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The Daily Word of Righteousness
Seven Steps to the Rest of God, #38
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. (Hebrews 4:1)
To enter the promised-land rest of God we must experience the working of the body and blood of Christ in our personality.
We must repent and be baptized in water, entering by faith into the death and into the resurrection of Christ.
We must be born again of the Spirit of God. Christ must be born in us. God seals us with His Holy Spirit as a guarantee that He will bring us into full redemption, including the immortalizing and glorifying of our mortal body.
Christ baptizes us with the Holy Spirit so we shall possess the power to bear witness of His death and resurrection, and the power to overcome the world, Satan, and our lusts and self-centeredness.
After we have been brought this far in the program of salvation, the King comes to us personally to put under His feet His enemies that are in us and to bring us into the place in God where He Himself dwells.
Now we go through a prolonged and trying period of perplexity, deferred hope, frustration, and every other form of tribulation and suffering. All these are part of the Divine judgment on us so every element of our personality may be brought into subjection to Christ.
After all of our personality has been brought into subjection to Jesus, there still remains the breaking down of our resistance to the Lord's desire that we be one with Him. Heart is pressed against heart until there is a new person who is one with Jesus. Such uniting may entail a period of darkness and a seeming loss of all that has been gained.
Finally we enter the promised-land rest of God. The Fullness of God abides in us and we abide in the Fullness of God. God is at rest in us and we are at rest in God. We have become the chariot of God.
We have been created the servants and sons of the most high God. We shall see the Face of the Father and His name will be in our foreheads. We shall bear a true witness of God throughout the eternity of eternities. We shall reign over the works of God's hands forever.
He who overcomes shall inherit all these things and God shall be his God, and he shall be God's son. (from Seven Steps to the Rest of God)