GoD's WorK - God's Puzzle Solved

284 God’s Work“word” “today” obviously refers to this whole period of humanexistence where God’s Holy Spirit is available to humanity - justas “the spirit” was available for Adam and Eve to eat The Treeof Life - and then to live on in God’s Seventh Day – FOREVER.In The Book of Hebrews, Paul defines true Sabbath-keepers in amanner that is different from those who observe the legal requirementof The Letter of The Law. Rather, Paul reveals a spiritualprocess that operates by faith and hope - with Christ “in them.”Paul said that you had better fear, because you would not want tomiss out on entering into His rest. This is God’s promise concerningNew Jerusalem (Hebrews 4:1). In this case, the Greekword for “rest” is not speaking about the literal Seventh Day butrather concerns “the rest” which Christians are presently residingin, as long as Christ is “in them” (Colossians 1:27). In Strong’sConcordance, the Greek word for “rest” is “katapausis” (#2663).The prefix “kata” is concerned with “to be.” The word “pausis”has the same meaning as the English word “to pause” or “stop.”The word “katapausis” means something that for Christians, canbe summed up as: “Christians find rest ‘or literally’ stop to pausein something.” This rest is His “rest” or God’s “rest” - as revealedin Hebrews 4:1-3. The word “rest” in Verse 3 is also “katapausis,”which continues where Paul said that it was God’s rest- when God finished His “work.” God is revealing the true Sabbathmeaning to you in this section of text. When Christians arebaptized in Christ, they are dead like Christ (Romans 7:6), butnow they are no longer under the dominance of The Law or death.They are in Christ and therefore, in God’s rest - just as Adam andEve on that first Seventh Day when salvation was made availableto them.Many MisunderstandMany misunderstand this form of rest because the word in Greek