The Promise of Rest

Hebrews 4:1-2
Let us therefore fear, lest, a promise being left us of entering into his rest, any of you
should seem to come short of it.
(2) For unto us was the gospel preached, as well as unto them: but the word
preached did not profit them, not being mixed with faith in them that heard it.
1. Introduction
a. The God’s Word Translation Reads This Way
Hebrews 4:1-2 GWT
(1) God's promise that we may enter his place of rest still stands.
We are afraid that some of you think you won't enter his place of
rest.
(2) We have heard the same Good News that your ancestors
heard. But the message didn't help those who heard it in the past
because they didn't believe.
b. Points To Be Made
i. God’s Promise of Rest Still Stands
ii. God’s Promise Is For Everyone
iii. How To Obtain Rest
iv. Rejecting The Promise
2. Main Section: God’s Promise of Rest is Still For Everyone

Isaiah 28:12
(12) To whom he said, This is the rest wherewith ye may cause the weary to rest; and
this is the refreshing: yet they would not hear.

Matthew 11:28-30
(28) Come unto me, all ye that labour and are heavy laden, and I will give you rest.
(29) Take my yoke upon you, and learn of me; for I am meek and lowly in heart: and
ye shall find rest unto your souls.
(30) For my yoke is easy, and my burden is light.

Hebrews 4:9-11
(9) There remaineth therefore a rest to the people of God.
(10) For he that is entered into his rest, he also hath ceased from his own works, as
God did from his.
(11) Let us labour therefore to enter into that rest, lest any man fall after the same
example of
unbelief.

a. God’s Promise of Rest Is For everyone and not just a few, or the
select or
i. Acts 2:39
(39) For the promise is unto you, and to your children, and to all
that are afar off, even as many as the Lord our God shall call.
God in the Old Testament Prophesied That it was for everyone.

Joel 2:28-29
(28) And it shall come to pass afterward, that I will pour out my spirit upon all
flesh; and your sons and your daughters shall prophesy, your old men shall dream
dreams, your young men shall see visions:
(29) And also upon the servants and upon the handmaids in those days will I pour
out my spirit.

b. Explain GOD WILL TAKE YOU IN WHATEVER STATE

YOUR IN

YOU CAN’T CLEAN IT ALL UP…. YOURSELF

3. The Holy Ghost-Your Spiritual Rest is a Comforter.
John 14:16
(16) And I will pray the Father, and he shall give you another Comforter, that he may
abide with you forever;

a. Literal Rendition: Advocate

i. “Smith’s Bible Dictionary”
1. Comforter. Joh_14:16. The name given, by
Christ, to the Holy Spirit. The original Greek word is
Para-cl-ete, and means first Advocate, a
defender, helper, strengthener, as well as
comforter

b. The Holy Ghost Is the Advocate & Defender when

____WE SIN__________
1 John 2:1
(1) My little children, these things write I unto you, that ye sin not. And if any man
sin, we have an advocate with the Father, Jesus Christ the righteous:

1 Timothy 2:5
(5) For there is one God, and one mediator between God and men, the man Christ
Jesus;

John 15:26
(26) But when the Comforter is come, whom I will send unto you from the Father,
even the Spirit of truth, which proceedeth from the Father, he shall testify of me:

c. The Holy Ghost Is Our Strength & Rest When

_____WE NEED HELP___________

John 16:7
(7) Nevertheless I tell you the truth; It is expedient for you that I go away: for if I go
not away, the Comforter will not come unto you; but if I depart, I will send him unto
you.
 d. The Holy Ghost Is Our Helper & Comforter When
__WE Need Remembrance__
John 14:26
(26) But the Comforter, which is the Holy Ghost, whom the Father will send in my
name, he shall teach you all things, and bring all things to your remembrance,
whatsoever I have said unto you.

4. Obtaining the Promised Rest.

a. Obtaining This Rest Is Simple
i. This All Became available because of CALVERY
b. When God Came Down And wrapped Himself in human flesh,
was beaten and then nailed to a cross, and Died… But on the third
day Rose again that we may have new life.

Peter Had This Revelation, and at the Day of Pentecost

He Got up and Preached to the hearts of the People,
that thought they were drunk,
He Told Them They Crucified Christ.
Acts 2:36
(36) Therefore let all the house of Israel know assuredly, that God hath made that
same Jesus, whom ye have crucified, both Lord and Christ.

a. Peters Pentecostal Sermon, moved the people and they

responded with this question?
Acts 2:37
(37) Now when they heard this, they were pricked in their heart, and said unto Peter
and to the rest of the apostles, Men and brethren, what shall we do?

a. It Stirred their hearts, and they wanted to know, no

matter what it took how to be saved. Peters Response, in the
following verse gives it all of how to get it…
Acts 2:38-39
(38) Then Peter said unto them, Repent, and be baptized every one of you in the
name of Jesus Christ for the remission of sins, and ye shall receive the gift of the
Holy Ghost.
(39) For the promise is unto you, and to your children, and to all that are afar off, even
as many as the Lord our God shall call.

The Parts That He made mention of were

A. Repentance
B. Water Baptism by immersion in the name of Jesus Christ
for the remission of sins
C. The Infilling of the gift of the Holy Ghost by the evidence of
speaking in other tongues
5. Repentance
a. “Webster’s 1828 Dictionary States”
i. Real penitence; sorrow or deep contrition for sin, as an
offense and dishonor to God, a violation of his holy law, and
the basest ingratitude towards the God of infinite
benevolence. Repentance is a change of mind, or a
conversion from sin to God.
b. Repentance Comes from a Godly Sorrow.

