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 00:00:09,440 --> 00:00:12,320 We are in our final week of unrest. 4 00:00:12,320 --> 00:00:16,560 The series ends today, and we have one final principle to 5 00:00:16,560 --> 00:00:20,760 learn about what God wants to teach us to transform us from 6 00:00:20,760 --> 00:00:24,600 the way that we rest to the way that He rests, because his rest 7 00:00:24,600 --> 00:00:26,440 is actually restorative. Let's go. 8 00:00:27,240 --> 00:00:30,480 And our rest is just kind of busyness that looks a little bit 9 00:00:30,480 --> 00:00:33,800 like laziness, and we're not sure it's restful at all. 10 00:00:33,800 --> 00:00:37,920 But His rest is restorative. One last principle to share 11 00:00:37,920 --> 00:00:40,800 about the Sabbath, which is this 24 hour period of time that the 12 00:00:40,800 --> 00:00:43,960 Lord has said to keep holy, to set it apart as holy to Him. 13 00:00:44,280 --> 00:00:45,920 Here's what it really boils down to. 14 00:00:45,920 --> 00:00:49,480 God loves you so much that He's commanded you to rest. 15 00:00:50,560 --> 00:00:54,240 That's how much He loves you. He wants you to take time apart 16 00:00:54,240 --> 00:00:58,160 with him, with people you love, doing things that you love, stop 17 00:00:58,160 --> 00:01:03,560 your regular work and rest and what he calls the Sabbath. 18 00:01:03,560 --> 00:01:06,360 And I keep saying that we have this one last week today to 19 00:01:06,360 --> 00:01:09,280 really end up the this series called unrest. 20 00:01:09,480 --> 00:01:13,400 But the truth is, if you will obey the word of the Lord and 21 00:01:13,400 --> 00:01:16,920 begin to practice the Sabbath, you have a day a week to 22 00:01:16,920 --> 00:01:21,280 continue to familiarize yourself with the Sabbath and to I don't 23 00:01:21,280 --> 00:01:24,280 want to say perfected because that has so much legalism in it, 24 00:01:24,720 --> 00:01:27,160 but I just mean that you will get better and better at 25 00:01:27,160 --> 00:01:30,840 practicing the Sabbath and sabath theme as you go about 26 00:01:30,920 --> 00:01:33,720 sabath theme, not sunbathing, which is what sabath theme gets 27 00:01:33,720 --> 00:01:35,760 auto corrected to. We talked about that in Week 2. 28 00:01:36,240 --> 00:01:39,440 All right, So if you're ready for the last, the message today, 29 00:01:39,440 --> 00:01:42,640 say I'm ready. The message title is the last 30 00:01:42,640 --> 00:01:43,960 principle that I want to share with you. 31 00:01:44,000 --> 00:01:48,880 It's called more with less everyone say more with less. 32 00:01:49,360 --> 00:01:52,600 Look at your neighbor, Say more with less you look at me. 33 00:01:52,600 --> 00:01:59,680 Look at him more with less. Really what I want to convey to 34 00:01:59,680 --> 00:02:03,800 you is do you want more or do you want less? 35 00:02:05,600 --> 00:02:09,800 What if I said it's more anger? I'm just kidding. 36 00:02:09,800 --> 00:02:14,680 No, not just if you do you want more life or less life. 37 00:02:17,320 --> 00:02:19,280 Three of you want more. The rest of you want less less. 38 00:02:19,640 --> 00:02:22,400 Do you want more provision or less provision? 39 00:02:22,400 --> 00:02:25,640 Do you want more peace or less peace? 40 00:02:26,200 --> 00:02:30,200 More purpose or less purpose? Do you want more discernment or 41 00:02:30,200 --> 00:02:33,480 less discernment? Do you want more energy or less 42 00:02:33,480 --> 00:02:35,920 energy? Drink a Red Bull. 43 00:02:40,000 --> 00:02:41,800 Now here's the thing. It's a biblical principle. 44 00:02:42,560 --> 00:02:44,960 If you want more than you're going to have to start with what 45 00:02:44,960 --> 00:02:52,160 appears to be less. Another way to think of it is 46 00:02:52,160 --> 00:02:54,040 these two words counter intuitive. 47 00:02:54,160 --> 00:02:58,800 Living more with less, That's counter intuitive. 48 00:02:58,800 --> 00:03:01,560 It would seem like you have more if you had more, but really in 49 00:03:01,560 --> 00:03:04,880 the Kingdom of God you have more when you have less. 50 00:03:06,440 --> 00:03:08,520 Paul says it this way in a letter that he wrote to the 51 00:03:08,520 --> 00:03:10,320 church in Corinth. If you want to open your Bibles 52 00:03:10,320 --> 00:03:13,480 to 1st Corinthians chapter 1, if you need a Bible, raise your 53 00:03:13,480 --> 00:03:15,320 hand and the ushers will bring you Bible. 54 00:03:15,320 --> 00:03:17,520 You can use the You Version app or if you're lazy, I'm going to 55 00:03:17,520 --> 00:03:23,120 put it on the screen and enable you First Corinthians chapter 1. 56 00:03:23,120 --> 00:03:28,760 When you're ready, say ready. If you're not ready, say hold 57 00:03:28,760 --> 00:03:31,920 up. OK, I'm going to wait. 58 00:03:32,240 --> 00:03:33,200 I want you to have the Word of God. 59 00:03:33,200 --> 00:03:36,440 If you're sitting there at home watching open a Bible, don't 60 00:03:36,440 --> 00:03:38,640 just observe, participate in this. 61 00:03:39,840 --> 00:03:42,760 Paul is writing to the church in Corinth of one of the first 62 00:03:42,760 --> 00:03:45,680 churches he planted, and this is the first letter you wrote in 63 00:03:45,680 --> 00:03:47,600 the 1st chapter. And look what he says. 64 00:03:47,600 --> 00:03:49,600 Verse 26. All right, I got to go. 65 00:03:49,600 --> 00:03:51,200 Now, if you're not ready, that's on you. 66 00:03:53,480 --> 00:04:00,320 Verse 26, Brothers and sisters, think of what you were when you 67 00:04:00,320 --> 00:04:01,680 were called. Let's stop here. 68 00:04:04,280 --> 00:04:09,400 The Lord got through. Paul is having us do a little 69 00:04:09,400 --> 00:04:15,000 bit of reflection. A juxtaposition is being set up. 70 00:04:15,000 --> 00:04:18,600 Remember who you were before you were called. 71 00:04:18,600 --> 00:04:21,000 Remember who you were before Jesus. 