Lord Make Me More Holy - King’s Heralds O Rest in the Lord - Del Delker

Lord Make Me More Holy - King’s Heralds O Rest in the Lord - Del Delker

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Voice Of Prophecy

H.M.S. Richards

The Rest That Remains

Lord, make me more holy, Lord, make me more holy, Lord, make me holy, holy, until we meet again.

Lord, make me more joyful until we meet again.

Joyful, Joyful, joyful, until we meet again.

Lord, make us more faithful, Lord, make us more faithful, until we meet again.

Faithful, faithful, faithful, until we meet again.

We're happy to be with you for this worship service, and the subject that my father, HMS Richards, is presenting is entitled, The Rest That remains.

Someone has said that modern life can be summed up in 3 words, hurry, worry, bury.

This leads us to think of the senator who, as he rushed along breathlessly, was asked by a news reporter, what do you think of the world crisis?

He replied, don't bother me now, I'm in a hurry to make a radio address and a crisis like this is no time to think.

The Lord Jesus was 1 of the busiest men who ever lived.

As no other man could, he knew the terrible tensions and needs of a lost world.

He said to his disciples, come ye yourselves apart and rest a while.

It is probably true that what the most people want, and want the most, is rest.

Millions look forward to what they call retirement, feeling that then in some way, mysteriously, miraculously, life's worries and problems will all fall away and they will have rest for the rest of their lives.

Had man never fallen, his rest would have been eternal.

But since the privilege of that eternal rest was lost, our Heavenly Father, in His mercy, designs to restore the enjoyment of it in full, all satisfying measure.

Every true believer in Christ longs for a higher, holier experience than this earth can give.

When David's heart was sorrowful and weak within him, and fear shattered his nerves, he said, Oh, that I had wings like a dove, for then I would fly away and be at rest.

That's what we all want down deep in our hearts, isn't it?

When the Lord gave the land of Canaan to the children of Israel, it was only a temporary possession.

It was a type, a symbol, a picture of their final inheritance in the earth made new, renewed as it was in the days of Eden.

Had they remained faithful, the city of Jerusalem would have stood forever.

And the throne of David would have been occupied by righteous kings until the Savior Himself came as the seed of David.

His reign then would have been established upon that very throne, and Israel would have been a mighty nation in righteousness, encircling the world.

So the rest which they might have received when Joshua led them into the land of promise, they failed to get.

But man's failure does not mean God's failure.

He ordains that the rest for which his people earnestly long may be secured through Jesus Christ.

Spiritually, it may be ours here and now in this world.

There are some Christians who are so busy in God's work that they never do much of the work of God.

At least they never spiritually find rest.

The story is told of an exploring party in deepest Africa that employed a group of native carriers and were pushing them hard to reach their destination.

For several days they went on relentlessly at top speed.

When asked what was the matter, the superstitious ones replied, We are waiting for our souls to catch up with our bodies.

There are a lot of Christians today who really run away from God in their hurry and rush, not merely for worldly things but sometimes for good things.

They need to stop once in a while and catch up spiritually.

Writing to the Hebrew brethren, the Apostle Paul speaks of the rest which Israel did not receive because of their unbelief.

The rest that remaineth to the children of God, it's called in Hebrews 4 and 9, and which may be regained through Christ.

He says, and I'm reading Hebrews 3, 15 and onward, Today, if ye will hear his voice, harden not your hearts, as in the provocation that was in the wilderness.

For some, when they had heard, did provoke.

However not all that came out of Egypt by Moses.

Was it not with them that had sinned, whose carcasses fell in the wilderness?

And to whom swore he that they should not enter into his rest, but to them that believe not.

So we see that they could not enter in because of unbelief.

It was unbelief in the word of God and promises of God which prevented those people who left the land of Egypt from entering into God's rest in the land of Canaan.

Yet there were some faithful ones who entered into God's rest spiritually in spite of the failure of all the rest.

The Apostle continues, Let us Therefore fear, lest a promise being left us of entering into his rest, any of you should come short of it, or seem to come short of it.

For unto us was the gospel preached as well as unto them.

You see, this had to do with the preaching of the gospel.

But the word preached did not profit them.

Listen, not being mixed with faith in them that heard it.

Now friends, we can hear the gospel preached, but if there is no faith in our hearts, it will do us no good and we will not receive the spiritual rest we want.

If we do not believe God's Word, it will do us no good.

We may hear it preached, but there certainly must be faith on our part in order to receive it.

We must really trust God's Word or we shall never find spiritual rest.

To celebrate an old gentleman's 75th birthday, a young man who owned a private plane offered to take him up for a ride over the little West Virginia town where he had lived all his life.

When he was back on the ground after about 20 minutes, his friend said, Were you scared, Uncle Dudley?

No, he hesitated, but I never did put my full weight down.

You may smile at that remark, but isn't that a picture of some who call themselves believers.

They have been offered Christ's salvation and have received it.

They profess to believe in God and His promises, but they never really put their full weight down on them.

Of course, Christ has been carrying them all the time.

His mercies have protected them, guided them, helped them, still they have never fully trusted Him.

They do not know the joy that comes from complete rest in the promises of God.

As those ancient people of God failed of entering his rest because of their unbelief.

The Lord limited a certain day, saying in David, that is, in the writings of David, Today, after so long a time, as it is said, Today, if ye will hear his voice, harden not your hearts.

For if Joshua had given them rest, that is, when he took them into the promised land, then would he, that is God, not afterward have spoken of another day.

There remaineth therefore a rest to the people of God.

Joshua did not give that rest to them when they entered the land of promise because of their unbelief.

But through Jesus, God still offers rest to all who believe.

The last king who ruled over the chosen nation was Zedekiah.

He was carried into captivity in Babylon.

Because of the apostasy and unbelief of the people and the kings disobeying the commandments of God, the scepter and the throne were entirely removed from them and passed into the hands of the king of Babylon, a mighty Gentile nation.

Since that time, God's people have never constituted a literal kingdom on this earth.

Through the prophet Ezekiel the Lord had declared of Zedekiah that such would be the case.

Here are the inspired words in Ezekiel 21.

And thou, profane, wicked prince of Israel, whose day is come, when iniquity shall have an end, Thus saith the Lord God, Remove the diadem, take off the crown.

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