As the Liturgy may have indicated, we're going to be
talking about Sabbath. A couple of years ago, the
beginning of covid. Kind of we got this awesome
graphic. It's on the back of your
discipleship cards. Some of you may be familiar with
it. We kind of re-envisioned our
disciplines as a church and one of those five dish of
disciplines is Sabbath and we used this kind of question there
to get. Just a really good barometric.
Read of where our church was with the various disciplines.
So what I'm about to say is not an opinion.
But definitely it from the horse's mouth scenario, we are
not good at Sabbath as a church not Bueno.
I believe at the time it was something like 80% of the church
said, it said that they needed Improvement at the Sabbath.
Now I know many of you are new faces but a lot of you are not
and if 80% of us here said that we need to improve that the
Sabbath. I would bet in the past two
years that there have been some victories by the power of the
Holy Spirit. I would bet that many of us
Found Reclamation in this beautiful practice but the truth
is probably a lot of us. Still aren't good at it.
I know that I'm not. It's taken a lot of work, as
I've studied for this, but as we talked about Sabbath, I want you
to know that this isn't coming from condemnation, but
self-realization and hearing us, not me, but not you, either all
of us a few years ago saying, hey, we're bad at this.
I think it's really important. So I hope that you listen to
what I have to say, which means that as I'm about to tell you
what Sabbath is, I think we have to talk about waiting for a bus,
you see, when I was at Moody, specifically in Spokane, Sam is
familiar. He did this even more than me
was the only prolonged period in my life where I did not have
personal Transportation. I didn't have a car from when I
could drive, my parents gave me a car after college.
I got a car, but it was the only time Time in my life, where I
didn't have my own personal dedication or dedicated
Transportation. So I was heavily reliant on
other people always and you guessed it if nobody was
available the bus. And this means that sometimes
schedules wouldn't line up and I would have to figure out when
the next bus was and you have to walk to the bus stop.
Even though we were in a centralized location, it just
took a lot of time and for Spokane, it was actually really
easy compared to some other cities because Spokane, was this
long East to West Valley stretching from essentially
Idaho. All the way to the Columbia
River, this Valley just goes forever, but, Spokane itself.
The majority of the city while the valley Lee was East and
West. The bulk of the City.
Metropolis was north to south right in the middle of the
valley. And there was a street that cut
right down, it called division, that works out.
And if you had to go anywhere, let's say grocery shopping and
event a friend's house who didn't live in the immediate
area Church anywhere, pretty much.
You had to come into contact with division, which meant that
if you were waiting for a bus, there was a high likelihood that
you were waiting on Division and anybody who's waited for a bus.
Knows that this is miserable a truly awful experience.
In fact, waiting for anything is a truly awful experience, but
especially waiting for the bus and especially back, then it
wasn't it wasn't good back. Then there was no like in-flight
Wi-Fi, you stopped every single, stop, every single one and it
cost precious money. And I will say this, I was
living on my parents dime. However, I was a, I was a little
sensitive to it, you know? And I know many people we're not
living on their parents time and so that cost them money money
that they could be using for laundry or groceries.
More of the story waiting for the bus is a tiresome dragging
exhausting experience. And I think the truth of the
matter is, is that how that is? How I have approached the
Sabbath, but also, I think how we approach the Sabbath, we
approach. It must much like we're waiting
for a bus. And if I had to ask, I imagine
many of you when probably can Considering the Sabbath would
say something similar. It is an understood or even
necessary thing, like waiting for the bus.
That translates to a drag where we generate feelings of guilt.
Frustration and even boredom, I certainly have been right there
for much of my adult Christian Life.
Sabbath has been the spiritual practice of impatiently waiting
for the bus and getting frustrated at every small.
Inconvenience that arises from sitting around hoping to see The
Vessel down the road. I hope today we can take, but
take a step back and see the Sabbath for what it is.
Then if we peel back the layers, we see beauty and opportunity.
