1 00:00:00,000 --> 00:00:02,500 Some of you are road warriors this morning. 2 00:00:02,500 --> 00:00:03,900 How many of you like a good road trip? 3 00:00:03,900 --> 00:00:05,500 You're like, let's hit the road. 4 00:00:05,500 --> 00:00:07,900 Let's go hit the road, Jack, and don't look back. 5 00:00:07,900 --> 00:00:09,600 Let's go your road trip. 6 00:00:09,600 --> 00:00:10,500 You're ready to go. 7 00:00:10,500 --> 00:00:11,500 You're ready to get out on the road. 8 00:00:11,500 --> 00:00:13,400 You're ready to do it. 9 00:00:13,400 --> 00:00:16,400 And you don't just know what snacks you're going to get. 10 00:00:16,400 --> 00:00:19,500 You know what rest stop you're going to pull into. 11 00:00:19,500 --> 00:00:23,600 Like, like you're not like, oh yeah, just pull into whatever is open. 12 00:00:23,600 --> 00:00:25,600 You know which one you're going to put in pull into. 13 00:00:25,600 --> 00:00:27,400 And maybe it's a, maybe it's a shell. 14 00:00:27,400 --> 00:00:28,300 Maybe it's a Chevron. 15 00:00:28,300 --> 00:00:29,100 Maybe it's a flying J. 16 00:00:29,100 --> 00:00:33,400 You know something, but I lived in Texas for seven years. 17 00:00:33,400 --> 00:00:39,200 And in Texas, the rest stop that you pull into is a Bucky's. 18 00:00:39,200 --> 00:00:40,800 Can I get a witness this morning? 19 00:00:40,800 --> 00:00:42,100 Come on now. 20 00:00:42,100 --> 00:00:46,500 If you have not yet experienced Bucky's, you should. 21 00:00:46,500 --> 00:00:49,000 It is a religious experience. 22 00:00:49,000 --> 00:00:50,200 It is spiritual. 23 00:00:50,200 --> 00:00:55,000 I'm telling you, you go into Bucky's and you don't just fill your car up. 24 00:00:55,000 --> 00:00:56,200 Are you ready for this? 25 00:00:56,200 --> 00:00:58,000 You fill your soul up. 26 00:00:58,000 --> 00:00:58,700 I'm telling you. 27 00:00:58,700 --> 00:00:59,600 You walk in here. 28 00:00:59,600 --> 00:01:01,500 It's not just a regular gas station. 29 00:01:01,500 --> 00:01:02,600 I, I Googled it. 30 00:01:02,600 --> 00:01:04,400 I'm like, how could you describe it? 31 00:01:04,400 --> 00:01:09,400 One article said this Bucky's is a Texas based or a Texas based and Texas 32 00:01:09,400 --> 00:01:13,900 super sized gas and convenience store chain that offers much more than a 33 00:01:13,900 --> 00:01:16,900 place to fuel up and grab a bag of chips. 34 00:01:16,900 --> 00:01:22,400 It's devoted fans make regular pilgrimages, sometimes driving hundreds of 35 00:01:22,400 --> 00:01:28,700 miles to stock up on beaver nuggets and brisket and merch with its buck tooth 36 00:01:28,700 --> 00:01:30,100 mascot smiling face. 37 00:01:30,100 --> 00:01:33,100 How many are glad to be in church this morning and learn about Bucky's? 38 00:01:33,100 --> 00:01:34,300 You know what I'm talking about? 39 00:01:34,300 --> 00:01:35,400 You are like, man, this is blessed. 40 00:01:35,400 --> 00:01:35,800 I'm serious. 41 00:01:35,800 --> 00:01:38,900 You walk in and there's the whole convenience side. 42 00:01:38,900 --> 00:01:43,100 And then in the very center, they have a brisket station where they make brisket 43 00:01:43,100 --> 00:01:43,900 sandwiches. 44 00:01:43,900 --> 00:01:49,200 They have an entire counter of beef jerky and not just beef jerky, deer jerky. 45 00:01:49,200 --> 00:01:52,500 I like a dried pepper beef stick that you can get from there. 46 00:01:52,500 --> 00:01:54,400 And my wife and I, we lived in Texas. 47 00:01:54,400 --> 00:01:59,300 We would drive out of our way to stop at Bucky's to get back on the road and 48 00:01:59,300 --> 00:02:00,100 make our road trip. 49 00:02:00,100 --> 00:02:03,600 Like I'm telling you, it's a real thing. 50 00:02:03,600 --> 00:02:07,500 We were driving one time and we had just gone to Florida. 51 00:02:07,500 --> 00:02:11,100 We'd gone to one of our former students graduation in Pensacola, Florida. 52 00:02:11,100 --> 00:02:11,800 They graduated. 53 00:02:11,800 --> 00:02:14,300 She is a nurse in Atlanta, Georgia now. 54 00:02:14,300 --> 00:02:15,000 So she graduated. 55 00:02:15,000 --> 00:02:17,000 We vacationed there with family and friends. 56 00:02:17,000 --> 00:02:20,500 We drove over to Destin for a little bit, spent some time there and we were driving 57 00:02:20,500 --> 00:02:23,500 back to Houston with our friends. 58 00:02:23,500 --> 00:02:26,300 We're going to stay for them a little bit and then fly back to Vegas. 59 00:02:26,300 --> 00:02:29,700 And while we were there, while we were leaving Florida, we were driving and you 60 00:02:29,700 --> 00:02:30,400 drive through Florida. 61 00:02:30,400 --> 00:02:31,700 Let's hear my geography is this morning. 62 00:02:31,700 --> 00:02:37,300 You drive through Alabama for a little bit and then you drive through Mississippi 63 00:02:37,300 --> 00:02:39,700 and then you get to Louisiana. 64 00:02:39,700 --> 00:02:42,200 How many of you have ever driven through Louisiana before? 65 00:02:42,200 --> 00:02:44,300 That's an experience all and of its own. 66 00:02:44,300 --> 00:02:49,200 Like you're driving on the I-10 and there are parts on the I-10 where it's water on 67 00:02:49,200 --> 00:02:50,800 this side and water on that side. 68 00:02:50,800 --> 00:02:53,200 And you feel like the children of Israel going through the Red Sea. 69 00:02:53,200 --> 00:02:56,900 You know, I'm talking about like you're driving through and you're like, Lord, 70 00:02:56,900 --> 00:02:59,600 keep me safe and you're, you're just going to sort of driving through. 71 00:02:59,600 --> 00:03:06,300 And as we got through Louisiana, there was a hurricane in the Gulf that was pushing 72 00:03:06,300 --> 00:03:10,300 in a huge storm system across Louisiana, across the I-10. 73 00:03:10,300 --> 00:03:11,000 And so we're driving. 74 00:03:11,000 --> 00:03:11,800 It starts pouring. 75 00:03:11,800 --> 00:03:12,800 I'm not talking about raining. 76 00:03:12,800 --> 00:03:13,600 I'm talking about. 77 00:03:13,600 --> 00:03:16,600 It starts pouring down so hard you could barely see in front of you. 78 00:03:16,600 --> 00:03:20,200 And so the safe thing to do at that time was to exit, was to get off, was to pull 79 00:03:20,200 --> 00:03:22,300 into a gas station and we weren't looking forward. 80 00:03:22,300 --> 00:03:23,600 This is the brand we want. 81 00:03:23,600 --> 00:03:27,700 This is the, at that point, we're just pulling off into whatever that gas station 82 00:03:27,700 --> 00:03:28,800 is, whatever is available. 83 00:03:28,800 --> 00:03:35,200 And we pulled off in some town in Louisiana and it was half gas station, half Wendy's. 84 00:03:35,200 --> 00:03:35,900 Now, I don't mind. 85 00:03:35,900 --> 00:03:38,300 How many of you like a good Wendy's old fashioned hot and juicy? 86 00:03:38,300 --> 00:03:39,500 You know, I'm talking about. 87 00:03:39,500 --> 00:03:40,500 I don't mind. 88 00:03:40,500 --> 00:03:42,600 I don't mind a good Wendy's. 89 00:03:42,600 --> 00:03:47,700 But I will say every now and then, if there's a combo like half gas station, half Wendy's, 90 00:03:47,700 --> 00:03:48,800 you never know, you know what I mean? 91 00:03:48,800 --> 00:03:49,800 But we didn't really have a choice. 92 00:03:49,800 --> 00:03:53,600 And so we pull off and we pull into the gas station and we parked the car and fill it 93 00:03:53,600 --> 00:03:57,300 up and it's pouring and then we drive up as close to weekend to the Wendy's and we run 94 00:03:57,300 --> 00:03:59,800 in and as soon as we ran in, we're already soaked. 95 00:03:59,800 --> 00:04:02,200 Like it's a down, it's a drenching rain. 96 00:04:02,200 --> 00:04:03,200 It's a downpour. 97 00:04:03,200 --> 00:04:08,900 And so we get inside and we order it and people started kind of pouring in as they exit as 98 00:04:08,900 --> 00:04:09,400 well. 99 00:04:09,400 --> 00:04:13,700 They weren't safe on the roads until they get in and as they get in, people are ordering 100 00:04:13,700 --> 00:04:15,600 and we get our food and we sit down. 101 00:04:15,600 --> 00:04:19,100 There's a couple of good old Louisiana boys sitting off to the side and they're just like, 102 00:04:19,100 --> 00:04:20,100 how you doing? 103 00:04:20,100 --> 00:04:25,600 You know, and we get our food and we're about halfway through our meal and the storm is so 104 00:04:25,600 --> 00:04:30,440 bad that the power goes out in the gas station and the Wendy's. 105 00:04:30,440 --> 00:04:34,400 And so the gas station employees go and they turn all the pumps off and they shut the gas 106 00:04:34,400 --> 00:04:37,900 station down and lock the door and they leave. 107 00:04:37,900 --> 00:04:41,300 They're like, deuces, I guess that's what you do in Louisiana when a storm moves there. 108 00:04:41,300 --> 00:04:42,300 I don't know. 109 00:04:42,300 --> 00:04:43,300 It's a hurricane. 110 00:04:43,300 --> 00:04:44,300 So they lock it all up. 111 00:04:44,300 --> 00:04:47,900 So we're inside the Wendy's and the manager comes out and she goes, all right, power's 112 00:04:47,900 --> 00:04:48,900 out. 113 00:04:48,900 --> 00:04:49,900 I need everybody to leave. 114 00:04:49,900 --> 00:04:52,400 And we're like, to where? 