72 00:04:21,560 --> 00:04:25,240 Remember who you were before you were asked to serve in some way 73 00:04:25,520 --> 00:04:28,440 in His Kingdom. Think for just a moment not to 74 00:04:28,440 --> 00:04:31,400 be lowly about yourself, but to marvel on what God has done. 75 00:04:31,400 --> 00:04:34,960 That's what we read next. Not many of you were wise by 76 00:04:34,960 --> 00:04:39,520 human standards before you were called before Jesus. 77 00:04:39,760 --> 00:04:45,280 You're just a nobody. Not many of you were 78 00:04:45,280 --> 00:04:48,440 influential, didn't have many followers on YouTube. 79 00:04:50,480 --> 00:04:52,480 Not many of you were of noble birth. 80 00:04:54,240 --> 00:04:56,960 Verse 27. But God chose the foolish things 81 00:04:56,960 --> 00:05:01,680 of the world to shame the wise. God chose the weak things of the 82 00:05:01,680 --> 00:05:04,320 world to shame the strong. God chose the lowly things, the 83 00:05:04,320 --> 00:05:09,840 despised things and the things that are not to nullify the 84 00:05:09,840 --> 00:05:13,120 things that are so that no one may boast before him. 85 00:05:14,840 --> 00:05:19,000 It is because of him, God, that you are in Christ Jesus, who has 86 00:05:19,000 --> 00:05:23,160 become for us wisdom from God. That is our righteousness, 87 00:05:23,160 --> 00:05:25,800 holiness and redemption. That's what Jesus is for us, our 88 00:05:25,800 --> 00:05:28,480 righteousness, our holiness and redemption. 89 00:05:28,480 --> 00:05:32,520 Therefore, as it is written, let the one who boasts boast in the 90 00:05:32,520 --> 00:05:35,920 Lord. I have done nothing. 91 00:05:37,920 --> 00:05:42,520 He has done it all. God took a murdering stutterer 92 00:05:43,840 --> 00:05:46,520 and made him the leader of the all the Israelite people. 93 00:05:49,080 --> 00:05:52,960 This murdering stutterer didn't even want the job. 94 00:05:52,960 --> 00:05:55,640 He tried to talk God out of it. Not me. 95 00:05:55,720 --> 00:05:57,800 I stutter too much. Pick somebody better. 96 00:06:00,080 --> 00:06:03,040 And yet God used them to lead probably the greatest escape in 97 00:06:03,040 --> 00:06:06,600 human history, where 2,000,000 Israelites were freed from the 98 00:06:06,600 --> 00:06:10,480 hand of Pharaoh overnight. And not only that, God used this 99 00:06:10,480 --> 00:06:16,800 murderer, stuttering Doofus to lead one of the greatest 100 00:06:16,800 --> 00:06:22,320 military battles victories. In one moment, as Pharaoh and 101 00:06:22,320 --> 00:06:26,200 his army were caught up in the sea and vanquished, God used 102 00:06:26,200 --> 00:06:31,160 Moses the fool to shame the wisdom of Pharaoh. 103 00:06:31,160 --> 00:06:39,400 Not only that, but God took the weakest man in the weakest 104 00:06:39,400 --> 00:06:45,000 family in the weakest clan, in the weakest tribe of all the 105 00:06:45,000 --> 00:06:46,960 Israelites. That would be like me going and 106 00:06:46,960 --> 00:06:49,480 saying, no, not the worst player in the NBA, not even the worst 107 00:06:49,480 --> 00:06:51,760 player in the G League. No, not the worst player in 108 00:06:51,760 --> 00:06:53,440 college. Not the worst player in high 109 00:06:53,440 --> 00:06:56,280 school. OK, now I got the JV junior high 110 00:06:56,280 --> 00:06:58,440 school. No, no, with elementary school 111 00:06:59,480 --> 00:07:03,160 junior team. The last guy on the bench who 112 00:07:03,160 --> 00:07:06,800 never sees the court, That's who we're talking about. 113 00:07:07,880 --> 00:07:10,560 God chose that man. And then he said, hey, I want 114 00:07:10,560 --> 00:07:15,760 you to take your 30,000 army and lower it down to 300 men and go 115 00:07:15,760 --> 00:07:21,840 to fight Midian. And here is Gideon, the weakest 116 00:07:21,840 --> 00:07:26,880 of all, shaming the strength of the Midianites. 117 00:07:26,880 --> 00:07:28,680 It's counterintuitive, it doesn't make sense. 118 00:07:29,920 --> 00:07:32,200 How could God do so much with so little? 119 00:07:33,480 --> 00:07:37,920 God took a lowly slave girl and made her the queen of a nation 120 00:07:40,760 --> 00:07:45,280 and she had such influence this non noble that she LED her 121 00:07:45,280 --> 00:07:49,040 people from death to life. We know her as say her name 122 00:07:49,880 --> 00:07:54,520 Esther. Esther what a great name, a 123 00:07:54,520 --> 00:07:58,520 nobody who God used to save the nation. 124 00:08:00,320 --> 00:08:04,480 God took a military brat, a religiously hypocritical 125 00:08:04,480 --> 00:08:09,800 teenager, a clueless college kid to build a church the likes of 126 00:08:09,800 --> 00:08:11,880 which the gates of hell cannot withstand. 127 00:08:13,320 --> 00:08:20,560 His name is Tim Ingram. It's me, a nobody. 128 00:08:21,280 --> 00:08:23,840 And God is using this nobody who doesn't have a lot of wisdom, 129 00:08:23,840 --> 00:08:27,520 who doesn't have a lot of strength to confound the wisdom 130 00:08:27,520 --> 00:08:29,440 of the world and the strength of the world. 131 00:08:29,920 --> 00:08:32,720 And here we are today as evidence of God's hand. 132 00:08:33,919 --> 00:08:36,720 God took a baby boy and raised him the age of 33 and allowed 133 00:08:36,720 --> 00:08:41,240 him to be crucified on a cross. Now check this out as 134 00:08:41,240 --> 00:08:45,720 counterintuitive. In death he brought us life. 135 00:08:46,640 --> 00:08:50,280 In death, loss, He brought us victory. 136 00:08:51,000 --> 00:08:53,840 The people wanted a warrior. God gave him a baby, and the 137 00:08:53,840 --> 00:08:57,080 baby became the king of kings. His name is Satan. 138 00:08:57,080 --> 00:09:07,680 Count of 3123. Counterintuitive living says 139 00:09:07,680 --> 00:09:09,320 that there's no way that this can happen. 140 00:09:09,320 --> 00:09:11,840 It's impossible, It doesn't make sense to take the weakest of the 141 00:09:11,840 --> 00:09:14,960 weak and have them confound the strongest and the wisest. 