Today, we are going to be doing a quick and I mean, quick
Excursion into Hebrews 4. However, I want to give you a
little context overview. This is towards the beginning of
Hebrews and currently, the author is comparing and
contrasting Christ to Moses. He starts that at the end of
chapter 2 and chapter 3, and the chief, recipients of the ladder
are Jewish Christians and this is likely before the destruction
of the temple in 70 AD and the more immediate context of this
comparing and contrasting Christ to Moses.
The author compares. Us as a steward or a servant of
a house to Christ. Who is first the Builder?
He says he's the Builder of all things that being God and also
the son of the household and then the author is going to
state that we that's us. The believer are in fact, the
house 3:6 is that and here the author pivots and it's very
interesting and reminds the audience of the promised.
Rest of his people's, the author, reminds the listeners of
the Disobedience of the desert but then reminds the hero that
they were not United. In faith as we are united in
faith and that would be 4:2. Now the author is pointing to
the ancient Hebrew practice and understanding illuminated by
faith in Christ, that is the Sabbath.
So church if you are able, please stand for the reading of
God's word and turn to Hebrews chapter 4, verses were only
doing nine through eleven today. Excuse me.
So then there remains a Sabbath rest for the people of God for
whoever has entered God's rest has also rested from his works
as God, did from his, let us therefore strive to enter that
rest so that no one may fall by the same sort of Disobedience
church. This is God's word.
It is true, it is good. And it is beautiful.
You may be seated. These verses are perfect for our
Excursion, into elucidating, our wrongful bus, stop approach to
the Sabbath. Because within them we will see
the past the present, and the future.
It is my hope today that you will walk away invigorated with
a fresh understanding that portrays Sabbath not as inactive
or boring or cumbersome, which will probably be the hard one
for a lot of us. But rather see Sabbath as
restful joyful and ultimately future sighted.
If we approach our understanding of Sabbath and what rest is
like, we are waiting for a bus. Verse 9 is the media.
Confrontation of this understanding there, remains a
Sabbath rest. This is both indicative of the
continuation of Sabbath from the Jewish people's listed earlier.
A preservation of that good thing, but also an illumination
of what Sabbath is for the people of God, the key to
understanding. This is the fact that
understanding how Jews historically viewed Sabbath.
And I did not write this a much better scholar than us that some
of the pastor's like to reference here.
And there said this beautifully and an essay called space-time
in history. His name is NT right?
He's an Anglican he made an incredible comment that I think
will help all of us approach this holy day with a little more
reverence and hope and joy should have it behind me.
Awesome sweet. So in this it's a lecture it's
called space-time and history he has been talking about the
temple from the Jewish perspective and then he's going
to Pivot to the Sabbath. We are right at that pivot and
it's dynamite. So NT Wright says what I have
just said about the temple applies, even more to the
Sabbath, the Sabbath was to time.
What the temple was to place. I'm going to repeat that again.
The Sabbath was to time with the temple was to place.
The temple was where Heaven and Earth met held together in
dangerous symbiosis with image bearing.
Human standing at the fault line in worship and obedience. the
Sabbath was where the age to come broke in to the present age
so that God's Futures and God's present were held together again
with human beings standing at the threshold and a single
moment of rest and celebration with the Past coming forward as
well, the creation, the original Exodus and all the other moments
of divine Triumph in Israel's history, To the original
audience, Sabbath would have been a collision of Eternity
with the temporal. Temporal is just like the time
place. Here we have watches.
That's us temporal likewise church.
I submit that we should see it in the same as it seems that the
author of Hebrews is indicating this as well as the Sabbath rest
continues in Christ. This definition maybe a little
esoteric or alien. Currently, esoteric just means
weird but I hope you'll hold this first before.
We begin to break down the discipline and self.
That is that the Sabbath is the Eternal breaking into the
temporal. It is a collision of time, past
present, and future coalescing into a single moment with the
Eternal. That is God, which lead us to
ask? What is the Sabbath look like?
What does it look like for time-space to collide with?
Untie more eternal. What is that?
Or what is rest for that matter. As it turns out contextually, we
know that rest holds both present and eternal Dynamics.
