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Hello everyone and welcome today to Trinity Sermons.

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Here at Trinity Church, Streetsville, we want to share with you sermons that inspire and

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encourage you in your faith journey as together we learn to love Jesus, live like Jesus and

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lead others to Jesus.

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Today we are finishing up our sermon series, Playing with Fire.

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The title of today's sermon is Slow Burn and we will be talking about how Jesus challenged

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the idea of the Sabbath and brought about a new way to see this day of rest.

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and we hope that you enjoy the sermon.

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God bless.

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A reading from the Gospel of Matthew chapter 12 verses 1 to 14.

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At that time Jesus went through the grain fields on the Sabbath.

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His disciples were hungry and began to pick some heads of grain and eat them.

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When the Pharisees saw this they said to him, look your disciples are doing what is unlawful

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on the Sabbath.

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He answered, haven't you read what David did when his companions were hungry?

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He entered the house of God and he and his companions ate the consecrated bread, which

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was not lawful for them to do, but only for the priests.

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Or haven't you read in the law that the priests on Sabbath duty in the temple desecrate the

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Sabbath and yet are innocent?

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I tell you that something greater than the temple is here.

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If you had known what these words mean, I desire mercy not sacrifice.

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You would have condemned the innocent for the son of man is Lord of the Sabbath.

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Going on from that place he went into their synagogue and a man with a shriveled hand

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was there looking for a reason to bring charges against Jesus.

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They asked him, is it lawful to heal on the Sabbath?

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He said to them, if any of you have a sheep and it falls into a pit on the Sabbath, will

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you not take hold of it and lift it out?

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How much more valuable is a person than a sheep?

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Therefore it is lawful to do good on the Sabbath.

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Then he said to the man, stretch out your hand.

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So he stretched it out and it was completely restored, just as sound as the other.

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But the Pharisees went out and plotted how they might kill Jesus.

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The word of the Lord.

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You probably have noticed that over the past few weeks we have had a lovely fire that has

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been burning outside of the church as we began our services each and every week.

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There it is.

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And it was faithfully tended by Elizabeth and by other people like Bill or Lauren or

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by Robin and Chris here.

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And you know what was always funny though is that after, right about this time during

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the service actually, they would come back into the sanctuary.

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And you could always tell when they were coming back into the church because they smelled

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like smoke.

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They smelled like smoke.

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And that Chris would sit right behind me over here and I could always tell, oh, Chris is

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back because he smelled like smoke.

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Now I'm not saying that they smelled like bad.

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Actually I like the smell of smoke.

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I don't know about you.

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But I wanted to say that at this point, I think all of us should probably be smelling

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a bit like smoke because for the past several weeks we have been looking at Jesus and how

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Jesus played with fire.

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We have been looking at how Jesus lighted and ignited and scorched and torched his way

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through the Bible as he challenged and as he confronted some of the cherished symbols

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and ideas that God's people held most close to them.

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He was really, really playing with fire.

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So for example, four weeks ago we saw Jesus just scorch the whole idea of Holy Land, right?

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And then three weeks ago we saw how Jesus singed the pages of scripture with his own

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interpretation of what the Bible really meant.

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And then two weeks ago we saw how Jesus seared a brand new image of family into our imaginations.

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And then last week we saw how Jesus was even leaving the temple, the temple itself, smoldering

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in a pile of ashes.

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In all of these ways, Jesus was seriously, seriously playing with fire.

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And I think it is safe to say for that reason that whenever Jesus walked into a room, he

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probably smelled a lot like smoke.

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You could smell Jesus coming from a mile away there.

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Now I want to say that when you play with fire, of course, we know that you get burned,

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right?

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That's kind of one of the solutions.

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That's one of the things that happens when you play with fire.

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And so if you're ever wondering why on earth did Jesus get crucified, the answer is because

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he said things and he did things that really got under people's skin and he challenged

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and he prodded and he poked at things that people held so dear.

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So for example, when you saw Jesus in our gospel reading that you just read and the

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very last line of the gospel reading is, so the Pharisees went out and they plotted how

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they might kill Jesus.

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You might say, what is all that about?

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Well, by now we should know he's doing it again.

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He's playing with fire again.

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What did you do this time, Jesus?

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What did you say this time?

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What fire did you light that has got people so upset this time?

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Well, today what we are going to do is we are going to clear the smoke.

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We're going to clear the smoke.

