Entering God's Rest — Dale Yocum

The Promise of Entering God's Rest

Together for the reading of the word this morning, and it's found in the book of Hebrews, beginning in chapter 3 and continuing in chapter 4. Hebrews 3, beginning to read at verse 18, continuing through the 4th chapter.

He says, "...to whom swear he that they should not enter into his rest, but to them that believe not. So we see that they could not enter in because of unbelief. Let us therefore fear lest the promise being left us of entering into his rest, any of you should seem to come short of it.

For unto us was the gospel preached as well as unto them, but the word preached did not profit them, not being mixed with faith in them that heard it. For we which have believed do enter into rest, as he said, as I have sworn in my wrath, that they shall enter into my rest, although the works were finished from the foundation of the world.

For he spake in a certain place of the seventh day on this wise, and God did rest the seventh day from all his works. And in this place, again, they shall enter into my rest. Seeing therefore it remaineth that some must enter therein, and they to whom it was first preached entered not in because of unbelief.".

Again, he limits it to a certain day, saying in David, "...today, after so long a time, as it is said today, if ye will hear his voice, pardon not your heart. For if Jesus," that is, Joshua, "...had given them rest, then would he not afterward have spoken of another day.

There remaineth therefore a rest to the people of God. For he that is entered into his rest, he also hath ceased from his own works, as God did from his.". Let us labor, therefore, to enter into that rest, lest any man fall after the same example of unbelief.

For the word of God is quick and powerful and sharper than any two-edged sword, piercing even to the dividing asunder of soul and spirit and of the joints and marrow, and is a discerner of the thoughts and intents of the heart.

Neither is there any creature that is not manifest in his sight, but all things are naked and opened unto the eyes of him with whom we have to do. Seeing then that we have a great High Priest that is passed into the heavens, Jesus, the Son of God, let us hold fast our profession.

We have not a High Priest who cannot be touched with the feeling of our infirmities, but was in all points tempted like as we are, yet without sin. Let us therefore come boldly unto the throne of grace, that we may obtain mercy and find grace to help in time of need.

Prayer for Believers to Enter the Rest of Christ

Blessed Redeemer, we worship and adore thee together this morning. Thy name is wonderful. We adore thee. We magnify thee. You have done so much for us, unworthy as we were when you found us. You have made us kings and priests, and to our God we shall reign with thee forever and ever.

Oh, what we taste this morning is only the smallest foretaste of what we hope for and expect and fully have confidence in, that thou art preparing for us and the ages to be unveiled in the future. How we praise thee, Lord, that you set your love upon us who were sinners, who were lost, who were rebels.

You won us with your love. You have captivated us with your charm. You have led us unerringly by your Spirit. You have provided for us out of your unwasting sustenance. You have given us so much more than we ever could have found in the world.

You have supplied our need. You have replaced the power of sin by the power of your love and the power of your Spirit. You are with us this morning. You are interceding for us at the right hand of the Father.

You have given the Holy Spirit, the divine comforter, to live within our hearts. We are thy children. We are joint heirs with thee. We are inheritors of all things present and all things to come. We glorify thy holy name.

We are rich. We are the children of the King this morning, and we praise thy name for it all. Yet there are some in this company who have not entered into the riches of thy resources. They are not resting in the finished work of Jesus Christ.

They are troubled. They are struggling. They are defeated. They are frustrated. They are discouraged. We pray, Lord, that thou would make this Word to be alive this morning. There is a rest for the people of God.

May they do diligence. May they make haste to cease from their own struggling, from their own labor, and enter into the rest that has been finished from the foundation of the world and is available to those who have entered by faith today.

May we be a people of rest in the midst of a tumultuous world. May we have that rest in the heart that shows on the countenance, that shows in our conversation, that shows in our disposition, that while the world rages and is full of turmoil about us, we may have the rest of God within our hearts imparted to those that are hungry today.

Fill them even while they are sitting in their seats with that faith that takes hold of thy Word, thy rest that is finished and finalized and completed up to date and available in this very hour today.

We are trusting thee for this, and we give thee praise for this in the adorable name of our Savior, our Christ, our coming Redeemer. Amen. Hallelujah. Glory be to God. You may be seated. There is a rest for the people of God.

God's Rest Is Already Provided

There is a rest that has been finished from before the foundation of the world for the people of God. It's amazing how many are not entering into this rest, as if they had to work for it, they had to pay for it, they had to design and finish it.