2 Corinthians 7:10
(10) For godly sorrow worketh repentance to salvation not to be repented of: but the
sorrow of the world worketh death.

c. “To See Your Sins as God See’s them, in their most natural form of
degradation and disgust, and implacability. And Realizing that you need
God’s help to change from that state in which you live, while asking him
to forgive you for those thing. And Vowing that with his help you shall
walk in his perfect will for your life,”
 d. “When you Repent you will feel better, but that is not all where true
forgiveness comes in is Baptism”
6. Baptism
a. Water Baptism is a vital part of having your sins washed away
i. The Bible Commands That we Be Baptized.
Acts 10:48
(48) And he commanded them to be baptized in the name of the Lord. Then
prayed they him to tarry certain days.

Acts 2:41
(41) Then they that gladly received his word were baptized: and the same day there
were added unto them about three thousand souls.

Acts 8:12-13
(12) But when they believed Philip preaching the things concerning the kingdom of
God, and the name of Jesus Christ, they were baptized, both men and women.
(13) Then Simon himself believed also: and when he was baptized, he continued with
Philip, and wondered, beholding the miracles and signs which were done.

Acts 8:38
(38) And he commanded the chariot to stand still: and they went down both into the
water, both Philip and the eunuch; and he baptized him.

Acts 16:31;33
(31) And they said, Believe on the Lord Jesus Christ, and thou shalt be saved, and thy
house.
(33) And he took them the same hour of the night, and washed their stripes; and was
baptized, he and all his, straightway.

Acts 19:5
(5) When they heard this, they were baptized in the name of the Lord Jesus.

Acts 22:16
(16) And now why tarriest thou? arise, and be baptized, and wash away thy sins,
calling on the name of the Lord.

b. Baptism is what washes away our sins, with the blood of Jesus
Christ.
7. Receiving The Gift of The Holy Ghost. (The Rest)
a. By The evidence of speaking in other tongues.
i. WHEN YOU REPENT YOU CAN RECEIVE THE HOLY
GHOST.
b. You Don’t have to be baptized before you can get the holy Ghost. If
you have repented and asked God to help you and forgive you, then you
can ask him for this wonderful gift of the Holy Ghost. Not everyone in
the bible got the Holy Ghost after they were baptized. Some got it
before.
Acts 10:47
(47) Can any man forbid water, that these should not be baptized, which have
received the Holy Ghost as well as we?
c. They Had The Holy Ghost and then were baptized, Anyone tonight
under the sound of my voice can get the holy Ghost, and that wonderful
peace, and comfort that comes with it, Just as God for it He died and
rose to give it to you
Matthew 7:7
(7) Ask, and it shall be given you; seek, and ye shall find; knock, and it shall be
opened unto you:
d. ASK GOD FOR IT. Don’t Beg You Don’t Have to beg. God
Promised it to you so if you have repented then Just ASK, And Believe

Mark 11:24
(24) Therefore I say unto you, What things soever ye desire, when ye pray, believe
that ye receive them, and ye shall have them.

e. When You Have Repented, and it is your Desire, God is ready to

give you this wonderful gift. Just believe that God Will Give it to you.
8. What Happens if you Don’t believe the promise, IF it ISN’T Mixed WITH
FAITH
a. NOTHING WILL HAPPEN
 i. FAITH and Belief are a must to receiving this spiritual rest that
is the Holy Ghost. For in
Hebrews 4:2
(2) For unto us was the gospel preached, as well as unto them: but the word
preached did not profit them, not being mixed with faith in them that heard it.
Hebrews 4:2 Amplified Bible
(2) For indeed we have had the glad tidings [Gospel of God] proclaimed to us just as
truly as they [the Israelites of old did when the good news of deliverance from
bondage came to them]; but the message they heard did not benefit them, because it
was not mixed with faith (with the leaning of the entire personality on God in absolute
trust and confidence in His power, wisdom, and goodness) by those who heard it;
neither were they united in faith with the ones [Joshua and Caleb] who heard (did
believe).

b. This translation Points out that the good news of a deliverance from
bondage came, they didn’t believe or hear the ones that Did, I am here
today to tell someone the YOU CAN BE DELIVERED TODAY FROM
WHAT EVER YOUR IN.
9. Closing
a. I Believe that the services that have lead up to this, were all for this
point, That I believe that God showed us This Morning, He wants to
Give you Peace, and rest, But Will you believe it. God is here tonight
ready to meet you in whatever state you’re in, if you’ll repent and ask
Him to Fill You with the Holy Ghost. That you can leave here tonight
with it.

b. Because The Great God of Heaven, Came Down and Wrapped

Himself in human flesh, was born of a woman, came to preach
repentance, and redemption for lost mankind,

Hebrews 9:12
(12) Neither by the blood of goats and calves, but by his own blood he entered in once
into the holy place, having obtained eternal redemption for us.
 i. and was rejected by the vary creation that he came to save from
their sins, and was beaten to an inch of his life, then Nailed to a
cross, and Died

ii. BUT THE STORY didn’t stop there the third day
He rose again out of the grave, Victorious over Death, Hell and
The Grave. And Acended into Heaven to give everyone the
promised comforter, that which being the Holy Ghost. For He
Said

2 Peter 3:9
(9) The Lord is not slack concerning his promise, as some men count slackness; but is
longsuffering to us-ward, not willing that any should perish, but that all should come
to repentance.

c. If You Believe What I have preached today, and you are ready, to
enter into that place of rest, given only by the Holy Ghost

d. I Am Asking That You Come Down here today, and pray with us.
Because God Loved you so much that He Died For you. And He wants
to see you saved.

PRAY…