We see this in verse 10 for whoever has entered God's.
Rest has also rested from his works as God, did from his
entering, the Sabbath does contain a component of laying
off from traditional Labor's to best understand this.
We have to start at the back from the verse Because it helps
understand what works are as God did from his, what did God Rest
from? He is infinite omnipotent.
It is ludicrous to Simply assume that he was tired and needed a
nap. After six days of work, we know
this. However, he still rested So
let's see what he rested from or rather, what he rested to.
So I have Genesis 22 through for should be Bingo.
Awesome Genesis 22 through four states.
Thus the heavens and earth were finished and all the host of
them. And on the seventh day, God
finished his work that he had done and he rested on them
rested on the seventh day, from all his work that he had done.
So God blessed the seventh day and made it.
Holy Because on it, God rested from all his work that he had
done in creation, why? We know he's not tired, we know
he doesn't run out of energy as we run out of energy.
We know that it's not tedious for him or cumbersome in the way
that we might find work, tedious or cumbersome.
Well, the original word for Sabbath offers a little
explanation or at least a sparked the beginning of it.
It meant more more than a casual lay down.
It meant also to cease from work.
Sure. We see that it's not just laying
down to like stop or to be an active.
We see that it means to cease to work, and that's a very specific
clarification. What's the difference?
Well, if you're ceasing to do one thing, that means it least
that there is room for other things, it's not a complete, an
action, rather, it's a replacement or another action.
We see this in that verse, it has little to do with exhaustion
fatigue or soreness rather. It's it is simply disengaging
from the activity of producing creation for God.
I'm not pointing a day exclusively for Holiness and
blessing simply as it says in Genesis.
He set it. Apart is not the same as the
others for God. We know he is perfectly
satisfied in his trinitarian self.
He is infinitely, self-satisfied in his truth, goodness and
beauty, or his holiness. They're also shows what the
shape of our Sabbath should look like it is not the same grinder
toil. It is set apart.
We're like, God, we are now seeking satisfaction as God as
God perfectly did, and does we have a day that he is modeled?
We're in our chief sensitivity, our emotions, our thoughts, our
actions are all motivated and away where we are hyper self
aware. That we are pursuing the
satisfaction in In God. And that is, in fact, what rest
is that's the irony right? As much as that.
Seems like it's own toil rest is not simply.
Putting off of toil rather like God who doesn't perfectly the
rest of the author of Hebrews is truly referring, to is a day of
awareness and of satisfaction and God.
And why is it that we participate now?
Well, the right, quote in the Jewish, traditional
understanding illuminate, that clearly we need to treat Sabbath
that desire for satisfaction and God to have a day set, apart as
something that is the Collision of time.
With eternity, we need to treat this set apart day, like it is,
in fact, the coming eternity What are we really striving for
and where we find it is at the end of Revelation and I should
have it up behind me. This is revelation 21 1 through
5. Then I saw heaven and Earth for
the first Heaven, and the first Earth had passed away, and the
sea was no more. And I saw the holy city, the New
Jerusalem coming down out of Heaven, from God prepared as a
bride adorned for her husband and I heard a loud voice from
the throne saying, Behold The Dwelling Place of God is with,
man, he will dwell with them and they will be his people and God
himself will be with them as their God.
Church he wipe away every tear from their eyes and Death Shall
be no more neither shall there. Be mourning nor crying nor pain
anymore for the former things have passed away and he who was
Seated on the throne said, behold I am making all things
new. So the Sabbath rest is a
temporal activity and we see this in Hebrews and we see it
beginning in Genesis with God's demonstration but it is a
temporary Activity, not in and of itself, but of promised, Hope
For What Waits an eternity. It is not frustratedly waiting
for a bus and rest is not merely lying down to us.
No rest is much more, beautiful and hopeful it does not exclude.
The fact that we are exhausted. It's not neglectful of that.
Rest is a very self-aware practice where, you know, that
you are tired and exhausted. Rather it does not neglect or
excuse me, it does not neglect. The fact that we hurt either.
