 00:30:05.259
 in and through me.

00:30:06.440 --> 00:30:07.420
 So Jesus says

00:30:07.420 --> 00:30:08.019
 in a debate

00:30:08.019 --> 00:30:09.220
 with very religious people

00:30:09.220 --> 00:30:09.900
 who thought God

00:30:09.900 --> 00:30:10.799
 would have no problem

00:30:10.799 --> 00:30:11.279
 with them,

00:30:12.220 --> 00:30:12.880
 he says in

00:30:12.880 --> 00:30:14.880
 the Gospels,

00:30:14.940 --> 00:30:15.500
 I thank you,

00:30:15.580 --> 00:30:15.840
 Father,

00:30:15.839 --> 00:30:16.619
 the Lord of heaven

00:30:16.619 --> 00:30:17.119
 and earth

00:30:17.119 --> 00:30:17.879
 that you have hidden

00:30:17.879 --> 00:30:18.439
 these things

00:30:18.439 --> 00:30:19.379
 from the wise

00:30:19.379 --> 00:30:20.599
 and understanding

00:30:20.599 --> 00:30:21.519
 and revealed them

00:30:21.519 --> 00:30:22.339
 to little children.

00:30:22.539 --> 00:30:22.899
 Yes,

00:30:23.039 --> 00:30:23.459
 Father,

00:30:24.279 --> 00:30:25.039
 for such was

00:30:25.039 --> 00:30:26.059
 your gracious will.

00:30:27.379 --> 00:30:28.399
 All things have been

00:30:28.399 --> 00:30:29.419
 handed over to me

00:30:29.419 --> 00:30:30.279
 by my Father

00:30:30.279 --> 00:30:31.419
 and no one knows

00:30:31.419 --> 00:30:31.799
 the Son

00:30:31.799 --> 00:30:32.559
 except the Father

00:30:32.559 --> 00:30:33.359
 and no one knows

00:30:33.359 --> 00:30:33.779
 the Father

00:30:33.779 --> 00:30:34.619
 except the Son

00:30:34.619 --> 00:30:35.759
 and anyone

00:30:35.759 --> 00:30:36.659
 to whom the Son

00:30:36.659 --> 00:30:37.839
 chooses to reveal him.

00:30:39.019 --> 00:30:39.779
 And then he says this,

00:30:39.839 --> 00:30:40.599
 come to me

00:30:40.599 --> 00:30:43.159
 all who labor

00:30:43.159 --> 00:30:44.679
 and are heavy laden

00:30:44.680 --> 00:30:46.920
 and I will give you

00:30:46.920 --> 00:30:48.420
 rest.

00:30:49.380 --> 00:30:50.980
 Take my yoke upon you

00:30:50.980 --> 00:30:52.820
 and learn from me

00:30:52.820 --> 00:30:54.060
 for I am gentle

00:30:54.060 --> 00:30:55.039
 and lowly in heart

00:30:55.039 --> 00:30:56.060
 and you will find rest

00:30:56.060 --> 00:30:57.000
 for your souls

00:30:57.000 --> 00:30:59.539
 for my yoke is easy

00:30:59.539 --> 00:31:01.420
 and my burden

00:31:01.420 --> 00:31:02.960
 is light.

00:31:04.539 --> 00:31:05.440
 Jesus says

00:31:05.440 --> 00:31:07.160
 the way into this rest

00:31:07.160 --> 00:31:09.600
 is to rest your life

00:31:09.600 --> 00:31:11.060
 upon me.

00:31:11.059 --> 00:31:14.200
 is to lean your whole life

00:31:14.200 --> 00:31:15.679
 on my performance

00:31:15.679 --> 00:31:16.440
 not yours.

00:31:18.019 --> 00:31:19.799
 Take my yoke,

00:31:19.899 --> 00:31:20.899
 trust in me.

00:31:22.480 --> 00:31:23.679
 You'll find rest

00:31:23.679 --> 00:31:24.819
 for your souls forever

00:31:24.819 --> 00:31:25.799
 that starts now

00:31:25.799 --> 00:31:28.139
 and continues

00:31:28.139 --> 00:31:29.220
 into eternity

00:31:29.220 --> 00:31:30.159
 the hope of being

00:31:30.159 --> 00:31:31.480
 in God's perfect world

00:31:31.480 --> 00:31:34.099
 with God enjoying us

00:31:34.099 --> 00:31:35.019
 and us enjoying God.

00:31:35.119 --> 00:31:35.779
 Hebrews 4

00:31:35.779 --> 00:31:37.559
 is God's advert

00:31:37.559 --> 00:31:38.319
 for the rest

00:31:38.319 --> 00:31:39.460
 that he alone offers.

