justbyfaith
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I don't see you being called to do that. I think you are learning doctrine...very slowly...because a humble person learns faster than one who thinks he's been specially appointed by God before he fully understands what the bible is testifying of.
And of course, since you aren't the one who called me to do that, I don't need your approval.
I find that in reading many of your posts, you have an appearance of righteousness in what you post; however there is a hint of salvation by works in all of what you say to people. Therefore, I believe that you are the one who doesn't fully understand what the Bible is testifying of. And I believe that you are also coming against me now because I previously mentioned that some of what you say is slightly off-base.
Vs 10 says, (paraphrase)...... the one who entered into the REST, has stopped working.....
vs 11 says, to labor to enter into the rest....... and to fail to do this "labor" is = "unbelief".
So, how do you rest, yet labor, and the labor if failed..... is unbelief?
Its found in the idea, the context of the verse which is to understand the WORK that is the LABOR.
Most self savors, read this verse as...>>"i get to heaven by enduring to the end, (labor) and by keeping commandments, etc".
This means they are trying to do THEIR WORK...to get into Heaven. THEIR LABOR.
But this fails, because the verse defines the actual failure of the "labor" as UNBELIEF.
So, that is easily understood if you know what the verse is that is the missing link that allows you to understand why its a certain TYPE of Labor....that is not a person's self effort, that achieves= the "REST" from labor..
So, what work do we do, that is BELIEF based, that attains the REST, that is eternal life.?
Its this.....
We are to do the work or LABOR that GOD requires to achieve the "REST", as the end result. = SALVATION.
Its This verse..
"The WORK OF GOD< is that YOU BELIEVE (labor) on the ONE WHOM HE SENT".
So, there you see the WORK or the Labor, that GOD is talking about, which it to BELIEVE ON JESUS.
That is the (Spiritual) LABOR that Hebrews 4:11 is talking about that achieves the "REST", (Born Again). (Salvation).
The labour that we labour in is to be certain that no one in the body of Christ falls short of entering into His rest. In this, those of us who "labour in the word and doctrine" seek to work towards bringing sound doctrine into the fray so that believers will not bedeceived by the devil and so that they might find salvation in the grace of Christ.
We RECEIVE IT.....we don't do it. JESUS DID IT.
Rom 5:19, For as by one man's disobedience many were made sinners, so by the obedience of one shall many be made righteous.
This obedience is, on the one hand, Christ's obedience to the Father in succeeding to go to the Cross. Because He was obedient in this, our sins are forgiven through His shed blood.
But there is another sense in which the obedience of one makes us righteous. And that is this:
Gal 2:20, I am crucified with Christ: nevertheless I live; yet not I, but Christ liveth in me: and the life which I now live in the flesh I live by the faith of the Son of God, who loved me, and gave himself for me.
Christ is obedient in us as we walk with Him by faith. And this translates into a walk that is free and victorious over sin.