1 00:00:00,560 --> 00:00:02,960 Welcome to the Illuminate Church podcast. 2 00:00:03,400 --> 00:00:05,520 We hope today's message is encouraging to you. 3 00:00:09,600 --> 00:00:12,520 In this series Unrest, we're talking talking about honoring 4 00:00:12,520 --> 00:00:16,680 the Sabbath. As I will mention again later in 5 00:00:16,680 --> 00:00:21,560 this message, the Lord said honor the Sabbath and keep it 6 00:00:21,560 --> 00:00:25,400 holy. A day set apart, 24 hour period 7 00:00:25,400 --> 00:00:28,880 of time where we seek to commune with God. 8 00:00:29,120 --> 00:00:31,880 And as I said last week, this is just training ground that you 9 00:00:31,880 --> 00:00:36,800 might do this all the days, not just one day. 10 00:00:36,800 --> 00:00:39,960 But we cease from our regular work, which you can't do if you 11 00:00:39,960 --> 00:00:43,040 have a job on all the other days, but you can still commune 12 00:00:43,040 --> 00:00:46,600 with God on the other days. We cease from our regular work 13 00:00:46,600 --> 00:00:50,160 for 124 hour period of time. We commune with God, we 14 00:00:50,160 --> 00:00:53,080 appreciate His goodness, we appreciate the people He's put 15 00:00:53,080 --> 00:00:58,400 in our lives, and we just recognize His glory. 16 00:00:59,720 --> 00:01:04,120 We recognize how much we have to be thankful for in dedicating 17 00:01:04,120 --> 00:01:08,680 this day to the Lord. Fun fact for you, Sabbath is a 18 00:01:08,680 --> 00:01:12,080 noun. But occasionally I might text 19 00:01:12,080 --> 00:01:15,000 somebody and say, are you Sabbath thing and make it a verb 20 00:01:15,640 --> 00:01:20,720 and auto correct changes Sabbath thing to sunbathing. 21 00:01:23,760 --> 00:01:27,440 Are you sunbathing? Like are you peeping like what's 22 00:01:27,440 --> 00:01:28,280 going on here? Right? 23 00:01:28,280 --> 00:01:32,320 No, but think about it this way. If you don't mind a little 24 00:01:32,320 --> 00:01:39,960 pastor cheesiness, isn't sunbathing what Sabathine is to 25 00:01:39,960 --> 00:01:43,760 bathe in the sun of God. Can you handle some cheesy 26 00:01:43,760 --> 00:01:44,720 pastorness? Is that OK? 27 00:01:46,960 --> 00:01:51,080 So are you sunbathing everybody who's sunbathing raised? 28 00:01:51,080 --> 00:01:55,000 No, don't. God is trying to use autocorrect 29 00:01:55,000 --> 00:01:59,680 to correct us automatically that if we would Sabbath, there might 30 00:01:59,680 --> 00:02:03,960 be some correction. Helpful life giving correct 31 00:02:04,200 --> 00:02:07,560 correction that happens to us. Today's message is called the 32 00:02:07,560 --> 00:02:12,640 death of Chicken Little. If you're not familiar with 33 00:02:12,640 --> 00:02:15,480 Chicken Little, Chicken Little is always exasperated because 34 00:02:15,480 --> 00:02:18,920 the sky is falling, the sky is falling, the sky is falling. 35 00:02:18,920 --> 00:02:23,520 Almost like the boy that cried wolf, always worried, tense, 36 00:02:23,640 --> 00:02:27,080 afraid something terrible is about to happen. 37 00:02:27,080 --> 00:02:30,200 And if we will apply what the word of God has for us today, I 38 00:02:30,200 --> 00:02:33,480 believe that we can put to death the spirit of exasperation. 39 00:02:34,080 --> 00:02:39,360 And to take it a step further, the spirit of fear put it to 40 00:02:39,360 --> 00:02:43,600 death by applying the word of God in our lives. 41 00:02:43,600 --> 00:02:47,000 If you're ready, say I'm ready. Don't answer out loud, but are 42 00:02:47,000 --> 00:02:53,480 you a fighter or a flighter Fight or flight, Remember these 43 00:02:53,480 --> 00:02:56,280 two. I want to candidly confess 44 00:02:56,280 --> 00:02:58,760 before you. Unfortunately, I am a flighter. 45 00:03:00,000 --> 00:03:02,720 I want to be a fighter. But throughout my life, for 46 00:03:02,720 --> 00:03:05,240 whatever reason, and I've shared many, many stories from this 47 00:03:05,240 --> 00:03:06,840 platform. Once I was a kid, we had a 48 00:03:06,840 --> 00:03:08,480 garage sale, this giant box of money. 49 00:03:08,480 --> 00:03:11,440 We made all this money and the wind blew the box and all the 50 00:03:11,440 --> 00:03:13,000 money went flying down the street. 51 00:03:13,360 --> 00:03:15,080 I can still see it. We were living in Fort 52 00:03:15,080 --> 00:03:16,960 Leavenworth, Texas. My dad was there at command 53 00:03:16,960 --> 00:03:20,440 General Staff College, and I went running the other way. 54 00:03:20,680 --> 00:03:24,120 Like all the money's going away. Like, well, go run and catch it. 55 00:03:24,640 --> 00:03:28,000 Well you anyway, last week I told you that the second time my 56 00:03:28,000 --> 00:03:29,960 brother broke his arm. And the first time my brother 57 00:03:29,960 --> 00:03:31,960 broke his arm. I ran both times. 58 00:03:31,960 --> 00:03:35,440 One time my younger brother was also skating with roller skates 59 00:03:35,440 --> 00:03:38,400 around a swimming pool and he skated into the pool and those 60 00:03:38,400 --> 00:03:40,800 lead weights took him down to the bottom of the pool and I 61 00:03:40,800 --> 00:03:42,120 went running the other direction. 62 00:03:42,120 --> 00:03:45,560 One time I was pulling out of my driveway in my car, I've told 63 00:03:45,560 --> 00:03:48,000 you the story. And I backed into a bam, ran 64 00:03:48,000 --> 00:03:49,800 into something. It was a truck that my dad had 65 00:03:49,800 --> 00:03:52,360 borrowed. And instead of walking in the 66 00:03:52,360 --> 00:03:54,280 house to tell him, I ran the other way. 67 00:03:54,280 --> 00:03:56,320 I am a flighter. Get over it. 68 00:03:59,960 --> 00:04:05,320 Fighting and fighting are both responses to fierce stimuli. 69 00:04:06,280 --> 00:04:09,720 I'm going to use a word that may trigger you, but the word is 70 00:04:09,720 --> 00:04:14,920 trigger. When we get triggered, we want 71 00:04:14,920 --> 00:04:19,839 to fight or we want to flight. We want to say catch me outside. 72 00:04:21,279 --> 00:04:25,000 How about that? Or we want to say catch me if 73 00:04:25,000 --> 00:04:31,640 you can and run away. Both fighting and fighting are 74 00:04:31,640 --> 00:04:40,760 exhausting and in general don't bring about actual solutions. 