THE HOPE OF REST
(Transcribed Message)

Sunday Morning:  July 15, 2001

Text: Hebrews 3:6-13  "But Christ as a son over his own house; whose house are we, if we hold fast the confidence and the rejoicing of the hope firm unto the end. 7. Wherefore (as the Holy Ghost saith, To day if ye will hear his voice, 8. Harden not your hearts, as in the provocation, in the day of temptation in the wilderness: 9. When your fathers tempted me, proved me, and saw my works forty years. 10. Wherefore I was grieved with that generation, and said, They do alway err in their heart; and they have not known my ways. 11. So I sware in my wrath, They shall not enter into my rest.) 12. Take heed, brethren, lest there be in any of you an evil heart of unbelief [no faith], in departing from the living God. 13. But exhort one another daily, while it is called To day; lest any of you be hardened through the deceitfulness of sin."

ISRAEL IS A TYPE FOR US

1 Corinthians 10:11  "Now all these things happened unto them for ensamples [types]: and they are written for our admonition, upon whom the ends of the world are come."

IN THE MILLENNIUM

 

 HOLD FAST THE HOPE

Hebrews 3:6  "But Christ as a son over his own house; whose house are we, if we hold fast the confidence and the rejoicing of the hope firm unto the end."

Hebrews 3:14  "For we are made partakers of Christ, if we hold the beginning of our confidence stedfast unto the end;"

HOLD FAST FAITH

Hebrews 10:23  "Let us hold fast the profession of our faith without wavering; (for he is faithful that promised;)"

FAITH

Hebrews 11:1  "Now faith is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen."

PLOW IN HOPE

1 Corinthians 9:10  "Or saith he it altogether for our sakes? For our sakes, no doubt, this is written: that he that ploweth should plow in hope; and that he that thresheth in hope should be partaker of his hope."

NOT FIT FOR THE KINGDOM

Luke 9:62  "And Jesus said unto him, No man, having put his hand to the plow, and looking back, is fit for the kingdom of God."

LOOKING BACK

Exodus 16:1-3  ". . .  on the fifteenth day of the second month after their departing out of the land of Egypt. 2. And the whole congregation of the children of Israel murmured against Moses and Aaron in the wilderness: 3. And the children of Israel said unto them, Would to God we had died by the hand of the LORD in the land of Egypt, when we sat by the flesh pots, and when we did eat bread to the full; for ye have brought us forth into this wilderness, to kill this whole assembly with hunger."

DEPARTED FROM THE FAITH

Hebrews 11:29-30  "By faith they passed through the Red sea as by dry land: which the Egyptians assaying to do were drowned. 30. By faith the walls of Jericho fell down, after they were compassed about seven days."

 

DEPARTING FROM THE FAITH

1 Timothy 4:1  "Now the Spirit speaketh expressly, that in the latter times some shall depart from the faith, giving heed to seducing spirits, and doctrines of devils;"

SHIPWRECK OF THE FAITH

1 Timothy 1:19  "Holding [e]cw, present active, regard] faith, and a good conscience; which some having put away concerning faith have made shipwreck:"

TAKE HEED, BRETHREN

Hebrews 3:11-12  "So I sware in my wrath, They (the parents) shall not enter into my rest.) 12. Take heed, brethren, lest there be in any of you an evil heart of unbelief [apistia, no faith], in departing from the living God."

BRETHREN

Matthew 12:50  "For whosoever shall do the will of my Father which is in heaven, the same is my brother, and sister, and mother."

IN TYPE THE MILLENNIAL KINGDOM

Hebrews 3:11  "So I sware in my wrath, They (the parents of the children of Israel) shall not enter into my rest.)"

DISOBEDIENT ISRAEL

Hebrews 4:6  "Seeing therefore it remaineth that some must enter therein, and they (the parents) to whom it was first preached entered not in because of unbelief [disobedience]:"

PROPHESIED BY DAVID AND JOSHUA

Hebrews 4:7-10  "Again, he limiteth a certain day, saying in David, To day, after so long a time; as it is said, To day if ye will hear his voice, harden not your hearts. 8. For if Jesus (Joshua) had given them rest, then would he not afterward have spoken of another day. 9. There remaineth therefore a rest [Sabbath (7th) Day Rest, Millennial rest] to the people of God. 10. For he that is entered into his rest, he also hath ceased from his own works, as God did from his."

