1 00:00:01,000 --> 00:00:03,500 As the Liturgy may have indicated, we're going to be 2 00:00:03,500 --> 00:00:07,700 talking about Sabbath. A couple of years ago, the 3 00:00:07,700 --> 00:00:10,100 beginning of covid. Kind of we got this awesome 4 00:00:10,100 --> 00:00:11,500 graphic. It's on the back of your 5 00:00:11,500 --> 00:00:14,100 discipleship cards. Some of you may be familiar with 6 00:00:14,100 --> 00:00:16,100 it. We kind of re-envisioned our 7 00:00:16,100 --> 00:00:19,900 disciplines as a church and one of those five dish of 8 00:00:19,900 --> 00:00:25,600 disciplines is Sabbath and we used this kind of question there 9 00:00:25,600 --> 00:00:27,700 to get. Just a really good barometric. 10 00:00:27,700 --> 00:00:30,400 Read of where our church was with the various disciplines. 11 00:00:30,400 --> 00:00:32,900 So what I'm about to say is not an opinion. 12 00:00:34,300 --> 00:00:38,000 But definitely it from the horse's mouth scenario, we are 13 00:00:38,000 --> 00:00:41,600 not good at Sabbath as a church not Bueno. 14 00:00:41,800 --> 00:00:47,200 I believe at the time it was something like 80% of the church 15 00:00:47,200 --> 00:00:50,100 said, it said that they needed Improvement at the Sabbath. 16 00:00:50,100 --> 00:00:52,800 Now I know many of you are new faces but a lot of you are not 17 00:00:53,100 --> 00:00:56,900 and if 80% of us here said that we need to improve that the 18 00:00:56,900 --> 00:00:58,900 Sabbath. I would bet in the past two 19 00:00:58,900 --> 00:01:02,200 years that there have been some victories by the power of the 20 00:01:02,200 --> 00:01:04,000 Holy Spirit. I would bet that many of us 21 00:01:04,099 --> 00:01:08,000 Found Reclamation in this beautiful practice but the truth 22 00:01:08,000 --> 00:01:09,900 is probably a lot of us. Still aren't good at it. 23 00:01:10,800 --> 00:01:14,000 I know that I'm not. It's taken a lot of work, as 24 00:01:14,000 --> 00:01:19,600 I've studied for this, but as we talked about Sabbath, I want you 25 00:01:19,600 --> 00:01:22,300 to know that this isn't coming from condemnation, but 26 00:01:22,300 --> 00:01:27,000 self-realization and hearing us, not me, but not you, either all 27 00:01:27,000 --> 00:01:30,400 of us a few years ago saying, hey, we're bad at this. 28 00:01:31,200 --> 00:01:33,500 I think it's really important. So I hope that you listen to 29 00:01:33,500 --> 00:01:37,900 what I have to say, which means that as I'm about to tell you 30 00:01:37,900 --> 00:01:40,900 what Sabbath is, I think we have to talk about waiting for a bus, 31 00:01:42,000 --> 00:01:44,900 you see, when I was at Moody, specifically in Spokane, Sam is 32 00:01:44,900 --> 00:01:46,900 familiar. He did this even more than me 33 00:01:47,700 --> 00:01:50,800 was the only prolonged period in my life where I did not have 34 00:01:50,800 --> 00:01:54,800 personal Transportation. I didn't have a car from when I 35 00:01:54,808 --> 00:01:58,800 could drive, my parents gave me a car after college. 36 00:01:58,800 --> 00:02:01,700 I got a car, but it was the only time Time in my life, where I 37 00:02:01,708 --> 00:02:04,200 didn't have my own personal dedication or dedicated 38 00:02:04,200 --> 00:02:07,800 Transportation. So I was heavily reliant on 39 00:02:07,800 --> 00:02:11,700 other people always and you guessed it if nobody was 40 00:02:11,700 --> 00:02:17,900 available the bus. And this means that sometimes 41 00:02:17,900 --> 00:02:20,900 schedules wouldn't line up and I would have to figure out when 42 00:02:20,900 --> 00:02:23,800 the next bus was and you have to walk to the bus stop. 43 00:02:23,800 --> 00:02:27,300 Even though we were in a centralized location, it just 44 00:02:27,300 --> 00:02:29,900 took a lot of time and for Spokane, it was actually really 45 00:02:29,900 --> 00:02:33,000 easy compared to some other cities because Spokane, was this 46 00:02:33,000 --> 00:02:36,100 long East to West Valley stretching from essentially 47 00:02:36,100 --> 00:02:38,300 Idaho. All the way to the Columbia 48 00:02:38,300 --> 00:02:42,700 River, this Valley just goes forever, but, Spokane itself. 49 00:02:42,700 --> 00:02:45,700 The majority of the city while the valley Lee was East and 50 00:02:45,700 --> 00:02:47,200 West. The bulk of the City. 51 00:02:47,200 --> 00:02:49,700 Metropolis was north to south right in the middle of the 52 00:02:49,700 --> 00:02:52,000 valley. And there was a street that cut 53 00:02:52,000 --> 00:02:55,700 right down, it called division, that works out. 54 00:02:56,800 --> 00:02:59,200 And if you had to go anywhere, let's say grocery shopping and 55 00:02:59,200 --> 00:03:01,700 event a friend's house who didn't live in the immediate 56 00:03:01,700 --> 00:03:04,300 area Church anywhere, pretty much. 57 00:03:04,300 --> 00:03:07,000 You had to come into contact with division, which meant that 58 00:03:07,000 --> 00:03:09,600 if you were waiting for a bus, there was a high likelihood that 59 00:03:09,600 --> 00:03:13,900 you were waiting on Division and anybody who's waited for a bus. 60 00:03:14,800 --> 00:03:21,500 Knows that this is miserable a truly awful experience. 61 00:03:21,700 --> 00:03:24,300 In fact, waiting for anything is a truly awful experience, but 62 00:03:24,300 --> 00:03:28,500 especially waiting for the bus and especially back, then it 63 00:03:28,500 --> 00:03:31,500 wasn't it wasn't good back. Then there was no like in-flight 64 00:03:31,500 --> 00:03:36,900 Wi-Fi, you stopped every single, stop, every single one and it 65 00:03:36,908 --> 00:03:39,500 cost precious money. And I will say this, I was 66 00:03:39,500 --> 00:03:43,200 living on my parents dime. However, I was a, I was a little 67 00:03:43,200 --> 00:03:47,000 sensitive to it, you know? And I know many people we're not 68 00:03:47,000 --> 00:03:50,100 living on their parents time and so that cost them money money 69 00:03:50,100 --> 00:03:52,400 that they could be using for laundry or groceries. 70 00:03:53,800 --> 00:03:58,800 More of the story waiting for the bus is a tiresome dragging 71 00:03:58,800 --> 00:04:01,700 exhausting experience. And I think the truth of the 72 00:04:01,700 --> 00:04:04,300 matter is, is that how that is? How I have approached the 73 00:04:04,300 --> 00:04:08,200 Sabbath, but also, I think how we approach the Sabbath, we 74 00:04:08,200 --> 00:04:10,100 approach. It must much like we're waiting 75 00:04:10,100 --> 00:04:13,100 for a bus. And if I had to ask, I imagine 76 00:04:13,100 --> 00:04:16,100 many of you when probably can Considering the Sabbath would 77 00:04:16,100 --> 00:04:19,399 say something similar. It is an understood or even 78 00:04:19,399 --> 00:04:21,300 necessary thing, like waiting for the bus. 79 00:04:21,700 --> 00:04:25,500 That translates to a drag where we generate feelings of guilt. 