The Chosen #2: To Rest

Chosen: To Rest

Texta:  Genesis 2   Exodus 20:28   Matthew 11:28. Hebrews 4:1-10

1. 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

2. 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

3. 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.

4. 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.

5. Remember the Sabbath

• Often we forget the things that matter most
• Live in a rhythm of work and rest