The Promised Rest for God's People | Pr Yvonne Chong

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lifestyle for us. Sus painters sing sing a whoes and a woman holding and

it leads me as well to what I want to share today. From Hebrews

chapter four, she this is that's my main message. You know, the

whole chapter is. Actually it's going to be what I'm going to be talking

about. This girl, give brief background on this episode or you know letter

face hang ego sing so basically, uh, along the way because he's it's

towards the end. Already many Jewish people there was stepping up from Judaism into

Christianity. She didn't you can't tyrant and she made but a lot of the

way right. A lot of them wanted the ghost. That's a Malaysia term.

Uh. They want to reverse on their decision of being a Christian regating

a downtown because they want to escape persecution. So he rows was actually written,

we don't know exactly who the something was, the apostle Paula. But

actually there is no no, no proof that he actually wrote this whole episte

so that I may, she says, But he was actually written to for

fill a few things because sports sooner you see the diepen you Indian. Sorry,

I don't have slights today because I don't have enough time. But listen,

listen to me, listen to the word of God. Okay, so

it was written to challenge, to encourage and empower Christian believers. Soon has

said true, you know who were listening time that she that she trunk the

woman. It is to remind again that Jesus Christ is superior and it's the

ultimate power above all the prophets and all the teachers that they knew no yeah,

society teaching that was Junager three NS. So Jesus is superior to all

other and today in today's contexts, well, it's superior to all others who

claim that they are the truth is it's how you're the son turned home into

tea say, and since God has given Jesus to us, sorry Jesus christ

Us, we should listen right to what he has to say. So he's

not moved from it. So put in guy like she. A lot of

times people move they go, you know, the reverse, because she can

unionizing to the uniman you and and you know the word of God says.

The consequences of ignoring God, the consequences of ignoring his word, ignoring who

he is, right will lead those bad stuff use in laments, it will

lead to bad stuff. Tongue woman ignoranized. She who susan woman retiring omen

she because we are walking away from truth and life, I, I says,

so the n I say to eternal darkness changing hey an so and and

and you know we know that you know Jesus is the ultimate and perfect expression

of God's plan for mankind that you turn away woman. So those of us

who are very good and meds right before the number four is number yeah.

And now because I want to start with chapter three of Hebrew, because for

those of us who are using the most versions, actually chapter four right starts

with the word there for even as this you can do so if if you're

going English as well. You know, when when we start with the centers

were therefore meaning that's something that has happened before, then you say, therefore

you have to do this this major you can't tame in so fast and what

happens so you can see right even in chapter two and chapter three as well,

both of it starts with that for run. But I'm just gonna reverse

one chapter, okay because like chapter three, and I'm gonna summarize it or

in your own time, please read up like you know, understand more and

just in case I said the wrong stuff, at least you have it right

from the one of God. Chapter three speaks on the focus on Israel's failure

to trust God. Also going out it's earlier and Hammond round since at the

borders of Canaan Jesus and this disobedience actually came out of the lack of faith

towards God. So she just said, pushing food Taman down, so the

pus Hammond to it's males singing their fear over the tasks that you know God

has given to them, dancing cause Israel to stumbles around insially easily pin turn.

So the consequence of it, you know, the result is the entire

generation. They were condemned, and they wandered around the desert, right,

so hold on to young and they couldn't enter the promised Lam not Harman.

How long were they wandering around the desert, so hammana down, She sings,

forty years. How many of you are forty here son, so and

so, yeah, forty years. Imagine walking in circle the same place for

forty years, say and see that speaks about right, this obedience would lead

to the loss of our inheritance. Sit down on food and she pays the

turn. And chapter three, if you look at it as well, it

ended with the warning that it was unbelieved that kept the people of Israel from

entering the Promised Land. Also just in wait Haim and the bussing and to

the rest that God has promised for them in the Promised Land. Yes,

sir timas in so Haman. Then if you don't believe me, you can

look at verse nineteen of chapter three. It says, you know, and

so we see that they were not able to enter because of unbelief. So

okay, this is you in waight Hamana busin and and it is you know

for all of us here, you know, to encourage each other, you

know, let's continue encourage each other to have more belief in our lives maker

and not just soundcing to trust God more just sounding dont believe in ourselves like,

hey, I can do it something all the but to have more belief

towards the person of God considered that she does, so you can do the

sanxing to who is just that sounding time, because God does not go against

what he claims that he is the boy. Are you those those of you

who have been part of homes right, we are on this series, got

the I am series. So it's the time you over the achancing going outward.

