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Chosen: To Rest
Texta: Genesis 2 Exodus 20:28 Matthew 11:28. Hebrews 4:1-10
- Breaking our hidden addiction to “busy”
- In today’s world, busy is a code word for important
- We have been culturally programmed to feel if we are not busy, not productive, don’t have value.
Busyness is not just a disordered schedule, it’s a disordered heart-John Ortberg
- The Practice of Sabbath
- In Hebrew: Shabbat which means “Stop”
- The discipline of Sabbath allows you to cultivate a spirit of restfulness.
- Sabbath: a 24 hour period of time that begins sundown Friday to sundown Saturday.
- Genesis 2:3 God created a kind of rest that is a celebration. (delight)
The Sabbath is an entire day set aside to follow God’s example, stop, and delight in his world, in your life in it, and above all, in God himself. – Dan Allender
- Why Rest?
- God built a rhythm into the fabric of creation: Work/rest
- God blessed the Sabbath day
- God made the day “holy”. (set apart) – God makes TIME holy.
- The Sabbath is not a day off, but a day to worship.
- How to Rest?
- STOP – cease from all work, paid and unpaid.
- REST – do the things that restore and replenish you.
- DELIGHT – What brings me joy?
- CONTEMPLATE – focus on the love of God.
- Remember the Sabbath
- Often we forget the things that matter most
- Live in a rhythm of work and rest