It's already finished, it's already available, it's already provided. But as was true in the Old Testament time, it's so true today that because of an unbelieving heart, many are falling short of this rest.

I was one time riding on an airplane, my first commercial flight on an aircraft from San Francisco to Kansas City. This was many years ago. It was an old propeller-driven aircraft, and it took most of the day to get from San Francisco to Kansas City.

I had spent practically all the money I had to get my ticket, rode all night long. At breakfast time the next morning, the stewardess came out serving breakfast to those who wanted it. She came to me and said, Would you like your breakfast now?

I said, No, thank you, ma 'am. I didn't have enough money to buy a breakfast. So I passed by the opportunity for breakfast and watched the other people around me eating their hot biscuits and honey and bacon and eggs.

It smelled so good and it looked so good. I was so hungry and I pined away for my breakfast, but I had spent my money for a ticket and I thought, Well, this is one time I'll discipline myself and not buy a breakfast.

But it really smelled good. It really was nice-looking breakfast that she took tray after tray past me and distributed to the other passengers. But it's wonderful. All the rest of them can afford the breakfast, but I can't afford it.

And finally she came back to me one more time and said, Are you ready now for your breakfast? I said, Well, how much does it cost? She said, It's already paid for. It's included in the price of your ticket.

It's already paid for. You might as well eat it. I said, Bring on the breakfast. I'll have it. Bring it on. While the rest of them were polishing off their crumbs, I really sank into this. It was wonderful.

It was already paid for. And I was just about to miss it. I'd like to get a truth across to some of you people here this morning. It's already provided for. All of the struggle and all of the cost has already been paid.

You can have it if you want it because it's been paid for. You don't have to wait another 24 hours. You don't have to wait until the end of this camp and hope that in another camp meeting you may have it.

It's already available. This is the plea of the Apostle here. See that none of you come short of this rest because it's provided from the foundation of the world. I want to speak about entering God's rest by faith.

In fact, in this passage of scripture, there are four different rests spoken about. All of them designed by God. All of them, in a sense, God's rest. All of them symbolizing something, what God wants his people to enjoy here and now.

We want to look at these four rests and then later how we enter into this rest. There is first creation rest. When God himself rested from his creative labor. This is spoken of in verse 10. God ceased from his labor.

Creation Rest and the Perfection of God's Work

After six days of creation, God rested. Not because he was exhausted, not because he had done everything he could possibly do and he had just totally run out of strength. He was no more weary when he finished than when he began.

He rested because what he had done was perfectly done. It was harmoniously done. There wasn't one jarring note of discord anywhere. Not one element of all his vast creation was out of joint. Not one element of that vast creation was in warfare against himself.

Or against any other part of creation. God looked upon it and said it was very good. Everything that he had made reflected something of his own beauty, his own glory, his own majesty, his own grandeur.

He looked upon it, it reflected his own perfect attributes and he said it's very good. And he rested because there was nothing in it all opposing his will. That's what God's rest is. When there's nothing there opposing God's will, then that's divine rest.

It would have been wonderful if it had stayed that way. It did for a while. It stayed that way long enough to get an evidence and get a vision of what rest can really be like. But into that lovely picture there came a rebellious creature who wanted to spread his rebellion.

And he's been spreading it from that day till this. The rest of God was disturbed by the warring entrance of Satan and sin. Satan has been here ever since and sin has been here ever since. And where sin prevails, there is no rest.

Isaiah said, there is no rest, saith my God, to the wicked. No, every heart where sin prevails is a restless heart. Every life where sin abounds is a restless life. And every land where sin has gone is a restless land today.

Sin produces restlessness, disharmony. Warring sin hindered that first rest. Then there is the Sabbath rest. We have that referred to in verse 4. In a certain place he speaks of the seventh day on this rise, and God did rest the seventh day from all his work.

Sabbath Rest and Surrendering Human Desires

That pattern of God's work and rest became a pattern for the work and rest of his people. He established this Sabbath of rest for his people. It became a sign between God and his chosen people that he was a holy God and they were committed to worship a holy creator.

I would like for you to look in Isaiah 58 where we have the secret of Sabbath rest. God designed one day out of seven in which his people were to experience true rest. That rest is analyzed and depicted for us by the Prophet Isaiah in Isaiah 58, 13 and 14.

