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Paul at the end of his life called himself one of the greatest of sinners. Not past, but then. What rest is there besides in Jesus? None.
Of those who were before, that Moses lead out of the land of Egypt, the Holy Spirit says;
Today, if you hear His voice,
Do not harden your hearts as
when they provoked me,
as in the day of trial in the wilderness,
where your fathers tried Me by testing Me,
and saw My works for forty years.
Therefore I was angry with this generation,
and said, "They always go astray in their heart;
and they did not know My ways";
as I swore in My wrath,
"They shall not enter My rest."
The rest of God is not a day, such as we count days. God has finished His work, it is finished, complete, done. We enter His rest by being in Jesus, who finished His work, and said, it is finished.
The Law holds appeal to the natural man, even though it shows his death due to sin. The sabbath which is of the Law is a type of the true Sabbath which is in Jesus Christ. The only admonishment I find in Hebrews is to be sure not to fail to enter the rest of God, because of a hardened heart.
The only good deeds are those which God has accomplished, as it is written, that He completed them even before the foundations of the world were laid, that we should walk in them. Anyone who thinks that any deed of theirs could possibly be good has not seen God at any time, and does not know Him.
Of those who were before, that Moses lead out of the land of Egypt, the Holy Spirit says;
Today, if you hear His voice,
Do not harden your hearts as
when they provoked me,
as in the day of trial in the wilderness,
where your fathers tried Me by testing Me,
and saw My works for forty years.
Therefore I was angry with this generation,
and said, "They always go astray in their heart;
and they did not know My ways";
as I swore in My wrath,
"They shall not enter My rest."
The rest of God is not a day, such as we count days. God has finished His work, it is finished, complete, done. We enter His rest by being in Jesus, who finished His work, and said, it is finished.
The Law holds appeal to the natural man, even though it shows his death due to sin. The sabbath which is of the Law is a type of the true Sabbath which is in Jesus Christ. The only admonishment I find in Hebrews is to be sure not to fail to enter the rest of God, because of a hardened heart.
The only good deeds are those which God has accomplished, as it is written, that He completed them even before the foundations of the world were laid, that we should walk in them. Anyone who thinks that any deed of theirs could possibly be good has not seen God at any time, and does not know Him.
Paul wrote that the whole Law was summed up in one saying, that we love our neighbor as ourselves. But the commandment of Jesus is much higher than this saying, in that we are to love each other even as He has loved us. In this, the Law is not fulfilled, but completely surpassed, made obsolete, to be replaced by that which is able to perfect the worshiper, which the Law could never do.
You still didn't answer the question in Hebrews about how Jesus did not give us rest. But let me put what I am trying to say plainly. You are a christian I believe. How do you feel about a muslim or a Jew who doesn't call on the name of Jesus?