Hello Everyone,

Too many people are willing to embrace Jesus so they can get to heaven, but they don’t want to hear what the Bible teaches about their sinful lifestyle that requires changes!

Obedience is a requirement or there can be no rest for the wicked! It is this "LABORING" to obey God’s Word that brings us into spiritual health and restfulness!

This is a daily task. If we truly have faith in God’s Word we will follow it!
Just as there is no shortcuts to good physical health, there is none to good spiritual health!

There was only Joshua and Caleb that had entered into God’s rest, the only two to believe God’s Word and obey it, the rest of that generation died in the wilderness having failed to ever enter God’s rest although they had God’s presence in their camp and His miracles on their journey!

The only difference was obedience! Many times this is still the only difference of why one Christian does well and another is always struggling and has no rest!

This is God’s requirement for His rest...

Hebrews 4:12-13 ¹²For the word of God is living and active. Sharper than any double-edged sword, it penetrates even to dividing soul and spirit, joints and marrow; it judges the thoughts and attitudes of the heart. ¹³Nothing in all creation is hidden from God's sight. Everything is uncovered and laid bare before the eyes of him to whom we must give account.

Notice how this paragraph ends...with the Word of God again in the focus!
It is that Word of God that ultimately impacts the quality of our spiritual life in the here and now as well as the then and there!

The Word of God is foundational to our spiritual health, it must have
priority in our life, this is done by obedience to its teachings!

There is nothing else on Earth that can do what the Word of God can do!
It is alive and active....it can pierce through anything!
All attempts to disregard God’s Word will end up in failure...and we cannot hide our sins which is nothing more than disobedience to His
Word!
The Word of God has the power to change everything....and only it can
bring rest!

What a waste that an entire generation wandered through a desert simply because they failed to enter into God’s rest by faith and obedience to His
Word!
Yet we could have an entire generation do the same thing today!...or an
individual!
We must be people of the Word, not people of the World!

If we are to really know God’s rest in our souls, we must have faith in
God and His Word....and obey it!

How rested are you????

Though Israel was called "God’s people" and though they had seen miracles and God’s great POWER, they failed to enter God’s rest! Failure to enter was because of their failure to believe God’s Word, which led to disobedience...the result: NO REST! The same can happen today too...obedience is the evidence of faith, which leads to rest! How restful is your life?

Oh How HE Loves Us!

Pastor Phil