1 00:00:00,600 --> 00:00:02,920 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 00:00:09,360 --> 00:00:11,160 Welcome to Illuminate Church. My name is Tim. 4 00:00:11,160 --> 00:00:13,920 We help people find abundant life in Jesus. 5 00:00:13,920 --> 00:00:16,760 If you went to life Step 1 during the 9:00 AM service, 6 00:00:16,760 --> 00:00:18,880 welcome to the 11:00. We're glad you're here. 7 00:00:19,280 --> 00:00:21,320 If you're watching online wherever you are, I don't know 8 00:00:21,320 --> 00:00:22,320 which camera to look all of them. 9 00:00:22,760 --> 00:00:26,160 We're so glad you're joining us. If you live locally, get here. 10 00:00:26,160 --> 00:00:29,320 It's better in person in Jesus name Amen. 11 00:00:30,560 --> 00:00:34,840 So case in point that we help people find abundant life in 12 00:00:34,840 --> 00:00:40,760 Jesus is this series for I have seen I am witness to countless 13 00:00:40,920 --> 00:00:45,440 of people applying the teaching of today and it absolutely 14 00:00:45,560 --> 00:00:48,400 empowering their life in an abundant way. 15 00:00:49,000 --> 00:00:53,480 If you will take hold of it. I am myself, our family. 16 00:00:54,280 --> 00:00:56,840 A testimony of its effectiveness. 17 00:00:57,240 --> 00:01:00,000 The Bible says wisdom is proved right by all its children. 18 00:01:00,000 --> 00:01:04,200 Meaning if you do it, you will see the evidence. 19 00:01:04,800 --> 00:01:09,240 The proof is not in the pudding. The proof is in the eating of 20 00:01:09,240 --> 00:01:11,800 the pudding. You got to do it to see it. 21 00:01:11,880 --> 00:01:15,480 Amen. We're talking about unrest. 22 00:01:15,480 --> 00:01:19,360 Everyone say unrest in America. We need to unlearn the way that 23 00:01:19,360 --> 00:01:24,040 we've learned to rest because, news flash, our rest ain't 24 00:01:24,040 --> 00:01:26,680 working. Yes, Sir, the way that we as 25 00:01:26,680 --> 00:01:29,120 Americans rest, and even if you're from another country, 26 00:01:29,120 --> 00:01:32,440 you're here in America today, the way that we rest in America 27 00:01:32,440 --> 00:01:34,920 is not working because we're anxious, we're depressed, we're 28 00:01:34,920 --> 00:01:38,720 stressed out, we're burnt out. Even though we think that we 29 00:01:38,720 --> 00:01:41,560 rest, we need to unlearn the way that we rest and learn God's 30 00:01:41,560 --> 00:01:42,840 way. It's what we introduced last 31 00:01:42,840 --> 00:01:47,200 week by introducing or maybe reintroducing the Sabbath. 32 00:01:47,200 --> 00:01:51,000 Everyone say Sabbath. Last week we said that Sabbath 33 00:01:51,240 --> 00:01:53,600 is the last thing that God created, but the first thing 34 00:01:53,600 --> 00:01:55,960 that he made holy. Last week we said that the 35 00:01:55,960 --> 00:01:58,400 Sabbath is not about recuperation, it's about 36 00:01:58,400 --> 00:02:00,880 appreciation, Completely different things. 37 00:02:01,240 --> 00:02:03,680 Last week we said that the Sabbath kills aloneness and the 38 00:02:03,680 --> 00:02:09,160 Sabbath will make you still rested. 39 00:02:10,400 --> 00:02:13,160 I used the word Sabbath so much last week, I don't think I ever 40 00:02:13,160 --> 00:02:15,360 defined what a Sabbath actually is. 41 00:02:15,360 --> 00:02:18,920 So for a working definition and for unity here in the mezzanine 42 00:02:18,920 --> 00:02:21,040 everywhere around the world, here's what a Sabbath means. 43 00:02:21,040 --> 00:02:27,200 A Sabbath is 124 hour period you set aside each week to rest from 44 00:02:27,200 --> 00:02:33,000 your catch this normal work, your job, work, work that takes 45 00:02:33,000 --> 00:02:39,240 life out of you and you focus on the person of God, the goodness 46 00:02:39,240 --> 00:02:42,160 of God in your life, the goodness of who he is and the 47 00:02:42,160 --> 00:02:43,960 goodness of what he's done for you. 48 00:02:43,960 --> 00:02:45,760 It's a day set aside to the Lord. 49 00:02:45,920 --> 00:02:49,920 He'd called it holy. Holy means set apart to him. 50 00:02:50,120 --> 00:02:53,600 So I don't want you to think of monasticism, being a monk, 51 00:02:53,920 --> 00:02:55,960 getting in your house. I mean, you can meditate, but 52 00:02:55,960 --> 00:03:00,520 you don't got to do the my Father can be your father at 53 00:03:00,520 --> 00:03:05,280 Domino's. You know what I'm talking about. 54 00:03:05,280 --> 00:03:08,960 Not that to Sabbath means to invest in your family. 55 00:03:10,200 --> 00:03:11,960 The Sabbath means to invest in yourself. 56 00:03:11,960 --> 00:03:13,640 When's the last time you did a little self-care? 57 00:03:15,720 --> 00:03:18,160 God cares about you. I think you'd be all right if 58 00:03:18,160 --> 00:03:21,200 you did a little self-care. It could be going to the beach 59 00:03:22,080 --> 00:03:25,240 on your Sabbath. It could be taking a nap that's 60 00:03:25,240 --> 00:03:29,080 regenerative. It could be working in your 61 00:03:29,080 --> 00:03:31,800 garden. Wait, wait, wait, wait. 62 00:03:31,800 --> 00:03:34,440 He said you can't do worry. He's like, no, it's normal work, 63 00:03:34,720 --> 00:03:37,040 not work that gives life. Jesus said that the Sabbath 64 00:03:37,040 --> 00:03:40,480 wasn't made for man Excuse me? Jesus said the Sabbath was made 65 00:03:40,480 --> 00:03:42,520 for man, not man for the Sabbath. 66 00:03:43,240 --> 00:03:45,800 Meaning the Sabbath is supposed to be that which gives man life. 67 00:03:45,800 --> 00:03:47,080 We don't add anything to the Sabbath. 68 00:03:47,080 --> 00:03:49,680 It gives to us when we practice it. 69 00:03:49,680 --> 00:03:54,640 So on the Sabbath you do things that give you life, not take 70 00:03:54,640 --> 00:03:56,480 them away. Some of you, gardening takes 71 00:03:56,480 --> 00:04:01,760 away life, and in fact, you take away life when you garden. 72 00:04:04,360 --> 00:04:05,440 And for some of you, it gives life. 73 00:04:05,440 --> 00:04:07,200 For some of you, playing golf gives life. 74 00:04:09,480 --> 00:04:12,600 And for most of us, myself included, sometimes you want to 75 00:04:12,600 --> 00:04:19,240 take a life while you're it's a stupid game, right? 76 00:04:20,760 --> 00:04:23,520 I play it. Maybe you want to crank up the 77 00:04:23,520 --> 00:04:25,560 worship. Whatever brings you life. 78 00:04:25,560 --> 00:04:29,160 That is the purpose of this 24 hours dedicated to the Lord that 79 00:04:29,160 --> 00:04:33,360 is born out of a gift of love God gives to us, and we return 80 00:04:33,360 --> 00:04:38,720 that love to Him by honoring Him and keeping the Sabbath holy to 81 00:04:38,720 --> 00:04:42,240 commune with God, to celebrate and appreciate life. 82 00:04:43,440 --> 00:04:45,200 Last week we started in Exodus 20. 83 00:04:45,200 --> 00:04:46,920 You don't need to turn there. If you want to start flipping, 84 00:04:46,920 --> 00:04:49,400 you could go to Deuteronomy chapter 30, which is the 5th 85 00:04:49,400 --> 00:04:51,960 book in the Bible. If you need a Bible, raise your 86 00:04:51,960 --> 00:04:54,360 hand, Deuteronomy chapter 30 about. 87 00:04:54,360 --> 00:04:56,640 But while you're going there, I just want to read the fourth 88 00:04:56,640 --> 00:04:59,120 commandment again, found in Exodus chapter 20 of the 10 89 00:04:59,120 --> 00:05:00,520 commandments. Yeah, just raise your hand. 90 00:05:00,520 --> 00:05:02,240 We'll bring you a Bible. Even up in the mezzanine. 