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XXXII.
GIVE DILIGENCE TO ENTER INTO THE REST.
IV.—11. Let us, therefore, give diligence to enter into that rest, that no
man fall after the same example of disobedience.
Our Epistle is intensely practical. How it detains and holds us
fast in hope of persuading us not to be content with the knowledge
or the admiration of its teaching, but personally to listen
to the message it brings from God by the Holy Ghost, and
indeed do the thing God would have us do—enter into His rest.
Let us give diligence to enter into that rest.
Let us give diligence. The word means, Make haste—be
in earnest, put your whole heart into it, see that you do it ; enter
into the rest. That no man fall after the same example of
disobedience. The danger is imminent—the loss will be terrible.
God has sworn in His wrath that unless we hearken and
obey, we shall not enter His rest. Let us give diligence to
enter in.
All the wonderful teaching the Epistle contains farther
on, as to the Holiest that is opened for us as the place where
God wants to receive us into His rest and live, as to the great
High Priest who has opened the way and entered in and lives as
our Joshua to bring us in, will profit us nothing, unless there be
the earnest desire, the willing readiness, the firm resolve, to