75 00:04:43,080 --> 00:04:49,200 And in general, both are not restful fighting and fighting. 76 00:04:49,200 --> 00:04:52,520 So we need to rethink fight or flight to put to death. 77 00:04:52,880 --> 00:04:55,720 Chicken Little, if you have a Bible, open it up to Isaiah 78 00:04:55,720 --> 00:04:57,400 chapter 30. If you need a Bible, raise your 79 00:04:57,400 --> 00:05:00,680 hand and 1:00 will be brought to you that you can keep or you can 80 00:05:00,680 --> 00:05:03,320 return or hope you keep it. Isaiah chapter 30, if you're 81 00:05:03,320 --> 00:05:05,640 looking for Isaiah, just go kind of to the middle and flip a 82 00:05:05,640 --> 00:05:07,200 little bit to the right. You're going to run into the 83 00:05:07,200 --> 00:05:10,280 prophets, Isaiah, Jeremiah prophet. 84 00:05:10,440 --> 00:05:13,280 If you're brand new to church, just being somebody on earth 85 00:05:13,440 --> 00:05:16,760 who's been given a message from God specifically for the nation, 86 00:05:17,520 --> 00:05:25,520 it's usually a word of rebuke, usually like it is today. 87 00:05:26,720 --> 00:05:30,760 Isaiah chapter 30, if you're ready to say yes, verse 15, 88 00:05:31,080 --> 00:05:33,880 you'll see Isaiah starts with the words that declare that he's 89 00:05:33,880 --> 00:05:35,880 a prophet. This is what the sovereign Lord, 90 00:05:36,120 --> 00:05:40,200 the Holy One of Israel says. I'm now speaking on behalf of 91 00:05:40,200 --> 00:05:44,080 God. Listen to these beautiful offers 92 00:05:44,680 --> 00:05:51,680 in repentance and rest is your salvation in quietness and trust 93 00:05:52,640 --> 00:05:56,400 is your strength. And here comes the human 94 00:05:56,400 --> 00:05:59,400 condition. But you would have none of it. 95 00:06:02,040 --> 00:06:07,720 You said no, we will flee on horses, therefore you will flee. 96 00:06:08,440 --> 00:06:10,560 You said we will ride on swift horses. 97 00:06:10,560 --> 00:06:15,640 Look at these last 6 words. Therefore your pursuers will be 98 00:06:15,640 --> 00:06:19,240 swift. Do you see what God's saying 99 00:06:19,240 --> 00:06:22,120 here? He's saying you say you're going 100 00:06:22,120 --> 00:06:24,120 to run, so that's exactly what you're going to do. 101 00:06:24,960 --> 00:06:29,560 And I want you to know when you start running, your pursuers are 102 00:06:29,560 --> 00:06:34,200 going to run too. You cannot outrun the problems 103 00:06:34,200 --> 00:06:37,760 that you think you can outrun, saith the Lord. 104 00:06:40,840 --> 00:06:43,120 How exciting. Running is not really an option. 105 00:06:44,000 --> 00:06:45,840 Running just delays and eventuality. 106 00:06:46,280 --> 00:06:48,600 Running is sticking her head in the sand, putting our fingers in 107 00:06:48,600 --> 00:06:51,480 her ears and blah blah, blah. You know that that that thing 108 00:06:53,400 --> 00:06:55,600 God offers us a different option. 109 00:06:56,080 --> 00:07:02,960 Instead of fight or flight, He gives us run or rest right here 110 00:07:02,960 --> 00:07:07,560 in Isaiah chapter 30. You can flee or in repentance 111 00:07:07,560 --> 00:07:10,200 and rest is your salvation and quietness and trust is your 112 00:07:10,200 --> 00:07:12,960 strength. Do you want to trust God or do 113 00:07:12,960 --> 00:07:15,760 you want to flee? Today? 114 00:07:15,880 --> 00:07:18,280 Let's begin retraining ourselves. 115 00:07:19,880 --> 00:07:24,000 We were doing a family devotion just the other night, and one of 116 00:07:24,000 --> 00:07:27,120 the words that was in it was a recorded devotion we were 117 00:07:27,120 --> 00:07:29,360 listening to was neuroplasticity. 118 00:07:30,720 --> 00:07:31,840 You want to say it? Try it. 119 00:07:31,840 --> 00:07:35,760 Neuroplasticity. Did you know that your brains 120 00:07:35,760 --> 00:07:41,600 can be reformed physiologically? So whatever's going on now 121 00:07:41,600 --> 00:07:45,760 doesn't have to go on forever. And when the enemy says it's 122 00:07:45,760 --> 00:07:48,480 just never going to get better, that's a lie. 123 00:07:48,480 --> 00:07:50,960 Because physiologically you can absolutely change. 124 00:07:51,920 --> 00:07:55,320 And I'm believing God that if we will apply the principles of 125 00:07:55,320 --> 00:08:02,840 Sabbath, we can retrain our brains to run from fight and 126 00:08:02,840 --> 00:08:09,440 flight and into rest. What if instead of fighting, we 127 00:08:09,440 --> 00:08:16,320 rested in God, trusted in God? What if instead of running away, 128 00:08:17,280 --> 00:08:20,000 we rested in the arms of the Father? 129 00:08:20,000 --> 00:08:24,320 Doesn't that sound more beneficial? 130 00:08:25,160 --> 00:08:29,680 Actually has a hope of working out, resting in God. 131 00:08:29,680 --> 00:08:31,160 Psalm 112. You don't have to turn there. 132 00:08:31,160 --> 00:08:33,520 Let me just read verse one to you it says, praise the Lord. 133 00:08:33,720 --> 00:08:37,919 Blessed are those who fear the Lord, who find great delight in 134 00:08:37,919 --> 00:08:41,120 His commands to the extent that you obeyed them. 135 00:08:41,120 --> 00:08:44,400 I love this command so much that I'm obeying it, and bless are 136 00:08:44,400 --> 00:08:46,760 you when you obeyed his commands. 137 00:08:46,760 --> 00:08:52,320 Pop quiz Hotshot, what is command #4? 138 00:08:54,920 --> 00:08:56,800 Let me ask this side of the room, because this side don't 139 00:08:56,800 --> 00:08:57,400 hear. Don't mountain. 140 00:08:57,520 --> 00:09:01,760 What is command #4? There you go. 141 00:09:01,840 --> 00:09:09,800 What's command #4? The Lord says if we delight in 142 00:09:09,800 --> 00:09:14,560 His commands, we will be blessed, and one of His commands 143 00:09:14,560 --> 00:09:20,120 #4 is the Sabbath. Better way maybe to think of 144 00:09:20,120 --> 00:09:22,520 Sabbath is you get a rest day with God every week. 145 00:09:24,440 --> 00:09:27,520 It's a command of God. Verse 6, Psalm 112. 146 00:09:27,520 --> 00:09:30,680 Surely the righteous will never be shaken. 147 00:09:32,720 --> 00:09:39,840 They will be remembered forever. They will have No Fear of bad 148 00:09:39,840 --> 00:09:43,520 news. Their hearts are steadfast, 149 00:09:43,520 --> 00:09:45,400 trusted in the Lord. Their hearts are secure. 