Sabbath: Trusting God with your time.
Basball Chapel • Sermon • Submitted • Presented
0 ratings
· 2 viewsNotes
Transcript
WarWhen you hear the word Sabbath what comes to your mind?
I want you to listen to this next passage and I want you to figure out what commandment we know longer keep?
1 Then God spoke all these words:
2 I am the Lord your God, who brought you out of the land of Egypt, out of the place of slavery.
3 Do not have other gods besides me.
4 Do not make an idol for yourself, whether in the shape of anything in the heavens above or on the earth below or in the waters under the earth.
5 Do not bow in worship to them, and do not serve them; for I, the Lord your God, am a jealous God, bringing the consequences of the fathers’ iniquity on the children to the third and fourth generations of those who hate me,
6 but showing faithful love to a thousand generations of those who love me and keep my commands.
7 Do not misuse the name of the Lord your God, because the Lord will not leave anyone unpunished who misuses his name.
8 Remember the Sabbath day, to keep it holy:
9 You are to labor six days and do all your work,
10 but the seventh day is a Sabbath to the Lord your God. You must not do any work—you, your son or daughter, your male or female servant, your livestock, or the resident alien who is within your city gates.
11 For the Lord made the heavens and the earth, the sea, and everything in them in six days; then he rested on the seventh day. Therefore the Lord blessed the Sabbath day and declared it holy.
12 Honor your father and your mother so that you may have a long life in the land that the Lord your God is giving you.
13 Do not murder.
14 Do not commit adultery.
15 Do not steal.
16 Do not give false testimony against your neighbor.
17 Do not covet your neighbor’s house. Do not covet your neighbor’s wife, his male or female servant, his ox or donkey, or anything that belongs to your neighbor.
Which commandment do we not usually think we need to keep?
In the 1980’s there is a story that circulated about Arnold Swartznegger. It was said that he had gotten to a point in his body building endeavors that he was no longer seeing gains.
After firing his trainer, he hired a new one. The Trainer told him the first thing I want you to do is go on vacation. No weightlifting. To Arnold this just wasn’t a possibility. His first reaction was to fire his trainer. But after thinking about he decided to give this strange advice a try. So for a few days, He went to the beach and didn’t touch a weight. After returning from his vacation his trainer measured his arms and they were an inch bigger than they were before he left.
He learned that long-term, growth requires rest.
In Genesis 2: 1-2
1 So the heavens and the earth and everything in them were completed.
2 On the seventh day God had completed his work that he had done, and he rested on the seventh day from all his work that he had done.
We see this account of God Resting. It wasn’t that God needed Rest. He was not exhausted from his work but rather he rested because he had finished his work.
In the Bible the sabbath is two things
It is a gift.
27 Then he told them, “The Sabbath was made for man and not man for the Sabbath.
2 In vain you get up early and stay up late, working hard to have enough food— yes, he gives sleep to the one he loves.
2. It is a picture of Christ’s finished work on the cross.
8 For if Joshua had given them rest, God would not have spoken later about another day.
9 Therefore, a Sabbath rest remains for God’s people.
10 For the person who has entered his rest has rested from his own works, just as God did from his.
11 Let us, then, make every effort to enter that rest, so that no one will fall into the same pattern of disobedience.
Sabbath is both practical and spiritual.
The practical side is this. We need rest. So when we rest we show that we understand that God knows best and that we trust him with our time.
Keeping a sabbath is about trusting that God knows best.
But its also a picture of the finished rest that we will one day exerpience in Christ.
