Dare to Rest in 2023

Intro

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Lack of Rest is Killing Us

Average American sleeps less than 6Hrs a night

Lack of Sleep can lead to:

Diabetes

Stroke

Heart disease

Heart failure

Heart attack

Irregular heartbeat

High blood pressure

Depression

Weight gain

and Anxiety

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Dare to Sabbath in 2023

Now Sabbath is a command from God. It is one of the 10 Commandments.

Exodus 20:8–11 ESV

“Remember the Sabbath day, to keep it holy. Six days you shall labor, and do all your work, but the seventh day is a Sabbath to the Lord your God. On it you shall not do any work, you, or your son, or your daughter, your male servant, or your female servant, or your livestock, or the sojourner who is within your gates. For in six days the Lord made heaven and earth, the sea, and all that is in them, and rested on the seventh day. Therefore the Lord blessed the Sabbath day and made it holy.

Exodus 20:13 ESV

“You shall not murder.

Sabbath is Above Murder in importance. Keep that in mind.

[What is a biblical Sabbath}

Now you may say what even

Genesis 2:2 ESV

And on the seventh day God finished his work that he had done, and he rested on the seventh day from all his work that he had done.

God didn’t just command us to rest, He Himself demonstrated rest so that we would know how.

If any didn’t need rest it was God. Yet He said, I’m going to rest. because rest isn’t just about rest.

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Rest is Worship

Psalm 4:8 ESV

In peace I will both lie down and sleep; for you alone, O Lord, make me dwell in safety.

Psalm 127:2 ESV

It is in vain that you rise up early and go late to rest, eating the bread of anxious toil; for he gives to his beloved sleep.

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Dare to Rest in 2023

You see humanity in it’s classic human ability took this gift of God. Permission to rest, and we turned it into a drudge.

Ask yourself, how do you respond when i tell you, “It’s a Sin not too Sabbath. If you continue on you are not on;ly hurting your physically body you are hurting your spiritual life.

When you hear that, “ do you go, ahh, I’m thankful for rest. Or do your respond, “ Ugghh. I don't have time to rest.”

Which one is it?

Are you in line with the 4th commandment? Or are you in rebellion to it?

Lord look at all things I’m doing for you. Look at how holy I am? But we so easily ignore number 4. Why?

Because in this culture we idolize productivity. If I’m busy, I must be important. No, You may just be busy