If you don't know, you know you join homes and that's where we

learn together. They're going to put yourself who sounds? So we need to

guard each other each other as Buno pits that she foods pez because in Hebrews

Chapter three, Vers. Twelve to thirteen, Right says, take care Bradren,

lest there should be any one of you and evil unbelieving her in falling

away from the living from the living God. But encourage one another day after

they as long it is called today, less anyone of you be hardened by

the deceitfulness of put sing the thing by tintin PiZZ of sanctioning. So that

side it's really important for gathering and coming together of believers on a Sunday.

I think from the time you start walking into the church until you know our

worship service and tony about so we get reminded at different points. I put

on the put on she paid teasing to continue to believe, and it's got

that we we love in this God, that we have relationship with its pay

teasing. So that concerned Guancy, we do that at homes, we do

that in the small groups, in the different campuses, the small girl in

men, we do that with the one on one made out so that you

have, you know, with with another sister and a brother in Christ.

It's that she can teach her minutes. So although you know our faith,

you know Christianity, it's a personal relationship. We've got a woman concerned and

guancy. It doesn't mean you get all up in the room and it's just

you and got a piece of the town. Because we need each other even

continue to spur on it in this faith journey in the region beats yep and

and a conclusion of a Hebrew's tree, right, so this soun sounds that

jay justice, that unbelieved, you know, and concluding concluding it as they

start that unbelieved. It's such a constant and also a dangerous temptation that we

must help each other to fight off. So this tuntunds so women beats to

the like she sounds shame beats so that she's going out sings in thees.

I've known a lot of friends as all, you know, we were all

we you know, give our life to Christ, to God, you know,

along the way we are all on revived together, on fire, for

got together. But once they stopped believing, I saw different ones of them,

you know, falling away and backsliding as well. They that was so

incident, eating eating full will hollow so soon because the time how much sounding

the time ki sing whole tweeter and and one of the main reasons because when

they, you know, and they stop believing God, God is real in

their life, like she thinks, young sing me, they start surrounding themselves

with people who are of different minds, people who do not give godlic councils

sometimes and bahm waight outside And I said, Susan Hamon, and I say,

eating as a whole, and that, you know, really draw them

away so hard to the other end, you know, So don't Bahama titles

one. So that is chapter three and chapter four right now, So we

are going to read it. So and since I give you a pre am

already tell you I hope you guys are all there, Mirando and ready to

read the word, how like she do gus, you know I always do

that, right, I'll get different ones here to read. Okay, sound

down, drum roll, okay, So we have the mic ready and we'll

start from the back. Okay. So, so we're gonna read from verse

one to verse sixteen, only sixteen verses, very short, salute. It's

solute. Person can read one verse, so make it okay too easy,

and then once you're done, you can just pass on the next person you

get package, so our PC, you know, Crystal can just sit down

as well and receive. Okay, so she will leave the mic to you

guys. So she brow chapter four, but we will start with clemen yeah,

clemen, yeah, yeah, So it is important to return the rower

of God. And if you have a Bible, you can flip the pages.

