1 00:00:05,542 --> 00:00:07,625 Howdy, Pastor Mark here, all sweaty 2 00:00:07,667 --> 00:00:09,125 got done just yelling, 3 00:00:09,167 --> 00:00:11,000 got to start the Ten Commandments series, 4 00:00:11,083 --> 00:00:12,417 really excited. 5 00:00:12,500 --> 00:00:13,875 We got, of course, 10 weeks together 6 00:00:13,958 --> 00:00:15,500 going through the Ten Commandments 7 00:00:15,583 --> 00:00:18,333 and I wanted to thank you; you are part 8 00:00:18,375 --> 00:00:20,708 of our extended family of Mars Hill Global. 9 00:00:20,792 --> 00:00:23,208 Many of you pray for us, many of you podcast, 10 00:00:23,292 --> 00:00:25,708 many of you give generously and faithfully 11 00:00:25,792 --> 00:00:27,333 thank you, thank you, thank you 12 00:00:27,375 --> 00:00:29,708 you're helping us introduce people to Jesus, 13 00:00:29,792 --> 00:00:32,625 get solid Bible teaching out, see lives change. 14 00:00:32,667 --> 00:00:34,833 The band is playing behind me right now, 15 00:00:34,875 --> 00:00:36,625 people are giving their lives to Jesus. 16 00:00:36,667 --> 00:00:38,000 If you hear some cheering 17 00:00:38,042 --> 00:00:40,292 it's 'cause they're getting baptized right now. 18 00:00:40,333 --> 00:00:43,500 And our extended family goes really all around the world. 19 00:00:43,542 --> 00:00:45,875 At 4 o' clock today, at our last service 20 00:00:45,958 --> 00:00:48,333 at the Bellevue location where I'm preaching live 21 00:00:48,375 --> 00:00:50,417 we've got a guy in from China. 22 00:00:50,500 --> 00:00:51,917 And apparently he can't get baptized 23 00:00:52,000 --> 00:00:54,583 where he's at in China because the legalities 24 00:00:54,667 --> 00:00:56,333 and for some reason he's in the U.S., 25 00:00:56,375 --> 00:00:58,125 he's part of our extended family 26 00:00:58,167 --> 00:01:01,417 and we're gonna baptize him here from China at 4 o' clock. 27 00:01:01,500 --> 00:01:04,375 We love the opportunity that technology affords us 28 00:01:04,458 --> 00:01:07,625 to get the Bible teaching about Jesus out to the world. 29 00:01:07,667 --> 00:01:09,125 Somebody else getting baptized right there; 30 00:01:09,167 --> 00:01:10,625 I hope you can hear the shouts. 31 00:01:10,667 --> 00:01:13,125 Sincerely thank you, thank you, thank you. 32 00:01:13,167 --> 00:01:16,000 If you're not already part of the extended family 33 00:01:16,042 --> 00:01:18,500 or if you wanna invite others to join us 34 00:01:18,583 --> 00:01:21,083 and know what's going on and be kept up to speed, 35 00:01:21,167 --> 00:01:23,083 marshill.com/global 36 00:01:23,167 --> 00:01:25,208 is the easiest way to sign up for an account. 37 00:01:25,292 --> 00:01:27,208 And for those of you who want to follow along 38 00:01:27,292 --> 00:01:28,583 in the Ten Commandments, 39 00:01:28,667 --> 00:01:30,000 we did put together a study guide. 40 00:01:30,083 --> 00:01:31,333 You could do this individually, 41 00:01:31,375 --> 00:01:32,833 you could do this with your family 42 00:01:32,875 --> 00:01:34,500 you could do this with a small group. 43 00:01:34,583 --> 00:01:36,125 All the proceeds go back to the church 44 00:01:36,167 --> 00:01:37,708 I'm not putting my hand on the till 45 00:01:37,792 --> 00:01:39,708 and it was all written by people in the church 46 00:01:39,792 --> 00:01:43,583 who love Jesus; men, women, single, married, 47 00:01:43,667 --> 00:01:47,333 serving and using their gifts to help serve our church 48 00:01:47,375 --> 00:01:48,667 and I want to thank you 49 00:01:48,750 --> 00:01:50,792 for being an extended member of Mars Hill. 50 00:01:50,833 --> 00:01:52,708 So thanks a bunch and be praying. 51 00:01:52,792 --> 00:01:54,792 I'm pretty fired up to be in the Ten Commandments. 52 00:02:06,125 --> 00:02:09,167 The people of God were stuck. 53 00:02:09,208 --> 00:02:11,833 For centuries, they lived as slaves 54 00:02:11,875 --> 00:02:13,708 to terrifying task masters 55 00:02:13,792 --> 00:02:18,833 whose cruelty was only exceeded by their power. 56 00:02:18,875 --> 00:02:20,750 In these dark days, 57 00:02:20,833 --> 00:02:22,667 God's people gave birth to children 58 00:02:22,708 --> 00:02:26,042 who would inherit nothing more than misery. 59 00:02:26,125 --> 00:02:29,333 Their strongest ally was a God, 60 00:02:29,417 --> 00:02:34,125 who they had assumed had forgotten them. 61 00:02:35,417 --> 00:02:37,667 Far from forgotten, the people of God 62 00:02:37,708 --> 00:02:41,750 were rescued by the might of his hand. 63 00:02:41,833 --> 00:02:44,750 He put their masters to open shame 64 00:02:44,833 --> 00:02:48,167 and led them into the wilderness. 65 00:02:48,208 --> 00:02:52,000 Though they were set free, they weren't yet living free. 66 00:02:52,083 --> 00:02:56,042 They started to live as slaves to their own sin. 67 00:02:56,125 --> 00:02:57,750 What happened next 68 00:02:57,833 --> 00:03:01,208 reverberates for over 3,000 years of history 69 00:03:01,292 --> 00:03:03,458 to this current day. 70 00:03:03,500 --> 00:03:05,333 Like a loving and patient Father, 71 00:03:05,417 --> 00:03:08,958 God instructed his children, 72 00:03:09,000 --> 00:03:13,833 giving them the Ten Commandments. 73 00:03:19,833 --> 00:03:22,083 All right, we're at commandment number four today. 74 00:03:22,167 --> 00:03:25,667 If you've got a Bible, go to Exodus 20:8-11. 75 00:03:25,750 --> 00:03:30,500 And the theme today is Sabbath, the day of rest, 76 00:03:30,542 --> 00:03:33,292 ceasing from our work. 77 00:03:33,333 --> 00:03:39,083 And what can happen for us is we can overlook how absolutely 78 00:03:39,167 --> 00:03:43,042 essential and central this concept was regarding 79 00:03:43,125 --> 00:03:47,375 the Sabbath for God's old covenant, Old Testament people. 80 00:03:47,458 --> 00:03:51,667 For a few thousand years, they celebrated the Sabbath in a way 81 00:03:51,750 --> 00:03:54,292 that was absolutely devoted. 82 00:03:54,333 --> 00:03:56,083 It was the centerpiece of the week. 83 00:03:56,167 --> 00:03:59,292 Life orbited around it, commerce orbited around it, 84 00:03:59,333 --> 00:04:01,125 worship orbited around it. 85 00:04:01,167 --> 00:04:03,875 It was essential and central, 86 00:04:03,958 --> 00:04:05,833 and you and I can easily overlook that 87 00:04:05,917 --> 00:04:07,333 unless you've got some Jewish friends 88 00:04:07,417 --> 00:04:09,333 or you've been to a place that is, 89 00:04:09,417 --> 00:04:10,833 in large part, Jewish people. 90 00:04:10,917 --> 00:04:13,583 And if you have any Jewish friends that still really keep 91 00:04:13,667 --> 00:04:16,083 the Sabbath in a devout and strict way. 92 00:04:16,167 --> 00:04:18,167 They're not going to use any electricity, 93 00:04:18,208 --> 00:04:20,583 they're going to use candles or leave the lights on 94 00:04:20,667 --> 00:04:22,000 from the night before. 95 00:04:22,042 --> 00:04:25,000 They're not going to eat any food that they cooked that day, 96 00:04:25,042 --> 00:04:28,000 because they had to prep it the day before to make sure 97 00:04:28,042 --> 00:04:29,375 they weren't doing any work. 98 00:04:29,458 --> 00:04:31,375 They're not going to travel a long distance. 99 00:04:31,458 --> 00:04:34,667 Even some that are very devout will not open their refrigerator 100 00:04:34,750 --> 00:04:37,375 to get a snack unless they've taken the light bulb out, 101 00:04:37,458 --> 00:04:40,042 because if you open the door and the light bulb turns on, 102 00:04:40,125 --> 00:04:42,042 that could be a violation of the Sabbath. 103 00:04:42,125 --> 00:04:44,167 Us Gentiles, we don't get this. 104 00:04:44,250 --> 00:04:47,292 Most of us are not really committed to much of anything 105 00:04:47,333 --> 00:04:49,583 with that degree of devotion. 106 00:04:49,667 --> 00:04:52,875 It really hit me when I was in Israel some years ago. 107 00:04:52,958 --> 00:04:55,875 When the Sabbath hit, which is Friday night to Saturday night, 108 00:04:55,958 --> 00:04:59,667 sundown to sundown, everything was shut down. 109 00:04:59,750 --> 00:05:01,958 You couldn't get a cab, businesses were closed, 110 00:05:02,000 --> 00:05:05,000 you couldn't transact business, nothing could get done 111 00:05:05,042 --> 00:05:11,000 because everything literally stopped, everything changed. 112 00:05:11,042 --> 00:05:13,792 And I was staying in a hotel, my family and I, 113 00:05:13,833 --> 00:05:16,083 and we learned very quickly how this worked. 114 00:05:16,167 --> 00:05:20,000 Devout Orthodox Jews will not use anything that is electronic 115 00:05:20,042 --> 00:05:22,833 by causing it to work through the pressing of a button, 116 00:05:22,917 --> 00:05:26,000 and so we had this great experience with the elevator. 117 00:05:26,042 --> 00:05:28,667 So, we're waiting in the lobby of the hotel 118 00:05:28,708 --> 00:05:30,375 and there are two elevators. 119 00:05:30,458 --> 00:05:33,167 One says Sabbath elevator, the other says nothing, 120 00:05:33,250 --> 00:05:35,167 and there's the long line of people, 121 00:05:35,250 --> 00:05:37,167 way, way, way, way, way, way, way down, 122 00:05:37,250 --> 00:05:38,583 all these people. 123 00:05:38,667 --> 00:05:41,750 So, we're in line wondering, "Why does it take so long to get 124 00:05:41,833 --> 00:05:43,875 "an elevator in Israel and how come nobody's using 125 00:05:43,958 --> 00:05:45,292 that other elevator?" 126 00:05:45,333 --> 00:05:47,292 They only all pack into the Sabbath elevator. 127 00:05:47,333 --> 00:05:49,500 The other elevator, it's wide open, just sitting there. 128 00:05:49,542 --> 00:05:50,875 Nobody's using it. 129 00:05:50,958 --> 00:05:52,667 Well, you know, curious Gentile I am, 130 00:05:52,708 --> 00:05:54,167 I'm gonna go check this out. 131 00:05:54,208 --> 00:05:57,333 Get out of line, I look out, I'm like, "Is this elevator broke?" 132 00:05:57,417 --> 00:05:58,833 They're like, "No, that one works." 133 00:05:58,917 --> 00:06:00,333 "Why is nobody taking it?" 134 00:06:00,375 --> 00:06:02,000 "Oh, that's not the Sabbath elevator." 135 00:06:02,083 --> 00:06:04,167 Apparently the Sabbath elevator is preprogrammed to stop on 136 00:06:04,250 --> 00:06:07,292 every floor so you don't have to push a button. 137 00:06:07,333 --> 00:06:08,750 Well, I'm a Gentile. 138 00:06:08,833 --> 00:06:11,875 I'm going to get in that Jesus elevator and go to my room. 139 00:06:11,958 --> 00:06:14,083 So, I run on over to the--"Hey kids, look, 140 00:06:14,167 --> 00:06:16,667 there's our elevator." 141 00:06:16,750 --> 00:06:21,167 Next thing I know, our elevator is filled with Jewish people 142 00:06:21,250 --> 00:06:23,583 saying, "Could you press floor number three? 143 00:06:23,667 --> 00:06:25,583 "Could you press floor number four? 144 00:06:25,667 --> 00:06:28,167 Could you press floor number five?" 145 00:06:28,250 --> 00:06:29,875 It's like, "Oh, I see. 146 00:06:29,958 --> 00:06:33,542 "This is an offense to God, so I need you to do this for me. 147 00:06:33,625 --> 00:06:35,042 "I see how this works, OK. 148 00:06:35,125 --> 00:06:37,667 "I'm already doomed, so, there you go. 149 00:06:37,750 --> 00:06:39,875 "Jesus loves you, Jesus loves you, Jesus loves you. 150 00:06:39,958 --> 00:06:41,875 "New covenant, new covenant, new covenant, new covenant. 151 00:06:41,958 --> 00:06:43,583 "Want a bite of my ham sandwich? 152 00:06:43,667 --> 00:06:45,000 New covenant." 153 00:06:45,042 --> 00:06:46,833 You know, hey, new covenant, right? 154 00:06:46,917 --> 00:06:48,667 So, you realize, though, that boy, 155 00:06:48,750 --> 00:06:50,667 they're really serious about this stuff. 156 00:06:50,708 --> 00:06:52,792 And so it raises all kinds of questions. 157 00:06:52,833 --> 00:06:54,333 OK, should we observe the Sabbath? 158 00:06:54,417 --> 00:06:56,333 If so, on what day and what way? 159 00:06:56,417 --> 00:06:58,792 How does it apply to us, not apply to us? 160 00:06:58,833 --> 00:07:01,542 Lots of questions emerge from the fourth commandment, 161 00:07:01,625 --> 00:07:03,292 so let's read it together. 162 00:07:03,333 --> 00:07:05,583 Let's unpack it in order. 163 00:07:05,667 --> 00:07:07,083 So, let's just read it together. 164 00:07:07,167 --> 00:07:08,875 Exodus 20:8-11, "Remember"-- 165 00:07:08,958 --> 00:07:11,583 and the "remember" here is to take something that is 166 00:07:11,667 --> 00:07:14,958 from the past so that it would be living in the present 167 00:07:15,000 --> 00:07:16,875 and live on in the future. 168 00:07:16,958 --> 00:07:19,458 It's not just a mental remembrance; 169 00:07:19,500 --> 00:07:23,250 it's celebrating and modeling that which has gone before us 170 00:07:23,333 --> 00:07:25,333 so that it would have a future. 171 00:07:25,417 --> 00:07:26,958 So, "Remember the Sabbath day." 172 00:07:27,000 --> 00:07:29,167 Sabbath means cessation of work or rest. 173 00:07:29,208 --> 00:07:32,500 "Your day off" would be our sort of common vernacular for that. 174 00:07:32,542 --> 00:07:34,542 "To keep it holy." 175 00:07:34,625 --> 00:07:36,875 Holy's a hugely important concept. 176 00:07:36,958 --> 00:07:39,583 The number one most frequently mentioned attribute of God 177 00:07:39,667 --> 00:07:41,792 in the whole Bible is that he is holy. 178 00:07:41,833 --> 00:07:44,792 This means he is other, he's different than us. 179 00:07:44,833 --> 00:07:47,792 So, we're sinful, he's not, all right? 180 00:07:47,833 --> 00:07:50,833 We're created, he's eternal. 181 00:07:50,917 --> 00:07:53,875 We have to learn things, he knows everything. 182 00:07:53,958 --> 00:07:56,667 He's different than we are, so this concept of holiness 183 00:07:56,708 --> 00:07:58,667 is that 6 days, we work. 184 00:07:58,708 --> 00:08:01,708 We do the same thing, we get up and go to work. 185 00:08:01,792 --> 00:08:05,583 On the 7th day--it's holy, it's set apart, it's different. 186 00:08:05,667 --> 00:08:07,458 It's different than the other 6 days. 187 00:08:07,500 --> 00:08:10,500 So, one of the ways you know you're violating the Sabbath is 188 00:08:10,542 --> 00:08:13,750 if over, and over, and over, 7 days keep looking alike. 189 00:08:13,833 --> 00:08:16,083 If that's the case, you're violating the Sabbath. 190 00:08:16,167 --> 00:08:18,875 If 6 days look alike and 1 day looks different, 191 00:08:18,958 --> 00:08:21,583 you might be actually obeying the principle of the Sabbath. 192 00:08:21,667 --> 00:08:23,000 We'll get to that. 193 00:08:23,042 --> 00:08:25,500 "Six days you shall labor, and do all your work." 194 00:08:25,542 --> 00:08:26,875 Let me unpack this. 195 00:08:26,958 --> 00:08:29,375 A lot of people say, "Oh, this is the commandment 196 00:08:29,458 --> 00:08:30,792 about the Sabbath." 197 00:08:30,833 --> 00:08:33,250 It is about the Sabbath, but it's also about work, 198 00:08:33,333 --> 00:08:35,083 and this keeps us from twin idols. 199 00:08:35,167 --> 00:08:37,292 You remember the first commandment is there's one God. 200 00:08:37,333 --> 00:08:39,167 The second commandment is we only worship God-- 201 00:08:39,250 --> 00:08:40,875 we don't worship idols. 202 00:08:40,958 --> 00:08:43,375 We established that an idol is a created thing. 