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Underneath, much of the works and activity of the church is birthed from the will of man.

In Western society such characteristics as ambition, initiative, and independence are
viewed as strong and desirable virtues. Humility, patience, meekness and dependence upon
another are considered to be weak qualities. The church has adopted this mindset as well.
The church desires to be attractive, majestic, and to have great stature in the world. These
were not qualities of Yahshua, nor are they qualities that are the need of the church in this
hour. The church needs to adorn itself with humility (I Peter 5:5), to become lowly in its
own eyes where it will no longer presume to guide and direct itself. Only through abasing
itself before Yahweh will the church enter into the Sabbath rest to which it has been called.
Our problem is a problem of competing kingdoms. What is esteemed in the kingdom
of this world is despised in the kingdom of God (Luke 16:15). Yahshua was rejected by His
own people, but in the kingdom of God He was highly esteemed and has sat down at the
right hand of power next to His Father. It is similarly those who will look beyond the
present and temporal kingdoms of man to the eternal kingdom of God who will adorn
themselves with humility and who will cease from their own labors.
As we are poised to enter the seventh day of man, this is the call of the hour. Will you
cease from doing as your soul desires? Will you seek to know the mind of Yahweh and do
His whole will?

Hebrews 4:1-11
Therefore, let us fear lest, while a promise remains of entering His rest, any one of
you should seem to have come short of it... For He has thus said somewhere
concerning the seventh day "And God rested on the seventh day from all His works";
and again in this passage "They shall not enter My rest." Since therefore it remains
for some to enter it, and those who formerly had good news preached to them failed
to enter because of disobedience, He again fixes a certain day, "Today," saying
through David after so long a time just as has been said before, "Today if you hear
His voice, do not harden your hearts..." There remains therefore a Sabbath rest for
the people of God. For the one who has entered His rest has himself also rested from
his works, as God did from His. Let us therefore be diligent to enter that rest, lest
anyone fall through following the same example of disobedience.

Yes, there remains a Sabbath rest for the people of God. Not all will enter in. We are
exhorted to be diligent to enter that rest. To fail to do so is to fail to accomplish the Father’s
will for us.
Will you be content with less than the will of God for your life? Don’t make the
mistake of many in the church and think that the Sabbath is merely one day out of seven
in which man is prohibited from performing physical labor. Sabbath is the heart of the
Father’s desire for mankind. Sabbath is a state of rest where man returns to union with the
Father; where man finds his purpose and reason for living in the revealed will of Yahweh
God. Sabbath is a place where man ceases from his own work and activity, from his own
thoughts and plans.
Sabbath is the inheritance, the promised land set before the saints of God. Let us be
diligent to enter into our inheritance. May Yahweh have a people that live to accomplish all
His will.