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What is the Sabbath?
In today’s society, our lives are very efficient.
If we need to contact our friends, all we need to do is to pick up our hand phones and and we can call our friends to talk.
When we need to do work, we can do work anywhere.
We can do it on our phones or on our laptops that we can bring everywhere we go.
So we can do our work and contact people anywhere anytime.
Just 10 years ago, not everyone was using a smartphone or a mobile laptop.
But just ten years since then, our lives have become very efficient.
Last time when your boss wanted you to get work done, you would have to wait till the next day when you got back to work to do it.
But now when the boss calls you, he will ask you to do the work now.
because you can do it on your phone and laptop.
When we want to be entertained, what do we do?
Where is your entertainment?
It’s in your pockets.
Your phones.
You play games, watch movies, chat with friends, buy things, update status on Facebook, twitter and Instagram.
In the past people would go out with friends when they are bored.
But these days, many people will be staying at home and spending time on the phone most of the time.
We go meet friends for dinner at times and when we are waiting for the food to come.
What will happen.
What will people do?
Everyone will take out our phones and browse Facebook or watch YouTube.
They will not talk until the food comes.
We need to be entertained by media every single moment of our time.
We have lesser time to reflect on the important things of life like relationships and goals in our lives.
We have no time to reflect on life.
Our lives are speeding up more and more and this is a problem.
We are moving so fast that many of us are burning out.
What happens when we keep filling our lives with so many things to do and so many distractions in our lives that we don’t have time to really rest?
Some people might think that resting is when you spend time watching videos on your phone or playing games on your phone.
But is that really rest?
Have you ever tried to watch 3 hours of drama to get some rest?
How do you feel after watching all that drama.
i think that you will feel even more tired.
Because this does not give us rest.
So let’s ask the question.
How do we find rest?
Do you think rest is important?
Yes. because if we do not find rest in our lives, we will start to breakdown.
There has been an increase of depression in the world in these few years.
As I went to do some research on why this is the case, the reasons that doctors gave for the rise of depression in our world are:
“Many people are worried about how busy they are,”
“There’s a lack of community and we spend more time in front of screens that talking to people.
If there is no community, there is no one to share our problems with.
From all these things we can see that we have done well in many things in making our world more advanced and more efficient.
But our lives are becoming so fast that we have lost the ability to slow down and really rest.
In this passage, it talks about the commandment of God to the Israelites to observe the Sabbath.
Let us learn from this passage about rest.
True rest is found in communion with God.
The meaning of the word Sabbath is to rest.
God calls them to make it Holy.
To keep the Sabbath holy is to keep the Sabbath for the Lord and not allow any other thing to cause them to be distracted from God.
Then it says for six days the Israelites shall do all their work and the seventh day is a Sabbath or rest to the Lord their God.
Everyone in the house hold is to rest, including all the slaves and animals.
They are to remember that they were slaves in Egypt and the Lord rescued them with his mighty hand.
So in summary the purpose of the Sabbath is for the people to remember God and what God has done for them.
The meaning of the word Sabbath is to rest.
God calls them to make it Holy.
To keep the Sabbath holy is to keep the Sabbath for the Lord and not allow any other thing to cause them to be distracted from God.
Then it says for six days the Israelites shall do all their work and the seventh day is a Sabbath or rest to the Lord their God.
Everyone in the house hold is to rest, including all the slaves and animals.
They are to remember that they wee slaves in Egypt and the Lord rescued them with his mighty hand
Why did God command all the Israelites to observe the Sabbath?
How is this rest?
Will you find rest when you take time to remember what God has done for you?
Some say yes, some say no.
Everyday we go to work to try to make money to feed ourselves and this is something that we do everyday just to get by in life.
If this is all we do all our life without any other purpose in our lives, we will grow very tired.
If we do not stop from our work and think about what is our purpose of life and what are we doing with our lives, we will lose our direction in life.
Because we will not go anywhere if we have no destination in mind.
God commanded that the Israelites keep the sabbath and they were to remember what God has done for them when God delivered them from slavery in Egypt.
When we remember what God has done for us, we remember that God loves us and has promised to lead us and provide for us.
This gives us hope for the future.
Because God is a God that does not change.
Our circumstances and problems in our lives might have changed, but our God has not changed.
God is as faithful as the the day that we first came to know God.
we begin to remember that we are not in control of what happens in our lives.
God is the one who provides for us and open doors for us.
we find rest when we know that God is the only one who can save us and direct us in our lives.
We don’t have to try so hard to make it on our own.
Num 23@19we begin to remember that we are not in control of what happens in our lives.
God is the one who provides for us and open doors for us.
we find rest when we know that God is the only one who can save us and direct us in our lives.
We don’t have to try so hard to make it on our own.
Our God and saviour does not change.
Jesus Christ is the same yesterday, today and forever.
Have we been so busy that we forget about God in our lives?
Our God and saviour does not change.
2. True rest is found in Obedience.
The last time that I preached about worship, I shared that worship is not just something that we do on Sunday morning when we come to Church.
But it is living our lives as a act of worship in our lives.
We live a life that is obedient to God.
Many times we feel so stressed out and tired in life because we don’t feel secure about our future.
We have our own plans for our future and we are working to make our plans come true.
When things don’t go our way, we start to feel stressed and worried because things are going out of control, out of our plans.
We want control.
if we live our lives like this, we will go mad.
We will breakdown.
Because the truth is you are not in control of many things in your life.
You have limited control over how others think of you, how much money you earn, your health and even you family members or your children.
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