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What Does It Mean To "Rest in the Finish Work of Christ"?
- Thread starter iLOVE
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- Nov 23, 2012
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I don't know.
So tell me.
So tell me.
Kidron
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The way you "rest" in the finished work"....is to understand what it is.
For, how can you tell what you dont know, or how can you understand what you dont understand.???
So, the wonder of Salvation is how simple it is, because its not designed to confuse or to endure.....its designed to be received and free you.
So, think of it like this..
You are on an island, and God is in heaven, and between you and GOD is your sin., which is a barrier that separates you from God.
So, what do we do about that?....How do we solve that????....How do we get past the sin barrier so that we can be with the Father God, forever?
Well, we cant do it by ourselves., and the reason we cant is because there is nothing we can do to GET RID of that sin barrier., nothing we can do of ourselves, to eliminate the barrier.
Its exists because we exist.
And THIS is the reason that many cant find rest, cant find relief, and cant find salvation, and its because they have not realized that their sin is a lifelong situation that they cant ever resolve by anything they can do.
Nothing.
And God, realizes this, and so He created a method.... a means....... a WAY.... that our sin can be removed completely and forever so that its no longer a barrier that keeps us apart.
In John 14:6, you read this.......Jesus speaking....."I am the WAY....."
And THIS is what God has provided as the only means to get our sin barrier removed completely and forever, and THEN we can have our REST.
So, enter now the CROSS and Jesus upon it.
THIS is how God is taking away our sins.....Its by allowing Jesus to die for them all......and this is the "WAY" that Jesus is speaking about.
Jesus is the WAY, and Jesus on the CROSS is the WAY.......and so, this is how we remove the sin barrier.....WE let Jesus do it for us on a Cross.
We hear this Gospel message, and then we believe, we trust, we accept that we cant take care of our own sins, but we TRUST that Christ can because He said He alone is the WAY, and God said that if you will BELIEVE THIS and TRUST THIS from your heart, then your sin will be removed and you will become God's own child the very instant you believe-trust.
And the REST that we are to enter into, is the assurance that we can trust Jesus and God to take care of our salvation, and to keep it for us, and to never let us go.
We are to REST in this knowledge, in this assurance, that God through Christ has established us as worthy to belong to them, forever.
See, Salvation is simply God through Christ's blood making us worthy to be accepted, forever.
Thats all it is......and its as simple as that.
The REST is when we stop worrying about how WE are to make ourselves worthy enough for God to accept, which is impossible and instead just REST in the assurance that JESUS HAS made us worthy.
And when a believer comes to this understanding and realizes it and TRUSTS that JESUS has taken care of all that is necessary for God to accept us, and that for Eternity, then the believer has entered into the REST of God via the finished work Christ on the Cross.
For, how can you tell what you dont know, or how can you understand what you dont understand.???
So, the wonder of Salvation is how simple it is, because its not designed to confuse or to endure.....its designed to be received and free you.
So, think of it like this..
You are on an island, and God is in heaven, and between you and GOD is your sin., which is a barrier that separates you from God.
So, what do we do about that?....How do we solve that????....How do we get past the sin barrier so that we can be with the Father God, forever?
Well, we cant do it by ourselves., and the reason we cant is because there is nothing we can do to GET RID of that sin barrier., nothing we can do of ourselves, to eliminate the barrier.
Its exists because we exist.
And THIS is the reason that many cant find rest, cant find relief, and cant find salvation, and its because they have not realized that their sin is a lifelong situation that they cant ever resolve by anything they can do.
Nothing.
And God, realizes this, and so He created a method.... a means....... a WAY.... that our sin can be removed completely and forever so that its no longer a barrier that keeps us apart.
In John 14:6, you read this.......Jesus speaking....."I am the WAY....."
And THIS is what God has provided as the only means to get our sin barrier removed completely and forever, and THEN we can have our REST.
So, enter now the CROSS and Jesus upon it.
THIS is how God is taking away our sins.....Its by allowing Jesus to die for them all......and this is the "WAY" that Jesus is speaking about.
Jesus is the WAY, and Jesus on the CROSS is the WAY.......and so, this is how we remove the sin barrier.....WE let Jesus do it for us on a Cross.
We hear this Gospel message, and then we believe, we trust, we accept that we cant take care of our own sins, but we TRUST that Christ can because He said He alone is the WAY, and God said that if you will BELIEVE THIS and TRUST THIS from your heart, then your sin will be removed and you will become God's own child the very instant you believe-trust.
And the REST that we are to enter into, is the assurance that we can trust Jesus and God to take care of our salvation, and to keep it for us, and to never let us go.
We are to REST in this knowledge, in this assurance, that God through Christ has established us as worthy to belong to them, forever.
See, Salvation is simply God through Christ's blood making us worthy to be accepted, forever.
Thats all it is......and its as simple as that.
The REST is when we stop worrying about how WE are to make ourselves worthy enough for God to accept, which is impossible and instead just REST in the assurance that JESUS HAS made us worthy.
And when a believer comes to this understanding and realizes it and TRUSTS that JESUS has taken care of all that is necessary for God to accept us, and that for Eternity, then the believer has entered into the REST of God via the finished work Christ on the Cross.
Jethro Bodine
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It means you're resting from your labor of gathering the work of your hands to live by and instead are depending on the bread from heaven Christ labored on the cross to provide for us to live by.