115 00:04:52,400 --> 00:04:53,400 To whom shall we go? 116 00:04:53,400 --> 00:04:56,200 You know, we're like, where are we supposed to go here? 117 00:04:56,200 --> 00:05:01,000 And so she kind of looks across the crowd and realizes maybe that's not the safest move. 118 00:05:01,000 --> 00:05:03,800 So she says, okay, okay, I need everybody to stay here. 119 00:05:03,800 --> 00:05:06,720 And we're like, okay, we can do that. 120 00:05:06,720 --> 00:05:09,160 And so she locks the Wendy's door. 121 00:05:09,160 --> 00:05:10,160 No big deal. 122 00:05:10,160 --> 00:05:11,160 We got food. 123 00:05:11,160 --> 00:05:12,160 Everybody's kind of hanging out. 124 00:05:12,160 --> 00:05:13,660 Power's out, but it's light enough to where you can kind of see. 125 00:05:13,660 --> 00:05:15,320 And so we're just kind of eating. 126 00:05:15,320 --> 00:05:18,120 And Gatlin at the time is two and a half. 127 00:05:18,120 --> 00:05:19,200 He's not quite three. 128 00:05:19,200 --> 00:05:20,200 Turned three later that year. 129 00:05:20,200 --> 00:05:21,200 So maybe two or eight months. 130 00:05:21,200 --> 00:05:30,480 And he is in the middle of potty training, which means he's not wearing diapers. 131 00:05:30,480 --> 00:05:34,980 He's potty training and he looks up at me and my parents in the room, you'll fill me. 132 00:05:34,980 --> 00:05:35,980 You understand this. 133 00:05:35,980 --> 00:05:39,560 And he's like, daddy, I have to go poo poo. 134 00:05:39,560 --> 00:05:46,880 And I was like, okay, the problem was the gas station had locked from the inside access 135 00:05:46,880 --> 00:05:50,640 to their bathrooms and the Wendy's didn't have any. 136 00:05:50,640 --> 00:05:54,680 So we're in the Wendy's, it's locked. 137 00:05:54,680 --> 00:05:58,800 And so my wife looks at me and is like, he's got his like baby Bjorn potty in the car. 138 00:05:58,800 --> 00:06:00,440 You need to go get it. 139 00:06:00,440 --> 00:06:02,240 And I'm like, okay. 140 00:06:02,240 --> 00:06:05,760 So I go back out there, get drenched again, come back in with his potty. 141 00:06:05,760 --> 00:06:10,880 I sit it in the middle of the Wendy's and my dude is like, let's go. 142 00:06:10,880 --> 00:06:12,880 Like we got no option. 143 00:06:12,880 --> 00:06:14,480 We kind of try and hide him behind the booth. 144 00:06:14,480 --> 00:06:15,480 I mean, it is what it is. 145 00:06:15,480 --> 00:06:16,480 He's two and a half. 146 00:06:16,480 --> 00:06:17,480 He doesn't care. 147 00:06:17,480 --> 00:06:18,480 And so he's just chilling. 148 00:06:18,480 --> 00:06:21,680 I look up at the old boys and they're just like, you know what I mean? 149 00:06:21,680 --> 00:06:23,040 Like it's Louisiana. 150 00:06:23,040 --> 00:06:24,040 I don't know. 151 00:06:24,040 --> 00:06:27,800 You know, they just give me a thumbs up and I'm like, okay, we're cool. 152 00:06:27,800 --> 00:06:28,880 Finally the storm kind of clears. 153 00:06:28,880 --> 00:06:30,560 We get back up on the road. 154 00:06:30,560 --> 00:06:31,880 We start driving again. 155 00:06:31,880 --> 00:06:35,400 As we're driving, we look at several of the other rest stops and exits. 156 00:06:35,400 --> 00:06:37,400 And they're like underwater. 157 00:06:37,400 --> 00:06:39,160 There are cars like flooded out. 158 00:06:39,160 --> 00:06:45,200 We turned an eight hour trip into a 14 hour trip on that day just due to how slow we had 159 00:06:45,200 --> 00:06:46,320 to drive and all that stuff. 160 00:06:46,320 --> 00:06:48,640 We finally, I tend, we finally make it through Louisiana. 161 00:06:48,640 --> 00:06:51,960 We get into Texas and the way it's laid out, we're heading west on I 10. 162 00:06:51,960 --> 00:06:55,760 We get in Texas and there's this little oil town right there called Baytown. 163 00:06:55,760 --> 00:06:58,000 There's a lot of refineries and all those different things. 164 00:06:58,000 --> 00:07:03,800 And not only is there a refinery, not only is it Baytown, but they have by the grace of 165 00:07:03,800 --> 00:07:06,680 God a Buckees. 166 00:07:06,680 --> 00:07:12,160 And so we finally exit and as we exit, you could feel a sigh of relief. 167 00:07:12,160 --> 00:07:18,640 We pull into this Buckees and this is us outside the Buckees as we pull in. 168 00:07:18,640 --> 00:07:19,640 There we go. 169 00:07:19,640 --> 00:07:20,800 We pull in. 170 00:07:20,800 --> 00:07:22,240 The wind is blowing so hard. 171 00:07:22,240 --> 00:07:23,240 Look at Gatlin's hair. 172 00:07:23,240 --> 00:07:27,400 Like it's just, he's living his best life, man. 173 00:07:27,400 --> 00:07:29,640 Like forget that Wendy's back there. 174 00:07:29,640 --> 00:07:30,880 He's living his best life. 175 00:07:30,880 --> 00:07:34,960 And I figured out, I was looking at this picture and I was like, what is, what is like subconsciously 176 00:07:34,960 --> 00:07:36,720 so humorous about this picture? 177 00:07:36,720 --> 00:07:41,600 It's the fact that he looks like Buckees in this picture. 178 00:07:41,600 --> 00:07:44,160 There's the beaver and there's my beaver's hunt. 179 00:07:44,160 --> 00:07:45,160 You know what I mean? 180 00:07:45,160 --> 00:07:50,400 Like, like he's just chilling and he's got the same look on his face as Buckees does. 181 00:07:50,400 --> 00:07:56,080 And so we had a good time and as we did, as we engaged in that, we pulled in, we rested, 182 00:07:56,080 --> 00:07:58,240 we took our time at Buckees. 183 00:07:58,240 --> 00:07:59,240 He's okay. 184 00:07:59,240 --> 00:08:00,800 Well, what's the truth here? 185 00:08:00,800 --> 00:08:01,800 Here's what I think. 186 00:08:01,800 --> 00:08:04,280 As we talk about a weekly rhythm, here's what I think. 187 00:08:04,280 --> 00:08:09,480 I think a lot of us go through life like we were journeying through I-10. 188 00:08:09,480 --> 00:08:15,840 There's a storm raging on the outside and we're just trying to make it through. 189 00:08:15,840 --> 00:08:23,100 And God, Jesus invites us not just to push through the storm, but to exit the storm and 190 00:08:23,100 --> 00:08:27,920 spend time in his presence on a weekly basis. 191 00:08:27,920 --> 00:08:34,920 And in doing so, we find that we fill up on the goodness and the grace of Jesus. 192 00:08:34,920 --> 00:08:37,280 Forgive me if this is too simple. 193 00:08:37,280 --> 00:08:43,920 Forgive me if this is too basic, but I truly believe that Jesus speaks calmly into our 194 00:08:43,920 --> 00:08:47,440 storms, whether on the outside or on the inside. 195 00:08:47,440 --> 00:08:51,000 And he says, this is the passage we're going to study this morning, Matthew 11. 196 00:08:51,000 --> 00:08:52,000 He says this, 197 00:08:52,000 --> 00:08:59,200 Forgive me all you who labor and are heavy laden and I will give you rest. 198 00:08:59,200 --> 00:09:04,360 Take my yoke upon you and learn from me, for I am gentle and lowly in heart and you will 199 00:09:04,360 --> 00:09:07,240 find rest for your souls. 200 00:09:07,240 --> 00:09:11,320 For my yoke is easy and my burden is light. 201 00:09:11,320 --> 00:09:16,080 Do you know what Jesus is saying here? 202 00:09:16,080 --> 00:09:21,240 He's saying you don't have to run through your life in fear. 203 00:09:21,240 --> 00:09:29,160 He's saying you don't have to continue on the highway of anxiety and stress and issues 204 00:09:29,160 --> 00:09:30,640 and problems. 205 00:09:30,640 --> 00:09:33,440 You don't have to go through shame and self-loathing. 206 00:09:33,440 --> 00:09:39,200 You can exit the highway and pull up to the rest stop that is Jesus. 207 00:09:39,200 --> 00:09:42,760 Forgive me if it's too trite this morning, but real simply, here's what I would say. 208 00:09:42,760 --> 00:09:47,440 What Buckeys or a rest stop is for an American road trip, are you ready? 209 00:09:47,440 --> 00:09:50,940 Sabbath is for your eternal soul. 210 00:09:50,940 --> 00:09:58,320 What God wants for you is to exit in a regular rhythm, on a regular basis, the rat race, 211 00:09:58,320 --> 00:10:07,280 the craziness of your life and my life of this world, exit and spend time in His presence. 212 00:10:07,280 --> 00:10:12,600 Now I have a question for you as we look at this scripture. 213 00:10:12,600 --> 00:10:18,320 I want to dive deep into it and we're going to give you four stops to make, four translations 214 00:10:18,320 --> 00:10:21,360 of the Hebrew word Sabbath, which is Shabbat this morning. 215 00:10:21,360 --> 00:10:24,600 We're going to lean into that and we're going to give you truths to just kind of pull up 216 00:10:24,600 --> 00:10:26,160 and fill up at. 217 00:10:26,160 --> 00:10:30,560 And when we do that, my goal this morning is not to give you a bunch of to-dos. 218 00:10:30,560 --> 00:10:35,360 It's to invite you into a rhythm that you need to make your own, that you need to develop 219 00:10:35,360 --> 00:10:37,840 for yourself and for your family and say, this is what works for us. 220 00:10:37,840 --> 00:10:40,360 Let me look at this as we look at this passage. 221 00:10:40,360 --> 00:10:41,360 Let's dive into it. 222 00:10:41,360 --> 00:10:42,360 You read for me. 223 00:10:42,360 --> 00:10:43,360 I'm going to read to you. 224 00:10:43,360 --> 00:10:48,280 Come to me, all you who labor and are heavy laden and I will, what's the next word? 225 00:10:48,280 --> 00:10:51,120 Give keyword action verb. 226 00:10:51,120 --> 00:10:55,480 I will give you rest. 227 00:10:55,480 --> 00:10:59,760 Second part, take my yoke upon you and learn from me for I am gentle and lowly in heart 228 00:10:59,760 --> 00:11:04,560 and you will find rest for your souls. 229 00:11:04,560 --> 00:11:06,720 Now wait a minute. 