tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6083552635566549294.post8423325563297004274..comments2024-03-28T23:20:44.724-07:00Comments on Assembly Quest: Under the footstoolclumsy oxhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11698216739528209499noreply@blogger.comBlogger17125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6083552635566549294.post-40709278422742711912017-06-30T10:32:05.008-07:002017-06-30T10:32:05.008-07:00I second that, HWW!
Rest in His perfect love.
“T...I second that, HWW!<br /><br />Rest in His perfect love.<br /><br />“Tis the treasure I’ve found in His love that has made me a pilgrim below.” <br /><br /><br /><br /><br />Susannoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6083552635566549294.post-37942355725297398492017-06-30T09:58:30.010-07:002017-06-30T09:58:30.010-07:00Excellent, Robert!Excellent, Robert!HandWrittenWordhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04297262231718600348noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6083552635566549294.post-44663503776953829752017-06-30T02:58:29.130-07:002017-06-30T02:58:29.130-07:00'Rest in Him now while waiting for God's c...'Rest in Him now while waiting for God's complete rest later'. That's it in a nutshell Susan!<br /><br />God will only rest upon a finished work. He rested after the finished work of creation: Gen 2;1,2. He rested on the finished work of propitiation: John 19:30. He will yet rest on the finished work of new creation: Rev 21:6. <br /><br />Continual unbelief, which is the setting Robertnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6083552635566549294.post-56723220592170161152017-06-26T04:58:31.644-07:002017-06-26T04:58:31.644-07:00Rest in Him now while waiting for God's comple...Rest in Him now while waiting for God's complete rest later:<br /> “Come unto me all ye that labour and are heavy laden, and I will give you rest” (Matt. 11:28).<br /><br />"Oh, the unspeakable sweetness of this rest! Rest from judgment. and the fear of it; rest from legal effort and the need of it; rest in the joy of a known salvation, and rest in the conscious love of Him who, at the Susannoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6083552635566549294.post-34687403514372344092017-06-24T11:36:36.592-07:002017-06-24T11:36:36.592-07:00Back to John 15 indeed, as Mark aptly pointed out....Back to John 15 indeed, as Mark aptly pointed out.<br /><br />Worship God: for the testimony of Jesus is the spirit of prophecy.<br /> (Revelation 19:10)<br /><br />HandWrittenWordhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04297262231718600348noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6083552635566549294.post-1787115429075745262017-06-24T10:47:53.758-07:002017-06-24T10:47:53.758-07:00My views on the rest in Hebrews 4 have changed pre...My views on the rest in Hebrews 4 have changed pretty significantly over the past twenty years.<br /><br />Hebrews 4:8 is helpful here. Jesus (Joshua) was unable to give them rest. That's an interesting statement, because Scripture tells us that Joshua did, in fact, lead the people into rest (Joshua 21:44; Joshua 23:1). We understand from this apparent contradiction that the rest in Hebrews clumsy oxhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11698216739528209499noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6083552635566549294.post-51800275030844331562017-06-24T08:59:31.957-07:002017-06-24T08:59:31.957-07:00"Everything, dear friends, proves to us that ..."Everything, dear friends, proves to us that our rest is not here. Fearing, because I am in the desert with a heart prone to depart from God, is not rest. Having to conflict with Satan is not rest. Labour is not rest. "There remaineth therefore a rest to the people of God." Then there is also the diligence and activity of the new man in its own portion. It is of real importance forRodgerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16969410710374086733noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6083552635566549294.post-10440224826139514292017-06-21T12:25:53.307-07:002017-06-21T12:25:53.307-07:00(By "inauguration" I meant that what has...(By "inauguration" I meant that what has unsettled everything is sin. Christ at the right hand of God tells us that the matter of sin has been dealt with, and now God will unfold His settlement of all things. "But this Man, after He had offered one sacrifice for sins for ever, sat down on the right hand of God; From henceforth expecting till His enemies be made His footstool."Rodgerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16969410710374086733noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6083552635566549294.post-22239295515154488662017-06-21T12:20:20.244-07:002017-06-21T12:20:20.244-07:00As to being diligent to enter His rest (vs. 11), t...As to being diligent to enter His rest (vs. 11), the whole context puts it as a matter of