Dear Father in Heaven, I pray, God, would you please move on us here, God. We need you, God. I pray, would you please help us with your word. Help us that we would have this true rest that's spoken of in this chapter, God. Please, Lord, guide us through your word that it would be real to us. I pray that you would awaken those here, God, that are spiritually dead. I pray, God, please work. through your spirit, through your word, in Jesus' name, Amen. Read the first 12 verses of Hebrews chapter 4. Thus, therefore, fear lest a promise being left us of entering into his rest, any of you should seem to come short of it. For unto us was the gospel preached as well as unto them, but the word preached did not profit them, not being mixed with faith in them that heard it. For we which have belief do enter into rest. So he said, as I have sworn in my wrath, if they shall enter into my rest, although the works were finished from the foundation of the world. For he spake in a certain place of the seventh day on this wise, and God did rest the seventh day from all his works. And in this place again, if they shall enter into my rest, seeing therefore it remaineth that some must enter therein, and they to whom it was first preached entered not in because of unbelief. Again he limits a certain day saying in David today after so long a time as it is said today If you will hear his voice harden not your hearts for if Joshua actually is the proper interpretation there, as we just, translation I mean, had given them rest, they would not afterward have spoken of another day. They remained there for a rest to the people of God. For he that is entered into his rest, he also hath ceased from his own works, as God did from his. Let us labor, therefore, to enter into that rest, lest any man fall after the same example of unbelief. For the word of God is quick and powerful and sharper than any two-edged sword, piercing even to the dividing asunder of soul and spirit, and of the joints and marrow, and is a discerner of the thoughts and the intents of the heart. It's interesting in verse 45 of Acts 7 that we just read that you see that Jesus is replaced with Joshua. Their names are actually interchangeable. That's why at times you'll see the name Jesus when they're actually referring to Joshua. But that's usually only in the old King James. Even some of the newer King James versions have changed that. Anyways, just that little side note for you. But I was just thinking, as I read this verse, we live in a day and in a world where there's very little rest. I think this is an important subject for us. And I speak to people almost every week who tell me their lives are too busy. And it seems that there never is time to relax. It seems, even when people go on vacation, it's filled with much restlessness. It seems to be the spirit of this age. That people are too busy. And not just physically busy, but also busy mentally. And from this physical busyness and mental busyness comes an emotional turmoil. Which all leads to an inner unrest. It is a little shocking to me when professing Christians tell me they don't have 10 minutes a day to read God's Word because they are too busy. And I've had people tell me that. I'm too busy. I can't read my Bible 10 minutes a day. And it's just shocking to me that people would say that. But it's really the spirit of this age. This busyness or inner restlessness also has a tremendous effect on our prayer lives because our minds never seem to stop when we are caught up in the busyness of life and this problem does not look like it's getting any better but there's a vacuum that more and more people are getting sucked into some call it the rat race it's like this thing of just going and going and going but you're not going anywhere It's just like going in a circle and so many people are running from job to job, from social event to social event, from entertainment to entertainment. And it never stops. It is an endless circle. And Solomon tells us in the book of Ecclesiastes, what does he tell us? It's all vanity. It's all vanity. And even people in the world will tell you, there's something going on in our culture. I don't know, maybe it's in other cultures too, where people just seem to get busier and busier and busier, but they don't seem to get any more done than what they were getting done ten years ago, when they weren't as busy. And it's like the spirit of our age. People can't even sit for five minutes and just think, the TV has to be on, the computer has to be on, my phone has to be ringing, my radio has to be on, my whatever else has to be on. There's like this constant busyness. and there's no rest. Is rest, here's the question for you, that we can think about as we go through the sermon, is rest or the measure of rest calculated in our lives by the amount of activity that is in our lives? I would say that it is not, at least not on a spiritual level, Some may stop doing certain things and experience a certain amount of rest in the natural world. But be careful, because whatever the Bible speaks of in the spiritual realm, there is an imitation in the natural. When God promises us rest, he's not necessarily promising us that we will have less activity and more time to relax. However, I do believe that there is an aspect of that that is true. And what I mean by that is I think that people in my generation and younger have been taught that we have to have certain things and live at a certain level of what we call quality of life, which is simply not true. What it has produced is whole generations that are chasing the wind. They're chasing