Friday | 03 April 2026
We are entering rest by entering the kingdom of God. This we do by receiving faith from the word. Rom 10:17. Our faith then becomes substantial as the expression of our Christian life from day to day. Accordingly, we do not seek fulfilment by any means other than by walking in the Spirit. Rom 8:14. This is ‘the rest and refreshing’ that belongs to those ‘with stammering lips and another tongue’, who are edifying themselves in their most holy faith by praying in the Holy Spirit. Isa 28:11‑12. Jud 1:20.
Those who are responding to the invitation to walk in the light of the word are coming out of darkness. They are sons of light and sons of the day. 1Th 5:5. In contrast, Jesus said that ‘everyone practising evil hates the light and does not come to the light, lest his deeds should be exposed’. Joh 3:20. These people are not willing to walk openly with their brethren regarding the process of reformation and cleansing that is happening in their life, their marriage, or their house, because they are ashamed. Simply, this means that they love their projections rather than their sanctification. Our sanctification is ministered to us by the Spirit through the proclamation of the word, and it is established in the fellowship of the body of Christ.
Jesus explained that people who are reticent to engage in a conversation in the light actually love the darkness, because their deeds are evil. Joh 3:19. That is, their expression is self‑defined, proceeding from an evil heart of unbelief. Heb 3:12. They are deceived, thinking that their darkened perspective, sourced from the law of their mind, is ‘light’. This is a presumptuous and perilous condition that is manifested by their weariness and discontent, and by their inability to give and receive openly and easily in the light of the word. Mat 6:23. This inability to meet in the light will be apparent in the content of the conversations between a husband and a wife, as well as between couples from house to house, and in the church.
Further Study:
1 John 1
References:
Rom 10:17
So, then faith comes by hearing, and hearing by the word of God.
Rom 8:14
For as many as are led by the Spirit of God, these are sons of God.
Isa 28:11-12
For with stammering lips and another tongue He will speak to this people, to whom He said, ‘This is the rest with which You may cause the weary to rest,’ and, ‘This is the refreshing’; yet they would not hear.
Jud 1:20
But you, beloved, building yourselves up on your most holy faith, praying in the Holy Spirit.
1Th 5:5
You are all sons of light and sons of the day. We are not of the night nor of darkness.
Joh 3:19-20
And this is the condemnation, that the light has come into the world, and men loved darkness rather than light, because their deeds were evil. For everyone practising evil hates the light and does not come to the light, lest his deeds should be exposed.
Heb 3:12
Beware, brethren, lest there be in any of you an evil heart of unbelief in departing from the living God.
Mat 6:23
But if your eye is bad, your whole body will be full of darkness. If, therefore, the light that is in you is darkness, how great is that darkness!