If not, you can starts go if you're using they also Bible like

Barsara Nson is it t yeah yeah, so clamor you can start with us

one woman, see mon Lucia, your your jin rule uns the issue issue

woman therefore seen the promised remains of entering his rest. Let us feel like

any of you seem to have come short of it worse. Two, For

though this was the gospel preach as well as those them, but the word

preach did not profit them, not being mixed with faith in them that hurt

it. Verse three. Now we who have believed entered that rest just as

God has said, so I declared on oath in my anger, they shall

never enter my rest. That wimaging something genus. So so what us t

anci? And yet his works have been finished since the creation of the word

Chandler was fom oh. He has spoken in a certain place of the seventh

day in this way, and God rested on the seventh day from all his

works issues sichers and you see. And again in the passage above he says,

they shall never enter my rest. You issue shot took anci. Then

pass it forward, can or can verse six? Yeah? Yeah, verse

six Verse six, Since therefore it remains that some must enter it, and

those two whom it was first preached did not enter because of disobedience. Gee,

you're beaching. And the verse seven, God again said a certain day,

calling it today. This he did when a long time later he spoke

to David as in the passage already recorded today. If you hear his voice,

do not harden your heart, Susan, you're sending sam shor in the

main or sing lost of years Johava. So if Johan has given them less

rest, then he would not afterwards had spoken of another day biding your there

remain there for a rest for the people of God. For he who has

entered his rest has himself also ceased from his works, as God did from

his inn. To see the concern rules. So you woman will be and

see min the share pro let us therefore be diligion to enter that rest less

anyone, For according to the same example of this obedience, this shir shelter

each year. Quiet, dear you say, Sir Paki and Hernan pin For

the Word of God is living and powerful and sharpened than any two ages,

sword piercing even to the division of and spirit and of joy and marrow,

and is a discerner of the thoughts and intents of the heart. Bitch,

order mayo young, sorry mean chair sluded, one will try Hi chien should

lu chunkhai. The beach shoe sounds hard dune, and there is no creature

hidden from his side, but all things are naked and open the eyes of

him, to whom we must give a count. Hm, sir Yeah.

Seeing then, seeing then that we have a great high priests who have passed

through the heavens Jesus the Son of God, let us hold first our confession

is supin down. So trender down this dear in woman, that that is

being fat around. Lord fan, So you thistiment, for we do not

have a high priest who cannot sympathize with our witnesses, but was in all

points tended as we are. Yet without seeing this soy woman, treat the

wait so so last words verse sixteen. Letters, therefore, come boldly to

the thrones of grace, that we may obtain mercy and find grace to help

in time of need. All right, cool, Thank you everyone for readinggran

Larning. So the real problem that we see her in chapter four, now

understanding it a little bit more so, this is when they were can get

the problem of Israel. What's that failure to obey God? I say it's

we know that it's because of fear moments. It's in way like and you

know, according to the writer of Hebrews, right, we don't know who

the person is. Got only rested when he had completed his creative work.

Just that woman put on and iss youre only forfeited their arrest in Canaan when

they failed to complete the task given to them by God, we see in

verse six. So that's so, in a very literal sense, the rest

offered by God is not about relaxation or pleasure. A lot of times we

as I say the word rest is like ha, you know you relax,

go for a nice cup of coffee, curn down minutes and being woman so

you'll see funk. So but it's all about it is about the rewards which

come once we have rested from or completed the works that were assigned to us.

A soon a thai nison So your marion woman, so woman saw you.

So that is from verse nine to verse ten. So what you know,

what is the task and assignment that God has given us curses someone So

once we have completed it, hence then you know the rest can be granted

right on and a b run So that would be actually my title uh for

today, And and I thought of calling it you know, promised rest,

the promised rest for God's people. So just a so it is not originally

from me the title Who's the Light You when I was living living, but

reading the new translation England the c that was the title of the passage.

Okay, so I'll go on. So what does it mean. It's going

to be just a few points. What does it mean about the promised rest

for God's people? So you know, woman, actually you know it is

very different from what the world I think. Rest is just not certes say

the young and we know the ultimate rest you all. You know I was

just past Gloria's moms and also the funeral. No not so what I tell

you, and we know as believers the ultimate rest that we have is when

this body decides to give up no longer have life, and you know,

our spirit and also it's taken up to be with the presence, in the

presence of God and sodic. So the rest, you know, what does

it mean here? It means, you know, Christians who I have been

safe. You know, we need to make an effort to continue to oldbey

God while we can so natally the an she soon flus. That is the

opposite of what the world thing. Rest is rest for the words I see

there and do nothing. It means and what you know, I'm saying this

right not because of my own self, but it's actually from verse eleven.