142 00:09:15,520 --> 00:09:19,360 And it's absolutely true that it doesn't make sense and it won't 143 00:09:19,360 --> 00:09:23,680 work out if the limit of what you have is humanity. 144 00:09:24,720 --> 00:09:29,680 But when you add in the exertion of the power and the authority 145 00:09:29,720 --> 00:09:33,080 and the wisdom of the knowledge of the Lord God, then what's 146 00:09:33,080 --> 00:09:38,600 impossible becomes possible. And This is why Paul tells us 147 00:09:38,840 --> 00:09:42,480 you ain't got nothing to boast about because you alone is you 148 00:09:42,520 --> 00:09:48,880 alone, but you with God unstoppable. 149 00:09:48,880 --> 00:09:52,400 A lot of people talk about wanting good common sense. 150 00:09:52,400 --> 00:09:56,080 I want uncommon sense a lot of people talk about. 151 00:09:56,080 --> 00:09:59,440 I want power, I want supernatural power. 152 00:10:00,640 --> 00:10:04,880 I want to boast and what God is and God can do and not be 153 00:10:04,880 --> 00:10:07,400 limited by what Tim is and Tim can do. 154 00:10:08,280 --> 00:10:09,080 Amen. Indeed. 155 00:10:11,440 --> 00:10:14,520 So it sounds great to us. I believe when God does an 156 00:10:14,520 --> 00:10:17,840 incredible work, a mighty thing through a weak vessel, we 157 00:10:17,840 --> 00:10:19,760 rejoice in that. It makes all of us feel like 158 00:10:19,760 --> 00:10:21,280 there's something that's possible. 159 00:10:21,280 --> 00:10:24,720 We say yes to counterintuitive living, yes to God doing 160 00:10:24,720 --> 00:10:28,200 something that only God can do, and we rejoice and we do boast 161 00:10:28,200 --> 00:10:30,640 in the Lord. But what about when God says 162 00:10:30,640 --> 00:10:33,200 this? You will have more time if you 163 00:10:33,200 --> 00:10:36,800 give me one day a week. It's counterintuitive. 164 00:10:38,760 --> 00:10:41,200 It doesn't make sense according to human standards. 165 00:10:42,880 --> 00:10:46,240 Or what about when God says you will have more provision when 166 00:10:46,240 --> 00:10:48,440 you give 10% of your provision away? 167 00:10:49,880 --> 00:10:51,160 Well, that doesn't make sense either. 168 00:10:51,160 --> 00:10:53,400 I would have more provision if I just kept my provision. 169 00:10:54,240 --> 00:10:56,360 If I give away my provision, I have less provision. 170 00:10:56,760 --> 00:10:59,080 So according to the world standards, it doesn't make 171 00:10:59,080 --> 00:11:00,720 sense. It's counterintuitive to think 172 00:11:00,720 --> 00:11:04,080 that with less, you'd actually have more. 173 00:11:06,240 --> 00:11:11,640 I want you to know that Sabbath thing and giving, they're 174 00:11:11,640 --> 00:11:17,640 essentially the same thing. They ask a question of us that 175 00:11:17,640 --> 00:11:20,360 we must answer if we want more with less. 176 00:11:21,200 --> 00:11:26,040 Here's the question, who is Lord of all? 177 00:11:28,040 --> 00:11:31,400 Who is Lord of all? Many of us in here rejoice that 178 00:11:31,400 --> 00:11:35,480 Jesus is our Savior. Can I get an Amen that we have 179 00:11:35,480 --> 00:11:39,640 access to the Father eternally, both now and beyond this life? 180 00:11:39,640 --> 00:11:42,680 We will be living with our heavenly Father in the glory of 181 00:11:42,680 --> 00:11:43,920 heaven. We'll get new bodies. 182 00:11:44,000 --> 00:11:45,800 This earth will go away. Get a new earth. 183 00:11:45,800 --> 00:11:49,080 It's going to be incredible because He's our Savior and we 184 00:11:49,080 --> 00:11:53,680 rejoice in that. We're happy He's our Savior, but 185 00:11:53,680 --> 00:11:58,640 are you happy He's your Lord? He's Lord no matter what. 186 00:11:58,640 --> 00:12:00,200 By the way, you don't choose that. 187 00:12:00,200 --> 00:12:02,560 You can choose whether or not He's your Savior, but He's 188 00:12:02,560 --> 00:12:04,880 always the Lord. The question is, are you 189 00:12:04,880 --> 00:12:10,760 submitted to His Lordship, His authority, His Kingdom order? 190 00:12:11,600 --> 00:12:15,080 Because that includes such things as giving and Sabbath 191 00:12:15,080 --> 00:12:18,440 thing. I want to talk to you today 192 00:12:18,440 --> 00:12:22,520 about giving, specifically my journey around giving so that I 193 00:12:22,520 --> 00:12:25,160 can relate it to how Sabbath thing works. 194 00:12:25,560 --> 00:12:32,120 So follow me here, OK? OK Psalm chapter 24 verse one 195 00:12:32,120 --> 00:12:35,840 says the earth is the Lord's and everything in it, the world and 196 00:12:35,840 --> 00:12:39,240 all who live in it. Don't y'all know it. 197 00:12:39,240 --> 00:12:41,120 Sometimes a verse is hard to understand. 198 00:12:42,800 --> 00:12:46,200 Luke chapter 14 verse 26. Jesus says unless you hate your 199 00:12:46,200 --> 00:12:49,240 father and mother, your brothers and sisters, your children, 200 00:12:49,920 --> 00:12:53,280 unless you hate yourself, you cannot be my disciple. 201 00:12:54,280 --> 00:12:57,800 Now Luke chapter 14 verse 26 May take some theological study and 202 00:12:57,800 --> 00:13:01,040 debate and conversation with other believers to understand. 203 00:13:01,040 --> 00:13:04,920 It is a difficult passage to unpack, unravel and live out. 204 00:13:05,600 --> 00:13:08,880 Psalm 24 verse one is not one such scripture. 205 00:13:09,360 --> 00:13:12,600 It is so straightforward. It might be the easiest 206 00:13:12,600 --> 00:13:14,520 scripture in all the Bible to understand. 