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Hebrews Chapters Three and Four
Therefore, as the Holy Spirit says,
“Today, if you hear his voice,
do not harden your hearts as in the rebellion,
on the day of testing in the wilderness,
where your fathers put me to the test
and saw my works for forty years.
Therefore I was provoked with that generation,
and said, ‘They always go astray in their heart;
they have not known my ways.’
As I swore in my wrath,
‘They shall not enter my rest.’”
Take care, brothers, lest there be in any of you an evil, unbelieving heart, leading you to fall away from the living God. But exhort one another every day, as long as it is called “today,” that none of you may be hardened by the deceitfulness of sin. For we have come to share in Christ, if indeed we hold our original confidence firm to the end. As it is said,
“Today, if you hear his voice,
do not harden your hearts as in the rebellion.”
For who were those who heard and yet rebelled? Was it not all those who left Egypt led by Moses? And with whom was he provoked for forty years? Was it not with those who sinned, whose bodies fell in the wilderness? And to whom did he swear that they would not enter his rest, but to those who were disobedient? So we see that they were unable to enter because of unbelief.
Therefore, while the promise of entering his rest still stands, let us fear lest any of you should seem to have failed to reach it. For good news came to us just as to them, but the message they heard did not benefit them, because they were not united by faith with those who listened. For we who have believed enter that rest, as he has said,
“As I swore in my wrath,
‘They shall not enter my rest,’”
Although his works were finished from the foundation of the world. For he has somewhere spoken of the seventh day in this way: “And God rested on the seventh day from all his works.” And again in this passage he said,
“They shall not enter my rest.”
Since therefore it remains for some to enter it, and those who formerly received the good news failed to enter because of disobedience, again he appoints a certain day, “Today,” saying through David so long afterward, in the words already quoted,
“Today, if you hear his voice,
do not harden your hearts.”
For if Joshua had given them rest, God would not have spoken of another day later on. So then, there remains a Sabbath rest for the people of God, for whoever has entered God’s rest has also rested from his works as God did from his.
Let us therefore strive to enter that rest, so that no one may fall by the same sort of disobedience. For the word of God is living and active, sharper than any two-edged sword, piercing to the division of soul and of spirit, of joints and of marrow, and discerning the thoughts and intentions of the heart. And no creature is hidden from his sight, but all are naked and exposed to the eyes of him to whom we must give account.
Isaiah Chapter Twenty Six
4. Trust in the Lord forever, for the Lord God is an everlasting rock.
Proverbs Chapter Three
5. Trust in the Lord with all your heart,
and do not lean on your own understanding.
In all your ways acknowledge him,
and he will make straight your paths.
Second Peter Chapter One
3. By his divine power, God has given us everything we need for living a godly life. We have received all of this by coming to know him, the one who called us to himself by means of his marvelous glory and excellence. And because of his glory and excellence, he has given us great and precious promises. These are the promises that enable you to share his divine nature and escape the world’s corruption caused by human desires.
First Timothy Chapter Six Amplified Bible
As for the rich in this present world, instruct them not to be conceited and arrogant, nor to set their hope on the uncertainty of riches, but on God, who richly and ceaselessly provides us with everything for our enjoyment.
A few days ago as I was praying Father brought to my heart the letter to the Hebrews and I read it, and as I did I heard Father’s voice and he asked me to listen and write and publish his words for all to hear. Here are his words He said:
My son, my children are asking and begging and crying and fearful when they should be in joyful rest without a care at all. Speak to them and tell them to rest in me and in my promises and all will be restored unto them. Give them these words:
My beautiful ones; I know of your struggles and your fears and all of your prayers mixed with tears do touch my heart but there is only one way into all that you want and that way is through trust and rest.
As you were instructed by our beloved Paul; you were chosen in Christ before we made the world. I loved you long before I knit your spirit together with the body in your mother’s womb. Do you remember I spoke through my prophet and said I had plans for you? Plans to prosper you and bless you? I have already given you all things. All of these things only come to you as you rest.
