Nancy Lee DeMoss invite you into true rest.

It's not through our works, our effort, our striving, our righteousness.

We experience the rest that God intends for us in our Christian lives today by faith in Christ.

This is the Revive Our Hearts podcast for Friday, August 29th, 2014.

In a busy world, rest is a valued commodity.

Vacation planners and drug companies promised to give you rest,

but is it really something you can buy? Nancy will take you to the true source in the series

Lessons from the Life of Joshua, Part 3, trusting God for the promised land.

Well, we spent quite a bit of time in Numbers 13 and 14

and talking about issues of faith and fear. And I think it's important that we take a close look

at this passage because it is such an important picture when we come to the New Testament

of what God intends for us as New Testament

believers moving into his promised rest. So before we leave this account and move on with the life

of Joshua, and one of these days we're actually going to get to the book of Joshua, believe

it or not. But continuing in his life, I want us to take a look first at a passage in the New

Testament, an important passage that harkens back to this incident we've been talking about,

where the children of Israel were at Kadesh Barnea and sent the spies into the land,

and the spies came back, 10 with a bad report, two with a good report. The people went with fear rather

than faith, and only the two who believed God, Joshua and Caleb, were allowed to go into the

land. Now, when we come to the New Testament, let me ask you to turn in your Bibles to the book

of Hebrews chapter 3. This is one of a number of other biblical passages that addresses this event at Kadesh Barnea.

And the writer to the Hebrews uses the experience of the Israelites there on the verge of the

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