Gods Sabbath

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E NTERING INTO G OD ’ S S ABBATH R EST

From the moment they called for the twelve spies and thus re jected God as their Plan Maker, to the very last act in the dra ma, the Israelites were blind to the real cause of all their troub les. They had no concept of the critical relationship between God’s general and specific orders. They did not know the differ ence between God’s works and their own, nor did they under stand that faith without God’s works is dead and therefore total ly ineffective.

The Only Possible Alternative

In no sense did God deprive Israel of their inheritance, for the sentence handed down to them was not His arbitrary decree. It was simply the best He could do for them under the circumstan ces. By their lack of faith in Him as their Plan Maker and their refusal to learn His ways, they had rendered themselves incapa ble of entering the promised land. Blindly ignorant of God’s ways and determined to follow their own, they could not work in co operation with Him. Therefore, God knew that to direct them to

Two Conclusions

Wrong conclusion:

Right conclusion:

So much human plan-making had not solved the problem

A certain amount of human devising had generated a proportion ate amount of trouble

More of human plan-making will solve it

More of the same devising would only make matters worse