Not only does it not neglect that we are exhausted.
It does not neglect that we are heart nor does it deny the Pains
of a broken World. However, the practice of making
a day, holy of pursuing God as God perfectly and infinitely.
Pursues himself is for us, the believer, the act of Hope
Sabbath is a tooth and nail slog through a mired and Fallen World
to look forward. To, to not just be here, but to
be forward and backward, where we will be in the presence of
God and all those toilsome days Church.
Those tear-filled nights. And those broken World, pains
will not even be a memory. This is why the author so
clearly elevates Christ above Moses.
Moses was a faithful Steward to a house Christ is the son of the
household who is adorned its Furnishings with infinite Beauty
and invited all who believe, come and rest.
Which leads us to the final verse church.
Let us therefore strive to enter that rest so that no one may
fall by the same sort of Disobedience currently Sabbath
in. The temporal sense is a
striving. It is an effort as much as we're
going to call it rest in the author of Hebrews.
Does there is a weird irony, that that so long as we are
here, it's going to take work and the converse of that effort,
whether that is a lack or wrong efforts, as we see in verse Evan
are both disobedient. So not doing it, seems to be
Disobedience but also may be doing the wrong things is
Disobedience, why is that? Well, if Sabbath is as right,
says, eternity colliding with time and the shown this swear
man gets to participate in that hopeful Revelation Vision than
Sabbath is the closest forecasted vision of what it
will be like to no longer be disobedient again.
This is why it is such a fight, not just a slouch day, but to
reframe the mind of a time, we call Sabbath all together
because it seems like Hebrews is indicating that.
The Sabbath is the Nexus of Hope and Beacon of trajectory for
where we are to go and that forms us and sends us forward
throughout the rest of our time on Earth.
Sabbath n, is not only an eternal reprieve exploding into
the temporal, but also the calibration.
In church by which we learn to act and move in a fallen world.
So Sabbath just isn't the promise of what's to come and
how we get to play in that realm now because of God's promise.
But in fact, doing it Faithfully learning from it humbly, that
all is going to Tool us to make more days in the coming time
like Sabbath church. This is precisely what makes
Matthew 5 so powerful. If you're not familiar Christ,
heals a man with a withered hand on Sabbath, Jesus is not simply
saying I'm the lord of the Sabbath.
I do what I want. Sometimes we tend to give them
passed like that and certainly he does call himself the lord of
the Sabbath so that would seem fair.
But rather in that verse and that passage, he states that it
is good to do, good on the Sabbath.
So rest in the sense of the Sabbath Sabbath cannot simply be
idleness church. Here Christ is showing the, a
old man, the Sabbath, as the son of the house, inviting him into
God's rest. This then is the second more
difficult to apprehend aspect of the Sabbath, or at least a
pitfall that we can participate in that doing wrong things.
Or more precisely neglecting to do good things can also lead to
Disobedience Church And I mean, I get it this can be frustrating
because there's only seven days in a week and most of us pack
them and some of us have families, larger, families,
growing families and it's all just so much.
And now somebody who is single has a very even work, schedule
is telling me somebody a mother of two, three or four one, you
know that I have to set apart this day and do these things.
I get that it can be frustrating.
Strating. It's almost as if you could say.
You mean to tell me. I have to make a whole special
day and on that day I can't do nothing to use a double
negative. Lest I be disobedient but I must
do certain things. Also less.
I'd be disobedient. Honestly Church?
Yeah. I'm saying that.
Yeah, and look, I know that may feel unfair.
I get it. I have a Monday to Friday job.
My weekends are available. I can do my errands on a
Saturday morning for many of you.
That Liberty is much, much harder I get it.
However, the truth is church and this may be a little hard, but
even using that comparing recourse, we miss the attention.
The initial task of the Sabbath seeing it as a hurdle not as a
Eight way is chiefly our problem to approaching the Sabbath as a
day set apart by casting it. In that light, we participate in
the same dogmatic pragmatism that naysayers of Christ did
albeit. It looks different.
