WEBVTT 0 00:00:04.810 --> 00:00:07.322 Welcome to the Willow Ridge Sermons podcast. 1 00:00:07.466 --> 00:00:11.150 This is where you can find audio from Sunday morning messages and more. 2 00:00:11.300 --> 00:00:14.442 Make sure you're subscribed so that you don't miss future episodes. 3 00:00:14.506 --> 00:00:15.950 And thanks for listening. 4 00:00:20.210 --> 00:00:20.830 Good morning. 5 00:00:20.900 --> 00:00:23.758 If you've got your bobbles, we're going to be aggressive this morning. 6 00:00:23.844 --> 00:00:26.438 All right, Genesis two, go ahead and turn there. 7 00:00:26.524 --> 00:00:27.670 Exodus 20. 8 00:00:27.820 --> 00:00:28.902 Go ahead and mark that. 9 00:00:28.956 --> 00:00:30.198 And then Mark two. 10 00:00:30.284 --> 00:00:32.866 We're going to end up there as we go through here's. 11 00:00:32.898 --> 00:00:35.222 What we're going to do from week to week is going to be different. 12 00:00:35.276 --> 00:00:42.906 I'm really excited about Genesis, but teaching Genesis is definitely not a one size fits all strategy as we go through it. 13 00:00:42.928 --> 00:00:58.714 So some weeks we'll have like we did last week, where we walk through every single verse and kind of just hang in that chapter or in that section of Genesis and then some, like today, we'll come back in, we'll draw some verses and then help connect those as God does at different spots. 14 00:00:58.762 --> 00:01:00.302 So open to Genesis Two. 15 00:01:00.356 --> 00:01:01.246 Exodus 20. 16 00:01:01.348 --> 00:01:02.942 Mark Two is where we're going to be. 17 00:01:02.996 --> 00:01:09.890 Now, you just saw a video, so I want to draw your attention to two cards that are sitting on the rows around you. 18 00:01:09.960 --> 00:01:14.462 And I see that we've got rows are filled, multiple families. 19 00:01:14.526 --> 00:01:15.170 That's great. 20 00:01:15.240 --> 00:01:20.486 If you don't have some of these, make sure you grab from other rows or back in the back because we have those. 21 00:01:20.508 --> 00:01:21.670 So I want to talk about that. 22 00:01:21.740 --> 00:01:23.574 The first one is the card that looks like this. 23 00:01:23.612 --> 00:01:25.602 It's something called secret church. 24 00:01:25.746 --> 00:01:46.446 And secret church was started years ago by David Platt as he pastored a church in Alabama to help them get the mindset of this is what it looks like for a lot of churches, particularly persecuted churches all over the world, where they meet at night, they meet in secret and they don't meet for an hour or hour and a half. 25 00:01:46.548 --> 00:02:01.170 They meet for this extended period of time as they come together without all of the comfortable things maybe that we appreciate and that we value in our worship services to study God's word. 26 00:02:01.240 --> 00:02:07.394 And so they've continued on year after year of doing that and making a national thing where churches can come together. 27 00:02:07.512 --> 00:02:21.486 And hear from David Platt as he teaches, I believe, one of the greatest Bible teachers of the modern era and I also believe one of the greatest hearts for global missions of the modern era is David Platt. 28 00:02:21.538 --> 00:02:28.310 And so he'll teach through a section of the Bible, a topic of the Bible, or this year a book of the Bible. 29 00:02:28.390 --> 00:02:38.142 And so we're going to be partnering with and being a part of Secret Church on Friday night, April 21, until listen to me. 30 00:02:38.196 --> 00:02:40.734 Until Saturday morning, April 22. 31 00:02:40.852 --> 00:02:41.454 You heard me. 32 00:02:41.492 --> 00:02:42.160 All right. 33 00:02:42.710 --> 00:02:44.242 It's from 07:00 p.m. 34 00:02:44.296 --> 00:02:45.540 To 01:00 A.m.. 35 00:02:45.910 --> 00:02:47.700 I know woe's right? 36 00:02:49.110 --> 00:02:56.178 It's a lot, but it's exciting and it's encouraging to see, to hear from other churches that have done this. 37 00:02:56.264 --> 00:03:01.494 And so if you would like to join us and be a part of that night, it doesn't cost you anything. 38 00:03:01.692 --> 00:03:03.010 The church will register. 39 00:03:03.090 --> 00:03:03.846 We'll pay for that. 40 00:03:03.868 --> 00:03:06.614 So we can be a part of this together as a body. 41 00:03:06.732 --> 00:03:09.250 But if you would like to be a part of that, here's what we're. 42 00:03:09.250 --> 00:03:10.006 Going to ask you to do. 43 00:03:10.028 --> 00:03:11.154 We do need you to register. 44 00:03:11.202 --> 00:03:13.770 So there's a little QR code on the bottom. 45 00:03:13.920 --> 00:03:15.274 If you don't know how to use. 46 00:03:15.312 --> 00:03:17.850 That, ask your kid or your grandkids. 47 00:03:18.590 --> 00:03:21.350 Or come talk to us, talk to Burger. 48 00:03:21.430 --> 00:03:26.750 He'll do it in 0.5 seconds and have you completely logged in and ready to go. 49 00:03:26.820 --> 00:03:29.470 But I do want to just emphasize. 50 00:03:29.890 --> 00:03:32.574 Be mindful of the time 07:00 P.m. 51 00:03:32.692 --> 00:03:34.142 Till 01:00 A.m.. 52 00:03:34.196 --> 00:03:35.694 And this isn't like a lock in. 53 00:03:35.732 --> 00:03:37.266 Like we're not sleeping here afterwards, right? 54 00:03:37.288 --> 00:03:38.180 We're going home. 55 00:03:38.790 --> 00:03:40.482 But I'd love to have as many. 56 00:03:40.536 --> 00:03:42.034 Of you here as possible. 57 00:03:42.152 --> 00:03:43.746 And then also here's our card for. 58 00:03:43.768 --> 00:03:47.518 Easter with all of our details for Easter this week, we had a staff meeting. 59 00:03:47.534 --> 00:03:48.546 We were talking about this and we. 60 00:03:48.568 --> 00:03:54.258 Just said, I said as we make these, I want them to be that you're invited because you know that you're invited. 