Hebrews 4:1, “The promise to enter the place of rest is still good..”
Rest: κατάπαυσις or katapausis. It means “a putting to rest” or “calming of the winds.”
Kata means “to diffuse.”
-Pausis or the root, pauo, means:
- to make to cease or desist
- to restrain a thing or person from something
- to cease, to leave off
So, when 2 Cor. 5:17 says, “Therefore if any man [be] in Christ, [he is] a new creature: old things are passed away; behold, all things are become new.” The old intrinsic man or nature, Col. 2:14, Obliterated blog, is passing away and really not there in Christ. The new man, Christ in us, the hope of glory, is diffused into every particle and fiber of our existence by grace.
This diffusion creates God’s rest in us! Rest from all dead works, legalistic sacrifices and self-imposed law. This rest says I do not need approval from man because Christ is my righteousness and right standing with God the Father. In this rest, I am not compelled to leave sacrifices even at the altar of my heart because all of the law has been fulfilled for the Jew and abolished for the Gentile. This abolition created by one man created One New Man, Christ Jesus, the Last Adamic pattern for man, Eph. 2:14-16. So, that we can live and walk in the Spirit and live by His faith us all the time in His rest.
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