Resting in God
Resting in God is trusting that what He has done is done in full and relying on the
finished work of Jesus. Trusting God is trusting in His word (Psalms 37:5-9) “commit
your way to the Lord Yahweh, trust also in Him, and He shall bring it to pass. And He
shall bring forth your righteousness as the light, and your judgment as the noonday.
Rest in the Lord Yahweh, and wait patiently for Him, fret not yourself because of him
who prospers in his way, because of the man who brings wicked devices to pass.
Cease from anger, and forsake wrath, fret not yourself in any wise to do evil. For
evildoers shall be cut off, but those that wait upon the Lord Yahweh, they shall inherit
the earth”. The word wait is not just sitting around and waiting for God to do
something, it’s waiting, like a waiter would wait on his tables, by serving God; in what
He loves. Doing the will of God.
Just like the Israelites had a city of refuge in the Old Testament, and could go to the
city of refuge and escape the wrath, the punishment for the sin of accidentally killing a
man. We have Jesus as our refuge, and we are protected in Him, because He has
paid in full for all of our sins.
The Israelites were not able to enter into His rest because of their unbelief (Hebrews
3:8-11, 17-19) “harden not your hearts, as in the provocation in the day of temptation
in the wilderness. When your fathers tempted Me, proved Me, and saw My works
forty years. Wherefore I was grieved with that generation, and said. They do always
err in their heart, and they have not known My ways. So I swear in My wrath, they
shall not come into My rest. But with whom was He grieved forty years? Was it not
with them that had sinned, whose carcases fell in the wilderness? And to whom swear
He that they should not enter into His rest, but to them that believed not? So we see
that they could not enter in because of unbelief”.
God wants us to rest (Jeremiah 6:16) “thus says the Lord Yahweh, stand you in the
ways, and see and ask for the old paths, where is the good way, and walk therein,
and you shall find rest for your souls”. Our rest is a gift (Matthew 11:28-30) Jesus
said “come to Me, all you that labor and are heavy laden, and I will give you rest.
Take My yoke upon you, and learn of Me, for I am meek and lowly in heart; and you
shall find rest to your souls. For My yoke is easy, and My burden is light”.
Ephesians 6:10-14 tells us to be strong in the Lord and in the power of His might. To
put on the whole armor of God that you may be able to stand against the wiles of the
devil. That you may be able to withstand in the evil day, and having done all to stand,
stand therefore. You are standing on the word of God.
All things are possible to them, that believe; those that believe have entered in His
rest (Hebrews 4:1-3) “let us therefore be careful, less a promise being lest us of
entering into His rest, any of you should seem to come short of it. for to us was the
gospel preached as well as to them, but the word preached did not profit them, not
being mixed with faith in them that heard it. For we which have believed do enter into
rest, as He said, as I have sworn in My wrath, if they shall enter into My rest, although
the works were finished from the foundation of the world”. So we are not waiting for
God, God is waiting for us to find out who we are (Romans 8:16-17) “the Spirit itself
bears witness with our spirit, that we are the children of God. And if children, then
heirs, heirs of God, and joint heirs with Christ, if so be that we suffer with Him, that we
may be able also glorified together”. Verse 19 says “for the earnest expectation of the
creature waits for the manifestation of the sons of God”.
We are warned in (Hebrews 4:9-11) “there remain therefore a rest to the people of
God. For he that is entered into His rest, he also has ceased from his own works, as
God did from His. Let us labor therefore to enter into that rest, less any man fall after
the same example of unbelief”.
What Christians rest from is the struggle against the forces of evil; by studying the
word of God and applying the word against the devil’s tricks, we can rest by saying “it
is written” as Jesus did (Luke 4). We don’t fight against he devil in our flesh, we fight
the devil with the word of God. As we commit ourselves to God and resist the devil,
he will flee from us (James 4:7).
When you read through chapter 11 of Hebrews, you see the faith giants that entered
in, by becoming fully persuaded that what God had promised He was able also to
perform. Abraham’s faith rested on God’s promise (Hebrews 11:17-19) “by faith
Abraham, when he was tried, offered up Isaac; and he that had received the promises
offered up his only begotten son. Of whom it was said, that in Isaac shall your seed
be called. Accounting that God was able to raise him up, even from the dead, from
where also he received him in a figure”.
What does your faith rest upon? Faith that has not a promise to it cannot be
exercised. Romans 15:4 says “for whatsoever things were written aforetime were
written for our learning, that we through patience and comfort of the scriptures might
have hope”. The promises of God should give us great confidence, because God’s
word will not return void (Isaiah 55:11) “so shall My word be that goes forth out of My
mouth, it shall not return to Me void, but it shall accomplish that which I please and it
shall prosper in the thing whereto I sent it”. When it says that God’s word will not
return void, it’s saying as we proclaim His words, things happen. Psalms 68:11 says
“the Lord Yahweh gave the word, great was the company of those that published it”
proclaimed it. God told Joshua “this book of the law shall not depart out of your
mouth, but you shall meditate therein day and night that you may observe to do
according to all that is written therein, for then you shall make your way prosperous
and then you shall have good success” (Joshua 1:8). Jesus said I only do and say
what I have heard My Father do (John 8:26).
