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Can we magnify the Lord right 
now? 

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Can you lift your eyes to him 
and magnify him, looking unto 

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Jesus, the Author, the finisher 
of our faith? 

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Hallelujah, Jesus, when my 
strength is gone, your strength 

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is perfect, God. 
When I don't have the energy, 

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Lord, to lift my head, you're 
the lifter of my head. 

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Hallelujah, fine, Lord, 
Consolation in you. 

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Find consolation in you, Jesus. 
Hallelujah, Lord. 

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Hallelujah, Lord. 
Hallelujah, Lord. 

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Sweep over my soul, sweet 
spirit, sweep over my soul. 

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Oh. 
Oh. 

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Amen. 
Can we raise our hands one more 

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time and be mindful of the Lord?
I love you, Jesus. 

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I appreciate you, Lord. 
Oh Lord, you're all together 

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lovely Father, You're kind, 
You're compassionate, you're 

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mindful. 
Hallelujah, Hallelujah, 

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Hallelujah. 
Glory be to your name. 

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Glory be to your name. 
Glory be to your name. 

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Glory be to your name, Thank 
you, Jesus, thank you, Jesus. 

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Hallelujah. 
Such a good God, such a good 

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God, Amen. 
He loves us, oh how he loves us,

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Amen. 
Tonight, Amen. 

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If you'll stand with me here 
this evening, we'll turn to the 

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Book of Psalms, chapter 139. 
The Book of Psalms chapter 139. 

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Amen. 
This evening going to read a few

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verses of scripture. 
First 3 verses. 

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The Bible says the psalmist in 
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David, O Lord, thou has searched
me and know me. 

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Thou knowest my down sitting and
my uprising. 

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Thou understandest my thought 
afar off. 

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Please note verse 3. 
This is like a key verse for me 

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tonight. 
Thou compasseth my path and my 

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lying down, not acquainted with 
all my ways. 

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I don't know if this is a like 
regular fair Sunday night 

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sermon, but I'm not regular. 
But I have felt instructed this 

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week to minister along these 
lines, and I think it's 

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important I maybe this year 
maybe more than any time of 

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year, right? 
With all the hustle and the 

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bustle, I feel like I need a 
minister tonight. 

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He sees me rest. 
He sees me rest Amen. 

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I hope to help somebody tonight.
He sees me rest. 

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Hallelujah. 
Let's talk to him right now. 

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Father, I love you. 
God, this is not my word. 

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It's your words. 
God, this isn't my service. 

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It's your service. 
God, we congregate together 

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tonight, Lord, around your 
spirit. 

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We congregate, Lord, around your
word. 

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And I, I pray, O God, your word 
would find us. 

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God, find someone this evening. 
God, encourage, instruct God 

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just to give Lord the latitude. 
Lord Jesus, perhaps God, 

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whatever Lord, preconceived 
notions, the thoughts, God that 

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may have about certain things 
that you could, Lord just pull 

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back the cover on something and 
see Lord of peace, God of place,

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the Lord of security, Lord of 
confinement, Lord in you I pray,

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Lord, let your spirit speak, 
Lord through your word and we 

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will not be disappointed. 
God in what you say and what you

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convey. 
Lord in this place tonight God 

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will thank you for it in Jesus 
name that I pray someone say 

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man, you may be seated tonight. 
He sees me rest. 

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Psalms 139 is like some of those
other popular chapters of the 

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book of Psalms. 
I would place it alongside there

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like a Psalms 23. 
It's one that that people favor 

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some that people have taken to 
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I know years ago, I believe it 
was my wife's grandmother kind 

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of dedicated that Psalm as 
saying, Dawn, this is your your 

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Psalm. 
So it's a favorite Psalm. 

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People are familiar with some of
the phrasings of this Psalm that

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highlights really God's 
omniscience and God's 

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omnipresence. 
David marvels throughout this 

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Psalm. 
He marvels at God's knowledge of

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him. 
Every thought that David had, 

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every word that he spoke, every 
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in, he relates to us that God 
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Whenever you begin to think of 
that, that's almost 

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incomprehensible, that God 
would, and I know he's God, that

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we understand our earthly 
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No one per say no and every 
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And David illustrates that to 
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And when you take that and you 
pair that then with the reality 

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that God is wherever you're 
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blowing just to put those two 
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not a place that we can go that 
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whether in heaven or the depths 
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of the sea. 
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And then you, you, you pair with
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creator of the universe involved
himself in all the details and 

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all the intricacies of your 
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in your mother's womb. 
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to me and at the same time 
inspiring to me. 

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And so as you read through 
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but a profound reminder that God
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involvement in every detail of 
our lives. 

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He said in verse 3, which is the
key for us tonight. 

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David says he compasseth my path
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scripture says that he 
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sifts and searches out my path. 
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observe my travels and my rest 
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ways. 
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understand that this all 
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just solely interested in where 
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order to get there, but He is 
also interested in my lying 

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down. 
He is interested in our rest. 

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Our rest is even subjected to 
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discriminating investigation by 
our God. 

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I know that's hard for us to 
really wrestle with and to 

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somehow compute in our minds, 
but God knows when we rest and 

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how. 
David even says he observes it. 

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He set the pattern for it in the
very beginning by blessing and 

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by sanctifying the 7th day of 
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That wasn't an act of necessity 
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day. 
God does not grow weary. 

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God does not become tired. 
But He left that for us, for 

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humanity, an example for us to 
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He was in two instituting in the
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I even say, if not only physical
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sorts of rest. 
Even as David shepherd in the 

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psalms 23 the Lord is my 
shepherd. 

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I shall not want you get to 
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his shepherd being God said that
he maketh me lie down in green 

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pastures. 
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rest was not an afterthought for
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of the creative order of God, 
that holy pause right when all 

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of the completion of the work of
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He says that let's sanctify and 
bless a day for rest. 