the wind, they're chasing happiness and everything but God. And what it produces is extreme restlessness and a hopelessness and a meaninglessness. We see that in our culture. Suicides getting more and more in younger people. Why is it? Because there's this hopelessness. You know why? Because they're being told that you can find something in this world if you chase it hard enough. If you look hard enough, you can find it. And people are chasing the wind. There's nothing there. People are running and running and running and are going nowhere. All they're doing is waiting. They're waiting just to go to hell. Just waiting in line. There's nothing here unless the Holy Spirit is in us. And I'm here to tell you that, especially the younger people. The world will lie to you and tell you there is something here. There's nothing here unless you're filled with the Holy Spirit. There's nothing here unless we are experiencing the love that is found in Jesus Christ. There's nothing here unless we fall down and worship before our great and awesome God. There's nothing here unless heaven is our hope. Oh, my friends, don't you see it? Sin and unbelief bring nothing but unrest. That's what these two chapters have been telling us over and over again. Sin and unbelief, which go arm in arm, lead to unrest. They lead to no happiness. hopelessness. That's what sin and unbelief lead to. If the door is our rest, then the door hinges on faith. Look in verse 2. For unto us was the gospel preached as well as unto them, but the word preached did not profit them, not being mixed with faith in them that heard it. Believe God's promises God has left us with His time of opportunity to trust Him. God has left us with His time of opportunity to trust Him. And to trust God simply means to trust His Word, to trust His promises. God has left us with promises. And if we will trust Him, He will give us rest. He will give us salvation. It is very simple. Do we believe that what God promises will come to pass. It's really that simple. Do you believe that what God promises will come to pass? Or do you not? That's the bottom line on all of our problems. For unto us, it says in verse 2, was the gospel preached? Well, we may say better that the hinges that I spoke of that are faith, they're faith in the gospel. Those who have believed the gospel do enter into rest. They do enter into rest. Look at verse 3, it says that. For we which have believed do enter into rest. Jesus said in Matthew, I'm sorry, 11, 28 through 30, he said, Come unto me, all ye that labor and are heavy laden, and I will give you rest. Take my yoke upon you and learn of me, for I am meek and lowly in heart, and you shall find rest unto your souls. For my yoke is easy, and my burden is light. Many desire rest, But it is nothing more than a want of relaxation. It is nothing more than a selfish desire for bodily or emotional relief from stress. The rest that God offers us is not a relief of activity or even to a degree a relief of stress. Although I do believe it is a relief of stress. But let me explain that. John Gill, let me read what he says about these verses here in Matthew that I just read. He says, These that Jesus is speaking here are those who groan, being burdened with the guilt of sin upon their consciences, and are pressed down with the unsupportable yoke of the law and the load of human traditions, and have been laboring till they are weary in order to obtain peace of conscience. and rest for their souls by the observance of these things, but in vain. These are encouraged to come to Him, lay down their burdens at His feet, look to and lay hold by faith upon His person, blood, righteousness, and sacrifice, when they enjoy that true spiritual consultation which could never be attained by the works of the law. The problem they had amongst the first century Jews, this is, that's the end of the quote, but the problem they had amongst the first century Jews and amongst the ones that the Hebrew writer is addressing, is that they were what? They were under the bondage of the law. They had the law, they had the law of Moses and they took and they used that law in a way that God never intended it necessarily and they used it and the Pharisees and the religious leaders used the law to put the burdens on the people to say this is what you have to do to make yourself righteous before God and those burdens were very heavy and they mixed in the traditions and they put a heavy burden on the people and that was mainly who Jesus is addressing to the writer that the Hebrews is addressing today in our culture it may be a little different maybe he was addressing them but the bondage of the law and the problem we have today is that many are caught in the bondage of lawlessness those involve the same weight of bondage how many people do we meet And in essence, what they are saying is that they have already come to Jesus. And they don't have rest. My friends, that is an impossibility. Unless Jesus... I don't even like to say it, but unless Jesus is a liar. For He said, come unto Me, all you that labor and heavy laden, and I will give you rest for your souls. So many people I meet, they say, I need rest. And I say, well, believe on Christ. They say, I already did that. I did that when I was 15 years old. I prayed to receive Jesus. I already did that. I need something else. Give me something else. Jesus says there is nothing else. Come unto Him and He will give rest for your souls. Jesus promises rest to those who come to Him. I don't have anything else to offer you for your unrest but Jesus. Oh, my great fear is that many have