Well, Christ is our Sabbath rest.

We celebrate this beautiful truth every Lord's day, every Sunday.

But what about on a day like today, on Monday, is Christ my Sabbath rest today at work.

That's Pam's question for you, Pastor John is a good one.

Pastor John, hello, she writes, Christ is our Sabbath rest, a hearty amen to that wonderful

truth, to the degree that I understand it.

And I don't think I fully understand it quite yet.

This seems to mean a lot more than Christ has set apart one day of rest for us, the

Lord's day, on Sunday.

At the very end of APJ 658, you called Christ our quote, eternal rest, end quote.

And that means you said quote, pervading all our work.

We are restful in Christ, end quote.

When you explain this to me, how is Christ our Sabbath rest even while we are working?

If we had time, we would dig into Hebrews, chapters three and four because there that amazing

author presents an argument for the present rest of the people of God and the future eternal

rest for the people of God and he urges us in 3, 19 and 4, 1 to fear, lest we attain or

fail to attain the rest, meaning fear, unbelief because belief is the only way into the rest

of Jesus Christ both now and in the future.

But we don't have time to do that as much as I'd love to and I want to go straight

to Pam's main question, namely, how do we experience the rest, the Sabbath rest of

Christ at work?

In other words, what meaning does it have while we're expanding great energy to speak of

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