150 00:09:45,600 --> 00:09:47,840 They will have No Fear. In the end. 151 00:09:48,880 --> 00:09:51,800 They will look in triumph on their foes. 152 00:09:53,000 --> 00:09:54,880 When you read in the Bible with the devil meant to harm the 153 00:09:54,880 --> 00:09:58,520 Lord, used for good, that's what we're reading right here. 154 00:09:58,520 --> 00:10:02,960 The foe comes to you, seeking to defeat you and to devour you, 155 00:10:02,960 --> 00:10:08,360 and in the end you, through the power of the Lord God, are 156 00:10:08,360 --> 00:10:12,440 triumphing on your foes. When the car breaks down and 157 00:10:12,440 --> 00:10:16,960 wants to make you get angry, you triumph over that. 158 00:10:16,960 --> 00:10:20,480 When the diagnosis comes, you triumph over it. 159 00:10:20,480 --> 00:10:24,680 When the job change comes, when the relationship dysfunction 160 00:10:24,680 --> 00:10:28,040 starts to raise its head, you triumph on those. 161 00:10:28,040 --> 00:10:31,160 When we follow the commands of God and one of His commands is 162 00:10:31,160 --> 00:10:36,600 to rest. What I'm trying to say is that 163 00:10:36,600 --> 00:10:43,560 the sky doesn't fall on those who properly rest the death of 164 00:10:43,560 --> 00:10:49,200 Chicken Little. They will have No Fear of bad 165 00:10:49,200 --> 00:10:50,520 news. It doesn't say they won't have 166 00:10:50,520 --> 00:10:56,320 bad news. Jesus said John chapter 16, you 167 00:10:56,320 --> 00:11:00,080 will have trouble. It's going to come. 168 00:11:01,040 --> 00:11:06,800 The difference is those who obey the Lord, including rest, and 169 00:11:06,800 --> 00:11:09,160 those who don't will have different responses. 170 00:11:09,720 --> 00:11:12,560 Those who don't follow the Lord tend to give over to fight or 171 00:11:12,560 --> 00:11:17,960 flight, and those who follow Lord tend to give over to rest. 172 00:11:20,560 --> 00:11:23,720 If you missed week 1, I told the story of my panic attack at 173 00:11:23,720 --> 00:11:27,160 35,000 feet in an airplane. My entire body, my entire soul 174 00:11:27,160 --> 00:11:29,120 and spirit didn't feel like the sky was falling. 175 00:11:29,240 --> 00:11:31,880 It felt like I was falling out of the sky, right? 176 00:11:32,640 --> 00:11:35,680 And so I have this panic attack. But really the issue, as I said 177 00:11:35,680 --> 00:11:37,480 in week 1 was accumulated stress. 178 00:11:38,160 --> 00:11:40,120 You can imagine your soul as a backpack. 179 00:11:41,160 --> 00:11:44,920 And in that backpack is all the stress of life, decisions to be 180 00:11:44,920 --> 00:11:48,000 made, bills to be paid, people to please all these things got 181 00:11:48,120 --> 00:11:50,520 your stuffing it in their timelines, deadlines. 182 00:11:50,680 --> 00:11:53,520 All of this is in there week after week after week. 183 00:11:53,520 --> 00:11:56,120 Just stuffing it in there, stuffing it in there. 184 00:11:56,240 --> 00:11:59,840 And I had accumulated all of the stress of the my backpack took 185 00:11:59,840 --> 00:12:03,800 me out in a panic attack and I experienced years of anxiety as 186 00:12:03,800 --> 00:12:08,600 a result. What the Lord taught me in that 187 00:12:08,600 --> 00:12:12,760 season is if you had been Sabbath thing resting with me, 188 00:12:13,480 --> 00:12:16,960 then what you would have found is every Sabbath I would have 189 00:12:16,960 --> 00:12:20,160 been your backpack unloader. Little by little. 190 00:12:20,160 --> 00:12:22,840 Let's process this. Let's put this in right 191 00:12:22,840 --> 00:12:26,280 perspective. Let me move this out of your 192 00:12:26,280 --> 00:12:31,760 heart and as he makes room there in that backpack, then he adds 193 00:12:31,760 --> 00:12:35,280 other things, Kingdom things there. 194 00:12:35,280 --> 00:12:38,120 What an exchange. What a swap meet. 195 00:12:38,720 --> 00:12:43,120 You bring your stress, He takes it and in place gives you the 196 00:12:43,120 --> 00:12:44,240 things of heaven. What things? 197 00:12:44,240 --> 00:12:46,360 Stay tuned. That's at the end of the message 198 00:12:46,360 --> 00:12:49,240 today because he does like to pack the backpack with heavenly 199 00:12:49,240 --> 00:12:52,640 things. I wrote this sentence a long 200 00:12:52,640 --> 00:12:56,680 time ago to try to help me understand where Jesus said in 201 00:12:56,680 --> 00:12:58,760 this world you will have troubles, but take heart. 202 00:12:59,120 --> 00:13:01,560 I overcome the world and this is what I wrote. 203 00:13:01,720 --> 00:13:04,560 God didn't promise our lives would be void of trouble. 204 00:13:05,080 --> 00:13:08,400 He promised us that when troubles come we won't be void 205 00:13:08,400 --> 00:13:10,360 of life. You understand. 206 00:13:11,360 --> 00:13:14,560 And I wrote that before I went through my season of anxiety and 207 00:13:14,560 --> 00:13:16,680 healing from it because of the Lord's goodness. 208 00:13:17,200 --> 00:13:20,680 This sentence. God didn't promise our lives 209 00:13:20,680 --> 00:13:22,640 would be void of trouble. He promised us that when 210 00:13:22,640 --> 00:13:24,360 troubles come we would be void of life. 211 00:13:24,400 --> 00:13:27,440 And then through the season, I added these 3 words. 212 00:13:27,960 --> 00:13:39,480 If we rest, when we rest, He helps us to overcome the stress 213 00:13:40,280 --> 00:13:42,480 in the world. Last week I showed you that 214 00:13:42,480 --> 00:13:46,320 science is revealing, discovering what God has already 215 00:13:46,320 --> 00:13:47,560 said. If you were here last week, you 216 00:13:47,560 --> 00:13:50,880 might remember I said that science tells us we need 52 days 217 00:13:50,880 --> 00:13:54,200 a year to rest. And God, what do you know, has 218 00:13:54,200 --> 00:13:57,200 given us 52 Sabbaths a year. Coincidence. 