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This website is not meant to be everybody's cup of tea. It is designed to guide God's "earnest seekers" into His Rest. What is an earnest seeker? He or she is one who is walking in all that God has given them, and yet still is still passionately asking and questing for more of His nature. Romans 8:34, John 17:19, Titus: 2:14, 1 John 3:2-3
“I knew Jesus and He was precious to my soul; but I found something within that would not be sweet, and patient and kind; I did what I could to keep it down, but it was there; I besought Jesus to do something for me, and when I gave Him my will He came in, and took out all that would not be sweet and patient and kind, and then He shut the door.”
Thus testified George Fox, the founder of the Society of Friends, more than two centuries ago. After he “knew Jesus” there was still “something within” which was antagonistic to the spiritual life implanted; nor was this experience peculiar to him alone. Such is indeed the experience of every new born and truly regenerated soul. While they may not understand the subject of entire sanctification, and perhaps have never heard of the “second blessing,” yet, a young convert seldom goes three months in the new experience before he becomes painfully conscious that there remains a “something within” that hinders, and retards his spiritual progress, and often becomes a source of much distress. (and battle)
The manifestations of that “something” vary, but frequently the first showing of it is in a man-fearing spirit, or anger, or a disposition to doubt, or an unforgiving spirit, etc. And then frequently comes the temptation, that perhaps after all, there had not been a true conversion or these things would not manifest themselves. After this, because they had not been properly instructed, many have wearied of the endless conflict and struggle and have cast away their confidence.
The Bible name for that “something” is, “the carnal mind” which, “is enmity against God:
For it is not subject to the law of God, neither indeed can be” Rom. 8:7. Paul said of the Corinthians, “I thank my God always on your behalf, for the grace of God which is given you by Jesus Christ,” and said, because they were “babes in Christ,” “I have fed you with milk,” “ye are yet carnal”, thus showing that the carnal mind is not eradicated in conversion, but still continues in those who are “in Christ" -for a “babe in Christ” is just as certainly “in Christ” as an adult in Christ is in Christ.
Then again the Bible speaks of that “something” as “the flesh;” “The flesh lusteth against the Spirit, and the Spirit against the flesh and these are contrary the one to the other, so that ye cannot do the things that ye would.” Gal. 5:17. Here the spiritual problem is clearly set forth with the inward conflict. While the man has “the Spirit” (which would not apply to a sinner) he also has a something antagonistic to the Spirit, called here “the flesh.” But in verse 24, we read, “And they that are Christ’s have crucified the flesh,” showing that the divine process for that “something” is not pardon, nor suppression, but crucifixion, which signifies that there is something to die and thus to be destroyed.
Other names given in the Bible for that
“something” is,
“sin that dwelleth in me,” “the law of sin” “the body of this death”
“the
sin which doth so easily beset” “the sin of the world” “the body of
sin”,
“our old (former and unsaved) man” etc., all of which have reference to
that
“something within” remaining after we are converted; in common parlance
it
is called “inbred sin”, “depravity” “our evil nature” “original sin”
our “Adamic
nature,” etc. All of these terms are synonymous, and refer to this
identical
“something within” which is the common heritage of every child of Adam.
God’s
method and purpose is to “crucify” and “destroy” that something -- “our
old
man” -- so that we are "dead indeed unto sin.” The sins we have
committed
may be pardoned, but this “something” cannot be pardoned for
the simple
reason we did not commit anything wrong to gain it; it was just born in
us,
and as the Anglican Confession says, “This infection of nature doth
remain,
yea, even in them that have been regenerated.” But thank God, there is
power
in Jesus’ blood to eliminate and destroy it. “Knowing this, that
our old
man is crucified with him, that the body of sin might be destroyed,
that henceforth we should not serve sin.” Rom. 6:6. This
deliverance
is what Mr. Wesley termed “the second blessing properly so called.”
This is sanctification, and is the privilege of
every believer, as pardon is the privilege of every penitent sinner."
from "Entire Sanctification -A Second Blessing" by C. W. Ruth.
and edited by Earnest Seeker
The state of grace called "His Rest" is what remains when God, by a little-known distinct work of grace removes "the old man" (*your own unsaved nature which contains a slippery mixture of both good and evil. This mixture includes all the things that bring unrest.) so that the remaining Christ nature (the new you that you gained in salvation) can freely rule within -without rival or concern with sin. Only then are you made capable to know and freely enjoy all that He has for the you. Only then can you fully know who it was that God created when He created you!!
