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WE WHICH HAVE BELIEVED DO ENTER INTO REST

"There remains therefore a rest for the people of God.  For he that is entered into His rest, he also hath ceased from his own works, as God did from His ." (Hebrews 4:9, 10 NKJV).    It is very rewarding, after spending hours mowing and trimming the grass, edging around the walkways, and mulching the flower beds, to sit down with a cold drink in hand and rest from one's labors.  It is good also, after feeling the stress and activity of one's job all year long, to just get away on vacation and relax for a time.  Such times of rest are all the sweeter to us because we feel that we have earned them by our labors.  God’s view of rest is not the same as our view of rest, however.  He has a different rest that He has promised to His people.   In the Old Testament (under the old covenant), God commanded the Israelites to cease from all their work and rest every seventh day of the week.  "But the seventh day is the sabbath of the LORD thy G...
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HE THAT OVERCOMETH

There are many promises in the Bible that are addressed specifically to "him that overcometh."  They include:   ·   To him that overcometh will I give to eat of the tree of life, which is in the midst of the paradise of God.  (Revelation 2:7). ·   He that overcometh shall not be hurt of the second death [lake of fire and brimstone] .  (Revelation 2:11). ·   To him that overcometh will I give to eat of the hidden manna, and will give him a white stone, and in the stone a new name written, which no man knoweth saving he that receiveth it.  (Revelation 2:17). ·   And he that overcometh, and keepeth My works unto the end, to him will I give power over the nations [to rule and reign with Christ in the Kingdom of God] .  (Revelation 2:26). ·   He that overcometh, the same shall be clothed in white raiment; and I will not blot out his name out of the book of life, but I will confess his name before My Father, and before His ang...
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THE RIVER OF LIFE

“In the last day, that great day of the feast, Jesus stood and cried, saying , If any man thirst, let him come unto Me, and drink.  He that believeth on Me, as the scripture hath said, out of his belly shall flow rivers of living water .  (But this spake He of the Spirit, which they that believe on Him should receive: for the Holy Ghost was not yet given; because that Jesus was not yet glorified.)” (John 7:37-39).    The feast that John was referring to in this verse is the Jewish Feast of Tabernacles, or Sukkot, as it is called in the Hebrew language.  It was a week-long celebration that occurred at the end of harvest to remind the Jews, among other things, of their sojourn in the wilderness when they dwelled in temporary structures before they entered their final resting place: the Promised Land.  God instituted the Feast of Tabernacles when He said to Moses, “Speak unto the children of Israel, saying, The fifteenth day of this seventh month shall be...
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