91 00:05:02,280 --> 00:05:05,520 We have Bibles in the mezzanine, Exodus chapter 20, God's command 92 00:05:05,520 --> 00:05:07,360 to rest, found in the 10 commandments, the 4th 93 00:05:07,360 --> 00:05:09,800 commandment. Remember the Sabbath day by 94 00:05:09,800 --> 00:05:13,120 keeping it holy. Set apart six days. 95 00:05:13,120 --> 00:05:15,280 You shall labor and do all your work, your normal work. 96 00:05:15,280 --> 00:05:18,360 But the 7th day is a Sabbath day to the Lord your God, on which 97 00:05:18,360 --> 00:05:21,920 you must not do any work, neither you nor your son or 98 00:05:21,920 --> 00:05:24,720 daughter, your manservant, your maidservant, livestock, chickens 99 00:05:24,720 --> 00:05:27,280 and cows. No working, nor the foreigner 100 00:05:27,280 --> 00:05:29,760 within your gates. For in six days the Lord made 101 00:05:29,760 --> 00:05:31,800 the heavens and the earth and the sea and all that is in them. 102 00:05:31,800 --> 00:05:37,160 But on the 7th day He rested. Therefore, the Lord bless the 103 00:05:37,160 --> 00:05:42,960 Sabbath day and set it apart as holy One of the 10 commandments. 104 00:05:42,960 --> 00:05:44,720 We talked about this a lot last week. 105 00:05:44,920 --> 00:05:46,760 If you missed it, please go back and watch. 106 00:05:47,600 --> 00:05:50,640 But the purpose of me reciting it again today is to tell you 107 00:05:50,640 --> 00:05:54,120 that this is a command, not a suggestion. 108 00:05:55,640 --> 00:05:58,400 You know the difference, right? Well, you might want to try 109 00:05:58,400 --> 00:06:00,840 this, or you absolutely have to do this. 110 00:06:02,040 --> 00:06:05,200 A big difference. It's not a suggestion, it is a 111 00:06:05,200 --> 00:06:06,520 command. We talked about it a little bit 112 00:06:06,520 --> 00:06:08,240 last. I want to reinforce it. 113 00:06:08,240 --> 00:06:10,680 But when God speaks, it's for our benefit. 114 00:06:12,200 --> 00:06:14,120 His words, his commands are for our benefit. 115 00:06:14,120 --> 00:06:16,440 Our family had the opportunity to go to Costa Rica a few years 116 00:06:16,440 --> 00:06:18,200 ago. And there we went, rappelling 117 00:06:18,200 --> 00:06:21,160 and zip lining through the rainforest to Costa Rica. 118 00:06:22,000 --> 00:06:26,400 And you go and you, they put you in this little Hut and they put 119 00:06:26,400 --> 00:06:28,160 the harness on you. And there's like a pole there. 120 00:06:28,160 --> 00:06:30,120 And the guys like hanging off the pole like this is what we're 121 00:06:30,120 --> 00:06:31,840 going to do. And you're just getting there 122 00:06:31,840 --> 00:06:33,200 and you're kind of fidgeting with your harness. 123 00:06:33,200 --> 00:06:35,000 It feels weird. Your kids are like fidgeting 124 00:06:35,000 --> 00:06:36,000 around. You're, you're looking at 125 00:06:36,000 --> 00:06:37,240 everything. There's lots of things to look 126 00:06:37,240 --> 00:06:38,760 at. He's talking and they're like, 127 00:06:38,760 --> 00:06:41,400 all right, let's start. And you go walking down the path 128 00:06:41,400 --> 00:06:44,640 and you get to the end of the path and you stand on the edge 129 00:06:44,640 --> 00:06:50,840 of a Cliff that is 110 stories, 100 feet, 10 store, 100 feet 130 00:06:50,840 --> 00:06:53,160 down. I'm reliving into my spirit. 131 00:06:55,360 --> 00:06:59,280 It looks terrifying when you're at the top ten stories straight 132 00:06:59,280 --> 00:07:00,640 down. There's a giant waterfall here. 133 00:07:00,640 --> 00:07:02,800 You, you repel right next to it. You get all wet from the 134 00:07:02,800 --> 00:07:06,320 waterfall, right? The first person to go is Eli. 135 00:07:07,480 --> 00:07:09,080 Oh yeah. Yeah, I don't remember how old 136 00:07:09,080 --> 00:07:11,680 you were. You lay back then like 10, he 137 00:07:11,680 --> 00:07:12,800 says. Well, he was. 138 00:07:12,880 --> 00:07:14,880 They deemed him too small to repel. 139 00:07:14,880 --> 00:07:17,360 So they literally like you're first hooked him up to the rope 140 00:07:17,360 --> 00:07:19,760 and they went like this. Shoop just held him over the 141 00:07:19,760 --> 00:07:21,760 edge and he's sitting there like a little cannonball. 142 00:07:23,080 --> 00:07:24,640 And then he just, he just went down. 143 00:07:25,680 --> 00:07:27,000 He didn't touch the wall. They just dropped him. 144 00:07:27,960 --> 00:07:30,080 And so all he sees his little body go bye, bye. 145 00:07:31,880 --> 00:07:34,000 And then you get up to the edge and you feel like this little 146 00:07:34,000 --> 00:07:37,160 baby feels right now and your legs are shaking like this. 147 00:07:37,520 --> 00:07:39,800 And you're looking over the edge and they're like, lean back, 148 00:07:41,400 --> 00:07:44,160 hold the rope, right? And it's at this moment that you 149 00:07:44,160 --> 00:07:49,440 realize I should have paid more attention to the instructions 150 00:07:51,040 --> 00:07:52,760 because these were not suggestions. 151 00:07:53,880 --> 00:07:57,640 These were commands. Follow them and you will have a 152 00:07:57,640 --> 00:08:00,080 nice bouncy time down the wall, a little bit wet. 153 00:08:00,080 --> 00:08:01,760 You get to the end. Christine and I were like, we're 154 00:08:01,760 --> 00:08:03,800 laughing and crying. I'm not sure if I'm happy to be 155 00:08:03,800 --> 00:08:06,960 done or happy that it happened, right? 156 00:08:07,400 --> 00:08:09,920 That's how you feel. Or if you don't follow the 157 00:08:09,920 --> 00:08:13,120 instructions, you kind of just like body scrape the entire way 158 00:08:13,120 --> 00:08:17,280 down, heads banging, right? Or worse. 159 00:08:19,400 --> 00:08:23,840 They're not suggestions. They're commands meant to give 160 00:08:23,840 --> 00:08:25,800 us life. The Sabbath is a command meant 161 00:08:25,800 --> 00:08:28,960 to give us life. Amen. 162 00:08:29,640 --> 00:08:31,560 Deuteronomy 30. I told you to turn there. 163 00:08:31,640 --> 00:08:35,320 In the book of Deuteronomy, Joshua is taking over the 164 00:08:35,320 --> 00:08:37,919 leadership of God's people from Moses. 165 00:08:38,520 --> 00:08:42,400 Moses sinned while the people were heading from Egypt to the 166 00:08:42,400 --> 00:08:44,360 Promised land. And therefore God said, hey, 167 00:08:44,360 --> 00:08:46,440 Moses, you're going to go up on a mountain and see the promised 168 00:08:46,440 --> 00:08:48,000 land, but you're not actually going to go in. 169 00:08:48,000 --> 00:08:51,280 Joshua is going to take them in. And in Deuteronomy, especially 170 00:08:51,280 --> 00:08:54,480 here near the end, God is reminding Joshua and all the 171 00:08:54,480 --> 00:08:58,800 people, this is what I'm giving you, the commands of God, so 172 00:08:58,800 --> 00:09:01,440 that as you enter the promised land, you will live and honor 173 00:09:01,440 --> 00:09:02,880 me. And therefore all the other 174 00:09:02,880 --> 00:09:05,680 nations will see you are blessed and they will stream to me and 175 00:09:05,680 --> 00:09:08,160 they themselves will be blessed and nation after nation will 176 00:09:08,160 --> 00:09:10,360 follow Israel into the glory of God. 177 00:09:10,360 --> 00:09:12,760 That's the idea. Humanity, we messed it up a 178 00:09:12,760 --> 00:09:16,160 little bit, a lot bit. But Deuteronomy 30, listen to 179 00:09:16,160 --> 00:09:19,040 how the Lord characterizes this. This is God speaking to his 180 00:09:19,040 --> 00:09:22,080 people. Now verse 11, sorry. 