Read Hebrews 3:8–4:16 and the institute student manual commentary for Hebrews 3:11, “What Does It Mean to Enter into the ‘Rest’ of the Lord?” (p. 383). Write answers to the following questions:
- What group of people was refused entrance into the Lord’s rest?
- The unbelievers
- What sins caused them to forfeit this privilege?
- They did not believe
- How does Doctrine and Covenants 84:23–24 help define what is the Lord’s rest?
- The is the "fulness of His glory"
- What sins did Paul repeatedly warn against so as not to incur the same punishment?
- Unbelieving
- How do you think the warnings in Hebrews 3:12–15 apply to us?
- There is a lot of evil in the world that we live in and we can be deceived easily. We should be a rock among our neighbors and help each other any way that we can. We need to know who we are so when the time comes to take a stand we will have the courage to stand for the right.
- List the counsel found in Hebrews 4 that will help a person enter into the rest of the Lord.
- Cease from your own works
- Be forgiven of sins
- Come boldly to God
- How do Matthew 7:21–23; John 7:17; James 1:22 help in understanding how the word needs to be “mixed with faith”? (Hebrews 4:2–3).
- Faith requires action and we are following the commandments and sharing the Gospel we start to believe and we can Enter into Rest with the Lord.
