Have you ever had a really long day where nothing went right and you came home just feeling beat?
Days like that you want nothing more than to just come home and fall into bed and sleep!
Then you are resting! Just layin there doing absolutely nothing! Thats rest!
One of the first examples of resting in the Bible is when God rested on the seventh day after he had created the world. Was that rest just a break? No He was done! And Adam and Eve were able to enjoy the perfect work that God had done.
As an example of that God gave the Hebrews the sabbath. The sabbath was a day of rest once a week from work. The Hebrews were under a covenant of works at that time, The sabbath was given to provide rest from those works.
Then Christ came and he kept the entire law perfectly! Then he Died for our sins and rose again. Was he still under that law? No he had died! How can a law judge a dead man! The bible says the wages of sin is death, Sin is defined by the law, Christ took our sins then submitted himself to the punishment of the law....death!
So could he be punished for that sin again? NOPE! Already paid for.
So when we submit to Christ we are also submitting to that law. We say "I cant keep the law, Jesus is the only one who did and can, And since he is offering me the salvation that he earned by keeping the law perfectly I am going to submit to the law and die as Christ died and I will be raised again with him"
So now we are in Christ who fulfilled the law for us. We don't have to keep that law anymore! It's been fulfilled! So we simply rest in Christs finished work. What work? The work that he did on earth of keeping the law perfectly and then dying for us!
We no longer need a sabbath day to rest from work! We are resting everyday in Christ. HE is our sabbath.
People still have the idea that they have to do something to maintain their faith or that they need to keep the law and the ten commandments to please God! Christ already did that for you so that now you can look on from those things and focus on the better things he has for the people resting in him!
It is such a freeing Gospel! We don't have to do anything! Christ did it all! All we do is to put our faith in the fact that he kept the law perfectly and died for our sins.
Stop trying to do all this work! and just have faith!
God Bless!
One of the first examples of resting in the Bible is when God rested on the seventh day after he had created the world. Was that rest just a break? No He was done! And Adam and Eve were able to enjoy the perfect work that God had done.
As an example of that God gave the Hebrews the sabbath. The sabbath was a day of rest once a week from work. The Hebrews were under a covenant of works at that time, The sabbath was given to provide rest from those works.
Then Christ came and he kept the entire law perfectly! Then he Died for our sins and rose again. Was he still under that law? No he had died! How can a law judge a dead man! The bible says the wages of sin is death, Sin is defined by the law, Christ took our sins then submitted himself to the punishment of the law....death!
So could he be punished for that sin again? NOPE! Already paid for.
So when we submit to Christ we are also submitting to that law. We say "I cant keep the law, Jesus is the only one who did and can, And since he is offering me the salvation that he earned by keeping the law perfectly I am going to submit to the law and die as Christ died and I will be raised again with him"
So now we are in Christ who fulfilled the law for us. We don't have to keep that law anymore! It's been fulfilled! So we simply rest in Christs finished work. What work? The work that he did on earth of keeping the law perfectly and then dying for us!
We no longer need a sabbath day to rest from work! We are resting everyday in Christ. HE is our sabbath.
People still have the idea that they have to do something to maintain their faith or that they need to keep the law and the ten commandments to please God! Christ already did that for you so that now you can look on from those things and focus on the better things he has for the people resting in him!
It is such a freeing Gospel! We don't have to do anything! Christ did it all! All we do is to put our faith in the fact that he kept the law perfectly and died for our sins.
Stop trying to do all this work! and just have faith!
God Bless!
I'm so glad we get to rest and don't have to do it all ourselves! Great post!
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