181 00:09:22,520 --> 00:09:24,040 Deuteronomy chapter 30, verse 11. 182 00:09:24,400 --> 00:09:27,760 Now what I, the Lord God and commanding you, the people today 183 00:09:27,760 --> 00:09:31,240 is not too difficult for you or beyond your reach. 184 00:09:31,960 --> 00:09:34,360 It is not up in heaven, so that you have to ask who will ascend 185 00:09:34,360 --> 00:09:36,720 into heaven to get and proclaim it to us, so that we may obey 186 00:09:36,720 --> 00:09:38,960 it. Nor is it beyond the sea, so 187 00:09:38,960 --> 00:09:41,360 that you have to ask who will cross the sea to get it and 188 00:09:41,360 --> 00:09:43,080 proclaim it to us so that we may obey it. 189 00:09:43,280 --> 00:09:46,160 No, the word of God is very near you. 190 00:09:46,160 --> 00:09:48,240 It's in your mouth, it's in your heart, so you may obey it. 191 00:09:48,240 --> 00:09:55,920 See, I set before you today life and prosperity, or death and 192 00:09:55,920 --> 00:09:59,800 destruction, verse 16. For I command you today to love 193 00:09:59,800 --> 00:10:01,800 the Lord your God, to walk in obedience to Him, and to keep 194 00:10:01,800 --> 00:10:04,560 His commands, decrees, and laws. Then you will live and increase, 195 00:10:04,800 --> 00:10:07,080 and the Lord your God will bless you in the land you were 196 00:10:07,080 --> 00:10:11,000 entering to possess. But if your heart turns away and 197 00:10:11,000 --> 00:10:14,080 you are not obedient, and if you are drawn away to bow down to 198 00:10:14,080 --> 00:10:17,080 other gods and worship them, I declare to you this day that you 199 00:10:17,080 --> 00:10:20,800 will certainly be destroyed. You will not live long in the 200 00:10:20,800 --> 00:10:23,280 land you are crossing the Jordan to enter and possess this day. 201 00:10:23,280 --> 00:10:26,360 I call the heavens and the earth as witnesses against you. 202 00:10:27,160 --> 00:10:29,960 Here he goes again. He's making the offer I have set 203 00:10:29,960 --> 00:10:33,480 before you. Life and death, blessings and 204 00:10:33,480 --> 00:10:35,400 curses. Underline these words in your 205 00:10:35,400 --> 00:10:40,280 Bible. Now choose life so that you and 206 00:10:40,280 --> 00:10:42,360 your children may live and that you may love the Lord your God. 207 00:10:42,360 --> 00:10:45,080 Listen to His voice and hold fast to Him, for the Lord is 208 00:10:45,080 --> 00:10:47,480 your life, and He will give you many years. 209 00:10:47,480 --> 00:10:51,520 And the land He swore to give to your father's Abraham, Isaac and 210 00:10:51,520 --> 00:10:53,800 Jacob. God is saying to His people, 211 00:10:54,760 --> 00:10:57,760 this concept is easy to understand. 212 00:10:59,560 --> 00:11:05,120 You do not need to be a Pope, a priest, a seminary graduate, 213 00:11:05,960 --> 00:11:11,160 APHDA pastor. Did all those begin with Pi? 214 00:11:11,160 --> 00:11:12,840 Hope so, because pastors just love that. 215 00:11:12,840 --> 00:11:16,560 I mean, that's awesome. You don't have to be any of that 216 00:11:16,880 --> 00:11:18,640 to understand what God is laying out here. 217 00:11:18,640 --> 00:11:20,640 And here's what he's laying out. You have a choice. 218 00:11:21,080 --> 00:11:24,280 Here's a choice, obey or not, and here's what's at stake. 219 00:11:24,560 --> 00:11:32,760 Life and death. You choose which path, which 220 00:11:32,760 --> 00:11:34,280 route you want to go. Here's another way to think of 221 00:11:34,280 --> 00:11:34,840 it. Today. 222 00:11:37,400 --> 00:11:40,640 I don't know how many of you still wear watches, but if I 223 00:11:40,640 --> 00:11:42,760 were to tell you to look at your watch, most of us would look at 224 00:11:42,760 --> 00:11:46,400 an empty wrist because our watch now lives in our pocket. 225 00:11:48,440 --> 00:11:50,760 But go ahead, it's 1148. Look at your watch. 226 00:11:51,640 --> 00:11:53,080 What do you see? Don't answer aloud. 227 00:11:53,080 --> 00:11:55,320 Just what do you see? Do you see numbers and digits in 228 00:11:55,320 --> 00:12:01,400 the hands of the clock moving? Do you see the the time? 229 00:12:03,160 --> 00:12:05,280 I think the better question of what I'm trying to drill down 230 00:12:05,280 --> 00:12:08,800 here is like, what do you perceive when you look at 231 00:12:08,800 --> 00:12:13,200 something that keeps time? A clock, a watch, a calendar 232 00:12:13,200 --> 00:12:16,480 even? Do you feel like this is the day 233 00:12:16,480 --> 00:12:18,240 the Lord has made our rejoice in it? 234 00:12:20,160 --> 00:12:24,040 What do you feel like? Oh my gosh, time is slipping 235 00:12:24,040 --> 00:12:27,360 away quickly. I got to get to the next thing 236 00:12:27,840 --> 00:12:30,640 the To Do List is screaming at Lee I this day is going to be 237 00:12:30,640 --> 00:12:36,000 over before I know it. I want to introduce to you 2 238 00:12:36,000 --> 00:12:37,600 watches. The first watch is the life 239 00:12:37,600 --> 00:12:39,560 watch and the second is the death watch. 240 00:12:39,840 --> 00:12:42,400 And just as the Lord has told us in Deuteronomy 30, you get to 241 00:12:42,400 --> 00:12:45,960 decide which one you wear. But I will tell you, you're 242 00:12:45,960 --> 00:12:49,600 already wearing one sitting here today, but you still get to 243 00:12:49,600 --> 00:12:51,000 decide today which one you'll wear. 244 00:12:52,920 --> 00:12:54,360 You can make a different choice if you'd like. 245 00:12:54,360 --> 00:12:57,040 The death watch is called chronos. 246 00:12:57,040 --> 00:13:00,760 Everyone say chronos. Chronos, this is a Greek word, 247 00:13:00,880 --> 00:13:02,600 it's in the Bible. I'll read it to you in a second, 248 00:13:02,600 --> 00:13:05,360 but it's where we get the word chronological or chronology. 249 00:13:05,600 --> 00:13:08,240 It's dates on a calendar. It's a period of time. 250 00:13:08,240 --> 00:13:11,000 It's hours, minutes, days, seconds, all those things. 251 00:13:11,200 --> 00:13:13,960 John chapter 5, verse six, one man there had been an invalid 252 00:13:13,960 --> 00:13:16,600 for 38 years. When Jesus saw him lying there 253 00:13:16,600 --> 00:13:20,600 and realized that he had spent a long Chronos period of time 254 00:13:20,760 --> 00:13:24,280 measured time in this condition, he asked him, do you want to get 255 00:13:24,280 --> 00:13:29,520 well? 38 years of Chronos Cronos's 256 00:13:29,520 --> 00:13:35,160 time passing by, a span of time. I said it's just a second ago. 257 00:13:35,160 --> 00:13:40,720 It's time measured, time marching on, time running out. 258 00:13:41,240 --> 00:13:43,360 It's the feeling that parents get when they look at their kids 259 00:13:43,360 --> 00:13:45,880 and say you're growing up too fast and they want to just keep 260 00:13:45,880 --> 00:13:48,320 their kid as an 8 year old forever. 