61 00:03:54.354 --> 00:03:58.614 But I also want this to look like an invitation so that you can go to your neighbor, your coworker, your. 62 00:03:58.652 --> 00:04:00.006 Friend, and just say, I know you. 63 00:04:00.028 --> 00:04:03.066 Don'T have a church home, so you're invited, and give this to them. 64 00:04:03.088 --> 00:04:04.666 And so we're going to really do. 65 00:04:04.688 --> 00:04:05.674 What we did last year. 66 00:04:05.712 --> 00:04:12.314 Our 08:00, I think we loosely we call it an outdoor service because we realize, like, sunrise is way earlier than. 67 00:04:12.352 --> 00:04:14.326 That and we struggle to do that. 68 00:04:14.368 --> 00:04:15.822 So it's our 08:00 a.m. 69 00:04:15.876 --> 00:04:18.142 Outdoor service that we'll have and then. 70 00:04:18.196 --> 00:04:19.566 Our 09:00 A.m. 71 00:04:19.668 --> 00:04:20.622 Breakfast, right? 72 00:04:20.676 --> 00:04:21.898 So if you were here, if you're. 73 00:04:21.914 --> 00:04:24.842 A part of that last year, it was just a wonderful time of fellowship. 74 00:04:24.906 --> 00:04:26.606 And then the service in here at. 75 00:04:26.628 --> 00:04:30.114 10:00 A.m., I do want to emphasize this, the 08:00 A.m. 76 00:04:30.152 --> 00:04:31.314 Service and the 10:00 A.m. 77 00:04:31.352 --> 00:04:34.130 Service are for the most part, identical services. 78 00:04:34.200 --> 00:04:37.538 We'll take Lord Supper, we'll sing some of the same songs, we'll look at. 79 00:04:37.544 --> 00:04:39.182 The same passage of scripture. 80 00:04:39.326 --> 00:04:40.978 It'll basically be the same message. 81 00:04:41.064 --> 00:04:43.526 If you want to join us for both of those, we'd love to have. 82 00:04:43.548 --> 00:04:47.382 You for both of those, but if you only want to go to one, that's fine too. 83 00:04:47.436 --> 00:04:51.190 Those are identical services as we do that together. 84 00:04:51.260 --> 00:04:52.394 So if you got any questions about. 85 00:04:52.432 --> 00:04:54.346 That, please let us know. 86 00:04:54.528 --> 00:04:56.490 Both services are for the entire family. 87 00:04:56.560 --> 00:04:57.034 Okay? 88 00:04:57.152 --> 00:04:58.426 So we're going to bring babies and. 89 00:04:58.448 --> 00:05:06.894 Kids and everybody in here and have a wonderful time as God's family, all in one service celebrating the resurrection of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ. 90 00:05:07.012 --> 00:05:11.790 So let's go ahead and look at Genesis, chapter two this morning. 91 00:05:11.860 --> 00:05:18.334 This is where we're going to start, and we're going to start talking about rest and I love this morning talking about rest. 92 00:05:18.532 --> 00:05:24.766 Joel Van Ham, he prays with me every morning before we talk about our weekend, we talk about our week. 93 00:05:24.788 --> 00:05:26.582 We talk about what I'm a preacher this morning. 94 00:05:26.636 --> 00:05:30.066 And then the last thing that he says to me is like, hey, what's? 95 00:05:30.098 --> 00:05:35.350 Just kind of impressed on your heart that I can pray specifically for as you come up and as you share from God's word this morning. 96 00:05:35.420 --> 00:05:38.822 And I said, I was being honest with you, man, I feel like a hypocrite this morning. 97 00:05:38.956 --> 00:05:45.866 Yesterday we got up at 04:00 A.m., got home at like 09:15 P.m. 98 00:05:45.968 --> 00:05:48.042 From being at an all day track event. 99 00:05:48.096 --> 00:05:52.958 And I didn't know that sitting in the bleachers can exhaust you watching people run. 100 00:05:53.044 --> 00:05:55.502 But that's what happens, okay? 101 00:05:55.636 --> 00:05:56.394 I'm spent. 102 00:05:56.442 --> 00:05:58.714 I'm more tired than the people who ran. 103 00:05:58.842 --> 00:06:00.238 And so that's what we did. 104 00:06:00.324 --> 00:06:05.700 And then we got home and that idol of March Madness was there, and so I had to watch it. 105 00:06:06.230 --> 00:06:12.706 And so I just said, man, I just find the hypocrisy and the irony this morning as we talk about rest. 106 00:06:12.808 --> 00:06:14.062 And I'm exhausted. 107 00:06:14.126 --> 00:06:14.722 All right? 108 00:06:14.856 --> 00:06:16.366 And so he's like, get some coffee. 109 00:06:16.398 --> 00:06:17.906 I'll pray it'll be good. 110 00:06:18.088 --> 00:06:23.526 The Lord's going to work through His Holy Spirit and through Starbucks, and that's what God's doing right now, okay? 111 00:06:23.708 --> 00:06:30.982 So we're going to talk about rest this morning and understand that I'm going to be preaching out of my insufficiency and God's sufficiency. 112 00:06:31.126 --> 00:06:36.314 But when we talk about rest, there can be like that person, right? 113 00:06:36.512 --> 00:06:40.060 Oh, this is an excuse to be lazy, right? 114 00:06:40.590 --> 00:06:45.038 And there can be that battle that rages on in some of us, right? 115 00:06:45.124 --> 00:06:49.438 The workaholics, the person who says, I've always got to be doing something. 116 00:06:49.604 --> 00:06:54.782 But what we can see in Scripture is that scripture addresses that. 117 00:06:54.916 --> 00:06:58.430 The scripture address that and there's a difference between rest and lazy. 118 00:06:58.510 --> 00:07:03.314 So here's thing, what we're going to find as we look at this is that your body needs rest. 119 00:07:03.432 --> 00:07:03.714 Yes. 120 00:07:03.752 --> 00:07:04.594 And amen, right? 121 00:07:04.632 --> 00:07:12.600 Like, your body needs that go out and work hard, and at the end of a long day, you feel your body saying, Stop. 122 00:07:13.130 --> 00:07:13.686 Stop. 123 00:07:13.788 --> 00:07:17.286 But what we're also going to see is your body needs work. 124 00:07:17.468 --> 00:07:20.954 Your body needs work, and your body needs rest. 125 00:07:21.072 --> 00:07:22.810 It's how God called us. 126 00:07:22.880 --> 00:07:24.650 It's how God created us. 127 00:07:24.720 --> 00:07:28.202 So this morning, the call is for rest. 128 00:07:28.336 --> 00:07:31.390 The call is not for lazy. 129 00:07:31.810 --> 00:07:39.166 In fact, the Bible talks about laziness and the Bible talks about doing work. 130 00:07:39.268 --> 00:07:50.782 Next week, we're going to largely look at the work aspect in Genesis two, but I just want to throw out the handful three Scriptures, there were more than that that talk about this dealing with laziness. 