If thou turn away thy foot, I want you to note the recurrence here of the word, thy. It's the distinction between human interest and God's glory. If thou turn away thy foot from the Sabbath, from doing thy pleasure on my holy day, and call the Sabbath a delight, the holy of the Lord, honorable, and shall honor him, not doing thine own way, nor finding thine own pleasure, nor speaking thine own word, then shalt thou delight thyself in the Lord, and I will cause thee to ride upon the high places of the earth and feed thee with the heritage of Jacob thy father, for the mouth of the Lord hath spoken it.".

If you people can ever get to the place where you put your own interest out of the way and make just one day out of seven, God's day, to honor him and exalt him and worship him and enjoy him and reverence his holiness, then you will find yourself lifted up in exultation to high places of delight and vision and heritage and a good food supply and a love relationship to your Heavenly Father.

If you can do that just one day out of seven, it will be worth everything in all the world. But the issue is again that same old issue of sin, and this is where it's lodged in the human heart. Are we willing to put aside our own words, our own pleasures, our own desires, our own pathway and turn with all our hearts to honor God and exalt him and worship him and let him have his way even one day out of seven?

And they never were. They never were, because sin in the heart makes it impossible. It's a wonderful ideal, but it's impossible for the natural man to turn away from his own desires, his own will, his own pleasure, his own words, his own pathway, his own ambitions, and just worship God with all his heart, because sin is exactly the opposite from that.

All we like sheep have gone astray, we have turned everyone in his own way. That's the universal nature of sin. Every man wants his own way. You can't just turn it off with a case. You can't just change all that by hoping you can or wishing you could.

It's too deep-seated. They never were able to keep God's holy Sabbath in the way Isaiah depicted it here. So the Sabbath rest, while it was a wonderful ideal, was a failure. And it's still the same basic problem faced right here today.

Wherever people come up against the will of God, there's a head-on clash between my own pleasure, my own words, my own will, and the will of God. Neither God's will must prevail or our will shall prevail.

We can't have them in warring discord and have rest. Here is a third rest depicted in this passage, and that is Canaan rest. That's what is referred to back in chapter 3 at great length. He's referring to the fact that back there the people of Israel refused and failed to enter in to the land of Canaan, the rest that God had provided.

Canaan Rest as a Type of Spiritual Holiness

Verse 18 of chapter 3, Now the land of Canaan was a type of the inheritance of holiness. The land of Canaan is a type. It is not the reality. It is a type of the spiritual rest that God has for his people.

There are so many significant things about the land of Canaan that point out what God has for his people when they enter into his rest. Let's just notice a few of these things. There are enemies in the land.

Back in Deuteronomy chapter 7 we have a vivid description of the land, of the enemies that were there, of God's promise that he would give them this land and destroy every single one of their enemies if they would press forward by faith to possess the land.

He said, I'm not going to destroy them instantaneously, all of them, because if they were all destroyed in an instant, a wild beast would take over the land you haven't yet occupied. So I'm going to destroy them one by one as you advance and take them.

Well, this is one difference with the crisis experience of holiness. In the crisis experience of holiness, God does a thoroughgoing work in an instant of time. The enemies are destroyed not one a week or one a month, they are destroyed instantaneously.

But here we do have a depiction of some of the characteristics that God wants removed from any place, whether it's in the heart of man or in the promised land, that would keep his people from having rest there.

There are a number of enemies in the land. I would particularly like to take the one list of them given in number 1328. You may want to, we'll have a little Bible study this morning if you don't mind.

Number 1328, there are some of the enemies in the land listed. Enemies that God wanted them to destroy utterly. One of them that is mentioned there is Amalek. And maybe he's the most significant of them all.

I wish we had a whole hour just to talk about Amalek. He is such a significant figure in the Old Testament. He is one of the Old Testament types of the fleshly or carnal life. Amalek was the grandson of Esau.

And you can see that by his heritage he got a good beginning to be a fleshly carnal man. For Esau was the one that God rejected and chose Jacob. Jacob and Esau are types of opposing elements, warring within the soul of man.

For within their mother there was a struggle going on between Jacob and Esau. And she came to God and said, Lord, why am I as I am? And he said, there are two nations warring within thy womb. This is significant of the warfare that goes on in the double-minded man, the man who does not have spiritual rest in his soul.

God chose Jacob and rejected Esau. But out of the lineage of Esau came this man, Amalek. Amalek was always set against the people of God and the progress of the cause of God. You remember when the children of Israel came out of Egypt, they sang their song of triumph at the Red Sea and started marching until they came to Rephidim, a place of rest and beauty.

