This time the focus is on the rest that comes from our surrender to God's rule and reign. It is a taste of the future when the Lord's authority will be comprehensive and all creation will be at rest.

1. THREE KINDS OF REST, PART TWO

2. REVIEW
• Part One: The rest of soul that comes through
making peace with God – Fundamental Rest
• Part Two: The rest that comes from our
surrender to the Rule (Kingdom) of God

3. THE UN-SURRENDERED LIFE
Salvation envisions God’s rule in
the FUTURE (Age to Come) and
also in the PRESENT
We can enter in to a rest NOW that
anticipates God’s rule THEN

4. GOD’S FUTURE KINGDOM
At the End of the Age, God’s authority (rule) will
be consummated and everything will come
completely under His dominion.
“Then the seventh angel sounded: And there
were loud voices in heaven, saying,
“The kingdoms of this world have
become the kingdoms of our Lord and of His
Christ, and He shall reign forever and ever!” (Rev.
11:5)

5. FUTURE KINGDOM: THE WORLD AT REST
UNDER GOD’S REIGN
The vision of the consummated kingdom and the rule of God in
the age to come is one of order, peace, rest, and harmony.
“The wolf will romp with the lamb,
the leopard sleep with the kid.
Calf and lion will eat from the same trough,
and a little child will tend them.
Cow and bear will graze the same pasture,
their calves and cubs grow up together,
and the lion eat straw like the ox.
The nursing child will crawl over rattlesnake dens,
the toddler stick his hand down the hole of a serpent.
Neither animal nor human will hurt or kill
on my holy mountain.
The whole earth will be brimming with knowing God-Alive,
a living knowledge of God ocean-deep, ocean-wide”.
(Isa 11:6-9 MSG)

6. HIS RULE THEN REFLECTED IN OUR NOW
“For the kingdom of God is not a matter of eating
and drinking, but of righteousness, peace and joy
in the Holy Spirit, because anyone who serves
Christ in this way is pleasing to God and receives
human approval” (Romans 14: 17, 18).
Our inward anxieties and conflicts can find resolution
and rest once we truly submit to God’s authority and
rule in our lives.

7. THE REST OF BEING RESCUED
“God rescued us from dead-end alleys and dark
dungeons. He’s set us up in the kingdom of the Son
he loves so much, the Son who got us out of the pit
we were in, got rid of the sins we were doomed to
keep repeating” (Col. 1: 13, 14 - MSG).

8. STRIVING NO MORE, RESTING UNDER
GOD’S RULE AND AUTHORITY
OUR Kingdom = striving, resisting, insisting,
demanding, conflicted, hiding, obstinate, self-
satisfied, WILLFUL
Versus…
GOD’S Kingdom = surrendered, yielding,
trusting, hopeful, at rest, grace-driven, open,
WILLING