131 00:07:50.926 --> 00:08:00.978 In Proverbs 13 four, it says this the soul of the sluggard or the lazy one craves and gets nothing while the soul of the diligent is richly supplied. 132 00:08:01.074 --> 00:08:08.338 Proverbs 21 25, the desire of the sluggard kills him for his hands refuse to labor. 133 00:08:08.434 --> 00:08:12.678 Ephesians 428 let the thief no longer steal. 134 00:08:12.774 --> 00:08:26.990 And we can all admit, right, that that theft is the ultimate form of laziness, but rather let him labor doing honest work with his own hands so that he may have something to share with anyone in need. 135 00:08:27.060 --> 00:08:34.862 Ephesians 428 so the Bible calls us to work the work of the gospel, the work of activity. 136 00:08:34.926 --> 00:08:43.794 Like the Bible, it is good when you and I go and work and our bodies need work and our bodies need rest. 137 00:08:43.912 --> 00:08:50.866 So if you walk away from here and you're like, this is my excuse to be lazy, that's Satan speaking to your spirit. 138 00:08:50.898 --> 00:08:53.430 That's not the word of God speaking to you, right? 139 00:08:53.500 --> 00:08:56.920 This is not a call for lazy, but it is a call to rest. 140 00:08:57.470 --> 00:08:59.290 It's a call to rest. 141 00:08:59.440 --> 00:09:16.080 And here becomes the trouble with us that oftentimes when we aren't careful, we have within us this ability that I don't believe it's from the Lord to say yes to everything. 142 00:09:17.170 --> 00:09:18.558 Well, will you do this? 143 00:09:18.644 --> 00:09:18.990 Yes. 144 00:09:19.060 --> 00:09:19.950 Will you do this? 145 00:09:20.020 --> 00:09:20.398 Yes. 146 00:09:20.484 --> 00:09:21.470 Will you do this? 147 00:09:21.540 --> 00:09:21.966 Yes. 148 00:09:22.068 --> 00:09:22.990 Will you do this? 149 00:09:23.060 --> 00:09:23.486 Yes. 150 00:09:23.588 --> 00:09:38.998 And what I found and what I've realized is that as I walk with the Lord, what the Lord develops in a layer of confidence within me from him is the spiritual maturity to be able to say to things from time to time or to individuals from time to time. 151 00:09:39.084 --> 00:09:41.080 No, no. 152 00:09:41.690 --> 00:09:45.000 It's okay to say no. 153 00:09:45.450 --> 00:09:46.710 Because what can happen? 154 00:09:46.780 --> 00:09:54.170 Just as there's the danger and the sin of being lazy, there's the danger and the sin of busy. 155 00:09:55.070 --> 00:10:06.250 There's the danger and the sin of busy, probably right now, honestly, for some of us, like the ugliest four letter word in our vocabulary, I'm busy, I'm busy, I'm busy. 156 00:10:06.330 --> 00:10:08.362 You know why you're busy, busy, busy. 157 00:10:08.426 --> 00:10:10.926 Because you say yes, yes to things. 158 00:10:10.948 --> 00:10:12.640 That God doesn't have for you. 159 00:10:13.330 --> 00:10:15.886 And that's the danger and the sin of being busy. 160 00:10:16.078 --> 00:10:18.254 We fill our lives with busy. 161 00:10:18.302 --> 00:10:32.646 And in doing so, what we do is we neglect the greater that God has for us and we fill our lives with insignificant things, with no eternal ramifications that don't impact our relationship with. 162 00:10:32.668 --> 00:10:37.814 Him or the opportunity for the gospel to impact the relationships with others, right? 163 00:10:38.012 --> 00:10:45.210 And so what we're going to do this morning is begin with looking at rest. 164 00:10:45.360 --> 00:10:52.590 And I'm excited as we study through this week because what I didn't want this to become is the message about more naps. 165 00:10:55.730 --> 00:11:00.080 That's really short and some of you are like, man, that's kind of what I need right now. 166 00:11:01.650 --> 00:11:02.638 But this isn't going to be a. 167 00:11:02.644 --> 00:11:09.010 Message about naps, but we're going to begin and see what the Bible means and what God does with rest. 168 00:11:09.080 --> 00:11:11.250 Now, over the next couple of weeks. 169 00:11:11.320 --> 00:11:23.734 I want to remind us this of the context of what we're looking at in creation is in the perfection in which God has created the fall doesn't happen until chapter three, okay? 170 00:11:23.852 --> 00:11:48.894 So when we see this in Genesis one, when we see how God creates when we see this call of rest in Genesis chapter two, when we see God providing work in Genesis one and two for mankind to do, when we see the formation of marriage in chapter two, when we see the formation of the unity of man and wife in chapter two, we have to understand that all of this is from the perfected creation of which God has in this moment. 171 00:11:49.012 --> 00:11:51.694 And so this call to rest from. 172 00:11:51.732 --> 00:11:54.378 The very beginning is what God has said. 173 00:11:54.404 --> 00:11:57.060 So let's look at Genesis two, one through three. 174 00:11:57.590 --> 00:12:02.514 Thus the heavens and the Earth were finished and all the host of them. 175 00:12:02.712 --> 00:12:11.798 And on the 7th day, God finished his work that he had done and he rested on the 7th day from all of his work that he had done. 176 00:12:11.884 --> 00:12:21.590 So God blessed the 7th day and made it holy because on it God rested from all his work that he had done in creation. 177 00:12:21.670 --> 00:12:27.754 So what we see here in this moment of what God does for us is god models rest. 178 00:12:27.952 --> 00:12:29.306 God models rest. 179 00:12:29.408 --> 00:12:31.146 God has worked. 180 00:12:31.328 --> 00:12:39.118 And we see it's, what we talked about last week in Genesis One, as he's created in Genesis one through six. 181 00:12:39.284 --> 00:12:40.398 And we see that. 182 00:12:40.484 --> 00:12:45.882 And in that, God has called man to work prior to sin. 183 00:12:45.946 --> 00:12:53.934 Genesis 127, God says, subdue the Earth and dominion over the fish, birds and over every living thing, every living thing that moves on the Earth. 