The Rest of God - Week 3
Description
Biblical rest is not about exhaustion but the completion of God's purpose, seen in five key moments throughout Scripture. Solomon's Temple represents a pivotal point in this pattern, where God's rest and reign came together in a permanent dwelling place. This divine pattern—chaos subdued, work completed, God enthroned—foreshadows Jesus Christ, the ultimate temple where God's presence dwells fully. When we live under God's reign, we experience His true rest, no longer striving in our own strength but living from His finished work, in His presence, toward His promised future.
Biblical rest is not inactivity but the completion of God's purpose and the establishment of His reign.
God's pattern of rest (chaos subdued, work completed, God enthroned) is consistent throughout Scripture and applies to our personal salvation.
The temple, like creation and the tabernacle before it, was a foreshadowing of Jesus Christ, the true temple where God's presence rests permanently.
Many Christians struggle because they're holding onto sin rather than surrendering to God's rest and reign.
God desires to rest with us more than we desire to rest with Him, and He invites us into supernatural rest that our finite minds cannot fully comprehend.



