RESTING IN CHRIST

"For we which have believed do enter into rest." -HEBREWS 4:3 [KJV]

 

We enter into rest by ceasing from our own works, and resting on Christ's; according to the words, "For he that is entered into His rest, he also hath ceased from his own works, as God did from His." Now when you can fully rest upon the finished work of the Son of God, and believe by a living faith that your sins were laid upon His head; that He bore them in His body on the tree; that He has washed you in His precious blood, clothed you with His righteousness, and is sanctifying you by His Spirit and grace, then you can rest. There is something here firm and solid for the conscience to rest on.

Whilst the law thunders, whilst Satan accuses, whilst conscience condemns there is no rest. But you can rest where God rests. God rests in His love; in the finished work of His dear Son; in the perfection of Christ's humanity; in His fulfilment of all His covenant engagements; in the glorification of His holy law; in the satisfaction rendered to His justice; in the harmonising of all His attributes; in the revelation of His grace and His glory to the children of men; for He is His beloved Son, in whom He is well pleased.

The tabernacle in the wilderness, and afterwards the temple on Mount Zion, was a type of the pure and sacred humanity of the Lord Jesus. There God rested in a visible manner by a cloud upon the mercy seat, called by the Jewish writers the Shekinah. This, therefore, was the place of His rest, as He speaks, "For the LORD hath chosen Zion; He hath desired it for His habitation. This is My rest for ever: here will I dwell; for I have desired it" [PSALM 132:13, 14].

 

-Gospel report by preacher J.C. Philpot (1802-1869 A.D.)

June 17th, EARS FROM HARVESTED SHEAVES

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