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We're going to go out with a bang and we're going to look at yet one more, just one more

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very precious symbol, one more very precious idea that Jesus just couldn't resist.

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He kind of set fire to and he challenged people.

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And of course, that tradition, that idea, that practice that I'm talking about was the

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practice of Sabbath, the Sabbath rest.

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I need to tell you everybody that the Sabbath rest was both a practice and a commandment

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that Israel obeyed and defended with fierce intensity, fierce, fierce intensity.

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The Sabbath, that day of rest was so essential to who they were that actually the surrounding

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nations kind of began to associate Israel with this strange kind of lazy day that they

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had once a week.

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Who are these people?

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Why did they take that day off every week?

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And I want to, I want to tell you that it was essential.

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It was tied to their very, very identity.

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You did not do work on the Sabbath for fear of death.

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And I really do mean for fear of death because you can read in the scriptures, you can read

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it, for example, in the book of Numbers, there was this fellow one day and he went out and

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he started gathering firewood on the Sabbath.

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And that was a big, big no-no.

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And so the assembly took him outside the camp and what they do, Oh, Larry, you shouldn't

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really do that.

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They had a good talk with him.

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They kind of sorted it out with him.

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No, they stoned him to death.

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They stoned him to death.

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You do not mess with the symbol of Sabbath.

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You do not mess with this idea of taking a rest.

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Israel and Sabbath were inseparable from the very, very beginning.

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And I actually do mean the very beginning, because if you go and you flip to the very

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first pages of your Bible, you will see the story of how this Sabbath idea came to pass.

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Right?

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Here it is.

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The moment of the, the kind of the ending point of creation, the seventh day, God had

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finished all the work he had been doing.

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So on the seventh day, he rested from all his work.

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And then God blessed the seventh day and he made it holy because on it, he rested from

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all the creating work that he had been doing.

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A lot of people think that actually the seventh day of creation, God didn't create anything.

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It was the days one, two, three, four, five, and six.

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God did all his creating in the seventh day.

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He didn't do anything.

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And I want to suggest to you that actually on the seventh day, God created something

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else.

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He created something different in the days one through six.

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He was creating space and matter, but on day seven, he was creating time.

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God creates time, right?

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Day one, day two, day three, day four, day five, day six.

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God is creating holy objects and holy space and a holy outer space and moons and planets

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and a holy earth and holy creatures and holy animals.

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But then on day seven, he creates something else.

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He creates holy time, a special and just sacred time that is called the Shabbat, the Sabbath,

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the seventh day of creation.

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And the scriptures kind of seem to tell us that God just kind of sat down in the midst

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of all that he had created.

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He celebrated and he delighted in all that he had made.

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In fact, what I would like you to do this morning, I would like you to imagine, if you

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will, that this chord represents this time, this brand new idea of time that God created

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on the seventh day of creation, right?

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This time, which began right here on the seventh day, but then it's because God creates time

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and time is eternal.

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God's time stretches through all of history.

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It stretches off into the future.

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And God's time, God's time, like everything else with God, it culminates in something

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magnificent in the very end.

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At the very end of God's time, that rest, which was just like that one day, will reach

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its fullness, will reach its completion.

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And there will be an eternal rest.

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There will be an eternal redemption for all creation and all God's people at the very

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end of time.

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So that's God's time.

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That's God's sacred timeline.

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Now you might say, well, what about then us human beings?

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Do we operate on God's time?

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And the answer, I think, unfortunately, would be no.

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As humans, our timeline is kind of different.

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We are limited in our time.

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We live by days and weeks and months and years.

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And our time is actually also kind of holy time too, because God was there when we're

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born.

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God was there all the days of your life.

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God is there on the day that you die.

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And yet our time is shorter.

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Our time is more limited.

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God's sacred, holy time stretches across here.

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And our human time is somewhere below and somewhere much more limited.

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Now here is the interesting thing.

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At some point, well, actually, I'll tell you when it was.

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It was when Israel had finally been released from slavery in Egypt.

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God felt really, really bad that they had been so overworked and they had never had

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a rest.

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They had not had anything close to this kind of divine rest that God experienced.

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So God said to them, he said, listen, I want to give you a gift.

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I want to give you a gift.

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He says, here's what I want.

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What I want you to do.

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I want every seven days, every seven days, I want you to take your time and I want it

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to cross over with my time.

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Every seven days, your human time will have a moment of overlap with my sacred divine

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time or, or as the scriptures put it, remember the Sabbath day by keeping it holy six days,

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six days, one, two, three, four, five, six, you shall do all your work.

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And then on the seventh day, what I want you to do is cross over into my time on the seventh

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day, you're invited to, to overlap with my sacred time.

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I'm inviting you into a Sabbath to the Lord, your God on the seventh day.

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So that is the best way I think to understand what the Sabbath is.

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The Sabbath is not just, Hey, we get to take a day off every seven days.

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No, it's a holy overlap with God's time.

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There's a way to maybe help you understand it.

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And that is like last week, we talked about the temple and one way to understand is that

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the temple was like a overlap of human space with God's space, right?

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In the same way, Sabbath is an overlap of human time with God's time where we get to

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enter into that rest, that delight, that peace that God has prepared for us once every seven

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days.

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The thing is though, not only were these every seven days an opportunity for great rest and

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renewal for God's people, but they also were pointers.

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They also became little signs that every time this happened, it was a sign pointing toward

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the great rest that was going to happen at the end of time, right?

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So, so day one, two, three, four, five, six, seven, stick a sign in the ground to remind

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us that one day a great rest is happening.

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Stick a sign in the ground, stick a sign in the ground.

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Every time that they did this, it was a reminder.

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It was a pointer that history is going somewhere and God's great rest is coming.

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Now this is where it gets really cool.

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God actually decided to go even further than this.

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He said, not only do I want you to take one every one day in seven and have a rest for

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yourself, but I want you to take one year in every seven and I want you to allow that

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whole year to cross over into my holy time.

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And so what God did is he created what was called the Sabbath year, the Sabbath year.

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And on the Sabbath year, not only do human beings get rest, but the land got rest.

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You see on the seventh year, the land was not to be tilled or worked.

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It got a rest.

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If you were a servant or a slave, you got a rest because you were allowed to be set

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free if you wanted.

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On the seventh year, if you had financial difficulties, you got rest because your debts

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would all be forgiven.

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So you can see that this Sabbath year idea, this one year every seven years was an even

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greater overlap with God's sacred time than even the one in seven day.

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And as a result of that, that overlap every seven years was an even greater sign.

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Again, pointing forward to the great day when there would be a rest for all God's people

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at the end of time.

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Now, I know it sounds crazy, but God went even further than that.

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God said, you know what, not only do I want you to take a break once every seven days

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and enter into my time, and not only do I want you to take that rest and enter into

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my time once every seven years, but every seven times seven years, I want you to celebrate

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this great thing that God calls a jubilee.

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And on that seventh year, there's something amazing going to happen.

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Not only on that year are you going to rest all the land, not only that year are you going

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to rest all your slaves and let them go, not only that year are you going to forgive all

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debt, but on that year, you're also going to redistribute all the land all across Israel

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so that everybody can start over.

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Everybody can experience redemption.

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Everybody can have a brand new beginning.

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This was the jubilee year.

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It was the, I mean, you can understand that that was an even greater overlap, an even

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greater overlap of human time and God's time, an even greater experience of God's rest.

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And I'll say it again, that was an even greater sign, an even greater sign would only happen

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maybe once in your lifetime that you would get a chance to experience the jubilee year,

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but it was an even greater sign pointing to this future that God had in store for everyone.

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So let's just review every seven days, every seven years, every seven times seven years,

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there was rest and there was renewal all pointing toward the great future God had in store.

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And you might say, Rob, that sounds absolutely fantastic.

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I love that.

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I would love nothing more than to experience that for myself.

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And so your question would be what, what, what was Jesus's problem with this system?

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Why was Jesus attacking the Sabbath?

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And a lot of people make a mistake and they think that actually Jesus's complaint with

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the Sabbath was that he didn't like the way that the rules of the Sabbath were being enforced.

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So for example, of course, the teachers of the law and the Pharisees, they had to make

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up a bunch of rules to let people know what exactly they could and couldn't do on the

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Sabbath day, what they could and couldn't do on the Sabbath year and so on and so forth.

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And yes, it did get kind of complicated.

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For example, they said on the Sabbath day, you could only walk 2000 cubits, which is

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about one kilometer.

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You couldn't walk any more than one kilometer because you did, then you were doing work

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and you had broken the Sabbath commands.

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Another rule was you weren't allowed to carry any heavy burdens.

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You weren't allowed to lift things on the Sabbath, which meant that you couldn't wear

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jewelry on the Sabbath because by wearing jewelry, you were bearing a burden.