come to Jesus But it is not the Jesus of the Bible. It is not the Jesus of Hebrews 1.9 that we went over a few weeks ago that loves righteousness and hates iniquity. It's more the modern Jesus who loves me and wants to make my life better. Because don't you know that I am the center of the universe? Don't you know that I chose Him and I made Him Lord and Savior? Now He is obligated to love me and to make all of my problems go away. Don't you know that my whole life is based on my choices and my free will? And that God is at the mercy of my will? And if God doesn't do what I want, I will unchoose Him, just like I chose Him. Now that may be an extreme view that I'm portraying, but I don't think it's far from the truth. Most people's image of Jesus is nothing more than a timid man who is hoping that people will believe in him so his plan works out. Instead of the Jesus of the Bible, who is described as we read in Hebrews 1, 10-12, And thou, Lord, in the beginning laid the foundation of the earth, and the heavens are the works of thine hands. They shall perish, but thou remainest, and they shall wax old as does a garment. And as a vesture thou shalt fold them up, and they shall be changed. But thou art the same, and thy years shall not fail." I would say that we would come and worship, worship the Savior. Worship Him. He is sovereign over all. Come unto Him and find rest for your weary souls. Proverbs 13.15 says, the way of the transgressor is hard, but the way of sin and unbelief is very difficult. There is no true rest and joy and peace for the soul. But in Hebrews 4.3 and 4.9, it tells us that there is a rest. There is a rest for the people of God. What we see is that God has planned a rest for his people from the creation of the world. This rest was offered to the people who Moses led out of Egypt. It was offered to that generation that Joshua led into the promised land. And it was offered, as we read, to those who David ruled over. And in verse 8, jump down to verse 8, which we said is Joshua, but it says, this other day. Look at what it says there. Then would he not afterward have spoken of another day. What is this other day that he's speaking of? The other day is the new covenant that God would establish with his people. It is the dispensation of the gospel of Jesus Christ. If men of the Old Testament entered into God's rest, even though they may have been few, but how much more ought we, who are on this side of the cross of Christ, enter into His rest? My friends, I am here to proclaim that there is a rest that is given to the people of God. There is a rest that is given to the people of God. And in verse 1, look in verse 1, it's called His rest. His rest. Referring to God's rest. In verse 5, it is called my rest. And this is God speaking in the first person. Then again in verse 10, this rest is referred to as His rest. God is not in heaven Worried about what is going to happen next. God's not in heaven worrying about what is going to happen next. He already knows. And it is a matter of fact that not only does He know what will happen, but there is nothing that happens that is not in His sovereign will. I really believe it's what He's talking about when He's talking about from the foundation of the world that God created and rested. that God is in control. God is in no way restless, confused, or worried, or anything else that you can think of that might cause unrest. But God has perfect composure at all times. As an illustration, which maybe, follow me on this illustration, you know how you can often worry about money and you can be confused about what's going to happen in the future those are probably the two things we worry the most about and the two things that cause the most unrest, I guess we could say, in us would be the worry about money and the worry about what is going to happen in the future but think of that in a natural realm and then one day, say your uncle who owns a ranch with thousands of acres He has several large houses on the property, and he has an endless amount of money that he makes available to you. And he says, come, you and your family, and live with me. And you won't ever have to worry about anything. I know this illustration is weak in one sense, but now think. Think of this. Do you believe that God owns the universe? Do you believe that God is in control of everything that happens? And if you do, then you can place your trust in Him. You can place your trust in Him. He is in control. That is what it means by God's rest. God is at rest. I think somehow subconsciously we have this image of God that he's somehow in heaven trying to recalculate everything, trying to figure everything out, to put everything together. My friends, God is at perfect rest. He knows what will happen. He's preordained it. He's in sovereign control of everything. And we can partake of that rest if we trust his promises. Do we believe that about God? Or have we reduced God to Him being under our will, and He has to be under what we do, and then He kind of figures out what He's going to do after He sees what we do. I think that's our natural image, but it's not true. God is in control. Our will is in submission to His will, not the other way around. And many have unrest because they think that their will is superior to God's will. That somehow God's will has to fit into our will. But it's not. It's the other way around. And we can take great rest in knowing that God owns everything and He is in control of everything. And what He promises will come to pass. What He promises will come to pass. If you trust in Christ, you will have eternal