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Israel people wandered in the wilderness for fourty years. the author of the book of Hebrews encouraged the recepients of this epistle to enter into the rest. this is also applied to us today. when we are in our soul, we are also wandering in the wilderness, not able to enter into the good land, which is Christ as our real Sabbath rest. 

Genesis 2:2 And on the seventh day God finished His work which He had done, and He rested on the seventh day from all His work which He had done.

Genesis 2:3 And God blessed the seventh day and sanctified it because in it He rested from all His work which God had created and made.

Genesis 1:26 And God said, Let Us make man in Our image, according to Our likeness; and let them have dominion over the fish of the sea and over the birds of heaven and over the cattle and over all the earth and over every creeping thing that creeps upon the earth.

God rested on the seventh day because He has finished His work and was satisfied; God's glory was manifested because man had His image, and His authority with His dominion was about to be exercised for the subduing of His enemy. When there is a situation on earth in which man expresses God and represents God, that situation is a Sabbath rest to God; the Sabbath rest is simply God's satisfaction in His heart's desire. 

the Sabbath rest signifies that God has done everything, completed everything, and prepared everything and that man must stop all his work; to keep the Sabbath is to stop our work and to take God and all that He has accomplished for us as our enjoyment, rest, and satisfaction; this is God's economy.

1. in the church age the heavenly Christ, the One who has expressed, represented, and satisfied God and who rests from His work and sits at the right hand of God in the heavens, is rest to us in our spirit. 

2. in the millennial kingdom, after Satan has been removed from the earth, God will be expressed, represented, and satisfied by Christ and the overcoming saints; then Christ with the kingdom will be the rest in a fuller way to the overcoming saints, who will be co-kingswith Him. 

3. in the new heaven and new earth, after all the enemeies, including death, the last enemy, have been made subject to Him, Christ, as the all-conquering One, will be the rest in the fullest way to all of God's redeemed for eternity.

the rest in the first two stages is a prize to the Lord's diligent seekers, who enjoy Him in a full way and become the overcomers; the rest in the third stage is not a prize but the full portion allotted to all the redeemed ones. this corresponds to the parable of the Master with the slaves, that to the faithful slave, the master would say, " well done, good and faithful slave, enter into the joy of your master". 

where can we find such perfect peace in this universe? except in the Lord Jesus, who is our perfect peace and full satisfaction. 

to take the Lord's yoke is to take the will of the Father; it is to be constrained by the will fo the Father. the Lord lived such a life on the earth. He did not care for anything else, even not caring for Himself. He only cared for the will of the Father. His food was to do the will of the Father. He rejected His own will, but submitted Himself fully to the Father's will. 

Exodus 31:17 It is a sign between Me and the children of Israel forever; for in six days Jehovah made heaven and earth, and on the seventh day He rested and was refreshed.

if we express God, reign in life, drink of the river of water of life, to such an extent, that rivers of living water are flowing out of our inner being, and we are reigning in life over sin, death and Satan, we become God's refreshment. Man is God's refreshment because man was created in God's own image with a spirit so that man could fellowship with God and be God's companion and counterpart. 

We need to see the following divine principle -  God first supplies us with enjoyment, and then we work together with Him; in order to be one with God in His work, we must enjoy Him. 

the living and operative word of God, not only divides the soul from our spirit, but also bring us into the enjoyment of Christ as rest in our spirit. 

the Hebrew believers were wondering in their mind, which was wandering in their soul, filled with doubts. to wander is to move about without a definite purpose. but when we are in spirit, we are very clear, and we have a definite purpose and destiny, that we are becoming the New Jerusalem. therefore, we should not neglect our spirit, but we need to take care of our spirit. for example, the first thing we do every morning, should be taking care of our spirit to enjoy the Lord. 

the living word of God must pierce into our being and deliver us from our wondering mind and wandering soul into Christ as the Sabbath rest in our spirit; we should not be those who stagger in the wandering of our soul, but we need to deny the soul and press on into our spirit to partake of and enjoy the heavenly Christ so that we might participate in the kingdom rest of His reign in the millennium. 

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