261 00:13:49,120 --> 00:13:53,120 Don't ever grow up. Please don't grow up. 262 00:13:53,120 --> 00:13:55,040 It's the feeling of, I don't know if you ever had this 263 00:13:55,040 --> 00:13:57,600 feeling. I get it a lot lately. 264 00:13:58,240 --> 00:14:00,680 You look in the mirror and you say I feel a lot younger than 265 00:14:00,680 --> 00:14:04,440 the guy staring back at me. Can I get a witness from all my 266 00:14:04,440 --> 00:14:09,280 friends of around my age? I don't look that old, do I? 267 00:14:09,880 --> 00:14:12,400 Because my beard really white, is it? 268 00:14:13,800 --> 00:14:20,560 No, it's not liars. Eventually it's Kronos that 269 00:14:20,560 --> 00:14:23,320 catches up to us and gives us this dread of the day that we 270 00:14:23,320 --> 00:14:27,720 will cease to live. Kronos, this threat, always that 271 00:14:27,720 --> 00:14:31,280 time is running out. This season's running out. 272 00:14:31,720 --> 00:14:33,840 I got to hurry on to the next thing. 273 00:14:34,360 --> 00:14:36,760 It's going too fast. Kronos. 274 00:14:36,760 --> 00:14:39,320 Kronos can be terrifying. It's certainly not restful. 275 00:14:41,000 --> 00:14:45,520 It's stressful. That's the death watch. 276 00:14:45,760 --> 00:14:48,600 The life watch is another Greek word found in the Bible. 277 00:14:48,600 --> 00:14:50,640 It's Kairos. Everyone say Kairos. 278 00:14:51,560 --> 00:14:54,920 Kairos is a moment or a series of moment. 279 00:14:54,920 --> 00:14:57,320 It's an experience or a series of experience. 280 00:14:57,320 --> 00:15:05,880 If you look in Mark chapter 1, it says the Kairos has come, the 281 00:15:05,880 --> 00:15:08,240 Kingdom of God has come near repent and believe the good 282 00:15:08,240 --> 00:15:11,760 news. He's not saying it's eight O 4 283 00:15:12,680 --> 00:15:17,480 that time has arrived 8 O 4:00 PM He's saying this moment that 284 00:15:17,480 --> 00:15:19,680 we have been waiting for has finally arrived. 285 00:15:19,680 --> 00:15:23,000 The intersection of what God was doing in the history of the 286 00:15:23,000 --> 00:15:27,840 earth has collided in this Kairos, this moment. 287 00:15:28,320 --> 00:15:31,160 Mark chapter 13. But about that day or hour, no 288 00:15:31,160 --> 00:15:33,560 one knows, not even the angels in heaven or the Son, but only 289 00:15:33,560 --> 00:15:35,040 the Father. Be on guard, be alert. 290 00:15:35,040 --> 00:15:38,800 You do not know when that Kairos will come. 291 00:15:41,080 --> 00:15:45,480 That moment Kairos literally translated biblically, means 292 00:15:45,480 --> 00:15:52,840 time as opportunity. When you look at your watch, do 293 00:15:52,840 --> 00:15:55,280 you think of that? Like, look at all the 294 00:15:55,280 --> 00:15:58,320 opportunity? It's valuing what's happening 295 00:15:58,320 --> 00:16:04,120 right here and right now. It's appreciating each scene and 296 00:16:04,120 --> 00:16:10,400 season of life, the good ones and the hard ones, the young 297 00:16:10,400 --> 00:16:13,600 ones and the old ones, the strong ones and the feeble ones. 298 00:16:16,560 --> 00:16:19,080 The, excuse me, the Kronos person would say, Oh my 299 00:16:19,080 --> 00:16:24,040 goodness, I only have X amount of days, years left to live, 45 300 00:16:24,040 --> 00:16:28,000 years. Would the Kairos person say 301 00:16:28,000 --> 00:16:32,000 then, wow, I still have 45 years left to live? 302 00:16:33,560 --> 00:16:37,560 No, because the Kairos person would say, I'm just living for 303 00:16:38,120 --> 00:16:40,840 what's happening right now. Now be careful here because you 304 00:16:40,840 --> 00:16:43,040 can think about poor planning and poor stewardship and I'm 305 00:16:43,040 --> 00:16:45,880 just living for the moment. That's not what I mean. 306 00:16:45,880 --> 00:16:47,400 God is a planner. You should be a planner. 307 00:16:47,400 --> 00:16:48,880 God is a steward. You should be a steward. 308 00:16:48,880 --> 00:16:51,760 You should think about what's ahead, but you shouldn't fret 309 00:16:52,320 --> 00:16:57,760 about what's ahead because I am receiving this moment as the 310 00:16:57,840 --> 00:17:01,160 divine appointed opportunity that God has given me and I'm 311 00:17:01,160 --> 00:17:03,880 going to live it right here, right now and that tomorrow 312 00:17:03,880 --> 00:17:08,520 worry about itself, right? But it only comes from a rested 313 00:17:08,520 --> 00:17:17,960 person, not a chrono stressed death watch person, a life watch 314 00:17:17,960 --> 00:17:21,480 person. Mark Buchanan wrote a book 315 00:17:21,480 --> 00:17:26,640 called The Rest of God and he teaches this concept in there 316 00:17:26,640 --> 00:17:29,040 The life watch, the death watch, Kronos and Kairos. 317 00:17:29,040 --> 00:17:34,280 And he says Kronos is time we waste and Kairos is time we 318 00:17:34,280 --> 00:17:39,200 cease. Which watch do you have on 319 00:17:40,360 --> 00:17:43,360 today? Whereas Kronos dreads that time 320 00:17:43,360 --> 00:17:47,800 is moving along, stresses us out, makes us seize up in 321 00:17:47,800 --> 00:17:53,240 seasons, Kairos is appreciating each moment as a divine gift 322 00:17:53,360 --> 00:17:56,360 from God. Sovereignly, God is growing us 323 00:17:56,360 --> 00:17:59,360 and moving us from one season to the next, and we should 324 00:17:59,360 --> 00:18:03,440 appreciate each season as He moves us through life. 325 00:18:03,440 --> 00:18:06,800 I have two dear friends and they've been married almost 40 326 00:18:06,800 --> 00:18:09,600 years. And in their discussions that 327 00:18:09,600 --> 00:18:11,760 you, you, I don't know if you all have this discussions, you 328 00:18:11,760 --> 00:18:13,680 that have been married long, but you look in the mirror and like, 329 00:18:13,680 --> 00:18:17,000 wow, we ain't what we used to be. 330 00:18:18,080 --> 00:18:20,160 Things are wobbling that didn't used to wobble. 331 00:18:21,040 --> 00:18:24,120 You know, things that didn't used to hurt, hurt. 332 00:18:24,120 --> 00:18:31,440 And what are these caverns on my face wrinkles. 333 00:18:31,680 --> 00:18:36,320 Look, we're getting old. And then they continue the 334 00:18:36,320 --> 00:18:38,600 conversation and this is what came out of it. 335 00:18:39,240 --> 00:18:42,880 One of the most beautiful things I've ever heard personally, they 336 00:18:42,880 --> 00:18:46,800 said to each other. But when we got married, wasn't 337 00:18:46,800 --> 00:18:52,120 that the goal? Let it sink in for a minute. 338 00:18:53,920 --> 00:18:56,600 When we were just young pups holding hands in front of God, 339 00:18:56,600 --> 00:19:00,040 in front of our our friends, and we said till death do us part. 340 00:19:00,040 --> 00:19:05,320 Wasn't that the goal that we would grow up, that we would 341 00:19:05,320 --> 00:19:11,000 age, that we would get Gray hair or no hair or whatever, Right. 342 00:19:12,280 --> 00:19:16,080 And this is to some it's sad, but to me it's beautiful. 343 00:19:16,320 --> 00:19:18,560 And I often say it to people who are I'm about to marry. 344 00:19:18,560 --> 00:19:21,840 I'm like, listen, the goal is that one day one of you ushers 345 00:19:21,840 --> 00:19:23,480 the other into the arms of the father. 346 00:19:25,680 --> 00:19:28,000 You will die married to one another. 