207 00:13:15,080 --> 00:13:19,600 Everything belongs to the world and everyone, all the people who 208 00:13:19,600 --> 00:13:21,880 live in it, belongs to the Lord. If you can think of a thing, 209 00:13:21,880 --> 00:13:26,520 it's part of the everything, and everything belongs to the left 210 00:13:26,520 --> 00:13:31,040 speaker, belongs to the Lord your glasses belong to the Lord 211 00:13:32,160 --> 00:13:34,120 your hair, if you have it, belongs to the Lord. 212 00:13:35,040 --> 00:13:39,360 Your hair, if you don't have it, He already took it Mine. 213 00:13:42,080 --> 00:13:43,840 You were generous to give it. That's so kind of you. 214 00:13:44,920 --> 00:13:46,800 Let's just declare it. Bald people are the most 215 00:13:46,800 --> 00:13:57,640 generous people on earth. Tweet that OK, this is easy to 216 00:13:57,640 --> 00:13:59,200 understand. Everything belongs to the 217 00:13:59,200 --> 00:14:00,960 Lord's. Now follow me here. 218 00:14:00,960 --> 00:14:05,040 Leviticus chapter 27 verse 30 says a tithe of everything from 219 00:14:05,040 --> 00:14:07,640 the land, whether grain from the soil or fruit from the trees 220 00:14:07,800 --> 00:14:09,720 belongs to the Lord. We already know that because 221 00:14:09,720 --> 00:14:12,440 everything belongs to the Lord. But then it says the tithe is 222 00:14:12,440 --> 00:14:18,040 holy to the Lord. Tithe, don't let anyone confuse 223 00:14:18,040 --> 00:14:24,560 you, just means 10 percent. 10% of everything on the earth is 224 00:14:24,560 --> 00:14:26,680 holy to the Lord. It all belongs to them. 225 00:14:26,920 --> 00:14:29,920 But 10% is set apart. That's what holy means, set 226 00:14:29,920 --> 00:14:35,480 apart to the Lord. Now Malachi chapter 3 wraps this 227 00:14:35,480 --> 00:14:37,440 whole thought up about the tithe. 228 00:14:38,040 --> 00:14:40,120 There's going to be a long scripture here on the screen. 229 00:14:40,120 --> 00:14:41,880 I'm not going to read the whole thing, but essentially what 230 00:14:41,880 --> 00:14:46,960 Malachi chapter 3 verse 10 says, God says bring me the tithe of 231 00:14:46,960 --> 00:14:49,120 your income. Whatever comes into your 232 00:14:49,120 --> 00:14:51,760 storehouse, bring whatever comes into your house, bring to the 233 00:14:51,760 --> 00:15:00,600 storehouse and test me, try me and see if I won't prove myself 234 00:15:00,600 --> 00:15:04,840 to be who I say I am. That's not exactly what it says, 235 00:15:04,840 --> 00:15:08,360 but that's what it says. He says open the storehouse of 236 00:15:08,360 --> 00:15:10,320 heaven, all the windows and everything that's poured on and 237 00:15:10,320 --> 00:15:12,440 all this blessing and all these things come upon you. 238 00:15:13,920 --> 00:15:17,880 But the point is God's saying, will you trust me? 239 00:15:18,880 --> 00:15:22,840 And as you trust me, you will find that I am trustworthy. 240 00:15:23,920 --> 00:15:28,960 I'll prove myself to you, but the first act is going to be a 241 00:15:28,960 --> 00:15:30,560 step of faith and obedience on you. 242 00:15:36,560 --> 00:15:40,200 My wife and I were married in September 12th of 1998. 243 00:15:40,200 --> 00:15:43,520 And some of you have heard this story before and just let it hit 244 00:15:43,520 --> 00:15:44,760 you again. Some of you hear this for the 245 00:15:44,760 --> 00:15:47,560 first time, but it's my story. I can't tell anybody else's 246 00:15:47,560 --> 00:15:49,200 story because this is the story. I lived. 247 00:15:50,480 --> 00:15:53,080 But in September of 1988, we got married. 248 00:15:53,080 --> 00:15:54,800 I've been working at a church for three years. 249 00:15:54,800 --> 00:15:57,560 I started in ministry in August of 1995. 250 00:15:57,720 --> 00:16:00,360 This August will be 30 years. It feels like it's been 2 251 00:16:00,360 --> 00:16:01,920 minutes. Praise God. 252 00:16:05,440 --> 00:16:08,120 I've been working at this church three years and I had never 253 00:16:08,120 --> 00:16:10,440 tithed. I don't know that I ever really 254 00:16:10,440 --> 00:16:14,680 understood the tithe. I thought it was optional. 255 00:16:15,440 --> 00:16:18,800 I thought it was for generous people, not for poor people. 256 00:16:18,800 --> 00:16:22,760 And I was poor because I was making $22,485 a year. 257 00:16:22,760 --> 00:16:25,800 I remember I was flowing in it, baby. 258 00:16:28,840 --> 00:16:32,280 So I get married and now I have another person I'm responsible 259 00:16:32,280 --> 00:16:34,440 for. My wife graduated from the 260 00:16:34,440 --> 00:16:36,520 University of Florida with a degree in physical therapy. 261 00:16:36,640 --> 00:16:38,880 She had a great job at Tampa General Hospital working with 262 00:16:38,880 --> 00:16:40,720 burn patients. It's amazing to make a lot of 263 00:16:40,720 --> 00:16:42,440 money. She moves to Ocala. 264 00:16:42,840 --> 00:16:45,960 Ocala at that time just didn't have a big market for physical 265 00:16:45,960 --> 00:16:47,640 therapists. There were like 2 clinics in the 266 00:16:47,640 --> 00:16:50,480 whole town. They ain't hiring. 267 00:16:51,360 --> 00:16:56,920 So the two of us are living off $22,475 a year. 268 00:16:56,920 --> 00:17:02,720 Yee Haw. We get to the end of one month 269 00:17:02,720 --> 00:17:06,280 after a bunch of months being married and I'm looking at the 270 00:17:06,280 --> 00:17:09,160 money. I'm like, I, we ain't making it. 271 00:17:10,440 --> 00:17:13,520 I got it. Here I am serving the Lord and 272 00:17:13,520 --> 00:17:16,800 we're suffering and we ain't making it. 273 00:17:18,400 --> 00:17:21,760 And Christine says she hears from the Holy Spirit, comes to 274 00:17:21,760 --> 00:17:24,960 me and says, I think we need to obey God in regards to finances 275 00:17:25,800 --> 00:17:31,400 and begin to tithe. And I said, I don't think you're 276 00:17:31,400 --> 00:17:36,200 hearing right. You see up to that point, even 277 00:17:36,200 --> 00:17:38,520 working at the church, I wasn't a tither, I was a tipper. 278 00:17:39,320 --> 00:17:41,600 And tippers say, hey God, you were good this week. 279 00:17:41,600 --> 00:17:45,320 Here's 5 bucks. And back in the old day, 280 00:17:45,320 --> 00:17:48,160 remember we used to pass the plates and when the plate 281 00:17:48,160 --> 00:17:50,800 passed, you never let it pass without you doing something. 