Deuteronomy 12:9 For you are not as yet come to the rest and to the inheritance, which the LORD your God gives you. I. THE REST WHICH AWAITS BELIEVERS. 1. A promised rest. 2. A complete rest. 3. Rest in the possession of an inheritance. 4. An eternal rest. II. SOME CONSIDERATIONS suggested by the fact that we are not yet come to our rest. And this fact requires us — 1. To endure hardships. 2. To prize comforts. 3. To avoid present resting. 4. To be seeking the rest that is to come.All things encourage us to advance. A better than earthly Canaan before us; a greater Leader than Moses to guide us; and the millions of the glorified invoking us, by their reward, to imitate their example. Oh! be not slothful, but followers of them, who, through faith and patience, are inheriting the promises. We may infer — 1. The infatuation of the wicked, who, besides not having come to this rest, are sedulously shunning it by a contrary course; and — 2. The happiness of the righteous, who, though they have not yet come to this rest, are hourly coming to it, and whose very bereavements teach not more strikingly the vanity of this world than the proximity of a better. (D. King.) Parallel Verses KJV: For ye are not as yet come to the rest and to the inheritance, which the LORD your God giveth you.WEB: for you haven't yet come to the rest and to the inheritance, which Yahweh your God gives you. |
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