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fretting, frustration and confusion, that’s proof that I need rest. If I
have peace and happiness and satisfaction and if I have joy and
calmness, that is the fruit of rest. That is not rest. Peace is not the
same as rest. If you have rest, the by-product will be peace. If we
are resting in the Lord, the by-product will be joy. God does not
give us Jesus and something else called “joy”. He doesn’t give us
Jesus and something else called “peace”. He only gives us Jesus. If
we have Him, we’ll have joy. If we have Him, we’ll have peace.

As you go on in the Lord we must learn not to chase after by-
products. If I seek Jesus I’ll have peace. If I seek peace I’ll have
frustration. If I seek the will of God, I will never find the will of
God. If I seek the God whose will it is, I will have the will of God.
In everything we must seek the Lord; not the book of God but the
God whose book it is; not the people of God but the God whose
people they are; not the will of God but the God whose will it is. So,
I want to begin by describing what rest is.

Please follow these verses, Hebrews 4:4, “For He has thus said
somewhere concerning the seventh day, ‘And God rested on the
seventh day from all His works.’” Hebrews 4:9&10, “There remains
therefore a Sabbath rest for the people of God. For the one who has
entered His rest has himself also rested from his works, as God did
from His.” 4:10 says that God rested. If I can understand what it
means that God rested, perhaps I can understand what it means for
me to rest. As God rested we must rest. Let me begin with what it
means that God rested.

Hebrews 4:4, “For He has thus said somewhere concerning the
seventh day, ‘And God rested on the seventh day from all His
works.’” The Holy Spirit says that after six days of creation God
rested. I know what that does not mean. It doesn’t mean that God
quit working and now He works no more. John 5:17, “But He
answered them, ‘My Father is working until now, and I Myself am
working.’” It doesn’t mean that God was exhausted and weary after
He finished. Isaiah 40:28, “Do you not know? Have you not heard?
The Everlasting God, the Lord, the Creator of the ends of the earth