2018.4.11 REST - Rest Robbers (Reasons We Don't Rest)

Intro

link to 5th Dawnzoom

HW - interesting to see how many people did soul and body stuff vs. went to physical

Ignorance-Informed

most of you didn’t know about rest and therefore didn’t know it’s power, potential or that God wants us not ideally but rather emphatically to experience it.

Forgetfulness-Remember

2 of the most important events - Exodus and Jordan

Exodus 13:3 NKJV

And Moses said to the people: “Remember this day in which you went out of Egypt, out of the house of bondage; for by strength of hand the Lord brought you out of this place. No leavened bread shall be eaten.

Joshua 1:13 NKJV

“Remember the word which Moses the servant of the Lord commanded you, saying, ‘The Lord your God is giving you rest and is giving you this land.’

Leviticus 26:42–43 NKJV

then I will remember My covenant with Jacob, and My covenant with Isaac and My covenant with Abraham I will remember; I will remember the land. The land also shall be left empty by them, and will enjoy its sabbaths while it lies desolate without them; they will accept their guilt, because they despised My judgments and because their soul abhorred My statutes.

zakar- to remember

def. 1.: rifle through files in search of a file

def. 2: to not only retrieve a file but apply accompanying action.

Ill: Me forgetting I left my keys in the car

Ill: Charley - woke and remembered “today is our anniversary” Tom - sent flowers, dinner plans, Outcome: that night Charley looked

Psalm 105:42 NKJV

42 For He remembered His holy promise, And Abraham His servant.

Joseph wanted what he’d done to be enough for them to “remember” and do something

Genesis 40:15 NKJV

15 For indeed I was stolen away from the land of the Hebrews; and also I have done nothing here that they should put me into the dungeon.”

Gen 40

God remembers

Psalm 105:42 NKJV

42 For He remembered His holy promise, And Abraham His servant.

God calls us to remember

Exodus 13:3 NKJV

3 And Moses said to the people: “Remember this day in which you went out of Egypt, out of the house of bondage; for by strength of hand the Lord brought you out of this place. No leavened bread shall be eaten.

Whenever there’s no remembrance, there will be anxiety and frustration.

Disobedience - Obedience

Deuteronomy 12:1–12 NKJV

1 “These are the statutes and judgments which you shall be careful to observe in the land which the Lord God of your fathers is giving you to possess, all the days that you live on the earth. 2 You shall utterly destroy all the places where the nations which you shall dispossess served their gods, on the high mountains and on the hills and under every green tree. 3 And you shall destroy their altars, break their sacred pillars, and burn their wooden images with fire; you shall cut down the carved images of their gods and destroy their names from that place. 4 You shall not worship the Lord your God with such things. 5 “But you shall seek the place where the Lord your God chooses, out of all your tribes, to put His name for His dwelling place; and there you shall go. 6 There you shall take your burnt offerings, your sacrifices, your tithes, the heave offerings of your hand, your vowed offerings, your freewill offerings, and the firstborn of your herds and flocks. 7 And there you shall eat before the Lord your God, and you shall rejoice in all to which you have put your hand, you and your households, in which the Lord your God has blessed you. 8 “You shall not at all do as we are doing here today—every man doing whatever is right in his own eyes—9 for as yet you have not come to the rest and the inheritance which the Lord your God is giving you. 10 But when you cross over the Jordan and dwell in the land which the Lord your God is giving you to inherit, and He gives you rest from all your enemies round about, so that you dwell in safety, 11 then there will be the place where the Lord your God chooses to make His name abide. There you shall bring all that I command you: your burnt offerings, your sacrifices, your tithes, the heave offerings of your hand, and all your choice offerings which you vow to the Lord. 12 And you shall rejoice before the Lord your God, you and your sons and your daughters, your male and female servants, and the Levite who is within your gates, since he has no portion nor inheritance with you.

Ingratitude - Gratitude

HUGE trick…get grateful!!!

Ill: Sunday “What’s wrong Jordan?” Everything!!!

worry⏩ anxiety ⏩ restless ⏩ can’t sleep ⏩binge watching/eating

⏩ anxiety

⏩ restless

⏩ can’t sleep

⏩binge watching/eating

Luke 12:22 NKJV

22 Then He said to His disciples, “Therefore I say to you, do not worry about your life, what you will eat; nor about the body, what you will put on.

Psalm 55:1–7 NKJV

1 Give ear to my prayer, O God, And do not hide Yourself from my supplication. 2 Attend to me, and hear me; I am restless in my complaint, and moan noisily, 3 Because of the voice of the enemy, Because of the oppression of the wicked; For they bring down trouble upon me, And in wrath they hate me. 4 My heart is severely pained within me, And the terrors of death have fallen upon me. 5 Fearfulness and trembling have come upon me, And horror has overwhelmed me. 6 So I said, “Oh, that I had wings like a dove! I would fly away and be at rest. 7 Indeed, I would wander far off, And remain in the wilderness. Selah

ps 55:1-

Ignorance

No Promise - I’m with a Promise

We all won’t be millionaires!!!

But we all have a guarantee to be taken care of

Luke 12:16–29 NKJV

16 Then He spoke a parable to them, saying: “The ground of a certain rich man yielded plentifully. 17 And he thought within himself, saying, ‘What shall I do, since I have no room to store my crops?’ 18 So he said, ‘I will do this: I will pull down my barns and build greater, and there I will store all my crops and my goods. 19 And I will say to my soul, “Soul, you have many goods laid up for many years; take your ease; eat, drink, and be merry.” ’ 20 But God said to him, ‘Fool! This night your soul will be required of you; then whose will those things be which you have provided?’ 21 “So is he who lays up treasure for himself, and is not rich toward God.” 22 Then He said to His disciples, “Therefore I say to you, do not worry about your life, what you will eat; nor about the body, what you will put on. 23 Life is more than food, and the body is more than clothing. 24 Consider the ravens, for they neither sow nor reap, which have neither storehouse nor barn; and God feeds them. Of how much more value are you than the birds? 25 And which of you by worrying can add one cubit to his stature? 26 If you then are not able to do the least, why are you anxious for the rest? 27 Consider the lilies, how they grow: they neither toil nor spin; and yet I say to you, even Solomon in all his glory was not arrayed like one of these. 28 If then God so clothes the grass, which today is in the field and tomorrow is thrown into the oven, how much more will He clothe you, O you of little faith? 29 “And do not seek what you should eat or what you should drink, nor have an anxious mind.

Luke 12:16-

We spend too much time chasing the barns and not enough time chasing the Kingdom

Close

If you don’t have rest, and you want it to return, Remember, Obey