Rest

I purposely skipped something in chapter 4, and will call your attention to it now. "There remaineth therefore a rest to the people of God." Heb. 4:9. This verse may not mean as much to some of the younger ones as it does to many who are older. Rest! The Sabbath day was the connection of the Jews with their Messiah. In the fourth chapter we find that after God had done all His work, He rested on the seventh day, but our rest is on the eighth day. It is the new day, where everything is new. When we get to heaven, everything will be new, except that we know that Jesus will be there. Rest! Oh, how precious is the thought of rest.
We can speak of all those precious truths in connection with the Father's house from Ephesians, but here we have it from another aspect entirely. It is a rest that remains for the people of God. It is not a rest of conscience; we have that already, because in the tenth chapter we learn that the way into the holiest is through the blood of Jesus. That is all, the blood of Jesus; there is no other way. You say, how can I get into the holiest? You are there! You are there if you are under the blood of Jesus. Do we act like we are in the holiest? How we need to hang our heads. That is our home—our eternal home.
But what about the rest? It remains for the people of God. Are you one of the people of God? Are you resting on these solid foundations we have been speaking about, that are immovable? In Heb. 12:28 we have a "kingdom which cannot be moved." Are you looking for something else in this world? You won't find anything that will equal this, that there remains a rest for the people of God. How precious for the laborer on his way home as he gets nearer that rest, he thinks of that fireside, he thinks of the table set with a lovely meal, he thinks of those arms around him, and the kiss of his loved ones. That is what we are going to have. "There remaineth therefore a rest to the people of God."