282 00:17:50,840 --> 00:17:55,840 Otherwise you felt like a fool like so you would reach into 283 00:17:55,840 --> 00:18:02,560 your pocket and pull out a penny or a quarter or a dollar or just 284 00:18:02,600 --> 00:18:05,880 air. And when the plate came, you 285 00:18:05,880 --> 00:18:12,480 were like. If you had coins, you set them 286 00:18:12,480 --> 00:18:17,040 down gently so nobody knew you're putting coins in, right? 287 00:18:17,320 --> 00:18:23,080 If you had a dollar or more and you're like, look, uh huh. 288 00:18:27,160 --> 00:18:32,680 I can feel your judgment. So I was a tipper, not a tither. 289 00:18:32,680 --> 00:18:35,440 I would just give what I had. I remember one time giving 20 290 00:18:35,440 --> 00:18:38,200 bucks and feeling like I was the most generous guy, most 291 00:18:38,200 --> 00:18:41,400 sacrificial guy in the world. 20 bucks. 292 00:18:42,200 --> 00:18:45,960 Yeah, baby, look at me. God, he's like, oh, I'm 293 00:18:45,960 --> 00:18:50,520 watching. So Christine says, I feel like 294 00:18:50,520 --> 00:18:52,080 we should obey the Lord's command, the tithe. 295 00:18:52,080 --> 00:18:56,200 I said let me pray God. You see, we can either tithe or 296 00:18:56,200 --> 00:18:57,400 pay the rent. We can't do both. 297 00:18:57,400 --> 00:19:01,200 Clearly you don't want us to be homeless, so isn't it wise to 298 00:19:01,200 --> 00:19:06,000 pay the rent and not tithe? So I went back to my wife and 299 00:19:06,000 --> 00:19:12,120 said you were right. The Lord said a tithe. 300 00:19:14,440 --> 00:19:17,800 And so the very next Sunday, I wrote a check, the biggest check 301 00:19:17,800 --> 00:19:22,040 I've ever written to any organization, charitable, 302 00:19:22,120 --> 00:19:24,240 Obviously you've got rent and all these other things. 303 00:19:24,240 --> 00:19:27,360 But and I take it to the church and I remember I was giving 304 00:19:27,360 --> 00:19:31,520 reluctantly and my hands over the offering and like, Oh my 305 00:19:31,520 --> 00:19:34,880 word, if we do this, we will not pay rent. 306 00:19:44,420 --> 00:19:50,860 Sunday, Monday, the next day I'm at work. 307 00:19:50,860 --> 00:19:56,200 Ring, ring corded phone. Remember, hello, it's Christine. 308 00:19:56,960 --> 00:20:03,720 She's like hey, like hey, hey, I just got offered a full time 309 00:20:03,720 --> 00:20:09,360 job. Are you not amazed? 310 00:20:11,880 --> 00:20:14,880 Some of you know the story because that afternoon ring 311 00:20:14,960 --> 00:20:15,600 ring. Hello. 312 00:20:16,480 --> 00:20:20,880 Hey, I just got offered another full time job from another 313 00:20:20,880 --> 00:20:24,600 company. 2 jobs. They were fighting for her. 314 00:20:25,160 --> 00:20:32,320 She like bring it on her salary doubled my salary. 315 00:20:33,960 --> 00:20:35,520 P TS make more than youth directors. 316 00:20:35,520 --> 00:20:38,840 Apparently she became the breadwinner. 317 00:20:39,920 --> 00:20:44,360 Had to check my ego. Like hey OK, my wife's making 318 00:20:44,360 --> 00:20:52,160 more money than me, fine by me. Wednesday the landlady calls and 319 00:20:52,160 --> 00:20:54,600 I'm in my mind thinking, OK, I'm going to tell her she's got a 320 00:20:54,600 --> 00:20:55,840 new job, the money's going to come in. 321 00:20:55,840 --> 00:20:57,400 We're going to make up for the rent, don't you worry. 322 00:20:57,400 --> 00:20:58,520 It's going to be all fine, Patty. 323 00:20:58,520 --> 00:21:00,280 That was her name. It's going to be fine, Patty. 324 00:21:01,080 --> 00:21:03,760 And before I could get my excuses out, she said the Holy 325 00:21:03,760 --> 00:21:06,440 Spirit told us to tell you not to pay your rent this month. 326 00:21:08,240 --> 00:21:10,280 Sunday, Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, four days. 327 00:21:15,520 --> 00:21:17,880 I think we're underestimating how great God did here. 328 00:21:21,640 --> 00:21:24,200 If you believe in the provision, excuse me, the prosperity 329 00:21:24,200 --> 00:21:28,200 gospel, what you just heard is we gave and therefore we got. 330 00:21:29,440 --> 00:21:31,400 God gave U.S. financial resource. 331 00:21:31,640 --> 00:21:34,640 If you believe in the provision gospel, which sees the Lord as 332 00:21:34,640 --> 00:21:39,160 Jehovah Jireh, that's his name, then what you heard is what we 333 00:21:39,160 --> 00:21:42,640 heard. We learned in those four days 334 00:21:44,080 --> 00:21:49,560 that when God says He will do something, He'll do it. 335 00:21:49,960 --> 00:21:54,840 And what we took into our spirit is the assurance of who He is. 336 00:21:54,840 --> 00:21:57,240 And from that day to this, not just from our pocketbook, but 337 00:21:57,240 --> 00:22:01,200 from all of our books, we've trusted the Lord and say God, we 338 00:22:01,200 --> 00:22:04,400 want to do it your way, because when we do it your way, you do 339 00:22:04,400 --> 00:22:06,240 what only you can do. Amen. 340 00:22:11,760 --> 00:22:15,960 The principle is the same with time as it is to money. 341 00:22:17,080 --> 00:22:21,320 When you bring your offering, your tithe, excuse me, to the 342 00:22:21,320 --> 00:22:24,040 church and give it, you're not actually giving it. 343 00:22:24,040 --> 00:22:26,200 You've heard me say this before, you're returning it. 344 00:22:27,240 --> 00:22:30,800 If I borrow Pastor Kim's car, drove it around for three days, 345 00:22:30,800 --> 00:22:33,600 came back and put a bow on top of him and said I'm giving you a 346 00:22:33,600 --> 00:22:36,560 car, he'd be like, bro, it's my car. 347 00:22:37,640 --> 00:22:42,440 Like whatever. We're not giving God our tithe. 348 00:22:42,440 --> 00:22:44,960 It belongs to Him. It's holy to Him. 349 00:22:45,200 --> 00:22:47,600 We're returning it to him. But when you return the tide to 350 00:22:47,600 --> 00:22:49,400 God, you're also giving him something. 