Church. First, we must as right?
And the author of Hebrews show fight to set a time as something
set apart. We do this by realizing the
eternality of the Sabbath. Not just that, it's a day, but
seeing it as something that even though we perceive it as a day,
is a platform by which God is preparing and showing us
eternity. That hope by reframing that in
our minds. We can already.
I'm sorry we can already begin to fight that hurdle.
All of seeing Sabbath as just something that I have to do when
we see it as eternity. Sure we may have that first
inclination but the combat of that should really be simple.
I am the problem. It's not these things that are
set before me it's not the hours in a day it's none of that.
I am the problem to Sabbath because if this is what eternity
is and I am the one grumbling who's to blame eternity in the
light of God or myself. Who we all acknowledge is a
sinner and a sinful World broken and shamed.
So Sabbath is the current hope and promise rest in that eternal
glory and presence of Christ. So first perhaps most difficult,
we need to reframe our understanding of how we
participate. To make it God's day.
A holy day, the effort is cataclysmically difficult, and
all of the noise of the current age, our phones TV sports teams
video games, all this can become clutter and I really need you to
know become clutter, if we do not first grasp that the goal of
Sabbath is eternal hope I'm not merely saying that as many have
and did in the past that this means a full stop on fun.
Hobbies and excetera on a single day.
Certainly that may be needed though.
Like I'm not saying that you can't do things that you love.
I am saying that for some it might be needed and that we will
need to evaluate that. But rather if we were to truly
make the most of Sabbath, the first step is making everything
about God. Everything.
Just for some starters that this can look as simple as praying
before every activity. I know it's commonplace to pray
in the morning to pray in the evening to pray before meals and
to tell people you're praying for them when they ask for help
but really making a day where every change in flow you
introduced with that change prayer.
That's what I started to do. When I was asked to prepare this
sermon as somebody who doesn't Sabbath.
Well, I just started to consider what it would look like
introducing prayer into my life. Life.
So that everything that I did on that day.
Just one day, I made every action, the mundane and the
great about God just to see how it would change my mind and it
did, and I have a story to share with you that has nothing to do
with Sabbath. However, it has made me
sensitive to that Sabbath frame of mind.
A few few weeks ago, I was hanging out with some people
from church for a Friday evening, great meal was cooked
for us. There is Good drink, good
conversations. And a kid was there, a bunch of
kids were there? And one of them has recently
just been really into the Legend of Zelda, specifically, Legend
has out of the breadth of the wild to those of you that don't
know. It's one of the greatest video
games of all time. It's a beautiful work of art
with an incredible like encapsulating narrative and open
world. It's truly beautiful.
And so this child and I frequently talk about Legend of
Zelda, breath of the Wild, And I had the opportunity to talk with
him and his mother about it, but more importantly as I've been
taking Sabbath just a little more.
Seriously, I've been trying to cast everything that I do kind
of with an evaluative mind of is this or can this be for worship.
And I realized something that may make some people in church
upset that even a video game can be done for worship and this is
what I was telling this child's mom.
I was talking to Mom about how if we can't play a video game to
pursue the beauty of it as a created.
Thing of Art and then allow that to cause us to reflect upon the
Divine that we are missing something.
When playing a game like that the gem in the suit there is
that we have the opportunity to turn all of creation and
engagement and reflection of God, this mode of thinking needs
to be the chief and first move with which we make our we make
with regards to Sabbath. How do I see God on this holy
day and all things that I do? This cognitive shift of or
appraisal of things will quickly present challenges too many
activities, that vary for individuals.
This is where it's not. So set in stone.
But what is set in stone is that the effect is the same.
If you do this genuinely, we will become aware of those
things on this day set apart that are preventing us from
engaging with God, from a pursuing eternity in.
This is where we diverge from Disobedience.
We find that Sabbath is not a command of Action.