life. There's no doubt. God promised it. And if you trust Him, He will give you the forgiveness of sins. On the same token, as we read in these chapters, as you continue in unbelief and rebellion in your own way, you will head towards destruction. God's promises are very clear and very true, and we can trust Him that what He says is true. It's the essence of faith. It's the essence of being saved. It's the essence of having true rest, is to know that what God promises is true, and that God is in control, and God owns everything. God made everything for a purpose, and I can rest and trust Him. I don't have to try to figure everything out in my brain, and I never will. I need to trust Him, and He'll show me, and guide me, and lead me in the way. In the same way, in the illustration that I gave, you would be entering into the rest, or what He has. But now think about God. He offers everything that is good to those who believe. God offers everything that is good to those who believe. The rest is not outside of Him. It's His rest. It's what it says in this chapter clearly. It says it's God's rest. The rest is not outside of God. It's His rest. First, do we believe that all things are God's and all things are in His control? And now, do you believe that He gives all good things to His children to share in? The wealth of His glory. God gives the wealth of His glory to His children. Do you believe that? If you do, your hope will be great. Because there's nothing that can take that away. This is God's rest. God is not running around in heaven trying to figure out what He'll do next. He is in perfect peace. He has all things in control. Do you believe that? If you do, you can enter into His rest, or you will enter into His rest, just trusting God and knowing Him. How do we know it's true? How do we know it's true? It's because of this other day. You see, in verse 8, it's because of this other day, this word day, actually means age or period of time in verse 8. And because of this, other day in verse 8, there remains therefore a rest to the people of God in verse 9. In the Old Testament, they were looking forward to this day. And now, blessed be the name of God, we look back on this day. Or we could say, we are living in this day. It is the period of time in which Jesus Christ came and was born of a virgin. He lived a sinless life. He suffered so terribly. He died on a cross, was buried in a tomb, rose forth from the grave and ascended at the right hand of God. What great confidence we can have in the truth. of God's Word when we see the great provision of Jesus Christ. Look at verse 8. I want to read it again. For if Joshua had given them rest, then he would not afterward have spoken of another day. They were looking for another day. Moses was looking for another day. Joshua was looking for another day. They were looking for that day. David was too. Read the Psalms, you'll see in between the lines that he's looking for another day. They're waiting for this day of when Christ will come. And now we can look back on it and have great rest and confidence. Anytime somebody argues with you that God is not good, whether they're an atheist or whatever they are, you can go to the cross and the argument ends. You go to the cross. and say, look what He did, look what Christ did, God condescended and became a man and suffered and died for us. We can have great confidence today that what God says is true. God promised, if you follow the Messianic promise to the Old Testament, God promised that Jesus Christ would come. And it's laid out hundreds of times in the Old Testament. And it's perfectly fulfilled in the New Testament in the life of Christ. Tell me one other prophet or supposed man of God that has done this. There's none. There is none but Jesus Christ. And we have a sure hope and confidence in Him that that's where rest comes from. I wanted you to see that that's the only place that we can truly get rest. It is in God. First, it's in knowing that God has all things in His hand and in His control and He owns all things and we can rest in Him. Secondly, it's this other day. And you see the sovereignty of God in these verses, but then you see the other day, which is Jesus Christ. This day that we look back to and the day that they looked forward to is Christ. We can have great confidence. I can know today that my sins, this is shocking to me, my sins cannot be yelled against me. God would be unjust if he held my sins against me because they've already been paid for by Christ. They can't be paid for twice. They've already been paid for. And that's shocking to me because it's just amazing and humbling to know that and have confidence in that what Christ has done for us and we have a rest that our sins are forgiven. We have a rest and a peace that God is that He will bring us to heaven because He promised it and we will have that ultimate salvation which is the losing of these flesh and the sin and having our glorified bodies what great confidence we can have in the truth of God's word when we see the great provision of Jesus Christ when we see the goodness of God in Jesus Christ and we see that God offers us all spiritual blessings in Christ Jesus. The rest that we have in Jesus Christ is an inner peace and joy. An inner peace and joy knowing all of my sins are forgiven. An inner peace and joy knowing that my destination is heaven. An inner peace and joy knowing that I don't have to have money and wealth and fame on this earth. because my reward is in heaven. And I would like to look also, what does rest look like? What does Christian rest look like? It comes