Hebrews 4:1 (NKJV) Therefore, since a promise remains of entering His rest, let us fear lest any of you seem to have come short of it. Chapter 3 ended with the warning that it was unbelief that kept the people of Israel from entering into the promised land and the rest God had promised there. The meaning appears to be this: We Jews, who have believed in Christ, do actually possess that rest-state of happiness in God, produced by peace of conscience and joy in the Holy Ghost - which was typified by the happiness and comfort to be enjoyed by the believing Hebrews, in … Hebrews 4:10–13 explains the nature of this faith. They, too, picture salvation as "inactivity in heaven", sometimes referred to as "sitting on a cloud and playing a harp". Faith, the author goes on to assert, is the key to entering God’s rest. We shall study the book of Hebrews 3&4 for this study. He alone can provide the eternal rest of salvation through His blood shed on the cross for the remission of sins. This is based on interpreting "rest" to mean: inactivity, peace of mind, being still. A person who keeps the weekly Sabbath but rejects Christ has not entered God’s rest. God's rest is primarily and fundamentally eschatological, that is, it is brought about by the second coming. The Greek word for rest is anapausis meaning … Heb 4:4 relates "rest" to the Sabbath: as one text says, referring to the seventh day: And God rested on the seventh day after all the work he had been doing. So there remains a Sabbath rest for the people of God" (Hebrews 4:8-9). But the "rest" in this Hebrews 4:9 is the nobler and more exalted (Hebrew) "Sabbath" rest; literally, "cessation": rest from work when finished ( Hebrews 4:4), as God rested ( Revelation 16:17). God’s rest, then, is in the spiritual realm, the rest of salvation. (Hebrews 4:1–11) Fighting Unbelief Together. The Protestant ideas of salvation are not much different, generally speaking. We … Some had heard the good news of Christ, but they rejected it for lack of faith. The kind of faith that enables us to enter into God’s rest is a faith that first demands that we rest from relying on our own works. The ‘rest’ of Hebrews 4 clearly refers to the Kingdom of God. Sometimes, it is synonymous to shabat- to cease or to rest. 4:4 - The recognition that God's "rest" was available to man from the creation of the world when God's working in His creation was "brought into being", allows Paul to make a mental connection with God's "rest" from His creative work. * Meaning of Rest: The Hebrew word for rest is nuach-to rest, to be quiet. Conversely, to fail to believe the message, to disobey its command to repent and believe, is to fail to believe God, and to miss out on the spiritual rest promised by his Gospel, his good message. (NJB) Hebrews 4:5 relates it to the (final) resting "place" as well: And, again, the passage above says: They will never reach my place of rest. What does it mean God's rest? The two ideas of "rest" combined, give the perfect view of the heavenly Sabbath. Nowhere in the text is it equated with the seventh day of creation, nor is there any grammatical or contextual data suggesting any such equation. There is no true rest for the souls of men but in the good news of Jesus Christ. This promise … What does it signify? The author is not interested in a day of the week — he is concerned about how people respond to Jesus. (NJB) This promised remaining "rest" is not geographical. This type of rest was alluded to right back at the time of creation, as well as at the time of the Exodus. The context is pretty normative here. God’s rest is entered by faith — by believing the gospel (verses 3-4). [4] 'We who have believed enter God's rest' (3a). Promised remaining `` rest '' combined, give the perfect view of the week — he is concerned about people... '' is not interested in a day of the heavenly Sabbath, the. 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