184 00:12:53.982 --> 00:12:58.290 So in Genesis 127, God looks at man and he says, this is your work. 185 00:12:58.360 --> 00:12:59.726 This is your responsibility. 186 00:12:59.838 --> 00:13:01.030 This is what you're to do. 187 00:13:01.100 --> 00:13:02.466 In perfection before sin. 188 00:13:02.498 --> 00:13:03.510 God said, this is work. 189 00:13:03.580 --> 00:13:05.474 And if you're like, well, bomb as just one verse. 190 00:13:05.522 --> 00:13:05.734 No. 191 00:13:05.772 --> 00:13:11.980 In Genesis 215, we'll look next week, God took man, placed Him in the garden to work it and keep it. 192 00:13:12.350 --> 00:13:20.526 And so God said, look, what I've done and what I've shown is I'm going to work and you're going to work. 193 00:13:20.628 --> 00:13:25.086 And so what God models, what God shows us is rest. 194 00:13:25.188 --> 00:13:26.398 Now, here's a question. 195 00:13:26.484 --> 00:13:27.760 Why would God rest? 196 00:13:28.370 --> 00:13:29.840 Does he need rest? 197 00:13:30.770 --> 00:13:31.520 No. 198 00:13:34.050 --> 00:13:37.314 We are made in the image of God that we saw last week. 199 00:13:37.512 --> 00:13:39.106 But God is not bound to the. 200 00:13:39.128 --> 00:13:41.060 Limitations that you and I are bound to. 201 00:13:41.910 --> 00:13:50.598 So God didn't kick back after day six and go, I'm spent I just needed mental health today, right? 202 00:13:50.764 --> 00:13:52.200 That's not what he did. 203 00:13:52.570 --> 00:13:55.800 He didn't go, I can't speak anymore and create. 204 00:13:56.570 --> 00:14:00.810 God looked and it was finished and it was good. 205 00:14:00.960 --> 00:14:03.338 And God, what he's doing in this. 206 00:14:03.424 --> 00:14:06.858 Is he models rest as he's designed us. 207 00:14:06.944 --> 00:14:12.400 And he knows that we will need rest, right? 208 00:14:12.850 --> 00:14:17.294 As God created, the garden was not free from work. 209 00:14:17.492 --> 00:14:26.818 And also nowhere in Scripture does it show us that the garden was free of us, of mankind needing to stop and rest either. 210 00:14:26.984 --> 00:14:30.242 And so our body, your body, my. 211 00:14:30.296 --> 00:14:32.338 Body, we need rest. 212 00:14:32.504 --> 00:14:33.282 We need rest. 213 00:14:33.336 --> 00:14:36.866 Now, here's what happens in lack of rest. 214 00:14:37.048 --> 00:14:38.680 Like, you feel it, right? 215 00:14:39.130 --> 00:14:42.242 You're a little bit irritable, you're a little bit cranky. 216 00:14:42.306 --> 00:14:43.574 You don't have the energy. 217 00:14:43.692 --> 00:14:47.910 Well, me not being a medical doctor, but having Google, right? 218 00:14:48.060 --> 00:14:50.634 Probably one of the most dangerous things you can do. 219 00:14:50.832 --> 00:14:57.740 I Googled and searched and I read on WebMD, all right, so that's pretty much the same thing, right? 220 00:14:58.190 --> 00:15:00.380 Side effects of the lack of rest. 221 00:15:00.830 --> 00:15:05.278 Pretty interesting accidents occur because of the lack of rest. 222 00:15:05.364 --> 00:15:17.262 I'd be willing to bet if we pulled the group in here together this morning that there's probably been someone who's had a car accident because you or someone else, right, fell asleep behind the wheel, you were tired, had an accident. 223 00:15:17.406 --> 00:15:31.878 The 1986 Chernobyl explosion, the 1979 nuclear accident at Three Mile Island, and the Exxon Valdez oil spill are all contributed to in some aspect, right? 224 00:15:31.964 --> 00:15:34.466 In some aspect, sleep deprivation. 225 00:15:34.578 --> 00:15:39.954 So you and I, we are more prone to accidents when we are asleep. 226 00:15:40.082 --> 00:16:03.006 The other morning, I had just woken up, I was tired, and I was walking through our dark hallway to wake my son up, and I tripped and I fell and I landed on the four foot tall vacuum cleaner that was left perfectly in the hallway for me. 227 00:16:03.028 --> 00:16:03.600 Right? 228 00:16:05.330 --> 00:16:06.874 Was that my son's fault? 229 00:16:06.922 --> 00:16:09.314 No, it was that I was tired and I should have seen it. 230 00:16:09.432 --> 00:16:11.378 But accidents, right? 231 00:16:11.544 --> 00:16:12.562 We don't have rest. 232 00:16:12.616 --> 00:16:15.910 We have a lack of cognitive processing. 233 00:16:16.570 --> 00:16:18.466 If you don't sleep, if you don't. 234 00:16:18.498 --> 00:16:20.322 Rest, it can make you dumb. 235 00:16:20.386 --> 00:16:21.000 Right? 236 00:16:22.810 --> 00:16:30.390 There's health problems, heart disease, heart attacks, heart failure, irregular heartbeat, high blood pressure, stroke, diabetes. 237 00:16:30.470 --> 00:16:37.130 And 90% of people who struggle with insomnia also have another health condition. 238 00:16:37.630 --> 00:16:43.840 So we feel it, our body feels it to a detriment when we don't sleep enough. 239 00:16:45.410 --> 00:16:51.040 People who struggle from depression struggle from a lack of sleep or lack of rest. 240 00:16:51.890 --> 00:16:53.294 It ages your skin. 241 00:16:53.342 --> 00:16:54.420 I didn't know this. 242 00:16:54.870 --> 00:16:57.298 When you don't get enough sleep, your. 243 00:16:57.384 --> 00:17:03.202 Body releases more of a hormone called cortisol, and in excess, this hormone will. 244 00:17:03.256 --> 00:17:05.746 Break down skin collagen, which is a. 245 00:17:05.768 --> 00:17:08.802 Protein that keeps skin smooth and elastic. 246 00:17:08.866 --> 00:17:09.334 Right? 247 00:17:09.452 --> 00:17:10.806 Some of you care more about this. 248 00:17:10.828 --> 00:17:13.160 Than I do, but that's the side effect. 249 00:17:13.530 --> 00:17:15.190 It ages your skin. 250 00:17:16.010 --> 00:17:20.730 For men, it lowers your testosterone, makes you more forgetful. 