We accomplish that by ceasing our gathering (what person is 'resting' who is still busy gathering his own bread?) and trusting that what God has provided will be enough to see us through the Day. The appearing of Christ is the Sabbath Day that God has ordained in which the laborer is commanded to stop his personal labor to live and instead trust God in what he has provided.
Now we who have believed enter that rest... Hebrews 4:3a NIV
This is how it is accomplished.
iLOVE
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Does walking by faith means resting in the finished work of Christ? Is faith in Christ the same as faith in the finished work of Christ? Paul uses the word "cross" to refer to "finished work" of God in Christ. So what does this finish work of Christ do for us?
ezra
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all good answers i think i like this one the best {It means you're resting from your labor of gathering the work of your hands to live by and instead are depending on the bread from heaven Christ labored on the cross to provide for us to live by.
We accomplish that by ceasing our gathering (what person is 'resting' who is still busy gathering his own bread?) and trusting that what God has provided will be enough to see us through the Day. The appearing of Christ is the Sabbath Day that God has ordained in which the laborer is commanded to stop his personal labor to live and instead trust God in what he has provided.}
We accomplish that by ceasing our gathering (what person is 'resting' who is still busy gathering his own bread?) and trusting that what God has provided will be enough to see us through the Day. The appearing of Christ is the Sabbath Day that God has ordained in which the laborer is commanded to stop his personal labor to live and instead trust God in what he has provided.}
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Dear iLOVE, there was the constant issue of law versus grace as being the means of having eternal life, but we read in Tit 3:5 Not by works of righteousness which we have done, but according to his mercy he saved us, by the washing of regeneration, and renewing of the Holy Ghost.
Heb 4:10 For he that is entered into His rest, he also hath ceased from his own works, as God did from his. When our Father looks upon us He sees the finished work of Jesus as pertaining to our righteousness; our new nature cannot sin, and Rom 8:1 says there is no condemnation to us which love Jesus.
Dear iLOVE, there was the constant issue of law versus grace as being the means of having eternal life, but we read in Tit 3:5 Not by works of righteousness which we have done, but according to his mercy he saved us, by the washing of regeneration, and renewing of the Holy Ghost.
Heb 4:10 For he that is entered into His rest, he also hath ceased from his own works, as God did from his. When our Father looks upon us He sees the finished work of Jesus as pertaining to our righteousness; our new nature cannot sin, and Rom 8:1 says there is no condemnation to us which love Jesus.
Douglas Summers
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John 19: 28-30; Heb. 3: 18-4: 1-6; We enter into the rest of God by the finished work upon the Cross of Christ, By Faith. Prayer, good works, going to church adds nothing to salvation. It is all by faith in the promises of God that we can cease from our works (law) to be saved, and enter into a rest, by the accomplish work of God in our place in Jesus Christ. What was that work? Rom. 8: 3-4,
In Christ
Douglas Summers
iLOVE
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The Holy Spirit, He Works strictly within the parameters of the "Finished Work" i.e., "the Cross of Christ", which demands that our Faith be exclusively in the Cross of Christ. The reason is simple, that's were the price was paid, and the victory was forever won (Romans 6:1-14; 1 Cor. 2:2; Gal. 5; Gal. 6:14; Eph. 2:13-18; Col. 2:14-15).
The Holy Spirit doesn't require much of us, but He does require one thing, and without reservation. Our Faith must be exclusively be in Christ and the Cross, understanding that this is God's Prescribed Order of Victory. When we stay "victory" we are speaking Victory in every capacity, be it spiritual, financial, domestically, physical, etc. God's Prescribed Order of Victory is "the Cross of Christ."
The Way Of The Spirit
Focus: The Lord Jesus Christ (John 14:6)
Object Of Faith: The Cross of Christ (Romans 6:1-14)
Power Source: The Holy Spirit (Romans 8:1-2, 11)
Results: Victory (Romans 6:14)
Man's Way
Focus: Works.
Object Of Faith: Performance.
Power Source: Self.
Results: Defeat!
The only way to God is through Jesus Christ (John 14:6)...the only way to Jesus Christ is by the Means of the Cross (Luke 14:27). The only way to the Cross is a denial of self (Luke 9:23). If any person tries to come any other way, Jesus says, "they are a thief and a robber" (John 10:1).
The Holy Spirit doesn't require much of us, but He does require one thing, and without reservation. Our Faith must be exclusively be in Christ and the Cross, understanding that this is God's Prescribed Order of Victory. When we stay "victory" we are speaking Victory in every capacity, be it spiritual, financial, domestically, physical, etc. God's Prescribed Order of Victory is "the Cross of Christ."
The Way Of The Spirit
Focus: The Lord Jesus Christ (John 14:6)
Object Of Faith: The Cross of Christ (Romans 6:1-14)
Power Source: The Holy Spirit (Romans 8:1-2, 11)
Results: Victory (Romans 6:14)
Man's Way
Focus: Works.
Object Of Faith: Performance.
Power Source: Self.
Results: Defeat!
The only way to God is through Jesus Christ (John 14:6)...the only way to Jesus Christ is by the Means of the Cross (Luke 14:27). The only way to the Cross is a denial of self (Luke 9:23). If any person tries to come any other way, Jesus says, "they are a thief and a robber" (John 10:1).