REST AT LAST
INTRODUCTION: THE APOSTLE PAUL ADDRESSED THE ISSUE OF FALSE TEACHERS WITHIN THE CHURCH AT ROME.
SPIRITUAL INSIGHT: ROMANS 16:20 (NKJV) AND THE GOD OF PEACE WILL CRUSH SATAN UNDER YOUR FEET SHORTLY. THE GRACE OF OUR LORD JESUS CHRIST BE WITH YOU. AMEN.
YOUR LORD AND SAVIOR HAS ALWAYS PROMOTED PEACE. THE CONFLICT BEGAN IN THE GARDEN OF EDEN (GENESIS 3:15). THE TERM “BRUISING HIM ON THE HEEL” MEANS TO SUBDUE, TO GAIN VICTORY OVER”. THIS SPEAKS TO ULTIMATELY SUBDUING SATAN IN THE END TIME. ISAIAH 9:6. (NKJV) FOR UNTO US A CHILD IS BORN UNTO US A SON IS GIVEN; AND THE GOVERNMENT WILL BE UPON HIS SHOULDER. AND HIS NAME WILL BE CALLED WONDERFUL, COUNSELOR, MIGHTY GOD, EVERLASTING FATHER, PRINCE OF PEACE. REVELATION 12:10 (NKJV) THEN I HEARD A LOUD VOICE SAYING IN HEAVEN, NOW SALVATION, AND STRENGTH, AND THE KINGDOM OF OUR GOD, AND THE POWER OF HIS CHRIST HAVE COME, FOR THE ACCUSER OF OUR BRETHREN, WHO ACCUSED THEM BEFORE OUR GOD DAY AND NIGHT, HAS BEEN CAST DOWN.
THE TROUBLEMAKERS WERE PROBABLY JUDAISTS PURPORTING SELFISHNESS, FALSE DOCTRINES, DECEPTION AND SELFISH AGENDAS. THESE ISSUES PAUL ADDRESSED AND MUST BE ADDRESSED IN THE CONTEMPORARY CHURCH!
APPLICATION: ECCLESIASTES 1:9 (NLT) HISTORY MERELY REPEATS ITSELF. IT HAS ALL BEEN DONE BEFORE. NOTHING UNDER THE SUN IS TRULY NEW. CONTINUE A GOOD FIGHT, BELIEVER. THE DAY OF THE LORD IS NEAR AND YOU WILL FIND YOUR REST!
