Hebrews 4:9-11

We must cease trying to earn salvation and rest in the knowledge that in Christ alone and in His work on the cross we will find rest. We need to let the Holy Spirit do His perfect sanctifying work in us. We will succeed if we keep the gift of faith given to us by the Father.


Jews commonly taught that the Sabbath foreshadowed the world to come, and they spoke of “a day which shall be all Sabbath.” The rest is not automatic. Determined diligence is required. The danger is that believers today, like the Israelites of the past, will not stand, but fall in disobedience.

4:9 There remains therefore a rest for the people of God. 10 For he who has entered His rest has himself also ceased from his works as God did from His. 11 Let us therefore be diligent to enter that rest, lest anyone fall according to the same example of disobedience.