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The Scripture & the Sense Podcast #433: Amos 3:9-10 by Daniel Whyte III

Whyte House Daily Devotional Bible Reading Episode #99: Numbers 13, Psalm 18, and Acts 25 by Daniel Whyte III

TEXT: Hebrews 4:14-16

First, we can approach the throne of grace boldly and with humble confidence because our high priest is none other than the son of God Jesus Christ. Hebrews 4:14 reads, “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.” The Bible also says in 1 Timothy 2:5, “For there is one God, and one mediator between God and men, the man Christ Jesus.” Matthew Henry said, “We have an account of the excellency and perfection of Christ, as to his office, and this particular office of our high priest. The high priests under the law were accounted great and venerable person; but they were but faint types and shadows of Christ. The greatness of our high priest is set forth, by his having passed into the heavens. The high priest under the law, once a year, went out of the people's sight within the veil, into the holiest of all, where were the sacred signals of the presence of God; but Christ once for all has passed into the heavens, to take the government of all upon him, to send the Spirit to prepare a place for his people, and to make intercession for them. Christ executed one part of his priesthood on earth, in dying for us; the other he executes in heaven, by pleading the cause, and presenting the offerings, of his people. The greatness of Christ is set forth by his name, Jesus—a physician and a Saviour, and one of a divine nature, the Son of God by eternal generation; and therefore having divine perfection, able to save to the uttermost all who come to God by him.” We no longer need to look to a priest or some other religious leader to bring our requests before God. Through Jesus Christ, we can now commune with God himself. Scandals over sin within the Catholic Church, various Protestant denominations, and involving many high-profile Christian leaders, have weakened many Christians trust in the clergy. But our trust should never be in a fallible human priest or pastor in the first place. Our trust should be in God alone. Because Jesus is the only priest who knows God directly, and is our only gateway to knowing God, we can have confidence in addressing our prayers to God in the name of Christ Jesus.

The Prayer Motivator Minute #913 by Daniel Whyte III

The Master Plan of Evangelism, Part 27 (Soul-Winning Motivator Podcast #162) by Daniel Whyte III

Whyte House Family Devotional Reading of Charles Spurgeon’s Morning and Evening #47 by Daniel Whyte III

The Scripture & the Sense Podcast #432: Amos 3:7-8 by Daniel Whyte III

Whyte House Daily Devotional Bible Reading Episode #98: Numbers 12, Psalm 34, and Acts 24 by Daniel Whyte III

TEXT: Matthew 11:25-30

First, Jesus offers rest to the burdened. Life is full of struggles. We are all carrying burdens of sin. We are burdened with the cares of life. But Jesus offers us the gift of rest in Him. This is a rest greater than any physical relaxation or sleep. Jesus provides rest for our souls. We can rest in Jesus because our sin no longer enslaves us. Death no longer holds a shadow over us because the blood of Jesus has provided us a sure road to heaven. Our souls will not be troubled with doubts over our death and with struggles over sin. Charles Spurgeon said, “We come to Jesus; we put out the empty hand of faith, and rest is given us at once most freely. We possess it at once, and it is ours forever. It is a present rest, rest now; not rest after death; not rest after a time of probation and growth and advancement; but it is rest given when we come to Jesus, given there and then. And it is perfect rest too; for it is not said, nor is it implied, that the rest is incomplete. We do not read, "I will give you partial rest," but "rest," as much as if there were no other form of it. It is perfect and complete in itself. In the blood and righteousness of Jesus our peace is perfect. I shall not stay except to ask you now, brethren and sisters, whether you know the meaning of this given rest. Have you come to Jesus and has he given you perfect and present rest? If so, I know your eye will catch joyously those two little words, "And I," and I would bid you lovingly remember the promiser who speaks. Jesus promises and Jesus performs. Did not all your rest, when first your sin was forgiven, come from him? The load was gone, but who took it? The yoke was removed, but who lifted it from off the shoulder? Do you not give to Jesus, this day, the glory of all your rest from the burden of guilt? Do you not praise his name with all your souls? Yes, I know you do. And you know how that rest came to you. It was by his substitution and your faith in that substitution. Your sin was not pardoned by a violation of divine justice; justice was satisfied in Jesus; he gave you rest. The fact that he has made full atonement is the rest of your spirit this morning. I know that deep down in your consciences, the calm which blesses you springs from a belief in your Lord's vicarious sacrifice. He bore the unrest that you might have the rest, and you receive rest this day as a free gift from him. You have done now with servile toils and hopeless burdens, you have entered into rest through believing; but all the rest and deliverance still comes to you as a gift from his dear hands, who purchased with a price this blessing for your souls. I earnestly wish that many who have never felt that rest, would come and have it; it is all they have to do to obtain it—to come for it; just where they now are, if God enables them to exercise a simple act of faith in Jesus, he will give them rest from all their past sins, from all their efforts to save themselves, a rest which shall be to his glory and to their joy.” The famous hymn ‘Blessed Assurance’ notes that ‘all is at rest’ because we are ‘happy and blest’ in the salvation given to us. Why won’t you receive Jesus’ invitation to lay aside life’s burdens and find rest in Him?

Augustine of Hippo, Part 6 (History of Christianity #165) by Daniel Whyte III