The ones who left Egypt refused to enter into my rest. I delivered them and led them out with signs and wonders and I fed them manna from heaven and gave them water. I provided all they could ever need on the way to the land that was flowing with milk and honey. A land where I had prepared vineyards they didn’t plant and houses they didn’t build. I had it all ready for their arrival but they would not enter in because of unbelief and fear. So I passionately swore that no one could enter unless they entered by faith and rest.
My loved ones; it is the same today. You could freely surrender your lives and cast yourselves headlong into my loving grace where all is finished and all is well but so called religion has fooled you into thinking you must do something to be blessed. They tell you that you need to beg and fast and work harder and struggle and maybe when you’ve done enough you will prosper. They have you begging and crying and confessing and naming and claiming and jumping through hoops to try to earn something that was already given unto you.
My loved ones there is a better way and that way is Christ. He is your Sabbath rest. All that is needed is your belief in the finished works and you can enter into a place in your lives where milk and honey and all things you could ever desire will flow to you effortlessly but you must surrender to find it.
My Son finished all that was necessary for you to inherit everything I own and that means everything. All you could ever need or want was finished and waiting in the realm of the Spirit for you to enter into rest and lay hold of it. You don’t have to chase it, you just have to use the faith I gave you to enter into the rest I gave you.
Unbelief says “I need this and that while faith says I already have been given all things so I’ll just give thanks and all I desire will come to me.”I even gave you the desires of your heart so that you would desire the things I have freely given you. If you truly believe that I have given you all things then what are you begging for?
As it is written: “By faith we access this grace wherein we stand. It is also written that I gave unto all men the measure of faith.” Those who believe enter into rest, and those in unbelief beg and cry and wonder why I don’t answer their prayers.
Here is where so called religion has led you astray. They don’t teach you the timeline of the scriptures. When my Son came in his earthly body he came born under the Old Covenant. He was born under the law. The New Covenant was not established unto He rose again and entered into the Holy Place with his own blood. His blood took away the sins of all those who were born under the law which ended the Old Covenant. His blood guaranteed the New Covenant before anyone even entered it. He fulfilled the Old and established the New at the same time.
The things He taught on prayer were taught to people under the Old Covenant, and even then He told them to just believe they already have what they desire and it would be done.
After the resurrection there was a time when the Old Covenant temple was still standing. We gave the people a generation to come from the Old into the New. This why it is written in Hebrews that the way into the Holiest of all was not available as long as the earthly tabernacle was standing. It’s the same reason in the Revelation that the souls of those who were slain were under the altar in the temple. They couldn’t enter into their final home as long as the temple was standing. It’s the same reason in Hebrews it is written that the old was waxing old and about to vanish and be replaced with the new.
I say these things so you will know that all that was written by the apostles after the resurrection was during this time when both the Old and the New were both available. When The Temple was destroyed and Jerusalem was burned the Old Covenant was completely fulfilled. This is what the prophets spoke about when they talked about the end of the age. Those who have kept you in bondage changed the words to read “the end of the world.” It was never speaking of the end of the physical world but was speaking of the end of the Old Testament Age. Do you not remember the saying “I make all things new?” The old things have passed away and all things are new and all are of God?
If you remember I spoke of the New Covenant that it would not be written on tablets of stone but is written in your heart and in your mind. The Old Covenant had laws about what you must do to be blessed and well. The New Covenant laws are about what was already done on your behalf so that you can freely receive all that was given to you. This is why the so called Judaizers came behind Paul teaching people that they must keep the Law of Moses to be saved. They were corrupting the truth of my grace. False religion does the same today. They put the Old mixed with the New. They try to mix the blood of bulls and goats with the blood of my Son. They are in severe error. This is why you should consider what was written in the letter to the Hebrews where it says:
First, Christ said, “You did not want animal sacrifices or sin offerings or burnt offerings or other offerings for sin, nor were you pleased with them” (though they are required by the law of Moses). Then he said, “Look, I have come to do your will.” He cancels the first covenant in order to put the second into effect. For God’s will was for us to be made holy by the sacrifice of the body of Jesus Christ, once for all time.
