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verse 17, he says, but Jesus answered. Now all this had been, they had been talking about, and he's talking about, he's healed the man at the pool, and all this is going on. And what was Jesus constantly being ribbed about? You keep healing people on the Sabbath. That's work.

Now, but keep in mind, he's God. He's 100% man and 100% 100 god i don't care what some of these apostates are telling you on social media but the guy from pc usa that's some kind of rogue uh version of the presbyterians that's gone apostate kind of like the united methodists and others where he's out there telling people that jesus wasn't god and that's blasphemy anyway he's never i guess studied the gospel of john he'll give you some verses but he leaves out the gospel of john because throughout the gospel of john jesus is always saying what i'm god okay so anyway look what he says when they get on him this time in 17 but jesus answered them my father is working until now, and I am working. Does that sound like God's resting?

And so this is the thing that Jesus kept saying over and over again, and the Hebrews were not doing this the way God intended. They started taking what God intended as a blessing, a Sabbath, and they turned it into a burden.

And Jesus was showing this to them. You've missed the whole thing. Even those of you that are doing it aren't doing it right. You've missed the whole thing. You've turned it into some kind of legalistic burden for people, and that was never my father's intention. And oh, by the way, we're not resting anymore. For the redeemed, true rest and peace is going to be experienced. But how about this? But for those of us that are redeemed, get rest and peace is going to be experienced. But how about this? But for those of us that are redeemed, get this right, get this right. For those of us who are redeemed, should we rest for our health? Yes. Should we rest so we can be ready to answer the call because Jesus showed us to rest? Yes. Don't run yourself down.

However, for the redeemed, the rest that the writer of Hebrews is talking about, it ain't available to you right now. It's to come. It's to come. It's not now.

It's to come. So, get all that balanced properly, okay? So, now, we look at verses 6 through 8, okay? And so, there is no mandate in the OK, so so now we look at verses six through eight.

OK, and so there is no mandate in the new covenant for us to be worshiping some sort of Sabbath that is even no longer in play right now. OK, it's that that that that was disrupted by sin and we are to rest, but Jesus shows us in his example, that does not mean that we stop working because he was healing people and he was doing things on the Sabbath and said, my father established a Sabbath, you know, and he did not establish it to be worship.

He established it to be of a benefit to you. Okay? And so it was made as a gift so here is six through eight canaan the rest to be considered look at this 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 here it is today saying through David so long afterward, in the words already quoted back from Psalm 95 again, today if you hear his voice, do not harden your heart.

For if Joshua had given them rest, God would not have spoken of another day later on.

He said God was ready to give them the rest of Canaan right then, but it was the rebellion of the other 10. If everybody had listened to Joshua and everybody had listened to Caleb, God would have given them the rest right then, but they didn't. And he says, so don't harden your hearts. Listen to my voice. Rest in Canaan was forfeited but was offered again through joshua when they came back but the problem is and the writer's going to talk about this and he has talked about this don't miss this one this is going to preach to our individual lives right now as wonderful as joshua was as obedient as he was when we get to the second time when God says, let's try that again, Joshua and Caleb go in, but Joshua made three military errors that were costly.

And we make those same errors in our life when we're seeking to be truly sanctified.

Once we've been justified, don't make these same errors. Okay, are you ready? Here it is.

Joshua failed to control the coastline and left the western border open in the land.

He did not remove the Philistines. He did not remove the Phoenicians. This was disastrous. He made a covenant with the Gimanites. Disastrous. After two great war campaigns, he did not finish mopping up.

And God told him to mop up, and he didn't. These military mistakes tainted Canaan, and it tainted the rest of bringing all sorts of woes and darkness and apostate days that brought all the stories of the judges.

God now tries again with David, and David had his victories, but again, he did not provide the rest because it was overshadowed by all of David's sin.

He tries it again with Solomon to take over, but Solomon has all these intermarriages with pagans and all sorts of mystics, and then he softens to some of the pagan practices, and that led to God's people being captive.

So David promised a rest, but it was in the future. It was in the messianic and millennial time. It hasn't happened yet, but it will happen with Christ. So every opportunity to bring this rest so far has been squandered. Now I want you to think about these things that we saw of everybody that God was willing to give the rest to.

Think about these military mistakes that Joshua made. Why did God say, and some people don't like this, you'll just have to take this up with God.

God said, now when we win, I want the Canaanites gone. All of them. You take out every single one of them. Don't leave one. Remove them from the land completely. Don't get over here and cut some deal with the Gimanites. They haunted the Hebrews forever after that. Don't let the Phoenicians and the Philistines still have your western border.

You get rid of them. And they didn't. And they never could shake it. Okay? So how does that look in the New Covenant?

Well, first of all, there's a lot of things to learn as a nation, but that's another Bible study on another day.

But as individuals, and I've been there, that means, you know what? I'm big on the new covenant. Feel good about it. God has redeemed me. And then he says what? Okay, now count the cost. Well, it might cost you relationships. It might cost you your job. It might cost you your life, but it certainly will cost you your sin.