203 00:08:43,458 --> 00:08:46,000 And some of us worship our work. 204 00:08:46,042 --> 00:08:48,250 We worship our job. 205 00:08:48,333 --> 00:08:51,167 And we'll make fun of the pagans who used to have sacrifices 206 00:08:51,208 --> 00:08:53,958 where they'd get an altar, and they'd lay down a person 207 00:08:54,000 --> 00:08:56,167 or an animal, and slaughter it to the gods. 208 00:08:56,208 --> 00:08:59,167 Well, sometimes our God is called job and sometimes our 209 00:08:59,208 --> 00:09:01,958 sacrifice is called health, or marriage, or children, 210 00:09:02,000 --> 00:09:05,167 or family, or Sabbath, or church, or Community Group, 211 00:09:05,208 --> 00:09:07,292 or day off. 212 00:09:07,333 --> 00:09:12,667 Sometimes we can have job be god and we offer various sacrifices 213 00:09:12,750 --> 00:09:15,167 to appease our god. 214 00:09:15,250 --> 00:09:17,500 So, it keeps us--this principle does, 215 00:09:17,542 --> 00:09:21,167 in the fourth commandment--from worshiping our job 216 00:09:21,250 --> 00:09:24,667 or worshiping our comfort. 217 00:09:24,750 --> 00:09:29,083 And some of us worship comfort and we're trying to work 218 00:09:29,167 --> 00:09:30,875 as little as possible. 219 00:09:30,958 --> 00:09:34,792 We're trying to be as unproductive as possible. 220 00:09:34,833 --> 00:09:38,292 Some of us are working too much and resting, and playing, 221 00:09:38,333 --> 00:09:42,500 and recovering too little, and it keeps us from the twin idols 222 00:09:42,542 --> 00:09:48,083 of work or comfort, killing yourself for your job or not 223 00:09:48,167 --> 00:09:51,667 doing enough work that God is actually worshiped. 224 00:09:51,750 --> 00:09:54,083 And sometimes this really is where people fall. 225 00:09:54,167 --> 00:09:56,292 So I'd ask you, do you fall more toward, 226 00:09:56,333 --> 00:09:59,458 "I'm gonna worship work and work all the time until I die 227 00:09:59,500 --> 00:10:02,667 by burning myself out," or are you more the person who says, 228 00:10:02,750 --> 00:10:04,667 "Oh no, that's not a problem for me. 229 00:10:04,750 --> 00:10:07,333 "I sleep in, I take naps, I take my day off, 230 00:10:07,375 --> 00:10:10,333 "I take another day off, I take a lot of days off. 231 00:10:10,375 --> 00:10:12,833 "I'm actually recently graduated trying to get a part-time job 232 00:10:12,875 --> 00:10:15,333 "that pays full-time dollars because I play in a band, 233 00:10:15,375 --> 00:10:18,000 "I'm good at Frisbee golf, and I have a lot of friends, 234 00:10:18,083 --> 00:10:19,417 "recreational activities. 235 00:10:19,500 --> 00:10:21,417 "I don't think I'm going to burn out. 236 00:10:21,500 --> 00:10:23,375 In fact, I'm doing just fine"? 237 00:10:23,458 --> 00:10:26,833 Older generations, historically, tend to worship work; 238 00:10:26,875 --> 00:10:30,208 younger generations tend to worship play. 239 00:10:30,292 --> 00:10:32,208 Some of you say, "That's an over generalization." 240 00:10:32,292 --> 00:10:35,375 An incredibly accurate over generalization--yes, 241 00:10:35,458 --> 00:10:36,917 you are correct. 242 00:10:37,000 --> 00:10:39,500 And so what happens is, like, the war generation that 243 00:10:39,583 --> 00:10:41,208 Tom Brokaw called the greatest generation, 244 00:10:41,292 --> 00:10:44,208 they needed to be told, "Hey, take a day off, sit down, 245 00:10:44,292 --> 00:10:45,708 take a nap, take a break." 246 00:10:45,792 --> 00:10:47,292 Now, their grandkids and great grandkids, 247 00:10:47,333 --> 00:10:50,917 "Hey, get a job. Get a full-time job." 248 00:10:51,000 --> 00:10:53,917 And don't put at the center of your life comfort, and play, 249 00:10:54,000 --> 00:10:55,625 and leisure, and recreation. 250 00:10:55,667 --> 00:10:58,500 Put at the center of your life productivity, and the Lord, 251 00:10:58,583 --> 00:11:02,167 and work, because it is a sin to worship your work, 252 00:11:02,250 --> 00:11:06,792 but if you do it rightly, work is one way that you worship God. 253 00:11:06,833 --> 00:11:09,792 And so you're actually to be worshiping God 7 days a week. 254 00:11:09,833 --> 00:11:12,917 You worship God at work-- and that can be if a student is 255 00:11:13,000 --> 00:11:15,625 in school, or a mother is at home with the children, 256 00:11:15,667 --> 00:11:17,417 or someone is off in the workplace. 257 00:11:17,500 --> 00:11:20,500 All of that constitutes work as well as worshiping God 258 00:11:20,583 --> 00:11:23,500 but in a different way-- on the Lord's Day. 259 00:11:23,583 --> 00:11:24,917 You understand that? 260 00:11:25,000 --> 00:11:27,333 So, I need to preface this, because some of you 261 00:11:27,375 --> 00:11:29,500 are going to hear this sermon and you're like, 262 00:11:29,583 --> 00:11:31,208 "I love that 'Take a Nap' sermon. 263 00:11:31,292 --> 00:11:32,625 I'm all about that." 264 00:11:32,667 --> 00:11:35,375 OK, you also need to get the "Get a Job" portion 265 00:11:35,458 --> 00:11:36,792 of the sermon. 266 00:11:36,833 --> 00:11:38,708 Some of you are lazy, you're not hard-working, 267 00:11:38,792 --> 00:11:41,000 you're not particularly devoted or fruitful. 268 00:11:41,083 --> 00:11:44,500 What you don't need is more days off--you need more days at work. 269 00:11:44,583 --> 00:11:46,708 For some of you, you're going to kill yourself, 270 00:11:46,792 --> 00:11:48,208 you're going to burn yourself out, 271 00:11:48,292 --> 00:11:51,375 and you don't have room in your life for recovery and the Lord, 272 00:11:51,458 --> 00:11:53,500 and you need to repent by enjoying a Sabbath. 273 00:11:53,583 --> 00:11:56,125 And each of us comes into this with strengths, weaknesses, 274 00:11:56,167 --> 00:11:57,792 and proclivities, OK? 275 00:11:57,833 --> 00:12:00,500 And you need to know where you are and what portion 276 00:12:00,542 --> 00:12:02,500 of the sermon is most emphasized for you. 277 00:12:02,542 --> 00:12:05,667 But I need to say that before I move on to Sabbath because 278 00:12:05,750 --> 00:12:09,167 all of you guys who, you know, are up at the crack of lunch 279 00:12:09,208 --> 00:12:12,292 and make sure you get two naps a day, and work part-time, 280 00:12:12,333 --> 00:12:14,875 you need to hear the work portion, amen? 281 00:12:14,958 --> 00:12:17,375 And at different portions of Mars Hill, different churches, 282 00:12:17,458 --> 00:12:21,083 there'll be different emphases, often generationally affiliated. 283 00:12:21,167 --> 00:12:24,167 Now, some of you immediately will say, "Work 6 days a week? 284 00:12:24,208 --> 00:12:25,958 Work hard? What if I burn out?" 285 00:12:26,000 --> 00:12:28,292 Some of you are as close to burning out 286 00:12:28,333 --> 00:12:29,792 as I am to getting pregnant. 287 00:12:29,833 --> 00:12:31,792 It's not really something to worry about it. 288 00:12:31,833 --> 00:12:33,167 It's way down the horizon. 289 00:12:33,250 --> 00:12:35,083 Theoretically, hypothetically, it could happen, 290 00:12:35,167 --> 00:12:37,542 but it's probably not going to happen to you, amen? 291 00:12:37,625 --> 00:12:39,458 Hey, wake up, pay attention. 292 00:12:39,500 --> 00:12:42,250 I know some of you right now you're like, "What? Huh?" 293 00:12:42,333 --> 00:12:44,000 OK, this is my point, right? 294 00:12:44,042 --> 00:12:46,958 You've got to hang in there, and you've got to persevere through, 295 00:12:47,000 --> 00:12:49,000 and you've got to learn how to work. 296 00:12:49,042 --> 00:12:51,958 And some of you really need to learn how to work, OK? 297 00:12:52,000 --> 00:12:54,250 That's why your mom brought you for this sermon. 298 00:12:54,333 --> 00:12:56,375 Mom, you're welcome. OK, here we go. 299 00:12:56,458 --> 00:12:58,292 "Six days you shall"--what? 300 00:12:58,333 --> 00:13:01,833 "Labor, and do all your work." 301 00:13:01,917 --> 00:13:03,375 You've got a lot to do. 302 00:13:03,458 --> 00:13:05,542 "But on the seventh day it's a Sabbath day 303 00:13:05,625 --> 00:13:06,958 "to the Lord your God. 304 00:13:07,000 --> 00:13:09,083 On it you shall not do any work." 305 00:13:09,167 --> 00:13:10,500 This is a good principle. 306 00:13:10,542 --> 00:13:13,250 So what can we do and not do on the Sabbath? 307 00:13:13,333 --> 00:13:14,667 Well, you can't work. 308 00:13:14,708 --> 00:13:16,375 It doesn't mean you can't have activity, 309 00:13:16,458 --> 00:13:18,583 but whatever you do for the other 6 days, 310 00:13:18,667 --> 00:13:20,083 that ceases on the 7th day. 311 00:13:20,167 --> 00:13:22,083 "You, your son, your daughter, your male servant, 312 00:13:22,167 --> 00:13:23,500 "your female servant, your livestock, 313 00:13:23,542 --> 00:13:25,500 or the sojourner who is within your gates." 314 00:13:25,542 --> 00:13:27,792 Even people from other religions, your employees, 315 00:13:27,833 --> 00:13:31,167 your coworkers, visitors from other nations, 316 00:13:31,250 --> 00:13:33,583 everybody got this blessing. 317 00:13:33,667 --> 00:13:37,583 Now it goes to Genesis 2:2 and he goes back to creation 318 00:13:37,667 --> 00:13:40,500 and looks at what God modeled for us. 319 00:13:40,542 --> 00:13:44,000 "For in six days the Lord made the heavens and the earth, 320 00:13:44,042 --> 00:13:46,000 "the sea, and all that is in them, 321 00:13:46,042 --> 00:13:47,500 "and rested on the seventh day. 322 00:13:47,542 --> 00:13:49,250 "Therefore the Lord blessed the Sabbath day, 323 00:13:49,333 --> 00:13:51,500 made it holy." 324 00:13:51,542 --> 00:13:53,750 Little free theological excursus, 325 00:13:53,833 --> 00:13:55,542 there's a big debate in Genesis 326 00:13:55,625 --> 00:13:58,042 as to whether or not the 7 days of creation-- 327 00:13:58,125 --> 00:14:00,833 6 days of creation, 7th day of rest--were actual, 328 00:14:00,875 --> 00:14:03,000 literal, 24-hour days. 329 00:14:03,042 --> 00:14:07,667 Here, in Exodus 20:11, it seems to very strongly indicate that 330 00:14:07,750 --> 00:14:11,375 those are actual, literal 24-hour days because God sets up 331 00:14:11,458 --> 00:14:15,042 a 7-day week based upon his precedent and pattern from 332 00:14:15,125 --> 00:14:19,375 Genesis 2:2 that he worked for 6 days and took the 7th day off 333 00:14:19,458 --> 00:14:21,792 as a day of cessation from his labor, 334 00:14:21,833 --> 00:14:25,167 a day of Sabbath and rest. And we're to find our rhythms 335 00:14:25,250 --> 00:14:27,458 based upon God's rhythms. 336 00:14:27,500 --> 00:14:29,958 That's the big idea of the fourth commandment. 337 00:14:30,000 --> 00:14:33,292 Now, what this leads to is a huge number of questions, 338 00:14:33,333 --> 00:14:37,167 and I'll deal with the first two that really unpack 339 00:14:37,250 --> 00:14:38,875 a lot of the other issues, 340 00:14:38,958 --> 00:14:41,583 and then we'll get into some very practical implications 341 00:14:41,667 --> 00:14:43,833 and applications of the Sabbath. 342 00:14:43,917 --> 00:14:45,792 Here's the first question that comes up. 343 00:14:45,833 --> 00:14:47,750 Maybe you've had it or someone you know. 344 00:14:47,833 --> 00:14:49,750 Is Saturday or Sunday our Sabbath? 345 00:14:49,833 --> 00:14:53,375 OK, so if you do this, if you go to the Bible in Genesis 2:2, 346 00:14:53,458 --> 00:14:55,167 and it says, "God worked 6 days. 347 00:14:55,208 --> 00:14:56,667 On the 7th day, he rested." 348 00:14:56,708 --> 00:14:59,583 What day was the 7th day? Saturday. 349 00:14:59,667 --> 00:15:03,000 It says in Exodus, "Work 6 days, rest on the 7th day." 350 00:15:03,042 --> 00:15:05,167 What day is that? Saturday. 351 00:15:05,250 --> 00:15:07,750 Thousands of years, God's people in the old covenant, 352 00:15:07,833 --> 00:15:11,000 they ceased their labors and worshiped their God 353 00:15:11,042 --> 00:15:15,458 on Saturday. 354 00:15:15,500 --> 00:15:18,500 What day is today? 355 00:15:18,542 --> 00:15:20,250 Sunday. 356 00:15:20,333 --> 00:15:24,458 So, are we doing it right or wrong? 357 00:15:24,500 --> 00:15:26,375 That's the question. 358 00:15:26,458 --> 00:15:28,875 Are we doing it right or wrong? 359 00:15:28,958 --> 00:15:31,792 Should we have Saturday or Sunday? 360 00:15:31,833 --> 00:15:33,583 Why do Christians have Sunday, 361 00:15:33,667 --> 00:15:35,292 and then if you have Jewish friends 362 00:15:35,333 --> 00:15:37,000 or Seventh Day Adventist friends, they'll say, 363 00:15:37,042 --> 00:15:38,667 "It's Saturday, Saturday, Saturday. 364 00:15:38,708 --> 00:15:40,167 "It's always been Saturday. 365 00:15:40,208 --> 00:15:42,042 "It's only Sunday, it should be Saturday. 366 00:15:42,125 --> 00:15:43,958 "Sunday's wrong, Saturday's right. 367 00:15:44,000 --> 00:15:46,333 "You shouldn't be taking the Lord's Day on Sunday. 368 00:15:46,417 --> 00:15:47,833 It should be on Saturday." 369 00:15:47,917 --> 00:15:50,042 And they're going to take you to the Bible 370 00:15:50,125 --> 00:15:52,042 and you're going to say, "You know what? 371 00:15:52,125 --> 00:15:55,292 That's exactly what the Bible says." 372 00:15:55,333 --> 00:15:59,167 Everything changed when Jesus came, not just with the Sabbath, 373 00:15:59,250 --> 00:16:02,250 but with everything. 374 00:16:02,333 --> 00:16:05,292 Jesus comes after thousands of years of God's people 375 00:16:05,333 --> 00:16:07,167 observing the Sabbath on Saturday. 376 00:16:07,250 --> 00:16:09,375 Jesus obeys the Sabbath. 377 00:16:09,458 --> 00:16:12,042 He doesn't obey the religious rules that they came up with, 378 00:16:12,125 --> 00:16:13,458 in addition to God's rules, 379 00:16:13,500 --> 00:16:15,583 so he gets into some conflict with some people, 380 00:16:15,667 --> 00:16:17,792 like they come to rebuke him for healing someone 381 00:16:17,833 --> 00:16:19,167 on the Sabbath. 382 00:16:19,250 --> 00:16:23,000 But Jesus does obey the Sabbath and then he dies and he rises. 383 00:16:23,042 --> 00:16:26,375 Jesus dies in our place for our sins and rises as our Savior 384 00:16:26,458 --> 00:16:28,250 what day of the week? 385 00:16:28,333 --> 00:16:30,500 Sunday. 386 00:16:30,542 --> 00:16:33,000 Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John, each of the four biographies 387 00:16:33,042 --> 00:16:35,667 that tell the story of Jesus' life, death, and resurrection, 388 00:16:35,750 --> 00:16:39,583 they say that he rose from death on, quote unquote, 389 00:16:39,667 --> 00:16:41,375 "The first day of the week." 390 00:16:41,458 --> 00:16:44,292 In the Jewish calendar, what's the first day of the week? 391 00:16:44,333 --> 00:16:45,792 Sunday. 392 00:16:45,833 --> 00:16:47,167 It was like our Monday. 393 00:16:47,250 --> 00:16:49,875 It was the day that they all went back to work 394 00:16:49,958 --> 00:16:53,292 after their day off. 395 00:16:53,333 --> 00:16:57,167 John, in Revelation, calls it the "Lord's Day," 396 00:16:57,208 --> 00:16:59,792 so it's the day for the Lord Jesus Christ. 397 00:16:59,833 --> 00:17:03,667 The early church started meeting not on Saturday but on Sunday. 398 00:17:03,750 --> 00:17:06,375 Acts 20:7 gives us one occasion. 399 00:17:06,458 --> 00:17:09,083 It says, "On the first day of the week"--which is what? 400 00:17:09,167 --> 00:17:10,583 Sunday. 401 00:17:10,667 --> 00:17:12,375 In the Jewish calendar, that's Sunday. 402 00:17:12,458 --> 00:17:14,000 "When we were gathered together." 403 00:17:14,042 --> 00:17:16,833 So, it talks about the church getting together on Sunday. 404 00:17:16,917 --> 00:17:22,375 So, for those of you who are curious or questioning 405 00:17:22,458 --> 00:17:24,292 the resurrection of Jesus from death, 406 00:17:24,333 --> 00:17:26,292 here's one line of compelling evidence 407 00:17:26,333 --> 00:17:28,250 that Jesus rose from death. 408 00:17:28,333 --> 00:17:29,792 God took Saturday off. 409 00:17:29,833 --> 00:17:32,958 God's people took Saturday off for a few thousand years, 410 00:17:33,000 --> 00:17:35,375 and then they all started taking Sunday off. 411 00:17:35,458 --> 00:17:37,833 Why? Cause, effect--why? 412 00:17:37,917 --> 00:17:40,792 Jesus rose from death. 