00:31:39.460 --> 00:31:41.779
 It has shown us

00:31:41.779 --> 00:31:42.799
 our inbuilt desire

00:31:42.799 --> 00:31:43.600
 for a relationship

00:31:43.600 --> 00:31:44.160
 with him

00:31:44.160 --> 00:31:44.720
 in the place

00:31:44.720 --> 00:31:45.319
 he has promised

00:31:45.319 --> 00:31:46.840
 and shown us

00:31:46.840 --> 00:31:47.360
 that the way

00:31:47.360 --> 00:31:47.880
 to get there

00:31:47.880 --> 00:31:49.240
 is to trust his promise

00:31:49.240 --> 00:31:51.340
 to obey his commands

00:31:51.340 --> 00:31:53.220
 to lean our whole lives

00:31:53.220 --> 00:31:53.920
 upon Jesus

00:31:53.920 --> 00:31:55.759
 and to be shaped

00:31:55.759 --> 00:31:56.340
 and molded

00:31:56.340 --> 00:31:57.120
 and transformed

00:31:57.120 --> 00:31:58.700
 by this word.

00:31:59.500 --> 00:32:00.480
 One of my biggest fears

00:32:00.480 --> 00:32:01.100
 in life

00:32:01.100 --> 00:32:03.220
 is to be transitioning

00:32:03.220 --> 00:32:04.539
 into that rest

00:32:04.539 --> 00:32:06.380
 with all of eternity

00:32:06.380 --> 00:32:07.840
 and being in God's

00:32:07.840 --> 00:32:08.660
 perfect world

00:32:08.660 --> 00:32:09.660
 with God enjoying us

00:32:09.660 --> 00:32:10.460
 and us enjoying God

00:32:10.460 --> 00:32:11.620
 lying out before me

00:32:11.620 --> 00:32:13.800
 and thinking to myself

00:32:13.800 --> 00:32:14.320
 oh

00:32:14.320 --> 00:32:15.920
 if I'd have known

00:32:15.920 --> 00:32:17.000
 it would be this good

00:32:17.000 --> 00:32:18.640
 I would have invested

00:32:18.640 --> 00:32:19.140
 more in it

00:32:19.140 --> 00:32:19.960
 that's my biggest fear

00:32:19.960 --> 00:32:20.420
 in life

00:32:20.420 --> 00:32:22.280
 and I hope it's yours.

00:32:23.240 --> 00:32:23.680
 God's

00:32:23.680 --> 00:32:24.940
 real rest

00:32:24.940 --> 00:32:26.200
 it

00:32:26.200 --> 00:32:27.120
 really

00:32:27.120 --> 00:32:28.020
 delivers

00:32:28.020 --> 00:32:29.840
 don't

00:32:29.840 --> 00:32:31.100
 miss out.

00:32:31.760 --> 00:32:32.340
 Let me pray.

00:32:32.339 --> 00:32:46.139
 Father God

00:32:46.139 --> 00:32:46.419
 we

00:32:46.419 --> 00:32:47.659
 understand afresh

00:32:47.659 --> 00:32:48.399
 that you made us

00:32:48.399 --> 00:32:49.220
 for ourselves

00:32:49.220 --> 00:32:51.459
 and that our hearts

00:32:51.459 --> 00:32:52.379
 will be eternally

00:32:52.379 --> 00:32:52.819
 restless

00:32:52.819 --> 00:32:53.759
 until they find

00:32:53.759 --> 00:32:54.539
 their rest

00:32:54.539 --> 00:32:55.459
 in you.

00:32:56.599 --> 00:32:57.039
 So Lord

00:32:57.039 --> 00:32:57.859
 thank you so much

00:32:57.859 --> 00:32:58.599
 for showing us

00:32:58.599 --> 00:32:59.359
 this this morning.

00:33:00.500 --> 00:33:00.980
 Father

00:33:00.980 --> 00:33:01.419
 I pray

00:33:01.419 --> 00:33:02.299
 that the promise

00:33:02.299 --> 00:33:03.379
 of rest

00:33:03.379 --> 00:33:03.899
 would be

00:33:03.899 --> 00:33:05.079
 combined with

00:33:05.079 --> 00:33:06.200
 faith in our lives

00:33:06.200 --> 00:33:07.519
 that rest might be ours

00:33:07.519 --> 00:33:09.159
 that we might

00:33:09.159 --> 00:33:10.339
 obey your commands

00:33:10.339 --> 00:33:11.220
 we might love

00:33:11.220 --> 00:33:12.339
 your word

00:33:12.339 --> 00:33:13.299
 and trust it fully

00:33:13.299 --> 00:33:14.480
 and that we might

00:33:14.480 --> 00:33:15.579
 lean our whole lives

00:33:15.579 --> 00:33:16.579
 upon the Lord Jesus.

00:33:17.899 --> 00:33:18.319
 Father

00:33:18.319 --> 00:33:19.059
 for those that are

00:33:19.059 --> 00:33:19.859
 older here

00:33:19.859 --> 00:33:20.639
 Father

00:33:20.639 --> 00:33:21.099
 would this be

00:33:21.099 --> 00:33:21.960
 a real comfort

00:33:21.960 --> 00:33:23.279
 that all that

00:33:23.279 --> 00:33:24.259
 this life has offered

00:33:24.259 --> 00:33:25.019
 will pale into

00:33:25.019 --> 00:33:25.839
 insignificance

00:33:25.839 --> 00:33:26.379
 compared to

00:33:26.379 --> 00:33:27.059
 what you offer.