219 00:13:58,280 --> 00:14:01,960 I think not. Today I want to show you some 220 00:14:01,960 --> 00:14:03,440 more, if you're willing. Are you willing say yes? 221 00:14:05,360 --> 00:14:07,360 Now you got to put on your big brains for this next little 222 00:14:07,360 --> 00:14:08,640 section. It's going to kind of feel like 223 00:14:08,640 --> 00:14:12,200 a science class, but it's all pointing back to what God has 224 00:14:12,200 --> 00:14:16,760 done for us to the Sabbath rest. I want today to introduce you to 225 00:14:16,760 --> 00:14:20,600 your second brain. You may not have known you have 226 00:14:20,760 --> 00:14:24,400 a second brain, but you do. The first brain we're going to 227 00:14:24,400 --> 00:14:31,200 call brain, and it's just what you think brain is, all the 228 00:14:31,640 --> 00:14:33,760 actions and now all that stuff going on in there. 229 00:14:33,760 --> 00:14:34,520 Great. That's yours. 230 00:14:34,720 --> 00:14:37,480 That's your first brain. The second brain, I'm taking 231 00:14:37,480 --> 00:14:40,120 this term from a book called REST. 232 00:14:40,200 --> 00:14:42,680 It's written by Alex SU Jung and Kim Pang. 233 00:14:42,680 --> 00:14:45,040 It's a secular book. It's not has nothing to do with 234 00:14:45,040 --> 00:14:47,320 the Lord. They just studied, researched, 235 00:14:47,360 --> 00:14:52,800 scienced up rest, and they call this second brain the default 236 00:14:53,080 --> 00:14:57,640 mode network. Default mode, You heard that 237 00:14:57,640 --> 00:15:00,840 like factory settings set up at the default mode, right? 238 00:15:00,840 --> 00:15:02,640 Let me get everything cleaned up and right. 239 00:15:02,640 --> 00:15:05,120 Are you starting to see how maybe this part of the brain 240 00:15:05,400 --> 00:15:10,000 works for you? The default mode network is the 241 00:15:10,000 --> 00:15:13,000 resting brain that actually doesn't rest. 242 00:15:14,720 --> 00:15:16,920 It's different parts of your brain that I'll show you here in 243 00:15:16,920 --> 00:15:20,960 just a little bit, but it's very busy, this default mode network 244 00:15:20,960 --> 00:15:25,080 when you shut off your brain. And most of us rarely engage the 245 00:15:25,080 --> 00:15:29,160 default mode network because we rarely rest. 246 00:15:30,640 --> 00:15:35,120 And so this whole part of your brain lays dormant and it's 247 00:15:35,120 --> 00:15:41,360 essential to our survival, and it's why God put it there in our 248 00:15:41,840 --> 00:15:45,320 brain. Brain, second brain. 249 00:15:45,600 --> 00:15:48,600 Anyone here ever taken differential equations? 250 00:15:49,400 --> 00:15:51,920 Yep, Yep. Remember these people because 251 00:15:51,920 --> 00:15:55,200 they're smarter than you. I'm just kidding, maybe they 252 00:15:55,200 --> 00:15:58,720 are. I took Differential Equations 1 253 00:15:58,720 --> 00:16:01,280 and Differential Equations 2 at the University of Florida. 254 00:16:01,280 --> 00:16:03,880 If you're not sure what Diffie Q looks like, it looks like this. 255 00:16:05,800 --> 00:16:07,440 That gives me hives just looking at it. 256 00:16:07,440 --> 00:16:09,760 I don't know about you. I get the heebie jeebies. 257 00:16:09,760 --> 00:16:13,200 It was after the completion of Differential Equations 2 that 258 00:16:13,200 --> 00:16:16,320 the Lord said to me, what do you think about being a pastor? 259 00:16:16,320 --> 00:16:23,000 Instead I said good idea, this engineering stuff is for 260 00:16:23,000 --> 00:16:26,000 somebody else in Jesus name they can have it. 261 00:16:26,400 --> 00:16:28,600 Yep. I departed quickly from Diffie Q 262 00:16:28,600 --> 00:16:30,840 and that was that was the end of my engineering career. 263 00:16:31,920 --> 00:16:39,440 Hallelujah, God is good. Where was I? 264 00:16:40,240 --> 00:16:43,040 Oh, differential equations. So what these scientists did was 265 00:16:43,040 --> 00:16:45,120 they took all these nodes, these sensors, they put them all over 266 00:16:45,120 --> 00:16:48,640 the brain and then they had people do these high level math 267 00:16:49,440 --> 00:16:52,560 equations, specifically differential equations, and 268 00:16:52,560 --> 00:16:53,480 they're working them working them. 269 00:16:53,480 --> 00:16:56,720 And what they saw is these brains came to life like just 270 00:16:56,720 --> 00:16:59,000 humming. They they had lights that light 271 00:16:59,000 --> 00:17:02,400 up and just these parts of the brain are just working like big 272 00:17:02,400 --> 00:17:04,400 time to work these math problems. 273 00:17:06,560 --> 00:17:09,040 Then they took the same people said lay on the bed and don't do 274 00:17:09,040 --> 00:17:12,280 anything and lay there for a long time. 275 00:17:13,000 --> 00:17:17,200 And what they expected to see was the brain would go and go 276 00:17:17,200 --> 00:17:20,599 lights out completely, nothing happening. 277 00:17:21,400 --> 00:17:24,599 And instead, as this centers are, these other sections went, 278 00:17:26,079 --> 00:17:31,080 these other parts of the brain went and they came to life and 279 00:17:31,080 --> 00:17:35,200 then they were humming while the people or resting. 280 00:17:35,200 --> 00:17:37,360 I can show you where the default mode network is located. 281 00:17:37,360 --> 00:17:38,680 It's up there in the front. It's there. 282 00:17:38,680 --> 00:17:41,040 That other thing called the posterior cingulate cortex, 283 00:17:41,200 --> 00:17:44,560 whatever that is back over here, the medial perfrontal cortex, 284 00:17:44,560 --> 00:17:48,320 the all these sections of the brain that were quiet during 285 00:17:48,320 --> 00:17:53,360 Diffie Q all the sudden went boom and came to life while the 286 00:17:53,360 --> 00:17:57,040 people were resting. And this is where your default 287 00:17:57,040 --> 00:18:00,760 mode network is. The default mode network is 288 00:18:00,760 --> 00:18:05,440 nearly as energized as a brain solving high level math 289 00:18:05,440 --> 00:18:06,760 equations. What am I trying to tell you? 290 00:18:06,760 --> 00:18:11,200 What does it mean? While you are resting, you are 291 00:18:11,200 --> 00:18:14,680 still working. And some of you need to hear 292 00:18:14,680 --> 00:18:19,560 that in here because you think of resting as a waste of time, 293 00:18:20,520 --> 00:18:24,480 because you're a maximizer, achiever, workaholic. 