Listening to Driscoll
Reading Riddlebarger
Reading Hebrews 4
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Please, Lord, let this be the day. Let this be the day that time ends.
My Bible fell open to Isaiah 40
Comfort, comfort my people, says your God.
Speak tenderly to Jerusalem,
and cry to her
that her warfare is ended,
that her iniquity is pardoned,
that she has received from the LORD's hand
double for all her sins.
I'm reading in Hebrews 4...
God's Sabbath rest.
1Therefore, while the promise of entering his rest still stands, let us fear lest any of you should seem to have failed to reach it. 2For good news came to us just as to them, but the message they heard did not benefit them, because they were not united by faith with those who listened.
some manuscripts say because it did not meet with faith in the hearers.
It is not that we lose our salvation, it's that the promise of rest did not join with our faith in the first place. We are united by faith with those who listened to the gospel and believe.
This is also cross referenced to Romans 3:3
Even though there are those who do not listen and there are those who do not believe, that does not mean that the promises of God are not true. God is faithful to His promises, even when we are not faithful to Him.
3For we who have believed enter that rest, as he has said,
"As I swore in my wrath,'They shall not enter my rest,'"
That's a direct quote from Psa. 95. Matthew Henry says, "Let us be aware of the evils of our hearts, which lead us to wander from the Lord. There is a rest ordained for believers, the rest of everlasting refreshment, begun in this life, and perfected in the life to come. This is the rest which God calls his rest."
although his works were finished from the foundation of the world. 4For he has somewhere spoken of the seventh day in this way: "And God rested on the seventh day from all his works."
Exodus31:17, "It is a sign forever between me and the people of Israel that in six days the LORD made heaven and earth, and on the seventh day he rested and was refreshed.'"
We long for that rest.
Humans are designed for a Sabbath and I feel as though I have not had one for a long time.
I found a piece of napkin in my Bible. I must have been at a luncheon or something in order to have a napkin.
God works by contraries so that a man feels himself los tin the very moment when he is on the verge of being saved. When God is almost ready to justify a man, He damns him. Whom he would make alive, He must first kill...Man must first cry out that there is no health in him...when a man believes himself to be utterly lost, light breaks. Peace comes in the Word of God through faith.
In the past I've had "brushes with the prophetic". I believe that I had another.
Since I've been fasting, my mom has made some pretty important improvements