Without this, whether you are "spirit-filled" or not, and no matter how exalted is your anointing and gifting you are having to endure an up-and-down experience, since you are saved, but there is still a "certain something" hidden within that resists Him from time to time. Even though it is not always in evidence, this still places an elusive glass ceiling on your best moments of devotion and faith, and keeps your heart vulnerable to the depredations of temptation. Why? Because your whole heart is still not accessible to you -or the Lord. A portion of it is still occupied with the loves you had before you were saved -and a persisting propensity towards evil. You can only serve Him with your WHOLE heart only after this dreadfully deceptive situation is resolved....
This mixed heart and experience was never His plan to be in existence for more than a short transition period. The scripture constantly refers to a better state of grace than this. It is often called "the faith". Accept nothing less!
Coping is not the same as conquering. When you cope the same inward problem is allowed to remain and will attempt to trip you up on another day. When you conquer in Christ, the sin problem is totally removed so that you can get on with your proper life in Him.
This website is designed to guide you so that you can find your way past ignorance and doubt (and today's numerous beguiling lesser understandings) -and enter His Rest -which is your proper estate!! All of His giftings and offices mature far more quickly and reliably in His Rest, since it is their naturally stable and graciously stainless environment.
To those in the mixed experience, temptation has traction because the heart often blatantly aches to do just what the tempter is suggesting. Yes, the mind commands you to grit your teeth and refuse -but still this ongoing battle is greatly inferior to the supernatural peace that follows total victory over everything within.
To those in His Rest it is blessedly different. The enemies suggestions are seen as remote and silly. Your heart has no unlawful desires. Even in sleep no unlawful shadows arise. Perhaps, some unwise ones -but that is different. You always have the theoretical power to comply with temptation in the same way that a regular person has the theoretical choice to commit suicide. By this, I mean that it is theoretically possible -but unthinkable. Still it does happen -especially to new ones who have'nt quite understood the nature of what they now possess, but it takes a conscious unlawful action to do so. The experience is unshakeable -not inescapeable!
You will now for the first time be in full harmony with His full Presence within. This unlocks your unexplored potentials and gives a magnificent new intimacy with Him. This is especially seen when numbers of these fully redeemed saints work together in a faith project. John Wesley spoke to the weather and had it obey on a number of occasions. As a matter of fact in the immediate post-Roman times, this what the common people used to tell if their saints were genuine.
Of course, you will still need to grow in maturity and stature, but in each moment from then on, you will be all that you can be within the constraints of that time. What constraints? Hey -you will still need to nourish and service your own frail natural bodies together with those of your family. The whole of the earth is arrayed in opposition, while the whole of heaven is arrayed in support. This epic battle has gone back and forth for millenia, but the time of the final victory is near...
The church world has ever raised magnifient edifices while her most worthy struggle with penury.
After His
Rest is obtained
(not attained) your position
with God is changed.
After He sees that you have consecrated every part (including every hidden part) to Him without reserve; you may ask with total faith for His ultimate work of deliverance and welcome. Both the consecration and the faith are so costly, that they are quite often difficult and delayed. In contrast, He does His part in a moment of time. The ineffable results cannot be mistaken. Properly guided zealous new believers with their first love intact do not hesitate pay the breathtaking price, and so enter with the fewest difficulties.
Not only does His Holy Spirit dwell in you
as before, but now you have also been taken to dwell in Him.
The soul is ever after completely separated within from all the
darkness of this world and so walks in the holy hush of His Presence so
that His every whisper is easily heard. His anointing and love is
constant, unhindered and unshakable in
every test. Growth in grace is effortless and exponential. Exploits of
great faith come naturally. Temptations seem distant and foreign while
the soul is flooded with an abiding sense of absolute
cleanliness and Oneness with Him. Walking in great assurance under an
open heaven is only natural since heaven has become closer than earth...
Please take the message of this website seriously, for God holds you responsible for your acceptance
or
rejection of Christ as a complete Saviour.
Are you earnestly seeking His best? So was I in 1988 when I was surprised by a whole new work of grace that totally transformed my relationship with Him to such a degree that it far, far excelled anything I had ever heard preached – even in the cutting edge Charismatic churches I tended to frequent. But it took me many years before I could find anything that would adequately explain what had happened to me…..
The result was this small but focused online library whose primary service is to answer the question, “So –just exactly how does a believer enter His Rest?” This has now become a wide-ranging but still highly condensed Holiness library comprised of carefully selected brief works and topical excerpts.