294 00:18:29,280 --> 00:18:32,760 Some of you need to hear that you are still getting stuff done 295 00:18:33,600 --> 00:18:37,800 while resting. You are doing something and that 296 00:18:37,800 --> 00:18:44,720 something happens to be nothing. While you're doing nothing, 297 00:18:46,040 --> 00:18:48,920 something is happening. The default mode network, this 298 00:18:48,920 --> 00:18:51,760 area of the brain is where greater creativity comes from. 299 00:18:53,880 --> 00:18:59,120 The default mode network is where you get your emotional 300 00:18:59,120 --> 00:19:05,280 judgment from. This is where sanity comes from. 301 00:19:09,160 --> 00:19:16,680 Solutions arise. If you want these things to be 302 00:19:16,680 --> 00:19:20,160 strong in your life, then you need to have the default mode 303 00:19:20,160 --> 00:19:22,840 network turned on. And you know how to do that, 304 00:19:22,840 --> 00:19:25,640 don't you? Rest. 305 00:19:27,320 --> 00:19:28,720 Look at it this way. Rest. 306 00:19:29,160 --> 00:19:33,680 This is funny way to say it is the exercise your default mode 307 00:19:33,680 --> 00:19:37,880 network needs to produce greater effectiveness relationally, 308 00:19:37,880 --> 00:19:44,320 spiritually, emotionally. If you feel out of sorts all the 309 00:19:44,320 --> 00:19:50,880 time, stressed all the time, I would endeavor to say that you 310 00:19:50,880 --> 00:19:55,800 may not be activating the default mode network very often, 311 00:19:55,800 --> 00:20:02,040 if at all. They have this other term called 312 00:20:02,040 --> 00:20:07,200 mind wandering. Mind wandering is where you have 313 00:20:07,200 --> 00:20:11,800 a certain perspective, but then the default mode network takes 314 00:20:11,800 --> 00:20:17,680 over and it begins to look at a problem from different angles. 315 00:20:17,680 --> 00:20:20,760 It wanders while you're awake. You're setting your ways. 316 00:20:20,760 --> 00:20:24,400 You got what you got right? But when you're resting, the 317 00:20:24,400 --> 00:20:26,880 brain kind of shuts down and the other part wakes up and it 318 00:20:26,880 --> 00:20:30,680 starts to look at things from another direction. 319 00:20:31,160 --> 00:20:33,320 Have you ever heard anyone say, or you say yourself, let me 320 00:20:33,320 --> 00:20:35,560 sleep on it? Anyone. 321 00:20:36,680 --> 00:20:38,320 Come on, people talk to me. Yep. 322 00:20:41,120 --> 00:20:43,960 What we're saying there is that somehow we've learned that if I 323 00:20:43,960 --> 00:20:46,880 sleep on it, I do have a better perspective in the morning. 324 00:20:47,680 --> 00:20:49,680 We don't know the science behind it until now. 325 00:20:50,400 --> 00:20:52,760 The science is that when you're sleeping, your default mode 326 00:20:52,760 --> 00:20:55,480 network goes on and your mind begins to wander and look for 327 00:20:55,480 --> 00:20:59,600 solutions that you can't find when you're awake or when you're 328 00:20:59,600 --> 00:21:02,360 not resting and you wake up in the morning. 329 00:21:02,360 --> 00:21:05,840 Like, you know what? I got a renewed idea about this. 330 00:21:08,120 --> 00:21:09,880 You ever get great ideas in the shower? 331 00:21:13,200 --> 00:21:16,520 You know why they find that the brain goes into default mode 332 00:21:16,520 --> 00:21:18,320 network in the shower? Because in the shower, you got 333 00:21:18,320 --> 00:21:25,640 no responsibilities except to wash your hair, right or not. 334 00:21:25,640 --> 00:21:29,720 Jason, Sorry, you laughed. I wasn't saying anything. 335 00:21:35,600 --> 00:21:37,920 And your mind begins to wander. Sometimes on a long drive, the 336 00:21:37,920 --> 00:21:41,920 white dotted line just going by you're in your mind just wanders 337 00:21:42,600 --> 00:21:44,880 because you're not having to concentrate on anything. 338 00:21:46,520 --> 00:21:49,200 When you get these great ideas, when you get that great idea, 339 00:21:49,200 --> 00:21:52,960 that solution, that Eureka moment, science calls it a word. 340 00:21:52,960 --> 00:21:57,120 It calls it illumination. How about that? 341 00:21:57,480 --> 00:21:59,840 OK, I, I find it great. That's fun. 342 00:22:00,160 --> 00:22:01,280 Only only me. OK, good. 343 00:22:03,240 --> 00:22:06,960 All of this greatness happens if you activate the default mode 344 00:22:06,960 --> 00:22:09,240 network, which only happens with rest. 345 00:22:09,240 --> 00:22:12,960 And wouldn't you know it, God commanded us to rest. 346 00:22:13,640 --> 00:22:16,080 Maybe God knows that I put this part of your brain in there to 347 00:22:16,080 --> 00:22:20,640 help you, and that's accessed only when you rest. 348 00:22:21,160 --> 00:22:23,440 Science is proving what God has said. 349 00:22:23,440 --> 00:22:24,640 Do you want more? I got one more. 350 00:22:25,840 --> 00:22:28,960 Anybody want more? All this points back to 351 00:22:28,960 --> 00:22:31,120 Scripture, like we're talking a lot about Physiology, What about 352 00:22:31,200 --> 00:22:32,720 Jesus? Like it all fits together. 353 00:22:34,200 --> 00:22:35,720 You have an autonomic nervous system. 354 00:22:37,040 --> 00:22:39,400 Maybe you remember this from Physiology classes way back 355 00:22:39,400 --> 00:22:41,640 when, science classes, or maybe you're learning it right now in 356 00:22:41,640 --> 00:22:43,560 school. The autonomic nervous system is 357 00:22:43,560 --> 00:22:45,920 that part of our body that does stuff without us thinking about 358 00:22:45,920 --> 00:22:48,720 it. It's just busy doing his job. 359 00:22:49,480 --> 00:22:51,920 There's three parts to it. The first part is a circulatory, 360 00:22:51,920 --> 00:22:56,240 respiratory part. You didn't know that you're 361 00:22:56,240 --> 00:22:59,680 breathing until I'm making you aware right now that you've been 362 00:22:59,680 --> 00:23:01,920 breathing this whole time. Or at least I think you have. 363 00:23:02,800 --> 00:23:04,920 I'm pretty sure you have. And now that you're thinking of 364 00:23:04,920 --> 00:23:07,560 it, you're aware that my lungs are going in and out and in and 365 00:23:07,560 --> 00:23:09,080 out, and the air is passing through and they're like, I'm 366 00:23:09,080 --> 00:23:10,640 breathing. Yes, but you weren't thinking 367 00:23:10,640 --> 00:23:13,720 about it before then. Your heart is sending that 368 00:23:13,720 --> 00:23:18,680 oxygenated blood all around your body to give life to your cells 369 00:23:18,680 --> 00:23:20,600 and everything else that blood does. 370 00:23:21,840 --> 00:23:24,160 And that's happening. You're not thinking beep, beep, 371 00:23:24,400 --> 00:23:29,240 beep, beep, beep. It's all autonomic, which always 372 00:23:29,240 --> 00:23:31,000 drove me nuts. Like, can we just say automatic? 