Four More Keys | Clip 2
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Let’s look at a couple of scriptures about rest and inheritance which to me are very searching. Deuteronomy 12 verse 9. For as yet you have not come to the rest and the inheritance which the Lord your God is giving you. You can check on that all through Deuteronomy, which is the the book that’s preparing them to go into their inheritance.
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The word rest is never separated from the word inheritance. In other words, there is no rest for people of God outside their inheritance. There is no rest for any of you as an individual outside of your inheritance. It’s only as you come into your inheritance that you will find true rest. Again, in uh Deuteronomy 25:19, therefore it shall be when the Lord your God has given you rest from your enemies all around in the land which the Lord your God is giving you to possess as an inheritance. We don’t need to complete
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the sentence, but the rest is only in the inheritance. Maybe we should say that together. The rare is only in the inheritance. [clears throat] So if you are restless, you need to find your inheritance. You cannot settle down. God would not let them settle down anywhere on the journey till they came into their inheritance.
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And uh going on into the New Covenant and the New Testament, Hebrews chapter 4 and verse 9, I pointed out that in Hebrews chapters 3 and 4, the word rest occurs 12 times and it doesn’t occur elsewhere in Hebrews. It’s concentrated in these two chapters. And in chapter 4:9, there remains therefore a rest for the people of God.
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Most of your translations will say a Sabbath rest. It means a keeping of the Sabbath. As I said, I think earlier in one of these meetings, the devil can delay the fulfillment of God’s purposes, but never ultimately frustrate it. So God patiently goes on saying, “Someday my people are going to enter into that rest.