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Jul 11, 2023 · How do we place our full trust in God and His promises? We enter into God’s rest by first understanding our total inability to enter God’s rest on our own. Next, we enter God’s rest by our total faith in the sacrifice of Christ and complete obedience to God and His will. “And to whom did God swear that they would never enter his rest if ...
- Introduction
- Our Approach in This Lesson
- Overview of Chapters 1-4
- Tracing The Argument of Chapters 3 and 4
- The Keys to Understanding Our Text
- Key Terms
- The Argument of Hebrews 4:1-10
- Conclusion
When I was in college, I worked on the night maintenance crew. We cleaned the student union center from midnight Friday night to 8 a.m. Saturday morning. On one particular Friday night, one of the members of our work crew wasn’t to be found, so we decided to search the building to find him. It turned out that he had curled up under a piano and was ...
We will begin this lesson with an overview of chapters 1-4. We will then return to last week’s lesson and the text of Hebrews 3:1-19, which is the basis for our text. Then we will concentrate on our text – the first ten verses of chapter 4. There are several terms on which the author builds his argument, so we will seek to define them, and then det...
The Book of Hebrews begins with the declaration that while God has spoken in various ways through the Old Testament prophets, He has now spoken fully and finally in His Son (Hebrews 1:1-4). The Son is characterized by a seven-fold description (verses 1-4), which is then buttressed by citations from Old Testament texts (verses 5-14). The thread whic...
There are two keys to understanding the argument of chapters 3 and 4. The first is the superiority of the Son – Jesus Christ – to Moses. This is introduced in 3:1-6. The second is the superiority of the rest which Jesus has achieved to the “rest” which Israel, under the leadership of Moses, did not attain (indeed, a rest to which Moses himself did ...
There are several “keys” to understanding our text. Thefirst is those “key terms,” which are found in Psalm 95 and to which our author repeatedly refers. We will look more carefully at these terms in a moment. Thesecond is to understand how the psalmist connected the dots – how he understood and applied Israel’s failure to enter into rest to his ow...
“Today”
Therefore, as the Holy Spirit says, “Oh, that today you would listen as he speaks!(Hebrews 3:7, citing Psalm 95:7b) But exhort one another each day, as long as it is called “Today,” that none of you may become hardened by sin’s deception (Hebrews 3:13). As it says, “Oh, that today you would listen as he speaks!Do not harden your hearts as in the rebellion” (Hebrews 3:15, referring to Psalm 95:7b). So God again ordains a certain day, “Today,” speaking through David after so long a time, as in...
God’s Word
God’s Word is a key ingredient in the Book of Hebrews (as we will point out in our next lesson), although it is referred to by means of several different expressions. In addition to being called “the Word of God,” (4:12), it is sometimes referred to as “what God has spoken” (1:1-3), “what we have heard” (2:1), or “good news” (4:2). It is even referred to as “so great a salvation” (2:3) and as “God’s voice”(3:7). God’s Word is the Father’s full and final revelation through the Son, the crownin...
Faith
Faith is also known as belief, just as the absence of faith is unbelief. Faith is a key concept in the Book of Hebrews, as will be dramatically evident when we get to chapter 11. It is an evil heart of unbelief that falls away from the living God (3:12, see also verse 19), while those who enter God’s rest do so by faith (4:3). Unbelief leads to a hardened heart, which leads to rebellion and divine discipline.
So, having reviewed the argument of Hebrews 1-4, and having noted the terms and concepts foundational to this argument, let us briefly trace the author’s argument in the first ten verses of chapter 4. The ancient Israelites, along with those who lived in the days of the psalmist, had the promise of rest, a rest which could only be attained by faith...
When I think of the Old Testament law, with all of its requirements and stipulations, it makes me tired. How could one ever please God by the works of the law? No one ever could, for the purpose of the law was not to provide men with a list of works by which one could be saved. The purpose of the law was to demonstrate to men that they could never ...
Aug 31, 2020 · God’s rest is a state, or place, where God rules and manages his creation, free from the chaos and disorder brought about by sin and rebellion. All who will rest from their own work of bringing their own life under control can enter into God’s rest. In Hebrews 4:1-11, the author of Hebrews discusses God’s rest.
Hebrews 4:10-11. King James Version. 10 For he that is entered into his rest, he also hath ceased from his own works, as God did from his. 11 Let us labour therefore to enter into that rest, lest any man fall after the same example of unbelief. Read full chapter.
Sep 1, 1996 · Verse 19: “They were not able to enter [God’s rest] because of unbelief.”. Therefore fear that unbelief, because that’s what will keep you from entering God’s rest — God’s haven of salvation and God’s heaven. Fear unbelief. Fear not trusting God. You can see this confirmed if we just keep on reading into Hebrews 4:2.
- Chapter 3 ended with the warning that it was unbelief that keptthe people of Israel from entering into the promised land and therest God had promis...
- That's the main point of the paragraph: Fear unbelief. In thelast sentence of the paragraph he says the same thing in differentwords. Verse 11: "Le...
- Now ponder this fear with me for a moment. You may be asking,"You mean the ideal Christian life is lived in constant fear ofbeing lost?" Now be car...
- Now there is one more thing I want to do with this text. Verses3–10 are written to support the main point which we have looked atin verses 1 and 11...
- Which brings us to the fourth period of time the writer focuseson, the time of David writing in Psalm 95. Verse 7: "He again fixesa certain day, 'T...
Verse 3. - For we do enter into the rest, we who have believed (οἱ πιστεύσαντες, the historical aorist, pointing to the time when Christians became believers; with a reference also to τῇ πίστει in the preceding verse: but the emphasis is on the first word in the sentence, εἰσερχόμεθα: "For we Christian believers have an entrance into the rest intended ...
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Let us labor therefore to enter into that rest, lest any man fall after the same example of unbelief. Let. Hebrews 4:1 Let us therefore fear, lest, a promise being left us of entering into his rest, any of you should seem to come short of it. Hebrews 6:11
