Day 36 The Family Altar February 5

Whom shall he teach knowledge? and whom shall he make to understand
doctrine? them that are weaned from the milk, and drawn from the breasts. For
precept must be upon precept, precept upon precept; line upon line, line upon line;
here a little, and there a little: For with stammering lips and another tongue will he
speak to this people. To whom he said, This is the rest wherewith ye may cause the
weary to rest; and this is the refreshing: yet they would not hear. (Isaiah 28:9-12)
Now, my Adventist brother, I want to ask you something. That's exactly right.
The Sabbath, that's kind of a strange word. The Sabbath really is a Hebrew
word which means r-e-s-t, rest. It's a rest day, Sabbath day; you quit working
and so forth. God finished His work, and never did come back no more.
Hebrews 4 speaks of it there, "for God did rest on the Sabbath day. And He said in
a certain place, another time, in David, 'Today after so long a time when you hear
His voice, harden not your heart.' Then if Jesus would've given them another
Sabbath, He'd have afterwards spoke of it. But there remaineth a Sabbath keeping
to the people of God, for we which have entered into His rest, have ceased from our
works like God did from His."
When do we enter into His rest? Now, you with the pencils, turn with me to Isaiah
28:8 to 12. Here's where you get it, precept must be upon precept; line upon line;
here a little, and there a little. Hold fast to that which is good. For with stammering
lips and with other tongues will I speak to this people. And this is the Sabbath, this
is the rest that I said would come. And for all this they would not hear, walk away
wagging their heads and so forth.
He said that the seal of the finish of salvation, Luther, justification, Wesley,
sanctification; but when the Sabbath come, the real rest day, it would be when
"stammering lips and other tongues will I speak to this people," and this is the
finished work. Hallelujah. This is the seal. This is the Sabbath.
Don't you see, it's the Holy Ghost, brother. That's when you enter into the finished
work. If you've just been justified, that's all right, that's good. If you've been
sanctified, that's good. But when you receive the Holy Ghost, it's a finished work,
and God has completed His plan of salvation, and sealed it with the baptism of the
Holy Ghost. Amen. Oh, my. How many believes it? The Holy Ghost in every place
in the Bible is a finished work. And God completed His work.
Daily Reading: Genesis 34, 1 Chronicles 28, Isaiah 28:1-13, Matthew 23:1-22