July 20, 2025 Let's Get Healthy Notes

Part 7 | Finding True Rest in a Restless World

From Hebrews 4

Four Facts about Rest:

1. Rest is .

📖 Genesis 2:3 ESV So God blessed the seventh day and made it holy, because on it God rested from all His work that He had done in creation.

📖 Psalm 4:8 ESV In peace I will both lie down and sleep; for you alone, O Lord, make me dwell in safety.

📖 Psalm 127:2 ESV He gives to his beloved sleep.

2. Rest is .

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3. Rest is a concept: , , .

4. Rest is the of in Christ.

📖 Hebrews 4:1 ESV Therefore, while the promise of entering His rest still stands, let us fear lest any of you should seem to have failed to reach it.

1. We find through in Christ.

📖 Hebrews 4:3 ESV For we who have believed enter that rest, as He has said, “As I swore in my wrath, ‘They shall not enter my rest,’ ” although His works were finished from the foundation of the world.

📖 Hebrews 4:4 ESV For He has somewhere spoken of the seventh day in this way: “And God rested on the seventh day from all His works.”

📖 Exodus 20:8–10 ESV “Remember the Sabbath day, to keep it holy. 9 Six days you shall labor, and do all your work, 10 but the seventh day is a Sabbath to the LORD your God. On it you shall not do any work…

📖 Exodus 20:11 ESV For in six days the LORD made heaven and earth, the sea, and all that is in them, and rested on the seventh day. Therefore, the LORD blessed the Sabbath day and made it holy.

📖 Romans 10:4 ESV For Christ is the end of the law for righteousness to everyone who believes.

📖 Colossians 2:16–17 ESV Therefore let no one pass judgment on you in questions of food and drink, or with regard to a festival or a new moon or a Sabbath. 17 These are a shadow of the things to come, but the substance belongs to Christ.

In the Old Covenant, you .
In the New Covenant, you .

2. We find having a in Christ.

📖 Hebrews 4:5 ESV And again in this passage He said, “They shall not enter my rest.”

📖 Psalm 95:10 ESV For forty years I loathed that generation and said, “They are a people who go astray in their heart, and they have not known my ways.” 11 Therefore I swore in my wrath, “They shall not enter my rest.”

📖 Hebrews 4:6-7 ESV Since therefore it remains for some to enter it, and those who formerly received the good news failed to enter because of disobedience, 7 again He appoints a certain day, “Today,” saying through David so long afterward, in the words already quoted, “Today, if you hear his voice, do not harden your hearts.”

📖 Hebrews 4:8 ESV For if Joshua had given them rest, God would not have spoken of another day later on.

📖 Hebrews 4:9-10 ESV So then, there remains a Sabbath rest for the people of God, 10 for whoever has entered God’s rest has also rested from his works as God did from His.

📖 Hebrews 4:3 ESV For we who have believed enter that rest

📖 Ephesians 2:6 NLT For He raised us from the dead along with Christ and seated us with Him in the heavenly realms because we are united with Christ Jesus.

3. We find in the of Christ.

📖 Hebrews 4:11 ESV Let us therefore strive to enter that rest, so that no one may fall by the same sort of disobedience.

📖 Hebrews 4:12 ESV For the word of God is living and active, sharper than any two-edged sword, piercing to the division of soul and of spirit, of joints and of marrow, and discerning the thoughts and intentions of the heart.

God’s Word is like the at a .

📖 Hebrews 4:13 ESV And no creature is hidden from His sight, but all are naked and exposed to the eyes of him to whom we must give account.

📖 Hebrews 4:14 ESV Since then we have a great high priest who has passed through the heavens, Jesus, the Son of God, let us hold fast our confession.

📖 Hebrews 4:15 ESV For we do not have a high priest who is unable to sympathize with our weaknesses, but one who in every respect has been tempted as we are, yet without sin.

📖 Hebrews 4:16 ESV Let us then with confidence draw near to the throne of grace, that we may receive mercy and find grace to help in time of need.

📖 Matthew 11:28–30 ESV Come to me, all who labor and are heavy laden, and I will give you rest. 29 Take my yoke upon you, and learn from me, for I am gentle and lowly in heart, and you will find rest for your souls. 30 For my yoke is easy, and my burden is light.”