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The Psalm was said in Psalms 4 
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He says I will both lay me down 
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Lord, only make us me dwell in 
safety. 

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In other words, folks, when we 
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I know, I know the generation. 
I'm talking to me tonight, 

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right? 
I'm talking to Pastor McGee. 

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I'm talking to those of us that 
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always doing. 
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not to do, we feel bad about not
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I'll just preach to the preacher
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But God knows rest, Amen. 
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the trust in rest is this, that 
I can lay down in peace and 

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sleep and my family will still 
be protected. 

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I can lay down in peace and 
sleep and the job's going to 

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continue whether I'm there or 
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I can rest and the earth is not 
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its orbit, Amen, at all. 
Because I can just trust and 

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dwell in safety. 
Because I know the Lord can make

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me dwell in safety. 
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that everything that goes on in 
my life and everything that goes

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on in the lives of those that 
I'm attached to doesn't all 

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depend upon me and my doing. 
Amen. 

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It doesn't all depend upon me. 
So when I rest, and since 

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there's a major of trust in 
that, when I rest, I worship 

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because it doesn't depend upon 
Paul and it doesn't depend upon 

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what Paul can do, I trust. 
And in that trust is a major of 

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worship of a higher power that's
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That sets the sun and causes it 
to rise. 

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When I rest, God pays attention.
When I rest, I trust the one who

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the Bible says never sleeps and 
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Amen. 
And I know there's a mixed bag 

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of there's some of you have no 
problem resting and I'm I'm, I 

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have no problem with that. 
But there's others that feel 

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vulnerable whenever they rest. 
They feel bad whenever they 

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rest. 
Like I I know I tell myself it's

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something I've gotten a little 
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to be able to just take time and
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But God included that very thing
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In other words, God made that a 
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the animals that were made and 
man being made and female being 

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made and the distinction. 
You know, you don't want to mess

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with any of those things because
if you do, it gets real messy. 

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But we all the time, we all the 
time mismanage the rest aspect 

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of creation. 
I told you this ain't a normal 

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Sunday night thing, but we do 
that sometimes. 

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The biggest, the biggest, 
something that we can do is 

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nothing. 
I remove myself from activity, 

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the affairs of this life, and I 
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Again, that's worship. 
That means this omniscient God 

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who is all knowing knows when I 
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tells me that he's there when I 
do rest. 

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He's interested in every aspect 
of my life. 

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We see it over and over again. 
We see it then in the 

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commandment in Exodus chapter 
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reinforces the divine pattern of
remember the Sabbath day to keep

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it holy, observe a day of rest. 
Israel had to acknowledge their 

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dependence on God rather than 
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And tragically, Israeli neglect 
of rest and the lands Sabbath of

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rest 'cause them to go into 
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pattern of taking time to rest. 
Because when we tamper with 

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those things, including rest, it
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Rest isn't a luxury. 
Listen, according to God's word,

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rest isn't a luxury. 
Rest is a commandment. 

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Maybe I'll just get let me pull 
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We'll get down here and I'll 
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minutes. 
It's not a luxury. 

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It's a commandment and according
to creation, a blessing. 

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Do, do, do, do for God. 
Do, do, do, do for God. 

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One of the tick boxes you need 
to check off is rest. 

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Mary has taken that good part, 
he told Martha, who's covered 

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about with many things. 
Mary has taken that good part 

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that will not be taken away from
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Rest, someone say rest. 
Sometimes there's periodic times

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of not doing anything and then 
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We're fulfilling the word of the
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I want to present a story to you
tonight, one that you're quite 

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familiar with from Judges 
chapter #16 because hear me 

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well. 
And, and, and, and, and this, 

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this is the story course of 
Samson's sister McGee. 

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This wasn't from this morning 
preaching that I had some guy 

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preaching. 
He was touching on Samson. 

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This was already in my spirit 
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But Judges chapter #16 in 
reality, and just follow me here

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for a few minutes, illustrates 
the danger of a restless life. 

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Samson was a man we know of 
extraordinary strength, caught 

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by God, yes, for a special 
purpose, for a special plan. 

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His parents were told that he 
would begin to deliver Israel 

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from the hands of the 
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And whenever we think of his 
story, most people think of the 

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latter portion of his story, and
we think of the seduction. 

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What we say is the seduction of 
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And we assume, thinking of this 
seduction, we often think that 

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Delilah must have been some sexy
broad. 

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She must have been one eye full 
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I'm telling you what, In order 
to seduce and be persuasive and 

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find where in his strength like 
she had to be something for that

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matter, she was employed, 
according to the Bible, by the 

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Lords of the Philistines to 
entice him. 

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And whenever she did this, this 
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This wasn't a cold call for her,
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us prior to this that Samson 
loved her. 

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All right, But Delilah's name 
means feeble. 

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Now you'd reach scholars. 
I don't agree with these 

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scholars because they say her 
name meets feeble, because she 

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made Simpson feeble. 
I've studied the Bible for too 

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many years, folks. 
Almost as far as I know, in 

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every instance where a person 
has a name, their name is a 

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description of them, Their 
character is everybody. 

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All right. 
And so her name means feeble. 

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Someone say feeble. 
In other words, this feebleness 

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quite possibly is a 
characteristic of Delilah 

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herself. 
And if that's the case, as a 

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matter of fact, if you read 
through the judges account, 

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there's nothing there that says 
anything about her appearance. 

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Nothing at all anything there 
that says anything about her 

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appearance. 
And so as I was thinking on this

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this week, Sister Sam, I 
thought, if this is the case 

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then #1 why does Simpson love 
her just OK and #2 how in the 

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world is she going to entice 
him? 

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Now I know number one Sister 
Sheila, and we took her to 

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Simpson has a little bit of a 
woman problem. 

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Anyway, throughout the story of 
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see that he had three different 
women. 