 

THEY ENTERED NOT IN TO THEIR INHERITANCE

Psalms 95:7-11  "For he is our (the children of the fathers) God; and we are the people (the children of the fathers) of his pasture, and the sheep (the children of the fathers) of his hand. To day if ye will hear his voice, 8. Harden not your heart, as in the provocation, and as in the day of temptation in the wilderness: 9. When your fathers (who came out of Egypt) tempted me, proved me, and saw my work. 10. Forty years long was I grieved with this generation, and said, It is a people that do err in their heart, and they have not known my ways: 11. Unto whom I sware in my wrath that they should not enter into my rest."

NOT SEE THE LAND

Numbers 14:22-23  "Because all those men (the fathers of the little children) which have seen my glory, and my miracles, which I did in Egypt and in the wilderness, and have tempted me now these ten times, and have not hearkened to my voice; 23. Surely they shall not see the land which I sware unto their fathers, neither shall any of them that provoked me see it:"

THEY TASTED THE FRUIT

Numbers 13:26-27  "And they . . . showed them the fruit of the land. 27. And they told him, and said, We came unto the land whither thou sentest us, and surely it floweth with milk and honey; and this is the fruit of it."

ONCE ENLIGHTENED

Hebrews 6:4-5  "For it is impossible for those who were once enlightened, and have tasted of the heavenly gift, and were made partakers of the Holy Ghost, 5. And have tasted the good word of God, and the powers of the world to come,"

 

 

 

NOT ENTER THE LAND

Numbers 14:30-31  "Doubtless ye shall not come into the land, concerning which I sware to make you dwell therein, save Caleb the son of Jephunneh, and Joshua the son of Nun. 31. But your little ones [little children, LXX], which ye said should be a prey, them will I bring in, and they shall know the land which ye have despised."

INHERITANCE

Deuteronomy 12:9-10  "For ye (the little ones, children) are not as yet come to the rest and to the inheritance, which the LORD your God giveth you. 10. But when ye go over Jordan, and dwell in the land which the LORD your God giveth you to inherit, and when he giveth you rest from all your enemies round about, so that ye dwell in safety;"

ENTER OUR INHERITANCE

Hebrews 4:11  "Let us labour [endeavor, give diligence, study], therefore to enter into that rest, lest any man fall after the same example of unbelief [disobedience]."

GIVE DILIGENCE

Hebrews 6:10-11  "For God is not unrighteous to forget your work and labour of love, which ye have showed toward his name, in that ye have ministered to the saints, and do minister. 11. And we desire that every one of you do show the same diligence to the full assurance of hope unto the end:"

HOPE SET BEFORE US

Hebrews 6:17-20  "Wherein God, willing more abundantly to show unto the heirs of promise the immutability of his counsel, confirmed it by an oath (1. God cannot change): 18. That by two immutable things, in which it was impossible for God to lie (2. God cannot lie), we might have a strong consolation, who have fled for refuge to lay hold upon the hope set before us: 19. Which hope we have as an anchor of the soul, both sure and stedfast, and which entereth into that within the veil; 20. Whither the forerunner is for us entered, even Jesus, made an high priest for ever after the order of Melchisedec."

ENTERING INTO THE REST

2 Peter 1:10-11  "Wherefore the rather, brethren, give diligence [labor, endeavor, study] to make your calling and election sure: for if ye do these things, ye shall never fall: 11. For so an entrance shall be ministered unto you abundantly into the everlasting kingdom of our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ."

THESE THINGS

2 Peter 1:5-8  "And beside this, giving all diligence, add to your faith virtue; and to virtue knowledge; 6. And to knowledge temperance; and to temperance patience; and to patience godliness; 7. And to godliness brotherly kindness; and to brotherly kindness charity. 8. For if these things be in you, and abound, they make you that ye shall neither be barren nor unfruitful in the knowledge of our Lord Jesus Christ."