Time to rest

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[h=2]It’s Time to Rest![/h]by Bob Christopher The 28 Day Forgiveness Challenge -- Day 27
Jesus Christ finished His work.
He did everything necessary to take away your sins once and for all. Jesus put it this way in His high priestly prayer: "I have brought you glory on earth by completing the work you gave me to do. And now, Father, glorify me in your presence with the glory I had with you before the world began" (John 17:4, 5).
God the Father answered Jesus' prayer. He exalted Him to highest place - the right hand of the Father.
He is seated there now.
What does this mean for you?
First, there is nothing more to do concerning your sins. Jesus has done it all. The fact that Jesus is seated at the right hand of His Father is proof.
The writer of Hebrews didn't want his readers to miss this point. For example, when comparing Jesus to the Levites, he explained that Jesus "has no need, like those high priests, to offer sacrifices daily, first for his own sins and then for those of the people, since he did this once for all when he offered up himself" (Hebrews 7:27 ). There is no need for Jesus to get up from his seated position.
This means you can rest. Here is Jesus' promise to all who come to Him: "Come to me, all you who are weary and burdened, and I will give you rest. Take my yoke upon you and learn from me, for I am gentle and humble in heart, and you will find rest for your souls" (Matthew 11:28, 29.)
All the work we do to earn God's forgiveness and love wears us out. It leaves us weary and burdened. That's not God's desire for you. He wants you to rest. You can because Jesus has already done the work.
Your sins are forgiven. You are righteous in God's sight. He loves you and accepts you. Believe it and take a rest in Him. It's time.
Forgiveness Challenge #27 - Are you willing to enter God's rest?

There remains, then, a Sabbath-rest for the people of God; for anyone who enters God's rest also rests from his own work, just as God did from his. Hebrews 4:9-10 (NIV)


Bob Christopher | August 30, 2014 at 6:00 am | Categories: 28 Day Forgiveness Challenge, Forgiveness | URL: It’s Time to Rest! | Bob Christopher Online
 
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Is the promise of finding rest for the soul conditional or unconditional?
What is to take His yoke upon oneself?
What is the yoke?
What is to learn from Him?
What is gentle and humble in heart? Towards who?
 
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Is the promise of finding rest for the soul conditional or unconditional?

To Believe, without doubt, that is the only condition left the only thing Christ did not go to the cross for. He died for unbelief. Yet does not give us belief, we are left with to Believe, and thus be set free
 
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What is to take His yoke upon oneself?
What is the yoke?


Burden in Christ is light
Yoke is easy
 
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What is to learn from Him?
What is gentle and humble in heart? Towards who?


Truth that sets one free
Father in his Mercy given through Christ towards all mankind
 
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Is not the condition in this case to find rest for the soul "take my yoke upon you and learn from me, for I am gentle and humble in heart"?
I know He said the His yoke is easy but what exactly is the yoke He spoke about? I would think He spoke of obedience to God the Father which Paul spoke about in Philippians 2 rather than obedience to the religious leaders at the time.
And to learn from Him one the same - obedience.
What do you say? :)

 
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his yoke is faith, not burdensome with law. He said come unto me and I will give you rest. Meaning that we place our faith in Him and what He did and not what we do. What we do is a result of placing faith in Him and done by the Spirit as we yield to Him. It is not by might nor by power but by My Spirit saith The Lord.
 
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I guess my question would be - Did Jesus obey His Father?

It required action on Jesus part in order for the sacrifice to be made. Jesus made Himself available to be nailed to the cross not only that but He stayed there until He died. As the song says He could have called 10,000 angels but instead He chose to be obedient and die for us. Jesus was obedient unto death. We need to be obedient to what God has planned for our lives too and that is not legalistic that is faith and trust in what God has for us to do.
 
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JesusLives said:
I guess my question would be - Did Jesus obey His Father?

It required action on Jesus part in order for the sacrifice to be made. Jesus made Himself available to be nailed to the cross not only that but He stayed there until He died. As the song says He could have called 10,000 angels but instead He chose to be obedient and die for us. Jesus was obedient unto death. We need to be obedient to what God has planned for our lives too and that is not legalistic that is faith and trust in what God has for us to do.
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When Jesus hung on the cross for our sins His heavenly Father looked the other way as He could not bear to look at sin. For Jesus a day is like a thousand years and a thousand years a day. He was buried in the tomb for 3 days as how we calculate time but for Jesus it was 3 thousand years and that is a long time to be separated from the love of His father. Jesus would have died on the cross even if I was the only one who had ever sinned. I am not deserving of this type of love and physical pain and extreme mental anguish that Jesus endured because of the love that He has in his heart for me, and all of the others who have confessed their sins to Him with a contrite heart, repented of their life style that led to sin and to invite Jesus into their hearts to live with them forever and a day. And then, the next day starts...
 
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chubbena said:
Is not the condition in this case to find rest for the soul "take my yoke upon you and learn from me, for I am gentle and humble in heart"?
I know He said the His yoke is easy but what exactly is the yoke He spoke about? I would think He spoke of obedience to God the Father which Paul spoke about in Philippians 2 rather than obedience to the religious leaders at the time.
And to learn from Him one the same - obedience.
What do you say? :)
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I believe the yoke is that connection we have by being placed in Christ as a branch to a vine...

I am the true vine, and my Father is the husbandman. Every branch in me that beareth not fruit he taketh away: and every branch that beareth fruit, he purgeth it, that it may bring forth more fruit. Now ye are clean through the word which I have spoken unto you. Abide in me, and I in you. As the branch cannot bear fruit of itself, except it abide in the vine; no more can ye, except ye abide in me. I am the vine, ye are the branches: He that abideth in me, and I in him, the same bringeth forth much fruit: for without me ye can do nothing.
(Joh 15:1-5)

For in him dwelleth all the fulness of the Godhead bodily. And ye are complete in him, which is the head of all principality and power: In whom also ye are circumcised with the circumcision made without hands, in putting off the body of the sins of the flesh by the circumcision of Christ: Buried with him in baptism, wherein also ye are risen with him through the faith of the operation of God, who hath raised him from the dead.
(Col 2:9-12)
 
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chubbena said:
Is not the condition in this case to find rest for the soul "take my yoke upon you and learn from me, for I am gentle and humble in heart"?
I know He said the His yoke is easy but what exactly is the yoke He spoke about? I would think He spoke of obedience to God the Father which Paul spoke about in Philippians 2 rather than obedience to the religious leaders at the time.
And to learn from Him one the same - obedience.
What do you say? :)
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JesusLives said:
I guess my question would be - Did Jesus obey His Father?

It required action on Jesus part in order for the sacrifice to be made. Jesus made Himself available to be nailed to the cross not only that but He stayed there until He died. As the song says He could have called 10,000 angels but instead He chose to be obedient and die for us. Jesus was obedient unto death. We need to be obedient to what God has planned for our lives too and that is not legalistic that is faith and trust in what God has for us to do.
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obedience was don by Faith alone and he did as led
 
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