The scripture then says, Then came Amalek. Yes, sir. Amalek always comes along when people are getting close to the land of promise to set up his defenses and bar the way into God's designed land of rest and land of promise.

Then came Amalek. That's the first place we meet him in warfare against God's people, I believe. But that's also the first place where we see Joshua, the first place that Joshua appears. Joshua, who has the same name as Jesus in the Old Testament, and that's why our translators have actually put the word Jesus in verse 8, where it should be Joshua.

Their names are so close together, they mean exactly the same thing. Joshua is the Old Testament type of Jesus. He appeared at the same site where Amalek appeared, and he set himself against Amalek. I'm so glad that Jesus Christ has come to set himself up against all of the powers of Amalek.

For this purpose, the Son of God was manifested that he might destroy the works of Amalek, the works of the devil, the works of sin and the flesh. God decreed at Rephidim that Amalek was to be destroyed from off the face of the earth.

His memory was to be brought out from off the face of the earth. That's what God said he wanted to have done to Amalek, brought him out until there's not a trace of him left, until he'll be utterly forgotten on the face of the earth.

They warred against him for one day until sundown, but they didn't destroy him. They discomfited him, they weakened him, they destroyed some of the Amalekites, they kept the battle up until sundown, but they didn't finish him off.

So many people do just the same way. They stay in this battle until Amalek is weakened somewhat, he is discomfited, but he isn't destroyed. They stay in it until sundown, but not until sunrise. Amalek is a little weakened and sort of battered, but he is able to recoup his forces and he'll show up again down the line.

Here we find Amalek in the Holy Land. He was out in the wilderness while they were on the way to the Holy Land, and now they come to enter it and he's inside too, as well as outside. He is one of those to be destroyed.

In fact, King Saul, the first king of Israel, was sent on an expedition one day with his army. I want you to finish the task, God said, that was given so long ago. I want Amalek to be totally slaughtered out.

Get rid of him. Everything he is and everything he has, all that he possesses, just destroy Amalek utterly off the face of the earth. He doesn't belong. Saul did just about like had been done before. He slaughtered a lot of cattle and a lot of people, but he looked upon a few of the best cattle, and he looked upon Agag, the king of the Amalekites, and he said, Well, I think I'll save the best.

Some of this really is too good to be destroyed. And he spared Agag and the best of the cattle. Finally, when Saul came to die, it was an Amalekite that flew him. Too bad. If Saul had slain the Amalekites, he wouldn't have been slain by an Amalekite.

And if you would carry on until sin dies in you, sin would never slay you. This is the issue in the hearts of men. Either this battle is carried through to a complete removal of the foe of sin in the heart, or that sin is going to stay there lurking and ready to spring on you in an unwary moment and bring you down.

It's just that important an issue that we carry through to destruction of the forces of Amalek. Let's look at a few of these others. There was a Jebusite in the land. The word Jebusite means to be polluted or trampled underfoot.

Something as filthy as if it was taken out of the dust and the dirt where it had been walked upon and trampled underfoot. It's corruption. It's uncleanness. Uncleanness of desires, of lust, of affections, of attitudes.

There are the Amorites. Amorite means one who seeks publicity or prominence. The one who loves to see his own name in print. Who loves to hear himself adulated and honored. Who loves the aura of high office.

Not for the service that can be performed, but for the honor that comes from being there. That's the Amorite that needs to be destroyed. God needs servants that will fill offices, but he needs people that will do it with humility.

Taking all their resources from God and giving all their praise back to God. God sees fit to use any of us as channels of blessing. It's not to our credit, brethren. We're unworthy servants at the very best.

All honor and praise and worship and adoration belong unto him. The marvel is that he could use any of us to accomplish anything. But it's only by his grace. Let the Amorite spirit be utterly destroyed out of the midst of us.

That spirit that seeks after prominence and position and praise. And give us a spirit that will bow down in dust before Jesus Christ. Unless he helps us, there's nothing to be done worth lasting. There's the Hittite.

The word Hittite means fear or terror. How many fears there are that fill the souls of the unsanctified. Fear of men, fear of the world, fear of what people will say about us. Fear of the reproach, fear of failure, fear of death.

Fear to stand up for Jesus, fear to witness. Fear to have the accusing glances and the mockery and the scorn of the world. Fear, terror, dread. The Hittite needs to be destroyed. Anak was there. Out of Anak came the giants.

Oh, these giants are still with us today. The word Anak means to adorn yourself with a necklace that chokes your breath off. Not interesting. These old Hebrew words were full of meaning. You wouldn't think out of a four-letter word like that you could get so much.