Under the old covenant, the priest stands and ministers before the altar day after day, offering the same sacrifices again and again, which can never take away sins. But our High Priest offered himself to God as a single sacrifice for sins, good for all time. Then he sat down in the place of honor at God’s right hand. There he waits until his enemies are humbled and made a footstool under his feet. For by that one offering he forever made perfect those who are being made holy.
And the Holy Spirit also testifies that this is so. For he says,
“This is the new covenant I will make with my people on that day, says the LORD:
I will put my laws in their hearts, and I will write them on their minds.” Then he says,
“I will never again remember their sins and lawless deeds.”
And when sins have been forgiven, there is no need to offer any more sacrifices.
So all these things I have told you so that you would have faith in what my firstborn Son completed for you and so that no one could deceive you again into thinking that you must do anything other than believe in the finished works and enter into the rest that was provided for you.
So finally my loved ones: No more begging and pleading. All you must do to receive all that was provided for you is to rest and trust. Your requests are not made by asking but by giving thanks. Once you truly believe in your heart that you lack nothing then all things will flow into your life to freely enjoy.
As long as you believe you must do anything to earn it then you will drive away all that you seek. Asking for anything means that you don’t believe it was already given. These are the things I have written on your heart if you will only read the book I’m writing there.
Remember that the scriptures that say “seek and you will find, ask and you will receive were spoken to those who were under the Old Covenant. You have already received all things; and as you believe and enter into this truth and rest then all things will appear unto you with no effort on your part. So my loved ones; leave behind the lack and enter into the blessed rest. Be blessed by rest!
These are the words He gave me to share with you.
I hope you are encouraged by these words,
Until next time,
Grow Rich in His Grace,
I love you all,
Michael
For more information please click on the link below:
Hebrews Chapters Three and Four
Therefore, as the Holy Spirit says,
“Today, if you hear his voice,
do not harden your hearts as in the rebellion,
on the day of testing in the wilderness,
where your fathers put me to the test
and saw my works for forty years.
Therefore I was provoked with that generation,
and said, ‘They always go astray in their heart;
they have not known my ways.’
As I swore in my wrath,
‘They shall not enter my rest.’”
Take care, brothers, lest there be in any of you an evil, unbelieving heart, leading you to fall away from the living God. But exhort one another every day, as long as it is called “today,” that none of you may be hardened by the deceitfulness of sin. For we have come to share in Christ, if indeed we hold our original confidence firm to the end. As it is said,
“Today, if you hear his voice,
do not harden your hearts as in the rebellion.”
For who were those who heard and yet rebelled? Was it not all those who left Egypt led by Moses? And with whom was he provoked for forty years? Was it not with those who sinned, whose bodies fell in the wilderness? And to whom did he swear that they would not enter his rest, but to those who were disobedient? So we see that they were unable to enter because of unbelief.
Therefore, while the promise of entering his rest still stands, let us fear lest any of you should seem to have failed to reach it. For good news came to us just as to them, but the message they heard did not benefit them, because they were not united by faith with those who listened. For we who have believed enter that rest, as he has said,
“As I swore in my wrath,
‘They shall not enter my rest,’”
Although his works were finished from the foundation of the world. For he has somewhere spoken of the seventh day in this way: “And God rested on the seventh day from all his works.” And again in this passage he said,
“They shall not enter my rest.”
Since therefore it remains for some to enter it, and those who formerly received the good news failed to enter because of disobedience, again he appoints a certain day, “Today,” saying through David so long afterward, in the words already quoted,
“Today, if you hear his voice,
do not harden your hearts.”
For if Joshua had given them rest, God would not have spoken of another day later on. So then, there remains a Sabbath rest for the people of God, for whoever has entered God’s rest has also rested from his works as God did from his.