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All right, I get that. 
But there is another aspect as 

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well and that is that Samson 
lived a life of conflict and 

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over exertion. 
Let me say it like this. 

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He did not take time. 
Forrest followed me here 

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tonight. 
And so here's Samson you read in

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these few chapters. 
He's traveling here and there. 

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He's traveling over in the 
Philistine because every woman 

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that he liked was a Philistine. 
We could talk about that. 

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But anyway, every woman he liked
was a Philistine. 

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So he's traveling over there and
back. 

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He's trying to hold the the 
interest of women folks. 

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That's a full time job right 
within itself. 

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And three, three different ones 
at different times. 

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That's heavy stuff. 
Hey, man, so he's doing that. 

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But then you look at the 
different things that he's doing

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in his life. 
He kills a lion with his bare 

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hands. 
He makes a Riddle, Amen, and 

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tells a few men that he would 
promise them a prize if they 

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could get the Riddle right. 
And when they got the Riddle 

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right, you know what he had to 
do? 

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He had to go kill some folks in 
order to get their 30 changes of

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garments, Amen, in order to give
unto them. 

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The Bible says he caught 300 
boxes. 

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I don't know how long it takes 
to catch 300 boxes, but he 

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caught 300 boxes. 
He would take them in pairs and 

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tie their tails together and put
a torch in them, set it on fire,

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and then he let the foxes go 
into a field of the Philistines 

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to destroy. 
The Bible also says that he 

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killed 1000 men with the jawbone
of a donkey. 

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And if you want to talk about 
restless nights, he was spending

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the night in Gaza and the Bible 
says he got up at midnight and 

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carried the heavy gates and the 
of the city away on his 

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shoulders because there was an 
ambush that was awaiting him. 

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And so I'll tell you tonight why
Samson loved Delilah. 

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Yes. 
And we know yes, the woman 

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thing, yes, there could have 
been sex appeal there. 

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But the other side to that was 
this. 

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She was a place he could rest 
when has to entice him. 

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An observant Delilah deserved. 
What could this man possibly 

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trade? 
What what the his knowledge of 

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where his strength is? 
What would he give an exchange? 

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What kind of exchange or trade 
could be made? 

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What could Ioffer him that he 
would give me that in return? 

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An observant Delilah says rest. 
You see the binding with the 

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green widths. 
You see the binding with the new

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ropes. 
You see the weaving of the locks

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of his hair in the weave. 
You see the shaving of his hair.

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All of this seems to happen over
a few days. 

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The Bible says she pressed him 
daily for the information and 

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the story has him in Judges 1614
awakening one time and then a 

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little later the last time when 
she shaved off his head. 

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The Bible says that she made him
sleep up on her knee. 

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It seems like each time Amen 
that he slept, and that was for 

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a man who typically didn't rest,
someone came in. 

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So the tragedy of the episode of
Judges chapter #16 really 

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reveals this, that Samson's 
downfall was not just about 

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temptation, but about a man who 
ignored a deeper need in his 

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life as well. 
Rest someone say man, yeah, he 

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found it in the wrong place and 
yes, yes, yes, he needed a 

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sanctuary of rest. 
But Delilah says I'll make that 

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place right here. 
There's a old poem by by John 

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Milton that centers around the 
Simpson story, and one line out 

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of that poem says this. 
It says at times when men seek 

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most repose and rest. 
I shielded and unlocked her all 

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my heart. 
I tell you a restless world. 

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Amen need rest. 
But The thing is, you'll be 

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offered counterfeit rest. 
You'll be offered counterfeit 

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rest there. 
There can be distractions and 

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escapism that are counterfeit 
rest. 

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What you need is the rest we're 
in the weary can rest. 

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You need the rest that can only 
come from God. 

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You need the rest that is a 
trusting in Him and a worship in

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him while resting. 
Hey man, you need a restorative 

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rest. 
Excuse me when I rest. 

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I'm going to say this. 
Say this all of us. 

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We are too busy. 
We are too busy. 

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I told my wife the other day and
I think I even told my mom this 

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morning. 
I have a love hate relationship 

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with this time of year, all the 
other obligations that get put 

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on the plate, the things you 
feel like you have to be at. 

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And in our world, this is the 
way that it is. 

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It is created the modern life 
just of the world. 

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And this is the way that society
has made it that it's almost a 

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badge of honor to be busy. 
I'm sorry, folks, I apologize. 

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I'm sorry you haven't endured 
this, but it's a badge of honor 

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to be busy because the greatest 
thing that you can say whenever 

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you enter a conversation, well, 
how you going, how your things 

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going, how you doing? 
I tell you what, you know how it

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is. 
It's just busy, huh? 

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Because we society has equated 
busyness with importance and 

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everybody wants to feel 
important. 

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So if I'm not as busy as the 
next one, maybe I'm lying. 

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If I'm like, if I'm lying, I'm 
dying. 

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I'm telling you the truth today.
There is this this mode of of 

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pride and there's mode of 
importance and impressiveness 

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just to be able to say, you know
what, I'm busy and someone tells

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you what's been going on in 
their life and it's like the 

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Topper family, you know? 
Well, yeah, I understand why I 

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had XY and Z and this and that 
to do and it my scheduled from 

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the time I got, I didn't get to 
bed till such such hanging up at

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4:00. 
You know, it's just busy, busy. 

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And I understand there might be 
some truthfulness in all of 

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that. 
But folks, if that's the way we 

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live, we're going to succumb to 
the same era of Samson until we 

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might be laying a lap. 
We don't need to lay in because 

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you need to honor the blessing 
and the commandment of God. 

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You got to rest. 
He observes that God. 

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Do you see what I'm doing? 
Yes, but he wants you to know 

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when you're not doing. 
I see that too. 