230 00:11:06,720 --> 00:11:09,240 Which one is it? 231 00:11:09,240 --> 00:11:15,600 Is it that we show up to Jesus and He gives us rest and He lavishes upon us His goodness 232 00:11:15,600 --> 00:11:20,240 and His grace and His rest and He just gives it freely to us when we spend time with Jesus? 233 00:11:20,240 --> 00:11:29,480 Or is it that when I show up to spend time with Jesus and I begin to learn the rhythm 234 00:11:29,480 --> 00:11:36,560 of rest that He actually gives me rest in the rhythm that I'm willing to submit myself 235 00:11:36,560 --> 00:11:37,560 to? 236 00:11:37,560 --> 00:11:38,560 Which one is it? 237 00:11:38,560 --> 00:11:41,600 Are you ready for a supernatural secret this morning? 238 00:11:41,600 --> 00:11:44,040 It's both. 239 00:11:44,040 --> 00:11:50,360 God who is full of riches and mercy and goodness and grace would love for you to show up in 240 00:11:50,360 --> 00:11:54,800 His presence today and say, God, I need rest and He will give it to you. 241 00:11:54,800 --> 00:11:57,720 Do you remember when you were first saved, when you were first learning about Jesus? 242 00:11:57,720 --> 00:12:00,760 Some of you that's happened this past year and you're like, this is amazing. 243 00:12:00,760 --> 00:12:01,760 Who needs an energy drink? 244 00:12:01,760 --> 00:12:02,760 I got Jesus. 245 00:12:02,760 --> 00:12:03,760 Like this is awesome. 246 00:12:03,760 --> 00:12:04,760 This is incredible. 247 00:12:04,760 --> 00:12:08,360 And you pull up and Jesus is just giving you, lavishing on your rest. 248 00:12:08,360 --> 00:12:12,200 And then some of us have been following Jesus for a little while and we're a little bit 249 00:12:12,200 --> 00:12:14,960 tired. 250 00:12:14,960 --> 00:12:21,480 We have good intentions, but we have shown up and Jesus has offered us rest, but it's 251 00:12:21,480 --> 00:12:22,480 inside the rhythm. 252 00:12:22,480 --> 00:12:26,560 And we're like, ah, I don't know if I have time for that. 253 00:12:26,560 --> 00:12:30,640 I was thinking, I didn't even share this with the 830 service, so you're all about to be 254 00:12:30,640 --> 00:12:31,640 blessed by this. 255 00:12:31,640 --> 00:12:37,240 Do you know what the most successful fast food restaurant chain is in the United States 256 00:12:37,240 --> 00:12:38,240 of America? 257 00:12:38,240 --> 00:12:39,240 Chick-fil-A. 258 00:12:39,240 --> 00:12:40,240 Chick-fil-A. 259 00:12:40,240 --> 00:12:46,360 Chick-fil-A can do more in six days than the rest of the restaurant industry can do in 260 00:12:46,360 --> 00:12:47,360 seven days. 261 00:12:47,360 --> 00:12:52,640 I'll, I'll wager a bet this morning and say God can do more in your six days, can help 262 00:12:52,640 --> 00:12:54,800 you accomplish more in your six days. 263 00:12:54,800 --> 00:12:59,160 If you're willing to say, I will commit to this rhythm this morning, are you willing 264 00:12:59,160 --> 00:13:01,240 to try the Chick-fil-A way? 265 00:13:01,240 --> 00:13:05,480 Are you willing to at least study it this morning and say, I think there's something 266 00:13:05,480 --> 00:13:10,000 here because Jesus says, hey, come to me and I'll give you rest. 267 00:13:10,000 --> 00:13:14,500 And then you step into His presence and He says, all right, now let me teach you what 268 00:13:14,500 --> 00:13:17,520 it looks like to rest. 269 00:13:17,520 --> 00:13:23,880 Four translations, four words, four truths this morning as we lean into this Shabbat, 270 00:13:23,880 --> 00:13:25,360 this rhythm of rest. 271 00:13:25,360 --> 00:13:27,320 And let me give you some disclaimers before we dive in. 272 00:13:27,320 --> 00:13:28,320 Are you ready? 273 00:13:28,320 --> 00:13:34,280 First, as we dive into this, I need you to understand there is a much deeper study available 274 00:13:34,280 --> 00:13:35,960 to you through this. 275 00:13:35,960 --> 00:13:39,280 I went through this myself a few years back, but one of the ones that really opened my eyes 276 00:13:39,280 --> 00:13:42,720 is a book called The Ruthless Elimination of Hurry by John Mark Comer. 277 00:13:42,720 --> 00:13:43,720 He's a pastor. 278 00:13:43,720 --> 00:13:47,600 Now again, if you're in this room, you may not need to add another book to your reading 279 00:13:47,600 --> 00:13:49,600 list. 280 00:13:49,600 --> 00:13:53,440 What you may need to do is just start learning the rhythms of rest and then you'll find 281 00:13:53,440 --> 00:13:57,760 I have time to learn this, to dive into something like this. 282 00:13:57,760 --> 00:13:58,760 You may not need another book. 283 00:13:58,760 --> 00:14:02,320 For those of you who do, you can scan the QR code, purchase it on Amazon or go to our 284 00:14:02,320 --> 00:14:03,960 link tree, it's available there as well. 285 00:14:03,960 --> 00:14:06,120 I'm just trying to make this resource available to you. 286 00:14:06,120 --> 00:14:08,940 He goes through a lot more than just the principle of Sabbath. 287 00:14:08,940 --> 00:14:14,640 He talks about how our culture is set up, is designed to not give you rest. 288 00:14:14,640 --> 00:14:21,080 Our culture is designed right now to monetize everything you do by making you want more, 289 00:14:21,080 --> 00:14:22,640 do more, be more. 290 00:14:22,640 --> 00:14:23,960 They're trying to monetize that. 291 00:14:23,960 --> 00:14:29,560 But watch this, as believers of Jesus, aren't we called to be counter-cultural? 292 00:14:29,560 --> 00:14:34,080 Aren't we called to not just go in the flow of whatever else is doing, but earnestly seek 293 00:14:34,080 --> 00:14:37,640 out the rhythms of grace found in God's word? 294 00:14:37,640 --> 00:14:45,280 Maybe one of those rhythms is this beautiful invitation that Jesus offers into rest for 295 00:14:45,280 --> 00:14:46,280 our souls. 296 00:14:46,280 --> 00:14:51,160 So disclaimers, number one, you can't succeed or fail at this practice. 297 00:14:51,160 --> 00:14:52,840 Amen? 298 00:14:52,840 --> 00:14:54,760 All you need to do is show up. 299 00:14:54,760 --> 00:14:56,520 All you need to do is try. 300 00:14:56,520 --> 00:15:01,240 All you need to do is lean into it and say, all right, Lord, I'm here. 301 00:15:01,240 --> 00:15:02,240 Can you teach me? 302 00:15:02,240 --> 00:15:03,240 Can you train me? 303 00:15:03,240 --> 00:15:07,600 Resist the urge to say I'm bad at this or this isn't for me or I don't like this. 304 00:15:07,600 --> 00:15:10,400 Be patient with the practice and with yourself. 305 00:15:10,400 --> 00:15:13,600 Secondly, of all the practices, we talked about this, so I'll just state it, of all 306 00:15:13,600 --> 00:15:20,320 the practices found for believers in Scripture, Sabbath right now, 2024, is probably one of 307 00:15:20,320 --> 00:15:24,960 the most counter-cultural practices that Jesus calls us into. 308 00:15:24,960 --> 00:15:30,840 Then thirdly, this will look different for you than it will look for someone else. 309 00:15:30,840 --> 00:15:34,840 So as you begin to practice the rhythms of Sabbath, you'll see that in our first stop, 310 00:15:34,840 --> 00:15:38,840 our first translation of the word Shabbat, you'll see that, that this rhythm will look 311 00:15:38,840 --> 00:15:42,200 different for you than it will for someone else. 312 00:15:42,200 --> 00:15:48,160 Don't take the exit of, oh, look how their Sabbath thing must be nice for them. 313 00:15:48,160 --> 00:15:51,000 Just lean into yourself and say, this is what works for me. 314 00:15:51,000 --> 00:15:53,920 Don't look at me and say, oh man, they do that, now I have to learn this. 315 00:15:53,920 --> 00:15:58,520 No, lean into your own rhythms and say, this is how I'm going to submit, this is how I'm 316 00:15:58,520 --> 00:16:02,000 going to learn, this is how I'm going to accept the invitation of Jesus. 317 00:16:02,000 --> 00:16:05,920 By the way, Mark 2, 27, Jesus gives this famous line. 318 00:16:05,920 --> 00:16:09,680 He's walking with his disciples through the cornfields and the Pharisees show up and they're 319 00:16:09,680 --> 00:16:13,040 like, ah, ah, ah, they're not supposed to pick the ears of corn on the Sabbath. 320 00:16:13,040 --> 00:16:19,280 And Jesus says this famous line, man was not made for the Sabbath, Sabbath was made for 321 00:16:19,280 --> 00:16:20,280 man. 322 00:16:20,280 --> 00:16:23,840 Do you know what Jesus is saying in that truth, in that passage? 323 00:16:23,840 --> 00:16:26,440 I like how the NLT translates it, it says this. 324 00:16:26,440 --> 00:16:31,960 Then Jesus said to them, the Sabbath was made to meet the needs of people and not people 325 00:16:31,960 --> 00:16:34,240 to meet the requirements of the Sabbath. 326 00:16:34,240 --> 00:16:38,960 If you can get that truth about this rhythm, if you can get that truth about this principle 327 00:16:38,960 --> 00:16:44,200 from Scripture that I'm not trying to fulfill a to-do list, I'm just trying to lean into 328 00:16:44,200 --> 00:16:48,120 a rhythm that God's inviting me to and I'll probably make some mistakes along the way. 329 00:16:48,120 --> 00:16:49,680 You are already set up for success. 330 00:16:49,680 --> 00:16:51,400 Okay, so here's our sermon statement. 331 00:16:51,400 --> 00:16:53,560 We'll make four stops and we'll be done. 332 00:16:53,560 --> 00:16:56,120 I'll let you out early so that you can rest, number one. 333 00:16:56,120 --> 00:16:59,120 I like to practice what I preach, number two, so that you love me. 334 00:16:59,120 --> 00:17:00,520 Okay, I'll let you out early. 