00:33:28.139 --> 00:33:28.659
 Father

00:33:28.659 --> 00:33:29.379
 for those here

00:33:29.379 --> 00:33:30.119
 middle aged

00:33:30.119 --> 00:33:31.139
 with pressures

00:33:31.139 --> 00:33:31.919
 of family

00:33:31.920 --> 00:33:32.539
 and life

00:33:32.539 --> 00:33:33.300
 and work

00:33:33.300 --> 00:33:35.019
 bearing in on them

00:33:35.019 --> 00:33:35.340
 Father

00:33:35.340 --> 00:33:35.800
 would this

00:33:35.800 --> 00:33:36.620
 reorientate

00:33:36.620 --> 00:33:37.300
 their lives

00:33:37.300 --> 00:33:38.480
 and know

00:33:38.480 --> 00:33:38.980
 there's nothing

00:33:38.980 --> 00:33:39.580
 better than

00:33:39.580 --> 00:33:40.000
 what you

00:33:40.000 --> 00:33:40.940
 yourself offer.

00:33:42.220 --> 00:33:42.519
 Father

00:33:42.519 --> 00:33:42.960
 for those

00:33:42.960 --> 00:33:43.539
 that are young

00:33:43.539 --> 00:33:43.960
 would this

00:33:43.960 --> 00:33:44.580
 rest

00:33:44.580 --> 00:33:46.460
 provoke people

00:33:46.460 --> 00:33:47.259
 to live

00:33:47.259 --> 00:33:48.539
 radical lives

00:33:48.539 --> 00:33:49.980
 knowing that

00:33:49.980 --> 00:33:50.580
 Jesus has

00:33:50.580 --> 00:33:51.200
 a sorted

00:33:51.200 --> 00:33:51.740
 eternity

00:33:51.740 --> 00:33:52.360
 and therefore

00:33:52.360 --> 00:33:52.960
 there's nothing

00:33:52.960 --> 00:33:53.480
 we need to

00:33:53.480 --> 00:33:53.900
 hold back

00:33:53.900 --> 00:33:54.380
 from him.

00:33:55.380 --> 00:33:55.960
 And Father

00:33:55.960 --> 00:33:56.460
 for those

00:33:56.460 --> 00:33:57.400
 that as yet

00:33:57.400 --> 00:33:57.940
 know nothing

00:33:57.940 --> 00:33:58.299
 of this

00:33:58.299 --> 00:33:58.559
 rest

00:33:58.559 --> 00:33:58.860
 Father

00:33:58.860 --> 00:33:59.259
 may they

00:33:59.259 --> 00:33:59.640
 combine

00:33:59.640 --> 00:33:59.880
 this

00:33:59.880 --> 00:34:00.220
 promise

00:34:00.220 --> 00:34:00.759
 with faith

00:34:00.759 --> 00:34:01.080
 in your

00:34:01.080 --> 00:34:01.380
 son

00:34:01.380 --> 00:34:02.460
 that

00:34:02.460 --> 00:34:02.860
 rest

00:34:02.860 --> 00:34:03.100
 might

00:34:03.100 --> 00:34:03.680
 be theirs

00:34:03.680 --> 00:34:04.880
 and the

00:34:04.880 --> 00:34:05.279
 glorious

00:34:05.279 --> 00:34:05.680
 hope

00:34:05.680 --> 00:34:06.039
 of being

00:34:06.039 --> 00:34:06.460
 in God's

00:34:06.460 --> 00:34:07.220
 perfect world

00:34:07.220 --> 00:34:07.620
 with God

00:34:07.620 --> 00:34:08.240
 enjoying us

00:34:08.240 --> 00:34:08.539
 and us

00:34:08.539 --> 00:34:09.099
 enjoying God

00:34:09.099 --> 00:34:09.539
 forever

00:34:09.539 --> 00:34:10.720
 be their

00:34:10.720 --> 00:34:11.119
 hope

00:34:11.119 --> 00:34:11.659
 too.

00:34:12.300 --> 00:34:12.639
 Father

00:34:12.639 --> 00:34:13.039
 thank you

00:34:13.039 --> 00:34:13.340
 that you're

00:34:13.340 --> 00:34:13.760
 so good

00:34:13.760 --> 00:34:14.260
 and gracious

00:34:14.260 --> 00:34:14.860
 and kind

00:34:14.860 --> 00:34:16.099
 so bless

00:34:16.099 --> 00:34:16.519
 us

00:34:16.519 --> 00:34:17.579
 and see

00:34:17.579 --> 00:34:18.079
 your words

00:34:18.079 --> 00:34:18.380
 in our

00:34:18.380 --> 00:34:18.639
 hearts

00:34:18.639 --> 00:34:19.000
 by your

00:34:19.000 --> 00:34:19.280
 spirit

00:34:19.280 --> 00:34:19.840
 we pray

00:34:19.840 --> 00:34:20.860
 amen