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John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
INTRODUCTION TO Hebrews 4 From the punishment inflicted on the unbelieving Hebrews, who died in the wilderness, and entered not into the land of rest made mention of in the preceding chapter, the apostle proceeds to caution the present Hebrews of his time, and who professed faith in Christ, lest seeing there was a rest, and a promise of entering...
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
Let us therefore fear,.... Not with a fear of wrath and damnation; nor with a fear of diffidence and distrust of the power, grace, and goodness of God; but with a cautious fear, a godly jealousy, a careful circumspection, and watchfulness: lest a promise being left [us] of entering into his rest; not the land of Canaan, the type of heaven, but...
Matthew Henry - Complete Commentary - Matthew Henry
The apostle, having in the foregoing chapter set forth the sin and punishment of the ancient Jews, proceeds in this, I. To declare that our privileges by Christ under the gospel exceed the privileges of the Jewish church under Moses, as a reason why we should make a right improvement of them, ver. 1-4. II. He assigns the cause why the ancient...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Let us therefore fear, lest, a promise being left us of entering into his rest, any of you should seem to come short of it. If you avoid the very seeming of it, you will avoid the thing itself. Oh! that we were careful about this — that there was nothing that should give any reasonable fear to those who observed us, or to ourselves when we search...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Let us therefore fear, lest, a promise being left us of entering into his rest any of you should seem to come short of it. Not only dread coming short, but dread the very appearance of it. Oh, that we might now enter into that rest, and so clearly enjoy it that there should not even be a seeming to come short of it.
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
For unto us was the Gospel preached,.... The Gospel is the good news and glad tidings of salvation by Christ; and this may be said to be preached, when men preach not themselves, nor read lectures of morality, nor mix law and Gospel together, nor make justification and salvation to be by works, nor set persons to make their peace with God, or get...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
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. It must be mixed with faith. There are many drugs that are of no value till they are mixed with something else; and the Word preached becomes of no value to a soul until it is mixed with faith in...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
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. They were not united to it by faith; consequently, as they did not receive the Word, it was taken away from them.
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
For we which have believed do enter into rest,.... Not eternal rest; all believers shall enjoy this, and they only; but this is not now, or at present enjoyed, unless things future may be said to be present, because of faith in them, and the certainty of them but spiritual rest in Christ under the Gospel dispensation, which is a rest from the...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
For we which have believed do enter into rest, as 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. I leave out the intermediate words for the time being. “There is a rest.”
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
For we which have believed do enter into rest. Faith brings us into this rest, even as unbelief shut them out. Heb_4:3. As 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. That is God’s rest, the rest of a finished work, and into that rest many never enter....
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
For he spake in a certain place,.... Genesis 2:2 that is, Moses, the penman of that book spoke, or God by him: of the seventh day on this wise; of the seventh day of the world, or from the creation of the heavens and the earth: and God did rest the seventh day from all his works: of creation, but not of providence; for in them he works hitherto;...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
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. There are many professing Christians who do not understand what it is to rest because the work of salvation is done; they do not even seem to know that the work is done....
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
And in this place again,.... In Psalms 95:11 he speaks again of another rest distinct from that on the seventh day; which, and not the latter, is what believers under the Gospel dispensation enter into: if they shall enter into my rest: that is, unbelievers shall not enter into it; as the unbelieving Israelites did not enter into the typical rest,...
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
Seeing therefore it remaineth,.... It follows by just consequence, that some must enter therein; for God's swearing concerning some, that they should not enter into his rest, supposes that others should: and they to whom it was first preached; to whom the Gospel was first preached, namely, the Israelites in the wilderness: entered not in because...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
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 limiteth a certain day saying in David, Today after so long a time; as it is said, Today if ye will hear the voice, harden not your hearts. For if Jesus had given them rest then would he not afterward...
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
Again he limiteth a certain day,.... Since the seventh day of the creation was a day of rest which God entered into, and not man; and since the land of Canaan was a typical rest, which the unbelieving Israelites did not enter into, because of unbelief; and yet there must be persons, and there must be a time for them to enter into the true rest...
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
For if Jesus had given them rest,.... That is, Joshua; for Hosheah, Joshua, and Jesus, are one and the same name; or Jesus himself, as two of Stephens's copies read; and so Joshua is called Jesus by the Septuagint interpreters on Exodus 17:10 and other places where he is mentioned; and also, by Josephus (h), and Philo (i) the Jew. The Syriac...
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
Ver. 9 There remaineth therefore a rest for the people of God.] Not all mankind; nor the people of the Jews only; rather the people of God, both Jews and Gentiles, under the New Testament; the people whom God has loved with a special love, has chose in Christ, and given to him, with whom he has made a covenant in him, and whom Christ saves from...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
There remaineth therefore a rest to the people of God. This exposition consisted of readings from Hebrews 3; Heb_4:1-9.