335 00:17:00,520 --> 00:17:01,520 All right, here we go. 336 00:17:01,520 --> 00:17:07,680 As Sabbath is an invitation to pause each week and fill up your soul by entering into 337 00:17:07,680 --> 00:17:12,400 the rest that God intends for you to have spiritually and physically. 338 00:17:12,400 --> 00:17:14,040 God wants you to have that, okay? 339 00:17:14,040 --> 00:17:15,880 So here's the first stop we have to make. 340 00:17:15,880 --> 00:17:21,600 The first translation of the word Shabbat is number one, stop. 341 00:17:21,600 --> 00:17:23,800 Stop. 342 00:17:23,800 --> 00:17:28,080 In a world that screams forward. 343 00:17:28,080 --> 00:17:32,880 In a world that tries to get you to do more and be more and go more and is leaning at 344 00:17:32,880 --> 00:17:40,240 a breakneck speed into information, into technology, into all these things, we could say it this 345 00:17:40,240 --> 00:17:41,400 way. 346 00:17:41,400 --> 00:17:48,560 If you're going to pull up to the Jesus rest stop, you need to exit the freeway of business. 347 00:17:48,560 --> 00:17:53,680 If you're going to find time to spend with Jesus, you need to first carve out and say, 348 00:17:53,680 --> 00:17:55,280 okay, this is where I'm gonna spend it. 349 00:17:55,280 --> 00:18:01,240 Psalm 4610 says it this way, be still and know that I am God. 350 00:18:01,240 --> 00:18:02,520 I'll be exalted among the nations. 351 00:18:02,520 --> 00:18:03,680 I'll be exalted in the earth. 352 00:18:03,680 --> 00:18:07,480 How many of you, those first two words, be still is an issue for you. 353 00:18:07,480 --> 00:18:09,000 How many of you can be vulnerable? 354 00:18:09,000 --> 00:18:10,000 I'll be vulnerable. 355 00:18:10,000 --> 00:18:11,000 I'll be honest. 356 00:18:11,000 --> 00:18:14,720 If I spend too long in meetings as pastors, as leaders of our church, we'll spend time 357 00:18:14,720 --> 00:18:15,960 together in meetings. 358 00:18:15,960 --> 00:18:19,520 My whole team knows if I spend too long in meetings, I get antsy. 359 00:18:19,520 --> 00:18:20,840 I start messing with people. 360 00:18:20,840 --> 00:18:21,840 You know what I mean? 361 00:18:21,840 --> 00:18:24,840 Like I'm like, hey, you know, I'm ready to go. 362 00:18:24,840 --> 00:18:32,360 Like it is a rhythm that I have to learn for me to enter into rest. 363 00:18:32,360 --> 00:18:35,160 And that might be you here this morning as well. 364 00:18:35,160 --> 00:18:41,240 But that Hebrew word be still, it means like a rope that is tight, that is taught. 365 00:18:41,240 --> 00:18:44,480 It means to give that rope slack. 366 00:18:44,480 --> 00:18:49,920 Real simply, God's saying, cut yourself some slack this morning and just spend time in 367 00:18:49,920 --> 00:18:51,800 my presence. 368 00:18:51,800 --> 00:18:59,360 Do you realize that you are a human being, not a human doing? 369 00:18:59,360 --> 00:19:04,360 We identify ourselves by what we do and God says, no, no, I made you just to be in my 370 00:19:04,360 --> 00:19:05,720 presence. 371 00:19:05,720 --> 00:19:09,840 What we do should flow out of who we are in Christ. 372 00:19:09,840 --> 00:19:14,560 Isaiah 40, 31 says this way, but those who wait on the Lord shall renew their strength. 373 00:19:14,560 --> 00:19:16,040 They shall mount up with wings like eagles. 374 00:19:16,040 --> 00:19:17,200 They shall run and not be weary. 375 00:19:17,200 --> 00:19:18,760 They shall walk and not faint. 376 00:19:18,760 --> 00:19:21,720 That Hebrew word wait, it's like a three-legged race. 377 00:19:21,720 --> 00:19:27,760 It means to bind yourself to the other person and wait for them to go. 378 00:19:27,760 --> 00:19:32,000 Some of us need to get so in sync with God that we're stepping into this three-legged 379 00:19:32,000 --> 00:19:33,000 race. 380 00:19:33,000 --> 00:19:36,280 By the way, that's when Jesus said, I am the way, the truth, and the life. 381 00:19:36,280 --> 00:19:37,280 We like the life part. 382 00:19:37,280 --> 00:19:38,680 Yes, Jesus, give me life. 383 00:19:38,680 --> 00:19:39,680 We don't mind the truth part. 384 00:19:39,680 --> 00:19:41,200 We're like, yeah, teach me your truth. 385 00:19:41,200 --> 00:19:44,440 But the way you're like, I think I have a rhythm for my life already. 386 00:19:44,440 --> 00:19:46,360 I think I have a way that I've kind of learned. 387 00:19:46,360 --> 00:19:51,440 Jesus is like, no, no, no, bind yourself up with me and wait. 388 00:19:51,440 --> 00:19:52,440 Stop. 389 00:19:52,440 --> 00:19:53,760 Spend time in your presence. 390 00:19:53,760 --> 00:19:55,880 Real quickly, we'll go super speed. 391 00:19:55,880 --> 00:20:00,600 The Sabbath was originally given to man in Genesis 2. 392 00:20:00,600 --> 00:20:04,840 God creates the world and then God does what on the seventh day? 393 00:20:04,840 --> 00:20:05,840 Rest. 394 00:20:05,840 --> 00:20:07,400 From all his work, and God says, good. 395 00:20:07,400 --> 00:20:09,000 God actually gives three blessings. 396 00:20:09,000 --> 00:20:10,000 Awesome truth. 397 00:20:10,000 --> 00:20:11,480 Dive into it in the book. 398 00:20:11,480 --> 00:20:12,640 The Ruthless Elimination of Hurry. 399 00:20:12,640 --> 00:20:13,760 But God gives three blessings. 400 00:20:13,760 --> 00:20:17,840 He blesses the animal kingdom and says, be fruitful and multiply. 401 00:20:17,840 --> 00:20:21,560 Then he blesses mankind and he says, be fruitful and multiply. 402 00:20:21,560 --> 00:20:23,800 And then he blesses the Sabbath day. 403 00:20:23,800 --> 00:20:29,760 And the connotation in the Hebrew Torah is that now he's blessing the Sabbath so that 404 00:20:29,760 --> 00:20:34,200 it will be fruitful and multiply rest in your and my life. 405 00:20:34,200 --> 00:20:38,760 It's a beautiful truth that we often missed because we run right past it. 406 00:20:38,760 --> 00:20:41,000 First time it appears is Genesis 2 in creation. 407 00:20:41,000 --> 00:20:45,560 The next time the principle of the Sabbath appears, you know where it is? 408 00:20:45,560 --> 00:20:51,640 God is handwriting some suggestions, commands on these tablets. 409 00:20:51,640 --> 00:20:55,280 And number five is remember the Sabbath day. 410 00:20:55,280 --> 00:20:56,680 It's one of the Ten Commandments. 411 00:20:56,680 --> 00:21:01,960 What happened to God's people from creation all the way until the Ten Commandments? 412 00:21:01,960 --> 00:21:04,560 They were just slaves in Egypt. 413 00:21:04,560 --> 00:21:06,280 And so God says, you know how you were just slaves? 414 00:21:06,280 --> 00:21:07,720 You know how you were just servants? 415 00:21:07,720 --> 00:21:10,160 You know how you were just stuck in these rhythms? 416 00:21:10,160 --> 00:21:11,520 You are freed from that. 417 00:21:11,520 --> 00:21:12,640 You are no longer slaves. 418 00:21:12,640 --> 00:21:16,440 I am freeing you and I want you to spend time on the seventh day. 419 00:21:16,440 --> 00:21:18,120 Remember, keep it holy. 420 00:21:18,120 --> 00:21:20,680 Spend time worshiping me because you are no longer slaves. 421 00:21:20,680 --> 00:21:22,640 Southern Hills Church this morning, I have a message for you. 422 00:21:22,640 --> 00:21:24,640 You are no longer slaves to sin. 423 00:21:24,640 --> 00:21:27,200 You are no longer slaves to your family of origin. 424 00:21:27,200 --> 00:21:28,640 You have been freed from that. 425 00:21:28,640 --> 00:21:30,840 Jesus has made you whole and approved. 426 00:21:30,840 --> 00:21:33,440 And you are free to rest in him. 427 00:21:33,440 --> 00:21:38,640 What a beautiful truth to step into and just stop and say, you're God, I'm not. 428 00:21:38,640 --> 00:21:39,640 You're good. 429 00:21:39,640 --> 00:21:40,640 I'm not. 430 00:21:40,640 --> 00:21:41,640 I'm going to rest in that truth today. 431 00:21:41,640 --> 00:21:43,560 That's what Rich Volodis says about Sabbath. 432 00:21:43,560 --> 00:21:50,040 He says five favorite things about Sabbath is Sabbath is not a reward for hard work. 433 00:21:50,040 --> 00:21:55,800 Sabbath is a reminder that our work will remain incomplete. 434 00:21:55,800 --> 00:21:59,480 How many of you when you pause, your brain just starts thinking of all the things you 435 00:21:59,480 --> 00:22:00,480 have to do? 436 00:22:00,480 --> 00:22:02,480 You're like, why couldn't I think of these things earlier? 437 00:22:02,480 --> 00:22:04,520 And you're like trying to write them down. 438 00:22:04,520 --> 00:22:09,000 Sabbath is a day that moves us from production to presence. 439 00:22:09,000 --> 00:22:11,360 Think Martha to Mary. 440 00:22:11,360 --> 00:22:13,240 Both reminds us that we are not God. 441 00:22:13,240 --> 00:22:16,360 And Sabbath points to us the deep rest that we need found in Christ. 442 00:22:16,360 --> 00:22:17,360 The first point is this. 443 00:22:17,360 --> 00:22:18,360 We need to stop. 444 00:22:18,360 --> 00:22:20,040 Here's the practice. 445 00:22:20,040 --> 00:22:21,040 Every point will have a practice. 446 00:22:21,040 --> 00:22:22,040 Are you ready for it? 447 00:22:22,040 --> 00:22:24,200 There are three ways you can practice stopping in your life. 448 00:22:24,200 --> 00:22:25,200 Are you ready? 449 00:22:25,200 --> 00:22:26,920 You can have the traditional Sabbath. 450 00:22:26,920 --> 00:22:27,920 That's a Saturday. 