351 00:22:50,600 --> 00:22:54,640 You're giving him faith, and faith moves the heart of God. 352 00:22:55,360 --> 00:22:59,240 Hebrews Chapter 11, verse 6 says that without faith it is 353 00:22:59,240 --> 00:23:04,000 impossible to please God. Take the end of verse of it. 354 00:23:04,000 --> 00:23:05,760 When we have faith, it pleases God. 355 00:23:05,760 --> 00:23:08,320 He says, man, my daughter, she believes me. 356 00:23:09,240 --> 00:23:13,960 My son, He trusts me, and I'm going to show myself faithful, 357 00:23:13,960 --> 00:23:18,680 trustworthy in her and his life. Is my mic acting funny? 358 00:23:21,560 --> 00:23:25,720 You want me to switch mics? Kenny, Keep going. 359 00:23:26,600 --> 00:23:28,360 I can't see that far. You're making hand gestures. 360 00:23:28,360 --> 00:23:34,200 I love you, too. Faith is the currency of heaven. 361 00:23:35,160 --> 00:23:38,520 It's the same with the Sabbath. It's the exact same. 362 00:23:39,480 --> 00:23:44,400 Do we have the faith to trust God that I can do more in six 363 00:23:44,400 --> 00:23:48,040 days by giving him one than I can do in seven days on my own? 364 00:23:50,280 --> 00:23:55,480 I want to show you some counter intuitive living, not reactions, 365 00:23:55,800 --> 00:23:58,440 outcomes. Excuse me to what happens when 366 00:23:58,440 --> 00:24:00,920 you Sabbath? Here's what I mean. 367 00:24:02,120 --> 00:24:04,640 When you practice the Sabbath, you'll find out that production, 368 00:24:04,640 --> 00:24:07,920 the Sabbath's production is actually reduction. 369 00:24:08,680 --> 00:24:11,520 There are things that when you practice the Sabbath are going 370 00:24:11,520 --> 00:24:14,120 to be reduced in your life. The first one is this. 371 00:24:14,120 --> 00:24:17,520 The Sabbath reduces pride. Everyone say pride. 372 00:24:18,240 --> 00:24:20,200 Pride turns out to be the original sin. 373 00:24:20,200 --> 00:24:22,520 When Adam and Eve were in the garden, God said don't eat from 374 00:24:22,520 --> 00:24:25,200 this one tree of the knowledge of good and evil before. 375 00:24:25,320 --> 00:24:27,080 But when you eat of it, you'll be like me. 376 00:24:27,720 --> 00:24:29,800 And you don't want to be me because you don't want to be a 377 00:24:29,800 --> 00:24:33,160 God of yourself. You want me to be God. 378 00:24:33,320 --> 00:24:35,800 Let me do that job. Well, the devil comes along. 379 00:24:35,800 --> 00:24:38,680 It's like the God really say, don't eat from that tree because 380 00:24:38,680 --> 00:24:40,680 the only reason he doesn't want you to eat from that tree is 381 00:24:40,680 --> 00:24:44,360 because you become like him. So Eve saw the fruit. 382 00:24:44,360 --> 00:24:46,920 She saw it was pleasing to the eye, good for her body, and she 383 00:24:46,920 --> 00:24:49,240 wanted to be like God. So she ate the fruit, gave it to 384 00:24:49,240 --> 00:24:50,680 Adam. He ate it as well. 385 00:24:52,560 --> 00:24:57,040 And it all happened because they decided, well, I would rather be 386 00:24:57,040 --> 00:24:59,960 the God of me. It's the original sin of pride. 387 00:24:59,960 --> 00:25:04,480 It's the same driver of all of the sin that we experience in 388 00:25:04,480 --> 00:25:07,280 our life today when we have decided, you know God, I think I 389 00:25:07,280 --> 00:25:10,640 know better. I know how better to fill this 390 00:25:10,640 --> 00:25:13,560 void in my life, this temptation I'm feeling. 391 00:25:13,560 --> 00:25:15,920 I know better how to deal with it then you know how to deal 392 00:25:15,920 --> 00:25:18,560 with it. So in my pride, I'm going to do 393 00:25:18,560 --> 00:25:21,480 what I think is best rather than what you think is best. 394 00:25:22,840 --> 00:25:27,320 Sabbath theme does the opposite for when we Sabbath and when we 395 00:25:27,320 --> 00:25:30,800 tithe, what we're saying to the Lord is I am not dependent upon 396 00:25:30,800 --> 00:25:34,480 myself, but I am rather dependent on you. 397 00:25:34,480 --> 00:25:38,080 My time is dependent on you. The finances that I have are 398 00:25:38,080 --> 00:25:40,800 dependent not on me, but upon you. 399 00:25:41,360 --> 00:25:44,200 I'm going to trust you, but it's going to cause me to swallow my 400 00:25:44,200 --> 00:25:47,120 pride. Five years ago, when we first 401 00:25:47,120 --> 00:25:48,520 taught this series, we were in the high school. 402 00:25:48,520 --> 00:25:50,440 Any high school people here remember the high school days? 403 00:25:50,440 --> 00:25:54,120 Hello. We have mic problems then too. 404 00:25:57,120 --> 00:25:59,160 He was sitting right over here. He'd always sit right over here. 405 00:25:59,520 --> 00:26:01,080 He still sits over here when he comes to church. 406 00:26:04,040 --> 00:26:10,160 He was hello. He was brought to Florida to 407 00:26:10,160 --> 00:26:13,760 lead a $200 million build of Gaylord Palms. 408 00:26:14,040 --> 00:26:15,360 And it did the big Gaylord Hotel. 409 00:26:15,360 --> 00:26:17,560 You know what I'm talking about. They did an expansion. 410 00:26:17,560 --> 00:26:21,600 They did a big renovation of their meeting spaces and this 411 00:26:21,600 --> 00:26:24,200 whole swimming area. He was in charge of building all 412 00:26:24,200 --> 00:26:26,000 of this. And he's sitting over here 413 00:26:26,000 --> 00:26:27,600 listening to me talking about the Sabbath. 414 00:26:27,600 --> 00:26:29,280 And he's like, we got to do this as a family. 415 00:26:29,480 --> 00:26:32,200 But our construction crew works seven days a week. 416 00:26:33,280 --> 00:26:35,360 And I'm the one who tells them when they work and when they 417 00:26:35,360 --> 00:26:38,080 don't work. So I'm having all these guys 418 00:26:38,080 --> 00:26:40,240 break the Sabbath because of me, and I'm breaking it too, because 419 00:26:40,240 --> 00:26:41,360 when they're working, I'm working. 