251 00:17:21.950 --> 00:17:27.020 And not because we like Krispy Kremes and Buffets, but because we don't sleep enough. 252 00:17:27.390 --> 00:17:29.258 It brings a weight gain, right? 253 00:17:29.424 --> 00:17:36.302 All of these things, our bodies are designed to need rest. 254 00:17:36.436 --> 00:17:47.106 So on just a surface level for us this morning, because I do want to address this with where we are, is that physically, God gives us this rest because we need it. 255 00:17:47.208 --> 00:17:54.594 But God also models rest for us, not just because physically we need it, because we need it for our soul as well. 256 00:17:54.792 --> 00:17:56.790 We need it for our soul. 257 00:17:57.370 --> 00:18:02.770 Our need for rest points us to our need for Jesus. 258 00:18:02.930 --> 00:18:06.118 Your soul in my soul needs rest. 259 00:18:06.204 --> 00:18:07.366 This is a little bit of what. 260 00:18:07.388 --> 00:18:10.330 We did last weekend, last Sunday. 261 00:18:10.670 --> 00:18:18.858 Your soul carries so much of the heavy baggage and burdensome load of the week. 262 00:18:19.024 --> 00:18:32.606 And so we need within our very being, this essence, to come before the Lord to be with Him and say, no, this isn't about a nap, but. 263 00:18:32.628 --> 00:18:36.740 This is about rest, interesting in you. 264 00:18:37.350 --> 00:18:47.000 And so what we see in Genesis Chapter Two is that God didn't just model rest, but he takes that day. 265 00:18:47.770 --> 00:18:52.070 And Scripture tells us that he blessed it and then he made it holy. 266 00:18:52.490 --> 00:18:58.540 And here's what this means, that God took this day and he made it special. 267 00:18:59.230 --> 00:19:03.260 He made it different and he made it set apart for others. 268 00:19:03.870 --> 00:19:06.460 Now jump over with me to Exodus Chapter 20. 269 00:19:10.150 --> 00:19:12.020 Because God modeled rest. 270 00:19:13.590 --> 00:19:17.320 And now we're going to see something different with what God does with this. 271 00:19:18.890 --> 00:19:20.760 Exodus 20, verse eight. 272 00:19:22.250 --> 00:19:26.890 Remember the Sabbath day to keep it holy. 273 00:19:28.190 --> 00:19:32.620 Six days you shall labor and do all your work. 274 00:19:32.990 --> 00:19:35.334 But the 7th day is the Sabbath. 275 00:19:35.382 --> 00:19:36.860 To the Lord your God. 276 00:19:37.890 --> 00:19:40.030 On it you shall not do any. 277 00:19:40.100 --> 00:19:52.130 Work, you or your son, or your daughter, your male servant or female servant, or your livestock, or the sojourner who is within your gates. 278 00:19:53.350 --> 00:20:03.800 For in six days, the Lord made heaven and earth, the sea and all that that is in them, and rested on the 7th day. 279 00:20:04.650 --> 00:20:10.630 Therefore, the Lord blessed the Sabbath day and made it holy. 280 00:20:12.330 --> 00:20:14.614 And so here's what kind of takes. 281 00:20:14.652 --> 00:20:17.494 Place in some just really nerdy language. 282 00:20:17.542 --> 00:20:19.306 Stuff that makes sense and excites me. 283 00:20:19.328 --> 00:20:20.906 So just bear with me like you. 284 00:20:20.928 --> 00:20:22.138 Like this too, okay? 285 00:20:22.304 --> 00:20:30.030 In Genesis two, when God rested, the word that is used for that is the verb shabbat. 286 00:20:30.690 --> 00:20:33.390 So God stopped and God rested. 287 00:20:33.970 --> 00:20:42.286 And it is used in here that God blessed and made the day holy, the verb shabbat. 288 00:20:42.478 --> 00:20:52.722 But what we see here is this word shabbat, where God makes the verb into the noun and brings the day. 289 00:20:52.776 --> 00:20:54.550 And this is where we get the Sabbath. 290 00:20:54.970 --> 00:20:59.400 And so what we find in this is that God commands rest. 291 00:21:00.170 --> 00:21:06.434 Exodus 20 is where we see the ten commandments given by God to his people Israel through Moses on Mount Sinai. 292 00:21:06.482 --> 00:21:07.426 And the Ten Commandments. 293 00:21:07.458 --> 00:21:09.514 I don't know if you know this, but they have structure to them. 294 00:21:09.632 --> 00:21:12.538 The first four Commandments focus on our relationship with God. 295 00:21:12.624 --> 00:21:16.810 The last six Commandments focus on our relationship with one another. 296 00:21:16.880 --> 00:21:20.106 And so let me summarize what we just read, the fourth Commandment. 297 00:21:20.138 --> 00:21:22.542 Let me summarize these first four to you. 298 00:21:22.596 --> 00:21:25.920 In dealing with our relationship with the Lord, what God wants. 299 00:21:26.450 --> 00:21:28.970 The first Commandment, god wants our loyalty. 300 00:21:29.050 --> 00:21:30.798 The second, God wants our thought life. 301 00:21:30.884 --> 00:21:32.538 The third, God wants our words. 302 00:21:32.644 --> 00:21:34.978 The fourth, God wants our use of time. 303 00:21:35.064 --> 00:21:37.118 And here's what God does in this command. 304 00:21:37.214 --> 00:21:38.702 He gives us a rhythm. 305 00:21:38.846 --> 00:21:40.754 He gives us a rhythm of life. 306 00:21:40.952 --> 00:21:44.174 God doesn't say that you just worship. 307 00:21:44.302 --> 00:21:45.686 Go back and look at this. 308 00:21:45.708 --> 00:21:50.454 What we see is that God gives us the rhythm that he instructs us to follow. 309 00:21:50.572 --> 00:21:53.526 It's a rhythm of work and a rhythm of rest. 310 00:21:53.628 --> 00:21:56.314 So for six days, you work. 311 00:21:56.432 --> 00:21:58.810 God says I'm sorry. 312 00:21:58.880 --> 00:22:01.626 God doesn't say you can work. 313 00:22:01.808 --> 00:22:06.438 God says you shall work, right? 314 00:22:06.624 --> 00:22:16.462 The call to work, you work, and then you take one day that is set aside for that. 315 00:22:16.516 --> 00:22:18.570 This is the day for worship. 