Gods Sabbath

C HAPTER 4

Laboring to Enter God’s Rest

Paul’s Understanding of Hebrews P aul was an apostle with an uncommonly broad and deep un derstanding of heavenly matters. Consequently, he was a most effective teacher of the truth, and a successful winner of souls. His influence did not terminate with his death, for his writings live on as glorious illuminations to inspire, uplift, and save men, women, and children till the close of time. Upon what ever subject Paul wrote or taught, a light was cast which opened up the glory and power resident in that truth. This gives us a foretaste of the heavenly experience when, untrammelled by the limitations of sinful humanity, the redeemed shall explore the most profound mysteries in the universe. It is in the first chapters of Hebrews, that Paul’s insights about entering God’s rest are explored. Through Paul’s words, the real significance of God’s Sabbath rest is opened to the spir itually receptive mind. The message on the true nature of the Sabbath is so developed, that not only are we introduced to what Sabbath-keeping really is, but we are also shown its crit ical role in concluding the great controversy and the reasons for the long delay in so doing. These views of the Sabbath will lead

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