Today's Passage - Hebrews 4:6-9

Hebrews 4:6-9 It still remains that some will enter that rest, and those who formerly had the gospel preached to them did not go in, because of their disobedience. Therefore God again set a certain day, calling it Today, when a long time later he spoke through David, as was said before: "Today, if you hear his voice, do not harden your hearts." For if Joshua had given them rest, God would not have spoken later about another day. There remains, then, a Sabbath-rest for the people of God; The author of Hebrews says here that there remains a Sabbath-rest for the people of God. The Sabbath-rest referred to here is not the promised land that God promised the Israelites thousands of years ago. The things of this world are often a symbol of the spiritual things to come. The land that God promised the Israelites was an inheritance and symbolized the coming of Christ. What truly saves us is not the land of Canaan, but the salvation of Jesus Christ. The Jews do not accept Christ because they misunderstood this. They thought they knew God's law and God's prophet. However, they did not understand that the law and the prophets were speaking of the work of Jesus Christ. What truly saves us is not the law nor the prophets, but the salvation that comes through Jesus Christ. Many people do not understand the principle behind symbolism and easily use material things or things on the outside to replace God. Some people replace God with rituals and focus on solemn music and ceremonies. This may appear grand, but people are only worshiping the feeling of grandeur, but not worshiping God. Some people replace God with doctrines and wreck their brains to figure out the perfect doctrine. However, in the process they lose sight of God. This is one of the crises that the seminaries face. They often exalt the word of men, but neglect the word of God. The church today may say they welcome Jesus, but in actual fact, they use all kinds of methods to replace Jesus. It is like you were invited to your own birthday banquet, and you were supposed to be the star. Yet when you arrive at the banquet, no one paid attention to you because everyone was celebrating their own thing. We are often busy with our own thing and our own needs even when we gather together. We often lose sight of the one we should be focusing on - Jesus. If you were the Lord Jesus, how would you feel? May the Lord help us to once again focus on Him, because He alone is God and worthy of our worship. There is nothing in life that can stop us from coming before God. Nothing can truly satisfy our needs except for the Lord Himself. May the spirit of God draw us to cast all things aside and to worship Him only. Pray with Pastor Tong Lord, I thank you because you are our precious Savior. May you draw us near to you in our everyday lives so that we can focus on you and depend on you solely. If there are things in our lives that keep us away from you, may you remove them Lord, so that our hearts can be focused on following you. I thank you and pray in the victorious name of Jesus, Amen!  Shekinah Glory - ROLCC Building Expansion Project - Follow us on our Facebook page!