451 00:22:27,920 --> 00:22:28,920 Friday evening into Saturday evening. 452 00:22:28,920 --> 00:22:31,840 And you can say, I'm not going to do anything on this day. 453 00:22:31,840 --> 00:22:35,440 If you work a regular week, Monday through Friday, this is a beautiful rhythm for you 454 00:22:35,440 --> 00:22:39,120 to adopt today and say, I'm going to try this this Friday into Saturday. 455 00:22:39,120 --> 00:22:41,480 We're not going to do everything on Saturday. 456 00:22:41,480 --> 00:22:43,280 We're not going to do anything on Saturday. 457 00:22:43,280 --> 00:22:47,920 If you don't, if your work changes a little bit, or if you have a lot of family home responsibilities, 458 00:22:47,920 --> 00:22:49,840 adopt the second one, the Lord's Day Sabbath. 459 00:22:49,840 --> 00:22:50,840 Listen to me. 460 00:22:50,840 --> 00:22:53,600 This would be a beautiful rhythm for a lot of people in this room to say, all right, here's 461 00:22:53,600 --> 00:22:54,600 what I'm going to start doing. 462 00:22:54,600 --> 00:22:56,680 I'm going to start adopting the Sabbath on Sunday. 463 00:22:56,680 --> 00:22:58,640 I'm going to start out my day in God's presence. 464 00:22:58,640 --> 00:23:02,600 And then I'm going to go to church and worship every single Sunday. 465 00:23:02,600 --> 00:23:03,800 That's why we encourage that. 466 00:23:03,800 --> 00:23:07,320 It's not so that you can show up and we can say, okay, we're so glad you're here. 467 00:23:07,320 --> 00:23:08,320 You checked the box. 468 00:23:08,320 --> 00:23:09,320 It has nothing to do with that. 469 00:23:09,320 --> 00:23:14,080 It has to do with building the rhythm in your life of corporate worship, learning the word 470 00:23:14,080 --> 00:23:15,400 of God, understanding. 471 00:23:15,400 --> 00:23:19,480 By the way, a lot of businesses, a lot of places are closed. 472 00:23:19,480 --> 00:23:25,600 Sundays typically are the least busy time in cities when there's less traffic. 473 00:23:25,600 --> 00:23:27,880 It's a good day to just say, hey, we're stopping too. 474 00:23:27,880 --> 00:23:29,680 I'm not adding things to the calendar. 475 00:23:29,680 --> 00:23:30,920 I'm taking a break. 476 00:23:30,920 --> 00:23:32,400 Or there's the midweek Sabbath. 477 00:23:32,400 --> 00:23:33,880 There's any day during the week. 478 00:23:33,880 --> 00:23:39,960 In college, I worked an overnight security job on a DOD contract for Boeing in Lancaster, 479 00:23:39,960 --> 00:23:40,960 California. 480 00:23:40,960 --> 00:23:42,880 So my work would start 10 p.m. and go to 6 a.m. 481 00:23:42,880 --> 00:23:47,480 I'd get off at 6 a.m. and I'd drink a gallon of coffee and then go to class for my master's 482 00:23:47,480 --> 00:23:50,160 degree and go there till noon. 483 00:23:50,160 --> 00:23:53,000 And then at noon, I'd get off from that and I'd skip lunch and I'd go sleep for three 484 00:23:53,000 --> 00:23:54,000 hours and at 3 p.m. 485 00:23:54,000 --> 00:23:57,840 I would get up and I would go to my second job at Dillard selling women's shoes. 486 00:23:57,840 --> 00:23:59,000 That's another story. 487 00:23:59,000 --> 00:24:06,000 And then I would work from 4 p.m. get up at 3 p.m. work from 4 p.m. until 9 p.m. that 488 00:24:06,000 --> 00:24:11,640 night, five-hour shift, part-time, get off at 9 p.m. and then go back to my security 489 00:24:11,640 --> 00:24:15,840 job for Boeing with a DOD contract and my day would start all over. 490 00:24:15,840 --> 00:24:19,480 And I remember during that time being like, there's a lot. 491 00:24:19,480 --> 00:24:20,480 You might be in here. 492 00:24:20,480 --> 00:24:21,720 You might be working two or three jobs. 493 00:24:21,720 --> 00:24:22,720 I get it. 494 00:24:22,720 --> 00:24:24,080 Here's what I remember finding during that time. 495 00:24:24,080 --> 00:24:25,080 I remember finding windows. 496 00:24:25,080 --> 00:24:26,960 This is what the midweek Sabbath is. 497 00:24:26,960 --> 00:24:28,040 Windows where I could rest. 498 00:24:28,040 --> 00:24:32,480 I drove a friend down to LAX one time to the airport and then I drove right to the Santa 499 00:24:32,480 --> 00:24:33,480 Monica Beach. 500 00:24:33,480 --> 00:24:35,680 I parked my car and I said, I'm going to go take a nap on the beach. 501 00:24:35,680 --> 00:24:39,040 I had a professor in college that always used to say, sometimes the most spiritual thing 502 00:24:39,040 --> 00:24:41,040 you can do is take a nap. 503 00:24:41,040 --> 00:24:43,640 Hey, man, some of y'all need that truth today. 504 00:24:43,640 --> 00:24:45,120 I'm like, I'm going to go take a nap. 505 00:24:45,120 --> 00:24:49,160 I didn't think about the fact that I would be laying on the beach in the sun. 506 00:24:49,160 --> 00:24:53,440 And so I woke up three hours later, very well rested and very well burnt. 507 00:24:53,440 --> 00:24:55,240 And it was a great nap. 508 00:24:55,240 --> 00:24:58,240 Maybe you need to adopt the midweek Sabbath and say, hey, this Tuesday is my day. 509 00:24:58,240 --> 00:24:59,240 Thursday is my day. 510 00:24:59,240 --> 00:25:01,920 Whatever your schedule looks like, maybe that changes from week to week. 511 00:25:01,920 --> 00:25:03,480 Dive in by stopping. 512 00:25:03,480 --> 00:25:07,160 Once you have a day in time carved out, you can begin to experience the second translation 513 00:25:07,160 --> 00:25:09,520 of Sabbath, number two, which is rest. 514 00:25:09,520 --> 00:25:11,360 Kerry Newhoff says this about rest. 515 00:25:11,360 --> 00:25:15,160 When every season is a busy season, it's not a season. 516 00:25:15,160 --> 00:25:17,000 It's your life. 517 00:25:17,000 --> 00:25:18,600 I think that's so true. 518 00:25:18,600 --> 00:25:20,680 It's so easy for me to be like, Hey, man, how are you doing? 519 00:25:20,680 --> 00:25:21,680 Oh, I'm good. 520 00:25:21,680 --> 00:25:22,680 How are you doing? 521 00:25:22,680 --> 00:25:23,680 Man, I'm good. 522 00:25:23,680 --> 00:25:26,400 I've been busy. 523 00:25:26,400 --> 00:25:31,320 Busyness has become a modern day idol in most of our lives. 524 00:25:31,320 --> 00:25:34,720 And we need to step away from it and say, God, I'm willing to stop and I'm willing to 525 00:25:34,720 --> 00:25:36,760 enter into your rest. 526 00:25:36,760 --> 00:25:38,760 What type of rest do we need? 527 00:25:38,760 --> 00:25:43,400 We need physical rests on 127.1 through 2 says this, unless the Lord builds the house, 528 00:25:43,400 --> 00:25:45,040 they labor in vain who build it. 529 00:25:45,040 --> 00:25:47,840 Unless the Lord guards the city, the watchman stays awake in vain. 530 00:25:47,840 --> 00:25:51,160 It is vain for you to rise up early, to sit up late, to eat the bread of sorrows. 531 00:25:51,160 --> 00:25:54,360 For so he gives his beloved sleep. 532 00:25:54,360 --> 00:25:56,440 Sleep is a gift from God. 533 00:25:56,440 --> 00:25:57,680 Lean into it. 534 00:25:57,680 --> 00:26:00,240 Some of us need to do a better job stopping and then saying, all right, God, I'm going 535 00:26:00,240 --> 00:26:01,240 to take a nap. 536 00:26:01,240 --> 00:26:02,240 I'm going to rest. 537 00:26:02,240 --> 00:26:03,240 I'm not God. 538 00:26:03,240 --> 00:26:04,240 I can't change this. 539 00:26:04,240 --> 00:26:05,240 I can't fix this. 540 00:26:05,240 --> 00:26:07,040 I'm going to physically rest right now. 541 00:26:07,040 --> 00:26:08,720 But we don't just rest physically. 542 00:26:08,720 --> 00:26:10,080 Then we rest mentally and emotionally. 543 00:26:10,080 --> 00:26:13,160 We calm down, relax, process the week. 544 00:26:13,160 --> 00:26:17,200 Isaiah 26, 3, you will keep him in perfect peace whose mind is stayed on you because 545 00:26:17,200 --> 00:26:18,720 he trusts in you. 546 00:26:18,720 --> 00:26:21,880 Trust in the Lord forever for in YAH the Lord is everlasting strength. 547 00:26:21,880 --> 00:26:28,280 I'm going to give you a practice here in a minute to rest mentally and emotionally. 548 00:26:28,280 --> 00:26:29,280 All right? 549 00:26:29,280 --> 00:26:33,440 And then lastly, spiritually, we cease our striving and we rest in God's love for us 550 00:26:33,440 --> 00:26:34,440 through abiding. 551 00:26:34,440 --> 00:26:37,800 Ephesians 2, 8, for by grace you saved through faith. 552 00:26:37,800 --> 00:26:40,880 Not to yourselves as a gift of God, not of works as any man should boast, for we are 553 00:26:40,880 --> 00:26:41,880 his workmanship. 554 00:26:41,880 --> 00:26:46,360 Since you're saying, I'm going to pull the car into the shop and say, hey, God, what 555 00:26:46,360 --> 00:26:48,680 do I need to work on? 556 00:26:48,680 --> 00:26:51,120 What do I need to lean into you with? 557 00:26:51,120 --> 00:26:53,160 What do I need to rest? 558 00:26:53,160 --> 00:26:58,040 You need to lead me and I'm willing to rest in you. 559 00:26:58,040 --> 00:26:59,040 So ask. 560 00:26:59,040 --> 00:27:00,040 Here's the practice. 561 00:27:00,040 --> 00:27:01,040 Ready? 562 00:27:01,040 --> 00:27:02,040 Ask. 563 00:27:02,040 --> 00:27:05,200 If you have the notes, ask, what is restful for me? 564 00:27:05,200 --> 00:27:08,800 Now what's restful for you may be different than what's restful for me. 565 00:27:08,800 --> 00:27:09,800 I do a lot of meetings. 566 00:27:09,800 --> 00:27:10,800 I do a lot of face to face. 567 00:27:10,800 --> 00:27:12,280 I meet a lot of people throughout the week. 568 00:27:12,280 --> 00:27:13,520 I do a lot of study. 