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I would I would hate to think 
someday that that that that I I 

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miss my chance and opportunity 
for heaven because I always did 

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something for God and in my 
doing was not just resting and 

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trusting. 
I'm not telling you to be lazy. 

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I'm not telling you that at all.
Someone say man restless Dr. A 

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restless Dr. comes out of cost 
comes out of cost to your health

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might come at a cost to your 
family. 

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That's right. 
Come on. 

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As a matter of fact, a life that
never has any rest. 

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Guess what? 
It's just a form of slavery 

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because a slave slave has no 
control when he goes to work, 

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when he goes to bed, or what he 
does, he's told when to do all 

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those. 
We become slaves to our 

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schedule, slaves to our 
ambition, slave to all of our 

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social expectations. 
Rest is not weakness. 

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I read a book, it's now been 
several years ago, called 

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Addicted to Busy. 
It said rest, it turns out, is a

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condition of liberty. 
What's that mean? 

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I can choose to stop. 
I can choose to pause. 

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I can choose to back away. 
I can choose to say no. 

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So it's Amen. 
You know where Samson made a 

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faux pas. 
Rest may very well multiply your

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reach and your effectiveness. 
That's counter thinking in it. 

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No, I got to do. 
If I don't do it, nobody's going

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to be doing it. 
You understand what I'm doing. 

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I got to get this done. 
I, I, I live that life. 

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I hate for somebody to mess with
my Monday. 

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I got certain things I want to 
get done. 

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Matter of fact, I see people in 
the store sometimes they 

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probably want a longer 
conversation. 

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But my high and bias is quite 
quick because I got things to do

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and I want them all done in this
day. 

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But we read in Scripture that 
there was also another man of 

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God, the man of God that 
suddenly make his entrance into 

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Scripture, the biblical 
narrative. 

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He enters into the courts of 
Ahab. 

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He gives a prophecy and says by 
my words. 

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He said the heavens are going to
be shut up. 

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And he goes and camps by a brook
called Cherith God, that thing 

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dries up. 
He goes to Zarah path, Amen. 

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He sustains and helps sustain a 
woman and her son. 

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There the widow's son dies. 
He raises him back to life. 

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Ministry is happening all along 
this grand journey. 

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Amen of his life and ministry. 
He appears then single handedly 

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on the mount called Carmel. 
He's fighting, seemingly by 

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himself, concerning another 
human being against the 450 

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prophets of Baal, the 400 
prophets of the Grove. 

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God uses him mightily and 
significantly. 

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And then he prophesized. 
I hear the sound of the 

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abundance of rain. 
This 3 1/2 year drought is going

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to be over. 
He outruns the chariot and then 

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Jezebel threatens him when it's 
all over in first Kings 19 and 

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two, she says, so let the gods 
do to me more. 

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Also, if I make not thy life as 
the life of one of them, one of 

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the prophets by tomorrow, about 
this time, look what happens. 

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He leaves all of that. 
He gets alone. 

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He even leaves the servant he 
travels with. 

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He goes to a wilderness, he 
crawls under a juniper tree and 

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he falls asleep. 
An Angel comes over and taps and

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says, hey bro, eat and drink. 
It's in scripture. 

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Eat and drink. 
Look at it 5:00 and 6:00, will 

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you? 
Aiden of 19. 

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And as he lay and slept under a 
juniper tree, behold, then an 

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Angel touched him, and said unto
him, arising, verse 6. 

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And he looked, and behold, there
was a cake bacon on the coast, 

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and a cruise of water at his 
head. 

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And he did eat and drink, and 
look, and laid him down again. 

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That sorry sack supposed to be a
prophet of God. 

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All he's doing is laying down, 
getting up, eating, and then he 

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had the audacity to lay down 
again. 

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You know what? 
It's note to see what scripture 

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doesn't say just as much as what
it says. 

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But when the Angel found him 
sleeping under the juniper tree,

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he did not tap him. 
Say hey wake up bro, you need to

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get busy. 
He said no, eat and drink. 

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And he didn't raise a finger 
when he fell back to sleep. 

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Prophet been doing all kinds of 
great exploits, but he knew, you

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know what he realized? 
Yeah. 

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That threat came from Jezebel. 
I believe there was something. 

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I know sometimes we say, well, 
yeah, he was the only one. 

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He felt like he was the only 
one. 

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And he did. 
And that comes with restlessness

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too. 
Tiredness. 

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You feel like you're the only 
one, right? 

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Well, it was me. 
You get all these type of 

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things, but not that There was 
something inside of him that I 

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believe he knew this. 
I can't go on doing what I'm 

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doing and look what the Bible 
says. 

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00:33:19,880 --> 00:33:26,000
As he slept, he wakes up to a 
cruise of water and bread bacon 

448
00:33:26,000 --> 00:33:30,880
on the coast. 
He didn't do that, but in his 

449
00:33:30,880 --> 00:33:36,120
rest was a trust. 
I don't have to go out here in 

450
00:33:36,120 --> 00:33:39,120
the wilderness somewhere and 
find game and kill it for my 

451
00:33:39,120 --> 00:33:41,920
food. 
And his rest was trust. 

452
00:33:42,160 --> 00:33:44,400
I'm going to lay down. 
I really don't know what the 

453
00:33:44,400 --> 00:33:46,040
outcome of all this is going to 
be. 

454
00:33:46,240 --> 00:33:48,440
I really don't know how this is 
all going to turn out. 

455
00:33:48,680 --> 00:33:50,920
I really don't know where my 
next meal is coming from. 

456
00:33:51,120 --> 00:33:53,360
I really don't know where the 
next Brook's going to be at. 

457
00:33:53,600 --> 00:33:56,960
But I got a rest right now. 
And in that rest was a trust, 

458
00:33:57,120 --> 00:34:00,800
was a worship. 
And while he was sleeping, God 

459
00:34:00,800 --> 00:34:04,840
was doing while he was sleeping,
God so his rest. 

