Rest In God
PSALM 62 1:
My soul finds rest in God alone; my salvation comes from him. He alone is my
rock and my salvation; he is my fortress, I will never be shaken. (NIV)
What do these two verses mean to you?
What about rest? Have you ever thought
about what rest means?
What do you think rest means?
Rest: Hebrew
word for rest is dumiyya, which means silence, stillness, still. And the Greek
means peace and/or relief. Now, re-read this verse, what do you think rest is?
Let’s
go to Exodus 33:12-14 12Moses said to the Lord, “You have been telling me, ‘Lead these
people,’ but you have not let me know whom you will send with me. You have
said, ‘I know you by name and you have found favor with me.’ 13If
you are pleased with me, teach me your ways so I may know you and continue to
find favor with you. Remember that this nation is your people.” 14The
Lord replied, “My Presence will go with you,
and I will give you rest.” NIV
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Chronicals 22:9 But you will have a son who will be a man of peace and rest,
and I will give him rest from all his enemies on every side. His name will be
Solomon, and I will grant Israel peace and quiet
during his reign. NIV
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Chronical 22:17-19 Then David ordered all the leaders of Israel to help his son
Solomon. 18He said to them, “Is not the Lord your God with you? And has he not granted you
rest on every side? For he has handed the inhabitants of the land over to me,
and the land is subject to the Lord and to his
people. 19Now devote your heart and soul to
seeking the Lord your God NIV
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Chronicels 23:24-25 24These were the sons of Levi according
to their fathers’ households, even the heads of the fathers’ households
of those of them who were counted, in the number of names by their census,
doing the work for the service of the house of the LORD, from twenty years old
and upward. 25For David said, “The LORD God of
Israel has given rest to His people, and He dwells in Jerusalem forever. NASB
Isaiah
14:1-3 When the LORD will have compassion on Jacob and again choose
Israel, and settle them in their own land, then strangers will join them and
attach themselves to the house of Jacob. 2The
peoples will take them along and bring them to their place, and the house of
Israel will possess them as an inheritance in the land of the LORD as male
servants and female servants; and they will take their captors captive and will
rule over their oppressors.
3And it will be in the day when the
LORD gives you rest from your pain and turmoil and harsh service in which you
have been enslaved… NASB
Describe for me rest in these verses
What part of your life do you seek peace
or relief in?
Have you ever felt the rest as
described here?
New
Testament.
Hebrews
3:16-19. 16Who were they who heard and rebelled? Were they not all those Moses
led out of Egypt? 17And with whom was he angry for forty years? Was it not
those who sinned, whose bodies fell in the desert? 18And to whom did God swear
that they would never enter his rest if not to those who disobeyed? 19So we see
that they were not able to enter, because of their unbelief. NIV
Hebrews 4:Therefore, since the promise of
entering his rest still stands, let us be careful that none of you be found to
have fallen short of it. 2For we also have had the gospel
preached to us, just as they did; but the message they heard was of no value to
them, because those who heard did not combine it with faith. A 3Now
we who have believed enter that rest, just as God has said,
“So I
declared on oath in my anger, a
And
yet his work has been finished since the creation of the world. 4For
somewhere he has spoken about the seventh day in these words: “And on the
seventh day God rested from all his work.”c 5And
again in the passage above he says, “They shall never enter my rest.”
6It still remains that some will enter
that rest, and those who formerly had the gospel preached to them did not go
in, because of their disobedience. 7Therefore
God again set a certain day, calling it Today, when a long time later he spoke
through David, as was said before:
“Today,
if you hear his voice,
8For if Joshua had given them rest, God
would not have spoken later about another day. 9There
remains, then, a Sabbath-rest for the people of God; 10for
anyone who enters God’s rest also rests from his own work, just as God did from
his. 11Let us, therefore, make every effort
to enter that rest, so that no one will fall by following their example of
disobedience. NIV
Are there places in your life where
there is unrest, spiritually speaking?
Psalm
95:11“Therefore I swore in My anger, Truly they shall not enter into My rest.”
Look
at Hebrews Chapter 4, verse one again.
Turn
to Hebrews Chapter 12, verses 15: “See to it that no man misses the grace of
God and no bitter root grows up to cause trouble and defile many.”
Look
again at Hebrews Chapter 3, verse 18 and 19: “18And to whom did God swear that they would never enter
his rest if not to those who disobeyed? 19So we see that they were not able to
enter, because of their unbelief”
How do you receive rest? Through belief and freedom in
Christ.
Galatians 5:1 states that it is for freedom that Christ has
set free. Stand firm, then, and do not let yourselves be burdened again by a
yoke of slavery (bondage)
Hebrews 11:6
says, "But without faith it is impossible to please Him, for he who comes
to God must believe that He is, and that He is a rewarder of those who
diligently seek Him."
John 14:21,
"He that has My commandments and keeps them, it is he who loves Me. And he
who loves Me will be loved of My Father, and I will love him and manifest
Myself to him."
Mathew 11:28“Come unto me, all ye that labour and are heavy
laden, and I will give you rest. Take my yoke upon you, and learn of me; for I
am meek and lowly in heart: and ye shall find rest unto your souls. For my yoke
is easy, and my burden is light.”
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