316 00:22:18.730 --> 00:22:19.474 So we see. 317 00:22:19.512 --> 00:22:24.002 Not only is God commanding rest and worship, but God is. 318 00:22:24.056 --> 00:22:29.460 What he's doing here, more importantly, is he's commanding time. 319 00:22:30.870 --> 00:22:40.200 And he says, here's what I'm commanding you to go and do this and then come and do this. 320 00:22:41.210 --> 00:22:43.350 This is the command of the Lord. 321 00:22:44.410 --> 00:22:44.774 J. 322 00:22:44.812 --> 00:22:46.758 I packer said this, and I love this quote. 323 00:22:46.774 --> 00:22:55.674 As I read this week, he said this god's claim on our Sabbaths remind us that all our time is his. 324 00:22:55.712 --> 00:23:00.800 Gift to be given back to Him and used for Him. 325 00:23:01.490 --> 00:23:08.080 Take my life includes take my moments and my days. 326 00:23:08.530 --> 00:23:11.410 Take my time, all of it. 327 00:23:11.560 --> 00:23:21.090 So here the Fourth Commandment is just as much about stewardship of time as it is about worship. 328 00:23:21.670 --> 00:23:24.454 It's what do I do with all of this? 329 00:23:24.572 --> 00:23:26.120 Not just of the part. 330 00:23:27.130 --> 00:23:29.800 And this is going to be the heart of everything for us. 331 00:23:30.490 --> 00:23:31.926 What we want to do is we. 332 00:23:31.948 --> 00:23:35.614 Want to bring our pieces to the Lord. 333 00:23:35.762 --> 00:23:38.758 And God says, no, I don't want your pieces. 334 00:23:38.854 --> 00:23:39.850 I want all of it. 335 00:23:39.920 --> 00:23:41.082 I want all of it. 336 00:23:41.136 --> 00:23:42.666 I want all of it. 337 00:23:42.848 --> 00:23:51.280 I want all of you in this, the call and the command that he has for us. 338 00:23:51.810 --> 00:23:53.600 I want all of your time. 339 00:23:53.970 --> 00:24:00.590 I want all of your mind, I want all of your words, I want all of your actions. 340 00:24:00.750 --> 00:24:02.546 I want all of your money. 341 00:24:02.728 --> 00:24:10.020 I want all of it, and you steward it unto me. 342 00:24:10.790 --> 00:24:16.360 So every day for us is a day of worship, right? 343 00:24:16.890 --> 00:24:18.902 So God modeled rest for us. 344 00:24:19.036 --> 00:24:20.102 He commanded rest. 345 00:24:20.156 --> 00:24:22.434 That's what we see in the Old Testament. 346 00:24:22.482 --> 00:24:28.374 And then Jesus comes, and it's really interesting, and I like these parts of Jesus. 347 00:24:28.502 --> 00:24:29.814 I like all the parts of Jesus. 348 00:24:29.862 --> 00:24:31.100 Let me rephrase that. 349 00:24:32.430 --> 00:24:35.866 That didn't sound right, but I'm really. 350 00:24:35.888 --> 00:24:37.226 Drawn to how about that? 351 00:24:37.328 --> 00:24:46.618 I'm really drawn to when you're reading in the Gospels and you see that after a long day, christ gets away to be with the Father. 352 00:24:46.794 --> 00:24:49.190 He goes off alone to pray. 353 00:24:49.290 --> 00:24:51.410 He goes off alone to rest. 354 00:24:51.480 --> 00:24:52.786 And we see this. 355 00:24:52.888 --> 00:24:58.990 And so Jesus embraced rest, but Jesus also embraced worship. 356 00:24:59.150 --> 00:25:01.038 We see Jesus at the temple. 357 00:25:01.134 --> 00:25:04.950 We see what he's going we see what he's about in all of this. 358 00:25:05.020 --> 00:25:19.402 And then something remarkable happens, as Jesus is in ministry and as Jesus is teaching, and in those subtle ways, powerful ways, where jesus is sharing who he is. 359 00:25:19.536 --> 00:25:25.180 Jesus says that he becomes our rest, right? 360 00:25:26.270 --> 00:25:31.680 So now rest is really different. 361 00:25:33.570 --> 00:25:40.500 It's not just about a nap, it's not just about a day. 362 00:25:42.150 --> 00:25:49.140 Jesus says, I'm your rest. 363 00:25:50.470 --> 00:25:53.720 Look at mark two, starting verse 23. 364 00:25:58.340 --> 00:26:02.176 One Sabbath He was going through the. 365 00:26:02.198 --> 00:26:05.744 Grain fields and as they made their. 366 00:26:05.782 --> 00:26:12.820 Way, his disciples began to pluck heads of grain. 367 00:26:14.120 --> 00:26:20.744 And the Pharisees were saying to Him, look, why are they doing what is. 368 00:26:20.782 --> 00:26:23.160 Not lawful on the Sabbath? 369 00:26:24.620 --> 00:26:27.496 And he said to them, have you. 370 00:26:27.518 --> 00:26:33.260 Never read what David did when he was in need and was hungry? 371 00:26:33.680 --> 00:26:47.490 He and those who were with Him, how he entered the house of God in the time of abbathar the high priest and ate the bread of the presence, which is not lawful for any but the priest to eat? 372 00:26:47.860 --> 00:26:50.850 And also he gave it to those who were with Him. 373 00:26:51.460 --> 00:27:13.236 And he said to them, so Jesus says this to the Pharisees, not to just a group of his followers, not just to the disciples, not just to that core group of three, but Jesus said to them, the Sabbath was made for man, not man for the Sabbath. 374 00:27:13.348 --> 00:27:19.780 So the Son of man is Lord even of the Sabbath. 375 00:27:19.940 --> 00:27:20.760 Whoa. 376 00:27:25.440 --> 00:27:27.020 The words of Jesus. 377 00:27:28.480 --> 00:27:33.310 And so what we see here is Jesus is our rest. 378 00:27:34.320 --> 00:27:41.580 So in the Old Testament right there, there are things that God's people would do in worship on the Sabbath. 379 00:27:41.740 --> 00:27:48.610 We know that there was action involved, but there was rest, was set. 380 00:27:49.060 --> 00:27:53.316 Stop what you're doing, stop so that. 381 00:27:53.338 --> 00:28:02.708 You can be and then they would provide offerings and sacrifices to receive God's forgiveness and restoration and relationship with Him, following the breaking of his commands and. 382 00:28:02.714 --> 00:28:07.160 All the different things that were going on at the time of Mark two. 383 00:28:07.230 --> 00:28:10.728 That this is the practice of what's taking place. 384 00:28:10.814 --> 00:28:15.604 So the Pharisees are out and they see Jesus, they see the disciples. 