Let us therefore strive to enter that rest, so that no one may fall by the same sort of disobedience. For the word of God is living and active, sharper than any two-edged sword, piercing to the division of soul and of spirit, of joints and of marrow, and discerning the thoughts and intentions of the heart. And no creature is hidden from his sight, but all are naked and exposed to the eyes of him to whom we must give account.
Isaiah Chapter Twenty Six
4. Trust in the Lord forever, for the Lord God is an everlasting rock.
Proverbs Chapter Three
5. Trust in the Lord with all your heart,
and do not lean on your own understanding.
In all your ways acknowledge him,
and he will make straight your paths.
Second Peter Chapter One
3. By his divine power, God has given us everything we need for living a godly life. We have received all of this by coming to know him, the one who called us to himself by means of his marvelous glory and excellence. And because of his glory and excellence, he has given us great and precious promises. These are the promises that enable you to share his divine nature and escape the world’s corruption caused by human desires.
First Timothy Chapter Six Amplified Bible
As for the rich in this present world, instruct them not to be conceited and arrogant, nor to set their hope on the uncertainty of riches, but on God, who richly and ceaselessly provides us with everything for our enjoyment.
A few days ago as I was praying Father brought to my heart the letter to the Hebrews and I read it, and as I did I heard Father’s voice and he asked me to listen and write and publish his words for all to hear. Here are his words He said:
My son, my children are asking and begging and crying and fearful when they should be in joyful rest without a care at all. Speak to them and tell them to rest in me and in my promises and all will be restored unto them. Give them these words:
My beautiful ones; I know of your struggles and your fears and all of your prayers mixed with tears do touch my heart but there is only one way into all that you want and that way is through trust and rest.
As you were instructed by our beloved Paul; you were chosen in Christ before we made the world. I loved you long before I knit your spirit together with the body in your mother’s womb. Do you remember I spoke through my prophet and said I had plans for you? Plans to prosper you and bless you? I have already given you all things. All of these things only come to you as you rest.
The ones who left Egypt refused to enter into my rest. I delivered them and led them out with signs and wonders and I fed them manna from heaven and gave them water. I provided all they could ever need on the way to the land that was flowing with milk and honey. A land where I had prepared vineyards they didn’t plant and houses they didn’t build. I had it all ready for their arrival but they would not enter in because of unbelief and fear. So I passionately swore that no one could enter unless they entered by faith and rest.
My loved ones; it is the same today. You could freely surrender your lives and cast yourselves headlong into my loving grace where all is finished and all is well but so called religion has fooled you into thinking you must do something to be blessed. They tell you that you need to beg and fast and work harder and struggle and maybe when you’ve done enough you will prosper. They have you begging and crying and confessing and naming and claiming and jumping through hoops to try to earn something that was already given unto you.
My loved ones there is a better way and that way is Christ. He is your Sabbath rest. All that is needed is your belief in the finished works and you can enter into a place in your lives where milk and honey and all things you could ever desire will flow to you effortlessly but you must surrender to find it.
My Son finished all that was necessary for you to inherit everything I own and that means everything. All you could ever need or want was finished and waiting in the realm of the Spirit for you to enter into rest and lay hold of it. You don’t have to chase it, you just have to use the faith I gave you to enter into the rest I gave you.
Unbelief says “I need this and that while faith says I already have been given all things so I’ll just give thanks and all I desire will come to me.”I even gave you the desires of your heart so that you would desire the things I have freely given you. If you truly believe that I have given you all things then what are you begging for?
As it is written: “By faith we access this grace wherein we stand. It is also written that I gave unto all men the measure of faith.” Those who believe enter into rest, and those in unbelief beg and cry and wonder why I don’t answer their prayers.