80 00:04:25,500 --> 00:04:29,900 Frustration and even boredom, I certainly have been right there 81 00:04:30,400 --> 00:04:31,800 for much of my adult Christian Life. 82 00:04:31,800 --> 00:04:34,600 Sabbath has been the spiritual practice of impatiently waiting 83 00:04:34,600 --> 00:04:37,300 for the bus and getting frustrated at every small. 84 00:04:37,300 --> 00:04:41,000 Inconvenience that arises from sitting around hoping to see The 85 00:04:41,000 --> 00:04:44,300 Vessel down the road. I hope today we can take, but 86 00:04:44,300 --> 00:04:46,600 take a step back and see the Sabbath for what it is. 87 00:04:47,600 --> 00:04:51,300 Then if we peel back the layers, we see beauty and opportunity. 88 00:04:52,600 --> 00:04:55,100 Today, we are going to be doing a quick and I mean, quick 89 00:04:55,100 --> 00:04:58,400 Excursion into Hebrews 4. However, I want to give you a 90 00:04:58,400 --> 00:05:01,600 little context overview. This is towards the beginning of 91 00:05:01,600 --> 00:05:04,000 Hebrews and currently, the author is comparing and 92 00:05:04,000 --> 00:05:06,500 contrasting Christ to Moses. He starts that at the end of 93 00:05:06,508 --> 00:05:10,900 chapter 2 and chapter 3, and the chief, recipients of the ladder 94 00:05:10,900 --> 00:05:13,700 are Jewish Christians and this is likely before the destruction 95 00:05:13,700 --> 00:05:18,200 of the temple in 70 AD and the more immediate context of this 96 00:05:18,200 --> 00:05:20,600 comparing and contrasting Christ to Moses. 97 00:05:20,600 --> 00:05:24,300 The author compares. Us as a steward or a servant of 98 00:05:24,300 --> 00:05:27,500 a house to Christ. Who is first the Builder? 99 00:05:27,600 --> 00:05:31,200 He says he's the Builder of all things that being God and also 100 00:05:31,200 --> 00:05:34,200 the son of the household and then the author is going to 101 00:05:34,200 --> 00:05:37,500 state that we that's us. The believer are in fact, the 102 00:05:37,500 --> 00:05:42,200 house 3:6 is that and here the author pivots and it's very 103 00:05:42,200 --> 00:05:45,100 interesting and reminds the audience of the promised. 104 00:05:45,100 --> 00:05:48,300 Rest of his people's, the author, reminds the listeners of 105 00:05:48,300 --> 00:05:51,400 the Disobedience of the desert but then reminds the hero that 106 00:05:51,400 --> 00:05:54,500 they were not United. In faith as we are united in 107 00:05:54,500 --> 00:05:59,300 faith and that would be 4:2. Now the author is pointing to 108 00:05:59,300 --> 00:06:02,400 the ancient Hebrew practice and understanding illuminated by 109 00:06:02,400 --> 00:06:04,600 faith in Christ, that is the Sabbath. 110 00:06:05,100 --> 00:06:07,900 So church if you are able, please stand for the reading of 111 00:06:07,900 --> 00:06:12,200 God's word and turn to Hebrews chapter 4, verses were only 112 00:06:12,200 --> 00:06:20,500 doing nine through eleven today. Excuse me. 113 00:06:23,700 --> 00:06:27,900 So then there remains a Sabbath rest for the people of God for 114 00:06:27,900 --> 00:06:31,400 whoever has entered God's rest has also rested from his works 115 00:06:31,400 --> 00:06:35,700 as God, did from his, let us therefore strive to enter that 116 00:06:35,700 --> 00:06:40,000 rest so that no one may fall by the same sort of Disobedience 117 00:06:40,300 --> 00:06:41,600 church. This is God's word. 118 00:06:41,600 --> 00:06:44,300 It is true, it is good. And it is beautiful. 119 00:06:44,300 --> 00:06:50,200 You may be seated. These verses are perfect for our 120 00:06:50,200 --> 00:06:53,900 Excursion, into elucidating, our wrongful bus, stop approach to 121 00:06:53,900 --> 00:06:56,100 the Sabbath. Because within them we will see 122 00:06:56,100 --> 00:06:58,900 the past the present, and the future. 123 00:06:59,500 --> 00:07:01,900 It is my hope today that you will walk away invigorated with 124 00:07:01,900 --> 00:07:05,000 a fresh understanding that portrays Sabbath not as inactive 125 00:07:05,100 --> 00:07:09,300 or boring or cumbersome, which will probably be the hard one 126 00:07:09,300 --> 00:07:11,600 for a lot of us. But rather see Sabbath as 127 00:07:11,600 --> 00:07:15,600 restful joyful and ultimately future sighted. 128 00:07:16,700 --> 00:07:19,900 If we approach our understanding of Sabbath and what rest is 129 00:07:19,900 --> 00:07:22,300 like, we are waiting for a bus. Verse 9 is the media. 130 00:07:22,300 --> 00:07:25,800 Confrontation of this understanding there, remains a 131 00:07:25,800 --> 00:07:28,700 Sabbath rest. This is both indicative of the 132 00:07:28,700 --> 00:07:32,400 continuation of Sabbath from the Jewish people's listed earlier. 133 00:07:32,400 --> 00:07:36,100 A preservation of that good thing, but also an illumination 134 00:07:36,100 --> 00:07:39,300 of what Sabbath is for the people of God, the key to 135 00:07:39,300 --> 00:07:40,500 understanding. This is the fact that 136 00:07:40,500 --> 00:07:43,000 understanding how Jews historically viewed Sabbath. 137 00:07:44,300 --> 00:07:48,500 And I did not write this a much better scholar than us that some 138 00:07:48,500 --> 00:07:49,800 of the pastor's like to reference here. 139 00:07:49,800 --> 00:07:53,600 And there said this beautifully and an essay called space-time 140 00:07:53,600 --> 00:07:55,200 in history. His name is NT right? 141 00:07:55,200 --> 00:07:58,800 He's an Anglican he made an incredible comment that I think 142 00:07:58,800 --> 00:08:02,700 will help all of us approach this holy day with a little more 143 00:08:02,700 --> 00:08:06,000 reverence and hope and joy should have it behind me. 144 00:08:06,600 --> 00:08:09,500 Awesome sweet. So in this it's a lecture it's 145 00:08:09,500 --> 00:08:12,700 called space-time and history he has been talking about the 146 00:08:12,700 --> 00:08:15,000 temple from the Jewish perspective and then he's going 147 00:08:15,000 --> 00:08:17,500 to Pivot to the Sabbath. We are right at that pivot and 148 00:08:17,500 --> 00:08:20,900 it's dynamite. So NT Wright says what I have 149 00:08:20,900 --> 00:08:23,900 just said about the temple applies, even more to the 150 00:08:23,900 --> 00:08:27,200 Sabbath, the Sabbath was to time. 151 00:08:27,500 --> 00:08:30,400 What the temple was to place. I'm going to repeat that again. 152 00:08:30,400 --> 00:08:33,900 The Sabbath was to time with the temple was to place. 153 00:08:34,299 --> 00:08:37,500 The temple was where Heaven and Earth met held together in 154 00:08:37,500 --> 00:08:40,299 dangerous symbiosis with image bearing. 155 00:08:40,299 --> 00:08:44,400 Human standing at the fault line in worship and obedience. the 156 00:08:44,400 --> 00:08:50,500 Sabbath was where the age to come broke in to the present age 157 00:08:50,500 --> 00:08:56,000 so that God's Futures and God's present were held together again 158 00:08:56,000 --> 00:08:59,000 with human beings standing at the threshold and a single 159 00:08:59,000 --> 00:09:03,500 moment of rest and celebration with the Past coming forward as 160 00:09:03,500 --> 00:09:08,300 well, the creation, the original Exodus and all the other moments 161 00:09:08,300 --> 00:09:13,600 of divine Triumph in Israel's history, To the original 162 00:09:13,600 --> 00:09:17,300 audience, Sabbath would have been a collision of Eternity 163 00:09:17,600 --> 00:09:19,900 with the temporal. Temporal is just like the time 164 00:09:19,900 --> 00:09:21,500 place. Here we have watches. 165 00:09:21,700 --> 00:09:25,000 That's us temporal likewise church. 166 00:09:25,000 --> 00:09:28,400 I submit that we should see it in the same as it seems that the 167 00:09:28,400 --> 00:09:31,800 author of Hebrews is indicating this as well as the Sabbath rest 168 00:09:31,800 --> 00:09:35,700 continues in Christ. This definition maybe a little 169 00:09:35,700 --> 00:09:38,700 esoteric or alien. Currently, esoteric just means 170 00:09:38,700 --> 00:09:42,500 weird but I hope you'll hold this first before. 171 00:09:42,600 --> 00:09:44,500 We begin to break down the discipline and self. 172 00:09:44,600 --> 00:09:48,400 That is that the Sabbath is the Eternal breaking into the 173 00:09:48,400 --> 00:09:51,800 temporal. It is a collision of time, past 174 00:09:51,800 --> 00:09:56,100 present, and future coalescing into a single moment with the 175 00:09:56,100 --> 00:09:59,000 Eternal. That is God, which lead us to 176 00:09:59,000 --> 00:10:00,600 ask? What is the Sabbath look like? 177 00:10:00,600 --> 00:10:04,800 What does it look like for time-space to collide with? 178 00:10:06,000 --> 00:10:10,600 Untie more eternal. What is that? 179 00:10:11,200 --> 00:10:15,500 Or what is rest for that matter. As it turns out contextually, we 180 00:10:15,500 --> 00:10:18,500 know that rest holds both present and eternal Dynamics. 181 00:10:18,700 --> 00:10:22,200 We see this in verse 10 for whoever has entered God's. 182 00:10:22,200 --> 00:10:26,900 Rest has also rested from his works as God, did from his 183 00:10:27,400 --> 00:10:30,700 entering, the Sabbath does contain a component of laying 184 00:10:30,700 --> 00:10:33,600 off from traditional Labor's to best understand this. 185 00:10:33,600 --> 00:10:36,200 We have to start at the back from the verse Because it helps 186 00:10:36,200 --> 00:10:40,600 understand what works are as God did from his, what did God Rest 187 00:10:40,600 --> 00:10:43,200 from? He is infinite omnipotent. 188 00:10:43,400 --> 00:10:46,500 It is ludicrous to Simply assume that he was tired and needed a 189 00:10:46,508 --> 00:10:49,800 nap. After six days of work, we know 190 00:10:49,800 --> 00:10:52,900 this. However, he still rested So 191 00:10:52,900 --> 00:10:56,000 let's see what he rested from or rather, what he rested to. 192 00:10:56,000 --> 00:10:59,800 So I have Genesis 22 through for should be Bingo. 193 00:10:59,800 --> 00:11:03,600 Awesome Genesis 22 through four states. 194 00:11:03,700 --> 00:11:07,600 Thus the heavens and earth were finished and all the host of 195 00:11:07,600 --> 00:11:10,400 them. And on the seventh day, God 196 00:11:10,400 --> 00:11:14,900 finished his work that he had done and he rested on them 197 00:11:15,800 --> 00:11:19,100 rested on the seventh day, from all his work that he had done. 198 00:11:19,500 --> 00:11:21,800 So God blessed the seventh day and made it. 199 00:11:21,800 --> 00:11:25,600 Holy Because on it, God rested from all his work that he had 200 00:11:25,600 --> 00:11:29,400 done in creation, why? We know he's not tired, we know 201 00:11:29,400 --> 00:11:32,900 he doesn't run out of energy as we run out of energy. 202 00:11:33,600 --> 00:11:39,300 We know that it's not tedious for him or cumbersome in the way 203 00:11:39,300 --> 00:11:42,400 that we might find work, tedious or cumbersome. 204 00:11:42,900 --> 00:11:45,000 Well, the original word for Sabbath offers a little 205 00:11:45,000 --> 00:11:48,600 explanation or at least a sparked the beginning of it. 206 00:11:48,900 --> 00:11:52,200 It meant more more than a casual lay down. 207 00:11:52,900 --> 00:11:54,700 It meant also to cease from work. 208 00:11:54,700 --> 00:11:58,800 Sure. We see that it's not just laying 209 00:11:58,800 --> 00:12:02,800 down to like stop or to be an active. 210 00:12:02,800 --> 00:12:07,300 We see that it means to cease to work, and that's a very specific 211 00:12:07,300 --> 00:12:09,300 clarification. What's the difference? 212 00:12:09,600 --> 00:12:13,200 Well, if you're ceasing to do one thing, that means it least 213 00:12:13,200 --> 00:12:17,700 that there is room for other things, it's not a complete, an 214 00:12:17,700 --> 00:12:22,400 action, rather, it's a replacement or another action. 215 00:12:23,100 --> 00:12:26,600 We see this in that verse, it has little to do with exhaustion 216 00:12:26,600 --> 00:12:30,100 fatigue or soreness rather. It's it is simply disengaging 217 00:12:30,100 --> 00:12:32,800 from the activity of producing creation for God. 218 00:12:33,200 --> 00:12:35,900 I'm not pointing a day exclusively for Holiness and 219 00:12:35,900 --> 00:12:39,200 blessing simply as it says in Genesis. 220 00:12:39,200 --> 00:12:42,300 He set it. Apart is not the same as the 221 00:12:42,300 --> 00:12:44,900 others for God. We know he is perfectly 222 00:12:44,900 --> 00:12:47,000 satisfied in his trinitarian self. 223 00:12:47,300 --> 00:12:50,000 He is infinitely, self-satisfied in his truth, goodness and 224 00:12:50,000 --> 00:12:53,400 beauty, or his holiness. They're also shows what the 225 00:12:53,400 --> 00:12:57,000 shape of our Sabbath should look like it is not the same grinder 226 00:12:57,000 --> 00:12:59,100 toil. It is set apart. 227 00:12:59,100 --> 00:13:02,800 We're like, God, we are now seeking satisfaction as God as 228 00:13:02,800 --> 00:13:08,300 God perfectly did, and does we have a day that he is modeled? 229 00:13:08,500 --> 00:13:13,900 We're in our chief sensitivity, our emotions, our thoughts, our 230 00:13:13,900 --> 00:13:17,700 actions are all motivated and away where we are hyper self 231 00:13:17,700 --> 00:13:20,800 aware. That we are pursuing the 232 00:13:20,800 --> 00:13:25,300 satisfaction in In God. And that is, in fact, what rest 233 00:13:25,300 --> 00:13:27,400 is that's the irony right? As much as that. 234 00:13:27,400 --> 00:13:31,000 Seems like it's own toil rest is not simply. 235 00:13:31,000 --> 00:13:34,900 Putting off of toil rather like God who doesn't perfectly the 236 00:13:34,900 --> 00:13:37,900 rest of the author of Hebrews is truly referring, to is a day of 237 00:13:37,900 --> 00:13:40,500 awareness and of satisfaction and God. 238 00:13:41,900 --> 00:13:43,800 And why is it that we participate now? 239 00:13:44,500 --> 00:13:46,300 Well, the right, quote in the Jewish, traditional 240 00:13:46,300 --> 00:13:49,800 understanding illuminate, that clearly we need to treat Sabbath 241 00:13:49,900 --> 00:13:53,800 that desire for satisfaction and God to have a day set, apart as 242 00:13:53,800 --> 00:13:56,000 something that is the Collision of time. 243 00:13:56,000 --> 00:14:00,600 With eternity, we need to treat this set apart day, like it is, 244 00:14:00,600 --> 00:14:06,300 in fact, the coming eternity What are we really striving for 245 00:14:06,500 --> 00:14:09,700 and where we find it is at the end of Revelation and I should 246 00:14:09,700 --> 00:14:13,100 have it up behind me. This is revelation 21 1 through 247 00:14:13,100 --> 00:14:18,100 5. Then I saw heaven and Earth for 248 00:14:18,100 --> 00:14:21,500 the first Heaven, and the first Earth had passed away, and the 249 00:14:21,508 --> 00:14:25,200 sea was no more. And I saw the holy city, the New 250 00:14:25,200 --> 00:14:29,400 Jerusalem coming down out of Heaven, from God prepared as a 251 00:14:29,400 --> 00:14:33,100 bride adorned for her husband and I heard a loud voice from 252 00:14:33,100 --> 00:14:37,100 the throne saying, Behold The Dwelling Place of God is with, 253 00:14:37,100 --> 00:14:41,900 man, he will dwell with them and they will be his people and God 254 00:14:41,900 --> 00:14:45,800 himself will be with them as their God. 255 00:14:46,600 --> 00:14:50,400 Church he wipe away every tear from their eyes and Death Shall 256 00:14:50,400 --> 00:14:55,300 be no more neither shall there. Be mourning nor crying nor pain 257 00:14:55,300 --> 00:15:00,300 anymore for the former things have passed away and he who was 258 00:15:00,300 --> 00:15:04,900 Seated on the throne said, behold I am making all things 259 00:15:04,900 --> 00:15:08,500 new. So the Sabbath rest is a 260 00:15:08,500 --> 00:15:11,900 temporal activity and we see this in Hebrews and we see it 261 00:15:11,900 --> 00:15:15,900 beginning in Genesis with God's demonstration but it is a 262 00:15:15,900 --> 00:15:19,900 temporary Activity, not in and of itself, but of promised, Hope 263 00:15:19,900 --> 00:15:23,900 For What Waits an eternity. It is not frustratedly waiting 264 00:15:23,900 --> 00:15:27,300 for a bus and rest is not merely lying down to us. 265 00:15:27,600 --> 00:15:31,600 No rest is much more, beautiful and hopeful it does not exclude. 266 00:15:31,600 --> 00:15:34,600 The fact that we are exhausted. It's not neglectful of that. 267 00:15:34,700 --> 00:15:37,600 Rest is a very self-aware practice where, you know, that 268 00:15:37,600 --> 00:15:42,100 you are tired and exhausted. Rather it does not neglect or 269 00:15:42,108 --> 00:15:47,500 excuse me, it does not neglect. The fact that we hurt either. 270 00:15:47,500 --> 00:15:50,300 Not only does it not neglect that we are exhausted. 271 00:15:50,300 --> 00:15:54,400 It does not neglect that we are heart nor does it deny the Pains 272 00:15:54,400 --> 00:15:57,400 of a broken World. However, the practice of making 273 00:15:57,400 --> 00:16:02,000 a day, holy of pursuing God as God perfectly and infinitely. 274 00:16:02,000 --> 00:16:06,800 Pursues himself is for us, the believer, the act of Hope 275 00:16:07,300 --> 00:16:11,100 Sabbath is a tooth and nail slog through a mired and Fallen World 276 00:16:11,100 --> 00:16:15,400 to look forward. To, to not just be here, but to 277 00:16:15,400 --> 00:16:19,800 be forward and backward, where we will be in the presence of 278 00:16:19,800 --> 00:16:22,600 God and all those toilsome days Church. 279 00:16:22,600 --> 00:16:26,000 Those tear-filled nights. And those broken World, pains 280 00:16:26,200 --> 00:16:29,600 will not even be a memory. This is why the author so 281 00:16:29,600 --> 00:16:31,900 clearly elevates Christ above Moses. 282 00:16:32,100 --> 00:16:36,600 Moses was a faithful Steward to a house Christ is the son of the 283 00:16:36,600 --> 00:16:40,100 household who is adorned its Furnishings with infinite Beauty 284 00:16:40,200 --> 00:16:42,800 and invited all who believe, come and rest. 285 00:16:43,200 --> 00:16:46,100 Which leads us to the final verse church. 286 00:16:46,100 --> 00:16:49,600 Let us therefore strive to enter that rest so that no one may 287 00:16:49,600 --> 00:16:54,700 fall by the same sort of Disobedience currently Sabbath 288 00:16:54,700 --> 00:16:56,100 in. The temporal sense is a 289 00:16:56,100 --> 00:16:58,700 striving. It is an effort as much as we're 290 00:16:58,700 --> 00:17:00,300 going to call it rest in the author of Hebrews. 291 00:17:00,300 --> 00:17:04,599 Does there is a weird irony, that that so long as we are 292 00:17:04,608 --> 00:17:08,800 here, it's going to take work and the converse of that effort, 293 00:17:08,800 --> 00:17:13,599 whether that is a lack or wrong efforts, as we see in verse Evan 294 00:17:14,900 --> 00:17:18,800 are both disobedient. So not doing it, seems to be 295 00:17:18,800 --> 00:17:22,700 Disobedience but also may be doing the wrong things is 296 00:17:22,700 --> 00:17:26,500 Disobedience, why is that? Well, if Sabbath is as right, 297 00:17:26,500 --> 00:17:30,500 says, eternity colliding with time and the shown this swear 298 00:17:30,500 --> 00:17:35,500 man gets to participate in that hopeful Revelation Vision than 299 00:17:35,500 --> 00:17:39,300 Sabbath is the closest forecasted vision of what it 300 00:17:39,300 --> 00:17:42,100 will be like to no longer be disobedient again. 301 00:17:42,900 --> 00:17:47,000 This is why it is such a fight, not just a slouch day, but to 302 00:17:47,000 --> 00:17:51,200 reframe the mind of a time, we call Sabbath all together 303 00:17:51,200 --> 00:17:53,700 because it seems like Hebrews is indicating that. 304 00:17:53,700 --> 00:17:58,900 The Sabbath is the Nexus of Hope and Beacon of trajectory for 305 00:17:58,900 --> 00:18:03,400 where we are to go and that forms us and sends us forward 306 00:18:03,400 --> 00:18:05,300 throughout the rest of our time on Earth. 307 00:18:05,900 --> 00:18:08,900 Sabbath n, is not only an eternal reprieve exploding into 308 00:18:08,900 --> 00:18:12,500 the temporal, but also the calibration. 309 00:18:12,700 --> 00:18:17,100 In church by which we learn to act and move in a fallen world. 310 00:18:17,300 --> 00:18:20,100 So Sabbath just isn't the promise of what's to come and 311 00:18:20,100 --> 00:18:24,100 how we get to play in that realm now because of God's promise. 312 00:18:24,300 --> 00:18:29,800 But in fact, doing it Faithfully learning from it humbly, that 313 00:18:29,800 --> 00:18:33,900 all is going to Tool us to make more days in the coming time 314 00:18:34,100 --> 00:18:41,600 like Sabbath church. This is precisely what makes 315 00:18:41,600 --> 00:18:45,200 Matthew 5 so powerful. If you're not familiar Christ, 316 00:18:45,200 --> 00:18:49,600 heals a man with a withered hand on Sabbath, Jesus is not simply 317 00:18:49,600 --> 00:18:53,100 saying I'm the lord of the Sabbath. 318 00:18:53,200 --> 00:18:55,500 I do what I want. Sometimes we tend to give them 319 00:18:55,500 --> 00:18:58,200 passed like that and certainly he does call himself the lord of 320 00:18:58,200 --> 00:19:00,300 the Sabbath so that would seem fair. 321 00:19:00,500 --> 00:19:03,800 But rather in that verse and that passage, he states that it 322 00:19:03,800 --> 00:19:06,000 is good to do, good on the Sabbath. 323 00:19:06,300 --> 00:19:09,300 So rest in the sense of the Sabbath Sabbath cannot simply be 324 00:19:09,300 --> 00:19:12,900 idleness church. Here Christ is showing the, a 325 00:19:12,908 --> 00:19:17,700 old man, the Sabbath, as the son of the house, inviting him into 326 00:19:17,700 --> 00:19:20,300 God's rest. This then is the second more 327 00:19:20,300 --> 00:19:23,500 difficult to apprehend aspect of the Sabbath, or at least a 328 00:19:23,500 --> 00:19:26,800 pitfall that we can participate in that doing wrong things. 329 00:19:26,800 --> 00:19:32,400 Or more precisely neglecting to do good things can also lead to 330 00:19:32,400 --> 00:19:38,400 Disobedience Church And I mean, I get it this can be frustrating 331 00:19:39,200 --> 00:19:43,500 because there's only seven days in a week and most of us pack 332 00:19:43,500 --> 00:19:49,100 them and some of us have families, larger, families, 333 00:19:49,100 --> 00:19:51,600 growing families and it's all just so much. 334 00:19:51,600 --> 00:19:55,900 And now somebody who is single has a very even work, schedule 335 00:19:55,900 --> 00:20:01,000 is telling me somebody a mother of two, three or four one, you 336 00:20:01,000 --> 00:20:04,100 know that I have to set apart this day and do these things. 337 00:20:04,100 --> 00:20:05,300 I get that it can be frustrating. 338 00:20:05,400 --> 00:20:07,900 Strating. It's almost as if you could say. 339 00:20:07,900 --> 00:20:10,100 You mean to tell me. I have to make a whole special 340 00:20:10,100 --> 00:20:13,700 day and on that day I can't do nothing to use a double 341 00:20:13,700 --> 00:20:16,900 negative. Lest I be disobedient but I must 342 00:20:16,900 --> 00:20:19,100 do certain things. Also less. 343 00:20:19,100 --> 00:20:21,400 I'd be disobedient. Honestly Church? 344 00:20:21,400 --> 00:20:22,400 Yeah. I'm saying that. 345 00:20:23,800 --> 00:20:27,800 Yeah, and look, I know that may feel unfair. 346 00:20:27,900 --> 00:20:30,500 I get it. I have a Monday to Friday job. 347 00:20:30,500 --> 00:20:32,900 My weekends are available. I can do my errands on a 348 00:20:32,908 --> 00:20:34,700 Saturday morning for many of you. 349 00:20:34,700 --> 00:20:39,200 That Liberty is much, much harder I get it. 350 00:20:39,400 --> 00:20:44,000 However, the truth is church and this may be a little hard, but 351 00:20:44,000 --> 00:20:48,400 even using that comparing recourse, we miss the attention. 352 00:20:48,400 --> 00:20:53,400 The initial task of the Sabbath seeing it as a hurdle not as a 353 00:20:53,600 --> 00:20:58,000 Eight way is chiefly our problem to approaching the Sabbath as a 354 00:20:58,100 --> 00:21:02,400 day set apart by casting it. In that light, we participate in 355 00:21:02,400 --> 00:21:06,800 the same dogmatic pragmatism that naysayers of Christ did 356 00:21:06,900 --> 00:21:08,400 albeit. It looks different. 357 00:21:09,800 --> 00:21:11,500 Church. First, we must as right? 358 00:21:11,500 --> 00:21:15,600 And the author of Hebrews show fight to set a time as something 359 00:21:15,600 --> 00:21:18,800 set apart. We do this by realizing the 360 00:21:18,800 --> 00:21:22,300 eternality of the Sabbath. Not just that, it's a day, but 361 00:21:22,300 --> 00:21:25,700 seeing it as something that even though we perceive it as a day, 362 00:21:26,100 --> 00:21:30,000 is a platform by which God is preparing and showing us 363 00:21:30,000 --> 00:21:33,200 eternity. That hope by reframing that in 364 00:21:33,200 --> 00:21:35,200 our minds. We can already. 365 00:21:35,200 --> 00:21:39,500 I'm sorry we can already begin to fight that hurdle. 366 00:21:39,600 --> 00:21:44,800 All of seeing Sabbath as just something that I have to do when 367 00:21:44,800 --> 00:21:48,300 we see it as eternity. Sure we may have that first 368 00:21:48,300 --> 00:21:51,400 inclination but the combat of that should really be simple. 369 00:21:51,800 --> 00:21:54,600 I am the problem. It's not these things that are 370 00:21:54,600 --> 00:21:58,800 set before me it's not the hours in a day it's none of that. 371 00:21:58,900 --> 00:22:02,800 I am the problem to Sabbath because if this is what eternity 372 00:22:02,800 --> 00:22:07,400 is and I am the one grumbling who's to blame eternity in the 373 00:22:07,400 --> 00:22:11,400 light of God or myself. Who we all acknowledge is a 374 00:22:11,400 --> 00:22:14,500 sinner and a sinful World broken and shamed. 375 00:22:16,900 --> 00:22:21,800 So Sabbath is the current hope and promise rest in that eternal 376 00:22:21,800 --> 00:22:26,300 glory and presence of Christ. So first perhaps most difficult, 377 00:22:26,300 --> 00:22:28,200 we need to reframe our understanding of how we 378 00:22:28,200 --> 00:22:32,000 participate. To make it God's day. 379 00:22:32,300 --> 00:22:36,600 A holy day, the effort is cataclysmically difficult, and 380 00:22:36,600 --> 00:22:41,900 all of the noise of the current age, our phones TV sports teams 381 00:22:42,100 --> 00:22:47,100 video games, all this can become clutter and I really need you to 382 00:22:47,100 --> 00:22:51,700 know become clutter, if we do not first grasp that the goal of 383 00:22:51,700 --> 00:22:56,200 Sabbath is eternal hope I'm not merely saying that as many have 384 00:22:56,200 --> 00:22:59,600 and did in the past that this means a full stop on fun. 385 00:23:00,200 --> 00:23:02,500 Hobbies and excetera on a single day. 386 00:23:02,900 --> 00:23:04,600 Certainly that may be needed though. 387 00:23:05,000 --> 00:23:08,600 Like I'm not saying that you can't do things that you love. 388 00:23:08,800 --> 00:23:14,100 I am saying that for some it might be needed and that we will 389 00:23:14,100 --> 00:23:17,400 need to evaluate that. But rather if we were to truly 390 00:23:17,400 --> 00:23:21,100 make the most of Sabbath, the first step is making everything 391 00:23:21,200 --> 00:23:23,700 about God. Everything. 392 00:23:25,000 --> 00:23:27,800 Just for some starters that this can look as simple as praying 393 00:23:27,800 --> 00:23:30,500 before every activity. I know it's commonplace to pray 394 00:23:30,500 --> 00:23:34,300 in the morning to pray in the evening to pray before meals and 395 00:23:34,300 --> 00:23:36,900 to tell people you're praying for them when they ask for help 396 00:23:38,100 --> 00:23:42,600 but really making a day where every change in flow you 397 00:23:42,600 --> 00:23:44,800 introduced with that change prayer. 398 00:23:45,300 --> 00:23:47,800 That's what I started to do. When I was asked to prepare this 399 00:23:47,800 --> 00:23:49,700 sermon as somebody who doesn't Sabbath. 400 00:23:49,700 --> 00:23:52,300 Well, I just started to consider what it would look like 401 00:23:52,300 --> 00:23:55,100 introducing prayer into my life. Life. 402 00:23:55,200 --> 00:23:58,400 So that everything that I did on that day. 403 00:23:58,400 --> 00:24:01,900 Just one day, I made every action, the mundane and the 404 00:24:01,900 --> 00:24:06,700 great about God just to see how it would change my mind and it 405 00:24:06,700 --> 00:24:09,700 did, and I have a story to share with you that has nothing to do 406 00:24:09,700 --> 00:24:12,100 with Sabbath. However, it has made me 407 00:24:12,100 --> 00:24:14,800 sensitive to that Sabbath frame of mind. 408 00:24:15,500 --> 00:24:18,100 A few few weeks ago, I was hanging out with some people 409 00:24:18,200 --> 00:24:22,500 from church for a Friday evening, great meal was cooked 410 00:24:22,500 --> 00:24:25,900 for us. There is Good drink, good 411 00:24:25,900 --> 00:24:31,100 conversations. And a kid was there, a bunch of 412 00:24:31,108 --> 00:24:33,700 kids were there? And one of them has recently 413 00:24:33,700 --> 00:24:37,100 just been really into the Legend of Zelda, specifically, Legend 414 00:24:37,100 --> 00:24:39,700 has out of the breadth of the wild to those of you that don't 415 00:24:39,700 --> 00:24:41,100 know. It's one of the greatest video 416 00:24:41,100 --> 00:24:43,400 games of all time. It's a beautiful work of art 417 00:24:43,400 --> 00:24:47,100 with an incredible like encapsulating narrative and open 418 00:24:47,100 --> 00:24:49,000 world. It's truly beautiful. 419 00:24:49,200 --> 00:24:52,300 And so this child and I frequently talk about Legend of 420 00:24:52,300 --> 00:24:56,300 Zelda, breath of the Wild, And I had the opportunity to talk with 421 00:24:56,300 --> 00:25:01,200 him and his mother about it, but more importantly as I've been 422 00:25:01,200 --> 00:25:02,700 taking Sabbath just a little more. 423 00:25:02,700 --> 00:25:06,800 Seriously, I've been trying to cast everything that I do kind 424 00:25:06,800 --> 00:25:10,800 of with an evaluative mind of is this or can this be for worship. 425 00:25:11,000 --> 00:25:13,800 And I realized something that may make some people in church 426 00:25:13,800 --> 00:25:17,400 upset that even a video game can be done for worship and this is 427 00:25:17,400 --> 00:25:19,300 what I was telling this child's mom. 428 00:25:19,700 --> 00:25:22,200 I was talking to Mom about how if we can't play a video game to 429 00:25:22,200 --> 00:25:24,500 pursue the beauty of it as a created. 430 00:25:24,600 --> 00:25:27,900 Thing of Art and then allow that to cause us to reflect upon the 431 00:25:27,900 --> 00:25:30,300 Divine that we are missing something. 432 00:25:30,300 --> 00:25:33,600 When playing a game like that the gem in the suit there is 433 00:25:33,600 --> 00:25:36,500 that we have the opportunity to turn all of creation and 434 00:25:36,500 --> 00:25:41,700 engagement and reflection of God, this mode of thinking needs 435 00:25:41,700 --> 00:25:46,300 to be the chief and first move with which we make our we make 436 00:25:46,300 --> 00:25:49,800 with regards to Sabbath. How do I see God on this holy 437 00:25:49,800 --> 00:25:54,700 day and all things that I do? This cognitive shift of or 438 00:25:54,700 --> 00:25:58,300 appraisal of things will quickly present challenges too many 439 00:25:58,300 --> 00:26:00,500 activities, that vary for individuals. 440 00:26:00,600 --> 00:26:03,100 This is where it's not. So set in stone. 441 00:26:03,900 --> 00:26:06,900 But what is set in stone is that the effect is the same. 442 00:26:06,900 --> 00:26:10,000 If you do this genuinely, we will become aware of those 443 00:26:10,000 --> 00:26:13,100 things on this day set apart that are preventing us from 444 00:26:13,100 --> 00:26:17,900 engaging with God, from a pursuing eternity in. 445 00:26:17,900 --> 00:26:19,900 This is where we diverge from Disobedience. 446 00:26:19,900 --> 00:26:23,200 We find that Sabbath is not a command of Action. 447 00:26:23,500 --> 00:26:28,700 But rather Church it is a command of luxury and of Grace 448 00:26:29,400 --> 00:26:35,200 the Sabbath mind engages past days weeks months years the ever 449 00:26:35,200 --> 00:26:39,700 present and the future with hope and thankfulness the Sabbath is 450 00:26:39,700 --> 00:26:44,000 beginning, the process of Eternity, a perspective shift 451 00:26:44,000 --> 00:26:47,600 for every action back to the Divine I think, most of us 452 00:26:47,600 --> 00:26:51,200 especially as Protestants are so fearful of being active in 453 00:26:51,200 --> 00:26:55,400 disciplines because we are Are like afraid of being perceived 454 00:26:55,400 --> 00:26:58,500 as or holding the sentiments of earning our faith. 455 00:27:00,100 --> 00:27:01,900 I don't want to just do a checklist. 456 00:27:01,900 --> 00:27:04,000 I hear all of us, say it. I've said it. 457 00:27:06,400 --> 00:27:10,200 Is it's as common verbiage used. Whenever someone asks, how 458 00:27:10,208 --> 00:27:11,900 disciplined development is going? 459 00:27:12,200 --> 00:27:14,500 I'm sure as we've gotten into these Fighter Group cards that 460 00:27:14,500 --> 00:27:17,500 many of you have probably used verbage like this, to either 461 00:27:17,500 --> 00:27:20,700 explain why you haven't done them or maybe explain how you 462 00:27:20,700 --> 00:27:24,700 answered a certain card. So that we perceive things as 463 00:27:24,700 --> 00:27:28,600 checklists. You see that this has got to be 464 00:27:28,600 --> 00:27:31,500 ironic though because it Paints the disciplines in the light, 465 00:27:31,500 --> 00:27:35,000 where we engage in that rhetoric we are putting God's fruits. 466 00:27:35,100 --> 00:27:37,900 It's in an unreachable place in ancient times. 467 00:27:37,900 --> 00:27:42,300 Civilization saw the mountains as the residences of God, but 468 00:27:42,300 --> 00:27:46,800 truthfully, I don't think much has changed down here on Earth. 