373 00:23:31,000 --> 00:23:32,000 What's this? Autonomics. 374 00:23:32,000 --> 00:23:36,520 OK, whatever. The other parts are the 375 00:23:36,520 --> 00:23:39,560 sympathetic and the parasympathetic. 376 00:23:40,640 --> 00:23:43,640 These are parts of the autonomic nervous system. 377 00:23:43,960 --> 00:23:46,400 The sympathetic and the parasympathetic are the parts of 378 00:23:46,400 --> 00:23:48,480 your brain that regulate fight and flight. 379 00:23:50,120 --> 00:23:54,400 The sympathetic is the accelerator, right? 380 00:23:55,120 --> 00:23:57,360 The sympathetic is what helps you run from the bear. 381 00:23:57,360 --> 00:23:59,280 It's defcon one. It's wartime. 382 00:23:59,280 --> 00:24:03,360 It's time to fight or to run high alert. 383 00:24:06,080 --> 00:24:07,600 The parasympathetic is the break. 384 00:24:09,480 --> 00:24:14,440 The parasympathetic slows us down, tells us we're safe. 385 00:24:15,000 --> 00:24:17,400 We move from DEFCON one to DEFCON 5. 386 00:24:17,400 --> 00:24:25,480 This is peacetime. The parasympathetic. 387 00:24:26,760 --> 00:24:31,720 Now, everybody lean in just a little bit, pay attention here. 388 00:24:34,800 --> 00:24:37,320 I would say that there are some people in this room, maybe a 389 00:24:37,320 --> 00:24:41,720 majority of people in this room who, because of life 390 00:24:41,720 --> 00:24:48,920 circumstances, trauma, you name it, live with the sympathetic 391 00:24:48,920 --> 00:24:55,480 switch always on. And you've lived that way for so 392 00:24:55,480 --> 00:25:01,320 long you think it's normal. It's the air you breathe, the 393 00:25:01,320 --> 00:25:07,240 water you swim in. Always stressed accelerator 394 00:25:07,240 --> 00:25:11,080 mashed to the floor, always worried that something is about 395 00:25:11,080 --> 00:25:16,200 to happen. Tensed up, stressed out, 396 00:25:17,840 --> 00:25:23,680 switches on. I don't know if that's you. 397 00:25:26,640 --> 00:25:32,080 Science has said we have an answer for you to move from the 398 00:25:32,080 --> 00:25:35,040 sympathetic to the parasympathetic. 399 00:25:37,320 --> 00:25:40,760 Listen to their list. This is what research says. 400 00:25:40,760 --> 00:25:44,800 These aren't just ideas, but research has proven these things 401 00:25:44,800 --> 00:25:47,880 work. Number one, these are not in any 402 00:25:47,880 --> 00:25:51,160 order of importance. Spend time in nature. 403 00:25:54,800 --> 00:25:58,760 You ever go to the beach and just feel like, yeah, it's too 404 00:25:58,760 --> 00:26:06,080 hot here, let's go somewhere else, Practice meditation 405 00:26:09,720 --> 00:26:11,720 wherever. I heard that word before to 406 00:26:11,720 --> 00:26:17,200 meditate. Deep abdominal breathing. 407 00:26:17,960 --> 00:26:20,920 If you ever want to try relaxing and shove oxygen to your bane 408 00:26:20,960 --> 00:26:25,240 brain, reverse breathe. That means suck in your gut as 409 00:26:25,240 --> 00:26:28,560 you're breathing in and blow it out as you're breathing out. 410 00:26:28,840 --> 00:26:31,960 Shoves air up to your brain. Sympathetic to parasympathetic. 411 00:26:33,160 --> 00:26:39,080 Repetitive prayer, science says, helps us go from sympathetic to 412 00:26:39,080 --> 00:26:41,800 parasympathetic. How about this one? 413 00:26:42,200 --> 00:26:44,800 Focus on a word that is soothing. 414 00:26:46,120 --> 00:26:52,280 I got a suggestion. Focus on the word that is 415 00:26:52,280 --> 00:26:54,240 soothing. This one you might disagree 416 00:26:54,240 --> 00:26:56,360 with, but they say play with animals or children. 417 00:27:00,800 --> 00:27:02,160 You also might disagree with this one. 418 00:27:02,840 --> 00:27:12,840 Exercise, touch your toes. Progressive relaxation so you 419 00:27:12,840 --> 00:27:15,480 feel relaxed from the feet to the knees all the way up to the 420 00:27:15,480 --> 00:27:22,280 head, feeling each part unreleased, its tension, or the 421 00:27:22,280 --> 00:27:24,200 last one. Do something you enjoy like a 422 00:27:24,200 --> 00:27:29,200 favorite hobby. Now you all are brilliant 423 00:27:29,200 --> 00:27:32,280 people. I thought I'd get at least an 424 00:27:32,280 --> 00:27:36,960 Amen. So you know that what science is 425 00:27:36,960 --> 00:27:41,040 telling us is the same thing that God has been saying since 426 00:27:41,040 --> 00:27:46,920 the book of Genesis, which he codified that which means he 427 00:27:46,920 --> 00:27:51,680 made it forever law in both Exodus. 428 00:27:53,000 --> 00:27:55,240 Well, and he repeats it again that we get the the 20 429 00:27:55,240 --> 00:27:57,520 commandments, the 10 commandments twice. 430 00:27:58,320 --> 00:28:02,160 Fun for me to say, telling us to rest. 431 00:28:02,880 --> 00:28:06,880 And then he sent us on Jesus so that we could live from the 432 00:28:06,880 --> 00:28:13,440 place of his finished work and Sabbath, not just the 24 hour 433 00:28:13,440 --> 00:28:17,360 period where we're not working, but every day of our lives with 434 00:28:17,360 --> 00:28:20,560 him. Abraham Heschel is a Jewish 435 00:28:20,560 --> 00:28:22,280 rabbi. He wrote my favorite book on 436 00:28:22,280 --> 00:28:28,640 Sabbath, it's entitled Sabbath. It's a very old book. 437 00:28:29,160 --> 00:28:31,400 I highly recommend it. It's a short read, but it is a 438 00:28:31,400 --> 00:28:34,320 very rich read. He said Sabbath is the one day 439 00:28:34,480 --> 00:28:43,160 we don't master civilization, we surpass it, meaning that 440 00:28:45,120 --> 00:28:48,960 mastering civilization means that we become rat number one in 441 00:28:48,960 --> 00:28:52,920 the rat race. Woo, I am king rat. 442 00:28:54,200 --> 00:28:56,960 The problem is you're still a rat. 443 00:28:58,960 --> 00:29:07,520 And Sabbath helps us to live beyond the reality of Americana. 444 00:29:07,600 --> 00:29:09,320 We've talked about this in the series. 445 00:29:10,080 --> 00:29:14,560 Wake up, do your job, go to bed, rinse and repeat. 