But that's what it signified in the beginning. The word Anak meant to have a necklace around you so tight and so heavy that it began to choke your breath away. I think maybe you can just make the application.

There are lots of adornments, lots of chains, lots of bands that choke our spiritual breath off. So laden down with that which will appeal to the outward man and appeal to the world that we find ourselves gasping and strangling and suffocating for a good, deep, life-giving spiritual breath.

Anak must be destroyed with all the rest of them. The Canaanite was there. The Canaanites filled the land. And the word Canaanite means to humiliate and to defeat or overcome. Either the Canaanite must be defeated or he's going to defeat one or the other.

There is no reconciliation with the Canaanites. The people of Israel tried for a few years to make such a reconciliation. It did not work. They were sold into captivity. My dear friends, there are people right here in this congregation this morning that are either going to find a real conclusive victory over that inner corruption, that inner warfare, that inner enemy against God, or they are going to go down themselves in defeat.

It's the issue of real victory in Christ or real failure under the power of sin. Those people, of course, were afraid of these giants. They were afraid of these enemies in the land. Why? We're in their sight like grasshoppers, they said.

God gave a promise in Deuteronomy 7. He said, Remember what I did to Pharaoh. I am a great God. You folks couldn't have got yourself out from under the bondage of Pharaoh and the Egyptians. Remember what I did to Pharaoh.

I was able to handle Pharaoh and all of his army. I'm the same God today. I can handle these people in the land. If you'll go in by faith, I can take care of them. You say that these people will hide in caves and get under rocks and hide in bushes and the woods and get behind mountains and hide under rocks and stones and in secret.

How in the world can we ever get through all of these and get them out? God said, I have a message. I can get them out. It won't be real hard, really. He said, I'll send my hornet. I have some hornets, God said.

And these hornets can go anywhere a Hittite can go. They can go anywhere an Amalekite can go. They can go anywhere an Agagite can go. They can go behind the stones and into the crevices and through the forest and under the rock piles and behind the wood piles.

Anywhere an Agagite can go, a hornet can go. And pretty soon there will be an Agagite coming out. There will be an Amalekite coming out. There will be a Jebusite coming out on the run. When he comes out, you just bring him down.

I'll send the hornets after him. The hornet will bring every one of them out into the open. These people can't stand the hornets. They'll never endure my hornets. My hornets will overcome every one of them.

They'll run them out of their hiding places. We'll get the job done. God said, you just go right on in by faith. We'll handle these people. You'll go in by faith. Well, thank God. This is God's plan. Otherwise, to destroy, obliterate the enemy.

Rest to them. Well, in the first place, they refused to go in at Kadesh Garnia. They just looked at the enemy and they said, they're too big for us. We're like grasshoppers. They're like giants. They outnumber us.

After all, they have walled cities. We cannot, we cannot. They're too big for us. And the Hebrew writer said the problem, the problem was an evil heart of unbelief. The problem wasn't in the size of the giants.

It wasn't in the thickness of the city walls. It wasn't in the number of enemies that possessed the land. The problem was right in the heart of the people, an evil heart of unbelief. The problem was the deceitfulness of sin.

That's what he said. He said, be careful lest any of you be hardened through the deceitfulness of sin. He's talking about the sin of the heart. This deceitful principle we were talking about yesterday.

The very basic root of sin is deceitfulness in the heart. The deceitfulness of sin. Take heed lest any of you be hardened through the deceitfulness of sin. It's so easy to look at our problems. Look at our failures.

Look at our weaknesses. Look at the times we've tried and been defeated. Just keep looking at yourself and look at your problems. And the longer you look, the bigger they become and the littler God becomes.

And the harder your heart becomes. Yes, I see people come and go and come and go and come and go from the altar of prayer. And this is one thing that practice does not make perfect. You don't get stronger by practicing coming and going from an altar of prayer.

The more a person comes and goes away and defeats, the smaller his faith becomes. The more his confidence is shaky and toppery. The longer they looked at the giants, the bigger they became. A person can become harder and harder by just coming and going because he never exercises faith.

Never comes to the place where he casts himself upon the greatness of God. Faith shrivels as we keep on concentrating on our problems and thinking of our failures. Nourishing our unbelief. Going over again our problems and our peculiar difficulties and our enemies and our animosity.