347 00:19:30,080 --> 00:19:33,080 It's not somber. If you're living Kairos. 348 00:19:35,080 --> 00:19:38,880 Time is opportunity. It's horrifying and sad if 349 00:19:38,880 --> 00:19:40,760 you're in Kronos. We're running out of time. 350 00:19:40,760 --> 00:19:42,880 This is all we got. We listen. 351 00:19:44,000 --> 00:19:45,560 He's sovereign. We're trusting him. 352 00:19:45,560 --> 00:19:48,160 We're resting him. The goal is to grow old and one 353 00:19:48,160 --> 00:19:49,640 of us will die married to the other. 354 00:19:49,640 --> 00:19:53,120 That's the goal. That's Kairos. 355 00:19:53,840 --> 00:19:55,880 And you can apply this to many areas of your life. 356 00:19:57,960 --> 00:20:02,760 Neo in the movie The Matrix, which is also Luke Skywalker in 357 00:20:02,760 --> 00:20:04,920 Star Wars and Harry Potter and Harry Potter. 358 00:20:04,920 --> 00:20:06,840 It's the same story, just different scenes. 359 00:20:07,040 --> 00:20:08,040 Fight me. OK? 360 00:20:10,000 --> 00:20:13,600 It's the same story, is it not? Saviour. 361 00:20:13,600 --> 00:20:14,600 You're the saviour. It's Neo. 362 00:20:14,600 --> 00:20:16,120 No, it's Luke Skywalker. No, it's Harry Potter. 363 00:20:16,120 --> 00:20:19,000 OK. And they all have a OK actually, 364 00:20:19,720 --> 00:20:21,560 does Neo have Neo does? Anyway, who gets. 365 00:20:22,520 --> 00:20:29,240 I digress as often I do. Neo hears. 366 00:20:29,920 --> 00:20:34,520 His mentor Morpheus say all I'm offering you is the truth. 367 00:20:36,560 --> 00:20:39,200 What's the truth? Well, The Matrix, if you're not 368 00:20:39,200 --> 00:20:42,080 familiar with the movie, is about two realities. 369 00:20:42,320 --> 00:20:45,400 One's actually not a reality. It's a fake reality that's 370 00:20:45,400 --> 00:20:48,480 propped up by AI and computers and people behind the scene 371 00:20:48,480 --> 00:20:51,600 making a fake reality so that all the people live peacefully 372 00:20:51,640 --> 00:20:53,880 without knowing the real truth, that there's a massive war 373 00:20:53,880 --> 00:20:57,240 brewing between good and evil behind the scenes and so they 374 00:20:57,240 --> 00:21:00,080 live in this ignorance. Ignorance is bliss. 375 00:21:00,400 --> 00:21:03,000 Just go to work, make the money, come home, there's family, 376 00:21:03,080 --> 00:21:07,920 whatever, but there's this real war waging that is unseen. 377 00:21:13,290 --> 00:21:19,130 The reality is this unseen world that Neo now has an opportunity 378 00:21:19,770 --> 00:21:22,970 to live in this truth or go back to being ignorance. 379 00:21:22,970 --> 00:21:25,770 If you remember the movie, he offers him 2 pills, a blue pill 380 00:21:25,770 --> 00:21:28,050 and a red pill. The blue pill is stay in 381 00:21:28,050 --> 00:21:30,320 ignorance. It's the death watch. 382 00:21:32,680 --> 00:21:34,960 Stay right here in this false reality. 383 00:21:34,960 --> 00:21:39,000 For Americans, I can speak, it means basically live the rat 384 00:21:39,000 --> 00:21:41,200 race. That's our reality. 385 00:21:41,240 --> 00:21:44,680 You're born, you go to school, then a few things might happen, 386 00:21:44,680 --> 00:21:47,920 college, career, marriage, children, all of these 387 00:21:47,920 --> 00:21:51,280 opportunities. Then basically taxes and death. 388 00:21:54,360 --> 00:21:56,840 That's the schedule. Live according to the schedule 389 00:21:57,400 --> 00:21:59,760 and then rinse and repeat for generations. 390 00:22:00,480 --> 00:22:05,040 That's Kronos. It's a false reality. 391 00:22:05,640 --> 00:22:07,280 It's the blue pill. It's the death watch. 392 00:22:08,640 --> 00:22:13,400 Kairos is the red pill where revelation comes and we see time 393 00:22:14,000 --> 00:22:17,480 as opportunity, meaning that every moment is a redeemed gift 394 00:22:17,480 --> 00:22:21,280 from God. It can be if you take the red 395 00:22:21,280 --> 00:22:26,440 pill, put on the life watch, and every moment, every season is a 396 00:22:26,440 --> 00:22:29,240 divine interaction of what God has intended. 397 00:22:29,240 --> 00:22:32,640 If we put on the life watch, the question is how do we put it on? 398 00:22:34,920 --> 00:22:40,320 I wonder the same thing. I'll tell you this before I move 399 00:22:40,320 --> 00:22:41,520 on. Just another example. 400 00:22:41,680 --> 00:22:46,640 When Owen, our oldest son, who will turn 23 on May 14th, so in 401 00:22:46,640 --> 00:22:50,040 what, 10 days? Yeah, exactly. 402 00:22:50,160 --> 00:22:56,120 I'll tell them. I remember he he went to high 403 00:22:56,120 --> 00:23:00,840 school 720 days, four, 180 days of school year. 404 00:23:01,560 --> 00:23:03,120 I really only remember the first day. 405 00:23:04,160 --> 00:23:06,880 All the rest of them are a blur. Right. 406 00:23:07,480 --> 00:23:11,200 But the first day he gets up, he's so tiny back then had to 407 00:23:11,200 --> 00:23:15,360 hit his growth spurt yet, and he's going into this school of 408 00:23:15,360 --> 00:23:22,080 2500 demons. I'm kidding, but as a parent, 409 00:23:22,080 --> 00:23:24,400 you're like clenching. I make him breakfast. 410 00:23:24,400 --> 00:23:26,120 It's early in the morning. It's dark outside. 411 00:23:26,120 --> 00:23:27,520 They go. They send high schoolers to 412 00:23:27,520 --> 00:23:29,720 school way too early in Osceola County. 413 00:23:30,720 --> 00:23:33,720 Amen. And he's sitting at the table 414 00:23:33,720 --> 00:23:35,560 eating, and I'm behind him. He's at the table. 415 00:23:35,560 --> 00:23:37,960 He doesn't know that I'm behind. And I'm just considering the 416 00:23:37,960 --> 00:23:43,840 moment. And I'm living in Kronos in this 417 00:23:43,840 --> 00:23:45,640 moment. I had the death watch on. 418 00:23:45,800 --> 00:23:48,160 I'm thinking it's happened too quickly that we're here. 419 00:23:49,200 --> 00:23:51,000 Before we know it, he'll be out the door. 420 00:23:51,840 --> 00:23:55,440 I'll be dropping them off in a dorm at some place under be 421 00:23:55,440 --> 00:23:59,400 unknown to us at this point. And he's about to enter into the 422 00:23:59,400 --> 00:24:02,200 school with all of these people, with all of the pressure of the 423 00:24:02,200 --> 00:24:04,320 academics. He's doing IB, he's a student 424 00:24:04,320 --> 00:24:06,880 athlete, and those are the easy things compared to the social 425 00:24:07,040 --> 00:24:09,480 pressure to perform and be somebody. 426 00:24:11,160 --> 00:24:15,080 And I'm standing behind him thinking, let's just go back to 427 00:24:15,080 --> 00:24:18,560 elementary school. Let's not let these things 428 00:24:18,560 --> 00:24:24,960 happen. I'm dreading them. 13 days from 429 00:24:24,960 --> 00:24:26,760 today, Owen will graduate from college. 430 00:24:28,000 --> 00:24:33,960 Yeah, Hallelujah. He's mad at this incredible 431 00:24:33,960 --> 00:24:36,640 woman. He's got this incredible career 432 00:24:36,640 --> 00:24:40,160 that's laid out in front of him, and everything is going great. 433 00:24:40,680 --> 00:24:44,160 And the life watch is on my wrist now. 434 00:24:44,640 --> 00:24:46,520 And instead of thinking, wow, he's going to get married, 435 00:24:46,520 --> 00:24:48,920 potentially. I don't know and move out of the 436 00:24:48,920 --> 00:24:51,680 house and be on his own and all this kind of things. 