COMMENTS
Our rest in the Lord is as complete as is our belief in Him. He who believes fully rests fully; he who believes only partially rests but partially. The ideal condition of the spiritual Israelite is the attainment of a perfect rest, a perfect sabbath-keeping, in his present experience, and a waiting and laboring for another and still more complete rest—the actual rest of the perfected condition—the rest that remains for the people of God. "Let us therefore labor to enter into that rest [sabbath], lest any man fall after the same example of unbelief [of fleshly Israel]" (Heb. 4:9-11).
The weekly sabbath of the Jews, with its rest from labor and its worship, fittingly symbolizes the Millennial Sabbath, with its rest from the curse and its service of God. Our faith-justification reckons to us the Millennial rest in its perfection, and enables us to have the rest of faith in Christ's finished work. In consecration, we labor earnestly even unto death, to be enabled to enter into the rest that remains for the people of God in His glorious Kingdom.
Isa. 26:3; Heb. 4:3-11; 3:14, 18; Matt. 11:28-30; John 14:27; 16:33; 20:19; Acts 10:36; Rom. 2:10; 5:1; 14:17; 15:13, 33; Eph. 2:14-17; Phil. 4:7, 9; Col. 1:20; 3:15; 2 Thes. 3:16.