420 00:26:42,560 --> 00:26:44,480 And so he's sitting here thinking, I got to shut down the 421 00:26:44,480 --> 00:26:48,560 job site one day a week, which means I'm going to have to walk 422 00:26:48,560 --> 00:26:51,720 into the construction Hut with all these alpha male 423 00:26:51,720 --> 00:26:57,240 construction guys, you know, and tell these guys, hey, we're not 424 00:26:57,240 --> 00:26:59,560 working one day a week because the Lord God said no. 425 00:26:59,560 --> 00:27:03,200 And it'd be like you Bible thumper, you idiot. 426 00:27:03,760 --> 00:27:08,080 Listen, holy man, we got to be on time and on budget. 427 00:27:08,280 --> 00:27:12,520 And if we skip one day a week, we ain't making it, you dummy. 428 00:27:12,880 --> 00:27:14,520 And he knew this was going to happen. 429 00:27:15,400 --> 00:27:17,160 And in his pride, he didn't want to do it. 430 00:27:17,160 --> 00:27:19,160 Like, man, this is going to be embarrassing. 431 00:27:19,160 --> 00:27:22,200 This is going to be challenging. But God has spoken. 432 00:27:22,480 --> 00:27:24,040 He was convicted by the Holy Spirit. 433 00:27:24,040 --> 00:27:25,800 He walked in the Hut. He said what he had to say. 434 00:27:25,960 --> 00:27:27,520 They talked back. He's like, well, I'm locking it 435 00:27:27,520 --> 00:27:28,920 up. I'm going to have a gate and I'm 436 00:27:28,920 --> 00:27:30,440 going to lock it. And I'm going to be the only one 437 00:27:30,440 --> 00:27:32,440 with the key. So when I say we're not working, 438 00:27:32,440 --> 00:27:39,560 we're not working in the story, I want you to know, at the 439 00:27:39,560 --> 00:27:43,160 completion of that job, they were six months ahead of 440 00:27:43,160 --> 00:27:46,920 schedule and $12 million under budget. 441 00:27:48,440 --> 00:27:51,920 That's a lot. Can anybody use $12 million? 442 00:27:53,440 --> 00:27:55,400 There's some for you. Only two people raise their hand 443 00:27:55,400 --> 00:27:59,000 for $12 million. You 2 get 6 each from the Lord. 444 00:27:59,000 --> 00:28:01,640 Not for me because I don't got it. 445 00:28:03,680 --> 00:28:07,440 He had to swallow his pride and say I'm not dependent on myself, 446 00:28:08,040 --> 00:28:10,280 I'm dependent on the Lord. He had to make a stand in the 447 00:28:10,600 --> 00:28:13,480 public sector and the Lord honored his faith. 448 00:28:14,440 --> 00:28:18,600 Six months, $12 million. There's another girl who's in 449 00:28:18,600 --> 00:28:22,280 our, as a woman in our life, Step 2, that we just finished up 450 00:28:22,280 --> 00:28:25,480 at our house. And she said growing up, I never 451 00:28:25,480 --> 00:28:28,440 slept well. My poor mom, she said never 452 00:28:28,440 --> 00:28:29,760 slept well. I was a bad sleeper, bad 453 00:28:29,760 --> 00:28:31,400 sleeper. I started practicing the Sabbath 454 00:28:31,400 --> 00:28:34,480 and for the first time in my life, I'm sleeping through the 455 00:28:34,480 --> 00:28:40,320 night. Listen, they're both miracles of 456 00:28:40,320 --> 00:28:43,720 great significance to the people involved, and they teach us the 457 00:28:43,720 --> 00:28:46,000 same principle. When we offer our faith and 458 00:28:46,000 --> 00:28:48,480 obeying the Lord, He responds and gives us things that we 459 00:28:48,480 --> 00:28:52,280 cannot have on our own, but that He gives us out of His own hand. 460 00:28:52,360 --> 00:28:54,760 Amen. The last to the Sabbath reduces 461 00:28:54,760 --> 00:28:56,040 coveting. Everyone say coveting. 462 00:28:56,880 --> 00:28:58,920 Could it be that the opposite of coveting is actually 463 00:28:58,920 --> 00:29:03,920 contentedness? One of the commandments is do 464 00:29:03,920 --> 00:29:08,440 not covet. When we practice the Sabbath, 465 00:29:08,560 --> 00:29:12,480 this is what we learned. I have everything that I need. 466 00:29:15,120 --> 00:29:18,800 Everything is OK not because of what I have or who I am, but 467 00:29:18,800 --> 00:29:22,040 because of who has me and whose I am. 468 00:29:25,560 --> 00:29:27,560 We often don't practice the Sabbath because we don't know 469 00:29:27,560 --> 00:29:29,720 how to sit still, and we don't sit still because we're not 470 00:29:29,720 --> 00:29:33,120 content. We always have an itch to do 471 00:29:33,120 --> 00:29:37,080 something. We try to sit still for 15 472 00:29:37,080 --> 00:29:39,240 minutes and all of a sudden you realize like 10 minutes in you 473 00:29:39,240 --> 00:29:41,960 have your phone out. Like what happened to sitting 474 00:29:41,960 --> 00:29:43,920 still for 15 minutes and doing nothing? 475 00:29:44,840 --> 00:29:46,960 I just need to check the weather and now I'm scrolling. 476 00:29:48,480 --> 00:29:50,480 Oh, I just got a text and now I'm scrolling. 477 00:29:51,200 --> 00:29:52,400 Death scroll, Is that what they call it? 478 00:29:53,680 --> 00:29:55,880 Doom scroll? Same difference. 479 00:29:57,200 --> 00:30:03,560 Both ain't good. I don't know if you've ever been 480 00:30:03,560 --> 00:30:05,760 praying and like 30 minutes later, you forgot you were 481 00:30:05,760 --> 00:30:08,840 praying. Like, oh, wait, I was praying. 482 00:30:08,840 --> 00:30:11,280 Oh, you're reading the scriptures and your eyes are 483 00:30:11,280 --> 00:30:14,560 going down the page and like halfway down you're like, oh, I 484 00:30:14,560 --> 00:30:16,800 haven't been paying attention. I've been reading the last two 485 00:30:16,800 --> 00:30:18,920 minutes. Anyone else? 486 00:30:19,680 --> 00:30:22,360 Yeah, this is a contentedness issue. 487 00:30:22,840 --> 00:30:26,320 It's mine all over the place trying to answer questions that 488 00:30:26,320 --> 00:30:29,080 only God can answer. Itches and scratches that only 489 00:30:29,080 --> 00:30:34,200 God can soothe and and heal. When you practice the Sabbath 490 00:30:35,200 --> 00:30:38,440 practice, it's not going to happen like this. 491 00:30:38,440 --> 00:30:42,960 You're not going to be experts tomorrow and you sit for 5 492 00:30:42,960 --> 00:30:46,520 minutes. Just sit can become 10 minutes, 493 00:30:46,520 --> 00:30:52,560 20 minutes, 40 minutes, an hour. Just you and the Lord, just 494 00:30:52,880 --> 00:30:59,720 content because of who He is and what He has. 495 00:31:01,120 --> 00:31:04,120 And this one is very related to the last one. 496 00:31:04,960 --> 00:31:07,280 The Sabbath reduces pride. The Sabbath reduces coveting. 