437 00:24:51,680 --> 00:24:54,880 Now there's this idea of just embracing everything that God is 438 00:24:54,880 --> 00:24:58,800 doing in his life as ordained from his hand and saying God, 439 00:24:58,800 --> 00:25:01,320 you are good. I'm glad for the season. 440 00:25:01,600 --> 00:25:04,720 I'm I'm not ruining the fact that he's going to move out 441 00:25:04,720 --> 00:25:08,000 again and and have his own family and all all these 442 00:25:08,000 --> 00:25:11,560 thoughts have been released from being death to now. 443 00:25:11,560 --> 00:25:16,440 God, these are gifts from you. I'm appreciating each season of 444 00:25:16,440 --> 00:25:18,720 life, even though it's still hard. 445 00:25:18,720 --> 00:25:22,440 The hardest thing ever is to drop your kid off at college. 446 00:25:22,440 --> 00:25:24,280 That's just what I believe. Maybe you have a different thing 447 00:25:24,280 --> 00:25:26,120 and you're going to tell me later, because you always do so 448 00:25:26,120 --> 00:25:31,240 anyway. But how do we pick the watch, 449 00:25:32,640 --> 00:25:35,880 the life watch on the regular? Here's what I'll tell you. 450 00:25:35,880 --> 00:25:37,840 Sabbath is the break that fixes you. 451 00:25:39,880 --> 00:25:42,040 Sabbath is the break that fixes you. 452 00:25:42,920 --> 00:25:45,520 The first time my younger brother broke his arm, it wasn't 453 00:25:45,600 --> 00:25:48,040 my fault, it was my older brother's fault. 454 00:25:48,760 --> 00:25:51,360 We were in El Paso, TX at my grandparents house. 455 00:25:51,360 --> 00:25:53,200 They lived in El Paso for 30 years. 456 00:25:53,200 --> 00:25:54,320 My dad was born and raised there. 457 00:25:54,320 --> 00:25:58,080 My mom went to college there and he was launching us off of his 458 00:25:58,080 --> 00:25:59,800 feet. He was on his back and launching 459 00:25:59,800 --> 00:26:02,080 us off his feet. It's fun game. 460 00:26:02,080 --> 00:26:04,120 We were doing it for a little bit and then one time he 461 00:26:04,120 --> 00:26:07,840 launched Fred super high. Fred comes down like this. 462 00:26:09,280 --> 00:26:16,600 And then when he rolled off his body, we saw an S Yeah, I went 463 00:26:16,600 --> 00:26:20,000 running. Couldn't handle it like that. 464 00:26:20,000 --> 00:26:21,640 Looks nasty. He's screaming. 465 00:26:21,720 --> 00:26:23,520 I ran. It's Matt's fault. 466 00:26:27,840 --> 00:26:29,760 The second time my younger brother broke his arm. 467 00:26:29,760 --> 00:26:32,880 Oh, wow. It was my fault. 468 00:26:32,880 --> 00:26:37,960 The same arm. Same arm. 469 00:26:38,000 --> 00:26:41,000 It was not even much more than a year later, we had moved from 470 00:26:41,000 --> 00:26:45,200 Texas to Germany and our house had a clothesline in the back 471 00:26:45,200 --> 00:26:49,080 with these two TS, metal TS. Can you see them and the 472 00:26:49,080 --> 00:26:52,080 clotheslines between them? Well, the the TN down here far 473 00:26:52,080 --> 00:26:54,520 from the house had a little tree that you could climb and grab on 474 00:26:54,520 --> 00:26:57,680 to the clothesline and swing if you're a big boy like me. 475 00:26:58,800 --> 00:27:01,040 Not my younger brother, who was probably 5 or 6 at the time. 476 00:27:02,040 --> 00:27:03,720 So he climbs the tree and he's hanging on to that. 477 00:27:03,720 --> 00:27:05,720 He's swinging. And I don't remember if he said 478 00:27:05,720 --> 00:27:07,240 help or I just thought I got to help him. 479 00:27:07,400 --> 00:27:09,400 But I went up and like grabbed his legs. 480 00:27:10,720 --> 00:27:13,440 So I'm in the tree holding his legs and his arms are holding 481 00:27:13,440 --> 00:27:18,000 the bar like this, right? It's not a good position to be. 482 00:27:18,000 --> 00:27:20,040 And he's like, let me go. I go, let you go. 483 00:27:20,040 --> 00:27:22,800 You get a fall. Well, he fell anyway because he 484 00:27:22,800 --> 00:27:24,920 couldn't hold on anymore. And then he went down into the 485 00:27:24,920 --> 00:27:28,960 tree roots and I looked down and there was the S again. 486 00:27:32,560 --> 00:27:35,880 He didn't laugh. So what did I do? 487 00:27:37,040 --> 00:27:39,520 I ran. I ran into the house. 488 00:27:39,520 --> 00:27:41,320 I walked in like Dad. Fred broke his arm. 489 00:27:41,320 --> 00:27:45,320 It might have been my fault. Same arm. 490 00:27:46,800 --> 00:27:50,680 So later, Fred and I had a bro moment, like, man, I'm sorry, 491 00:27:50,880 --> 00:27:52,560 sorry. Just trying to help. 492 00:27:53,280 --> 00:27:55,120 He's like, it's all right. I wasn't mad at you. 493 00:27:55,120 --> 00:27:58,120 The reason I was screaming is because I knew when I went in, 494 00:27:58,120 --> 00:28:02,320 they were going to have to set my arm again and pull on it 495 00:28:02,680 --> 00:28:07,720 until they had it right. And then they cast it because 496 00:28:07,720 --> 00:28:13,240 what's broken needs to be reset. The Sabbath is the break that 497 00:28:13,240 --> 00:28:17,400 fixes you. Like, I'm not questioning or 498 00:28:17,400 --> 00:28:20,880 putting up debate that in general, the American population 499 00:28:21,200 --> 00:28:24,840 is broken. We don't know how to rest. 500 00:28:24,920 --> 00:28:28,360 We live stressed. As I said last week, we're tired 501 00:28:28,360 --> 00:28:33,360 all day and then we don't sleep at night, frenetic from one 502 00:28:33,360 --> 00:28:36,440 thing to the next, never enough hours in the day. 503 00:28:36,440 --> 00:28:41,880 You name it all chronos things, death, watch things, but the 504 00:28:41,880 --> 00:28:45,560 Sabbath is the break that can fix us. 505 00:28:45,560 --> 00:28:47,400 Let me give you some science and I'm going to tell you this. 506 00:28:47,400 --> 00:28:50,240 Science always proves what God has already revealed. 507 00:28:50,920 --> 00:28:54,240 Eventually they get there like oh, and they don't make connect 508 00:28:54,240 --> 00:28:56,440 the dots, but I do like see God's been saying that this 509 00:28:56,440 --> 00:28:58,960 whole time. Let me give you some examples. 510 00:29:00,240 --> 00:29:07,720 In 2018, Americans took 17.4 vacation days on average, up all 511 00:29:07,720 --> 00:29:12,880 the way up from 17.2 in 2017. They consider this a large 512 00:29:12,880 --> 00:29:16,600 increase in unused vacation days, because 300 million * .2 513 00:29:16,760 --> 00:29:20,520 is a lot, I guess. However, this is a significant 514 00:29:20,520 --> 00:29:25,840 drop from the 20.3 average vacation days used between 1978 515 00:29:25,880 --> 00:29:29,760 and 2000. We've gone from 20.3 to 17.4 in 516 00:29:29,760 --> 00:29:33,120 a span of 18 years. In general, Americans don't use 517 00:29:33,120 --> 00:29:38,600 29% of their vacation days. In 2018, 768 million vacation 518 00:29:38,600 --> 00:29:41,720 days went unused. What am I trying to tell you? 519 00:29:41,960 --> 00:29:45,360 Americans don't know how to take a break because the rat race 520 00:29:45,360 --> 00:29:48,760 says you can't take a break. You got to keep performing. 