His Rest is a seldom seen state of foundational
grace that is reserved for those who dare to give Him their very
all. Most of the famous Saints through the ages had it, as did
many of the legendary giants of faith still extolled today. They
became known as giants of the faith simply because they gave their
whole hearts to be supernaturally sealed in Him. This set their portion
of the Holy Spirit free from every inward hindrance so that He could at
last be Himself within- a constant consuming fire of joy within 24/7
that does not at all need to be fanned or further shielded from
the vagaries of life. It is not at all the Holy Spirit "on
steroids"- that would be absurd. It is instead the Holy Spirit set
within the unshakable rock of a heart made wholly pure and
always
gently overshadowed by His palpable loving favour!
You are invited to come and Tabernacle in His
abiding Presence -having become a Son indeed!
Come and abide with me in His very shirt pocket!!
Earnest Seeker
If you want to know more about me personally, you may read my
story
on the "Testimonies" page.
Check out our small but
mighty stock of resources that are designed to further help you enter
His Rest!
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What does entering His Rest signify? Upon conviction of remaining impurity within the saved soul it denotes a complete and utter abandonment of all worthiness and unworthiness followed by an act of supernaturally given "saving faith" that places this abandoned life wholly into His Hand for Him to transform into the purity of His own Holy image. He was eagerly waiting to gladly respond as soon as this is done, to bring the precious soul into His Rest; not into some facile and accessible ceasing from striving: but into a sharing of His own unearthly Rest of Oneness and inner harmony that was always His with the Father. He is always there.... for you are now always hid "in Him".
This a worthy foundation upon which His Holy Spirit may grow and prosper within, bringing forth every kind of good fruit without inner hindrance! This not some strange and lofty spiritual state. It is the supernaturally worked primitive "normal Christianity" as opposed to today's widely held "conventional Christianity" of mere religion, -no matter how sincere. Your initial spiritual pardon is now made gloriously complete in His spiritual purity.
For those in His Rest, a state of perfect peace is held secure even in the midst of the greatest trial and tumult upon this lost earth, for your spirit is no longer in this earth, but in Him where no sorrow nor accusation can reach. And yet, at the same time you are fully here with every faculty brightened within the exalted ambience of the next world.
"Holiness is susceptible of expansion. -- It is not meant by this that the quality can be improved, but that after holiness is inwrought in the heart, it may more and more pervade our nature as ignorance, inadvertence, rudeness and other habitual defects give way before its diffusive power. Holiness is the Divine nature imparted to us, and cannot, therefore, be improved in quality, but can be increased in measure and power as the obstructions to its action are removed, and the creature's capacities are enlarged." from: The Hidden Manna by Sheridan Baker
Earnest Seeker
For the Kingdom of God is not meat and drink, but righteousness, and peace, and joy in the Holy Ghost. Romans 14: 17
Amen!! Enter His Rest: for hidden here is your completed foundation for a supernatural Kingly authourity in Him. Taste and see!!!
"And I went unto the angel, and said unto him, Give me the little book. And he said unto me, Take it, and eat it up; and it shall make thy belly bitter, but it shall be in thy mouth sweet as honey". Revelation 10:9
Vine's "Rest" Annotated:
(Vine's Dictionary of Old and New Testament Words -annotated by Earnest Seeker)
Rest (Noun and Verb)
"cessation, refreshment, rest" (ana, "up," pauo, "to make to cease"), the constant word in the Sept. for the Sabbath "rest," is used in Mat_11:29; here the contrast seems to be to the burdens imposed by the Pharisees. Christ's "rest" is not a "rest" from work, but in work, "not the rest of inactivity but of the harmonious working of all the faculties and affections, of will, heart, imagination, conscience, because each has found in God the ideal sphere for its satisfaction and development" (J. Patrick, in Hastings' Bib. Dic.); it occurs also in Mat_12:43; Luk_11:24; Rev_4:8, RV, "(they have no) rest" [AV, "(they) rest (not)"], where the noun is the object of the verb echo, "to have;" so in Rev_14:11.
The above is a very good description. Indeed, in Him all aspects of my created being easily sing and work together.
in classical Greek, denotes "a causing to cease" or "putting to rest;" in the NT, "rest, repose;" it is used (a) of God's "rest;" Act_7:49; Heb_3:11, Heb_3:18; Heb_4:1, Heb_4:3 (twice), RV (1st part), "that rest" (the AV, "rest," is ambiguous), Heb_4:5, Heb_4:11; (b) in a general statement, applicable to God and man, Heb_4:10.