497 00:31:07,280 --> 00:31:10,440 And finally, the Sabbath reduces fear. 498 00:31:11,480 --> 00:31:13,280 We often don't Sabbath because of fear. 499 00:31:13,840 --> 00:31:15,200 We're afraid we won't get it all done. 500 00:31:15,200 --> 00:31:16,840 We will afraid we won't succeed enough. 501 00:31:16,840 --> 00:31:19,920 We won't have enough money, we won't have enough stuff if we 502 00:31:19,920 --> 00:31:23,920 don't work more. And I'm not talking about just 503 00:31:24,040 --> 00:31:27,440 earning work, but working around the house, making sure the car 504 00:31:27,440 --> 00:31:29,720 looks right for the neighbors not to yell and look at my shiny 505 00:31:29,720 --> 00:31:31,040 car. Isn't everyone impressed with my 506 00:31:31,040 --> 00:31:35,040 great yard? Sorry. 507 00:31:37,800 --> 00:31:40,400 What if you rested as if the work was already done? 508 00:31:43,360 --> 00:31:46,960 What if you rested in this way? Do what you can by following the 509 00:31:46,960 --> 00:31:48,680 Lord. Wake up and say, God, this day I 510 00:31:48,680 --> 00:31:51,160 submit to you, I'm going to do whatever you say for me to do 511 00:31:51,160 --> 00:31:53,800 today. And at the end of that time, end 512 00:31:53,800 --> 00:31:57,040 of the six days, you said, God, I did everything you said, so 513 00:31:57,320 --> 00:32:00,200 I'm content, even if stuff's unfinished. 514 00:32:03,240 --> 00:32:04,680 But you did what He said for the day. 515 00:32:06,200 --> 00:32:11,400 He sets your checklist, not you. And then you check the boxes, 516 00:32:12,320 --> 00:32:14,600 and then you rest at the end of the day. 517 00:32:15,760 --> 00:32:19,240 God gave us the Sabbath to help us with our fear. 518 00:32:20,560 --> 00:32:23,040 God gave us the Sabbath to learn that we can trust him every 519 00:32:23,040 --> 00:32:26,200 Sunday or excuse me, Friday night going into Saturday that 520 00:32:26,200 --> 00:32:30,560 we Sabbath, it feels like we're doing a trust fall into the arms 521 00:32:30,560 --> 00:32:36,280 of God. OK, Lord, the stuff undone, the 522 00:32:36,480 --> 00:32:43,160 kitchen sinks a mess. The bathroom needs to be just 523 00:32:43,160 --> 00:32:45,800 fall back into his arms. Since I got you and I got all 524 00:32:45,800 --> 00:32:50,360 this, we'll take care of this. Don't worry. 525 00:32:52,440 --> 00:32:55,360 When we're fearful, what we're really exposing is that we have 526 00:32:55,360 --> 00:32:58,880 an impoverished spirit. The impoverished spirit always 527 00:32:58,880 --> 00:33:00,920 says, I don't have enough fill in the blank. 528 00:33:01,800 --> 00:33:05,520 You can meet the most wealthy people in the world and they 529 00:33:05,520 --> 00:33:09,040 will feel the most impoverished of anybody, and you can find the 530 00:33:09,040 --> 00:33:13,200 most impoverished financially people, but yet they are full of 531 00:33:13,200 --> 00:33:16,440 the goodness of God. When we have the impoverished 532 00:33:16,440 --> 00:33:18,880 spirit, we're hungry, unsatisfied, and when you're 533 00:33:18,880 --> 00:33:22,280 hungry and unsatisfied, you are at great risk of eating anything 534 00:33:22,280 --> 00:33:26,920 you can find, even in the trash can, any junk food. 535 00:33:27,600 --> 00:33:29,480 You know what I'm talking about in real life, Like if you're 536 00:33:29,480 --> 00:33:31,400 just hungry, sometime you're like, I don't want any of this 537 00:33:31,400 --> 00:33:38,120 junk, but there's nothing else. Well, OK, marshmallows, I feel 538 00:33:38,120 --> 00:33:42,640 your judgment. Again, write this down. 539 00:33:42,640 --> 00:33:44,760 In the end, God has already done all the work. 540 00:33:50,000 --> 00:33:53,840 If you can't rest, just meditate on this thought and you'll begin 541 00:33:53,840 --> 00:33:56,920 to rest. He's already done all the work. 542 00:33:58,200 --> 00:34:01,920 John chapter 19 verse 30. When he had received the drink, 543 00:34:01,960 --> 00:34:06,040 Jesus says it is finished. With that he bowed his head and 544 00:34:06,040 --> 00:34:09,920 gave up his spirit. What if we learned to rest from 545 00:34:09,920 --> 00:34:12,199 a place of knowing that the work is actually done? 546 00:34:12,199 --> 00:34:16,639 When Jesus went to the cross, the work that destroyed sin and 547 00:34:16,639 --> 00:34:19,960 death was finished there on that cross. 548 00:34:21,360 --> 00:34:26,040 The work that gives you and I identity as a son or a daughter 549 00:34:26,040 --> 00:34:29,840 of the King was finished on the cross. 550 00:34:31,000 --> 00:34:35,199 The work that now gives you purposeful plans for your life 551 00:34:36,960 --> 00:34:41,360 was finished on the cross. The work praise God that ensures 552 00:34:41,360 --> 00:34:45,600 us eternal peace was finished on the cross. 553 00:34:45,600 --> 00:34:50,040 So if all the work is finished, then we can rest. 554 00:34:51,760 --> 00:34:55,679 So I say to you as your pastor, rest. 555 00:34:57,600 --> 00:35:02,720 God commanded you to rest. But see it a different way. 556 00:35:03,560 --> 00:35:09,440 God invites you to rest. Come to me all you who are weary 557 00:35:09,440 --> 00:35:14,760 and heavy laden, and I God, Jesus will give you rest. 558 00:35:16,960 --> 00:35:20,000 Thanks for joining us today. We hope God is speaking to your 559 00:35:20,000 --> 00:35:22,600 heart through this message. If you'd like to connect with 560 00:35:22,600 --> 00:35:29,800 us, you can text connect to 407-588-0115 or visit Illuminate 561 00:35:29,880 --> 00:35:32,400 dot church. Have a great week.