446 00:29:16,000 --> 00:29:19,720 Well, walking in the Sabbath brings you to this unhurried 447 00:29:21,200 --> 00:29:27,200 peace and pace with the Lord your God, walking in step with 448 00:29:27,200 --> 00:29:32,160 Him. We don't follow the beat, the 449 00:29:32,160 --> 00:29:37,440 pattern of the world, we follow the beat and pattern of our 450 00:29:37,440 --> 00:29:39,320 designer. Amen. 451 00:29:42,360 --> 00:29:43,840 How? Here's the last scripture. 452 00:29:43,960 --> 00:29:45,760 Oh no, I got 2. My bad. 453 00:29:45,920 --> 00:29:48,320 Isaiah chapter 58. If you're in 30, flip to your 454 00:29:48,320 --> 00:29:51,880 right 28 chapters. Isaiah chapter 58. 455 00:29:52,800 --> 00:29:54,480 The very first word is you're flipping there. 456 00:29:54,480 --> 00:29:58,880 That we're going to read in verse 13 says if and if there's 457 00:29:58,880 --> 00:30:01,960 an if. What follows later then? 458 00:30:01,960 --> 00:30:05,640 Is that what you said? Can I hear nothing? 459 00:30:05,640 --> 00:30:11,080 Really. Look at this verse 13. 460 00:30:11,560 --> 00:30:16,160 If you keep your feet from breaking the Sabbath and from 461 00:30:16,160 --> 00:30:19,640 doing as you please on my holy day, if you call the Sabbath a 462 00:30:19,640 --> 00:30:24,360 delight and the Lord's holy day honorable, and if you honor it 463 00:30:24,360 --> 00:30:27,000 by not going your own way and not doing as you please or 464 00:30:27,000 --> 00:30:32,440 speaking idle words, verse 14, then three things get packed 465 00:30:32,440 --> 00:30:34,040 into your backpack. Your soul. 466 00:30:35,200 --> 00:30:36,600 I told you they were coming. Here they are. 467 00:30:37,240 --> 00:30:42,600 You will find joy in the Lord. I will cause you to ride in 468 00:30:42,600 --> 00:30:47,440 triumph on the heights of the land and to feast on the 469 00:30:47,440 --> 00:30:50,720 inheritance of your Father, Jacob. 470 00:30:53,560 --> 00:30:57,920 Three things that God is willing to exchange for your stress, 471 00:30:58,600 --> 00:31:04,320 your worry, your accumulation. Let me unpack those and pack you 472 00:31:04,320 --> 00:31:07,480 with #1 Joy. We've taught this year before, 473 00:31:07,480 --> 00:31:09,720 but if you haven't been around, joy doesn't mean happiness. 474 00:31:09,760 --> 00:31:15,840 Yay. Joy means I recognize grace and 475 00:31:15,840 --> 00:31:19,880 it follows with an emotion, and that emotion we call joy. 476 00:31:19,880 --> 00:31:22,960 But it really begins. And recognizing God has been 477 00:31:22,960 --> 00:31:27,360 better to me than I deserve. He sent his Son Jesus in the 478 00:31:27,360 --> 00:31:30,760 midst of my darkest places. He was there and I'm flipping 479 00:31:30,760 --> 00:31:32,680 the script. This isn't a dark moment. 480 00:31:32,680 --> 00:31:37,880 This is where God was graceful to me, and that thing that rises 481 00:31:37,880 --> 00:31:42,120 up in you as assurances of His promises and His presence, that 482 00:31:42,120 --> 00:31:50,400 is joy. And when you Sabbath, you're 483 00:31:50,400 --> 00:31:53,960 full of this joy. You get packed in with 484 00:31:55,040 --> 00:31:57,560 recognizing His grace. We talked about a week one. 485 00:31:57,560 --> 00:32:01,240 That Sabbath thing is less recuperation and more 486 00:32:01,240 --> 00:32:05,280 appreciation. We appreciate His grace and 487 00:32:05,280 --> 00:32:08,000 we're full of joy. Secondly, it says we will 488 00:32:08,000 --> 00:32:09,680 triumph on the heights. Heights, when you read it 489 00:32:09,680 --> 00:32:13,840 biblically, usually means one of two things, either influence or 490 00:32:13,840 --> 00:32:16,160 victory. And this says triumph on the 491 00:32:16,160 --> 00:32:17,400 heights. So it's not triumph on the 492 00:32:17,400 --> 00:32:18,920 victory. That's really triumph and 493 00:32:18,920 --> 00:32:25,440 influence, which means this you have an opportunity in your life 494 00:32:25,640 --> 00:32:30,080 to influence other people from your victory or from your wound. 495 00:32:32,680 --> 00:32:36,720 You lead with your wound, which means you have the victim 496 00:32:36,720 --> 00:32:38,920 mentality. Well, this happened and that 497 00:32:38,920 --> 00:32:40,440 happened. It's other people's problems and 498 00:32:40,440 --> 00:32:44,480 me, me, me, me, me, me, me, and I have a reason and excuse to 499 00:32:44,480 --> 00:32:50,120 behave the way I do. That's living influencing from 500 00:32:50,120 --> 00:32:54,200 the place of a wound. But those who Sabbath and spend 501 00:32:54,200 --> 00:32:57,680 time recognizing how good God is in connecting with Him, they 502 00:32:57,680 --> 00:33:01,440 lead from a place of victory. I will not lead from my wound. 503 00:33:01,440 --> 00:33:04,120 I will lead from the One who healed me. 504 00:33:05,440 --> 00:33:12,360 I will influence my words, my thoughts, my behaviors will be 505 00:33:12,360 --> 00:33:17,040 from a victorious place instead of a defeated place when I 506 00:33:17,040 --> 00:33:20,360 Sabbath according to Isaiah, who's speaking for God. 507 00:33:21,440 --> 00:33:23,920 And finally, it says that you will feast on the inheritance of 508 00:33:23,920 --> 00:33:26,400 Jacob. Jacob is one of the fathers of 509 00:33:26,400 --> 00:33:28,600 our faith, Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob. 510 00:33:29,240 --> 00:33:32,960 This is Jacob's inheritance. He was blessed to be a blessing. 