The Sabbath Rest

Tuesday, November 12, 2013

The Sabbath Rest

Dear Friends,
A reading from the Book of Hebrews (4:1-16):
          Therefore, let us be on our guard while the promise of entering into his rest remains, that none of you seem to have failed. For in fact we have received the good news just as they did. But the word that they heard did not profit them, for they were not united in faith with those who listened. For we who believed enter into that rest, just as he has said:
“As I swore in my wrath, ‘They shall not enter into my rest,'” and yet his works were accomplished at the foundation of the world. For he has spoken somewhere about the seventh day in this manner, “And God rested on the seventh day from all his works”; and again, in the previously mentioned place, “They shall not enter into my rest.” Therefore, since it remains that some will enter into it, and those who formerly received the good news did not enter because of disobedience, he once more set a day, “today,” when long afterwards he spoke through David, as already quoted: “Oh, that today you would hear his voice: ‘Harden not your hearts.'”
Now if Joshua had given them rest, he would not have spoken afterwards of another day. Therefore, a sabbath rest still remains for the people of God. And whoever enters into God’s rest, rests from his own works as God did from his. Therefore, let us strive to enter into that rest, so that no one may fall after the same example of disobedience.
Indeed, the word of God is living and effective, sharper than any two-edged sword, penetrating even between soul and spirit, joints and marrow, and able to discern reflections and thoughts of the heart. No creature is concealed from him, but everything is naked and exposed to the eyes of him to whom we must render an account.
Therefore, since we have a great high priest who has passed through the heavens, Jesus, the Son of God, let us hold fast to our confession. For we do not have a high priest who is unable to sympathize with our weaknesses, but one who has similarly been tested in every way, yet without sin. So let us confidently approach the throne of grace to receive mercy and to find grace for timely help.

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          Yesterday we had a National Holiday as the 11th November is the date that the First World War stopped. So I prayed for all those who lost their lives during the horrible conflicts of WW1 and WW2. I prayed that there will never be another war in the world.

          Below you will find the message of Our Lord, the Son of God, given to Father Melvin. Jesus spoke to him these words,
          “You are called My brother Melvin and all My brothers and sisters to believe that everything in the world was created by God. The Father worked for six days and on the seventh day He rested. That is why the Jewish people kept the Sabbath Day, the seventh day, holy. They did not work on that day and they went to their synagogues on the last day of the week.
“With the Christians, this was changed. The great day of My Resurrection was on Sunday, the first day of the week. My Resurrection was of great importance to all who believed in Me. With My Resurrection I showed them through this great miracle that I was truly the Redeemer, the Savior of the world. Through this miracle they recognized that I was the Son of God. Therefore, the Apostles began gathering to pray on Sunday, the first day of the week. It became the day of the Lord. So since the beginning of the Church, My followers have always kept Sunday holy. They do not work on that day and they go to Church to Holy Mass on that day. I have accepted that Sunday is the holy day of the New Creation, which I brought about by My Resurrection and by the coming of the Holy Spirit. The Holy Spirit came upon the Apostles in the Upper Room also on Sunday, and that day was the beginning of My Church. So all who accept Me as their Savior will meet together in church on the first day of the week. Continue these gatherings every week and you will be blessed.”

          Father Melvin