Here is where so called religion has led you astray. They don’t teach you the timeline of the scriptures. When my Son came in his earthly body he came born under the Old Covenant. He was born under the law. The New Covenant was not established unto He rose again and entered into the Holy Place with his own blood. His blood took away the sins of all those who were born under the law which ended the Old Covenant. His blood guaranteed the New Covenant before anyone even entered it. He fulfilled the Old and established the New at the same time.
The things He taught on prayer were taught to people under the Old Covenant, and even then He told them to just believe they already have what they desire and it would be done.
After the resurrection there was a time when the Old Covenant temple was still standing. We gave the people a generation to come from the Old into the New. This why it is written in Hebrews that the way into the Holiest of all was not available as long as the earthly tabernacle was standing. It’s the same reason in the Revelation that the souls of those who were slain were under the altar in the temple. They couldn’t enter into their final home as long as the temple was standing. It’s the same reason in Hebrews it is written that the old was waxing old and about to vanish and be replaced with the new.
I say these things so you will know that all that was written by the apostles after the resurrection was during this time when both the Old and the New were both available. When The Temple was destroyed and Jerusalem was burned the Old Covenant was completely fulfilled. This is what the prophets spoke about when they talked about the end of the age. Those who have kept you in bondage changed the words to read “the end of the world.” It was never speaking of the end of the physical world but was speaking of the end of the Old Testament Age. Do you not remember the saying “I make all things new?” The old things have passed away and all things are new and all are of God?
If you remember I spoke of the New Covenant that it would not be written on tablets of stone but is written in your heart and in your mind. The Old Covenant had laws about what you must do to be blessed and well. The New Covenant laws are about what was already done on your behalf so that you can freely receive all that was given to you. This is why the so called Judaizers came behind Paul teaching people that they must keep the Law of Moses to be saved. They were corrupting the truth of my grace. False religion does the same today. They put the Old mixed with the New. They try to mix the blood of bulls and goats with the blood of my Son. They are in severe error. This is why you should consider what was written in the letter to the Hebrews where it says:
First, Christ said, “You did not want animal sacrifices or sin offerings or burnt offerings or other offerings for sin, nor were you pleased with them” (though they are required by the law of Moses). Then he said, “Look, I have come to do your will.” He cancels the first covenant in order to put the second into effect. For God’s will was for us to be made holy by the sacrifice of the body of Jesus Christ, once for all time.
Under the old covenant, the priest stands and ministers before the altar day after day, offering the same sacrifices again and again, which can never take away sins. But our High Priest offered himself to God as a single sacrifice for sins, good for all time. Then he sat down in the place of honor at God’s right hand. There he waits until his enemies are humbled and made a footstool under his feet. For by that one offering he forever made perfect those who are being made holy.
And the Holy Spirit also testifies that this is so. For he says,
“This is the new covenant I will make with my people on that day, says the LORD:
I will put my laws in their hearts, and I will write them on their minds.” Then he says,
“I will never again remember their sins and lawless deeds.”
And when sins have been forgiven, there is no need to offer any more sacrifices.
So all these things I have told you so that you would have faith in what my firstborn Son completed for you and so that no one could deceive you again into thinking that you must do anything other than believe in the finished works and enter into the rest that was provided for you.
So finally my loved ones: No more begging and pleading. All you must do to receive all that was provided for you is to rest and trust. Your requests are not made by asking but by giving thanks. Once you truly believe in your heart that you lack nothing then all things will flow into your life to freely enjoy.
As long as you believe you must do anything to earn it then you will drive away all that you seek. Asking for anything means that you don’t believe it was already given. These are the things I have written on your heart if you will only read the book I’m writing there.
Remember that the scriptures that say “seek and you will find, ask and you will receive were spoken to those who were under the Old Covenant. You have already received all things; and as you believe and enter into this truth and rest then all things will appear unto you with no effort on your part. So my loved ones; leave behind the lack and enter into the blessed rest. Be blessed by rest!
These are the words He gave me to share with you.
I hope you are encouraged by these words,
Until next time,
Grow Rich in His Grace,
I love you all,
Michael
For more information please click on the link below:
