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In Hebrews 3:19, we see that the Israelites could not enter into GOD's REST because of unbelief.
Now fast-forward to the NT; we Christians are New Creatures in Christ Jesus who have (or should have) entered into God’s rest ‘cos He did it all when He said “IT IS FINISHED” on the cross (Hebrews 4:3, John 19:30). But then, how come we don’t experience it tangibly? Imagine going into a supermarket, say Shoprite, and you just enter and then stand at a corner gazing at all the stuffs there. See, that’s how some (if not all) are; we’ve entered into God’s rest-through Christ- but we haven’t started experiencing it yet. Why? It’s because we are not communicating with God in line with His Will (Phlm 1:6, James 4:3).
When Jesus said it is finished”, He gave us a blank cheque, not corporately, but individually, with no limitations whatsoever.The thing now is that to cash it in, you need a PARADIGM SHIFT.
Take a look at Numbers 20:3-5, where the Israelites were once again complaining about how they preferred their lives in Egypt... The same place they were living in bondage; yet they wanted to go back to labouring like the world instead of labouring like God's people "in Rest".
Now, majority of us can identify ourselves with that, though out of the world, we're still labouring like them, yet expecting great results.
John 17:14b and 1John 3:1 say we are not of the world; they don't know us.
Since the world do not know us, it means they have no clue about how we should labour/ live our lives to get the kind of results we should get as "Children of God". Yet we copy them; expecting to beat them at their game.
See, if you want to be the best; you have to labour in God's rest( through the Word and prayer), and not like the world.
We Christians should stop competing with the world, we're above them, IN CHRIST... We're meant to dominate them with a HUMBLE HEART.
Domination not Competition.
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