413 00:17:40,833 --> 00:17:43,792 They had to reorient their entire business, 414 00:17:43,833 --> 00:17:47,083 their entire week, their entire social structure. 415 00:17:47,167 --> 00:17:50,792 They had to alter the way they had governed themselves 416 00:17:50,833 --> 00:17:53,583 for a few thousand years. 417 00:17:53,667 --> 00:17:57,542 You're not going to get that kind of massive change unless 418 00:17:57,625 --> 00:18:00,833 there is some cause that results in that effect, 419 00:18:00,917 --> 00:18:05,250 and the cause was Jesus died and rose, and he rose on a Sunday. 420 00:18:05,333 --> 00:18:07,167 And so the old covenant is fulfilled, 421 00:18:07,250 --> 00:18:10,000 the new covenant has come, everything that was anticipatory 422 00:18:10,042 --> 00:18:12,958 and preparatory for the coming of Jesus is now satisfied 423 00:18:13,000 --> 00:18:14,542 in the resurrection of Jesus. 424 00:18:14,625 --> 00:18:17,083 And the whole world is changed, and everything is new, 425 00:18:17,167 --> 00:18:18,667 and all things are made new, 426 00:18:18,708 --> 00:18:20,375 and all things are in the process 427 00:18:20,458 --> 00:18:22,375 of becoming new through the resurrection of Jesus, 428 00:18:22,458 --> 00:18:25,875 and so we need a new day to represent the new reality that 429 00:18:25,958 --> 00:18:29,000 is brought into being through the resurrection of Jesus. 430 00:18:29,042 --> 00:18:31,000 So, it shifts to Sunday. And for them, 431 00:18:31,042 --> 00:18:33,500 this would have been a great sacrifice because in their 432 00:18:33,542 --> 00:18:35,875 culture, it was probably still a work day. 433 00:18:35,958 --> 00:18:39,000 Imagine if we had church on Monday. 434 00:18:39,042 --> 00:18:41,292 I mean, just imagine all of the decisions that 435 00:18:41,333 --> 00:18:43,250 you and I would need to make 436 00:18:43,333 --> 00:18:46,250 to correspond our life with meeting on Monday. 437 00:18:46,333 --> 00:18:49,375 It probably means they met early in the morning or late at night. 438 00:18:49,458 --> 00:18:52,167 You're talking a massive, massive adjustment, change, 439 00:18:52,208 --> 00:18:57,542 and sacrifice to honor the resurrection of Jesus. 440 00:18:57,625 --> 00:19:00,417 So, is Saturday or Sunday the Sabbath? 441 00:19:00,500 --> 00:19:02,750 Well, for us it is Sunday. 442 00:19:02,833 --> 00:19:04,167 It's the Lord's Day. 443 00:19:04,208 --> 00:19:07,292 It's the first day of the week because we don't just concern 444 00:19:07,333 --> 00:19:10,000 ourselves with when we worship, we concern ourselves 445 00:19:10,042 --> 00:19:11,500 with who we worship. 446 00:19:11,542 --> 00:19:14,500 We worship Jesus, and Sunday is the day that we have chosen 447 00:19:14,542 --> 00:19:17,167 based upon the teaching of the Bible to be the day 448 00:19:17,250 --> 00:19:18,667 that we gather together. 449 00:19:18,750 --> 00:19:21,000 And it continued that the Sabbath day was, 450 00:19:21,042 --> 00:19:23,250 generally speaking, on Saturday until 451 00:19:23,333 --> 00:19:26,042 the Roman Emperor Constantine allegedly converted. 452 00:19:26,125 --> 00:19:27,458 There's debate about that point. 453 00:19:27,500 --> 00:19:29,458 He was the ruler of the Roman Empire, 454 00:19:29,500 --> 00:19:31,958 the most powerful nation on the earth in its day. 455 00:19:32,000 --> 00:19:34,667 And he then took Christianity from being forbidden 456 00:19:34,750 --> 00:19:37,500 to being legalized, and around 321 A.D., 457 00:19:37,542 --> 00:19:40,583 he declared that Sunday was the new day off, 458 00:19:40,667 --> 00:19:42,292 it was the new Sabbath day. 459 00:19:42,333 --> 00:19:45,042 So then it shifted in the Roman Empire from Saturday, 460 00:19:45,125 --> 00:19:47,792 which the Jews had adhered to, to Sunday, 461 00:19:47,833 --> 00:19:50,292 which the Roman nation adhered to. 462 00:19:50,333 --> 00:19:52,667 And then 1,400 and some years later, 463 00:19:52,750 --> 00:19:55,333 the United States of America comes into being 464 00:19:55,417 --> 00:19:56,875 and we have a big debate. 465 00:19:56,958 --> 00:19:59,375 "Should we take Saturday off or Sunday off?" 466 00:19:59,458 --> 00:20:03,208 And they couldn't decide, so we got both. 467 00:20:03,292 --> 00:20:05,708 If you ever wonder how we got a 2-day weekend, 468 00:20:05,792 --> 00:20:07,708 that's how we got it. 469 00:20:07,792 --> 00:20:10,625 But, that's very new. 470 00:20:10,667 --> 00:20:13,000 Again, the Exodus was written to former slaves. 471 00:20:13,083 --> 00:20:16,000 They probably never got a day off. 472 00:20:16,083 --> 00:20:19,000 So, for them, a day off, it's like, "Really, a whole day? 473 00:20:19,083 --> 00:20:20,500 "What a gift from the Lord. 474 00:20:20,583 --> 00:20:23,417 He must really love us to give us this great gift." 475 00:20:23,500 --> 00:20:26,500 Americans tend to get 2 days off. 476 00:20:26,583 --> 00:20:29,208 So, I want you to see that this is very unusual 477 00:20:29,292 --> 00:20:30,708 in the history of the world. 478 00:20:30,792 --> 00:20:32,125 It's not biblically mandated. 479 00:20:32,167 --> 00:20:35,500 And I have worked--we're coming up on our 18th year of ministry. 480 00:20:35,542 --> 00:20:38,000 I have tended to work 6 days a week, 481 00:20:38,083 --> 00:20:40,000 sometimes 7 and just about kill myself, 482 00:20:40,042 --> 00:20:43,333 which was wrong and I'll get to that later, but 6 days a week. 483 00:20:43,375 --> 00:20:45,333 I have not taken a 2-day weekend, why? 484 00:20:45,375 --> 00:20:47,333 Because I don't think that that's the precedent 485 00:20:47,375 --> 00:20:48,708 in the Bible. 486 00:20:48,792 --> 00:20:51,417 But some of you need to understand how blessed you are 487 00:20:51,500 --> 00:20:53,417 because you get more days off than God. 488 00:20:53,500 --> 00:20:56,917 You get more days off than God decrees or demands. 489 00:20:57,000 --> 00:20:59,500 Even a 2-day weekend is a massive blessing. 490 00:20:59,583 --> 00:21:02,083 That means you're getting double the days off a year 491 00:21:02,167 --> 00:21:05,208 that God even said you get. 492 00:21:05,292 --> 00:21:06,917 That's a lot. 493 00:21:07,000 --> 00:21:09,500 So, start with this understanding that we live 494 00:21:09,542 --> 00:21:12,833 in a very unique place in history. 495 00:21:12,875 --> 00:21:16,125 And some of you have careers that give you more time off than 496 00:21:16,167 --> 00:21:18,625 God even decreed for you, 497 00:21:18,667 --> 00:21:20,833 so you've got to be good stewards of that. 498 00:21:20,875 --> 00:21:23,000 What am I going to do with that time? 499 00:21:23,042 --> 00:21:25,000 How will I use and invest that time? 500 00:21:25,042 --> 00:21:27,625 And that's where even sometimes those who give a day of 501 00:21:27,667 --> 00:21:30,083 volunteer service to ministry, they still have a day off 502 00:21:30,167 --> 00:21:31,583 and they're taking that extra day 503 00:21:31,667 --> 00:21:33,583 to use it for service to the Lord, 504 00:21:33,667 --> 00:21:36,333 in addition to the day of rest with the Lord. 505 00:21:36,375 --> 00:21:39,000 So, on your way out, as you're picking up your kids, 506 00:21:39,042 --> 00:21:41,625 or our ushers, or our greeters, or those who are serving, 507 00:21:41,667 --> 00:21:44,375 know that they are giving you one of their days off, 508 00:21:44,458 --> 00:21:47,583 and God is still giving them a day off and so they've used 509 00:21:47,667 --> 00:21:51,917 that in a very ministry-minded, God-honoring way. 510 00:21:52,000 --> 00:21:54,417 And I want to publicly thank all the volunteers who, 511 00:21:54,500 --> 00:21:56,500 though they may get 2 days off, 512 00:21:56,583 --> 00:21:59,792 they give one to service at the church, amen? 513 00:21:59,833 --> 00:22:04,333 That's a real gift, so thank you. 514 00:22:05,833 --> 00:22:07,792 OK, so this leads to the next question. 515 00:22:07,833 --> 00:22:10,042 Is the Sabbath binding on Christians? 516 00:22:10,125 --> 00:22:12,458 OK, here's the debate. 517 00:22:12,500 --> 00:22:15,250 So, there are Ten Commandments. 518 00:22:15,333 --> 00:22:18,292 Nine of them are mentioned expressly and commanded 519 00:22:18,333 --> 00:22:19,875 in the New Testament. 520 00:22:19,958 --> 00:22:21,667 There's one curious omission. 521 00:22:21,750 --> 00:22:23,875 It's the fourth commandment, our area of focus today, 522 00:22:23,958 --> 00:22:26,000 it's the Sabbath. 523 00:22:26,042 --> 00:22:30,083 So, is it still binding or not binding? 524 00:22:30,167 --> 00:22:33,042 That's the question. 525 00:22:33,125 --> 00:22:38,167 It is not binding on us as it was those who lived 526 00:22:38,208 --> 00:22:40,375 in the Old Testament. 527 00:22:40,458 --> 00:22:43,583 Here's how Romans 14:5-6 says it. 528 00:22:43,667 --> 00:22:47,083 "One person esteems one day as better than another, 529 00:22:47,167 --> 00:22:49,458 "while another esteems all days alike. 530 00:22:49,500 --> 00:22:51,958 "Each one should be fully convinced in his own mind, 531 00:22:52,000 --> 00:22:53,458 "The one who observes the day, 532 00:22:53,500 --> 00:22:55,167 observes it in honor of the Lord." 533 00:22:55,250 --> 00:22:56,583 Here's what he's saying. 534 00:22:56,667 --> 00:22:58,000 Saturday, that's fine. 535 00:22:58,042 --> 00:22:59,375 Sunday, that's fine. 536 00:22:59,458 --> 00:23:02,083 How many of you have a job, Tuesday's your day off? 537 00:23:02,167 --> 00:23:03,500 That's fine. 538 00:23:03,542 --> 00:23:05,250 Some of you, Thursday's your day off. 539 00:23:05,333 --> 00:23:06,667 That's fine. 540 00:23:06,708 --> 00:23:09,292 What God is saying is, it's more about who we worship 541 00:23:09,333 --> 00:23:10,667 than when we worship. 542 00:23:10,750 --> 00:23:13,375 It's more important that we get a day than argue over 543 00:23:13,458 --> 00:23:14,792 which day it is. 544 00:23:14,833 --> 00:23:16,500 Now, this leads to a bigger issue, 545 00:23:16,542 --> 00:23:18,500 and that is how should we, as Christians, 546 00:23:18,542 --> 00:23:21,792 deal with the Old Testament law? 547 00:23:21,833 --> 00:23:23,875 And the Ten Commandments are in the middle 548 00:23:23,958 --> 00:23:26,458 of the first five books of the Old Testament. 549 00:23:26,500 --> 00:23:28,458 Jesus calls them the law 550 00:23:28,500 --> 00:23:32,833 because there are 613 laws contained therein. 551 00:23:32,917 --> 00:23:35,292 How many of you think that the Old Testament laws 552 00:23:35,333 --> 00:23:37,375 are no longer binding on us-- 553 00:23:37,458 --> 00:23:39,333 we don't have to pay attention to them? 554 00:23:39,417 --> 00:23:42,000 But then if I tell you what about murder or stealing, 555 00:23:42,042 --> 00:23:43,500 you're like, "Yeah, let's keep those." 556 00:23:43,542 --> 00:23:44,875 So, you're like, "OK, 557 00:23:44,958 --> 00:23:46,875 "let's get rid of the Old Testament law, 558 00:23:46,958 --> 00:23:48,583 but let's keep a few of them." 559 00:23:48,667 --> 00:23:51,583 How many of you say, "No, it's no longer binding on us?" 560 00:23:51,667 --> 00:23:54,583 How many of you would say, "Yes, it's all binding on us?" 561 00:23:54,667 --> 00:23:56,000 And then immediately somebody says, 562 00:23:56,042 --> 00:23:57,375 "So, you can't eat shellfish. 563 00:23:57,458 --> 00:23:58,792 "You can't wear certain shirts 564 00:23:58,833 --> 00:24:00,542 that have multiple kinds of fabrics." 565 00:24:00,625 --> 00:24:03,333 You're like, "Well, I didn't actually read all of it. 566 00:24:03,417 --> 00:24:05,375 "I just, you know, sort of-- 567 00:24:05,458 --> 00:24:07,333 "I sort of tapped out around Leviticus. 568 00:24:07,417 --> 00:24:09,375 You know, I don't know." 569 00:24:09,458 --> 00:24:12,000 And it's a very confusing and complicated thing for Christians 570 00:24:12,042 --> 00:24:15,292 because it's like, well, we want to obey the whole Bible, right? 571 00:24:15,333 --> 00:24:17,000 We want to obey the whole Bible. 572 00:24:17,042 --> 00:24:20,167 We don't want to go to the Bible and say, "That's weird, gone. 573 00:24:20,250 --> 00:24:21,583 "That's weird, gone. 574 00:24:21,667 --> 00:24:23,000 That's weird, gone." 575 00:24:23,042 --> 00:24:24,792 But are certain things applicable to us 576 00:24:24,833 --> 00:24:26,167 or not applicable to us? 577 00:24:26,250 --> 00:24:30,167 It's all applicable to us, but let me explain to you how. 578 00:24:30,250 --> 00:24:33,042 Jesus says, "I have not come to abolish the law 579 00:24:33,125 --> 00:24:35,667 and the prophets, but to fulfill them." 580 00:24:35,708 --> 00:24:38,000 He says this in Matthew 5:17. 581 00:24:38,042 --> 00:24:41,458 So, the whole law is fulfilled by Jesus. 582 00:24:41,500 --> 00:24:45,500 Something radical happens with the law when it comes to Jesus. 583 00:24:45,542 --> 00:24:48,583 This is why Romans 10:4 says that Christ is the end 584 00:24:48,667 --> 00:24:51,167 of the law, all right? 585 00:24:51,250 --> 00:24:53,875 So, think of it in this way: 586 00:24:53,958 --> 00:24:57,458 Paul uses an analogy in a letter to a group of people 587 00:24:57,500 --> 00:24:59,375 called the Galatians, and he says that 588 00:24:59,458 --> 00:25:02,375 the Old Testament law is like a school teacher. 589 00:25:02,458 --> 00:25:04,292 Any of you remember going to school? 590 00:25:04,333 --> 00:25:08,000 The whole point of school is to teach you certain things so that 591 00:25:08,042 --> 00:25:12,083 you can graduate and move on with the rest of your life. 592 00:25:12,167 --> 00:25:15,333 So, school's very good, school's very important, 593 00:25:15,417 --> 00:25:18,167 but school's not forever, amen? 594 00:25:18,208 --> 00:25:20,000 I'm glad I'm graduated. 595 00:25:20,042 --> 00:25:22,542 I think my degrees are done for a while. 596 00:25:22,625 --> 00:25:24,292 Think of it in this way: 597 00:25:24,333 --> 00:25:27,083 To use Paul's analogy of education, 598 00:25:27,167 --> 00:25:28,792 I graduated from high school. 599 00:25:28,833 --> 00:25:31,458 I know it seems shocking to some, but it's a fact. 600 00:25:31,500 --> 00:25:34,167 And when I went to high school, we had--let's just use 601 00:25:34,250 --> 00:25:35,583 the biblical language-- 602 00:25:35,667 --> 00:25:37,000 we had laws. 603 00:25:37,042 --> 00:25:39,167 You had to show up at a certain time. 604 00:25:39,250 --> 00:25:41,167 You had to be there so many days. 605 00:25:41,250 --> 00:25:43,375 You had to sit so many hours in class. 606 00:25:43,458 --> 00:25:45,583 You had to get a certain grade point average. 607 00:25:45,667 --> 00:25:47,250 You couldn't, you know, smoke indoors. 608 00:25:47,333 --> 00:25:48,667 You couldn't kill anybody. 609 00:25:48,708 --> 00:25:50,042 You couldn't steal anything. 610 00:25:50,125 --> 00:25:52,250 You couldn't park in the teacher's parking lot, right? 611 00:25:52,333 --> 00:25:53,667 There's all these rules. 612 00:25:53,708 --> 00:25:57,375 And then at some point, I met all the graduation requirements, 613 00:25:57,458 --> 00:25:59,875 and once I met the graduation requirements, 614 00:25:59,958 --> 00:26:06,542 I was free to move on. And most of those laws 615 00:26:06,625 --> 00:26:08,000 are no longer binding. 616 00:26:08,042 --> 00:26:10,167 So I don't need to go to school tomorrow. 617 00:26:10,250 --> 00:26:12,042 I don't need to study sociology tomorrow. 618 00:26:12,125 --> 00:26:14,042 I don't need to take a test tomorrow. 619 00:26:14,125 --> 00:26:16,042 But some of the laws are still binding. 