469 00:27:46,900 --> 00:27:52,000 We often treat the disciplines as an idealized Mountain, then 470 00:27:52,000 --> 00:27:55,400 reject them for fear of infringing, on the meaning of 471 00:27:55,400 --> 00:28:00,100 Faith which is super weird in some sick backwards version of 472 00:28:00,100 --> 00:28:02,500 Kate Bush's classic running up that hill. 473 00:28:03,600 --> 00:28:08,800 We just see all these practices which they are effort but we see 474 00:28:08,800 --> 00:28:12,400 them as fruitless gains frustrations. 475 00:28:13,000 --> 00:28:17,200 When in fact we miss the beauty of reality that the disciplines 476 00:28:17,200 --> 00:28:21,500 are not on top of the hill. Nor is God, Sabbath is that 477 00:28:21,500 --> 00:28:24,300 proof church. We are not running up a hill, 478 00:28:24,300 --> 00:28:28,800 the Mountaintop came down to us God in the sun left off. 479 00:28:28,800 --> 00:28:31,000 The mountain to reunite with mankind. 480 00:28:31,300 --> 00:28:33,300 This is the Sabbath That Rock Church. 481 00:28:33,500 --> 00:28:37,600 That is the gospel. So you might be asking yourself 482 00:28:37,600 --> 00:28:39,300 or me. What does it look like? 483 00:28:39,400 --> 00:28:42,600 What I've already shared a little bit about like prayer and 484 00:28:43,400 --> 00:28:47,900 how I think about a video game but let's just start with a day. 485 00:28:48,600 --> 00:28:53,000 It's not as simple to say today, they do not work, we need to 486 00:28:53,008 --> 00:28:55,900 begin by making a day where we fight tooth and nail to 487 00:28:55,900 --> 00:28:58,000 appraise. All things, morning noon and 488 00:28:58,000 --> 00:29:02,000 night, and the light of thankfulness and hope in Jesus 489 00:29:02,000 --> 00:29:05,800 Christ, This is why it is so valuable if possible to practice 490 00:29:05,800 --> 00:29:08,600 Sabbath on the same day as a church service, it's almost like 491 00:29:08,600 --> 00:29:11,800 as if all the faithful Saints of all of history have kind of 492 00:29:11,800 --> 00:29:15,200 figured out that if we already have a large portion of our day 493 00:29:15,200 --> 00:29:19,200 when available to do a lot of this together that it would 494 00:29:19,200 --> 00:29:22,000 benefit the rest of our data continue doing that. 495 00:29:22,100 --> 00:29:24,600 I'm not saying that that is the only way. 496 00:29:24,600 --> 00:29:27,600 It's just that is idealized because we haven't set up that 497 00:29:27,600 --> 00:29:34,000 way both as a culture and as a faith It's so valuable because 498 00:29:34,000 --> 00:29:37,400 you're going to be with family friends who are all fighting for 499 00:29:37,400 --> 00:29:40,400 that same, joy in the same room for that, same portion of the 500 00:29:40,400 --> 00:29:43,500 day. Also, the Sabbath should be 501 00:29:43,500 --> 00:29:46,600 filled with confessions, it should be filled with 502 00:29:46,600 --> 00:29:51,300 forgiveness prayer and hope so Church, organize your Sabbath to 503 00:29:51,308 --> 00:29:54,900 confront yourself in everything seeking and seen opportunity to 504 00:29:54,900 --> 00:29:58,500 worship God in all you do, pray more than just for meals as a 505 00:29:58,508 --> 00:30:02,000 family reach out a helping hand to those around you as Christ 506 00:30:02,000 --> 00:30:06,500 did the a old man and healed his withered hand survey Church, all 507 00:30:06,500 --> 00:30:10,400 of your interests and confront their value or your inability to 508 00:30:10,400 --> 00:30:12,600 participate. If you cannot perceive them as 509 00:30:12,600 --> 00:30:16,100 something god-honoring. If you know, this is going to be 510 00:30:16,100 --> 00:30:18,900 a struggle for you schedule. Your fighter groups sometime 511 00:30:18,900 --> 00:30:22,800 after church or before church? Ask your community group 512 00:30:22,800 --> 00:30:24,900 members, if they want to hang out later in the day. 513 00:30:25,200 --> 00:30:29,200 Even if it's just a catch-up and break bread, not to sell anyone 514 00:30:29,200 --> 00:30:32,300 out here, but I hear many households do after church, 515 00:30:32,300 --> 00:30:35,500 brunches and lunches. I know some of your faces. 516 00:30:35,700 --> 00:30:38,500 I know you make pancakes and eggs and I know some of you have 517 00:30:38,500 --> 00:30:41,500 the ability to and are probably just waiting for somebody to ask 518 00:30:43,000 --> 00:30:45,800 see if they would be willing to take you in church. 519 00:30:45,800 --> 00:30:49,100 If you know that you're going to struggle, ask for help, ask 520 00:30:49,100 --> 00:30:53,000 other Christians who are also hoping And that eternity, that 521 00:30:53,000 --> 00:30:56,200 rest to help you rest. Now here in time. 522 00:30:57,900 --> 00:31:01,800 And remember that those of you taking us in that is the model 523 00:31:01,800 --> 00:31:06,300 that the author of Hebrews even references, Christ is the son of 524 00:31:06,300 --> 00:31:09,400 the household of the Builder, who invites Us in to see 525 00:31:09,400 --> 00:31:11,700 invited. The a old man into rest from his 526 00:31:11,700 --> 00:31:14,800 ailment, we should be inviting each other and in reminding, 527 00:31:14,800 --> 00:31:18,500 each other of rest. But most importantly in all of 528 00:31:18,500 --> 00:31:22,900 these actions remember Church. Sabbath has to be a specific 529 00:31:22,900 --> 00:31:24,600 time. It really does. 530 00:31:25,100 --> 00:31:28,200 But the time is for naught. If we cannot see The specific 531 00:31:28,200 --> 00:31:32,300 time as the Jews, did the beautiful and hopeful Collision 532 00:31:32,300 --> 00:31:36,900 Of Time and Eternity that. Rest on this day, looks both 533 00:31:36,900 --> 00:31:41,200 backwards to the beginning of creation and forward to our 534 00:31:41,200 --> 00:31:45,800 Eternal hope in Christ design. Your Sabbath to be reflective of 535 00:31:45,800 --> 00:31:49,200 that truth. Spend time in Fellowship, sing 536 00:31:49,200 --> 00:31:53,100 songs of worship, pray, fervently, and in all things big 537 00:31:53,100 --> 00:31:55,100 and small Church give, thanks to God. 538 00:31:57,200 --> 00:31:59,300 You know, there is a bus stop story. 539 00:31:59,300 --> 00:32:01,600 That looks a little a little like this. 540 00:32:01,600 --> 00:32:04,700 Now I know that this is going to be a pretty failed analogy, but 541 00:32:04,700 --> 00:32:06,800 I want you to just get an idea here. 542 00:32:07,100 --> 00:32:10,000 It isn't perfect but maybe it can serve as that reminder of 543 00:32:10,000 --> 00:32:12,700 how to transform your Sabbath by show of hands. 544 00:32:12,700 --> 00:32:14,500 Is anyone familiar with the movie? 545 00:32:14,500 --> 00:32:18,100 Forrest Gump, hit me with the picture. 546 00:32:18,400 --> 00:32:20,500 If it's on there, hit me with the picture. 547 00:32:20,600 --> 00:32:22,100 Awesome. Sweet. 