521 00:29:51,480 --> 00:29:55,080 Can't take time off. In the early 1900s, an article 522 00:29:55,080 --> 00:29:59,080 was written and the writer of the article coined the phrase or 523 00:29:59,080 --> 00:30:06,200 the term workaholic workaholism. Somebody addicted to their work, 524 00:30:06,840 --> 00:30:09,960 They work without stopping. They're just working and working 525 00:30:09,960 --> 00:30:11,920 and working. And here's the sad thing. 526 00:30:12,120 --> 00:30:18,680 He used a certain profession to base this whole conversation in. 527 00:30:19,400 --> 00:30:28,600 It wasn't doctors, firefighters, teachers, lawyers, stockbrokers. 528 00:30:30,320 --> 00:30:36,080 It was pastors, ministers. The first time the word 529 00:30:36,080 --> 00:30:39,400 workaholism was ever used was in reference to those in ministry. 530 00:30:40,600 --> 00:30:42,880 Think about this. If the ministers who should know 531 00:30:42,880 --> 00:30:45,280 the rest of God don't rest correctly, how will the people 532 00:30:45,280 --> 00:30:52,800 they lead know how to rest? So I'm trying to learn. 533 00:30:53,960 --> 00:30:57,280 I'm trying to teach so that we will be a household to rest. 534 00:30:58,040 --> 00:31:00,160 Here's the science. And I don't. 535 00:31:00,160 --> 00:31:03,000 I can't remember exactly how they did this test to know 536 00:31:03,000 --> 00:31:07,160 exactly what they said, but in essence, a four day vacation 537 00:31:07,160 --> 00:31:11,680 will last you 4 weeks. It'll keep your cortisol clean, 538 00:31:11,680 --> 00:31:13,600 your body regenerated. Whatever. 539 00:31:13,600 --> 00:31:16,640 They've done, the studies, they did, all these statistics and 540 00:31:16,640 --> 00:31:19,840 polls and whatever, and they came up with this idea that four 541 00:31:19,840 --> 00:31:22,960 days of vacation will last you 4 weeks. 542 00:31:23,400 --> 00:31:28,040 This is the science, right? The research which means in a 543 00:31:28,040 --> 00:31:35,360 year you will need 13 four day vacations to last you through 544 00:31:35,360 --> 00:31:39,960 the year. 13-4 day vacations if you work here to illuminate 545 00:31:39,960 --> 00:31:43,240 church. I do by declare, no, no I'm not 546 00:31:46,640 --> 00:31:52,680 13-4 day vacations. 4 * 13 is 52. 547 00:31:54,400 --> 00:31:58,320 Essentially, the research is showing us that we need every 548 00:31:58,320 --> 00:32:02,200 year 52 vacation days in order to be rested. 549 00:32:02,200 --> 00:32:06,280 And we're using 17, which means that we're 35 days to the 550 00:32:06,280 --> 00:32:10,880 negative and how much our body, our minds and our spirit needs 551 00:32:10,880 --> 00:32:13,120 to rest. And we wonder why we're stressed 552 00:32:13,120 --> 00:32:14,800 out, burnt out, depressed and anxious. 553 00:32:16,840 --> 00:32:21,640 And you probably picked it up by now, this number that scientists 554 00:32:21,640 --> 00:32:24,440 found out that we need 52 days of rest. 555 00:32:24,440 --> 00:32:26,400 Tell me, how many Sabbaths are there each year? 556 00:32:28,000 --> 00:32:32,080 52. Wow, 52 days of rest God is 557 00:32:32,080 --> 00:32:34,440 asking us to have, which is exactly what science says keeps 558 00:32:34,440 --> 00:32:46,560 you rested. Sabbath rests and resets the 559 00:32:46,560 --> 00:32:51,480 soul every week. Sabbath helps what's broken be 560 00:32:51,480 --> 00:32:55,560 put back in place. Can you imagine going on 561 00:32:55,560 --> 00:32:59,400 vacation already rested? How much different that would 562 00:32:59,400 --> 00:33:00,080 be? You know, when you go on 563 00:33:00,080 --> 00:33:02,760 vacation, it takes like two or three days to get into it. 564 00:33:03,080 --> 00:33:05,400 You're like detoxifying and letting things go. 565 00:33:05,400 --> 00:33:08,000 And then you're on the third day and you're like, I have to go 566 00:33:08,000 --> 00:33:12,600 back tomorrow and you, there's no resting. 567 00:33:15,200 --> 00:33:16,280 Yeah, people. Exactly. 568 00:33:16,280 --> 00:33:18,400 Silas just said you need a vacation from your vacation. 569 00:33:18,400 --> 00:33:24,960 We shouldn't feel like that when you finish your Sabbath. 570 00:33:24,960 --> 00:33:29,200 Our family Sabbaths from 5:00 PM Friday to 5:00 PM Saturday. 571 00:33:31,440 --> 00:33:33,320 When you finish your Sabbath, you get to the end and be like, 572 00:33:33,400 --> 00:33:34,880 that's OK, I'll be right back here next week. 573 00:33:36,560 --> 00:33:39,920 And really, that 24 hour Sabbath is the training wheels of faith. 574 00:33:41,720 --> 00:33:45,080 Meaning as we practice the Sabbath, we'll begin to learn to 575 00:33:45,080 --> 00:33:48,680 live from Sabbath. All the other six days from the 576 00:33:48,680 --> 00:33:50,960 Tetelestai. It is finished, the finished 577 00:33:50,960 --> 00:33:55,920 work of Jesus. We practice the Sabbath and then 578 00:33:55,920 --> 00:33:58,800 we live from the Sabbath the rest of the week. 579 00:34:03,480 --> 00:34:04,760 Let me tell you how much God loves you. 580 00:34:06,320 --> 00:34:10,360 He has commanded you to rest. He loves you so much that he 581 00:34:10,360 --> 00:34:13,280 says, I want you to set aside a day each week to remember to 582 00:34:13,280 --> 00:34:19,120 live that every moment is a gift from Him. 583 00:34:19,440 --> 00:34:23,800 You can respond like a toddler. Toddlers will run themselves 584 00:34:23,800 --> 00:34:27,679 around, resist sleeping until they just crash out. 585 00:34:28,560 --> 00:34:30,440 They're running around 1 moment, make a ton of noise, they're 586 00:34:30,440 --> 00:34:32,639 crying out, then all of a sudden they're just gone. 587 00:34:34,199 --> 00:34:37,880 Can I get a witness? We do that as as people, We run 588 00:34:37,880 --> 00:34:40,080 around, we run ourselves ragged until we collapse. 589 00:34:41,960 --> 00:34:44,880 Or you can respond to the Sabbath like an adult. 590 00:34:44,880 --> 00:34:47,600 This is what adults do. They wake up, they hit the alarm 591 00:34:47,600 --> 00:34:51,880 clock, they look at the clock and like, how long until I'm 592 00:34:51,880 --> 00:34:55,520 back in this bed? Can I just go right back to 593 00:34:55,520 --> 00:34:58,720 sleep? Which means that most adults 594 00:34:58,720 --> 00:35:02,160 rest by escapism. I don't want to face what I got 595 00:35:02,160 --> 00:35:03,600 to face. So let me just lay here in the 596 00:35:03,600 --> 00:35:08,440 bed. Toddler, run around till you 597 00:35:08,440 --> 00:35:12,960 collapse. Adult, escape, escape, escape. 598 00:35:14,160 --> 00:35:17,520 Or how about we respond to the Sabbath like an infant? 599 00:35:19,320 --> 00:35:23,320 A baby most of the time, but not all the time. 600 00:35:23,320 --> 00:35:27,040 I know there's exceptions. You can find a baby resting 601 00:35:27,040 --> 00:35:29,400 sweetly, taking a nap in the arms of a loved 1. 602 00:35:31,120 --> 00:35:34,760 So here's an image for Sabbath for you, your heavenly Father. 603 00:35:35,600 --> 00:35:40,200 Like this. Come here, climb on in. 604 00:35:44,560 --> 00:35:46,920 And he doesn't sing Rock a Bye Baby because that song is 605 00:35:46,920 --> 00:35:52,720 terrifying. Let me close with this. 606 00:35:52,720 --> 00:35:57,640 Our family met the Walker family in 2007, Denny and Beverly 607 00:35:57,640 --> 00:35:58,880 Walker. There's going to be a picture up 608 00:35:58,880 --> 00:36:00,680 here with their daughter, Andrea. 