REST FOR GODS PEOPLE

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REST FOR GODS PEOPLE

• CENTRAL TRUTH
• CHRISTIANS FIND REST IN CHRIST BY OBEDIENCE TO
  GODS WORD
• FOCUS
• TO COMPREHEND THE NECESSITY OF FAITH IN GOD AND
  REST IN HIS GRACE
• GOLDEN TEXT
• HEB.411 LET US LABOR THEREFORE TO ENTER INTO
  THAT REST, LEST ANY MAN FALL AFTER THE SAME
  EXAMPLE OF UNBELIEF.

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2. HEBREWS 37-11

• WHAT DO YOU THINK OF WHEN YOU HEAR THE WORD REST
• THE WORD REST BRINGS TO MIND, THE CEASING FROM
  ACTIVITY
• SAFE IN THE ARMS OF JESUS
• TRY AS WE MAY, IN OUR HUMAN ACTIVITIES, WE CANNOT
  BRING SPIRITUAL REST

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3. WARNING

• TAKE HEED, SEE TO IT THAT WE KEEP OUR HEART ON
  THE RIGHT TRACK
• WE MUST GUARD OUR HEART.
• JEREMIAH 179 THE HEART IS DECEITFUL ABOVE ALL
  THINGS, AND DESPERATELY WICKED WHO CAN KNOW IT?

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4. HEBREWS 313 INSTRUCTIONS

• EXHORT ONE ANOTHER DAILY
• EXHORTGIVE WARNING OR ADVISE, APPEAL
• AM I MY BROTHERS KEEPER?
• IN MILITARY, WE WERE TOLD TO LOOK OUT FOR EACH
  OTHER.
• THAT CAN BE SPIRITUALLY APPLIED

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5. WHAT KEPT THE ISRAELITES FROM ENTERING CANAAN?

• HARDNESS OF HEART AND REBELLION
• UNBELIEF THEY REFUSED TO FOLLOW JOSHUAH AND CALAB
• LOOK WHAT IT COST THEM
• 4. THEY DIED IN THE WILDERNESS

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6. HOW DOES THIS OLD TESTAMENT STORY APPLY TO US
TODAY?

• ANYONE CAN MAKE THE SAME MISTAKE THAT THE OLD
  TESTAMENT ISRAELITES DID.
• THE TEMPTATION IS TO LOOK AT SPIRITUAL THINGS IN
  THE NATURAL.
• SPIRITUAL THINGS ARE SPIRITUALLY DISCERNED 1
  CORINTH.214

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7. DANGER OF TURNING AWAY

• THE WARNING SOUNDS SO SERIOUS
• TODAY! IF YOU HEAR HIS VOICE, HARDEN NOT YOUR
  HEART.
• HOW DOES GOD TALK TO US?
• THROUGH THE PREACHED WORD
• THROUGH A FRIEND
• THROUGH A SONG
• IN QUIETNESS THE HOLY SPIRIT SPEAKS

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8. WHAT IS THE CONSEQUENCE OF FALLING AWAY FROM
GOD?

• 2 PETER 222
• PROVERBS 2611
• NO ONE EVER BACKSLID OVER NIGHT, IT IS A GRADUAL
  THING
• PSALM 7318 MENTIONS THAT THE UNSAVED ARE IN
  SLIPPERY PLACES

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9.THE CHRISTIAN LIFE IS ALL BY FAITH

• FAITH IN WHAT THE BIBLE TEACHES
• FAITH IN THE LEADING OF THE HOLY SPIRIT
• FAITH TO BELIEVE IN THE PROMISES OF GOD
• LOOK AT 2 TIM. 112 I KNOW WHOM I HAVE
  BELIEVED, AND AM PERSUADED THAT HE IS ABLE TO
  KEEP THAT WHICH I HAVE COMMITTED UNTO HIM AGAINST
  THAT DAY.

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10. WHAT DOES THIS REST ENTAIL?

• CEASE FROM OUR OWN WORKS
• EPHESIANS 28,9
• LOOK AT THE RICH YOUNG RULER
• WHAT CAN I DO
• WE ARE SO MUCH LIKE THAT
• ROMANS 516 THEREFORE IT IS OF FAITH, THAT IT
  MIGHT BE BY GRACE.

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11. HOW CAN WE EXERCISE DILIGENCE IN THE PURSUIT
OF GODS REST?

• SOME ONE ONCE SAID, SEVEN DAYS WITHOUT THE BIBLE
  MAKES ONE WEAK
• GOD AND THE BIBLE ARE INSEPARABLE
• THE WORD WAS MADE FLESH AND DWELLED AMONG US

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12.LIFE RESPONSE

• WHEN IT COMES TO GODS REST. TWO CHOICES ARE
  BEFORE US. WE CAN LABOR TO WIN GODS APPROVAL AND
  ACCOMPLISH NOTHING. OR WE CAN REST IN GODS GRACE
  AND PRODUCE THE WORKS HE DESIGNED US TO DO AS WE
  MARCH FORWARD TOWARD HEAVEN.

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THOUGHT FOR THE DAY

• FEED YOUR FAITH AND DOUBT WILL STARVE TO DEATH

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Have you ever been this tired?