Come and study the Holy Scriptures with us as Father Stephen DeYoung teaches verse by verse on the podcast, The Whole Council of God.

Father Stephen holds a Ph.D. in biblical studies, and it's an Orthodox priest serving at Archangel Gabriel Orthodox Church in Lafayette, Louisiana.

So chapter 4 verse 1, therefore, one. Therefore, we see we get

therefore after therefore. Therefore, since a promise remains of entering his rest, let us fear

lest any of you seem to have come short of it.

So what's the promise at the end of the Psalm quote he gave?

It's the inverse of the curse.

None of you will enter my rest, right? But then that next generation does, right?

And so what this is saying in chapter in four verse one is, right? So this is the

promise to us too, right, to enter into God's rest. Right. So it's not just the curse. It's

not just, hey, you don't want your corpse to fall in the wilderness, right? You just said the negative.

This is the positive, right? The positive is there's also, even though there's still this danger, there's also still

this promise, right, of entering into his rest. And I'll talk about that now. What's going

on with the word rest? Because it's going to be important as we read through the rest of this chapter

so we tend to read rest as ah right calgon take me away right we finally you know vacation we don't

have to go to work we can lay around and do nothing. That may be just my bias.

I guess other people like to go do fun things. I like to do nothing. But we don't have anything to do.

We can relax, can sleep as long as we want, right? Rest. That's not what we're getting at here.

When God talks about the people entering his rest,

and this is going to be made explicit as we move forward in the chapter,

it's referring to the rest of the seventh day of creation,

the beginning of Genesis chapter 2, the first couple of verses.

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