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You were carrying something.

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So no jewelry on the Sabbath.

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They were also told that on the Sabbath, you could not look in the mirror.

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You couldn't look in the mirror because if you were to look in the mirror, you might

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see a little gray hair.

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And if you saw that gray hair, you might be tempted to pluck it out.

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And by plucking it out, you know what you've just done?

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You've harvested something.

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You've reaped.

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You've reaped.

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Therefore, you've done work.

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So no looking in the mirror on the Sabbath.

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I'm serious.

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And then here's my favorite one.

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Let's say on the Sabbath day, you wanted to have an omelet.

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You wanted to have an egg.

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You could have an egg, but you'd have to make sure that the chicken that laid that egg laid

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the egg on a day that wasn't the Sabbath day because if the chicken had laid the egg

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on the Sabbath day and the chicken had worked, then that meant that you were breaking the

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Sabbath by eating the egg.

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Now the stipulation was you could actually eat an egg from a chicken that laid the egg

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on the Sabbath day.

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The only caveat is then you would have to kill the chicken as well because the chicken

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had of course broken the Sabbath.

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You can imagine that Jesus thought, oh my goodness, he's probably complaining.

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You know, all these strange rules.

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Yeah, Jesus probably had some questions about how this was being enforced.

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But I want to suggest to you this morning that was not the main thing that Jesus took

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issue with with all this Sabbath practice.

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Are you ready?

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The real main thing, the real way that Jesus played with fire was this.

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Get ready.

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He said, he said, Hey, you remember that long awaited time of rest and renewal?

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You know, that promise of some age to come where all things will be made new and everything

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will finally have its rest and redemption.

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Remember that?

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Remember that promise?

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Yes.

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You look no further and wait no longer because that time has arrived and it has arrived in

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me and it has arrived in my life.

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Right?

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I know Jesus said that God's time and human time overlapped here and here and here and

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here and here and here, but they overlap most fully and they overlap completely in me.

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In me, Sabbath reaches its full completion.

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My time is God's time.

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My time is Sabbath time.

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It's all arrived in me.

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Jesus would say it in other ways.

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He would, he would say things like this.

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He would say the time is fulfilled and the kingdom of God is at hand.

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Friends, this was so dangerous for Jesus to say.

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I hope you understand.

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He's taking his life in his hands when he says stuff like this.

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What he's essentially saying is that that Sabbath idea that began way back on day seven

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of creation, seven, seven, seven, seven, seven, seven, seven, all of that was pointing toward

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not some, not some future was pointing toward him.

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He was not me.

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It was pointing toward him.

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Right?

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He was saying it's all going to be fulfilled in me.

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And actually Jesus is saying in a way that in my lifetime, in my lifetime, all those

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Sabbath promises, all the rest, all the hope, all the freedom, all the redemption is all

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being gathered together and all tied together in me and in my time.

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Right?

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It, this is, this is actually how it went down with Jesus.

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For example, let me give you an example.

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One day Jesus went into the synagogue and he was going to read the scriptures.

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And so he picked up the part of Isaiah that talks about the great Jubilee year and he

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picks it up and he reads it.

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Then he closes it and he sits down and you know what his sermon is?

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His sermon is this today.

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This scripture is fulfilled in your hearing.

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What are you talking about Jesus?

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I'm saying today that great Jubilee year is here in me.

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And surprise, surprise.

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They tried to kill them.

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They tried to throw him off a cliff.

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He would heal people on the Sabbath when you clearly weren't supposed to heal people on

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the Sabbath.

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In our reading this morning, you heard Jesus heal a man with a withered hand or take for

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example, there was a woman for example, who had been crippled for 18 years.

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Now on the Sabbath, you weren't supposed to do healing, but Jesus put his hands on her

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and immediately she straightened up and praise God.

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And you know what?

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They plotted to kill Jesus after this moment too.

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Why?

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Because he wasn't following the Sabbath rules.

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Instead, he was acting like he was the ruler of the Sabbath.

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He would say things like come to me, all you who are weary and burdened and I will be the

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one to give you rest.

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And they would say, well, Jesus, how can you give us rest?

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It's not the seventh day.

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It's not the seventh year.

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It's not it's not the fiftieth year of Jubilee.

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And he say, listen, listen, I can do whatever I want.

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Whenever I want.

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I am Sabbath time in the flesh.

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I am the Lord of the Sabbath.

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The great day is here.

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The new day has arrived.

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The day of rest has dawned in me.