460
00:34:05,000 --> 00:34:15,639
Well, yes. 
What? 

461
00:34:15,639 --> 00:34:17,520
What did Jesus say in the 
Gospels? 

462
00:34:17,840 --> 00:34:27,960
Take no thought of what you'll 
eat or what you'll drink or what

463
00:34:28,159 --> 00:34:30,760
you'll wear. 
You know what he's telling 

464
00:34:30,760 --> 00:34:34,040
humanity somewhere along the 
line you need to trust. 

465
00:34:39,440 --> 00:34:42,040
We get problems in our life and 
we're like, this thing isn't 

466
00:34:42,040 --> 00:34:43,560
going to get fixed unless I fix 
it. 

467
00:34:43,719 --> 00:34:46,920
That isn't always the case. 
Sometimes it gets so bad, God's 

468
00:34:46,920 --> 00:34:49,280
got to point out to you, he can 
do it without you. 

469
00:34:55,199 --> 00:34:59,960
He observes my travels and he 
observes my rest. 

470
00:35:06,360 --> 00:35:13,840
Someone say man. 
After everybody say after 

471
00:35:14,880 --> 00:35:21,040
Elijah's had food and drink and 
probably a well past due time of

472
00:35:21,040 --> 00:35:27,720
rest. 
After some of Elijah's most 

473
00:35:27,720 --> 00:35:34,320
instrumental actions took place 
in his life, after that time of 

474
00:35:34,320 --> 00:35:39,600
rest, after his whole cave 
experience, God wasn't in the 

475
00:35:39,600 --> 00:35:42,920
fire, He wasn't in the wind, He 
wasn't in the earthquake. 

476
00:35:43,200 --> 00:35:46,960
He's in that still small voice. 
And that voice spoke to him and 

477
00:35:46,960 --> 00:35:51,760
said, Elijah, it's not all over.
Can I just say it for for my 

478
00:35:51,760 --> 00:35:54,040
purposes, Like Elijah, it's not 
over. 

479
00:35:54,240 --> 00:36:02,200
You just needed rest. 
I know Jezebel is is touting and

480
00:36:02,200 --> 00:36:05,320
speaking what she's speaking and
she's like gloom doom, you know,

481
00:36:05,320 --> 00:36:07,200
prophet despair. 
She going to take you out. 

482
00:36:07,400 --> 00:36:09,120
He said, but but it's not all 
bad. 

483
00:36:09,280 --> 00:36:11,760
You just needed some rest. 
And you know what he told him? 

484
00:36:11,880 --> 00:36:13,400
He says here's what I want you 
to do. 

485
00:36:13,560 --> 00:36:16,800
He says, I want you to go to 
Jehu and I want you to anoint 

486
00:36:16,800 --> 00:36:20,400
him to be the next king. 
And I want you to go to Elisha 

487
00:36:20,400 --> 00:36:23,000
and anoint him to be the prophet
in your stead. 

488
00:36:23,240 --> 00:36:26,360
Both of those things happened 
after a season of rest. 

489
00:36:26,520 --> 00:36:30,000
And do you know the person that 
he went to anoint King Jehu? 

490
00:36:30,240 --> 00:36:34,000
You know who Jehu is? 
Jehu is the one that when he 

491
00:36:34,000 --> 00:36:38,760
learns about Jezebel and all of 
her antics, he goes on a horse 

492
00:36:38,760 --> 00:36:41,760
and he is riding feverishly 
toward the city. 

493
00:36:42,000 --> 00:36:44,280
And he's looking up. 
And there's Jezebel. 

494
00:36:44,440 --> 00:36:47,800
She's teared her head. 
She has herself all done up. 

495
00:36:48,160 --> 00:36:49,840
Amen. 
And he cries out to some of the 

496
00:36:49,840 --> 00:36:52,760
eunuchs up there. 
And he says, hey, would you mind

497
00:36:52,760 --> 00:36:54,640
throwing her down? 
What are you saying? 

498
00:36:55,040 --> 00:37:00,200
Elijah anointed the man that 
took out his Jezebel and it 

499
00:37:00,200 --> 00:37:03,880
happened that direction that 
Titans happened. 

500
00:37:04,160 --> 00:37:08,840
After a season of rest, God can 
take care of it. 

501
00:37:08,840 --> 00:37:12,600
God can take care of it. 
When you rest, you trust, you 

502
00:37:12,600 --> 00:37:13,520
worship. 
God 

503
00:37:26,610 --> 00:37:30,570
anointed Elisha in his stead. 
That would carry on his ministry

504
00:37:31,120 --> 00:37:35,200
and according to scripture, do 
almost twice as many miracles as

505
00:37:35,200 --> 00:37:39,680
Elijah had done. 
All of this came after a season 

506
00:37:40,520 --> 00:37:44,960
of rest. 
You don't want to talk about 

507
00:37:44,960 --> 00:37:50,120
that doing Jesus, someone say 
Jesus. 

508
00:37:52,560 --> 00:37:55,160
You want to talk about having 
constant demands on your 

509
00:37:55,160 --> 00:38:01,640
ministry, Jesus flesh and blood 
human form. 

510
00:38:03,960 --> 00:38:05,920
I mean you didn't have ladies 
going through a crowd just to 

511
00:38:05,920 --> 00:38:14,320
touch the hem of his garment. 
But even he if he's to be our 

512
00:38:14,320 --> 00:38:19,520
model brother Trout was 
intentional about rest. 

513
00:38:22,520 --> 00:38:26,960
Luke 5 and verse 15 and 16 says,
And this is Jesus has just 

514
00:38:27,200 --> 00:38:32,280
cleansed the leper. 
It says, but so much the more 

515
00:38:32,840 --> 00:38:37,320
went there a fame abroad of Him 
Speaking of Jesus, and great 

516
00:38:37,320 --> 00:38:43,760
multitudes came together to hear
and to be healed by Him of their

517
00:38:43,760 --> 00:38:48,160
infirmities. 
Verse 16, look at his reaction. 