620 00:26:16,125 --> 00:26:18,667 I still can't kill anyone, pull a fire alarm, smoke indoors, 621 00:26:18,750 --> 00:26:20,083 stuff like that. 622 00:26:20,167 --> 00:26:22,542 So, all of the laws are fulfilled, 623 00:26:22,625 --> 00:26:24,833 and some of them still apply. 624 00:26:24,917 --> 00:26:27,833 Here's how it works for us. 625 00:26:27,917 --> 00:26:30,375 Jesus comes without sin. 626 00:26:30,458 --> 00:26:33,000 God becomes a man, lives a perfect life in full, 627 00:26:33,042 --> 00:26:37,042 complete, total obedience to the entirety of the law. 628 00:26:37,125 --> 00:26:39,833 He goes to the cross, substitutes himself, 629 00:26:39,917 --> 00:26:45,458 suffers and dies in our place for our sins as our Savior. 630 00:26:45,500 --> 00:26:48,583 He rises from death on Sunday, 631 00:26:48,667 --> 00:26:52,083 and Jesus gives us his righteousness. 632 00:26:52,167 --> 00:26:57,167 To use my analogy, Jesus hands us his report card. 633 00:26:57,208 --> 00:27:02,333 To use my analogy, Jesus gives us his transcript. 634 00:27:02,417 --> 00:27:04,250 So, when we stand before the Father, 635 00:27:04,333 --> 00:27:06,750 we don't come with our report card or our transcript 636 00:27:06,833 --> 00:27:08,875 saying, "I've met all the demands of the law. 637 00:27:08,958 --> 00:27:10,292 I have not sinned." 638 00:27:10,333 --> 00:27:12,792 We come saying, "I bring Jesus' report card. 639 00:27:12,833 --> 00:27:14,500 "I bring Jesus' transcript. 640 00:27:14,542 --> 00:27:16,583 "He's my perfection, he's my righteousness, 641 00:27:16,667 --> 00:27:19,583 "he's obeyed the entirety of the law, and he's my living, 642 00:27:19,667 --> 00:27:22,042 sovereign Lord," and there are some things that he still 643 00:27:22,125 --> 00:27:25,583 tells me I can't do, like murder people, or commit adultery, 644 00:27:25,667 --> 00:27:30,000 or steal, or lie, or worship false gods. 645 00:27:30,042 --> 00:27:31,792 Make sense? 646 00:27:31,833 --> 00:27:35,083 The law was anticipatory; it was preparatory. 647 00:27:35,167 --> 00:27:39,167 It was to show us our sin and our need for a Savior so that 648 00:27:39,208 --> 00:27:42,167 when the Savior came, we would realize that apart from him, 649 00:27:42,250 --> 00:27:45,875 we'll never meet the demands of the law. 650 00:27:45,958 --> 00:27:50,083 So, that being said, the Sabbath is not binding on Christians 651 00:27:50,167 --> 00:27:52,292 because it's fulfilled in Christ. 652 00:27:52,333 --> 00:27:54,792 Jesus says it this way: "Come to me all you 653 00:27:54,833 --> 00:27:56,292 "who are burdened and heavy-laden. 654 00:27:56,333 --> 00:27:58,000 I'll give you"--what? 655 00:27:58,042 --> 00:28:00,042 "Rest. I'll give you Sabbath." 656 00:28:00,125 --> 00:28:02,750 He says, "For my yoke is easy, my burden is light, 657 00:28:02,833 --> 00:28:04,875 and in me you'll find rest for your soul." 658 00:28:04,958 --> 00:28:06,958 So, our rest today is in Jesus. 659 00:28:07,000 --> 00:28:10,667 Jesus fulfills the law; we rest in Jesus Christ. 660 00:28:10,750 --> 00:28:15,792 He is our Savior. He is our Sabbath. 661 00:28:15,833 --> 00:28:18,292 So, the day is no longer binding upon us, 662 00:28:18,333 --> 00:28:20,042 but let me do one thing: 663 00:28:20,125 --> 00:28:22,375 let me take this from the realm of law 664 00:28:22,458 --> 00:28:24,833 and move it into the realm of wisdom. 665 00:28:24,917 --> 00:28:27,750 In addition to the category of law, there is, in the Bible, 666 00:28:27,833 --> 00:28:29,167 the category of wisdom. 667 00:28:29,250 --> 00:28:31,500 This is like Proverbs. 668 00:28:31,542 --> 00:28:34,042 So, what I would say is that the Sabbath 669 00:28:34,125 --> 00:28:40,583 is no longer binding as a law, but it is good wisdom. 670 00:28:40,667 --> 00:28:43,167 Proverbs is filled with stuff like, 671 00:28:43,208 --> 00:28:45,000 "Hey kid, do you see--" 672 00:28:45,042 --> 00:28:46,792 it's a dad talking to his kids-- 673 00:28:46,833 --> 00:28:49,458 "you see that guy over there, moss all over the roof, 674 00:28:49,500 --> 00:28:51,667 "weeds growing up, the siding falling off the house? 675 00:28:51,750 --> 00:28:54,458 He's killing his equity." 676 00:28:54,500 --> 00:28:56,583 There's a truism, there's a principle. 677 00:28:56,667 --> 00:28:59,333 So the moral of the story is, don't defer maintenance 678 00:28:59,417 --> 00:29:01,667 on your property. 679 00:29:01,708 --> 00:29:04,833 "Little by little, a wise man makes his money grow." 680 00:29:04,917 --> 00:29:06,875 "Hey kid, do you want to get rich?" 681 00:29:06,958 --> 00:29:08,292 "Yeah." 682 00:29:08,333 --> 00:29:09,792 "It's going to be 70 years, 683 00:29:09,833 --> 00:29:12,500 "and money doubles every 7 years if you invest it wisely. 684 00:29:12,542 --> 00:29:15,542 "So, let's do some numbers here. 685 00:29:15,625 --> 00:29:18,958 "Let's look at the fact that if we put this much in the bank 686 00:29:19,000 --> 00:29:20,958 "today, and you add to it over time, 687 00:29:21,000 --> 00:29:22,458 "and it doubles every 7 years, 688 00:29:22,500 --> 00:29:23,958 where will you be at retirement?" 689 00:29:24,000 --> 00:29:25,458 "Oh, that's a good idea, Dad." 690 00:29:25,500 --> 00:29:26,833 "Yeah, that's wisdom." 691 00:29:26,917 --> 00:29:29,333 See, a church would never bring you up for discipline 692 00:29:29,417 --> 00:29:30,833 because you didn't cut your grass 693 00:29:30,917 --> 00:29:32,958 or put enough money in your retirement account, 694 00:29:33,000 --> 00:29:35,458 but if you don't, you're going to hurt yourself. 695 00:29:35,500 --> 00:29:39,083 So, it's less about law and it's more about wisdom. 696 00:29:39,167 --> 00:29:42,083 It's less about, "You have to do this," and it's more about, 697 00:29:42,167 --> 00:29:44,833 "This would be a smart thing for you to do." 698 00:29:44,917 --> 00:29:46,458 Does that make sense? 699 00:29:46,500 --> 00:29:48,958 And I think with the law being fulfilled in Christ 700 00:29:49,000 --> 00:29:50,833 and nine of the Ten Commandments 701 00:29:50,917 --> 00:29:53,583 still abiding upon us today, 702 00:29:53,667 --> 00:29:56,750 I believe this is the one that shifts from the category of law 703 00:29:56,833 --> 00:29:58,167 to the category of wisdom. 704 00:29:58,208 --> 00:30:01,167 And I'm not telling you, "You have to get a day off." 705 00:30:01,208 --> 00:30:03,125 What I'm telling you is, if you don't, 706 00:30:03,167 --> 00:30:04,917 you're going to hurt yourself. 707 00:30:05,000 --> 00:30:07,125 Because again, the context here is that they're gathered 708 00:30:07,167 --> 00:30:09,792 at the base of Mount Sinai, God pulls them together, 709 00:30:09,833 --> 00:30:12,125 and like a father giving instruction to his children, 710 00:30:12,167 --> 00:30:14,375 he's telling his kids how to live their life. 711 00:30:14,458 --> 00:30:17,292 They just came out of slavery working 7 days a week. 712 00:30:17,333 --> 00:30:19,000 They are not getting their day off. 713 00:30:19,083 --> 00:30:20,417 They are burning themselves out. 714 00:30:20,500 --> 00:30:22,583 Dad sits them down and says, "I love you. 715 00:30:22,667 --> 00:30:24,792 "You guys really need to take a day off 716 00:30:24,833 --> 00:30:26,625 because you're going to hurt yourself." 717 00:30:26,667 --> 00:30:28,125 And there's wisdom in that. 718 00:30:28,167 --> 00:30:31,125 True or false, today, there's still a lot of wisdom in that? 719 00:30:31,167 --> 00:30:34,125 There's a lot of wisdom in that. But it's not a law; 720 00:30:34,167 --> 00:30:35,833 it's an issue of wisdom. 721 00:30:35,875 --> 00:30:39,167 So, what I want to do now is I want to transition into that 722 00:30:39,250 --> 00:30:42,167 which is very, very, very practical. 723 00:30:42,250 --> 00:30:44,333 OK, we've dealt with the theological. 724 00:30:44,375 --> 00:30:45,917 It can be complicated. 725 00:30:46,000 --> 00:30:47,667 I'm going to deal with the practical. 726 00:30:47,750 --> 00:30:51,208 Seven reasons why we Sabbath, and seven ways we kill the Sabbath. 727 00:30:51,292 --> 00:30:53,500 Seven reasons why we Sabbath. 728 00:30:53,583 --> 00:30:57,833 We stop our work to remember Jesus' work. 729 00:30:57,875 --> 00:31:00,250 True or false, 730 00:31:00,333 --> 00:31:05,708 Christians believe that we're saved by works? 731 00:31:05,792 --> 00:31:08,208 You knew it was going to be a tricky question. 732 00:31:08,292 --> 00:31:11,375 Some of you, you're like, "I'm not going to say." 733 00:31:11,458 --> 00:31:13,708 True or false, Christians are saved by works. 734 00:31:13,792 --> 00:31:20,000 True, Jesus' works, OK? 735 00:31:20,083 --> 00:31:22,333 See, because what happens is sometimes the preacher 736 00:31:22,375 --> 00:31:25,625 will get up and say, "You're saved by grace, not by works." 737 00:31:25,667 --> 00:31:28,417 No, you're saved by Christ. 738 00:31:28,500 --> 00:31:32,708 You're saved by grace from Christ, and it's Christ's works, 739 00:31:32,792 --> 00:31:34,125 not your own. 740 00:31:34,167 --> 00:31:36,333 Again, meeting the demands of the law, 741 00:31:36,375 --> 00:31:38,083 Jesus met the demands of the law. 742 00:31:38,167 --> 00:31:41,000 So, when God became a man, lived without sin, endured temptation, 743 00:31:41,083 --> 00:31:44,167 went to the cross, suffered and died in our place for our sins, 744 00:31:44,250 --> 00:31:45,917 got buried, got up 3 days later, 745 00:31:46,000 --> 00:31:47,583 evidences resurrection, 746 00:31:47,667 --> 00:31:50,083 I think Jesus would tell you that was work. 747 00:31:50,167 --> 00:31:53,875 That was a lot of work to atone for the sins of the world. 748 00:31:53,958 --> 00:31:56,417 So, what we do on the Sabbath day 749 00:31:56,500 --> 00:31:58,833 is something different than every other religion, 750 00:31:58,875 --> 00:32:00,458 because every other religion teaches 751 00:32:00,500 --> 00:32:03,792 if you want to be saved, you need to work to be saved. 752 00:32:03,833 --> 00:32:06,083 You need to reincarnate, pay off your karmic debt, 753 00:32:06,167 --> 00:32:08,792 you need to be a good person, live a moral life, 754 00:32:08,833 --> 00:32:11,167 your good deeds outdo your bad, whatever it is. 755 00:32:11,250 --> 00:32:15,500 Christianity does not teach that we work for our salvation, 756 00:32:15,542 --> 00:32:18,958 that Jesus worked for our salvation, and we trust 757 00:32:19,000 --> 00:32:20,875 in his finished work. 758 00:32:20,958 --> 00:32:23,875 That's why on the cross he says, "It is finished." 759 00:32:23,958 --> 00:32:25,500 All the work's done. 760 00:32:25,542 --> 00:32:26,875 All the work's done. 761 00:32:26,958 --> 00:32:30,333 Once the work is done, all that remains is that we trust 762 00:32:30,417 --> 00:32:32,292 in his finished work. 763 00:32:32,333 --> 00:32:34,583 So, on our Sabbath day, what we're remembering is 764 00:32:34,667 --> 00:32:38,833 my relationship with God did not begin with what I've done, 765 00:32:38,917 --> 00:32:41,500 it is not sustained by what I do, 766 00:32:41,542 --> 00:32:46,292 and it is not guaranteed to the end by my effort or work. 767 00:32:46,333 --> 00:32:50,542 I am saved from beginning to end by Jesus' work. 768 00:32:50,625 --> 00:32:54,292 He saved me, he walks with me, and I will stand before him 769 00:32:54,333 --> 00:32:56,333 in the end. 770 00:32:56,417 --> 00:32:59,833 And so it allows us to cease from our work and it reminds us 771 00:32:59,917 --> 00:33:02,958 that our salvation is not by work. 772 00:33:03,000 --> 00:33:05,042 It's by Jesus' work 773 00:33:05,125 --> 00:33:08,292 and the grace that he gives to us because of his finished work. 774 00:33:08,333 --> 00:33:10,042 Does that make sense? 775 00:33:10,125 --> 00:33:11,792 Sometimes some of you are doers. 776 00:33:11,833 --> 00:33:16,292 You're do, do, do, do, do, and you need to realize what's been 777 00:33:16,333 --> 00:33:20,083 done, done, done, done, done. 778 00:33:20,167 --> 00:33:23,000 Number two, we connect with Jesus and his people. 779 00:33:23,042 --> 00:33:28,083 The Sabbath forces us to spend time with the Lord 780 00:33:28,167 --> 00:33:29,500 and his people. 781 00:33:29,542 --> 00:33:31,958 This is time for Bible reading, prayer, silence and solitude, 782 00:33:32,000 --> 00:33:34,083 going for a hike, talking to the Lord, whatever, 783 00:33:34,167 --> 00:33:35,583 playing your guitar, singing out loud, 784 00:33:35,667 --> 00:33:38,583 whatever it looks like for you to connect with the Lord Jesus 785 00:33:38,667 --> 00:33:40,000 and his people. 786 00:33:40,042 --> 00:33:43,000 And sometimes, we get so busy that we have time for things 787 00:33:43,042 --> 00:33:44,375 and not people. 788 00:33:44,458 --> 00:33:46,833 We're so busy working on the house, and the car, 789 00:33:46,917 --> 00:33:48,583 and the job, and we forget people. 790 00:33:48,667 --> 00:33:50,750 And I'll tell you what, there's only one thing 791 00:33:50,833 --> 00:33:53,375 you're going to take with you into the kingdom of God, 792 00:33:53,458 --> 00:33:54,875 and that's the people of God. 793 00:33:54,958 --> 00:33:57,083 All the other stuff is going to stay here. 794 00:33:57,167 --> 00:33:59,083 The people of God-- we go together forever. 795 00:33:59,167 --> 00:34:00,542 People are most important. 796 00:34:00,625 --> 00:34:02,792 Things matter, but people really matter. 797 00:34:02,833 --> 00:34:06,292 Jesus died for people, not things. 798 00:34:06,333 --> 00:34:10,667 Jesus can replace things, but you can't replace people. 799 00:34:10,750 --> 00:34:13,833 You and I should be people who seek not to live with regret. 800 00:34:13,917 --> 00:34:16,500 "I never got with them. I never followed up with them. 801 00:34:16,542 --> 00:34:18,333 "I never had a meal with them. 802 00:34:18,417 --> 00:34:21,000 "I didn't pursue a friendship with them because I just didn't 803 00:34:21,042 --> 00:34:23,500 "have time because the things in my life pushed out 804 00:34:23,542 --> 00:34:24,875 the people in my life." 805 00:34:24,958 --> 00:34:26,750 This is time to connect with people. 806 00:34:26,833 --> 00:34:28,750 So, what does this look like for you? 807 00:34:28,833 --> 00:34:30,500 Is this getting together with old friends, 808 00:34:30,542 --> 00:34:31,875 getting together with family? 809 00:34:31,958 --> 00:34:34,083 Is this throwing a big party or a meal? 810 00:34:34,167 --> 00:34:35,500 In our family, you know, 811 00:34:35,542 --> 00:34:37,000 it's sitting down for dinner together. 812 00:34:37,042 --> 00:34:38,375 That's what it is. 813 00:34:38,458 --> 00:34:39,792 It's a sacred time, 814 00:34:39,833 --> 00:34:41,792 and it's an important time for the people 815 00:34:41,833 --> 00:34:44,292 that love each other to actually be with each other. 816 00:34:44,333 --> 00:34:47,000 And it's including other people in your life and leaving margin 817 00:34:47,042 --> 00:34:48,500 for hospitality, and relationship, and friendship, 818 00:34:48,542 --> 00:34:51,250 and getting to know people that you don't even know yet, 819 00:34:51,333 --> 00:34:53,458 but God wants you to get to know them, 820 00:34:53,500 --> 00:34:56,167 but it's going to take some time to make that possible. 821 00:34:56,208 --> 00:34:59,375 Our day is so superficial and shallow. 822 00:34:59,458 --> 00:35:02,500 I mean, most of us, what we know about people is primarily 823 00:35:02,542 --> 00:35:05,500 what we read off their posts on the Internet, 824 00:35:05,542 --> 00:35:07,167 and that's not really who someone is 825 00:35:07,250 --> 00:35:08,750 or really how they're doing. 