faith or unbelief. Faith in Hebrews is vigorous, or not at all. There is always the language of moving forward, pressing in towards the things God has spoken of, revealed to faith. By diligence, I understand that God would have me really living with entering His rest as my objective, my aimed-for destinationRodgerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16969410710374086733noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6083552635566549294.post-8266305974498997572017-06-21T12:04:07.565-07:002017-06-21T12:04:07.565-07:00A comment on vs. 3: "The present tense of ver...A comment on vs. 3: "The present tense of verse 3 is not historical but absolute, a usage most frequent in Scripture and in ordinary speech too, especially as to principles of truth. Believers are the enterers into the rest of glory: not all men, nor yet all Israel, but "we that believed"; for the past participle adds to the definiteness of the class accepted for the blessing, not Rodgerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16969410710374086733noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6083552635566549294.post-54516178717985284502017-06-21T08:14:31.521-07:002017-06-21T08:14:31.521-07:00Yes, good questions, Peter. First of all, I would ...Yes, good questions, Peter. First of all, I would say that rest from labour is salvation; but then, I take "salvation" to be a very comprehensive term, taking in all the complications of the fall, answered by the exceeding glory of God's grace. That we should share His rest? How tremendous!<br /><br />Yes, it is obviously future rest in Hebrews 4, or else why the exhortations in vssRodgerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16969410710374086733noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6083552635566549294.post-11876991273528625422017-06-21T06:40:09.065-07:002017-06-21T06:40:09.065-07:00Great question, Peter! Well, there's a rest n...Great question, Peter! Well, there's a rest now and a rest later.<br />"Come unto Me all ye that labor and are heavy laden and I will give you rest," is the now rest - a foretaste of the later rest.<br />Here's what S. Ridout has to say concerning God's Rest:<br />Oh, we know what it is to have rest in believing in Jesus here; we know something, too, of what it is to have Susannoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6083552635566549294.post-67451933882098447072017-06-21T02:21:49.577-07:002017-06-21T02:21:49.577-07:00Really enjoying these posts Mark. I have a questio...Really enjoying these posts Mark. I have a question in relation to Rodger's comment on the rest of God.<br /><br />Heb. 4:3 states that those who have believed enter into the rest of God (present tense), while Heb. 4:10 states that he who has entered into the rest has ceased from his work. Now I had taken this to mean something along the lines of what Romans states, "him that worketh notAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6083552635566549294.post-78695299516155428362017-06-20T14:42:19.482-07:002017-06-20T14:42:19.482-07:00There is only one place for the Bride and that is ...There is only one place for the Bride and that is by His side.Robertnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6083552635566549294.post-18835932259548789082017-06-20T07:45:36.807-07:002017-06-20T07:45:36.807-07:00Yes, "we were enemies" -"God demons...Yes, "we were enemies" -"God demonstrates His own love towards us, in that while we were yet sinners, Christ died for us." We (His called out ones)are so blessed to be "above and not His footstool under His feet" and set apart from the great world-system of evil all around us, unto Himself!<br />Yes, so wonderfully true that we can "rest" in the anointed, Susannoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6083552635566549294.post-76847455869007191522017-06-20T07:27:05.171-07:002017-06-20T07:27:05.171-07:00Beautiful observations, Mark.
Then cometh the end...Beautiful observations, Mark.<br /><br />Then cometh the end, when He shall have delivered up the kingdom to God, even the Father;<br />when He shall have put down all rule and all authority and power.<br />For He must reign, till He hath put all enemies under His feet.<br />The last enemy that shall be destroyed is death.<br />For He hath put all things under His feet. But when He saith all HandWrittenWordhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04297262231718600348noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6083552635566549294.post-17717982314325696342017-06-19T21:48:12.078-07:002017-06-19T21:48:12.078-07:00I have been thinking lately that Christ seated at ...I have been thinking lately that Christ seated at the right hand is the inauguration of the rest of God (Hebrews 4); "His enemies... made His footstool" (9:13), the full settlement. Rodgerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16969410710374086733noreply@blogger.com