385 00:28:15.652 --> 00:28:19.020 Now Jesus isn't doing this, but the disciples are. 386 00:28:19.090 --> 00:28:24.396 And they're walking through the grain field and they're taking the heads of grain and they're eating it. 387 00:28:24.418 --> 00:28:27.452 Now I tried to think about this, I've never done that, right? 388 00:28:27.506 --> 00:28:29.820 I've never walked through a grain field in my life. 389 00:28:29.890 --> 00:28:32.076 So I'm just going to equate this, right? 390 00:28:32.178 --> 00:28:35.200 When you're walking through, you see the honeysuckle and you're like, oh, that's good. 391 00:28:35.270 --> 00:28:37.772 And you're walking through and doing that, there's just that kind of action. 392 00:28:37.836 --> 00:28:41.696 But this is implied here that there's this work that they are doing. 393 00:28:41.798 --> 00:28:43.028 So what is the issue? 394 00:28:43.114 --> 00:28:45.120 And you're like, Well, I mean, they're stealing. 395 00:28:45.280 --> 00:28:46.752 Well, they're not stealing. 396 00:28:46.816 --> 00:28:56.212 And Deuteronomy 23 25, god's word allows people to pick the kernels of grain from the neighbor's grain fields as long as you use your hand to do it right. 397 00:28:56.266 --> 00:29:00.484 So you're not using the sickle to come and cut it down so that you can get enough to feed. 398 00:29:00.532 --> 00:29:09.324 It says as you walk through, as the travelers journey on the land of what God's sending them through, that they can remove these so that they can eat. 399 00:29:09.362 --> 00:29:10.540 So this is what they are doing. 400 00:29:10.610 --> 00:29:21.308 So the Pharisees objection to this act is that they view this as labor, as the disciples in their minds are reaping the grain. 401 00:29:21.404 --> 00:29:23.756 They're working on the Sabbath. 402 00:29:23.868 --> 00:29:29.100 And so for the Pharisees, they're like, no, they're missing the Sabbath. 403 00:29:29.180 --> 00:29:32.420 And Jesus is like, no, you're missing the Sabbath. 404 00:29:32.920 --> 00:29:39.910 You're missing the Sabbath because the Sabbath is standing right here in front of you. 405 00:29:40.760 --> 00:29:42.500 Jesus is the Sabbath. 406 00:29:43.820 --> 00:29:45.112 And this was his point. 407 00:29:45.166 --> 00:29:47.130 Look back at verse 27 and 28. 408 00:29:49.820 --> 00:30:01.820 He said to them, the Sabbath was made for man, not man for the Sabbath. 409 00:30:03.440 --> 00:30:14.064 See, the Sabbath was given by God to man as a gift in verse 28. 410 00:30:14.102 --> 00:30:17.520 So the Son of man is lord. 411 00:30:17.860 --> 00:30:20.172 Even Lord of the Sabbath. 412 00:30:20.316 --> 00:30:28.420 So when you see Son of man here, this is Jesus's most common used title for Himself that we see here in Mark. 413 00:30:28.490 --> 00:30:37.960 And so when Jesus says the Son of man, he's speaking to Himself is Lord, even Lord of the Sabbath. 414 00:30:39.180 --> 00:30:40.570 You're missing it. 415 00:30:41.260 --> 00:30:45.230 Jesus is the Sabbath rest. 416 00:30:46.240 --> 00:30:48.270 So how is that? 417 00:30:49.280 --> 00:30:53.470 How is Jesus our Sabbath rest? 418 00:30:54.720 --> 00:30:56.270 The first way is this. 419 00:30:57.220 --> 00:31:01.680 Jesus is our complete Sabbath sacrifice. 420 00:31:03.220 --> 00:31:10.580 You see, they would bring before they would bring their sacrifice to pay for their sin. 421 00:31:11.560 --> 00:31:26.410 Over and over and over again, the sins they had committed, the sacrifices would made so they would be forgiven and have restored relationship with God. 422 00:31:27.180 --> 00:31:42.620 But Jesus is our Sabbath sacrifice because as they would bring sacrifice to the temple, jesus took his sacrifice to the top of Calvary and he died. 423 00:31:43.120 --> 00:31:50.960 And in his payment, he paid the full price for our sins. 424 00:31:51.460 --> 00:32:02.100 And so Jesus is our complete Sabbath sacrifice, but Jesus is also our complete rest for our labors. 425 00:32:02.760 --> 00:32:09.060 Jesus is the work that was necessary for your and My salvation. 426 00:32:09.720 --> 00:32:14.056 Jesus is what does the work of our salvation look like? 427 00:32:14.158 --> 00:32:15.588 It's Jesus. 428 00:32:15.764 --> 00:32:21.608 He obeyed all of it, every single aspect of God fulfilling the law of God. 429 00:32:21.694 --> 00:32:22.856 And here's the thing. 430 00:32:22.958 --> 00:32:26.524 Jesus earned your salvation, which means this. 431 00:32:26.562 --> 00:32:28.350 You and I, we can't earn it. 432 00:32:29.760 --> 00:32:31.550 We can't work for it. 433 00:32:32.800 --> 00:32:36.060 We can't fight to grab it and grasp it. 434 00:32:36.210 --> 00:32:38.480 Jesus did the work. 435 00:32:38.630 --> 00:32:43.468 So our laboring for salvation is insignificant. 436 00:32:43.564 --> 00:32:45.068 It's insufficient. 437 00:32:45.164 --> 00:32:48.560 It's incapable to do what we want it to do. 438 00:32:48.630 --> 00:32:52.244 And Jesus says, no, I've done this for you. 439 00:32:52.362 --> 00:32:56.310 Come and find your rest in me. 440 00:32:58.280 --> 00:33:10.170 And then in this, Jesus provides an eternal rest that daily, daily we long for. 441 00:33:11.500 --> 00:33:18.860 I love, I love the boldness of that second song that we sang. 442 00:33:21.680 --> 00:33:28.560 My sins are forgiven, my future is heaven. 443 00:33:30.420 --> 00:33:32.290 Praise God for what he's done. 444 00:33:33.700 --> 00:33:35.570 Praise God for what he's done. 445 00:33:36.740 --> 00:33:53.560 The longing of our souls that wakes and hears about the depravity that fills this world causes an unsettling in our spirit. 446 00:33:56.930 --> 00:34:01.790 But I'm forgiven and my future is Heaven. 447 00:34:02.690 --> 00:34:11.600 And in that is an eternal rest of what our soul longs for. 448 00:34:13.350 --> 00:34:14.450 Some takeaways. 449 00:34:16.150 --> 00:34:17.700 I'd be willing to bet. 450 00:34:18.570 --> 00:34:21.446 You need more rest, right? 