826 00:35:08,833 --> 00:35:12,000 It takes that face-to-face time to really grow the relationship, 827 00:35:12,042 --> 00:35:15,583 and the Sabbath affords, and enables, and enforces that. 828 00:35:15,667 --> 00:35:17,583 Number three, we prepare for the eternal rest. 829 00:35:17,667 --> 00:35:21,583 In Hebrews 4:8-10, he likens heaven to an eternal Sabbath. 830 00:35:21,667 --> 00:35:23,292 It doesn't mean there won't be work, 831 00:35:23,333 --> 00:35:26,042 but the work won't be cursed so it will be easier. 832 00:35:26,125 --> 00:35:28,042 We won't have to do everything seven times. 833 00:35:28,125 --> 00:35:30,167 It's so frustrating when you're trying to do something, 834 00:35:30,250 --> 00:35:32,375 it breaks, it never works, it never comes together. 835 00:35:32,458 --> 00:35:35,375 In heaven, we will have work but it won't be cursed. 836 00:35:35,458 --> 00:35:38,792 And if you can't take a nap, if you can't take a day off, 837 00:35:38,833 --> 00:35:40,292 heaven's going to drive you nuts. 838 00:35:40,333 --> 00:35:42,167 It's just going to drive you crazy. 839 00:35:42,250 --> 00:35:47,167 So, the Sabbath day is the day to sleep in. 840 00:35:47,250 --> 00:35:48,667 It's the day to sleep in. 841 00:35:48,750 --> 00:35:51,667 Some of you say, "But, I'm supposed to serve the Lord." 842 00:35:51,750 --> 00:35:53,375 Serve him by sleeping. 843 00:35:53,458 --> 00:35:56,375 Not every day, some of you need to stop sleeping in, right? 844 00:35:56,458 --> 00:35:59,375 But for those of you who get up and go to work, 845 00:35:59,458 --> 00:36:02,667 sleeping in is an act of worship and it's your way of saying, 846 00:36:02,708 --> 00:36:05,292 "I believe that when I am asleep, God is still sovereign, 847 00:36:05,333 --> 00:36:08,000 "and I don't need to get up and control everything because 848 00:36:08,042 --> 00:36:11,458 the one who is in control actually has it covered." 849 00:36:11,500 --> 00:36:13,875 And sometimes it's taking a nap. 850 00:36:13,958 --> 00:36:15,833 OK, Jesus took a nap. 851 00:36:15,917 --> 00:36:17,583 Jesus took a nap. 852 00:36:17,667 --> 00:36:20,083 You sometimes need to take a nap. 853 00:36:20,167 --> 00:36:21,500 I took a nap yesterday. 854 00:36:21,542 --> 00:36:24,667 God was as glorified in my nap as he is in my sermon, 855 00:36:24,750 --> 00:36:28,583 maybe more so, depending how this sermon ends up, all right? 856 00:36:28,667 --> 00:36:31,292 But how many of you don't think of taking a nap 857 00:36:31,333 --> 00:36:33,292 as glorifying God and an act of worship? 858 00:36:33,333 --> 00:36:37,000 How many of you don't think it's sleeping in or taking a day off? 859 00:36:37,042 --> 00:36:39,167 It is. 860 00:36:39,250 --> 00:36:41,667 So, we worship God 6 days by working, 861 00:36:41,750 --> 00:36:44,167 we worship God on the 7th day by not working. 862 00:36:44,250 --> 00:36:46,875 It's all worship; it's just worshiping the same God 863 00:36:46,958 --> 00:36:49,375 in different ways. 864 00:36:49,458 --> 00:36:51,375 We worship by mirroring the rhythm of God. 865 00:36:51,458 --> 00:36:52,792 We've examined this. 866 00:36:52,833 --> 00:36:55,500 In Genesis 2:2, it says that God worked for 6 days, 867 00:36:55,542 --> 00:36:56,875 took the 7th day off. 868 00:36:56,958 --> 00:36:58,375 Worship is where we mirror God. 869 00:36:58,458 --> 00:37:00,125 God's our Father, we're his kids, 870 00:37:00,167 --> 00:37:01,667 we're to follow our Father's example, 871 00:37:01,708 --> 00:37:05,583 we're to imitate his pattern of living for us. 872 00:37:05,667 --> 00:37:08,083 He worked for 6 days, took the 7th day off, 873 00:37:08,167 --> 00:37:11,292 and we're worshiping him by taking a day of Sabbath. 874 00:37:11,333 --> 00:37:13,542 And if people ask, "Why do you do that?" 875 00:37:13,625 --> 00:37:16,042 Well, this is what God does, and he loves me, 876 00:37:16,125 --> 00:37:20,292 and he told me that I need to take a day off, and so I do. 877 00:37:20,333 --> 00:37:23,500 What's interesting is that it seems to be that this is the way 878 00:37:23,542 --> 00:37:26,500 that God created the world and the human body, 879 00:37:26,542 --> 00:37:29,167 and they correspond in rhythm together. 880 00:37:29,208 --> 00:37:30,792 It's interesting today. 881 00:37:30,833 --> 00:37:34,000 I mean, we live in a world in which a lot of people 882 00:37:34,042 --> 00:37:36,000 don't believe in the God of the Bible, 883 00:37:36,042 --> 00:37:37,667 but they still observe a 7-day week. 884 00:37:37,750 --> 00:37:40,083 There were two experiments historically, one in France, 885 00:37:40,167 --> 00:37:42,375 one in Russia, where, with Communistic, 886 00:37:42,458 --> 00:37:45,583 atheistic revolutions, they tried to do something other than 887 00:37:45,667 --> 00:37:49,000 a 7-day week because they didn't want any of their culture 888 00:37:49,042 --> 00:37:51,250 built on the instruction of the Bible. 889 00:37:51,333 --> 00:37:53,000 And guess what happened? 890 00:37:53,042 --> 00:37:56,375 It failed and they went back to a 7-day week. 891 00:37:56,458 --> 00:37:59,792 It just seems to be the way that God has wired and rhythmed us, 892 00:37:59,833 --> 00:38:02,875 and it seems to be the groove that our soul settles into 893 00:38:02,958 --> 00:38:04,667 because that's the way that God is. 894 00:38:04,708 --> 00:38:07,667 God made us in his image and likeness, and we work best 895 00:38:07,708 --> 00:38:10,167 when we are congruent with the way that God is 896 00:38:10,208 --> 00:38:12,500 and created us to be. 897 00:38:12,542 --> 00:38:14,667 We save others and ourselves from ourselves. 898 00:38:14,750 --> 00:38:16,167 I'll just be honest with you. 899 00:38:16,250 --> 00:38:19,333 The most destructive person in my life is me. 900 00:38:19,417 --> 00:38:22,542 I push myself in ways that no one would ever push me. 901 00:38:22,625 --> 00:38:27,583 I push myself in ways I would never push my children--never. 902 00:38:27,667 --> 00:38:32,250 I tend to be my own pharaoh, slave driver, slave driver, 903 00:38:32,333 --> 00:38:33,750 slave driver, slave driver, slave driver. 904 00:38:33,833 --> 00:38:35,500 How many of you are like that? 905 00:38:35,542 --> 00:38:37,500 Now, some of you are not like that, 906 00:38:37,542 --> 00:38:39,500 but how many of you are like me? 907 00:38:39,542 --> 00:38:41,000 You are type A, driver, doer. 908 00:38:41,042 --> 00:38:44,375 How many of you are like that? 909 00:38:44,458 --> 00:38:45,958 Here's the big idea: 910 00:38:46,000 --> 00:38:49,875 If you don't take a break, you'll just break. 911 00:38:49,958 --> 00:38:54,458 If you don't take a Sabbath voluntarily, 912 00:38:54,500 --> 00:38:57,500 you'll take a Sabbath involuntarily. 913 00:38:57,542 --> 00:39:03,083 We call it stress, depression, ulcer, burnout, heart attack, 914 00:39:03,167 --> 00:39:06,083 hospitalization. 915 00:39:06,167 --> 00:39:08,375 The question is not, are you going to stop? 916 00:39:08,458 --> 00:39:11,458 The question is, are you going to stop joyfully or painfully? 917 00:39:11,500 --> 00:39:13,875 That's the question. 918 00:39:13,958 --> 00:39:16,500 And you can drive yourself, and when you drive yourself, 919 00:39:16,542 --> 00:39:19,875 you drive everybody in your world. 920 00:39:19,958 --> 00:39:24,167 If you're a parent, you're going to drive your kids. 921 00:39:24,208 --> 00:39:28,583 If you're an employer, you're going to drive your employees. 922 00:39:28,667 --> 00:39:32,000 Then everybody's going to have to march along to death 923 00:39:32,042 --> 00:39:34,292 to keep up with you. 924 00:39:34,333 --> 00:39:37,042 Man, I've learned this the hard way. 925 00:39:37,125 --> 00:39:39,792 And some of you say, "Well, I'm glad you've learned it." 926 00:39:39,833 --> 00:39:41,167 Still learning it, OK? 927 00:39:41,250 --> 00:39:43,375 We always put the hypocrites up front so they're 928 00:39:43,458 --> 00:39:45,250 good illustrations, right? 929 00:39:45,333 --> 00:39:47,667 On this one, I've had blown adrenal glands, 930 00:39:47,708 --> 00:39:51,500 I've had major fatigue, I've had an intestinal ulcer. 931 00:39:51,542 --> 00:39:56,667 I have really fried myself out. 932 00:39:56,750 --> 00:39:59,375 Sometimes we need to be saved from ourselves. 933 00:39:59,458 --> 00:40:03,125 And some of you are not as gracious, or loving, or wise, 934 00:40:03,167 --> 00:40:05,792 or merciful as God your heavenly Father, 935 00:40:05,833 --> 00:40:08,417 and you would be driving and the Father would say, 936 00:40:08,500 --> 00:40:11,000 "Sit down. Take a nap. 937 00:40:11,083 --> 00:40:13,167 "I didn't tell you to do that. 938 00:40:13,250 --> 00:40:18,500 Let somebody else figure it out or let me take care of it." 939 00:40:18,583 --> 00:40:22,708 God tends to be more gracious to some of us 940 00:40:22,792 --> 00:40:24,625 than we are to ourselves. 941 00:40:24,667 --> 00:40:27,375 And I've failed at this, and I'm still working at this, 942 00:40:27,458 --> 00:40:30,375 and there are times I get this wrong and I go backward. 943 00:40:30,458 --> 00:40:32,583 And for those of you who are like me, 944 00:40:32,667 --> 00:40:34,792 it's something to constantly be aware of and constantly 945 00:40:34,833 --> 00:40:36,792 be repenting of, because all of a sudden, 946 00:40:36,833 --> 00:40:40,125 productivity becomes idolatry. 947 00:40:40,167 --> 00:40:41,625 "I can get more done!" 948 00:40:41,667 --> 00:40:44,375 and God says, "Well, one of the things that's most important 949 00:40:44,458 --> 00:40:46,375 to me is time with you." 950 00:40:46,458 --> 00:40:47,875 See, and you think about this. 951 00:40:47,958 --> 00:40:51,000 I mean, I have five kids, I love them with all my heart, 952 00:40:51,083 --> 00:40:54,208 and what I don't want them to just do is all their chores. 953 00:40:54,292 --> 00:40:56,208 I want them to get time with me. 954 00:40:56,292 --> 00:40:58,417 All right, one of my highlights every day lately, 955 00:40:58,500 --> 00:41:01,458 I lay on the couch, Gideon and Alexi, the two younger ones, 956 00:41:01,500 --> 00:41:04,167 they lay on top of me for upwards of an hour. 957 00:41:04,250 --> 00:41:07,375 Some of the other kids are pretty big so they've got to sit 958 00:41:07,458 --> 00:41:10,500 next to me, all right, otherwise they knock the wind out of me. 959 00:41:10,583 --> 00:41:13,500 But I would be very discouraged, I'd be very grieved and saddened 960 00:41:13,583 --> 00:41:15,917 if my children never came and sat with me. 961 00:41:16,000 --> 00:41:17,917 "Well Dad, I've got to do the dishes. 962 00:41:18,000 --> 00:41:19,417 "Now I've got to pull weeds. 963 00:41:19,500 --> 00:41:20,917 "Now I've got to do homework. 964 00:41:21,000 --> 00:41:24,125 "I'm going to wash the car, and I've got to clean the garage, 965 00:41:24,167 --> 00:41:26,125 and I've got to, got to, got to--" 966 00:41:26,167 --> 00:41:27,583 "You know what, I'm your dad. 967 00:41:27,667 --> 00:41:30,917 "You do need to do your chores, you do need to do your homework, 968 00:41:31,000 --> 00:41:33,417 "but you also need to spend time with your dad 969 00:41:33,500 --> 00:41:35,875 "because it's good for you. And your dad loves you, 970 00:41:35,958 --> 00:41:38,083 "and your dad wants to spend time with you. 971 00:41:38,167 --> 00:41:40,083 Your dad wants to make memories with you." 972 00:41:40,167 --> 00:41:41,833 And I want you to hear this, 973 00:41:41,875 --> 00:41:44,000 not in terms of a lawgiver giving a law, 974 00:41:44,083 --> 00:41:46,000 but a father giving wise counsel to children, 975 00:41:46,083 --> 00:41:48,500 a dad who's looking at his kids and it's like, 976 00:41:48,583 --> 00:41:50,500 "You kids are--you're going to fry yourself out. 977 00:41:50,583 --> 00:41:52,500 Come sit on the couch with Dad." 978 00:41:52,583 --> 00:41:54,208 "We don't have time." 979 00:41:54,292 --> 00:41:59,500 No, trust me, you do. You do. 980 00:41:59,542 --> 00:42:02,792 It's saving yourself from yourself. 981 00:42:02,833 --> 00:42:06,000 Number six, we make fun and have memories. 982 00:42:06,042 --> 00:42:09,583 Religious people are not fun. 983 00:42:09,667 --> 00:42:11,292 They're not. 984 00:42:11,333 --> 00:42:13,042 They're not fun. 985 00:42:13,125 --> 00:42:17,292 So, Jesus shows up and kids run around him, want to be with him. 986 00:42:17,333 --> 00:42:19,083 You know why? 987 00:42:19,167 --> 00:42:20,542 He's fun. 988 00:42:20,625 --> 00:42:23,542 I don't know if you know this, kids tend to pick adults 989 00:42:23,625 --> 00:42:25,542 who are fun over those who are not. 990 00:42:25,625 --> 00:42:26,958 Have you noticed that? 991 00:42:27,000 --> 00:42:29,583 How many of you, say you're married and you got kids, 992 00:42:29,667 --> 00:42:31,000 one of you's fun. 993 00:42:31,042 --> 00:42:33,083 The kids want to be with that one. 994 00:42:33,167 --> 00:42:35,500 The other one, not fun. 995 00:42:35,542 --> 00:42:38,792 I mean, kids still love you, but it's more work, OK? 996 00:42:38,833 --> 00:42:43,500 God's a Father who likes his kids to have fun, 997 00:42:43,542 --> 00:42:45,083 so when Jesus shows up, 998 00:42:45,167 --> 00:42:46,875 the religious people get jealous 999 00:42:46,958 --> 00:42:48,792 because Jesus gets invited to parties 1000 00:42:48,833 --> 00:42:51,167 and the religious people don't. 1001 00:42:51,250 --> 00:42:52,667 And what religious people do then, 1002 00:42:52,750 --> 00:42:55,667 they always go, "There must be something wrong with Jesus." 1003 00:42:55,750 --> 00:42:57,292 Really? 1004 00:42:57,333 --> 00:43:00,167 There's not another possibility, that maybe you're not fun 1005 00:43:00,208 --> 00:43:01,917 and so they didn't invite you, 1006 00:43:02,000 --> 00:43:03,750 so maybe there's something wrong with you. 1007 00:43:03,833 --> 00:43:05,958 OK, you know you're on to something when non-Christians 1008 00:43:06,000 --> 00:43:07,667 invite you to hang out with them 1009 00:43:07,750 --> 00:43:10,167 and it's not to go do something nefarious. 1010 00:43:10,250 --> 00:43:13,000 They just like you, find you to be somewhat enjoyable. 1011 00:43:13,042 --> 00:43:14,583 Jesus was like that. 1012 00:43:14,667 --> 00:43:16,292 People liked to hang out with him. 1013 00:43:16,333 --> 00:43:18,292 That's why people would invite him to parties, 1014 00:43:18,333 --> 00:43:20,500 and hang out with him, and come around him, 1015 00:43:20,542 --> 00:43:21,875 and spend time with him. 1016 00:43:21,958 --> 00:43:25,083 Part of it was his teaching, and his miracles, and all of that, 1017 00:43:25,167 --> 00:43:29,083 but part of it was, I think Jesus is a guy that when you get to 1018 00:43:29,167 --> 00:43:32,083 the kingdom of God, I think if you're hanging out with Jesus, 1019 00:43:32,167 --> 00:43:34,083 you'll be like, "That was a good day. 1020 00:43:34,167 --> 00:43:35,500 "That was fun. 1021 00:43:35,542 --> 00:43:37,167 "That totally beat going to the dentist. 1022 00:43:37,250 --> 00:43:38,583 That was a good day." 1023 00:43:38,667 --> 00:43:41,583 No offense to dentists, but, you know, that was a good day. 1024 00:43:41,667 --> 00:43:43,083 Part of getting the Sabbath day 1025 00:43:43,167 --> 00:43:44,583 is sometimes we're working, working, working, 1026 00:43:44,667 --> 00:43:47,083 and we need to do a little bit of playing. 1027 00:43:47,167 --> 00:43:48,833 Now again, back to my first point. 