569 00:27:13,520 --> 00:27:17,360 So what's restful for me may be different than what's restful for you. 570 00:27:17,360 --> 00:27:18,480 I like going home. 571 00:27:18,480 --> 00:27:21,040 I don't mind doing little projects on my Sabbath. 572 00:27:21,040 --> 00:27:28,440 I don't mind doing something for my wife, hanging a photo or redoing a room, doing a 573 00:27:28,440 --> 00:27:29,440 little project. 574 00:27:29,440 --> 00:27:32,200 I also believe in having a good marriage. 575 00:27:32,200 --> 00:27:36,720 So doing those things for my wife is really restful for our marriage. 576 00:27:36,720 --> 00:27:38,280 I think it's really, really good. 577 00:27:38,280 --> 00:27:39,840 What's restful for me may be restful for you. 578 00:27:39,840 --> 00:27:43,200 If you work with your hands all week long, maybe you need to rest by picking up a book 579 00:27:43,200 --> 00:27:45,200 and saying, I'm not going to pick up a hammer. 580 00:27:45,200 --> 00:27:46,440 I'm going to pick up a book. 581 00:27:46,440 --> 00:27:47,640 I'm going to rest in God. 582 00:27:47,640 --> 00:27:48,640 I'm going to pick up the word. 583 00:27:48,640 --> 00:27:50,760 I'm going to spend some time. 584 00:27:50,760 --> 00:27:52,600 So how will I rest physically? 585 00:27:52,600 --> 00:27:54,920 What is restful for me asking that question? 586 00:27:54,920 --> 00:27:56,480 How will I rest physically? 587 00:27:56,480 --> 00:27:57,480 Sleeping, napping. 588 00:27:57,480 --> 00:28:00,480 I don't set an alarm on Saturday mornings. 589 00:28:00,480 --> 00:28:01,840 I have kids. 590 00:28:01,840 --> 00:28:04,640 They are my alarm at 7 a.m. 591 00:28:04,640 --> 00:28:05,800 But I sleep in a little bit. 592 00:28:05,800 --> 00:28:08,240 And then how will I rest mentally and emotionally? 593 00:28:08,240 --> 00:28:13,400 Can I just be real with you for a minute as if I haven't been real with you the rest of 594 00:28:13,400 --> 00:28:14,480 time? 595 00:28:14,480 --> 00:28:21,440 You know how I know that I'm resting when I don't know where this is? 596 00:28:21,440 --> 00:28:27,120 I know I'm resting mentally and emotionally when I think about halfway through the day, 597 00:28:27,120 --> 00:28:28,840 hey, where's my phone at? 598 00:28:28,840 --> 00:28:31,600 And not like in a, where's my phone at? 599 00:28:31,600 --> 00:28:35,320 But in like a, man, I haven't even been on my phone. 600 00:28:35,320 --> 00:28:38,280 Hey, you missed a FaceTime call from family members? 601 00:28:38,280 --> 00:28:39,280 That's okay. 602 00:28:39,280 --> 00:28:41,040 You can call them back. 603 00:28:41,040 --> 00:28:47,720 Put it away for a little while and feel your soul rest in Jesus. 604 00:28:47,720 --> 00:28:49,040 There's several ways you can do that. 605 00:28:49,040 --> 00:28:50,760 I like what Ian Simkin says. 606 00:28:50,760 --> 00:28:57,360 He says, scripture before screams, meditation before media, prayer before posts. 607 00:28:57,360 --> 00:29:01,480 Maybe for us, our young adult group in here, maybe before we be real with my friends, we 608 00:29:01,480 --> 00:29:03,720 need to just get real with God. 609 00:29:03,720 --> 00:29:08,240 Maybe we need to spend time in God's presence before we spend time on our phone. 610 00:29:08,240 --> 00:29:12,720 Maybe before we develop more snaps on laps, we need to develop our character more in 611 00:29:12,720 --> 00:29:14,220 God's word. 612 00:29:14,220 --> 00:29:18,520 Maybe we just need to go deeper with God for a little bit and take a step away from this 613 00:29:18,520 --> 00:29:21,560 and say, I need to spend time with God first. 614 00:29:21,560 --> 00:29:22,800 There's a lot of ways you can do that. 615 00:29:22,800 --> 00:29:27,160 Make a plan, put your phone in timeout, get a basket, a timeout basket for your phone, 616 00:29:27,160 --> 00:29:30,680 and say, you're a bad phone and put it in that basket. 617 00:29:30,680 --> 00:29:31,680 I'm serious. 618 00:29:31,680 --> 00:29:32,680 I work with teenagers. 619 00:29:32,680 --> 00:29:34,800 You gotta get really practical. 620 00:29:34,800 --> 00:29:36,080 We're working with young adults. 621 00:29:36,080 --> 00:29:38,080 I tell them, man, put it in the basket. 622 00:29:38,080 --> 00:29:39,080 Put it for a little while. 623 00:29:39,080 --> 00:29:40,620 Turn it off. 624 00:29:40,620 --> 00:29:43,320 You can set reminders on your email. 625 00:29:43,320 --> 00:29:45,520 You can set a, I'm out. 626 00:29:45,520 --> 00:29:47,400 You want to really freak your coworkers out? 627 00:29:47,400 --> 00:29:50,680 Set a reminder on your email that when they email you, it says, I'm sorry, today is my 628 00:29:50,680 --> 00:29:51,680 Sabbath. 629 00:29:51,680 --> 00:29:52,680 I'm resting in God. 630 00:29:52,680 --> 00:29:53,680 I'll get back with you. 631 00:29:53,680 --> 00:29:56,880 They'll be like, dude, don't bother him on Saturdays. 632 00:29:56,880 --> 00:29:57,880 Don't bother him on Sundays, bro. 633 00:29:57,880 --> 00:29:58,960 You're going to get a sermon. 634 00:29:58,960 --> 00:30:00,920 I don't know what it looks like for you. 635 00:30:00,920 --> 00:30:07,280 Again, I know, some of y'all are like, yeah, you know, I know it looks different for everyone, 636 00:30:07,280 --> 00:30:12,920 but make a plan for what it looks like for you to rest mentally and emotionally. 637 00:30:12,920 --> 00:30:13,920 Put your device away. 638 00:30:13,920 --> 00:30:17,480 And then how will I rest spiritually? 639 00:30:17,480 --> 00:30:21,880 One of the practices that our pastoral team has is every week we meet and we go through 640 00:30:21,880 --> 00:30:22,880 the sermon together. 641 00:30:22,880 --> 00:30:23,880 And here's why. 642 00:30:23,880 --> 00:30:25,720 We want to step back and ask this question. 643 00:30:25,720 --> 00:30:31,200 Jesus told the Pharisees that they were laying heavy burdens on men's backs that no man could 644 00:30:31,200 --> 00:30:32,200 bear. 645 00:30:32,200 --> 00:30:36,760 We regularly ask the question as pastors, how are we inviting the church body into the 646 00:30:36,760 --> 00:30:42,360 freedom and the acceptance that is in Jesus and not just giving you a to do list. 647 00:30:42,360 --> 00:30:45,000 The gospel is not moral reform. 648 00:30:45,000 --> 00:30:51,080 The gospel is transformation that happens from your soul upward and outward. 649 00:30:51,080 --> 00:30:53,640 And when you spend time in Jesus, I always visualize it. 650 00:30:53,640 --> 00:30:58,640 I picture it that I'm stepping into the throne room of God and immediately I feel small. 651 00:30:58,640 --> 00:31:03,080 And then I remember the scripture where God says to come to him boldly to the throne of 652 00:31:03,080 --> 00:31:04,080 grace. 653 00:31:04,080 --> 00:31:05,080 And so I start spending time in God's presence. 654 00:31:05,080 --> 00:31:08,520 And I imagine myself walking up to a throne and putting my hand on it. 655 00:31:08,520 --> 00:31:09,760 And I don't deserve to be there. 656 00:31:09,760 --> 00:31:14,160 But I cry out, Abba, Father, and the Father looks to me and says, you are loved and you 657 00:31:14,160 --> 00:31:15,160 are approved. 658 00:31:15,160 --> 00:31:16,160 Well done. 659 00:31:16,160 --> 00:31:17,160 I love you, son. 660 00:31:17,160 --> 00:31:18,160 Spend time in my presence. 661 00:31:18,160 --> 00:31:24,560 And I'm telling you, when I rest in that truth, I don't need to show up on Sunday and 662 00:31:24,560 --> 00:31:26,840 now be told, okay, God's not mad at you. 663 00:31:26,840 --> 00:31:27,840 God's good with you. 664 00:31:27,840 --> 00:31:29,160 Not that that's a bad thing. 665 00:31:29,160 --> 00:31:31,400 But as believers in Jesus, can I ask you something? 666 00:31:31,400 --> 00:31:35,060 When's the last time you just rested spiritually in him? 667 00:31:35,060 --> 00:31:37,880 Your salvation that you didn't work for. 668 00:31:37,880 --> 00:31:38,960 You also can't keep. 669 00:31:38,960 --> 00:31:44,080 A covenant with God is that you committed to God and now God keeps that covenant. 670 00:31:44,080 --> 00:31:48,200 You have committed your soul to him and God will keep it. 671 00:31:48,200 --> 00:31:49,200 Rest in Jesus. 672 00:31:49,200 --> 00:31:52,520 I like what Corrie 10 Boom says because maybe you're like me and you tend to think about 673 00:31:52,520 --> 00:31:55,760 all the sins, all the things you've done wrong, all the times you failed God, all the times 674 00:31:55,760 --> 00:31:59,840 that you've stepped out of line and you start thinking about them, all the sins you've engaged 675 00:31:59,840 --> 00:32:02,760 in last week and maybe yesterday and maybe this morning and you start thinking about 676 00:32:02,760 --> 00:32:03,760 those. 677 00:32:03,760 --> 00:32:10,360 Corrie 10 Boom said this, she said, God buried my sin in the deepest part of the sea and 678 00:32:10,360 --> 00:32:14,440 then he put up a sign that said no fishing here. 679 00:32:14,440 --> 00:32:19,560 When your spirit or the enemy comes to you and starts reminding you of what you used 680 00:32:19,560 --> 00:32:22,400 to be, you can say that's not who I am anymore. 681 00:32:22,400 --> 00:32:24,960 I am approved in Jesus. 682 00:32:24,960 --> 00:32:30,360 Jesus has paid for my sin and I am safe and I am loved and I am fulfilled in the presence 683 00:32:30,360 --> 00:32:32,000 of the Father. 