518
00:38:49,160 --> 00:38:58,560
And he withdrew himself into the
wilderness and prayed, wait, 

519
00:38:58,560 --> 00:39:00,520
wait, wait, wait a minute. 
I got to get this straight. 

520
00:39:00,520 --> 00:39:03,760
I got to get this straight. 
You're telling me his fame went 

521
00:39:03,760 --> 00:39:07,560
out and as a result of the fame,
a big group of people came about

522
00:39:08,160 --> 00:39:11,640
wanting to be healed and 
touched. 

523
00:39:12,720 --> 00:39:24,040
And he says, wait a moment, I 
need to go rest, Brother McGee. 

524
00:39:24,040 --> 00:39:30,840
I just got too many demands, not
too many demands to fulfill the 

525
00:39:30,840 --> 00:39:35,240
commandment and the blessing of 
rest. 

526
00:39:40,120 --> 00:39:43,880
No, he doesn't wait for the 
last, the last one in the 

527
00:39:43,880 --> 00:39:53,240
multitude to get their healing. 
He didn't wait for the demand to

528
00:39:53,240 --> 00:39:55,760
subside. 
But even when it was out of 

529
00:39:55,800 --> 00:39:58,880
Apex, he's like, I got to go 
over here. 

530
00:40:01,640 --> 00:40:06,280
Sometimes we think we're only 
effective if we're doing when we

531
00:40:06,280 --> 00:40:10,000
might be really 
counterproductive in continuing 

532
00:40:10,000 --> 00:40:15,440
to do past our moment of ability
of strength and energy and 

533
00:40:15,440 --> 00:40:19,160
spiritual relationship. 
We might need to pause and go 

534
00:40:19,160 --> 00:40:30,710
rest and trust, he also said. 
What does He tell us? 

535
00:40:31,240 --> 00:40:33,720
Matthew 1128? 
Jesus extends the invitation 

536
00:40:34,040 --> 00:40:35,840
right beyond himself to all of 
us. 

537
00:40:36,160 --> 00:40:41,840
Come to me, all of you who are 
weary and burden, and I will 

538
00:40:41,840 --> 00:40:48,920
give you proper rest. 
Isn't just in seizing from 

539
00:40:48,920 --> 00:40:52,320
activity, it's finding 
restoration in Him. 

540
00:40:57,760 --> 00:41:01,080
When you read Hebrews chapter #4
and verse 11, the Hebrew writer 

541
00:41:01,080 --> 00:41:04,880
said these words, he challenges 
us, which is this is really 

542
00:41:04,880 --> 00:41:06,680
ironic how it almost comes 
across there. 

543
00:41:06,920 --> 00:41:08,520
And do I have that one up there,
Aiden? 

544
00:41:08,520 --> 00:41:12,600
I don't know if I do, but 
Hebrews chapter #4 and verse #11

545
00:41:12,720 --> 00:41:15,640
I want, I want to read it out of
the Bible. 

546
00:41:15,800 --> 00:41:18,920
All right. 
Hey man, Hebrews 11 and verse #4

547
00:41:19,280 --> 00:41:23,720
I think 411 invert that part of 
my dyslexia. 

548
00:41:26,440 --> 00:41:27,600
I'm joking. 
If someone really has it, I'm 

549
00:41:27,600 --> 00:41:29,080
sorry about that. 
Amen. 

550
00:41:30,800 --> 00:41:34,840
Let us labor therefore to enter 
into that that is so ironic. 

551
00:41:36,040 --> 00:41:38,760
Let us labor, therefore, to 
enter to that rest, lest any man

552
00:41:38,760 --> 00:41:40,800
fall after the same example of 
unbelief. 

553
00:41:40,960 --> 00:41:46,160
Let us labor therefore to enter 
into that rest so ironic. 

554
00:41:47,320 --> 00:41:50,880
The High Breeze Lighters writer 
saying I want you to work hard 

555
00:41:50,880 --> 00:41:59,920
to rest well. 
And so we see this principle in 

556
00:41:59,920 --> 00:42:05,360
several areas of the Scripture. 
Even Scripture warriors 

557
00:42:06,520 --> 00:42:09,680
understood the significance of 
rest. 

558
00:42:10,520 --> 00:42:16,640
In First Samuel 26, you have 
Saul and his men that are bedded

559
00:42:16,640 --> 00:42:21,560
down and sleeping for the night.
David and his men are across the

560
00:42:21,560 --> 00:42:25,080
way journey and they they found 
where Saul is right. 

561
00:42:25,560 --> 00:42:29,640
And you know, the mindset of all
of of David's men at different 

562
00:42:29,640 --> 00:42:32,480
times when Saul was in a 
vulnerable spot. 

563
00:42:33,720 --> 00:42:35,680
I'll go over there and knock his
head off his shoulders. 

564
00:42:35,720 --> 00:42:38,080
You just say the word, we'll 
kill him. 

565
00:42:39,880 --> 00:42:42,080
That was the same talk that was 
going on this night. 

566
00:42:42,840 --> 00:42:48,760
The Bible says, though Saul had 
his spear by his bolster, which 

567
00:42:48,760 --> 00:42:53,800
is just a fancy word for head, 
he had a spear by his head. 

568
00:42:54,840 --> 00:42:57,280
The Spears in that day were made
in such a way. 