But rather Church it is a command of luxury and of Grace
the Sabbath mind engages past days weeks months years the ever
present and the future with hope and thankfulness the Sabbath is
beginning, the process of Eternity, a perspective shift
for every action back to the Divine I think, most of us
especially as Protestants are so fearful of being active in
disciplines because we are Are like afraid of being perceived
as or holding the sentiments of earning our faith.
I don't want to just do a checklist.
I hear all of us, say it. I've said it.
Is it's as common verbiage used. Whenever someone asks, how
disciplined development is going?
I'm sure as we've gotten into these Fighter Group cards that
many of you have probably used verbage like this, to either
explain why you haven't done them or maybe explain how you
answered a certain card. So that we perceive things as
checklists. You see that this has got to be
ironic though because it Paints the disciplines in the light,
where we engage in that rhetoric we are putting God's fruits.
It's in an unreachable place in ancient times.
Civilization saw the mountains as the residences of God, but
truthfully, I don't think much has changed down here on Earth.
We often treat the disciplines as an idealized Mountain, then
reject them for fear of infringing, on the meaning of
Faith which is super weird in some sick backwards version of
Kate Bush's classic running up that hill.
We just see all these practices which they are effort but we see
them as fruitless gains frustrations.
When in fact we miss the beauty of reality that the disciplines
are not on top of the hill. Nor is God, Sabbath is that
proof church. We are not running up a hill,
the Mountaintop came down to us God in the sun left off.
The mountain to reunite with mankind.
This is the Sabbath That Rock Church.
That is the gospel. So you might be asking yourself
or me. What does it look like?
What I've already shared a little bit about like prayer and
how I think about a video game but let's just start with a day.
It's not as simple to say today, they do not work, we need to
begin by making a day where we fight tooth and nail to
appraise. All things, morning noon and
night, and the light of thankfulness and hope in Jesus
Christ, This is why it is so valuable if possible to practice
Sabbath on the same day as a church service, it's almost like
as if all the faithful Saints of all of history have kind of
figured out that if we already have a large portion of our day
when available to do a lot of this together that it would
benefit the rest of our data continue doing that.
I'm not saying that that is the only way.
It's just that is idealized because we haven't set up that
way both as a culture and as a faith It's so valuable because
you're going to be with family friends who are all fighting for
that same, joy in the same room for that, same portion of the
day. Also, the Sabbath should be
filled with confessions, it should be filled with
forgiveness prayer and hope so Church, organize your Sabbath to
confront yourself in everything seeking and seen opportunity to
worship God in all you do, pray more than just for meals as a
family reach out a helping hand to those around you as Christ
did the a old man and healed his withered hand survey Church, all
of your interests and confront their value or your inability to
participate. If you cannot perceive them as
something god-honoring. If you know, this is going to be
a struggle for you schedule. Your fighter groups sometime
after church or before church? Ask your community group
members, if they want to hang out later in the day.
Even if it's just a catch-up and break bread, not to sell anyone
out here, but I hear many households do after church,
brunches and lunches. I know some of your faces.
I know you make pancakes and eggs and I know some of you have
the ability to and are probably just waiting for somebody to ask
see if they would be willing to take you in church.
If you know that you're going to struggle, ask for help, ask
other Christians who are also hoping And that eternity, that
rest to help you rest. Now here in time.
And remember that those of you taking us in that is the model
that the author of Hebrews even references, Christ is the son of
the household of the Builder, who invites Us in to see
invited. The a old man into rest from his
ailment, we should be inviting each other and in reminding,
each other of rest. But most importantly in all of
these actions remember Church. Sabbath has to be a specific
time. It really does.
But the time is for naught. If we cannot see The specific
time as the Jews, did the beautiful and hopeful Collision
Of Time and Eternity that. Rest on this day, looks both
backwards to the beginning of creation and forward to our
Eternal hope in Christ design. Your Sabbath to be reflective of
that truth. Spend time in Fellowship, sing
songs of worship, pray, fervently, and in all things big
and small Church give, thanks to God.
You know, there is a bus stop story.
That looks a little a little like this.
Now I know that this is going to be a pretty failed analogy, but
I want you to just get an idea here.
