<TITLE>16. Par 114-119</TITLE>L-114 The word "rest"... "Sabbath" is a strange word to us, which means "rest." It's a Hebrew word which means a "rest day," a sabbath day; don't work; rest
For if Jesus would've given them rest,... would he not... have spoken of another day.
But there remaineth... a rest (or a sabbath-keeping) to the people of God.
For we which have entered into his rest,... we cease from our... works, like God did from his.
We never turn back to it on the next day of the week and start it again; we've entered into a rest. Jesus speaking on the beatitudes, He said, "You've heard them say of the old time, 'Thou shalt not kill.' I say unto you; whosoever is angry with his brother without a cause, killed already. You've heard it say, them of old times, 'Thou shalt not commit adultery.' (That's the commandment.) But I say to you, whosoever looks upon a woman to lust after her has committed adultery already with her in his heart." Is that right?

L-116 So all these things were memorials, just signs, wonders, waiting for the real time to come. Now, when Jesus finished that, Matthew 11 (the beatitudes), He said,
Come unto Me, all ye that are laboring... (tired)... and are heavy laden, and I will give you rest unto your soul.
Take my yoke upon me, and learn of me; for I'm meek and lowly... (Is that right?)
Come unto me, all ye that labour and... heavy laden, and I'll give you rest to your soul.
"If you've labored one day, ten days, five years, thirty-five years, fifty years, ninety years, and you're tired and weary, come unto Me, I'll give you rest. I'll take all that load of sin off of you, and enter into you, and give you perfect rest and satisfaction."

L-117 Now, what is that rest? Let--let's just settle this just a little bit, see what it is. Some of them said, "Why, you go join church." No. "You put your name on the book." No. "Well, a certain kind of water baptism." No. Let's just settle it and see what it is. Would you like to do that right here while we're waiting? We'll see where John went, over into what kind of a day did he go to?
When Jesus died upon earth, and His work was finished, He entered somewhere.

L-119 Now, let's go back to Isaiah the 28th chapter and the 8th verse, I believe it is now, Isaiah 28:8. And let's read: Isaiah 28, the prophet speaking seven hundred and twelve years before it happened. Now, how many would like to know what the true sabbath is, the true rest is? Here it is. Now, here's where the prophet spoke it, and I'll show you where it come to pass. Watch, Isaiah 28:8.
For all... (The prophet prophesying of these days)... For all tables are full of vomit and filthiness,... (people taking communion, that smokes, and drinks, and lies, and steals)... so that there is no clean place.
Who shall he teach knowledge?... (Who could you teach knowledge today?)


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