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Guys, these are explosive, explosive words.

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And what he was doing, he was essentially lighting a fuse to all of these signs.

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These signs are all going to blow up now.

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Jesus says he's going to say, you don't need the Sabbath day sign anymore because the Sabbath

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has already arrived in its fullness in me.

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And you don't need the seven year Sabbath year anymore because that rest you're longing

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for has already arrived in me.

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And you don't need this anymore because the great Jubilee, the great Jubilee, the great

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rest, the great renewal, the great release, it's already arrived in me.

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He's blowing it all up.

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And I mean, it makes sense.

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You don't need signs anymore, right?

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Would I go down to square one and put up a sign that says this way to Mississauga?

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I'm already in Mississauga.

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It doesn't make sense.

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Why would you sit there in your bed staring at the alarm clock wondering what time it

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is when the sun is already pouring in your window telling you the time is here, the morning

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is here.

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Jesus says you don't need the signs anymore.

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You don't need the signs anymore.

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The real thing has arrived.

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Paul put it this way.

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He called all those Sabbath observances, he calls them shadows.

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They were just shadows of things that were to come.

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The reality of what was coming has come and it has come in Jesus.

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Do you see, I hope you guys are just seeing this and I don't want to go on too long, but

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in the same way that Jesus says I'm the real Holy Land, in the same way that he says I'm

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the real Moses, in the same way that he says I'm the new family, in the same way that he

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says I'm the new temple, he is now saying I am the new Sabbath and I am here 24-7.

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And that is the main reason why Christians did not and Christians still do not observe

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all the Old Testament practices that went along with the Sabbath because the Sabbath

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has fully arrived.

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We don't need the signs anymore.

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We've already reached our destination.

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Now there is another big reason why Christians didn't and don't observe all the old Sabbath

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observances of the Old Testament anymore and here it is, here it is.

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Of course, Jesus was arrested, he was tried, he was crucified, he was dead and he was buried

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and I think they thought that when they had done that they had snipped his lifeline and

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that was it for Jesus, but of course, Jesus wasn't operating according to human time,

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he was operating according to God's time and you cannot stop God's time and so two days

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later on the third day, Jesus rose from the dead.

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And I want you just to understand this comparison.

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Just as God rested in that first garden after his creating work was done, Jesus was resurrected

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in that second garden after his redeeming work was done, but there's a very important

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difference.

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What day was it when God rested from his work?

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It was the one, two, three, four, five, seventh day.

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What day was it when Jesus was raised from the dead?

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Does anyone know?

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It was the first day.

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In fact, the gospel writers are very anxious to remind us that it was early on the first

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day of the week while it was still dark that they went and discovered that Jesus had risen

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from the dead.

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And that is the second reason why Christians do not and did not, according to like history

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books, they did not observe those old Sabbath observances because Jesus had given us a new

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day the first day, Sunday, today.

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And Jesus had so transformed time and space that it was impossible now to go back to the

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old style of Sabbath keeping.

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That time had come to an end.

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Jesus gave us a new rest and he's given us a new kind of day making those seventh day

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observances obsolete.

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Just as a side note, that's why I always never quite understood what the big debate was about,

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you know, should we have shops open on Sunday and should the people working on Sunday?

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And there was all these campaigns in the seventies and the eighties and people were fighting

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about that.

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It seems to me they were all kind of misguided because what they were really trying to do

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is take all those seventh day Sabbath observances and rules and transfer them to the first day,

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day of resurrection, celebration of Christians.

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And what I'm trying to say to you is actually those are very, very different things.

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Now I think some of you are probably wondering, oh, that kind of sucks because this looked

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really good.

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And I really was looking forward to kind of incorporating all this nice rest into my life.

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And now you're saying it's all obsolete because Jesus has come and created this new day, this

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new Sabbath day.

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And just as I wrap up this morning, I want to let you know that as always, as always,

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whenever Jesus takes something away, he always gives us something way better instead.

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Here's the first thing I want to tell you.

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You can find your rest in Jesus and you can find that rest 24 seven.

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In some ways, what Jesus has done when he rose from the dead is he has created a perpetual

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Sabbath.

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You don't need to wait for a certain day of the week or a certain year in the calendar

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to find your rest in Jesus.

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It is always available.

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And man, oh man, do some of us here need to take advantage of the rest that Jesus has

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for us.

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There are some of us here and you're waking up in the morning and you are already tired.