Let's not again at verse eleven. Cannot be it says, let us therefore

be diligion to enter that rest p c lea less any one for according to

the same example of this obedience pushing out, when we are encouraged to be

religion, meaning right, there's a motion we are doing something so op leader

Solio type you don't so you know, some peoples like, okay, you

know, once I give my life to Jesus, invite here my life,

that will be forever safe sounding you're shooting. That's a really nice, awesome

debate going on. Okay, you can go and and and and and you

know, talk more. But a lot of people say, like, okay,

once say forever say if you don't have to actually work out yourself issue

you hold on you that you push your well only that you sing but in

all the world go out here reminds you know, we have to continue to

be diligion because you know how you leada woman not just teaching that woman.

So if you're going to paraphrase it right out, like she, We have

to guide our salvation and God. We know salvation is a gift from God

rightly. Uh. And a gift can be taken away not older, you

can lose your gift. She just paraphrasing it. So we have to be

very diligent to guard it. So like she woman that you second. One

key to our ability to complict our work is the word of God. So

just a young woman sad like Hawaii, and specifically what God has already what

whatever that is written already in your Bible. Just say out the maid you

are Hebrews. That is from Heroes chapter for us tough. Just this sist

day and I'm going to read from the New Living Translation just so how you

only are the inunity doing a bump and that you do and and it goes

simpler English. But I like how it has been expressed here. For the

Word of God is alive and powerful the Hawaii and Hawaii is so poor,

it is shapper than the shoppest two aged just the beach, so cutting between

soul and spirit sense she join and marrow and it says, yeah, you

know the world got it exposes our innermost thoughts and desires to eat and true

line you know human nature. Right, It makes it, you know,

very easy for us to confuse between selfish piety with true godliness. Uh cernaday

him and the selfish devotions. You know it can be religiousness just singer Bataio

singer, we can get that confused. We gotliness Juici. So you can

refer to chapter seven verse I don't have time to go to it, but

you can note it down so you can read up more. Hey, we

may be able to fool others with our religious religiousness singer like she. You

can read it up in first Simel sixteen seven, say some the sun,

or we can even fo ourselves with religiousness or religious parties Jos turmoil, woman

jungle. But we cannot forgot because pins that's from Hebrew chapter for us that

in right, so juicide. It says nothing in all creations is hidden from

God. So it pains everything meagering, our thoughts, our desires, women,

the things in everything is naked and exposed before his eyes. Juicide element

tongue. For he is the one to whom we are accountable to. We're

eager to women. And she somehow like a razor sharp knife and so the

yep, the word of God is living and it's active. So the hawaii

and it is very clear to help us to be able to differentiate or distinguish

things we think that you know it cannot be operated, sir. It's gonna

go bound to women like she whai is so wo man e way woman or

many evays she pay even kider. It is very important because at the end

of the day, right, all of us thoughts and our actions will be

judged by God almhaim Omen the same way to c who used and that she's

a panda where you can turn to Medial Chapter twelve, verse study six,

sigmatize this. It is josh your next solility. You can read that medial

Chelve verse study six science alility, science alility. And I tell you this,

you must give an account on judgment day for every idol word you speak,

will you fine? So the panelism bl go through life yep. So

the third one it is our faith in God, right, Uh, it

is something really unique, Okay. Uh. It is a relationship woman sing

singer sig you don't you don't And because of this relationship we have got God

has sympathy as his people as well, even concern you know. So it's

t she woman, so you know the word it used just down, it's

judge. It can be very strong, so you can hunting down the pane

also. But according to the word of God, right, the one you

know who judges us has a powerful sympathy for our weakness as well, because

Tony don't know what is tonout time is woman. So if you look look

at verse fifteen, she can't say this high priests of ours understands our weakness

us, for he faced all of the same test things we do. Yet

he did not seem so although you know sometimes we know that God he is

firm and his streak, so no maturity leader, but he understands and being

by and and it says, you know, he faced the same test things

as we do. So woman young, you know he has you know,

gone through sufferings, temptations and struggles as well like we do every other day.