All my sin? And we agree to what? Some of it. Not all of it. Some of it. Some sin, like the Philistines and the Phoenicians and the Gibeonites, some of it I just like to kind of keep around.

Over here, I'm going to stop doing that. but porn, I'm going to keep that with me.

Over here, I'm going to fix that, but cheating on my taxes, putting a little something over to me, some dishonest business practices, I'm going to hang on to those. That's not a big deal.

And before you know it, you never get the the rest you never get the full benefits of the redemption because you let sin hang around and you got some that you won't get rid of you you you're looking look throughout the the kings you they would never so many of them would never go up into the high places and knock down all the altars. They'd leave a few just in case.

And what we're saying when we won't take on the sin in our lives, what we're really doing, one who has done it, not going to make these mistakes again, they kind of hang around like a safety net.

What if Jesus just can't quite fulfill me? Let me ease back over here. It took me forever to address the gluttony in my life.

I hung on to that one for a long time. What's the big deal? I'm 75 pounds overweight, unhealthy, overeat.

It took me a long time to deal with that one. Until I had, as my wife said, and it was true, and it's embarrassing that my wife had to say this. I had somebody come up to her one time and say, so what made Rick make the move he made with his physical health? Why did he start eating healthier and exercise and stop overeating?

She said because he realized he was in sin. And until he said that, it was never going to change.

What I was doing was sinful. what I was doing was sinful. You couldn't convince me you should do this, Rick, because, hey, you may die young. I read the Bible. I'm not going to die young.

Whenever I die, I die. It's already written. The decisions I'm making is how effective my life is, not how long it's going to be. God doesn't give me a say on how long it's going to be, but I get a lot of say on how effective it's going to be. God doesn't give me a say on how long it's going to be, but I get a lot of say on how effective it's going to be. And so that's where the mistake was being made is I use the, I know I'm going to die anyway, whenever God is ready. I use that as an excuse to live any way I wanted to. Now that he didn't give me, I didn't have, I didn't have the, I did not have the freedom to do that.

And then you think, well, Rick, could anybody get you to do it? Because maybe your kids would like to have a dad that can go pick, play, pick up basketball without bending over and can't catch their breath. That didn't work either. Cause I knew I was pretty tough. I could, I could push through that. Rick, does it bother you that your wife has a really overweight husband? Would it bother you if your wife was really overweight and she could do something about it? Are you calling her to a standard you won't call yourself to? No, she seems to love me just like I am. She's not shallow like me. Now, I know it's embarrassing to tell you that that's the way I thought, but it really was. and then came the one i couldn't get around you're in sin gluttony is a sin and you live a gluttonous life and you try to justify it and you'll never be able to be as effective especially in men's ministry if people look at you and they see that you physically don't have discipline, they're going to assume, and it is always right, that you probably don't have spiritual discipline either.

See, I could have a problem that's a secret sin that you would never see.

I could hide it. Can't hide that one. As soon as you walk out on stage to talk, everybody goes, wow, this guy's got no discipline. And so, but what I'm saying is, I didn't deal with that until I had already been justified for over 20 years. So, I mean, some of these things are still to come that god's going to come up and say how much longer are we going to justify this eventually you got to kill all the philistines you got to kill all the phoenicians you got to kill all the ites if you let them hang around, then the enemy, your sin nature, Satan or his demons, they're always going to beat you with them.

You'll regret letting them hang around. They'll always keep you from being where you should be with Christ. Always.

And that's the analogy of the new covenant. of the new covenant so uh so anyway so that that and that's what uh and that's what he is saying um about these military mistakes that that he made then david and then solomon you know and the list just goes on and on but he says there is a rest that is to come and he said this rest that is to come is going to be the rest uh be through 13. And he says in 9 through 13, so then, what based on the fact that Joshua made those mistakes, 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.

This is the it is finished. is this is the it is finished when jesus said it is finished the work his father sent him to do god now rest in the finished work of christ so when we look ahead just like i told you a minute ago he's saying if you want to know when God will rest again, when Jesus says it is finished, there's the ultimate rest that once you've been redeemed, you now have been secured in this ultimate rest that is to come. Hear me out now. But you're also giving a rest piece that you have now. That's not the final rest because we still have a sin nature.

But as I have said, and we talked about this again, I said this to some young guys. I think I told you all this not long ago. And they came up to me and said, what's the biggest difference you saw in your life after you were redeemed? I said, well, when I wasn't redeemed, I never had peace. My sin and the repercussions of my sin chased me wherever I went.

Y'all heard me talk about this. Am I going to jail? Is this person going to, is there going to be a bad result for what I did? Is this person after me? Am I at odds with this? There was never any peace. In the moments when I go, hey, this is great, it was never worth it because the aftermath of it was horrible. But I still have had very difficult days, in many cases, worse days after redemption, but I have a supernatural peace that I just can't explain to you because it's finished. My greatest concern has been defeated, and that's eternal death.

If I die, I'm just going to be in perfection. If I live, as Paul taught me, I like doing the work of Christ.

