Seek The Savior

I have to show you one more thing from Psalm 95. The summons, the warning, but notice the Savior. Notice verse 1, “Oh come, let us sing to the LORD; let us make a joyful noise to the rock of our salvation.” Who is the rock of our salvation? When Moses brought water from the rock after they grumbled at Massah and Meribah, he stood at the rock of Horeb, struck it with his staff and water flowed. What is amazing is what Paul said in 1 Corinthians 10:1ff, “For I want you to know, brothers, that our fathers were all under the cloud, and passed through the sea, and all were baptized into Moses in the cloud and in the sea, and all ate the same spiritual food, and all drank the same spiritual drink. For they drank from the spiritual Rock that followed them, and the Rock was Christ.”

That’s another blog all by itself, but their salvation was our salvation…it is Jesus. God swore in His wrath that they would not enter His rest…that rest was the Promise Land, but the book of Hebrews won’t allow us to keep Psalm 95 to the past…we must apply it to us today…what’s our rest. It is Heaven. How can we enter Heaven? In Matthew 11:28-30 Jesus said, “Come to me, all who labor and are heavy laden, and I will give you rest. Take my yoke upon you, and learn from me, for I am gentle and lowly in heart, and you will find rest for your souls. For my yoke is easy, and my burden is light.”

He alone gives rest for our soul because He alone can take us to the Father’s rest through His death, burial, and resurrection. But before I close let me pick back up where Paul left off in 1 Corinthians 10.

“Nevertheless, with most of them (the one’s that grumbled) God was not pleased, for they were overthrown in the wilderness. Now these things took place as examples for us, that we might not do evil as they did.” He then went on to talk about idolatry, sexual immorality, and putting Christ to the test by grumbling. He said, “Therefore let anyone who thinks that he stands take heed lest he fall. No temptation has overtaken you that is not common to man. God is faithful and he will not let you be tempted beyond your ability, but with the temptation He will also provide the way of escape.”

Church, we must hear the summons, heed the warning, and seek the Savior and as we remember His beauty and see it in the Word we worship Him and sin loses its temptation…if we don’t we are in danger of being hardened in our hearts and there will be no rest for our souls.