1028 00:43:48,917 --> 00:43:50,583 Some of you you're playing, playing, playing, 1029 00:43:50,667 --> 00:43:52,292 you need to get back to work. 1030 00:43:52,333 --> 00:43:54,792 But for those of us who are prone to work, 1031 00:43:54,833 --> 00:43:56,292 we need to learn to play. 1032 00:43:56,333 --> 00:43:58,500 You say, "Well, I don't want to waste time." 1033 00:43:58,542 --> 00:44:01,750 Sure you do, because that's one of the things that God asks you 1034 00:44:01,833 --> 00:44:03,958 to do is waste a little bit of time 1035 00:44:04,000 --> 00:44:05,333 doing something kind of fun. 1036 00:44:05,417 --> 00:44:06,833 What's fun? Sabbath is for fun. 1037 00:44:06,917 --> 00:44:09,000 It's for play, it's for rest, it's for rejuvenation, 1038 00:44:09,042 --> 00:44:10,375 it's for recharging the batteries, 1039 00:44:10,458 --> 00:44:11,792 it's for making memories. 1040 00:44:11,833 --> 00:44:15,167 This is what I love to do. I like to be with my kids. 1041 00:44:15,250 --> 00:44:16,583 I find them very life-giving. 1042 00:44:16,667 --> 00:44:19,583 I like to plan fun things and then take photos of it 1043 00:44:19,667 --> 00:44:21,333 so that I can revisit with them. 1044 00:44:21,417 --> 00:44:23,833 "Remember when we went there? Remember when we did that? 1045 00:44:23,917 --> 00:44:26,333 Remember when we did this? Remember when we did that?" 1046 00:44:26,417 --> 00:44:28,500 It could be little things, could be big things. 1047 00:44:28,542 --> 00:44:31,500 I don't know what your thing is, but what's fun for you? 1048 00:44:31,542 --> 00:44:33,667 What's enjoyable for you? What's a memory for you? 1049 00:44:33,750 --> 00:44:35,167 Who can you share it with? 1050 00:44:35,250 --> 00:44:37,667 How can you capture it, and praise God for it, 1051 00:44:37,750 --> 00:44:39,375 and make that an act of worship? 1052 00:44:39,458 --> 00:44:42,375 You know what, I love it when my kids do the chores, 1053 00:44:42,458 --> 00:44:45,583 but what I love most is to hear them laugh in my house. 1054 00:44:45,667 --> 00:44:47,000 Parents agree with me? 1055 00:44:47,042 --> 00:44:49,000 When you hear your kids laughing, like, 1056 00:44:49,042 --> 00:44:51,375 that's just a gift to the soul. 1057 00:44:51,458 --> 00:44:55,083 If my kids never laughed and always worked, 1058 00:44:55,167 --> 00:44:58,292 I'd be glad that they were productive and hard-working, 1059 00:44:58,333 --> 00:45:01,208 but I'd be worried about their soul. 1060 00:45:01,292 --> 00:45:03,458 God's a Father who wants his kids to work, 1061 00:45:03,500 --> 00:45:06,792 and he wants them to laugh, and have fun, and make memories. 1062 00:45:06,833 --> 00:45:08,875 In addition, we learn the difference between 1063 00:45:08,958 --> 00:45:10,542 time management and energy management. 1064 00:45:10,625 --> 00:45:13,167 I got this from my friend Rick Warren some years ago. 1065 00:45:13,250 --> 00:45:15,667 There are things that take a little bit of time, 1066 00:45:15,750 --> 00:45:17,083 but a lot of energy. 1067 00:45:17,167 --> 00:45:19,083 There are things that take a long time, 1068 00:45:19,167 --> 00:45:20,833 but don't take a lot of energy. 1069 00:45:20,917 --> 00:45:22,250 It's not just time management. 1070 00:45:22,333 --> 00:45:24,250 We live in a day when everybody's like, 1071 00:45:24,333 --> 00:45:26,458 "Manage your time, manage your time, manage your time." 1072 00:45:26,500 --> 00:45:29,167 I would say what is more difficult but more important is 1073 00:45:29,250 --> 00:45:30,583 to manage your energy. 1074 00:45:30,667 --> 00:45:32,583 If I told all of you right now, 1075 00:45:32,667 --> 00:45:34,583 "All right, run as far as you can," 1076 00:45:34,667 --> 00:45:36,375 some of you'd get to the door, 1077 00:45:36,458 --> 00:45:38,167 because you're smokers, it would be over. 1078 00:45:38,208 --> 00:45:39,667 You know, you're like... 1079 00:45:39,750 --> 00:45:42,375 Some of you would make it a mile, some 5, 10. 1080 00:45:42,458 --> 00:45:46,750 Some of you'd run a marathon right now. But at some point, 1081 00:45:46,833 --> 00:45:49,500 every one of us will run out of energy. 1082 00:45:49,542 --> 00:45:52,667 You can only go for so long and then you have to recover. 1083 00:45:52,750 --> 00:45:54,292 What goes up must come down. 1084 00:45:54,333 --> 00:45:56,167 Like plugging in your technology: 1085 00:45:56,250 --> 00:46:00,458 your battery winds down, you've got to recharge it. 1086 00:46:00,500 --> 00:46:03,583 And when we Sabbath, when we have a different day, 1087 00:46:03,667 --> 00:46:06,042 it's not a work day, all of a sudden 1088 00:46:06,125 --> 00:46:09,375 we get new perspective on this other 6 days. 1089 00:46:09,458 --> 00:46:12,375 "That was a waste of time. That was a waste of energy. 1090 00:46:12,458 --> 00:46:14,875 "That exhausted me so I've got to find a way 1091 00:46:14,958 --> 00:46:18,167 "to get enough energy to do that or to endure that. 1092 00:46:18,250 --> 00:46:22,833 "This is something I really need to find a way to do. 1093 00:46:22,917 --> 00:46:26,083 This is something I need to find a way to stop doing." 1094 00:46:26,167 --> 00:46:29,583 And it teaches us not just to manage our time, but our energy. 1095 00:46:29,667 --> 00:46:32,250 Like, for those of you--let me just do a little experiment. 1096 00:46:32,333 --> 00:46:33,833 How many of you are introverts? 1097 00:46:33,917 --> 00:46:35,833 Introverts are not people who don't like people, 1098 00:46:35,917 --> 00:46:38,042 they're just people who are not energized by people. 1099 00:46:38,125 --> 00:46:40,667 You could love people, but then you want to go home 1100 00:46:40,750 --> 00:46:42,083 and be alone. 1101 00:46:42,167 --> 00:46:43,958 OK, how many of you are extroverts? 1102 00:46:44,000 --> 00:46:45,333 You're energized by people. 1103 00:46:45,417 --> 00:46:47,167 If you're feeling tired and burned out, 1104 00:46:47,250 --> 00:46:48,583 you go get some friends. 1105 00:46:48,667 --> 00:46:50,083 We've got to go do something. 1106 00:46:50,167 --> 00:46:52,292 OK, how many of you married the other person 1107 00:46:52,333 --> 00:46:53,792 and you drive each other crazy? 1108 00:46:53,833 --> 00:46:55,292 That's what tends to happen, right? 1109 00:46:55,333 --> 00:46:56,667 So, it's managing your energy. 1110 00:46:56,750 --> 00:46:59,083 So, if you're an extrovert, you're going to go out 1111 00:46:59,167 --> 00:47:01,333 into a crowd or go out with a bunch-- 1112 00:47:01,417 --> 00:47:02,792 "Whoo! Wasn't that amazing?" 1113 00:47:02,833 --> 00:47:05,792 They're like, "No, I need to go home and go to bed. 1114 00:47:05,833 --> 00:47:07,167 I'm exhausted." Right? 1115 00:47:07,250 --> 00:47:08,875 Vice versa, "Hey, it's our Sabbath day, 1116 00:47:08,958 --> 00:47:11,333 I'm going to read a book. You read a book." 1117 00:47:11,417 --> 00:47:13,500 "Read a book?" You're sitting there reading. 1118 00:47:13,542 --> 00:47:15,000 You're like, "I can't sit anymore. 1119 00:47:15,042 --> 00:47:17,750 "I cannot read no more. I've got to go see somebody. 1120 00:47:17,833 --> 00:47:20,500 "I've got to go do something. I need to be active. 1121 00:47:20,542 --> 00:47:22,667 I'm not a contemplative person, I'm an activistic person." 1122 00:47:22,708 --> 00:47:26,042 Here's what I don't want to do is turn this into a bunch of 1123 00:47:26,125 --> 00:47:29,250 laws, but I want you to figure out how this works for you, 1124 00:47:29,333 --> 00:47:31,458 other people figure out how it works for them, 1125 00:47:31,500 --> 00:47:32,833 we learn from each other. 1126 00:47:32,917 --> 00:47:36,250 Some of us need to work more. Some of us need to rest more. 1127 00:47:36,333 --> 00:47:38,458 Some of us need to manage our energy better. 1128 00:47:38,500 --> 00:47:40,667 Some of us need to manage our time better. 1129 00:47:40,708 --> 00:47:43,292 And this is going to be a lot of your discussion 1130 00:47:43,333 --> 00:47:44,667 in Community Group this week. 1131 00:47:44,750 --> 00:47:46,167 That being said, seven Sabbath killers. 1132 00:47:46,250 --> 00:47:48,833 Here's how we kill it. Number one, a poor work ethic. 1133 00:47:48,917 --> 00:47:51,042 If you don't do your work during the week, 1134 00:47:51,125 --> 00:47:54,000 you're going to end up doing your work on your day off. 1135 00:47:54,042 --> 00:47:55,458 You're disorganized, you're lazy, you're late. 1136 00:47:55,500 --> 00:47:57,375 You're trying to squeeze play in all week 1137 00:47:57,458 --> 00:47:59,292 and then your day off is eaten up. 1138 00:47:59,333 --> 00:48:01,542 You work hard, rest well. Number two, religious rules. 1139 00:48:01,625 --> 00:48:03,500 Religious people like to make rules about everything 1140 00:48:03,542 --> 00:48:04,958 and they ruin all the fun. 1141 00:48:05,000 --> 00:48:06,667 Some of you religious people, you're like, 1142 00:48:06,708 --> 00:48:08,583 "Well, I'm just trying to get it organized." 1143 00:48:08,667 --> 00:48:10,000 That's the problem, OK? 1144 00:48:10,042 --> 00:48:11,667 You don't need to organize a gift, 1145 00:48:11,750 --> 00:48:13,167 you need to play with it. 1146 00:48:13,250 --> 00:48:17,667 All right, the Sabbath is a gift for God's children to enjoy. 1147 00:48:17,750 --> 00:48:20,083 Jesus says, I think it's Mark 2:27, 1148 00:48:20,167 --> 00:48:24,292 "Man was not made for the Sabbath; 1149 00:48:24,333 --> 00:48:26,000 the Sabbath was made for man." 1150 00:48:26,042 --> 00:48:27,375 What he's saying is this: 1151 00:48:27,458 --> 00:48:29,375 the most important thing is not the Sabbath 1152 00:48:29,458 --> 00:48:30,792 and it rules over you. 1153 00:48:30,833 --> 00:48:33,542 It's a gift that God gives you to make your life 1154 00:48:33,625 --> 00:48:34,958 more enjoyable. 1155 00:48:35,000 --> 00:48:37,958 And what can happen is if you start making--and this is where 1156 00:48:38,000 --> 00:48:39,333 I want to be careful. 1157 00:48:39,417 --> 00:48:42,083 I don't want to send you back to your Community Groups 1158 00:48:42,167 --> 00:48:43,500 and your homes for discussion, 1159 00:48:43,542 --> 00:48:46,167 and all of a sudden you make a lot of rules 1160 00:48:46,250 --> 00:48:47,583 and you're judging each other. 1161 00:48:47,667 --> 00:48:49,333 "Well, did you work? Did you sweat?" 1162 00:48:49,417 --> 00:48:51,083 Because it gets really weird really fast, 1163 00:48:51,167 --> 00:48:53,500 so let's take it out of the category of law. 1164 00:48:53,542 --> 00:48:54,875 It's all fulfilled in Christ. 1165 00:48:54,958 --> 00:48:56,875 Let's leave it in the category of wisdom. 1166 00:48:56,958 --> 00:48:58,583 Let's leave room for the Holy Spirit 1167 00:48:58,667 --> 00:49:00,833 to lead, and guide, and instruct, and direct you. 1168 00:49:00,917 --> 00:49:02,333 And what happens with religious people, 1169 00:49:02,417 --> 00:49:04,083 they want to remove the Holy Spirit 1170 00:49:04,167 --> 00:49:05,583 and replace him with their rules, 1171 00:49:05,667 --> 00:49:07,000 and their rules never work 1172 00:49:07,042 --> 00:49:09,000 because we're not to be filled with rules, 1173 00:49:09,042 --> 00:49:11,500 we're to be filled with the Spirit who helps us 1174 00:49:11,542 --> 00:49:13,000 to obey the word of God. 1175 00:49:13,042 --> 00:49:16,167 And some of you, your day off is going to be looking different 1176 00:49:16,208 --> 00:49:17,542 than other people. 1177 00:49:17,625 --> 00:49:20,958 And you can make rules for you, "This is how it works for me," 1178 00:49:21,000 --> 00:49:23,167 but you can't impose your rules on anybody else 1179 00:49:23,208 --> 00:49:24,667 because you didn't write the Bible. 1180 00:49:24,708 --> 00:49:26,333 You have no right to make rules 1181 00:49:26,417 --> 00:49:27,792 that are imposed on other people. 1182 00:49:27,833 --> 00:49:29,292 I'll give you a weird example. 1183 00:49:29,333 --> 00:49:31,667 So, one of the big debates historically on the issue 1184 00:49:31,750 --> 00:49:33,458 of the Sabbath was if your grandmother 1185 00:49:33,500 --> 00:49:35,458 is walking through the field on the Sabbath, 1186 00:49:35,500 --> 00:49:36,958 so granny's going for a walk, 1187 00:49:37,000 --> 00:49:38,458 and granny trips and falls, OK? 1188 00:49:38,500 --> 00:49:40,875 So, down goes granny. So, here's granny in the field. 1189 00:49:40,958 --> 00:49:42,583 So, the big theological debate was this: 1190 00:49:42,667 --> 00:49:44,792 does it constitute work and violation of fourth commandment 1191 00:49:44,833 --> 00:49:47,458 if we help granny up and walk her to the house? 1192 00:49:47,500 --> 00:49:49,458 OK, then it led to a huge debate. 1193 00:49:49,500 --> 00:49:50,958 Well, is granny going to die? 1194 00:49:51,000 --> 00:49:53,667 If she's going to die, then maybe God would be OK 1195 00:49:53,750 --> 00:49:56,333 if we picked up granny and carried her to the house. 1196 00:49:56,417 --> 00:49:58,083 But if granny isn't going to die, 1197 00:49:58,167 --> 00:50:00,083 maybe we should leave her in the field 1198 00:50:00,167 --> 00:50:01,667 until the Sabbath is over, OK? 1199 00:50:01,750 --> 00:50:05,583 Only a religious person could get into that place, right? 1200 00:50:05,667 --> 00:50:08,583 The Holy Spirit would never get you in that ditch, like, 1201 00:50:08,667 --> 00:50:10,792 "Well, I don't know. Should we pick her up? 1202 00:50:10,833 --> 00:50:12,917 "Should we not pick her up? I don't know. 1203 00:50:13,000 --> 00:50:15,625 "Granny, are you going to die? Did you break a hip? 1204 00:50:15,667 --> 00:50:17,000 Are you bleeding out?" 1205 00:50:17,083 --> 00:50:19,708 You know, and you can tell for sure that granny wasn't 1206 00:50:19,792 --> 00:50:21,125 on the committee, amen? 1207 00:50:21,167 --> 00:50:23,583 I mean, it would not have been a long debate. 1208 00:50:23,667 --> 00:50:26,792 OK, the moral of the story is that the Sabbath is a gift 1209 00:50:26,833 --> 00:50:30,333 that God gives, and when we impose too many rules on it, 1210 00:50:30,375 --> 00:50:32,208 it no longer becomes a blessing, 1211 00:50:32,292 --> 00:50:34,500 it becomes a burden. 1212 00:50:34,542 --> 00:50:38,083 So, for you and for the people you know and the people 1213 00:50:38,167 --> 00:50:40,708 you love, let the Holy Spirit direct you. 1214 00:50:40,792 --> 00:50:42,500 Take all these biblical principles, 1215 00:50:42,542 --> 00:50:44,917 but even be careful with the principles I'm giving you, 1216 00:50:45,000 --> 00:50:47,625 because you can just turn them into another form of law. 1217 00:50:47,667 --> 00:50:49,000 Don't do that. 1218 00:50:49,083 --> 00:50:51,500 Observing a Sabbath day without a Sabbath heart. 1219 00:50:51,542 --> 00:50:53,625 How many of you know what I'm talking about? 1220 00:50:53,667 --> 00:50:56,333 You get your day off but you're still anxious, you're stressed, 1221 00:50:56,375 --> 00:51:00,458 you can't sleep, you can't sit down, you can't enjoy. 1222 00:51:00,500 --> 00:51:05,708 You've got too much to do. You've got too much to do. 1223 00:51:05,792 --> 00:51:09,125 Your heart isn't able to Sabbath. 1224 00:51:09,167 --> 00:51:11,833 This is a big deal for me. 1225 00:51:11,875 --> 00:51:14,292 I live in my mind, I study all the time, 1226 00:51:14,333 --> 00:51:15,792 and I've got some responsibilities. 1227 00:51:15,833 --> 00:51:17,500 I've got great help with those responsibilities, 1228 00:51:17,583 --> 00:51:19,792 but with five kids and everything else, 1229 00:51:19,833 --> 00:51:21,625 there's always something that I'm thinking about. 