Hello Everyone,
The Bible teaches us that we can fail to enter into God’s rest if we fail to obey His word, that the lack of obedience is a lack of faith...which leads to a lack of rest!

Hebrews 4:1 Therefore, since the promise of entering his rest still stands, let us be careful that none of you be found to have fallen short of it.
God has always promised a "rest" to those who want it!
Even in the Old Testament there was a rest in God that was possible, sad to say, Israel failed to find this "rest" of God’s! How tragic that they missed the most important "rest" God had to offer.

But this "rest" remains for anyone today who might want it! It is not a physical rest that God is speaking of here, it is a spiritual rest!

This promise has been available for a long time, and will continue to
be available until Jesus comes back again. For those who want "rest", it is available, and the Word will describe in Hebrews 4:1-13 how we find it.

God’s rest comes from faith in God’s Word...which leads to obedience!
Look at the end of chapter 3:19 in Hebrews... "So we see that they (Israel) were not able to enter, because of their unbelief." (which led to their disobedience - there is a direct connection between REAL faith and obedience!)

The rewards are great; the cost for failure to obey is also great!
Those who call themselves "Believers" but fail to live according to God’s Word will not enter God’s rest!

The reason for Israel’s sufferings were the result of their own disobedience and lack of faith in God’s Word even though God was there in their camp by fire by night and the cloud by day!

God’s rest is available, but only through faith and through obedience to His Word!

Oh How HE Loves Us!

Pastor Phil