569
00:42:57,280 --> 00:42:59,960
Yeah, they were speared on one 
side, but on the other end, it 

570
00:42:59,960 --> 00:43:05,200
still had a spiked end for the 
purpose that when a warrior 

571
00:43:05,200 --> 00:43:09,640
rested or slept, he could poke 
that thing down in the ground on

572
00:43:09,640 --> 00:43:15,400
the opposite end by his head. 
Something the Arabs, the Arabs 

573
00:43:15,400 --> 00:43:17,080
did. 
It's something that even Hebrew 

574
00:43:17,080 --> 00:43:20,640
chiefs did. 
All of that meaning this very 

575
00:43:20,640 --> 00:43:24,040
simple. 
That spike on the end of a spear

576
00:43:24,040 --> 00:43:35,920
meant even this, that even 
warriors needed times of rest in

577
00:43:35,920 --> 00:43:45,920
the middle of a conflict. 
I'm in the midst of a conflict. 

578
00:43:46,840 --> 00:43:50,840
Yeah, but we designed your spear
with a spike on the opposite end

579
00:43:50,840 --> 00:43:52,920
so you can plunge it in the 
ground as you rest. 

580
00:43:54,240 --> 00:43:57,600
If I never intended you as a 
warrior to rest, I would have 

581
00:43:57,600 --> 00:43:59,720
never put it on the opposite end
of your spear. 

582
00:44:01,160 --> 00:44:07,880
But that was its purpose. 
Because even warriors, oh Leah, 

583
00:44:08,280 --> 00:44:16,720
even warriors need to rest. 
Stay with me tonight. 

584
00:44:31,400 --> 00:44:34,320
I'm convinced this evening that 
some people I visited in the 

585
00:44:34,320 --> 00:44:39,480
hospital before has not been 
some predisposition from genetic

586
00:44:39,480 --> 00:44:46,360
PNA. 
It's been a lack of rest that's 

587
00:44:46,360 --> 00:44:48,160
caused their heart to get like 
it did. 

588
00:44:53,400 --> 00:44:56,360
The Lord says, I'm going to go 
to this place over here away, 

589
00:44:56,360 --> 00:44:59,480
and I'm going to recalibrate 
here with prayer. 

590
00:44:59,760 --> 00:45:02,200
That was his vice. 
Maybe that's your vice. 

591
00:45:02,200 --> 00:45:05,280
Maybe it's some hobby, whatever.
Maybe it's family time. 

592
00:45:05,440 --> 00:45:07,960
Maybe it's just solitude. 
Whatever it is, you need to find

593
00:45:07,960 --> 00:45:11,720
out what it is. 
I know this ain't shouting 

594
00:45:11,720 --> 00:45:15,480
Sunday night, but somebody might
live longer after today. 

595
00:45:21,880 --> 00:45:24,800
The old time is used to say, 
I've said, I've said in, in, in,

596
00:45:24,800 --> 00:45:27,640
in spots with pastors and 
meeting and ministry and stuff 

597
00:45:27,640 --> 00:45:29,920
like that. 
The fact of the matter is this, 

598
00:45:30,080 --> 00:45:33,440
what good is it if you expend 
yourself to the degree that 

599
00:45:33,440 --> 00:45:37,360
you're really not worth anything
to anybody in the end? 

600
00:45:38,240 --> 00:45:40,520
There is a moment, I know 
there's studies even in the 

601
00:45:40,560 --> 00:45:44,080
factory existence, there is a 
moment where productivity falls 

602
00:45:44,080 --> 00:45:47,480
off compared to the number of 
hours a person works. 

603
00:45:47,760 --> 00:45:50,720
It falls off. 
You're not gaining anything. 

604
00:45:54,800 --> 00:45:56,840
All that's hogwash. 
Listen, I've tried to present 

605
00:45:56,840 --> 00:45:58,960
for you tonight. 
It's a part of the creative 

606
00:45:58,960 --> 00:46:00,960
order. 
It's a commandment. 

607
00:46:01,760 --> 00:46:06,280
Jesus practiced it, Elijah did, 
and some great things happened. 

608
00:46:06,640 --> 00:46:10,800
Samson didn't, and the void of 
it caused him to fall for a 

609
00:46:10,800 --> 00:46:20,920
counterfeit. 
Most of all, He He compasseth my

610
00:46:20,920 --> 00:46:31,960
path in my life down God, who 
created the universe and keeps 

611
00:46:31,960 --> 00:46:36,000
it in rhythm and almost 
everything that he created. 

612
00:46:37,120 --> 00:46:42,680
A certain aspect of rhythm 
included that day of rest for a 

613
00:46:42,680 --> 00:46:47,920
rhythm. 
You know what we need tonight? 

614
00:46:48,080 --> 00:46:50,960
This is where I feel my spirit. 
We need to have a spirit of 

615
00:46:50,960 --> 00:46:59,920
repentance that comes to the 
altar and says, God forgive me, 

616
00:47:03,240 --> 00:47:06,680
we're not resting. 
Oh, but bring me guys sleep at 

617
00:47:06,680 --> 00:47:08,080
night. 
No, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, 

618
00:47:08,080 --> 00:47:08,800
no, no. 
I get it. 

619
00:47:09,760 --> 00:47:12,040
Like Monday's my day off, quote 
UN quote. 

620
00:47:14,400 --> 00:47:17,640
That's when I go get groceries. 
That's when I pay my bills. 

621
00:47:17,960 --> 00:47:20,480
That's when I mow my lawn. 
That's when everything else 

622
00:47:20,480 --> 00:47:25,120
around my house gets done. 
That's not a day of rest. 

623
00:47:25,720 --> 00:47:27,880
And guess what? 
Sunday isn't. 

624
00:47:29,720 --> 00:47:32,440
Follow me on a Sunday. 
It's not. 

625
00:47:35,200 --> 00:47:39,160
And during this time of year 
when the church schedules extra 

626
00:47:39,160 --> 00:47:45,040
meals at the church, I'm just 
there may be a a year in the 

627
00:47:45,040 --> 00:47:46,960
near future. 
We don't have any of that stuff 

628
00:47:47,440 --> 00:47:50,560
in the month of December, just 
because you already have enough 

629
00:47:50,560 --> 00:47:56,840
of that stuff. 
It's looking for the calendar 

630
00:47:56,840 --> 00:47:59,200
when the holy pause comes right 
at the end of the year. 