1230 00:51:21,667 --> 00:51:24,292 So, I'll give you a couple things that have helped me. 1231 00:51:24,333 --> 00:51:26,708 I always carry a notebook, and any time something comes 1232 00:51:26,792 --> 00:51:30,125 to mind, I write it down so that if it is my Sabbath day, 1233 00:51:30,167 --> 00:51:32,792 I can collect all my work and get to it later. 1234 00:51:32,833 --> 00:51:35,292 Otherwise, I try to keep everything organized in my mind 1235 00:51:35,333 --> 00:51:36,667 and it becomes distracting. 1236 00:51:36,750 --> 00:51:38,083 Sacred ritual's important. 1237 00:51:38,167 --> 00:51:40,708 Some of you need to chop wood and start a fire. 1238 00:51:40,792 --> 00:51:42,917 Some of you need to go for a walk. 1239 00:51:43,000 --> 00:51:45,625 Some of you need to put on a pot of coffee. 1240 00:51:45,667 --> 00:51:47,625 Some of you need to read your Bible. 1241 00:51:47,667 --> 00:51:50,625 Some of you need to start a new book a certain day 1242 00:51:50,667 --> 00:51:52,000 every day of the week. 1243 00:51:52,083 --> 00:51:54,792 Some of you need to just get together with loved ones 1244 00:51:54,833 --> 00:51:56,917 for a meal a certain day of the week. 1245 00:51:57,000 --> 00:51:58,333 It's sacred ritual. 1246 00:51:58,375 --> 00:52:00,375 It's putting in those mile markers in life 1247 00:52:00,458 --> 00:52:01,792 that are life-giving. 1248 00:52:01,833 --> 00:52:05,000 For some of you as well, you need to understand that if you 1249 00:52:05,042 --> 00:52:07,000 work with your mind, you're going to Sabbath 1250 00:52:07,042 --> 00:52:08,375 with your hands. 1251 00:52:08,458 --> 00:52:10,792 If you're a person who's an accountant, or an engineer, 1252 00:52:10,833 --> 00:52:13,167 or someone who's sitting at a desk thinking all week, 1253 00:52:13,250 --> 00:52:15,583 for you, Sabbath is probably going to look like weeding, 1254 00:52:15,667 --> 00:52:17,542 or woodworking, or knitting, or painting, or photography, 1255 00:52:17,625 --> 00:52:19,500 or just cooking, or something with your hands. 1256 00:52:19,542 --> 00:52:21,667 For those of you who work with your hands, 1257 00:52:21,708 --> 00:52:24,042 you're probably going to want to Sabbath with your mind. 1258 00:52:24,125 --> 00:52:26,167 You're probably going to want to read, sit down, 1259 00:52:26,250 --> 00:52:27,583 not being doing a lot, 1260 00:52:27,667 --> 00:52:29,583 and get a day of Sabbath and rest, 1261 00:52:29,667 --> 00:52:32,333 and it's going to look different for everybody and that's OK 1262 00:52:32,417 --> 00:52:33,750 in the grace of God. 1263 00:52:33,833 --> 00:52:36,292 Another thing, as well, is sometimes to change your pace, 1264 00:52:36,333 --> 00:52:38,958 you need to change your place. 1265 00:52:39,000 --> 00:52:41,667 Sometimes to change your pace, you need to change your place. 1266 00:52:41,750 --> 00:52:43,667 How many of you can't rest at home 1267 00:52:43,750 --> 00:52:45,583 because you've got too many projects? 1268 00:52:45,667 --> 00:52:47,167 All right, this is my wife. 1269 00:52:47,250 --> 00:52:53,083 My wife, she has this desire to get all the laundry done. 1270 00:52:53,167 --> 00:52:56,333 Our children have this desire to ensure that that never happens, 1271 00:52:56,417 --> 00:52:58,542 OK? 1272 00:52:58,625 --> 00:53:00,917 So, sometimes it's like, "Let's go out to breakfast. 1273 00:53:01,000 --> 00:53:03,292 "Let's go for a walk. Let's go somewhere else. 1274 00:53:03,333 --> 00:53:06,500 Let's get out of the house," because in the house tends to be 1275 00:53:06,542 --> 00:53:08,875 all the tasks, right? 1276 00:53:08,958 --> 00:53:13,000 But it's acknowledging whether or not you have a Sabbath heart. 1277 00:53:13,042 --> 00:53:15,250 Resting is not just out there. 1278 00:53:15,333 --> 00:53:17,458 Resting is also in here. 1279 00:53:17,500 --> 00:53:19,792 It's in the soul. 1280 00:53:19,833 --> 00:53:21,250 A Pharaoh. 1281 00:53:21,333 --> 00:53:23,667 Now, they had a pharaoh who literally ruled over them, 1282 00:53:23,750 --> 00:53:26,458 and our pharaoh today tends to fit in our pocket. 1283 00:53:26,500 --> 00:53:29,083 Always ever-present, dominating our whole life, 1284 00:53:29,167 --> 00:53:32,458 interrupting at any time, we call it the phone. 1285 00:53:32,500 --> 00:53:35,167 I would submit to you that one of the great killers 1286 00:53:35,208 --> 00:53:37,167 of the Sabbath today is the phone. 1287 00:53:37,208 --> 00:53:41,250 E-mails, social media, articles, people get a hold of you. 1288 00:53:41,333 --> 00:53:45,750 I mean, it's e-mail, it's social media posting, it's phone calls, 1289 00:53:45,833 --> 00:53:48,500 it's texting, it's multiple ways for people to crash 1290 00:53:48,542 --> 00:53:50,500 into your life in an instant. 1291 00:53:50,542 --> 00:53:52,667 Some of you say, "Oh, it's very important, though." 1292 00:53:52,750 --> 00:53:54,083 No, it's not. 1293 00:53:54,167 --> 00:53:56,083 Most of your stuff is like Angry Birds, 1294 00:53:56,167 --> 00:53:59,792 and cat photos on YouTube, and shenanigans. 1295 00:53:59,833 --> 00:54:02,542 OK, it's just not that big of a deal. 1296 00:54:02,625 --> 00:54:04,875 I dropped my phone in the lake this summer, 1297 00:54:04,958 --> 00:54:09,000 to the glory of God, and I didn't replace it for 2 weeks. 1298 00:54:09,042 --> 00:54:13,000 Yeah, it was--and now I have it again, and I'm sad. 1299 00:54:13,042 --> 00:54:15,667 Some of you say, "Oh, so we shouldn't have a phone?" 1300 00:54:15,750 --> 00:54:18,167 I'm not saying you should, I'm not saying you shouldn't. 1301 00:54:18,208 --> 00:54:20,583 I'm not saying that we're going to make a law, 1302 00:54:20,667 --> 00:54:22,583 but I believe in the providence of God. 1303 00:54:22,667 --> 00:54:26,667 Mine went in the lake, OK. And I praise God for that. 1304 00:54:26,750 --> 00:54:29,167 The first couple days without your phone, true or false, 1305 00:54:29,208 --> 00:54:30,542 you freak out? 1306 00:54:30,625 --> 00:54:32,042 Because if you lose your phone, 1307 00:54:32,125 --> 00:54:34,167 it kind of feels like you lost a kid. 1308 00:54:34,250 --> 00:54:36,875 All right, and then you realize, not such a big deal. 1309 00:54:36,958 --> 00:54:38,292 OK, technology can kill you. 1310 00:54:38,333 --> 00:54:40,500 A couple other things. Plan your Sabbath in pencil. 1311 00:54:40,542 --> 00:54:43,292 Some of you, your problem is you don't plan your Sabbath, 1312 00:54:43,333 --> 00:54:45,792 so your day comes, and you've got no idea what 1313 00:54:45,833 --> 00:54:48,000 you're going to do, and it's just a wreck. 1314 00:54:48,042 --> 00:54:50,875 Others of you, you plan it so much it's no longer fun. 1315 00:54:50,958 --> 00:54:53,375 It feels like another kind of work. 1316 00:54:53,458 --> 00:54:55,375 Have you been on vacation with those people? 1317 00:54:55,458 --> 00:54:57,792 You meet them at the airport. You're like, "What's that?" 1318 00:54:57,833 --> 00:55:00,167 "This is your binder. I put together our vacation." 1319 00:55:00,208 --> 00:55:03,333 "Oh, wow, really? 1320 00:55:03,417 --> 00:55:06,792 "Is there a day in here where I kill you and burn the binder? 1321 00:55:06,833 --> 00:55:09,167 "Because this isn't going to work for me. 1322 00:55:09,250 --> 00:55:12,875 You have this so organized we're not going to have any fun." 1323 00:55:12,958 --> 00:55:16,333 OK, so it's planning in pencil, a little flexibility, 1324 00:55:16,417 --> 00:55:19,375 a little spontaneity, make adjustments as you go. 1325 00:55:19,458 --> 00:55:22,083 Number six, resting from your work instead of resting 1326 00:55:22,167 --> 00:55:23,750 for your work. 1327 00:55:23,833 --> 00:55:25,500 In Genesis, here's the pattern of God. 1328 00:55:25,542 --> 00:55:27,875 It says there was evening and morning the first day, 1329 00:55:27,958 --> 00:55:29,375 evening and morning the second day, 1330 00:55:29,458 --> 00:55:30,875 evening and morning the third day. 1331 00:55:30,958 --> 00:55:33,292 In that day, there's no electricity, agrarian society. 1332 00:55:33,333 --> 00:55:36,375 When the sun goes down, you go home and your day is done. 1333 00:55:36,458 --> 00:55:40,292 You eat dinner by candlelight, you hang out, 1334 00:55:40,333 --> 00:55:44,958 read by the fire maybe, go to bed, and you sleep. 1335 00:55:45,000 --> 00:55:46,375 You don't have all the technology 1336 00:55:46,458 --> 00:55:48,583 to keep you up all night. 1337 00:55:48,667 --> 00:55:53,833 And God's pattern is that our day starts at sundown, 1338 00:55:53,917 --> 00:55:56,375 which means the most important first part of your day 1339 00:55:56,458 --> 00:55:57,875 is not in the morning. 1340 00:55:57,958 --> 00:56:00,333 We tend to think, "My day starts in the morning 1341 00:56:00,417 --> 00:56:01,750 when my alarm goes off." 1342 00:56:01,833 --> 00:56:04,458 No, actually, my day starts in the evening with my dinner 1343 00:56:04,500 --> 00:56:05,833 and my bedtime. 1344 00:56:05,917 --> 00:56:08,000 Some of you need to organize dinner and bedtime 1345 00:56:08,042 --> 00:56:10,000 a whole lot better because that will replenish. 1346 00:56:10,042 --> 00:56:13,875 So, it's fill your bucket, empty your bucket, fill your bucket, 1347 00:56:13,958 --> 00:56:15,375 empty your bucket. 1348 00:56:15,458 --> 00:56:17,000 God designed the world, 1349 00:56:17,042 --> 00:56:20,000 and the way he sees a day is differently than we do, 1350 00:56:20,042 --> 00:56:22,667 so that we fill our bucket at night and empty it 1351 00:56:22,708 --> 00:56:24,042 the next day at work. 1352 00:56:24,125 --> 00:56:27,333 If you start by emptying your bucket, then you're dead. 1353 00:56:27,417 --> 00:56:29,083 You're dead. 1354 00:56:29,167 --> 00:56:32,375 You're a person who is trying to work themselves until they break 1355 00:56:32,458 --> 00:56:34,042 and then try to recover. 1356 00:56:34,125 --> 00:56:35,667 That's not the way to live. 1357 00:56:35,750 --> 00:56:38,500 It's a change of mind; it's a change of rhythm. 1358 00:56:38,542 --> 00:56:41,667 The average person needs 8 to 9 hours of sleep a night. 1359 00:56:41,750 --> 00:56:45,792 The average person gets 6 to 7 hours of sleep a night, 1360 00:56:45,833 --> 00:56:48,375 which means the average person is sleep deprived. 1361 00:56:48,458 --> 00:56:50,875 When you're younger, you could sort of push it. 1362 00:56:50,958 --> 00:56:53,083 As you get older, it gets harder, right? 1363 00:56:53,167 --> 00:56:55,667 How many of you are on this side of 40? 1364 00:56:55,708 --> 00:56:58,375 You realize that your energy levels are not the same. 1365 00:56:58,458 --> 00:57:02,667 And what we do then is we violate Sabbath principle, 1366 00:57:02,750 --> 00:57:06,958 point seven, we use stimulants instead of the Sabbath. 1367 00:57:07,000 --> 00:57:10,500 I don't have the energy to do the work that I have to do 1368 00:57:10,542 --> 00:57:15,292 today, so I start the day by having a cup of coffee, 1369 00:57:15,333 --> 00:57:19,000 or cups of coffee, and then more shots of espresso, 1370 00:57:19,042 --> 00:57:21,792 and "Can you put chocolate on that, and crack, 1371 00:57:21,833 --> 00:57:23,167 "and methamphetamine? 1372 00:57:23,250 --> 00:57:25,042 "And what else you got back there? 1373 00:57:25,125 --> 00:57:29,000 What else you got back there?" Right? 1374 00:57:29,042 --> 00:57:31,458 And then you go to your day and you're like, 1375 00:57:31,500 --> 00:57:33,792 "Man, I'm feeling a little, you know, tired," 1376 00:57:33,833 --> 00:57:35,958 so I'm going to eat simple carbohydrates because it 1377 00:57:36,000 --> 00:57:38,333 quickly turns into glucose and sugar in the body. 1378 00:57:38,417 --> 00:57:40,375 And now I'm going to be stressed out, 1379 00:57:40,458 --> 00:57:42,833 and I'm going to use technology to keep me on. 1380 00:57:42,917 --> 00:57:45,333 Now the adrenaline's firing and now I need more sugar, 1381 00:57:45,417 --> 00:57:47,083 so I'm going to eat more garbage, 1382 00:57:47,167 --> 00:57:50,042 and I've got a thing of M&Ms, you know, on my desk, 1383 00:57:50,125 --> 00:57:53,958 and I'm just going to be snacking away all day. 1384 00:57:54,000 --> 00:57:57,833 And now, boy, 3 or 4 o'clock hits, and I have a crash. 1385 00:57:57,917 --> 00:57:59,542 My body is saying, "Hey, we're done." 1386 00:57:59,625 --> 00:58:01,042 And you're like, "No we're not." 1387 00:58:01,125 --> 00:58:03,333 You know, here's a Monster, here's a Red Bull, 1388 00:58:03,417 --> 00:58:05,542 here's more coffee. 1389 00:58:05,625 --> 00:58:07,167 "Oh, now I feel fine." 1390 00:58:07,250 --> 00:58:09,583 Now I'm going home eventually, and I'm in traffic, 1391 00:58:09,667 --> 00:58:11,667 and I'm stressed out, and my phone's ringing. 1392 00:58:11,750 --> 00:58:14,667 And I've got a pop that's big enough for a small child 1393 00:58:14,708 --> 00:58:16,292 to take swim lessons in, 1394 00:58:16,333 --> 00:58:18,292 and I'm going to drink the whole thing 1395 00:58:18,333 --> 00:58:19,667 on the way home. 1396 00:58:19,750 --> 00:58:22,875 And then you get home and you're like, "Man, I am so tired, 1397 00:58:22,958 --> 00:58:24,375 "but I cannot go to sleep. 1398 00:58:24,458 --> 00:58:27,083 I do not know why I cannot go to sleep," right? 1399 00:58:27,167 --> 00:58:29,083 Any of you that-- "Oh, I'll watch TV. 1400 00:58:29,167 --> 00:58:31,292 "Oh, that didn't help because it stimulates my mind. 1401 00:58:31,333 --> 00:58:33,667 "Now I'm going, now I've got to surf the Internet. 1402 00:58:33,750 --> 00:58:35,875 "Now I'm up all night, now I'm freaking out. 1403 00:58:35,958 --> 00:58:38,083 You know what I'll have? I'll have a drink." 1404 00:58:38,167 --> 00:58:40,792 So you have a drink, and then you go to sleep, 1405 00:58:40,833 --> 00:58:42,500 but then the alcohol turns into sugar, 1406 00:58:42,542 --> 00:58:45,792 3 hours later you're--now you're wide awake again, right? 1407 00:58:45,833 --> 00:58:49,792 Now you're a caffeinated, drunk, grumpy, phone-answering, 1408 00:58:49,833 --> 00:58:55,500 Sabbath-violating wreck, and we call it "America." 1409 00:58:55,542 --> 00:58:59,458 It's not working, right? 1410 00:58:59,500 --> 00:59:01,458 It's not working. 1411 00:59:01,500 --> 00:59:03,833 Some are like, "Well, you're depressed." 1412 00:59:03,917 --> 00:59:05,833 Well, I think I know why, 1413 00:59:05,875 --> 00:59:08,708 but God's way is a better way, amen? 1414 00:59:08,792 --> 00:59:10,833 And I don't want to turn it into law, 1415 00:59:10,917 --> 00:59:12,625 I want to turn it into wisdom. 1416 00:59:12,667 --> 00:59:15,125 God the Father is saying, "Look at your whole life. 1417 00:59:15,167 --> 00:59:19,167 "Look at your whole life and see if it is put together in a way 1418 00:59:19,208 --> 00:59:23,833 "that is fruitful and joyful, that you get things done, 1419 00:59:23,917 --> 00:59:27,208 "and one of those things you get done is resting in me 1420 00:59:27,292 --> 00:59:30,333 "and enjoying time with me, the life that I've given you, 1421 00:59:30,375 --> 00:59:32,667 and the people that I've surrounded you with," amen? 1422 00:59:32,708 --> 00:59:34,542 That's the heart of the Sabbath. 1423 00:59:34,625 --> 00:59:36,667 For those of you who are not Christians, 1424 00:59:36,708 --> 00:59:40,042 I want you to realize this: your rest is only to be found 1425 00:59:40,125 --> 00:59:43,708 in Jesus Christ, that whatever you're doing to get your life 1426 00:59:43,792 --> 00:59:46,958 together, the first thing you need to do is just bring your 1427 00:59:47,000 --> 00:59:51,000 life to him, and let him be the one who forgives you of sin, 1428 00:59:51,042 --> 00:59:54,875 changes your heart, and starts to rearchitect your life. 1429 00:59:54,958 --> 00:59:56,583 For those of us who are Christians, 1430 00:59:56,667 --> 00:59:58,583 it is about asking ourselves, 1431 00:59:58,667 --> 01:00:01,792 "Am I prone to worship work or comfort? 