Commandment Four Entering the rest

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Is it possible that somebody could live a life with the kind of soul rest and wellbeing that could lift them above all fear and anxiety and produce feelings of good will to others? Exodus 20:8 Remember the Sabbath day, to keep it holy. (The Tithe of time)Hebrews 4:4 For the Scripture mentions the seventh day saying: “And God rested on the seventh day from all His works”; and in another place: “They shall not enter My rest.” (Psalm 95:11 Moses generation)My rest (God’s rest) – a relational rest of receiving love and favour, from God and from one another The seventh Sabbath year (Shmita) of trusting God, with dire consequences of not obeying.Leviticus 25:20-2 I And if you say, 'What shall we eat in the seventh year, since we shall not sow nor gather in our produce? Then I will command My blessing on you in the sixth year, and it will bring forth produce enough for three years. (Consequences - 2 Chronicles 36:20-21...Bondage in Babylon till the land had fulfilled its Sabbaths). Another day – another time – another lifeHebrews 4:8-11 For from the time of Joshua if they had fulfilled God’s rest, then He would not afterward have spoken of another day (from; hemai – to sit, settle for a time, always defined more or less clearly by the context, ‘back in the day’). There is still therefore a special rest (sabbatismos) waiting to be fulfilled for the people of God. 10. For he who has entered that rest (katapausis – settled down) has himself also ceased from his works the same way as God did from His. Let us therefore make every effort to enter into that rest, so that we don’t fail by following their example of lack of faith and trust. His rest, that we enter into as Christians, is sharing God’s life together in the finished work of Christ. God wants us to enter His rest which he entered into when had finished the work of creation and could now enjoy his relationship to it. He now had a family of people made in his image, whom he loved, and who also had the potential for sin and evil, and who were plagued with fear. Yet he knew that his love and mercy could overcome all of these evils in his human family. His Son Jesus would come into history and show us his love through dying for us and rising again and then sending us his Spirit of life. Then we too could enter that rest and settle down to enjoy being bonded to him in love and good will. Psalm 139:14 Thank you for making me so wonderfully complex! Your workmanship is marvellous, body and soul and how well I know it. The oxytocin feedback loop God even created our brain to produce a hormone called oxytocin in our hypothalamus that affects us emotionally to stir feelings of trust and bonding within us when we initiate acts of kindness and goodwill. It has been called the love hormone and generates its own feedback loop. It even has an antidepressant effect and moderates against fear and aggression. On a physical level it also moderates inflammation, improving wound healing. (Spiritual – worship, prayer and intercession)

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