609 00:36:00,840 --> 00:36:02,520 I can promise you, this is a whale picture. 610 00:36:02,520 --> 00:36:04,640 Denny looks way better than that. 611 00:36:04,640 --> 00:36:06,720 Now. Beverly's always been as vibrant 612 00:36:06,720 --> 00:36:08,920 and beautiful as she is there. That is their daughter, Andrea. 613 00:36:09,080 --> 00:36:11,200 They have another daughter, Hannah, who'll be in the next 614 00:36:11,200 --> 00:36:13,320 picture that got a little older. Hannah in the back. 615 00:36:13,440 --> 00:36:15,000 When she grew up is when we met her. 616 00:36:15,000 --> 00:36:17,880 She used to babysit Owen and Audrey back in the day. 617 00:36:18,040 --> 00:36:24,280 OK, when we met Denny he was a an elder at the Crossing Church. 618 00:36:25,560 --> 00:36:30,400 That was in 2007. But on February 11th 1999 Andrea 619 00:36:30,960 --> 00:36:33,600 was in a car. She wasn't driving and another 620 00:36:33,600 --> 00:36:37,360 car came this way at a high rate of speed, struck the vehicle and 621 00:36:37,360 --> 00:36:42,840 she died instantly. Parents worst nightmare. 622 00:36:47,520 --> 00:36:49,600 Denny, when I met him, was an elder at the crossing, as I 623 00:36:49,600 --> 00:36:52,600 said, and he was one of those elders that when he spoke, 624 00:36:52,600 --> 00:36:57,440 everyone else kind of got quiet. He didn't say much and he kind 625 00:36:57,440 --> 00:37:01,880 of had a high voice. So when he talked, it wasn't 626 00:37:01,880 --> 00:37:04,280 loud and everyone just kind of quieted. 627 00:37:04,280 --> 00:37:10,000 He always had this deep wisdom to share and he counseled people 628 00:37:10,000 --> 00:37:12,720 and he led people and I saw them all over the church. 629 00:37:12,720 --> 00:37:16,000 And so I sat with him. Denny, I'm like, dude, your 630 00:37:16,000 --> 00:37:18,600 daughter died and here you are serving the Lord in such an 631 00:37:18,600 --> 00:37:23,400 incredible way. I would have been angry, been 632 00:37:23,400 --> 00:37:27,720 cursing God, I'm done with this all. 633 00:37:27,760 --> 00:37:31,600 I'm out and here you are like, it's just as amazing. 634 00:37:31,600 --> 00:37:34,960 And I'm like encouraging him, like I want to be like you when 635 00:37:34,960 --> 00:37:39,800 I grow up. And he said, Tim, you're only 636 00:37:39,800 --> 00:37:45,840 seeing the end of the journey. Said for two years, every day I 637 00:37:45,840 --> 00:37:52,360 contemplated suicide, hated God. He said, the only reason I'm 638 00:37:52,360 --> 00:37:54,640 alive is because I didn't have the courage to kill myself. 639 00:37:55,480 --> 00:37:59,560 The grief's so heavy, the brokenness that he felt. 640 00:38:01,520 --> 00:38:02,600 Denny's house. I've been there. 641 00:38:02,600 --> 00:38:04,760 He's got this chair. And it's like where he reads the 642 00:38:04,760 --> 00:38:08,400 Scriptures and it's this amazing looking chair. 643 00:38:08,400 --> 00:38:10,280 And you're like, yeah, that's a that's the kind of chair where 644 00:38:10,280 --> 00:38:12,520 you read the Bible in like it's just one of those chairs. 645 00:38:13,480 --> 00:38:17,000 And he says, one day I was in this chair and I read this verse 646 00:38:17,400 --> 00:38:20,800 two years after the accident. See if this sounds familiar. 647 00:38:21,440 --> 00:38:24,120 This day I call the heavens and the earth as witnesses against 648 00:38:24,120 --> 00:38:31,160 you that I have set before you, Denny, life and death, blessings 649 00:38:31,200 --> 00:38:34,120 and curses. And then he said, this is the 650 00:38:34,400 --> 00:38:37,280 loudest the voice of God has ever been to me. 651 00:38:37,280 --> 00:38:38,600 It was like it boomed from heaven. 652 00:38:38,600 --> 00:38:40,880 It hasn't been that loud since or before. 653 00:38:40,880 --> 00:38:47,240 It was never like this. These 3 words now choose life. 654 00:38:51,720 --> 00:38:54,680 Denny is sitting in his chair recognizing that God had made 655 00:38:54,680 --> 00:38:59,200 him an offer and it was now up to him to choose what he would 656 00:38:59,200 --> 00:39:07,680 do, continue in this Kronos of death or to embrace what his 657 00:39:07,680 --> 00:39:13,560 life was now and live in this Kairos of life and choose life. 658 00:39:13,560 --> 00:39:18,640 Then he said for me, life was facing God, death was putting my 659 00:39:18,640 --> 00:39:21,840 back towards God. God hadn't turned. 660 00:39:22,400 --> 00:39:27,240 Denny had turned, and understandably so, right? 661 00:39:29,680 --> 00:39:31,840 And that day as he sat in his chair, he said I had to 662 00:39:31,840 --> 00:39:37,760 willfully choose to take the backside of me and turn it away 663 00:39:37,760 --> 00:39:45,440 from God and turn myself to God. And he found life again. 664 00:39:45,440 --> 00:39:51,680 Praise God. I'm wondering which way you're 665 00:39:51,680 --> 00:39:55,360 facing today. And I'll say this to you. 666 00:39:55,360 --> 00:39:57,280 This is how it connects to our series. 667 00:39:58,080 --> 00:40:05,520 Every time you Sabbath, you make a wilful decision that day to 668 00:40:05,520 --> 00:40:08,800 turn towards God. So no matter where you've been 669 00:40:08,800 --> 00:40:12,280 on Monday through Saturday or whatever, your Sabbath falls. 670 00:40:14,800 --> 00:40:20,320 You get this opportunity each week to reset and face the Lord 671 00:40:20,960 --> 00:40:22,600 and say here I am and he's like here I am. 672 00:40:25,560 --> 00:40:30,920 Good to see you have some things I want to share with you, some 673 00:40:30,920 --> 00:40:32,560 deposits I want to make in your life. 674 00:40:35,080 --> 00:40:38,000 And hopefully as you practice this one day a week, you begin 675 00:40:38,000 --> 00:40:44,040 to practice it every day of the week, turning towards him. 676 00:40:48,320 --> 00:40:50,480 I want to close by just reversing the words a little 677 00:40:50,480 --> 00:40:52,960 bit. The Bible says now choose life. 678 00:40:52,960 --> 00:40:57,200 And I just want to tell you today, choose life now. 679 00:40:57,200 --> 00:41:05,320 I want to say now, I don't mean later now, I mean now. 680 00:41:05,320 --> 00:41:08,880 Now God put an offer on the table. 681 00:41:08,880 --> 00:41:11,000 That's why he brought you here today to illuminate church or 682 00:41:11,000 --> 00:41:14,720 wherever you're watching from to say, will you make your decision 683 00:41:14,720 --> 00:41:17,640 now? And yes, there's hard things 684 00:41:17,640 --> 00:41:25,080 that happen, devastating things that happen, but you may be 685 00:41:25,080 --> 00:41:27,320 sitting with your back facing God and he's just saying, will 686 00:41:27,320 --> 00:41:31,440 you? Will you turn to me today, now, 687 00:41:32,600 --> 00:41:37,680 and at least once a week on the Sabbath, turn and face me and 688 00:41:37,680 --> 00:41:39,000 you'll find that I am facing you. 689 00:41:40,840 --> 00:41:45,600 Choose life now. Thanks for joining us today. 690 00:41:46,040 --> 00:41:48,640 We hope God is speaking to your heart through this message. 691 00:41:49,000 --> 00:41:51,640 If you'd like to connect with us, you can text connect to 692 00:41:51,640 --> 00:41:58,160 407-588-0115 or visit Illuminate dot church. 693 00:41:58,600 --> 00:41:59,840 Have a great week.