from knowing that God is sovereign. It comes from knowing what Jesus Christ has done for us. But what does it look like outwardly? Verse 10, Pauline has entered into his rest he also hath ceased from his own works, as God did from his. 11 Let us labour therefore to enter into that rest, lest any man fall after the same example of unbelief." Let's look at those two verses, and you're going to see there's a contrast here between these two verses. And we're going to reconcile that by God's grace. Let's look in verse 10. This rest is a rest that has ceased from his own labors. Do you see that? If you have unrest, stop trying to do something to make yourself right with God. And look to Jesus Christ. If you have unrest and say, oh no, what am I going to do about my sin? I have this great sin. Stop. Look to Christ and see what He's done for you. See what he has done for you. Turn from your works. If you think there is one ounce of it that can merit you one thing before God, then this is the problem. This is your problem. And it is the problem with much of humanity. Is that they think that we naturally think we can fix ourselves. Me and Michelle were talking to this girl yesterday, who I've talked to several times, and her situation is very distressing. The problems that she's had in her life, I've never faced, and I don't know if many of us have. She's faced very distressful things, and yet I asked her yesterday, I said, do you think that you can fix yourself? And she said yes. She said, I really do believe I can fix myself, and she went on for a few minutes. telling us how she could, and I thought, wow. That's the problem with humanity. We think we can fix ourselves when we can't. The Bible's saying, stop in verse 10. Turn from your own works. Cease from your own works. But we naturally think we can fix ourselves when we can't. A portion of the Hebrews were turning back, in this context, a portion of these Hebrews were turning back or never left trying to make themselves righteous by keeping the law. I don't believe anyone is exempt from that way of thinking. Religious or non-religious, every person on earth is doing one of two things. They're trying to justify themselves or they found their justification in Jesus Christ. There's just nothing else. I mean, some may have seared their conscience, but that had to happen over a process of time. At one time they were trying to fix themselves, they were trying to adjust themselves, but make no mistake about it, this is the human condition. Self-justification. But we can stop trying to justify ourselves when we find our justification in Jesus Christ. Galatians 2.16 says, knowing that a man is not justified by the works of the law, but by the faith of Jesus Christ. Even we have believed in Jesus Christ. that we might be justified by the faith of Christ and not by the works of the law, for by the works of the law shall no flesh be justified." And I've been over this in past weeks, but I think it's a very good point, but like in Romans 3.28, what does it say? We're therefore justified by faith without works. Titus 3.5, not by works of righteousness which we have done. Galatians 2.16, he says it three times in one verse, not by works, not by works, not by works. My friends, to come to Christ, you must turn from your works. Because every single person is working their way to heaven, whether they realize it or not. You must turn from those works. And I think even as believers, we can slip into going back As some of these Hebrews did that were still born again, I believe. They can go back to their works. Go back to the system of trying to make myself right with God. And it's very dangerous. It's very dangerous and there's no rest there. But there's rest in Christ and there's rest in leaving our own works. And leaving what we have done and seeing what Christ has done. But what does that mean? Does that mean that we just stop working? Does that mean we just stop doing activity? And that's where the rest is found? When we find this rest in Christ and turn from our works, what does it look like? Does that mean that we're going to just stay home and sit on the couch and do nothing and say, wow, God gave me rest. I don't have to do anything. I would say differently. Look at the 11th verse. Let us labor therefore to enter into that rest Does any man fall short after the same example of unbelief? Verse 10 tells us to cease from our works. Does that mean that we should do nothing? I would say no. But to cease, actually, look at what it says in 10 now. Look a little closer. It doesn't say to cease from works. It says to cease from his own works. So we're not to cease from works, we're to cease from our own works. It says, deceased from one's own works. You are deceased from your works, but you are not deceased from the works that are done by God in us. For the works that are done by God in us will bring greater degrees of rest. Go to 1 Corinthians chapter 15. Let's look at this word labor. Paul uses it here in 1 Corinthians 15. This is in verse 9, For I am the least of the apostles, and am not meet to be called an apostle, because I persecuted the church. Look at verse 10, But by the grace of God I am what I am, and His grace which was bestowed upon me was not in vain, but I labored more abundantly than all, yet not I, but the grace of God which was with me." The grace of God. God has called His people to labor. He has not given us certain commands, such as to pray, to stay in the Word, to preach the Gospel, to make disciples, to edify the saints, All of these things are very laborious. There's much labor involved and