451 00:34:21.628 --> 00:34:22.454 You do. 452 00:34:22.572 --> 00:34:24.710 And I mean physical rest, right? 453 00:34:24.780 --> 00:34:25.560 You do. 454 00:34:27.770 --> 00:34:31.240 Here's a takeaway from this week, from this message. 455 00:34:31.770 --> 00:34:35.100 You need more rest and you need to say no. 456 00:34:35.470 --> 00:34:37.914 You need to, you need to feel. 457 00:34:37.952 --> 00:34:46.254 The freedom as God leads you to say yes to what God has for you and no to what God does not have for you. 458 00:34:46.452 --> 00:34:48.800 But if you walk away from today. 459 00:34:49.490 --> 00:34:56.740 And your commitment is, I just need more naps, you missed it. 460 00:34:58.870 --> 00:35:00.210 Second takeaway. 461 00:35:01.430 --> 00:35:03.940 You and I, we need to evaluate our time. 462 00:35:05.190 --> 00:35:07.060 We need to evaluate our time. 463 00:35:07.990 --> 00:35:11.000 God says, you need this, I need this. 464 00:35:11.770 --> 00:35:13.766 Stop saying yes to everything. 465 00:35:13.948 --> 00:35:16.680 And in doing so, what we do is we say no to God. 466 00:35:18.250 --> 00:35:24.300 God calls us to a church, to a family. 467 00:35:25.550 --> 00:35:35.040 There is the church universal and God calls us to a singular church body of believers, and to invest there. 468 00:35:36.130 --> 00:35:46.640 And you and I need to evaluate our time and invest, see our commitment and see where we're at. 469 00:35:48.150 --> 00:35:49.780 But I'm going to say this too. 470 00:35:51.030 --> 00:35:53.140 If you walk away from here today. 471 00:35:54.310 --> 00:35:59.060 With just, we're going to go to church more. 472 00:36:00.330 --> 00:36:10.360 I'm not saying that's a bad thing, but I'm saying if that's it, you've missed it. 473 00:36:12.030 --> 00:36:14.700 So takeaway number three. 474 00:36:16.030 --> 00:36:17.370 Rest in Jesus. 475 00:36:18.590 --> 00:36:19.930 Rest in Jesus. 476 00:36:21.310 --> 00:36:25.870 Sunday through Saturday, rest in Jesus. 477 00:36:26.770 --> 00:36:36.190 He and he alone can provide the rest that we need for the busyness of our life and the restlessness of our soul for all of eternity. 478 00:36:37.590 --> 00:36:44.180 Our works cannot save us, but the work of Jesus can. 479 00:36:45.030 --> 00:36:48.930 And so we rest in Him, in Him alone. 480 00:36:49.510 --> 00:36:51.294 I'm going to read this passage of scripture. 481 00:36:51.342 --> 00:36:59.254 When I say, when I finish, we're going to pray and we're going to respond in worship and I'm going to let God's word be what it is and be sufficient for us. 482 00:36:59.372 --> 00:37:01.878 These are the words of Jesus in Matthew eleven. 483 00:37:02.054 --> 00:37:08.940 Come to me, all who labor and are heavy laden, and I will give you rest. 484 00:37:09.950 --> 00:37:20.990 Take my yoke upon you and learn from me, for I am gentle and lowly in heart and you will find rest for your souls. 485 00:37:21.570 --> 00:37:26.240 My yoke is easy and my burden is light. 486 00:37:26.870 --> 00:37:28.340 Would you pray with me? 487 00:37:31.860 --> 00:37:47.156 God, I come to you this morning and I thank you so much, Lord, of what you've given us in the gift of rest, lord, and there are so many of us and Lord, we. 488 00:37:47.178 --> 00:37:48.710 Just need to slow down. 489 00:37:50.520 --> 00:37:51.684 We need to slow down. 490 00:37:51.722 --> 00:37:55.640 We're tired, we're cranky. 491 00:37:57.740 --> 00:38:03.930 It's hard to display the joy of Christ. 492 00:38:06.080 --> 00:38:08.924 That is in us when our. 493 00:38:08.962 --> 00:38:11.740 Body has been neglected. 494 00:38:14.160 --> 00:38:25.490 And so Lord, may we rest physically from the exhausted busyness of this world. 495 00:38:28.020 --> 00:38:32.800 May we not pursue busyness for the sake of busyness. 496 00:38:33.160 --> 00:38:37.488 May we not pursue laziness for the sake of laziness. 497 00:38:37.664 --> 00:38:40.868 But may we pursue the rest that you have for us. 498 00:38:40.954 --> 00:38:42.244 Lord, we thank you that you love. 499 00:38:42.282 --> 00:38:51.610 Us enough that you give us a rhythm of who to be and what to do, to work and to rest. 500 00:38:52.700 --> 00:38:54.410 Jesus, we thank you for that. 501 00:38:55.500 --> 00:38:59.870 We thank you for the rest that You've gathered us in. 502 00:39:02.880 --> 00:39:03.692 In our rest. 503 00:39:03.746 --> 00:39:11.810 As a unified body as we come before you from the craziness of our week. 504 00:39:13.780 --> 00:39:16.690 To just have a moment to be with family. 505 00:39:24.120 --> 00:39:29.590 You don't need us here, but we need to be here. 506 00:39:38.220 --> 00:39:48.396 Lord may not feel as a chore, but as a freedom we have. 507 00:39:48.418 --> 00:40:03.580 My prayer my prayer above all was that we would rest in Christ Jesus. 508 00:40:04.640 --> 00:40:08.700 You are Lord and you are Lord of the Sabbath. 509 00:40:09.920 --> 00:40:34.424 And you call us to rest in you, and not our own false sense of perfection, and not our own false sense of morality, but in you and in you alone, that we would rest in you, and that our souls would find rest in you. 510 00:40:34.622 --> 00:40:40.136 And that while tomorrow may hold what tomorrow holds, eternity holds. 511 00:40:40.328 --> 00:40:47.150 We are held in Your hand, and in that, Lord, we are drawn to you. 512 00:40:48.580 --> 00:40:50.850 We do not find rest in our works. 513 00:40:52.420 --> 00:41:01.380 We do not find rest in ourselves, but we find rest in Jesus alone. 514 00:41:03.160 --> 00:41:04.980 And it's his name we pray. 515 00:41:05.560 --> 00:41:06.580 Amen. 516 00:41:13.000 --> 00:41:17.472 Thanks again for listening, and be sure to check back next week for another episode. 517 00:41:17.616 --> 00:41:25.700 In the meantime, you can visit us@willeridgechurch.org or by searching for Willow Ridgechurch on Facebook, Instagram and Twitter. 518 00:41:28.560 --> 00:41:28.810 Our.