1432 01:00:01,833 --> 01:00:05,083 "Am I prone to kill myself for my job 1433 01:00:05,167 --> 01:00:08,500 "or am I tending to put play at the center of my life 1434 01:00:08,542 --> 01:00:11,500 "to where I'm immature and irresponsible? 1435 01:00:11,542 --> 01:00:14,167 And what does repentance look like for us?" 1436 01:00:14,208 --> 01:00:17,792 That being said, I want to share with you a couple of things 1437 01:00:17,833 --> 01:00:20,000 and how things are going at Mars Hill Church. 1438 01:00:20,042 --> 01:00:22,375 Don't just grab your phone and run out the door. 1439 01:00:22,458 --> 01:00:24,583 That'd violate everything I'm trying to do here. 1440 01:00:24,667 --> 01:00:27,167 So, just sit there. Sit back and relax. 1441 01:00:27,250 --> 01:00:29,667 As we collect our offering, we're also going to participate 1442 01:00:29,708 --> 01:00:32,667 in Communion, remembering the finished work of Jesus, 1443 01:00:32,750 --> 01:00:34,583 his broken body, shed blood. 1444 01:00:34,667 --> 01:00:37,083 We're also going to sing and celebrate because we have 1445 01:00:37,167 --> 01:00:39,958 a God who wants us to find our rest in him. 1446 01:00:40,000 --> 01:00:41,667 And as we're preparing to respond, 1447 01:00:41,750 --> 01:00:44,083 I want to share with you a little bit about 1448 01:00:44,167 --> 01:00:45,833 what's going on here at Mars Hill. 1449 01:00:45,917 --> 01:00:47,583 We do this every once in awhile. 1450 01:00:47,667 --> 01:00:50,375 August, so before school came back, over 9,000 adults, 1451 01:00:50,458 --> 01:00:51,833 over 2,000 kids. 1452 01:00:51,875 --> 01:00:53,833 Be praying for all those little people, amen. 1453 01:00:53,875 --> 01:00:55,500 We love kids at Mars Hill Church. 1454 01:00:55,583 --> 01:00:57,333 Now that school is back in session, 1455 01:00:57,375 --> 01:00:59,708 attendance is up even more, but the church is growing, 1456 01:00:59,792 --> 01:01:02,583 it's healthy, praise be to God, lots to be joyful about. 1457 01:01:02,667 --> 01:01:05,583 As we collect our tithes and offerings as well, you may ask, 1458 01:01:05,667 --> 01:01:07,292 "Well, how's that going?" 1459 01:01:07,333 --> 01:01:09,667 Well, about a third of the people at Mars Hill 1460 01:01:09,750 --> 01:01:12,375 are giving, and so for those of you who are giving, 1461 01:01:12,458 --> 01:01:13,792 thank you. 1462 01:01:13,833 --> 01:01:15,792 For those of you who are not Christian, 1463 01:01:15,833 --> 01:01:18,458 we want you to give yourself to Jesus before you give 1464 01:01:18,500 --> 01:01:19,833 anything to Jesus. 1465 01:01:19,917 --> 01:01:21,333 And for those who are Christians, 1466 01:01:21,417 --> 01:01:23,833 we want to invite you to participate and be part 1467 01:01:23,917 --> 01:01:25,250 of the family of God, 1468 01:01:25,333 --> 01:01:26,750 and participate through giving as well. 1469 01:01:26,833 --> 01:01:28,167 Here's how we're doing financially: 1470 01:01:28,208 --> 01:01:30,167 our giving and our expenses are basically even. 1471 01:01:30,208 --> 01:01:33,333 So if you were looking at this in terms of your family budget, 1472 01:01:33,417 --> 01:01:35,333 you'd say, "How much are we bringing in 1473 01:01:35,417 --> 01:01:36,833 and how much are we spending?" 1474 01:01:36,917 --> 01:01:38,250 It's even. 1475 01:01:38,333 --> 01:01:40,000 We've got a little bit of margin. 1476 01:01:40,042 --> 01:01:41,667 That's good, we're living within our means. 1477 01:01:41,750 --> 01:01:43,458 Our giving overall is about a B. 1478 01:01:43,500 --> 01:01:44,833 It's good. 1479 01:01:44,917 --> 01:01:46,583 It's not awesome, but it's pretty good. 1480 01:01:46,667 --> 01:01:49,250 The one thing I'd like to see is more people participating, 1481 01:01:49,333 --> 01:01:51,458 but the overall numbers are healthy and pretty good, 1482 01:01:51,500 --> 01:01:53,167 and they're getting better by God's grace 1483 01:01:53,250 --> 01:01:54,583 and your faithfulness. 1484 01:01:54,667 --> 01:01:57,000 And our expenses as well, as we steward our resources, 1485 01:01:57,042 --> 01:01:59,167 we're living within our means, and that's always good 1486 01:01:59,250 --> 01:02:00,667 for the family budget. 1487 01:02:00,708 --> 01:02:03,667 A couple things as well, just good news recently. 1488 01:02:03,708 --> 01:02:05,958 We started Mars Hill Students just a year ago, 1489 01:02:06,000 --> 01:02:08,667 and so it's a newer ministry that's rolling out 1490 01:02:08,708 --> 01:02:10,750 under the leadership of Pastor Adam Ramsey. 1491 01:02:10,833 --> 01:02:13,917 We had our Back to School Kickoff here in the Puget Sound 1492 01:02:14,000 --> 01:02:16,542 this last week and we had almost 900 people come out, 1493 01:02:16,625 --> 01:02:18,542 tons of junior high and high school kids, 1494 01:02:18,625 --> 01:02:20,333 and a bunch of them met Jesus. 1495 01:02:20,375 --> 01:02:23,042 And now we're kicking off student ministry at most if not 1496 01:02:23,125 --> 01:02:25,833 all of our locations, and so please be in prayer 1497 01:02:25,917 --> 01:02:27,333 for student ministry. 1498 01:02:27,375 --> 01:02:30,458 It's in its infancy stage, but off to a really good start. 1499 01:02:30,500 --> 01:02:32,917 Dustin Kensrue, Pastor Dustin Kensrue, 1500 01:02:33,000 --> 01:02:35,417 former lead singer for Thrice and a great guy. 1501 01:02:35,500 --> 01:02:37,542 He's got his worship album coming out this week, 1502 01:02:37,625 --> 01:02:38,958 "The Water & The Blood." 1503 01:02:39,000 --> 01:02:40,833 You can grab it at Mars Hill 1504 01:02:40,875 --> 01:02:42,833 and all the proceeds go to the church. 1505 01:02:42,875 --> 01:02:44,542 You can download it online as well. 1506 01:02:44,625 --> 01:02:46,750 As we continue to roll our Mars Hill Music, 1507 01:02:46,833 --> 01:02:48,250 be in prayer for the musicians. 1508 01:02:48,333 --> 01:02:49,667 And I'm super, super excited. 1509 01:02:49,708 --> 01:02:51,667 I've been listening to this album for months, 1510 01:02:51,708 --> 01:02:53,042 and it is honestly fantastic. 1511 01:02:53,125 --> 01:02:56,042 Coming up, November 5th and 6th, you can pray for this event: 1512 01:02:56,125 --> 01:02:58,167 we've got the National Resurgence Conference. 1513 01:02:58,250 --> 01:03:01,167 It'll be live Downtown Seattle, simulcasting to Bellevue, 1514 01:03:01,208 --> 01:03:04,250 to Mars Hill Albuquerque, as well as Reno and Orlando. 1515 01:03:04,333 --> 01:03:06,750 I've got Rick Warren, Matt Chandler, Greg Laurie, 1516 01:03:06,833 --> 01:03:09,333 James MacDonald, and Crawford Loritts joining us. 1517 01:03:09,375 --> 01:03:11,667 If you're a leader or aspire to leadership, 1518 01:03:11,708 --> 01:03:15,000 this is particularly significant for you and we'd love to have 1519 01:03:15,083 --> 01:03:17,000 you join us at one of our locations. 1520 01:03:17,083 --> 01:03:20,167 And be in prayer that all would go well as we're inviting in 1521 01:03:20,208 --> 01:03:22,250 churches from all over the region, country, 1522 01:03:22,333 --> 01:03:23,958 and world to join us. 1523 01:03:24,000 --> 01:03:25,917 And we've been doing pastor preview luncheons, 1524 01:03:26,000 --> 01:03:28,167 serving hundreds of pastors at a time, 1525 01:03:28,208 --> 01:03:30,917 because we love all churches that love Jesus and we want 1526 01:03:31,000 --> 01:03:33,833 to invite them for a time of teaching from various leaders 1527 01:03:33,917 --> 01:03:35,958 across evangelicalism. 1528 01:03:36,000 --> 01:03:37,667 We're super excited about that. 1529 01:03:37,708 --> 01:03:40,667 In addition, I want to announce Mars Hill Phoenix. 1530 01:03:40,708 --> 01:03:42,333 It's our newest church plant. 1531 01:03:42,375 --> 01:03:43,833 We love church plants. 1532 01:03:43,917 --> 01:03:47,458 That's what we're doing. 1533 01:03:47,500 --> 01:03:49,667 So, there is the zone of cuteness, 1534 01:03:49,708 --> 01:03:51,875 and to the left of it is Pastor Ryan, 1535 01:03:51,958 --> 01:03:55,250 and he is blessed to live in the zone of cuteness. 1536 01:03:55,333 --> 01:03:56,875 Beautiful, beautiful, super sweet, 1537 01:03:56,958 --> 01:03:59,292 really awesome family we praise God for. 1538 01:03:59,333 --> 01:04:02,833 And we have sent him and them down to Phoenix to start 1539 01:04:02,875 --> 01:04:06,500 what we trust will be Mars Hill Phoenix. 1540 01:04:06,583 --> 01:04:08,542 And just to give you a little indication, 1541 01:04:08,625 --> 01:04:10,042 we put out on social media, 1542 01:04:10,125 --> 01:04:12,542 "Hey, if you're interested in being part of the core, 1543 01:04:12,625 --> 01:04:13,958 fill out a form." 1544 01:04:14,000 --> 01:04:15,958 Almost 700 people did, which is pretty amazing. 1545 01:04:16,000 --> 01:04:18,667 We don't have a building yet, we have started anything yet, 1546 01:04:18,708 --> 01:04:20,667 this is just at the very infancy stages. 1547 01:04:20,708 --> 01:04:23,333 And we asked people who wanted to be trained to be 1548 01:04:23,375 --> 01:04:25,333 Community Group leaders to sign up as well, 1549 01:04:25,375 --> 01:04:28,458 and so these are the locations of our first Community Groups 1550 01:04:28,500 --> 01:04:30,708 that'll be forthcoming in Phoenix, 1551 01:04:30,792 --> 01:04:33,667 and they're scattered all over the region as we are gathering 1552 01:04:33,708 --> 01:04:37,333 a huge core by God's grace of hundreds of people to launch 1553 01:04:37,417 --> 01:04:39,833 hopefully early next year. 1554 01:04:39,917 --> 01:04:41,458 Pretty awesome, right? 1555 01:04:41,500 --> 01:04:43,875 Praise God for that. 1556 01:04:47,542 --> 01:04:51,250 Lastly, in so far as giving goes, obviously on Sundays, 1557 01:04:51,333 --> 01:04:53,375 you can mail it in during the week, 1558 01:04:53,458 --> 01:04:56,250 MarsHill.com/Give is where you'll find everything, 1559 01:04:56,333 --> 01:04:59,292 and also there's a monthly update letter that is applicable 1560 01:04:59,333 --> 01:05:00,958 at every one of our locations. 1561 01:05:01,000 --> 01:05:03,333 We'd encourage you to take that with you. 1562 01:05:03,375 --> 01:05:06,500 And what we want to do is be a generous church so that 1563 01:05:06,583 --> 01:05:08,042 we can help start other churches. 1564 01:05:08,125 --> 01:05:09,667 And so Mars Hill Phoenix 1565 01:05:09,708 --> 01:05:11,833 is an extension of your generosity, 1566 01:05:11,875 --> 01:05:14,042 and I want to thank you for contributing faithfully 1567 01:05:14,125 --> 01:05:15,917 so that we can plant more churches. 1568 01:05:16,000 --> 01:05:18,042 We've got a lot more on the horizon, 1569 01:05:18,125 --> 01:05:20,042 and by God's grace and your generosity, 1570 01:05:20,125 --> 01:05:22,333 we're going to get there, amen? 1571 01:05:22,375 --> 01:05:25,333 All right, that being said, thank you for letting me teach. 1572 01:05:25,417 --> 01:05:29,000 I love teaching the Bible at Mars Hill Church. 1573 01:05:29,083 --> 01:05:31,333 For 18 years-- 1574 01:05:36,167 --> 01:05:38,250 we're coming into our 18th year of ministry, 1575 01:05:38,333 --> 01:05:41,458 and every week, I am really excited to teach. 1576 01:05:41,500 --> 01:05:44,167 There's never been a week that I obviously didn't have something 1577 01:05:44,208 --> 01:05:47,042 to say, or there's never been a week when I wasn't excited 1578 01:05:47,125 --> 01:05:48,500 to come and teach it. 1579 01:05:48,542 --> 01:05:50,167 And a series like the Ten Commandments, 1580 01:05:50,250 --> 01:05:53,167 it's one of those things where a lot of people would say, 1581 01:05:53,250 --> 01:05:54,667 "I believe in the Ten Commandments." 1582 01:05:54,750 --> 01:05:56,083 Can you name four? "No." 1583 01:05:56,167 --> 01:05:58,292 I mean, we don't know a lot about them, 1584 01:05:58,333 --> 01:06:00,542 but I appreciate your willingness to study with me 1585 01:06:00,625 --> 01:06:02,542 and to consider the richness of God's word. 1586 01:06:02,625 --> 01:06:05,750 And I'd encourage you to get in a Community Group to discuss it, 1587 01:06:05,833 --> 01:06:08,958 and work it out, and how does this play out practically in my 1588 01:06:09,000 --> 01:06:11,958 life, and we'd love to have you get connected in that way 1589 01:06:12,000 --> 01:06:13,333 if you're already not. 1590 01:06:13,417 --> 01:06:14,750 I'll pray and we'll respond. 1591 01:06:14,833 --> 01:06:16,958 Father God, thank you for an opportunity to teach 1592 01:06:17,000 --> 01:06:18,458 the Bible at Mars Hill Church. 1593 01:06:18,500 --> 01:06:21,458 Lord God, I thank you that I love my work, and God, 1594 01:06:21,500 --> 01:06:23,667 I pray for those who don't love their work, 1595 01:06:23,708 --> 01:06:26,833 that they would love you enough to work as an act of worship. 1596 01:06:26,917 --> 01:06:29,333 God, I pray for those who are working too much 1597 01:06:29,417 --> 01:06:31,542 and they really need to learn how to Sabbath. 1598 01:06:31,625 --> 01:06:33,750 You're worried about them and we're worried about them. 1599 01:06:33,833 --> 01:06:36,458 God, for those who Sabbath too much and work too little, 1600 01:06:36,500 --> 01:06:39,208 I pray this would be a corrective for them as well. 1601 01:06:39,292 --> 01:06:42,708 And Lord Jesus, we thank you that we find our rest in you, 1602 01:06:42,792 --> 01:06:46,542 that we don't do anything to be saved, 1603 01:06:46,625 --> 01:06:49,750 that you do everything that we might be saved. 1604 01:06:49,833 --> 01:06:52,875 Thank you, Lord Jesus, that today we're not going through 1605 01:06:52,958 --> 01:06:56,375 613 laws and trying to figure out how to do it 1606 01:06:56,458 --> 01:06:58,250 all perfect and right, 1607 01:06:58,333 --> 01:07:01,000 that instead we know that you already have and we trust 1608 01:07:01,083 --> 01:07:03,833 in you, and we thank you for being our report card, 1609 01:07:03,917 --> 01:07:06,125 we thank you for being our transcript. 1610 01:07:06,167 --> 01:07:08,167 We thank you for sending the Holy Spirit 1611 01:07:08,208 --> 01:07:10,000 so that we can live by wisdom 1612 01:07:10,083 --> 01:07:12,833 and that we can enjoy the life that you've given us, 1613 01:07:12,875 --> 01:07:15,833 to work hard 6 days a week as an act of worship, 1614 01:07:15,917 --> 01:07:20,250 and to rest well 1 day a week as an additional act of worship. 1615 01:07:20,333 --> 01:07:22,917 And Jesus, as we come now, please refresh us. 1616 01:07:23,000 --> 01:07:24,958 Help us to find our rest in you. 1617 01:07:25,000 --> 01:07:27,833 And as we leave here today, help us to do nothing. 1618 01:07:27,875 --> 01:07:32,542 Help us to do nothing and may that be a time to enjoy you, 1619 01:07:32,625 --> 01:07:34,167 and the life you've given us. 1620 01:07:34,208 --> 01:07:36,125 In your good name, amen. 1621 01:07:37,625 --> 01:07:40,542 Each year, over 10 million Mars Hill church sermons 1622 01:07:40,625 --> 01:07:43,667 are downloaded worldwide for free. 1623 01:07:43,708 --> 01:07:46,250 This ministry is generously supported 1624 01:07:46,333 --> 01:07:48,875 by Mars Hill church members and listeners like you. 1625 01:07:48,958 --> 01:07:52,458 If you'd like to support our efforts to preach Jesus to the world, 1626 01:07:52,500 --> 01:07:55,458 Please consider making a tax-deductible donation 1627 01:07:55,500 --> 01:07:58,333 by visiting marshill.com/give.