much work. And can be physically wearisome. But from obedience to the commands of our Lord, comes great peace and joy to the believer. Do you want assurance and peace? Obey Jesus. Do what Jesus says. Obey Him. And from obedience, and faith comes great assurance because the believer obeys because of love. And because of verse 10, he has given up his own works and from this obedience comes a greater love. When a son loves his father, he is obedient to his father. And through that obedience, his love is strengthened. And really that's what a parent wants from his child. I want my child to obey me. Why? Because he loves me and respects me. But that love and respect is built by obedience. By obedience. And that takes work. But there may be another son who is only obedient because of fear of punishment. And that son's obedience may produce resentment. so we see that there is rest and it is not based on the amount or the lack of activity it is not based on the lack or the amount of activity that we are doing but it is based on motives for one man may be doing much labor and work and have great rest and another man may do a little labor and be very restless Let's look at this in verse 12. Now, we'll come back to verse 12 next week. But look at verse 12. Verse 12 is connected to verse 11 for the word FOR. For the word of God is quick and powerful and sharper than a two-edged sword, piercing even to the dividing asunder of the soul and spirit, and of the joints and marrow, and is a discerner of the thoughts and the intents of the heart. This last part of the verse says, it is a discerner of the thoughts and the intents of the heart. And verse 12 is a continuation of the thought in verses 10 and 11. We see that with this connecting word for. And at the beginning of 12, rest is, I mean at the end of 12, rest is a state of the heart. The intentions and thoughts of the heart. Rest is not based on what I am doing or the amount of what I am doing, but it is based on what I do. It's definitely important as far as what I do, because I must obey Christ and His commands. I'm not saying that what I do is not important, but what you'll find is where you will find rest. is by what motivates you. What are the motives and intentions of your heart? If the motives and intentions of your heart are to please God and to love God, you will find great rest in the things you do. And you know what will happen? You'll become like the Apostle Paul. Well, we won't become like the Apostle Paul like he was. He was used in a special way, but we'll have that same spirit. We'll be able to labor and labor and labor until we're dead tired, but we'll have great rest because of the motives and intentions and the Word of God searches our motives and intentions. We need to lay before God and say, God, search me. Allow the Word of God and say, God, I need your Word to search my heart. Why am I doing what I'm doing? I can go to church, I can go witnessing, I can feed the poor, I can give my money, and it can be meaningless if the motives are not right. Or I could be serving my elderly parents at home, helping them, and sharing the gospel with my neighbor who lives next door to me. These things may seem very menial and God, but if they're done because of a love for God, and because of a true love for others, then they have great profit. And that person will have rest under their souls. And the reverse is true. Somebody may be doing much, much, much labor, like the Apostle Paul, and have great rest. Or someone may do little labor that looks like, and they have great unrest. So the degree, it's not the degree of our activity, But if someone has a great amount of unrest in their heart, in their lives, I would say, check your heart. Why are you doing what you're doing? Even in doing the things that may seem secular in one sense, as far as like going to school, or going to work, although I don't believe anything is secular for the Christian. But even in things like that, I should go to school to glorify God. I should go to work for His glory. And because I love Him. And that is the difference between those who have rest and those who do not have rest. Unrest is because of an improper motive of the heart. And we all need to. I believe it's the most important thing for the Christian is to ask, why do I do what I do? Why do I do what I do? And if it's because of what Christ has done for me, I will have great rest. If it's for some other reason, you'll never find rest for your souls. But praise God, He's given us great rest in Him. It is His rest. It is His rest. Rest is not based on what I am doing or the amount of what I am doing, but it is based on a love for God and a true love for others. And then we'll be able to labor truly in God's kingdom. So let's pray. Father, I thank you for this word. I praise you for the rest that you offer us, God. I praise you that you have so evidently shown it to us, God, and that we can trust you and know that your word is true. I think of the saints of the Old Testament that didn't have the full canon of Scripture. They didn't have the day of Pentecost yet. They trusted you, and oh Lord, I pray that we would trust you today, because God, you are trustworthy, and I pray that that rest would be on us, Lord, that we would see you, Lord Jesus, and what you've done for us, and that our motives and intentions would be right, and we would find rest for our souls. I just praise you, Lord Jesus, that you are that great example for us, as you said, to come unto me, all ye that labor and heavy laden, as I will give you rest. I thank you and praise you in Jesus' name. Amen.