631
00:47:59,200 --> 00:48:04,640
Just being serious. 
You, you all heard me. 

632
00:48:04,640 --> 00:48:06,240
A few years ago, we had a 
candlelight service. 

633
00:48:06,240 --> 00:48:09,160
I stood up there and we went to 
some magical little thing that 

634
00:48:09,160 --> 00:48:11,320
the high school was putting on. 
And I sat there by my wife and I

635
00:48:11,320 --> 00:48:14,120
looked over at her and it was 
later in the month and I said, I

636
00:48:14,120 --> 00:48:16,160
finally feel like maybe it's 
Christmas. 

637
00:48:17,240 --> 00:48:21,480
Why? 
Because there was a pause to 

638
00:48:21,480 --> 00:48:24,600
rest. 
It's hard to reflect when you're

639
00:48:24,600 --> 00:48:27,400
doing. 
It's hard to remember and recall

640
00:48:27,400 --> 00:48:30,960
when you're doing. 
A lot of times that takes rest. 

641
00:48:37,840 --> 00:48:40,600
How could, how could that that 
that finally whenever they 

642
00:48:40,600 --> 00:48:42,680
reached that mount of God and 
the law was given to the 

643
00:48:42,680 --> 00:48:45,680
children of Israel after they 
came out of Egypt, he would say 

644
00:48:45,680 --> 00:48:51,080
to them, remember the Lord thy 
God, because now they had the 

645
00:48:51,080 --> 00:48:52,880
opportunity. 
They weren't slaves. 

646
00:48:57,760 --> 00:49:02,640
They could rest. 
Bow our heads across this place 

647
00:49:02,640 --> 00:49:05,120
again. 
I implored thee to come to this 

648
00:49:05,120 --> 00:49:09,120
altar tonight and just start a 
prayer of repentance and say, 

649
00:49:09,120 --> 00:49:13,920
God, I'm sorry for not taking 
time to rest. 

650
00:49:16,000 --> 00:49:20,800
And the keyword is taking it. 
It will not always be afforded 

651
00:49:20,800 --> 00:49:23,080
to you. 
You got to take it. 

652
00:49:24,200 --> 00:49:31,960
You got to take it. 
Oh God, Oh God. 

653
00:49:31,960 --> 00:49:38,000
Oh God, Oh God, Oh God. 
You see my you see my paths, you

654
00:49:38,000 --> 00:49:41,560
observe them, you scrutinize 
them, you sift through them. 

655
00:49:42,400 --> 00:49:45,640
But equally, you see my lying 
down. 

656
00:49:46,960 --> 00:49:58,760
You see my lying down Holy 
Spirit God, oh God, bring 

657
00:49:58,760 --> 00:50:05,160
healing and rest. 
Bring healing and rest God, to 

658
00:50:05,160 --> 00:50:10,200
weary souls and lives that are 
just physically expended. 

659
00:50:12,440 --> 00:50:20,480
God bring a rest God repair Lord
broken down bodies and repair 

660
00:50:20,760 --> 00:50:23,480
God. 
I pray Jesus stressed out and 

661
00:50:23,480 --> 00:50:28,760
extended Lord cardiovascular 
Lord's systems and pulmonary 

662
00:50:28,760 --> 00:50:35,080
systems because we have betrayed
the commandment to rest. 

663
00:50:36,120 --> 00:50:40,520
Hallelujah, Jesus rather than 
sister Mason, come on church, 

664
00:50:41,240 --> 00:50:43,480
talk to God. 
Oh, I've just just never had a 

665
00:50:43,480 --> 00:50:46,400
pastor someone tell me to rest. 
I'm telling you tonight, you 

666
00:50:46,400 --> 00:50:49,560
need to find a rhythm of rest in
your life. 

667
00:50:50,160 --> 00:50:55,240
It's biblical, it's biblical, 
it's spiritual and it's putting 

668
00:50:55,240 --> 00:50:58,800
trust in the one who really has 
it all in the palm of your hand.

669
00:50:59,000 --> 00:51:03,400
Listen, Sir, listen friend, it 
doesn't all depend upon you. 

670
00:51:04,280 --> 00:51:08,880
It doesn't all depend upon you. 
I would be a little too proud to

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00:51:08,880 --> 00:51:12,120
think that it does. 
It doesn't all depend upon me. 

672
00:51:12,520 --> 00:51:15,240
God, I need that rest. 
I'm coming into you tonight. 

673
00:51:15,480 --> 00:51:17,840
You said come, I'm coming into 
you tonight. 

674
00:51:18,440 --> 00:51:20,680
You have one time. 
In the New Testament scripture, 

675
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he told his disciples, he says, 
let's come apart to a solitary 

676
00:51:24,800 --> 00:51:27,160
place. 
They've been doing all kinds of 

677
00:51:27,160 --> 00:51:28,920
ministry. 
He said, let's come apart to a 

678
00:51:28,920 --> 00:51:30,200
solitary place. 
Why? 

679
00:51:30,560 --> 00:51:32,000
They needed to rest. 
He said. 

680
00:51:32,000 --> 00:51:35,000
We got to make this a part of 
the mode and the rhythm of life.

681
00:51:35,640 --> 00:51:38,840
It's got to be a part of it. 
Listen, your family needs it to 

682
00:51:38,840 --> 00:51:42,200
be a part of it, Father and 
mothers, your children need it 

683
00:51:42,200 --> 00:51:48,600
to be a part of it. 
Some of your sanity and mental 

684
00:51:48,600 --> 00:51:56,360
health needs rest to be a part 
of it. 

685
00:52:02,960 --> 00:52:05,000
Let's talk to God. 
Let's talk to God.