684 00:32:32,000 --> 00:32:36,680 What a truth to just start to wrestle with in you and as you bathe in that rest that 685 00:32:36,680 --> 00:32:41,000 God's inviting you into that he's freely giving to you, you'll find that your rest turns 686 00:32:41,000 --> 00:32:43,840 into number three, delight. 687 00:32:43,840 --> 00:32:52,000 When you stop and rest, you'll find delight starts to grow in your life and in your heart. 688 00:32:52,000 --> 00:32:55,600 John Mark Cormoran says this, we pamper our souls with activities that spark joy, wonder, 689 00:32:55,600 --> 00:32:59,720 gratitude, happiness, such as eating good food, walking in nature, spending time with family 690 00:32:59,720 --> 00:33:03,240 and friends, listening to music, playing games, making love to our spouse or just having 691 00:33:03,240 --> 00:33:04,760 fun before God. 692 00:33:04,760 --> 00:33:10,760 Psalm 241 says, the earth is the Lord's and everything in it, the world and all its people 693 00:33:10,760 --> 00:33:12,560 belong to Him. 694 00:33:12,560 --> 00:33:16,760 There's this story in Nehemiah in the Old Testament where the people hadn't read the 695 00:33:16,760 --> 00:33:21,120 Torah recently and because they hadn't read it, they didn't really have a relationship 696 00:33:21,120 --> 00:33:25,400 with God and they find it and they read the Bible out loud and watch what happens. 697 00:33:25,400 --> 00:33:29,920 Nehemiah continued, go and celebrate, the people start to get discouraged and they're 698 00:33:29,920 --> 00:33:36,560 like, oh man, God, we don't know who this God is and Nehemiah tells them, go and celebrate 699 00:33:36,560 --> 00:33:40,120 with a feast of rich foods and sweet drinks and share gifts of food with people who have 700 00:33:40,120 --> 00:33:41,280 nothing prepared. 701 00:33:41,280 --> 00:33:43,160 This is a sacred day before our Lord. 702 00:33:43,160 --> 00:33:47,480 Don't be dejected and sad for the joy of the Lord is your strength. 703 00:33:47,480 --> 00:33:50,520 And the Levites too, quieted the people, telling them, hush, don't weep for this is a sacred 704 00:33:50,520 --> 00:33:51,520 day. 705 00:33:51,520 --> 00:33:55,160 So the people went away to eat and drink at a festive meal to share gifts of food and 706 00:33:55,160 --> 00:34:00,040 celebrate with great joy because they had heard God's words and understood them. 707 00:34:00,040 --> 00:34:05,280 The more you spend time with God, the more you enter into delight and realize God has 708 00:34:05,280 --> 00:34:06,760 given me everything richly to enjoy. 709 00:34:06,760 --> 00:34:11,600 Do you know what the Old King James, you know the translation says in this passage when 710 00:34:11,600 --> 00:34:17,440 it says go and celebrate with a feast of rich foods and sweet drinks, it says eat the fat, 711 00:34:17,440 --> 00:34:19,040 drink the sweet. 712 00:34:19,040 --> 00:34:22,560 You want a slogan for your Sabbath? 713 00:34:22,560 --> 00:34:26,040 Be like, all right, God, I am resting, I'm stopping, I'm resting in you and I'm going 714 00:34:26,040 --> 00:34:27,880 to eat the fat and drink the sweet. 715 00:34:27,880 --> 00:34:28,880 Let's go. 716 00:34:28,880 --> 00:34:31,720 Lean into the delight that God has given you. 717 00:34:31,720 --> 00:34:33,640 You know one of the ways that my family doesn't? 718 00:34:33,640 --> 00:34:36,120 I don't cook for the most part throughout the week. 719 00:34:36,120 --> 00:34:37,120 My wife does. 720 00:34:37,120 --> 00:34:40,360 And so on Saturday, I don't mind coming home and cooking. 721 00:34:40,360 --> 00:34:42,400 It's my Sabbath and I enjoy relaxing. 722 00:34:42,400 --> 00:34:46,560 And so I get up and before anyone's up, I start preparing this wonderful meal. 723 00:34:46,560 --> 00:34:47,560 Do you know what I make? 724 00:34:47,560 --> 00:34:48,560 Cereal. 725 00:34:48,560 --> 00:34:49,560 No, I'm just kidding. 726 00:34:49,560 --> 00:34:51,000 I start preparing. 727 00:34:51,000 --> 00:34:52,000 I enjoy cooking. 728 00:34:52,000 --> 00:34:54,080 I used to help my mom when I was a kid. 729 00:34:54,080 --> 00:34:59,360 And so I have the Magnolia cookbook from Joanna Gaines from Waco, Texas. 730 00:34:59,360 --> 00:35:03,680 And I open it and I make biscuits and gravy from that on Saturday morning. 731 00:35:03,680 --> 00:35:06,840 You want to talk about a spiritual experience? 732 00:35:06,840 --> 00:35:08,280 I'm telling you, Gatlin will come downstairs. 733 00:35:08,280 --> 00:35:11,280 He'll be like, I smell biscuits and they smell good. 734 00:35:11,280 --> 00:35:12,760 You know what I mean? 735 00:35:12,760 --> 00:35:14,680 He's entering into delight. 736 00:35:14,680 --> 00:35:15,680 Can I help you something? 737 00:35:15,680 --> 00:35:18,480 Maybe you pick Sunday as your day to rest and delight in God. 738 00:35:18,480 --> 00:35:22,520 And so you wake up and you spend time worshiping God and then you come to church and you worship 739 00:35:22,520 --> 00:35:25,480 God and then you go home and you're like, okay, what am I supposed to do with the rest 740 00:35:25,480 --> 00:35:26,860 of the day? 741 00:35:26,860 --> 00:35:28,400 Maybe you enjoy football. 742 00:35:28,400 --> 00:35:30,200 Turn football on and watch football. 743 00:35:30,200 --> 00:35:34,880 You're like, Pastor Caleb, I've been coming to church for years. 744 00:35:34,880 --> 00:35:37,480 And I've always heard the pastor say, some of y'all watching football instead of coming 745 00:35:37,480 --> 00:35:38,480 to Jesus. 746 00:35:38,480 --> 00:35:39,480 We're saying the opposite. 747 00:35:39,480 --> 00:35:41,960 Lean into delight, but come to church first. 748 00:35:41,960 --> 00:35:44,320 Amen. 749 00:35:44,320 --> 00:35:45,960 God has made all things richly for you. 750 00:35:45,960 --> 00:35:46,960 Enjoy. 751 00:35:46,960 --> 00:35:48,440 Ask yourself, what is God? 752 00:35:48,440 --> 00:35:53,880 What wired me that's within the boundaries of His word that He wants me to have that 753 00:35:53,880 --> 00:35:55,680 I can enjoy? 754 00:35:55,680 --> 00:35:56,880 I said this to the 830 service. 755 00:35:56,880 --> 00:36:00,160 Some of y'all need to watch football because it's a spiritual experience because your prayer 756 00:36:00,160 --> 00:36:02,440 life needs to grow for your team. 757 00:36:02,440 --> 00:36:03,440 Okay? 758 00:36:03,440 --> 00:36:04,440 Because they struggled. 759 00:36:04,440 --> 00:36:05,440 They struggled this year, right? 760 00:36:05,440 --> 00:36:07,840 I don't know where you're at, but do something you enjoy. 761 00:36:07,840 --> 00:36:08,840 Maybe you enjoy nature. 762 00:36:08,840 --> 00:36:10,000 Get out in God's nature. 763 00:36:10,000 --> 00:36:11,160 Maybe you enjoy reading. 764 00:36:11,160 --> 00:36:12,440 Maybe you enjoy long walks. 765 00:36:12,440 --> 00:36:15,840 Whatever you enjoy, lean into it. 766 00:36:15,840 --> 00:36:16,840 Worship with your community. 767 00:36:16,840 --> 00:36:18,160 Walk, nap, read. 768 00:36:18,160 --> 00:36:20,960 And in time alone with God, lean into the practice. 769 00:36:20,960 --> 00:36:22,680 Okay, now, here's the point. 770 00:36:22,680 --> 00:36:23,680 Delight, here's the practice. 771 00:36:23,680 --> 00:36:29,480 If you're going to delight, you have to plan your delight with a preparation day. 772 00:36:29,480 --> 00:36:30,480 Okay? 773 00:36:30,480 --> 00:36:32,440 So, before you get to Saturday, make a list. 774 00:36:32,440 --> 00:36:33,440 Where are my list makers? 775 00:36:33,440 --> 00:36:35,600 You don't have to raise your hand, but you know who you are. 776 00:36:35,600 --> 00:36:36,600 You're like, yes. 777 00:36:36,600 --> 00:36:38,040 The pastor said we have to make a list. 778 00:36:38,040 --> 00:36:39,640 We're going home making a list. 779 00:36:39,640 --> 00:36:42,600 Make a list of what you have to do before you get to your Sabbath. 780 00:36:42,600 --> 00:36:44,840 Because otherwise it'll fill up with everything else. 781 00:36:44,840 --> 00:36:48,240 So if Sunday is your Sabbath, make your errand day on Saturday. 782 00:36:48,240 --> 00:36:51,200 So I'm going to be like, have you seen the lines at Costco on Saturday? 783 00:36:51,200 --> 00:36:52,760 Okay, go to Costco Tuesday night. 784 00:36:52,760 --> 00:36:54,520 I don't know. 785 00:36:54,520 --> 00:36:57,320 Make a list of when you're going to do those things. 786 00:36:57,320 --> 00:37:02,960 Make a plan for it so that when you enter into your Sabbath, you can practice the light. 787 00:37:02,960 --> 00:37:05,920 We took our young adult group for our Christmas party. 788 00:37:05,920 --> 00:37:06,960 We sold them tickets. 789 00:37:06,960 --> 00:37:07,960 And we took our young adult group. 790 00:37:07,960 --> 00:37:11,560 And we all went to Texas Day Brazil, a Brazilian steakhouse. 791 00:37:11,560 --> 00:37:13,120 You ever been there? 792 00:37:13,120 --> 00:37:14,120 Whew. 793 00:37:14,120 --> 00:37:18,680 Listen, you can't just show up at Texas Day Brazil after just eating at Taco Bell. 794 00:37:18,680 --> 00:37:22,520 You have to plan your delight at Texas Day Brazil. 795 00:37:22,520 --> 00:37:23,920 The day of our Christmas party. 796 00:37:23,920 --> 00:37:27,040 I'm like going through and I'm like, I'm going to eat light for breakfast. 797 00:37:27,040 --> 00:37:28,840 And then we got to midday and it was lunchtime. 