All that Jesus did or said was not of Himself. He had entered into that “rest” which yet remained for the people of God. The Sabbath that He kept was the highest form of Sabbath that God intended for man from the beginning. It is to cease from one's OWN works, and desist from speaking one's OWN words. It is to do only what the Father does and to speak only the Father's words. That is the Jubilee rest of Hebrews 4:10. Through Pentecost, the second-level rest experience, we begin to learn how to do this by the leading of the Holy Spirit. Yet Pentecost is a leavened feast that requires fire to make it an acceptable offering to God. It is a time of wilderness training, a time of growth to come to maturity. It is only when we reach the Tabernacles experience that we do this constantly with no fleshly interruptions. Getting back to Hebrews 4:11, we read, 11 Let us therefore be diligent to enter that rest, lest anyone fall through following the same example of disobedience. The “example of disobedience” here is the day Israel refused to enter the Promised Land when the twelve spies gave their reports. It was the day Israel as a nation refused to enter into God's rest, the Jubilee and the feast of Tabernacles. And so, we find that God would not let them enter His rest, and 38 years later, God told them to enter Canaan at the time of Passover, instead of Tabernacles. They crossed the Jordan River on the tenth day of the FIRST month (Joshua 4:19), which was the day the people were to select the lambs to prepare for Passover (Ex. 12:3). Hence, they were given only a first-level Sabbath, based upon Passover. Many years later, the New Testament Church was given a second-level Sabbath, based upon Pentecost. We today are now coming historically into that third-level Sabbath, based upon the fulfillment of the feast of Tabernacles. This Sabbath is not based upon one's work in and of itself, but upon doing the works of God and speaking the words of God. This is how one ceases from his own works, and this was God's intent for us from the beginning. 12 For the Word of God is living and active and sharper than any two-edged sword, and piercing as far as the division of soul and spirit, of both joints and marrow, and able to judge the thoughts and intentions of the heart. It is not merely the Word of God itself that the author has in mind, but the fact that it is coming through one who has entered into God's rest. When this living Word is spoken, rather than man's words, it will divide soul and spirit and be able to judge the thoughts and intentions of the heart. It is a sword that is much sharper than those dull weapons that are able only to separate men's heads from their bodies. 13 And there is no creature hidden from His sight, but all things are open and laid bare to the eyes of Him with whom we have to do. When believers are moved by the Holy Spirit and speak the Word of God, all things are laid bare, as we read in 1 Cor. 14:24, 25, 24 But if all prophesy, and an unbeliever or an ungifted man enters, he is convicted by all, he is called to account by all; 25 the secrets of his heart are disclosed; and so he will fall on his face and worship God, declaring that God is certainly among you. Oh that Christians would use this sword, rather than the swords of men. Then would all men's hearts be laid bare, their thoughts and intents revealed, and all men would be judged righteously by the Spirit in Truth. There is a Hebrew idiom used often in the Old Testament: “the edge of the sword.” The word translated “edge” is from the Hebrew word peh, which literally means a “mouth.” From this idiom comes the biblical teaching that the Word of God is a sharp sword coming from the mouth. Revelation 1:16 says of Christ, “out of His mouth came a sharp two-edged sword.” What is this “sword”? How does it differ from a carnal sword? The answer is given in Hosea 6:5, 6 in the NASB, 5 Therefore I have hewn them in pieces by the prophets; I have slain them by the words of My mouth; and the judgments on you are like the light that goes forth. 6 For I delight in loyalty [chesed, “mercy, kindness, or compassion”] rather than sacrifice, and in the knowledge of God rather than burnt offerings. Jesus referred to this in Matthew 9:13, saying, 13 But go and learn what this means: “I desire compassion, and not sacrifice,” for I did not come to call the righteous, but sinners. The meaning is this: Men thought that God desired sinners to be cut apart by a physical sword (or knife) as a sacrifice to God. And so we see throughout history all the religious wars where each side is convinced that God desires them to “kill His enemies.” But if they had understood the mind of God, they would have seen that God “kills” men not with a physical sword, but with “the words of My mouth.” That is the sharp sword that God uses. It is the Sword of the Spirit, which is the Word of God (Eph. 6:17). God uses this sword because He delights in mercy, kindness, and compassion, not in sacrifice. For this reason, He gave Israel the Word of the Lord through the prophets, who hewed them in pieces—not by a physical sword, but by the sharp sword that is the tongue speaking the Word of God. This sharp sword was offered to Israel at Mount Sinai on that first Pentecost when God came down upon Sinai and spoke the Word to the people. The people rejected that Sword, however, and so when it came time to conquer Canaan, they were left only with physical swords by which to conquer the Canaanites. The result was a bloodbath. But this does not truly reveal the mind of God. God did not hate Canaanites, nor did He desire that they be sacrificed by the sword. And so when the feast of Pentecost was fulfilled in Acts 2, the disciples in the upper room accepted the Sword of the Spirit. They went out into the street and “killed” 3,000 people with the Sword of Mercy. This was in direct contrast to the 3,000 who were killed at the base of Mount Sinai by the Levites in Exodus 32:28. In each case, a sword was used, but with different results. Under Moses 3,000 men were subtracted from the church in the wilderness; in the New Testament 3,000 were added to the Church (Acts 2:41). And so, in the hands of Spirit-filled Christians, the Word of God is the most powerful sword in the world. Instead of killing Canaanites with a physical sword, Christians are called to “kill the flesh” by means of baptism. The Great Commission in Mark 16:15-18 is based upon this Sword of the Spirit and is to be seen as the contrasting parallel to the command in Joshua's day to kill the Canaanites. Logabe