Faith shrivels and the heart hardens. What's the problem? The heart of unbelief. Unbelief that needs to be renounced, that needs to be put away under the blood. We need to stop looking at our problems and our failures and make an all-out surrender to let God take over and do what he's promised to do.

And stand by it until it is done. Faith is the eye that sees the invisible. Faith is the ear that hears the inaudible. Faith is the hand that grasps the intangible and cries, I know it shall be done. Stop looking at the enemy.

Stop looking at the problem. And look to God. He has promised on the authority of his eternal word he can destroy all of the enemies out from before us. Hallelujah forever. But they didn't enter into the Canaan rest.

Rest in the Soul Through the Cleansing Word and Blood

So God provided another rest. There remains a rest for the people of God. This is God's rest in the soul. After these other rests were disturbed and failed of their ideals, God announced another rest that remains for the people of God.

A rest in the soul. A rest that is to be accomplished in the soul because God has a remedy that he has revealed that goes to the very root of the disturbance, the very root of the cause of restlessness, the sin in the heart of man.

We've already referred to it here in an earlier message, but we have it right here in this chapter. The word of God is able to go to the deep seat of sin in the heart and locate it. The word of God is quick and powerful and sharper than any two-edged sword.

It's able to penetrate. It's able to divide asunder. It's able to open those hard, bony chambers and expose to God's view every secret, hidden thing. Just like the high priest slaughtered his victim of sacrifice and opened the bones and split the joints and laid the whole thing inside out until there wasn't a hidden chamber lurking there to conceal anything from the view of the priest.

The word of God is able to penetrate into the heart of man and locate everything that is there that would rise to trouble us along the way. Hallelujah! God has instruments that are designed to get the trouble located within us.

You've heard this story, I'm sure, of dear old Amanda Smith, precious colored lady of years ago who was well saved. But as she began to walk with God, she recognized that there was something in her heart that wasn't subject to the will of God.

And the more she tried to serve God, the more this thing hindered and opposed. She wanted holiness of her. She didn't know how to find it or where to go to get it. She went to an elder and he said, just do all the good you can, keep on praying.

But she was hungry and that didn't satisfy her. But she was searching the word of God. And the word said, when men shall revile you and persecute you and say all manner of evil against you, falsely rejoice and be exceedingly glad.

But she didn't rejoice and be exceedingly glad when they reviled her and persecuted her. She had resentment in her heart, don't you? And she knew that wasn't right. The word located her problem. But she didn't yet know how to find deliverance.

So she went on reading and she found, this is the will of God, even your sanctification. She went to a deacon in the church and he said, what is this deacon? What is this sanctification? Oh, that's the grace you get when you die.

You can't have it when you live. But she wanted it while she lived. She was still hungry. She kept on praying. She kept on studying. And the more she studied, the more she saw the word expose the sin of her heart, condemn it.

Then she went to a holiness meeting and she heard somebody that had the truth straight and strong. She got her heart sanctified and she was ablaze of glory and blessing as long as she lived, I guess. Travelling abroad to praise and worship and reverence and adoration of almighty God.

The word located her needs. What the word locates, the blood of Jesus Christ cleanses. This book of Hebrews is a mighty book about the blood. The God of peace that brought again from the dead the Lord Jesus, that great shepherd of the sheep, through the blood of the everlasting covenant make you perfect in every good work to do his will, working in you that which is well, pleasing in his sight, through Jesus Christ our Lord, to whom be glory and majesty and dominion from now on forevermore.

Through the blood of the everlasting covenant, it is the blood that has power to cleanse the heart from sin. Hallelujah! This is God's rest. The rest in which the sinfulness, the warfare of the heart is put to an end.

Those inner enemies of selfishness and pride and animosity and jealousy and criticism and quarrelsomeness and selfishness and pride and self-seeking and worldly lusts are destroyed just like the harness drove out the Jebusites and they were open to be slaughtered.

The word of God exposes these inner movings of sin to the cleansing power of the blood of Jesus. When the blood cleanses, there is rest in the soul. In our seminary over in Korea, we had a precious young man come to enroll in our classes.

He had been raised a Presbyterian. He had attended for some 25 years. But into the same village where he lived, there came a Bible woman with a tent and began to preach holiness. People began to come down from the big church and attend the little tent because God was working there.

He was doing things among the people. They hadn't had the tent there very long until the beer tavern in that village was closed up. People were getting saved. People who were attending the big stuffy church that wasn't giving them any meat or giving them any spirit to life began to come down to the humble tent and find God and find power in their lives.