548 00:32:22,700 --> 00:32:27,800 Somebody is waiting for a bus. Now, listen, some of you are 549 00:32:28,200 --> 00:32:31,500 nerdy bookworms like me. So I know that this is based on 550 00:32:31,500 --> 00:32:35,300 a novel by Sally Field, and you will not catch me saying this 551 00:32:35,300 --> 00:32:39,400 often, but I do believe the movie shines into Transcendent 552 00:32:39,400 --> 00:32:41,200 way that the book does not quite capture. 553 00:32:42,400 --> 00:32:46,600 And it diverges greatly. Anyway, real quick. 554 00:32:47,900 --> 00:32:52,600 If you are familiar and you or if you're not familiar and you 555 00:32:52,600 --> 00:32:54,700 haven't seen this, I'm sorry for the spoiler. 556 00:32:54,700 --> 00:32:57,500 I'm about to spoil, like the entire movie, not the 557 00:32:57,500 --> 00:32:59,700 nitty-gritty, but the overarching narrative. 558 00:33:03,100 --> 00:33:06,600 The whole movie is basically told from a tour from a bus 559 00:33:06,600 --> 00:33:09,200 stop. So in the very beginning it 560 00:33:09,200 --> 00:33:13,700 comes in and Tom Hanks deliver some incredible opening lines. 561 00:33:13,900 --> 00:33:17,500 Some voiceover it's shot really beautifully but as you begin to 562 00:33:17,500 --> 00:33:21,100 like, as, as the story unfolds, what you realize is that Forrest 563 00:33:21,100 --> 00:33:27,200 Gump, Tom Hanks is retelling his entire life story at a bus stop. 564 00:33:28,100 --> 00:33:31,100 Verse or cramps, the many incredible things of his life, 565 00:33:31,100 --> 00:33:35,400 both bad and good. Not with malice or hatred far 566 00:33:35,400 --> 00:33:39,600 from it actually, but with sambar and hopeful reflection it 567 00:33:39,600 --> 00:33:41,700 isn't until the end of the movie, though, that the audience 568 00:33:41,700 --> 00:33:45,900 is revealed to Forest trajectory he is waiting for a bus to go. 569 00:33:45,900 --> 00:33:49,400 See his unrequited. His long unrequited, love, and 570 00:33:49,400 --> 00:33:52,100 the son, he didn't know he had again. 571 00:33:52,100 --> 00:33:54,600 I know this isn't perfect, but it does shed a little light into 572 00:33:54,600 --> 00:33:59,000 how the perspective can shift. We see his whole life, the 573 00:33:59,000 --> 00:34:03,400 beautiful, and the Ugly Church, the triumphs, and the defeats 574 00:34:04,000 --> 00:34:08,600 the friends and the enemies, but here Forest isn't spiteful, he 575 00:34:08,600 --> 00:34:10,400 may be exhausted more specifically. 576 00:34:10,400 --> 00:34:13,600 In this exact moment, the movie, he like, just got done running 577 00:34:13,600 --> 00:34:16,199 after like three years. And when I say running, I don't 578 00:34:16,199 --> 00:34:17,800 mean like I went for a run in the morning. 579 00:34:17,800 --> 00:34:21,199 I mean, kind of like that. David Goggins running 80 miles a 580 00:34:21,208 --> 00:34:23,900 day Insanity. There's like a whole scene 581 00:34:23,900 --> 00:34:26,600 towards the end where he just runs for three years because a 582 00:34:26,800 --> 00:34:29,300 Earl, doesn't love him across country, not, like, down the 583 00:34:29,300 --> 00:34:31,300 road. He runs from like Maine to 584 00:34:31,300 --> 00:34:36,500 California. He's probably exhausted. 585 00:34:37,199 --> 00:34:40,900 However in this moment at the bus stop where in the whole of 586 00:34:40,900 --> 00:34:45,500 his life takes place, he is humble and he is reflective, he 587 00:34:45,500 --> 00:34:48,500 is peaceful. And ultimately as he goes onto 588 00:34:48,500 --> 00:34:52,199 the bus to carry on with his life, there's a glimmer of hope, 589 00:34:52,400 --> 00:34:55,300 this is the Collision of his past present and future. 590 00:34:57,300 --> 00:34:59,900 I think that's what Sabbath is church. 591 00:34:59,900 --> 00:35:03,400 Sabbath will be a large roadblock for many of us chiefly 592 00:35:03,400 --> 00:35:05,400 myself. I'm not good at it. 593 00:35:05,700 --> 00:35:09,200 However, if a writer can redeem, a bus stop, I have Supreme 594 00:35:09,200 --> 00:35:12,200 confidence in the Holy Spirit to redeem and set apart a day for 595 00:35:12,200 --> 00:35:16,900 us to conform Us in preparation for eternity to illuminate us to 596 00:35:16,900 --> 00:35:20,100 the beauty of the Sabbath church that is again. 597 00:35:20,300 --> 00:35:24,400 Eternity, colliding and divine matrimony with time and 598 00:35:24,400 --> 00:35:26,700 incarnate time of God opportunist. 599 00:35:26,800 --> 00:35:29,800 Us with a glimpse of what is to come church. 600 00:35:29,800 --> 00:35:32,300 That is our final rest in hope. That is the Sabbath. 601 00:35:32,800 --> 00:35:40,600 Let's pray. Oh Lord, my Lord. 602 00:35:41,200 --> 00:35:45,700 This is I day, the Heavenly ordinance of rest, the open door 603 00:35:45,700 --> 00:35:49,000 of worship, the record of Jesus. Resurrection. 604 00:35:49,500 --> 00:35:53,200 The Seal of the Sabbath to come the day when Saints militant and 605 00:35:53,200 --> 00:35:56,000 triumphant unite in Endless song. 606 00:35:56,500 --> 00:36:00,400 I blessed thee for the throne of grace that here, free favor 607 00:36:00,400 --> 00:36:04,900 rains, that open access to it is through the blood of Jesus that 608 00:36:04,900 --> 00:36:09,300 the Tails, torn aside. And I can enter the holiest and 609 00:36:09,300 --> 00:36:12,900 finally ready to here, waiting to be gracious. 610 00:36:13,200 --> 00:36:15,000 Inviting me to pour out my needs. 611 00:36:15,100 --> 00:36:18,400 Encouraging, my desires promising to give more than I 612 00:36:18,400 --> 00:36:22,700 asked or than I think. But while I bless these shame, 613 00:36:22,700 --> 00:36:25,800 and confusion or mine, I remember my past misuse of 614 00:36:25,800 --> 00:36:28,700 sacred things. My irreverent worship my base. 615 00:36:28,700 --> 00:36:32,600 Ingratitude, my cold dull, praise sprinkle all my past, 616 00:36:32,600 --> 00:36:35,500 Sabbath's, with the cleansing, blood of Jesus, and made this 617 00:36:35,500 --> 00:36:39,600 day, witness deep Improvement in me, give me in Rich. 618 00:36:39,600 --> 00:36:43,300 Abundance, the blessings. The Lord's day was designed to 619 00:36:43,300 --> 00:36:47,400 impart, may my heart be fast bound against the worldly, 620 00:36:47,400 --> 00:36:50,500 thoughts or cares. Flood my mind with peace. 621 00:36:50,600 --> 00:36:54,700 Peace Beyond understanding made my meditations be sweet. 622 00:36:54,900 --> 00:37:00,800 My acts of worship life liberty, Joy might drink the streams that 623 00:37:00,800 --> 00:37:05,200 flow from thy Throne, my food, the precious word, my defense, 624 00:37:05,200 --> 00:37:07,400 The Shield of faith and my heart. 625 00:37:07,400 --> 00:37:10,400 Be more knit to Jesus church. All men. 626 00:37:10,400 --> 00:37:30,200 Thank you. The English language is you can 627 00:37:30,200 --> 00:37:32,600 almost turn anywhere.