Hebrews 4:9-11 (New American Standard Bible)
9So there remains a Sabbath rest for the people of God.
10For the one who has entered His rest has himself also rested from his works, as God did from His.
11Therefore let us be diligent to enter that rest, so that no one will fall, through following the same example of disobedience.
I learned that the work in me was God's work and I learned to rest. When I first started learning I used to toss and turn in my sleep and was told I was talking in my sleep about rest. I was striving to rest. I had my eyes on the beast and couldn't stand living with it. I was also afraid because I knew I wasn't ok the way I was. The one thing that forced me into rest is when I saw just how huge the beast was and knew without a doubt that I had no power what so ever to do anything about it. I knew that God and only God could take care of it. I surrendered.
Gary, Angie,
I will side with M.G, this is exactly where we need to be always. As Ray has taught, keep The Sabbath All day Every day (IN THE SPIRIT), and you will then rest from all the worrying about self and place.
This too is vanity, and a waste of the little time we have in this life. Hold fast to the things that you have been taught By The Holy Spirit and keep your eyes on our Lord And Saviour Jesus Christ, Who Is The Righteousness of us all.HOW MANY DAYS DO WE ENTER INTO GOD’S REST
Excerpt from Keeping Sabbath:
http://forums.bible-truths.com/index.php/topic,6310.msg50887.html#msg50887So people ask me about everything from circumcision to fasting, Passover, the Lord’s supper, baptism and all these things. They ask me a lot, ‘do you keep the Sabbath day.’ In other words do I stop working and stop doing everything on Friday night until Sat. night, don’t go anywhere, don’t do anything, just study and pray or whatever and go to church.
So they say, ‘do you keep the Sabbath?’ I say absolutely, everyday of the week. They don’t know what to make of that. I keep the Sabbath everyday of the week. How do I keep the Sabbath everyday of the week? Because I know what the Sabbath means. If you know what the Sabbath means, you can not possibly keep it on Saturday only, you can’t. If you know what it means and you do it on Saturday only, it’s proof that you don’t know what it means. And I’ll show you that. If you can’t keep the Sabbath on everyday, then you are not keeping the Sabbath in the spirit of truth at all.
Further you can’t do any of these things. We’ll go through these things, the Lord’s supper, communion, what the Catholics call mass and so on.
Now the Catholics do keep mass, at least the big churches have it everyday. But especially in the Protestant world, some keep it just once a year, not too many and some every six months, and some once a month.
I was a Methodist and we kept it four times a year. Why four times? Well they thought that was a good amount of times. Why, what was it based on? Nothing, just human reasoning.
Some keep it once a week on Sunday. Why do they do that? Because they don’t know what it means or not only would they keep it everyday, like the Catholics do, but they would keep it all day. Not just everyday, but all day everyday. Everything in this Bible if all it is, is physical ritual, then it’s of no value to you and you are just a religious person.
george.