A-3, Noun, 425, anesis
A-4, Noun, 4520, sabbatismos
A-5, Noun, 2838, koimesis
"a resting, reclining" (akin to keimai, "to lie"), is used in Joh_11:13, of natural sleep, translated "taking rest," RV. Note: In Act_9:31, AV, eirene, "peace" (RV), is translated "rest."
B-1, Verb, 373, anapauo
B-2, Verb, 2664, katapauo
akin to A, No. 2, used transitively, signifies "to cause to cease, restrain," Act_14:18; "to cause to rest," Heb_4:8; intransitively, "to rest," Heb_4:4, Heb_4:10. See CEASE, A, No. 6, RESTRAIN.
B-3, Verb, 1981, episkenoo
"to spread a tabernacle over" (epi, "upon," skene, "a tent"), is used metaphorically in 2Co_12:9, "may rest upon (me)," RV, marg., "cover," "spread a tabernacle over." Amen. My soul ever dwells in His Holy Tabernacle -with a profound and constant sense of His divine purity and favour.
B-4, Verb, 2681, kataskenoo
"to pitch one's tent, lodge," is translated "shall rest," in Act_2:26, AV (RV, "shall dwell"). See LODGE.
B-5, Verb, 2270, hesuchazo
"to be still, to rest from labor," is translated "they rested" in Luk_23:56. See PEACE (hold one's), No. 3.
B-6, Verb, 1879, epanapauo
"to cause to rest," is used in the Middle Voice, metaphorically, signifying "to rest upon" (epi, "upon," and No. 1), in Luk_10:6; Rom_2:17. Note: For "find rest" Rom_15:32, RV, see REFRESH, No. 2.
Email: type earnestseeker and then the at sign. Follow by enterhisrest a dot and then org This long way should prevent the numerous web robots from swarming my inbox!Again: "not the rest of inactivity but of the harmonious working of all the faculties and affections, of will, heart, imagination, conscience, because each has found in God the ideal sphere for its satisfaction and development" To sum this up then: In response to our putting our life in total Covenant trust and submission to Him, He reaches down to complete His part of the creation of our human spirit. He makes all the parts of our heart and being work together the way they were designed to. Our spirit was never made to be without Him in constant communion with us, any more than a car was meant to work without an electrical system. "Rest" then, signifies a supernaturally created cessation of doing those things that were meant to be His province. The pre-condition necessary for this cessation is initiated by the soul, and made a glorious abiding reality by His grace. The ceasing manifests, because His work of inward creation is done and His finished work has come to be your reality. (This means our foundations in faith are complete, and we can now embark unhindered upon our voyage of faith. Now He sees if we will undertake little or much in His Name with this full equipping. He will reward us accordingly.)
He can then dwell and rule without rival within. Since every contention with His Spirit is now gone, He finds the soul can now be properly and fully enfolded, embraced, hedged about, armoured, and sealed within His embrace. The soul is "sealed" by a permanent bondservant's "Covenant of Service" to Him. The soul abides in Him. He is ever close. His every whisper is clear and near. The things of earth are now in truth, "strangely dim". The heart is made wholly tender within. The mind is made easily entreated. The Lord is now "friend" as well as "Master".
Since before the foundation of the world He was been looking for a people who would serve in a heart Covenant with Him. In conversion, the soul merely accepts His blood sacrifice of love and gives thanks for His gracious pardon. There is no corresponding blood sacrifice in return unless the soul responds in kind and pours out his "all" in consecration and accepts Him not only as "Saviour", but as absolute "Lord". This takes much more than sincere words and belief. Few actually do this, despite all claims to the contrary. Few trust Him to reach within to make their total consecration into a bondservant's actual abiding reality.
Earnest Seeker
Disclaimer: It is not the intention of this website to either support
or
deny any of the vocal end-times stances that abound today. This
website instead has the plain goal of making clear the true and proven
path to His Rest. It does not attempt to speculate
regarding destinies, since there are further spiritual states and
frontiers yet hidden within His
purposes that none are qualified to discuss publicly, including this
authour.
These are inscribed with pens of joy upon fleshly tables. Mere
paper
is not sufficient to describe these -but they will be yours if
you
go and pay the further profound price in lowliness after you are in His
Rest..
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