A Rest to the People of God Hebrews 4:9

According to the writer of Hebrews, “If Jesus had given rest” to the children of Israel, he would not have “spoken of another day”, and in chapter four and verse nine of Hebrews we see how for “the people of God” there “remains a rest” where we read:

There remains therefore a rest to the people of God.

The verse begins, “There remains therefore a rest,...” The writer began with the words, “There remains” which means “to leave behind” “therefore” or “haply, no doubt, perhaps, then and wherefore” “a rest” which mean “calm, quiet, restrain and desist”. Because Jesus “spoke” of “another day”, there “no doubt and with certainty” a “calm, quiet and restrained” favor with God.

The verse continues, “ ...to the people of God”. The writer added, “to the people” which means “the people group, tribe, nation and all those who are of the same stock and language” “of God” which refers to “the Godhead bodily or trinity which is comprised of God the Father, Christ the Son and the Holy Spirit”. This promise of “another day of rest” is to God's “people, groups, tribes and nations”.

When we think through these words in Hebrews, we see the writer's conclusion that there is a future “rest” for the people of God. They become God's children by “receiving” Him as Lord and Savior - “But as many as received him, to them gave he power to become the sons of God, even to them that believe on his name:” (John 1:12).Without a relationship with Jesus, we are not “God's children”. We are His creation, but we are not His children, and He desires to have a huge family of “kids”. Oh let us see the value in the “rest to the people of God”, and should we not know Him as our personal Lord and Savior, allow Him into your heart and life even as you finish reading these lines.

Next time the writer explains how, “he that is entered into his rest, he also has cease from his own works”, so read ahead, and we shall join together then.

Until tomorrow…there is more…

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