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You you you you might be eating well and exercising and even getting good sleep, but the tiredness

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is not just a physical thing.

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It's a spiritual thing.

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It's a tiredness in your soul.

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And you need to hear Jesus say, come to me and let me give you my rest.

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Or as St. Augustine said, we are restless.

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Our hearts are restless until we finally rest in God.

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What I'm telling you is the need for rest has never been greater.

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But the opportunity for rest has never been closer than it is in Jesus.

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So find your rest in Jesus.

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Secondly though, this is where it might sound like I'm going back on what I just said.

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I'm going to say that we still can practice those Sabbath observances, albeit in a new

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way.

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Christians of all people should live a life that looks different from the lives of those

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around us.

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Different in the sense that we should not be overworking, different in the sense that

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we should be incorporating times of rest and renewal into our life.

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Because if Jesus, our Lord has come, if the Sabbath rest of God is upon us, then shouldn't

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that make some difference in your calendar?

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Shouldn't that make some difference in your daily schedule?

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Shouldn't that change how you plan out your life?

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Shouldn't there be times of rest built in if Jesus is your rest?

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Jesus came to set us free from stress.

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He came to set us free from the expectations others put on us.

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He came to set us free from the 80-hour work week.

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Came to set us free from our phones, which never ever seem to let us rest.

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And so I would say that if our lives do not in some way, if they are not punctuated by

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meaningful times of rest, then something is wrong and we have not really grasped what

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Jesus came to teach us.

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And we have not incorporated it into our life.

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And what good is it if we never actually put it into practice?

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There remains a Sabbath rest for the people of God.

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That's for you and for me.

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So make every effort to enter into that rest so that none of us will perish.

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It doesn't have to look like the Sabbath rule keeping of old, which means on your day off,

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you can fry an egg.

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On your day off, you can go gather firewood and have a bonfire with the family and not

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be worried that you're going to be stoned to death.

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You can wear your jewelry on the Sabbath day, right?

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We're celebrating God's rest and we're doing it in a different way.

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And here's maybe where I want to invite you to say, how can we do this in a different

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way?

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Guys, you got to take this course starting February 21st to March 13th here at Trinity

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and online.

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We're doing it hybrid.

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We are kicking off our practicing the way series with a four week in depth look at the

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Sabbath practice.

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How do we as Christians practice Sabbath in our lives today?

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Don't miss this course.

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You can register for it.

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You can sign up on our events page, on our website, in our church app right now.

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Cause guys, if Jesus has transformed all of time, shouldn't that somehow transform your

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time, your day to day time?

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Finally, if this is true, if Jesus has risen from the dead, then we need to move beyond

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the mere idea of rest to resurrection, right?

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God's time is not just about the cessation of work.

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It's about the resurrection of life.

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It's not just about rest.

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It's about renewal, right?

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Which means that yes, we should find times in our calendars to have some kind of rest,

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but because it's a perpetual new day that God has created, we also should be finding

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time in our calendars to heal and practice justice and practice compassion.

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Jesus healed on the Sabbath day.

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We should be healing every day.

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Jesus practice justice on the Sabbath day.

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We should be seeking justice each and every day.

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The Sabbath is not just about finding time in your calendar to slow things down.

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It's about finding time in your calendar to raise things up, to raise people up, to raise

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up the poor, to raise up the hurting, to raise up the sick.

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We've got to somehow weave that great Sabbath renewal into our own lives.

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It's not just about rest.

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It's about resurrection.

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So it's done.

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Our series is done.

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These five weeks of Jesus playing with fire.

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As we let all the smoke clear here, I think that the good news is what we see in the end,

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Jesus didn't just leave us with a whole pile of ashes and destruction, but he's given us

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life and hope.

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Yes, Jesus played with fire.

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But when the smoke clears, we see there's a new land for us.

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There's a new Moses for us.

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There's a new family for us.

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There's a new temple for us.

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And there's a new rest waiting for us.

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Jesus didn't just go around destroying these things, leaving us with nothing.

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He went around and transformed these things and has given us everything.

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The old is gone, but it has been renewed.

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From the ashes that he left behind, new hope and new life rises up.

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Thanks be to God.

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Amen.

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Thanks so much for joining us today.

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And we hope that you found the sermon something that you will take with you all week long.

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And make sure to come back again next week.

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And thanks again for listening.

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Today's sermon was taken from the February 4th, 2024 service at Trinity Church, Streetsville

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in Mississauga, Ontario.