It isn't perfect but maybe it can serve as that reminder of
how to transform your Sabbath by show of hands.
Is anyone familiar with the movie?
Forrest Gump, hit me with the picture.
If it's on there, hit me with the picture.
Awesome. Sweet.
Somebody is waiting for a bus. Now, listen, some of you are
nerdy bookworms like me. So I know that this is based on
a novel by Sally Field, and you will not catch me saying this
often, but I do believe the movie shines into Transcendent
way that the book does not quite capture.
And it diverges greatly. Anyway, real quick.
If you are familiar and you or if you're not familiar and you
haven't seen this, I'm sorry for the spoiler.
I'm about to spoil, like the entire movie, not the
nitty-gritty, but the overarching narrative.
The whole movie is basically told from a tour from a bus
stop. So in the very beginning it
comes in and Tom Hanks deliver some incredible opening lines.
Some voiceover it's shot really beautifully but as you begin to
like, as, as the story unfolds, what you realize is that Forrest
Gump, Tom Hanks is retelling his entire life story at a bus stop.
Verse or cramps, the many incredible things of his life,
both bad and good. Not with malice or hatred far
from it actually, but with sambar and hopeful reflection it
isn't until the end of the movie, though, that the audience
is revealed to Forest trajectory he is waiting for a bus to go.
See his unrequited. His long unrequited, love, and
the son, he didn't know he had again.
I know this isn't perfect, but it does shed a little light into
how the perspective can shift. We see his whole life, the
beautiful, and the Ugly Church, the triumphs, and the defeats
the friends and the enemies, but here Forest isn't spiteful, he
may be exhausted more specifically.
In this exact moment, the movie, he like, just got done running
after like three years. And when I say running, I don't
mean like I went for a run in the morning.
I mean, kind of like that. David Goggins running 80 miles a
day Insanity. There's like a whole scene
towards the end where he just runs for three years because a
Earl, doesn't love him across country, not, like, down the
road. He runs from like Maine to
California. He's probably exhausted.
However in this moment at the bus stop where in the whole of
his life takes place, he is humble and he is reflective, he
is peaceful. And ultimately as he goes onto
the bus to carry on with his life, there's a glimmer of hope,
this is the Collision of his past present and future.
I think that's what Sabbath is church.
Sabbath will be a large roadblock for many of us chiefly
myself. I'm not good at it.
However, if a writer can redeem, a bus stop, I have Supreme
confidence in the Holy Spirit to redeem and set apart a day for
us to conform Us in preparation for eternity to illuminate us to
the beauty of the Sabbath church that is again.
Eternity, colliding and divine matrimony with time and
incarnate time of God opportunist.
Us with a glimpse of what is to come church.
That is our final rest in hope. That is the Sabbath.
Let's pray. Oh Lord, my Lord.
This is I day, the Heavenly ordinance of rest, the open door
of worship, the record of Jesus. Resurrection.
The Seal of the Sabbath to come the day when Saints militant and
triumphant unite in Endless song.
I blessed thee for the throne of grace that here, free favor
rains, that open access to it is through the blood of Jesus that
the Tails, torn aside. And I can enter the holiest and
finally ready to here, waiting to be gracious.
Inviting me to pour out my needs.
Encouraging, my desires promising to give more than I
asked or than I think. But while I bless these shame,
and confusion or mine, I remember my past misuse of
sacred things. My irreverent worship my base.
Ingratitude, my cold dull, praise sprinkle all my past,
Sabbath's, with the cleansing, blood of Jesus, and made this
day, witness deep Improvement in me, give me in Rich.
Abundance, the blessings. The Lord's day was designed to
impart, may my heart be fast bound against the worldly,
thoughts or cares. Flood my mind with peace.
Peace Beyond understanding made my meditations be sweet.
My acts of worship life liberty, Joy might drink the streams that
flow from thy Throne, my food, the precious word, my defense,
The Shield of faith and my heart.
Be more knit to Jesus church. All men.
Thank you. The English language is you can
almost turn anywhere.