798 00:37:28,840 --> 00:37:30,880 And I was like, I think I'm busy. 799 00:37:30,880 --> 00:37:31,880 I think I'm busy for lunch. 800 00:37:31,880 --> 00:37:33,120 I'm going to get some work done. 801 00:37:33,120 --> 00:37:34,720 And I skipped a couple of meals throughout the day. 802 00:37:34,720 --> 00:37:35,720 Why? 803 00:37:35,720 --> 00:37:37,800 Because when you walk into Texas Day Brazil, they have a little card and it's green on 804 00:37:37,800 --> 00:37:40,000 one side and red in the other. 805 00:37:40,000 --> 00:37:41,320 I believe in green. 806 00:37:41,320 --> 00:37:42,320 Amen. 807 00:37:42,320 --> 00:37:43,320 So I flip it over. 808 00:37:43,320 --> 00:37:44,320 I'm like, keep bringing it. 809 00:37:44,320 --> 00:37:46,720 Lord, keep bringing the blessings, you know? 810 00:37:46,720 --> 00:37:49,040 In the same way, plan your Sabbath. 811 00:37:49,040 --> 00:37:51,920 Say, I want to enter into delight. 812 00:37:51,920 --> 00:37:54,600 I'm not going to fill up on everything else throughout the week. 813 00:37:54,600 --> 00:37:57,440 I'm going to enjoy spending time in God's presence. 814 00:37:57,440 --> 00:38:02,840 And when we've stopped, rested, and we find ourselves delighting in all that is God's, 815 00:38:02,840 --> 00:38:06,080 we are ushered into the last translation of the word Shabbat. 816 00:38:06,080 --> 00:38:07,720 And it's this. 817 00:38:07,720 --> 00:38:10,240 Worship. 818 00:38:10,240 --> 00:38:15,480 Worship is not a rhythm that ushers us into the presence of God, although it's part of 819 00:38:15,480 --> 00:38:17,360 it. 820 00:38:17,360 --> 00:38:20,280 Worship is what we do when we are already in the presence of God. 821 00:38:20,280 --> 00:38:25,760 And so when we show up on Sundays as a church, some of you are learning these rhythms and 822 00:38:25,760 --> 00:38:29,360 you need to make Sunday your rhythm and make the Sunday morning experience a part of how 823 00:38:29,360 --> 00:38:30,480 you worship God. 824 00:38:30,480 --> 00:38:34,760 But some of us who've been following Jesus for a little while, Sunday needs to be the 825 00:38:34,760 --> 00:38:38,640 overflow of what God already did on Saturday. 826 00:38:38,640 --> 00:38:41,240 What I mean by that is I've spent time with God. 827 00:38:41,240 --> 00:38:46,480 And so when I show up, I can now Galatians 6-1, I can bear up one another's burdens, 828 00:38:46,480 --> 00:38:51,440 I can pour out, I can minister, I can serve because I've spent time with Jesus. 829 00:38:51,440 --> 00:38:53,200 Psalm 150 says, praise the Lord. 830 00:38:53,200 --> 00:38:54,200 Praise God in a sanctuary. 831 00:38:54,200 --> 00:38:55,560 Praise Him in His money, firmament. 832 00:38:55,560 --> 00:38:56,840 Praise Him for His money, acts. 833 00:38:56,840 --> 00:38:58,560 Praise Him according to His excellent greatness. 834 00:38:58,560 --> 00:39:01,360 Let everything that has breath praise the Lord. 835 00:39:01,360 --> 00:39:02,720 Praise the Lord. 836 00:39:02,720 --> 00:39:06,520 The best way I could summarize it is to say this, as we clear out our hearts from worries 837 00:39:06,520 --> 00:39:11,400 and everything that we carry throughout the week, what we find is now we have the margin 838 00:39:11,400 --> 00:39:12,400 to worship. 839 00:39:12,400 --> 00:39:16,160 There's a lot of different ways that you could practice that, but essentially what you're 840 00:39:16,160 --> 00:39:20,280 asking is, how can I cultivate intimacy with God? 841 00:39:20,280 --> 00:39:24,320 How can I practice, how can I cultivate a heart of worship? 842 00:39:24,320 --> 00:39:29,840 How can I make sure that my heart is set to worship? 843 00:39:29,840 --> 00:39:35,680 A year ago, January 9th, 2023, my mom was diagnosed with cancer. 844 00:39:35,680 --> 00:39:38,720 Many of you have walked this journey with us. 845 00:39:38,720 --> 00:39:47,000 As a matter of fact, I was sitting in the ER room a year ago during this week, spending 846 00:39:47,000 --> 00:39:51,600 time with my mom, and as she was talking, we were just thinking through the realities, 847 00:39:51,600 --> 00:39:54,880 the reality of she might not make it. 848 00:39:54,880 --> 00:40:00,520 She was 59 and a half years old, and we talked about some things, and I said, mom, what's 849 00:40:00,520 --> 00:40:01,520 on your heart? 850 00:40:01,520 --> 00:40:02,520 What's in your mind? 851 00:40:02,520 --> 00:40:06,280 Mom, I always thought I would make it to 60. 852 00:40:06,280 --> 00:40:11,400 Her birthday is August 29th, and I whispered a prayer in my heart, and I just thought, 853 00:40:11,400 --> 00:40:17,400 God, will you somehow, some way, will you help my mom make it to 60? 854 00:40:17,400 --> 00:40:20,520 Then I said, is there anything you wish you would have done? 855 00:40:20,520 --> 00:40:24,960 She thought a little bit, and she said, I've always wanted to go to Hawaii. 856 00:40:24,960 --> 00:40:27,160 By the way, in Las Vegas, we love Hawaii. 857 00:40:27,160 --> 00:40:28,160 We love it. 858 00:40:28,160 --> 00:40:33,040 I told my mom, I said, let's see what God does, and I remember calling my wife that 859 00:40:33,040 --> 00:40:39,480 day and saying, babe, I don't know how, I don't know when, I don't know if, but I am 860 00:40:39,480 --> 00:40:43,480 trusting that God will give us a miracle of my mom still being with us and give us the 861 00:40:43,480 --> 00:40:46,640 ability to go and take her to Hawaii. 862 00:40:46,640 --> 00:40:48,240 We've been saving for a new car. 863 00:40:48,240 --> 00:40:49,920 I drive what I call my Dave Ramsey car. 864 00:40:49,920 --> 00:40:52,920 It's a 2008 Chevy Malibu that I had in college. 865 00:40:52,920 --> 00:40:53,920 I drive up. 866 00:40:53,920 --> 00:41:00,320 I pulled up to a stoplight, and I look over, and there's Jose Rubio, one of our deacons, 867 00:41:00,320 --> 00:41:02,440 and his car is like, whee whee whee whee whee. 868 00:41:02,440 --> 00:41:06,640 I'm like, hey Jose, and he looks over at me, and my car is like whee whee whee whee. 869 00:41:06,640 --> 00:41:09,840 I'm like, Southern Hills, sporting the gospel. 870 00:41:09,840 --> 00:41:13,920 We look over, and so I talked to my wife, and I said, hey, instead of buying a new car, 871 00:41:13,920 --> 00:41:19,440 or getting a used car, or upgrading, or whatever, can we take my mom to Hawaii? 872 00:41:19,440 --> 00:41:25,520 This picture was taken on August 29, 2023, the day my mom turned 60 years old in Hawaii. 873 00:41:25,520 --> 00:41:32,680 And I'm telling you, I'm telling you, the rhythm that's carried me through this past 874 00:41:32,680 --> 00:41:36,320 year more than any other rhythm has been this rhythm of Sabbath. 875 00:41:36,320 --> 00:41:41,120 I have not been able to carry all the emotions that have come with this journey. 876 00:41:41,120 --> 00:41:46,120 But every week I've tried to find a place where I've just stopped and said, God, I can't 877 00:41:46,120 --> 00:41:51,760 keep carrying this, and I've just rested in him, and then I've let my rest turn into delight, 878 00:41:51,760 --> 00:41:57,080 face how my mom, spend time with her, enjoy it, practicing the rhythm of Sabbath. 879 00:41:57,080 --> 00:42:03,360 And what I've found is it has ushered me into worship like nothing else. 880 00:42:03,360 --> 00:42:05,640 Two weeks ago, I sat on the back row with my mom. 881 00:42:05,640 --> 00:42:10,920 She was here visiting for Christmas, and the worship team got up and started singing a song. 882 00:42:10,920 --> 00:42:12,360 And they sang these words. 883 00:42:12,360 --> 00:42:16,520 I'm fighting a battle you've already won. 884 00:42:16,520 --> 00:42:20,040 No matter what comes my way, I will overcome. 885 00:42:20,040 --> 00:42:23,440 I don't know what you're doing, but I know what you've done. 886 00:42:23,440 --> 00:42:25,880 And I'm fighting a battle you've already won. 887 00:42:25,880 --> 00:42:29,680 And during the middle of the song, I'm worshiping and praising Jesus, and I look over, and my 888 00:42:29,680 --> 00:42:31,680 mom is singing those lyrics. 889 00:42:31,680 --> 00:42:34,160 I'm fighting a battle you've already won. 890 00:42:34,160 --> 00:42:39,240 As she fights chemo, or as she fights cancer with chemo in her life. 891 00:42:39,240 --> 00:42:41,160 I just started praising God. 892 00:42:41,160 --> 00:42:44,400 My eyes started sweating. 893 00:42:44,400 --> 00:42:48,720 Tears of joy and worship and love just started flowing in. 894 00:42:48,720 --> 00:42:53,600 And the way that we got there was through this Sabbath rhythm where Jesus says, come 895 00:42:53,600 --> 00:42:59,760 unto me all you who labor and are heavy laden, and I will give you rest. 896 00:42:59,760 --> 00:43:02,480 I want the rest of Jesus. 897 00:43:02,480 --> 00:43:08,200 I want to enter into it, but I also want to learn the rhythm of it. 898 00:43:08,200 --> 00:43:10,440 Take my yoke upon you and learn from me. 899 00:43:10,440 --> 00:43:16,040 For I am gentle and lowly in heart, and you will find rest for your souls. 900 00:43:16,040 --> 00:43:17,720 I want to pray for you this morning. 901 00:43:17,720 --> 00:43:22,800 I want to ask that this wouldn't just be a sermon or a message, but that it would be 902 00:43:22,800 --> 00:43:31,120 a plan, a practical way that you can leave here and say, I want to enter into God's rest 903 00:43:31,120 --> 00:43:32,120 that He has for me. 904 00:43:32,120 --> 00:43:33,120 Let's pray.