511 00:33:34,080 --> 00:33:37,600 So when you feast on his inheritance, you become blessed 512 00:33:38,240 --> 00:33:41,400 to be a blessing, which means that God will pour out His 513 00:33:41,400 --> 00:33:45,680 abundance in you, whatever that looks like, so that you can be a 514 00:33:45,680 --> 00:33:50,120 blessing to others. And that happens when you 515 00:33:50,120 --> 00:33:56,280 Sabbath joy leading from victory, blessed to be a 516 00:33:56,280 --> 00:33:58,480 blessing. These are the things that the 517 00:33:58,480 --> 00:34:02,480 Lord God will put into your backpack, your soul, when you 518 00:34:02,480 --> 00:34:04,480 Sabbath. That's why Jesus said Mark 519 00:34:04,480 --> 00:34:06,440 chapter 2. The Sabbath was made for man, 520 00:34:06,440 --> 00:34:11,440 not man for the Sabbath. Just as my 20 bucks in my wallet 521 00:34:11,440 --> 00:34:17,120 can't help Bill Gates's bank account, so any of my efforts 522 00:34:18,320 --> 00:34:22,280 cannot help the Sabbath. The Sabbath is about sowing and 523 00:34:22,280 --> 00:34:24,960 reaping. We don't sow The Kingdom of God 524 00:34:24,960 --> 00:34:30,600 sows into us, and then the world reaps A renewed temp, a renewed 525 00:34:30,600 --> 00:34:33,800 you. Praise God, showing you, showing 526 00:34:33,800 --> 00:34:36,880 who He is through you. I have a friend for many, many, 527 00:34:36,880 --> 00:34:40,199 many, many years who lived with a sympathetic switch on and he 528 00:34:40,199 --> 00:34:43,639 thought it was normal. And then he began to learn how 529 00:34:43,639 --> 00:34:46,320 to rest. And the most amazing thing that 530 00:34:46,320 --> 00:34:49,280 he tells me is men. I used to get up at night, just 531 00:34:49,280 --> 00:34:51,080 as everyone does, to use the restroom. 532 00:34:51,679 --> 00:34:54,719 Then when I would get back to bed, sleep was kind of not 533 00:34:54,719 --> 00:34:56,960 happening for a long time because my brain would. 534 00:35:00,800 --> 00:35:04,600 And now he sleeps all night long. 535 00:35:07,200 --> 00:35:10,160 So he learned to rest in his savior. 536 00:35:11,080 --> 00:35:13,960 His life is a living testament to me and to you. 537 00:35:14,160 --> 00:35:16,960 I wrote these down. Rest engages our default mode 538 00:35:16,960 --> 00:35:19,480 network. Rest moves us from sympathetic 539 00:35:19,480 --> 00:35:22,240 to parasympathetic. Rest moves us from fight or 540 00:35:22,240 --> 00:35:25,360 flight to peace. Rest moves us from a house built 541 00:35:25,360 --> 00:35:27,720 on sand to a house built on the rock. 542 00:35:27,720 --> 00:35:30,800 Rest moves us from shaking in our boots at the face of the 543 00:35:30,800 --> 00:35:35,360 enemies, instead looking at him and saying, who are you to defy 544 00:35:35,480 --> 00:35:40,000 the armies of the living God? This is what rest does, and it's 545 00:35:40,000 --> 00:35:44,240 not an invitation, it's a command. 546 00:35:47,080 --> 00:35:53,240 That's so much God loves you. Would you receive his rest? 547 00:35:55,000 --> 00:35:56,320 Would you bow your heads and pray with me? 548 00:35:58,000 --> 00:36:01,840 Jesus, you promised that your word never returns void. 549 00:36:02,320 --> 00:36:04,800 And we have spoken your words. We have heard your words. 550 00:36:05,400 --> 00:36:14,840 God, help us now to live your words to do the Word and become 551 00:36:14,840 --> 00:36:20,480 practitioners of rest. Lord, let it be said of the 552 00:36:20,480 --> 00:36:23,720 people of Illuminate Church. They are experts at resting. 553 00:36:28,480 --> 00:36:31,760 We declare your rest over every person here today and church. 554 00:36:31,760 --> 00:36:34,080 Maybe you're here today and you've never received Jesus as 555 00:36:34,080 --> 00:36:36,440 Savior. Let me tell you, there is no 556 00:36:36,440 --> 00:36:41,760 rest for the unsaved. That is not meant to be a fear 557 00:36:41,760 --> 00:36:44,800 tactic, it is just a confession of reality. 558 00:36:45,440 --> 00:36:49,080 There is no rest outside of the hope of Jesus Christ. 559 00:36:50,680 --> 00:36:55,120 Jesus went to the cross to die in our place so that we might 560 00:36:55,120 --> 00:37:00,080 have eternal peace starting the moment we declare Jesus is Lord 561 00:37:01,480 --> 00:37:03,480 and receive His invitation to salvation. 562 00:37:05,000 --> 00:37:08,040 That's you here today. Then make the good decision. 563 00:37:08,840 --> 00:37:11,680 Turn your heart by faith over to Jesus Christ. 564 00:37:11,880 --> 00:37:14,520 I'm going to have the whole church pray, and if that's you, 565 00:37:14,520 --> 00:37:16,600 pray along with them out loud through your mouth. 566 00:37:16,600 --> 00:37:23,960 Everybody saying this in Jesus name, Father, I come to you and 567 00:37:23,960 --> 00:37:31,280 confess that I am a Sinner in need of a Savior, and I believe 568 00:37:32,280 --> 00:37:39,440 and I confess that Jesus is the Lord and receive him today as my 569 00:37:39,440 --> 00:37:43,200 Savior. Thank you for forgiveness, thank 570 00:37:43,200 --> 00:37:46,720 you for the Spirit, and thank you for eternal peace. 571 00:37:49,960 --> 00:37:53,760 If you prayed that prayer just now for the very first time, you 572 00:37:53,760 --> 00:37:57,640 have just become a Christian, not because you've gone to 573 00:37:57,640 --> 00:37:59,840 church your whole life, but because you received His 574 00:37:59,840 --> 00:38:04,680 invitation personally as Savior. I'm going to ask you to do 1 575 00:38:04,680 --> 00:38:06,720 bold thing on the count of three in just a moment. 576 00:38:06,720 --> 00:38:08,440 I'm going to have you. If you've prayed that prayer for 577 00:38:08,440 --> 00:38:11,640 the first time today, raise your hand up as high as it will go. 578 00:38:12,280 --> 00:38:17,120 Just signifying I'm in. It's me on the count of 3123, 579 00:38:17,120 --> 00:38:19,600 hands going up before I can even count, praise you God. 580 00:38:20,120 --> 00:38:22,000 Yes Sir. I see you sisters. 581 00:38:22,000 --> 00:38:23,480 I see you, my sister, any others? 582 00:38:23,480 --> 00:38:25,840 I see you, my brother. Just hold your hand up for a 583 00:38:25,840 --> 00:38:28,560 second and an usher is going to bring something to you that's 584 00:38:28,560 --> 00:38:30,000 very important. It's why I'm having you hold 585 00:38:30,000 --> 00:38:33,280 your hand up, praise the Lord, thank you God. 586 00:38:35,720 --> 00:38:37,760 I want you to know that those that come early and those that 587 00:38:37,760 --> 00:38:43,520 come late get the same reward. Any others today? 588 00:38:45,640 --> 00:38:48,600 Thank you Lord for those who are being saved and thank you for 589 00:38:48,600 --> 00:38:53,080 hearing your church as we rejoice in Jesus name, Amen. 590 00:38:53,600 --> 00:38:56,680 Thanks for joining us today. We hope God is speaking to your 591 00:38:56,680 --> 00:38:59,280 heart through this message. If you'd like to connect with 592 00:38:59,280 --> 00:39:06,960 us, you can text Connect to 4:07 588-0115 or visit Illuminate dot 593 00:39:06,960 --> 00:39:09,120 Church. Have a great week.