That's what motivates me. That's what gets me out of bed every morning. I mean, right down this hall, I'm pointing out the door for those of you listening, right out here on Monday of this week, in that office, I watched a man and a woman, a husband and a wife, give their life to Christ because they were going through difficulty and they simply wanted to come talk.

And through the process of difficulty, both of them realized that they did not have access to what they needed to overcome this difficulty because they just weren't redeemed. And they repented. And they cried out, each other together, to be redeemed. Now, you think that's not a bigger deal than the latest Rick and Bubba t-shirt what do you think gets me out of bed that what we're doing on this platform leads to that if what I'm doing for a living during the day doesn't lead to that I don't want to do it anymore and so so that that's the that's what he's saying yes there's going to be a final rest when the new heaven and new earth is established and all the enemies of god have been destroyed but there was a certain rest that happened when god said my plan of redemption has now been finished in my son he did what i sent him to do and he finished it and now now all that have been redeemed have access to that finished product.

I hope that fires you up. Human beings always yearn for this peace, whether you know it or not. And it says all mankind can rest in that peace. So that's kind of what he's hitting in 9 and 10. Let's look now at 11. Let us therefore strive. Whoa.

There's another action word. Let us now strive to enter that rest so that no one may fall by the same sort of disobedience.

You know, he's saying, let's not make that mistake again. Strive. And I know what strive means.

It doesn't mean to sit around. Strive for it. What did Jesus say? Se seek me and you'll find me what does paul say i press on for the goal what goal he's already been redeemed well done i'm going for that rest i'm going for that reward and it says let us therefore strive to enter that rest let's live our lives. One of the things that the suffering that I've been through that God did about this striving that adjusted my life, and you just heard me talk about this, been the biggest change, and I want it for all of you, is I live my life heaven-focused. I'm looking up. I strive because I know where I'm going, and I'm not doing anything to earn my redemption.

I am working on my sanctification, but I'm obeying him for no other reason than out of the gratitude for his redemption.

He's given me a love for people that, frankly, I don't have naturally. I don't. I told you the story about the guy that came to know Christ simply out of my obedience because of how bad a person I am. I stayed up with him all night trying to get him to give his life to Christ after his young child died like mine. And he finally looks at me and he says, it's midnight. I got to be back on the air the next morning. Got to get up at 430. And he looks at me and he says, I just wish God would give me a sign. I said, I'm here. I'm not this good a person. Honestly, if it wasn't for Jesus, I wouldn't care. I would have heard your story because I was at the drive-thru at Taco Bell with my kids after little league practice. I would have said, oh, I hate that. And then I would order the number two and two number threes. And I'd never thought about you again. I'm here. I'm here. Look, I wish that wasn't true. It just is.

I'm here because Jesus has me here. He told me to be here. He makes me be here.

He gives me a yearning to be here. That's supernatural, brother. If you need a sign from God, here he is.

I'm just not that good a person. And he repented. He said, that makes a lot of sense.

So let me ask you this. When God watches us right now, does he look at us and go, well, the way they live their life, I bet that'll draw people to me.

I bet that'll draw people to me because the way they live, they don't live like everybody else. They do things they wouldn't do any other way except that they belong to me.

Is that how it looks? We should strive for that. And what are we striving for? Him. And then he provides the power.

And he's warning these Hebrews that are new to the covenant, don't make the mistakes with this disobedience from the past. You know what else you see here?

What is he calling disobedience? The lack of striving. You're being disobedient. You're not doing what Jesus told you to do. Just like they didn't do what God told them to do.

They wouldn't go and take Canaan. He said go and advance the kingdom of God. If you're not doing it, you're in sin because you're not striving to be obedient. Next, he goes into this incredible dissertation about the powerful word of God. Somebody say amen.

The powerful word of God. Wow, wow, wow. I really, really get so much out of this next part.

So as we're in the new covenant, and we no longer have to keep the Old Testament, including the Sabbath, and the rest that is no longer a day but a person, I love that.

If you want to know what our Sabbath is now, it's Jesus longer a day but a person. I love that. If you want to know what our Sabbath is now, it's Jesus. It's not a day. It's a person. We have to strive and we have to drop any doubt about our redemption. We have to be free from the burden of sin.

We have to rest in the final work of Christ. I love what we talk about being disobedient. I love the analogy that John Phillips used. He said, you know, you might be a person that is floating out in the middle of the ocean and a ship may rescue you as Jesus redeems you. And once you get on the ship and you sit down and they say, hey, welcome to the ship. We've saved you when you could not save yourself. But oh, by the way, we still have a lot of journey left. We need you to help in the kitchen. We're understaffed. He said, don't be the kind of person that says, thank you for saving me, but I ain't doing anything. I'm not helping. I'm not going to do any work that's on this ship.

He said, that would look awful ungrateful, wouldn't it? And he says, you know what? You really don't have to go in the kitchen and help, but you should. Out of gratitude.

So now getting into 12. So is everybody with me so far? We got through some pretty deep stuff there. Everybody with me?

Everybody tracking? Right? Especially if you want to summarize the Sabbath part, which I know is probably the part you're struggling with the most.

The Sabbath in the new covenant is no longer a day. It's a person.