Hebrew 4:1-13
But the message they heard was of no value to them, because they did not share the faith of those who obeyed. Now we who have believed enter that rest, just as God has said, “So I declared on oath in my anger, ‘They shall never enter my rest.’”
For if Joshua had given them rest, God would not have spoken later about another day. There remains, then, a Sabbath-rest for the people of God; for anyone who enters God’s rest also rests from their works, just as God did from his. Let us, therefore, make every effort to enter that rest, so that no one will perish by following their example of disobedience.
The parallel is made more explicit. The 'rest' God spoke of was more than just a stable and secure life in the land he had promised. Through the psalmist, hundreds of Years after Joshua's day God was still appealing to people to enter his rest. There is a spiritual counterpart to the promised land, and the passport to it is faith. God's resting-place has existed from the time of the creation
It is still there. We enter into that eternal rest. God's peace, as trust him and take at his word.
The writer has been arguing from God's word: now he steps back to consider it : alive, penetrating exposing everything to the One to whom all must give account.
Why?
There is another rest that is not led by Joshua, for God said to David "Today if you hear his voice, do not harden your hearts."
So all of us need to make every effort to enter that rest. Be careful to perish when following the example of disobedience.
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第二個警告:要竭力進入那安息
最後另外指定的安息,才是真正的安息
V1-3 : 進入安息的勸勉和應許。這安息是為我們預定的,只怕我們得不到。聽見神的道,卻是不信。
V4-10: 創世以來的安息--神看到創造的美好,心中喜悅。可惜人要走自己的路,以致失去那安息。歇了自己的工,是完全依靠神的安排與供應,不是自己什麼都不做。人不是求吃的飽,住的好,神安排的比這個更好。神要給人的不僅是流奶與蜜之地的土產,而是更高的層次,得救,得生命,得神話語的供應
V11-13 信從就是信心。進入安息很辛苦嗎?很簡單,但是人將這事弄困難了,不要想靠自己努力,努力不要靠自己,所以要竭力。
神的話可以連我們的心思意念都顯明出來。幫助我們反省自己!讓我們不斷更新改變,成長。自己努力爭取,結果往往是勞苦愁煩!
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How?
Obey the word of the Lord and make every effort of faith to enter that rest.
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