Sermon by: Harriet Bond
Date: July 11, 2008
Resting in God is trusting that what He has done is done in full and relying on the
finished work of Jesus. Trusting God is trusting in His word (Psalms 37:5-9) “commit
your way to the Lord Yahweh, trust also in Him, and He shall bring it to pass. And He
shall bring forth your righteousness as the light, and your judgment as the noonday.
Rest in the Lord Yahweh, and wait patiently for Him, fret not yourself because of him
who prospers in his way, because of the man who brings wicked devices to pass.
Cease from anger, and forsake wrath, fret not yourself in any wise to do evil. For
evildoers shall be cut off, but those that wait upon the Lord Yahweh, they shall inherit
the earth”. The word wait is not just sitting around and waiting for God to do
something, it’s waiting, like a waiter would wait on his tables, by serving God; in what
He loves. Doing the will of God.
Just like the Israelites had a city of refuge in the Old Testament, and could go to the
city of refuge and escape the wrath, the punishment for the sin of accidentally killing a
man. We have Jesus as our refuge, and we are protected in Him, because He has
paid in full for all of our sins.
The Israelites were not able to enter into His rest because of their unbelief (Hebrews
3:8-11, 17-19) “harden not your hearts, as in the provocation in the day of temptation
in the wilderness. When your fathers tempted Me, proved Me, and saw My works
forty years. Wherefore I was grieved with that generation, and said. They do always
err in their heart, and they have not known My ways. So I swear in My wrath, they
shall not come into My rest. But with whom was He grieved forty years? Was it not
with them that had sinned, whose carcases fell in the wilderness? And to whom swear
He that they should not enter into His rest, but to them that believed not? So we see
that they could not enter in because of unbelief”.
God wants us to rest (Jeremiah 6:16) “thus says the Lord Yahweh, stand you in the
ways, and see and ask for the old paths, where is the good way, and walk therein,
and you shall find rest for your souls”. Our rest is a gift (Matthew 11:28-30) Jesus
said “come to Me, all you that labor and are heavy laden, and I will give you rest.
Take My yoke upon you, and learn of Me, for I am meek and lowly in heart; and you
shall find rest to your souls. For My yoke is easy, and My burden is light”.
Ephesians 6:10-14 tells us to be strong in the Lord and in the power of His might. To
put on the whole armor of God that you may be able to stand against the wiles of the
devil. That you may be able to withstand in the evil day, and having done all to stand,
stand therefore. You are standing on the word of God.
All things are possible to them, that believe; those that believe have entered in His
rest (Hebrews 4:1-3) “let us therefore be careful, less a promise being lest us of
entering into His rest, any of you should seem to come short of it. for to us was the
gospel preached as well as to them, but the word preached did not profit them, not
being mixed with faith in them that heard it. For we which have believed do enter into
rest, as He said, as I have sworn in My wrath, if they shall enter into My rest, although
the works were finished from the foundation of the world”. So we are not waiting for
God, God is waiting for us to find out who we are (Romans 8:16-17) “the Spirit itself
bears witness with our spirit, that we are the children of God. And if children, then
heirs, heirs of God, and joint heirs with Christ, if so be that we suffer with Him, that we
may be able also glorified together”. Verse 19 says “for the earnest expectation of the
creature waits for the manifestation of the sons of God”.
We are warned in (Hebrews 4:9-11) “there remain therefore a rest to the people of
God. For he that is entered into His rest, he also has ceased from his own works, as
God did from His. Let us labor therefore to enter into that rest, less any man fall after
the same example of unbelief”.
What Christians rest from is the struggle against the forces of evil; by studying the
word of God and applying the word against the devil’s tricks, we can rest by saying “it
is written” as Jesus did (Luke 4). We don’t fight against he devil in our flesh, we fight
the devil with the word of God. As we commit ourselves to God and resist the devil,
he will flee from us (James 4:7).
When you read through chapter 11 of Hebrews, you see the faith giants that entered
in, by becoming fully persuaded that what God had promised He was able also to
perform. Abraham’s faith rested on God’s promise (Hebrews 11:17-19) “by faith
Abraham, when he was tried, offered up Isaac; and he that had received the promises
offered up his only begotten son. Of whom it was said, that in Isaac shall your seed
be called. Accounting that God was able to raise him up, even from the dead, from
where also he received him in a figure”.
What does your faith rest upon? Faith that has not a promise to it cannot be
exercised. Romans 15:4 says “for whatsoever things were written aforetime were
written for our learning, that we through patience and comfort of the scriptures might
have hope”. The promises of God should give us great confidence, because God’s
word will not return void (Isaiah 55:11) “so shall My word be that goes forth out of My
mouth, it shall not return to Me void, but it shall accomplish that which I please and it
shall prosper in the thing whereto I sent it”. When it says that God’s word will not
return void, it’s saying as we proclaim His words, things happen. Psalms 68:11 says
“the Lord Yahweh gave the word, great was the company of those that published it”
proclaimed it. God told Joshua “this book of the law shall not depart out of your
mouth, but you shall meditate therein day and night that you may observe to do
according to all that is written therein, for then you shall make your way prosperous
and then you shall have good success” (Joshua 1:8). Jesus said I only do and say
what I have heard My Father do (John 8:26).
Sermon by: Harriet Bond
Date: July 11, 2008