Yeah, it's people, and it said, okay, so in philippin

chapter versus, Philipp su the party. But he has gone through all of

it right without calling into sin, just tack eating normal. So this means

like Christ is the most perfect example. So just type three and so the

negative bank young of that it is possible to go through suffering temptations and struggles

without sinning, even at number title or so he is a perfect example.

He is also a perfect sacrifice has elementary one made the young halementary one.

Because of this right, we should be able to have that confidence, you

know, to approach God as who he is, normal young, the singer,

she likes, she changing, and and you know he himself he had

first st experience of what it means to be human if it concerned thing out

and he understands our flaws, awakness exercise that again, he understands it.

He knows it means bilem the run road. So we do not have to

be afraid to bring to him our uh with a correctness, our rustiness,

push outside of the mention, don't have to be a shamed and comming like

God. You know, I feel push sounds so queer like us on the

mints. So now around or you know, so you're shy. I want

to come to God. I got so many needs how to come to him?

And shy okay like us on the mention, don't have to be you

know a Malaysia and I don't scared of him pushing myself and sound it didn't

une high, didn't high part, Okay, So inside the jump inside that

job. So he brows four ends with this. So inside this is down

to you like the wait Justice. So so let us come boldly to the

throne of our gracious God justice woman about because he is gracious, because that

we will be able to receive his mercy and face on them, and we

will find grace to help us when we need it most. No, it's

go ti woman. So so I'm going close with this so way as we

draw towards the end of twenty twenty three, so when I see your Sunday

away, Yeah, let us not forget to fight this faith of faith that

we are on. She wants so that she ate woman, and she does

may have sings in the to continue to be diligion, just so that she

bounds on. It's so that she s leader. Because I know as we

come towards the it feels like a very holiday mody, right, So I

sounds like Jady school did just Yes, holidays, Yeah, a lot of

times you know we got holiday. We let our guards stuff a majority the

dash. Yes, So no major so then we start partying her that we

forget one sings and she want you want to listen if you want to enter

the perfect rest religion look silly the bows. Pay close attention to what you

have heard from God, from his word, from you know, the vice

counselors that you have just so thin, So Susana and say eating. So

that's the first one to my wrap. But attention to what you have heard

from Hebrews chapter two, verse one, just like she you need, so

don't need the second one. Do not neglect your great salvation Hebrews two of

Us three, just like Santio. So she wants you need that you considered

Jesus in all of your decisions, so to make nebors tree one for fun.

Do not harden your hearts. Just this just bear Internet, the sing

God, because I believe in your party had already program one. You know.

Do not harden your hearts is a bear Internet sing f one. Take

care contin your care for this ground of our hearts, you know, so

that it will not reached a place of unbelief. So I think you sing,

how round the thing time the sixth one to continue the exost each other

against the decent fulness of sin. So tell your beats like chain bitts around

like she sing. That is from he Wishedapter three, verse fourteen society and

the last one seven this she ju the fear and the fear, the fear

that you have that will cause unbelief, and that will keep you away from

the promised rest and para likely I said the how I need to rut so

concluding today's sharing with this seven like cheating, and on the seventh day got

rested as a right society. Just as you know, I was reminded of

this called past gloris Mom's funeral yesterday don't matter. I will tell you pay

it you hard the pasta you know hey this you know our birth is God's

gift to us. Woman as woman, we cannot sorry, we cannot earn

in this world's gift to us. She paid thattain woman, if linked with

birth is live right. That's why we can still be here reading today,

and I see Christmas we are not. We always get reminded, you know,

it's a season of giving as a children the sermon the Eager Eating.

So our birth is God's gift to us, but how we choose to live

our lives would be our gift to God. Woman, the dancer, woman,

Woman that women. Our birth is God's gift to us, Women,

the dancers woman, But how we choose to live our lives would be a

gift to God. Because woman, how does your gift to God look like?

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