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This morning, let’s start out in Genesis chapter 2.
“Thus the heavens and the earth were completed in all their vast array.
By the seventh day God had finished the work he had been doing; so on the seventh day he rested from all his work.
Then God blessed the seventh day and made it holy, because on it he rested from all the work of creating that he had done.”
God rested.
Let that sink in for a minute.
God rested.
“Yeah but I’m so busy.
You know me.
I’m type A and I love my job and I really feel like I gotta.
GOD RESTED.”
After 6 days of hard work God himself said enough is enough It’s time to rest.
I’m going to teach you some hebrew because that’s how I roll.
The word ‘rest’ in hebrew is the word Shabbat.
Can you say that with me?
Yeah Good, You learned some hebrew this morning.
Happy Mother’s day.
That’s my gift to you mothers.
It’s where we get the word sabbath.
It can be translated as to stop or to cease or to be done and interestingly enough it can also be translated to celebrate.
The idea behind the sabbath is an entire day set aside to slow down to stop to take a step back and celebrate.
Celebrate the world and your life in it and above all God himself.
Now the sabbath is not the same thing as a day off of work.
Hopefully you know that by now.
On a day of you do all the work you don’t get paid for.
You run errands, you pay the bills, you go to the bank, if you have an apartment or a house you get work done around that you clean whatever, if you have kids all of those things but on steroids.
You go shoppings you buy you sell you visit that boutique you meant to go to you play you go out and do whatever it is you do.
Watch that movie you’ve been meaning to watch you or binge Netflix or you finally get to the gym.
And that’s all great.
But the sabbath is something else.
It is an entire day, that is in the language here of , and the language of God, a day that is blessed and holy.
It is a day when God has my wrapped attention.
Where I create space to just sit and be with him.
It’s a day when I am fully available to my family and friends no phone no distaraction no work no errands to run just there in the moment.
It’s a day to reconnect with who God has called you to be and to focus on what really matters.
And it is a day to wake up to all that is Good and Beautiful and True that God has made.
And to celebrate it as an act of worship.
And in the story.
God worked for six days and then he rested for one and in doing so God built a rhythm into the fabric of creation.
By rhythm I mean there is a way that the creator set the creation everything from the human body, to society, the ecosystem there is a way that the creator set creation to flourish and thrive.
In this symbiotic relationship between work and rest.
If your life is all work then overtime either you become grouchy and stressed out and on edge.
Or you grind your soul into the ground you become a machine, just another cog in society.
Hollow and empty behind the eyes.
On the flipside if your life is all rest, and that is a problem for some of you.
God bless you.
This is Southern California.
I love it to death but it can be a lazy hedonistic city.
The cost of living is high but so many people still just just hang out.
Especially filipinos.
I have a friend in New York city and she said “Man I love LA but it’s so weird people there just hang out.
I’m like yeah what do you mean.
She said Yeah in New York I mean we work all the time my apartment is 400 square feet and costs 4 grand a month.
We don’t have time to hang out we have jobs you guys just hang out in LA.
And I said yeah well.
We work too.
I work, part-time.
Don’t worry about it.
Y’know
For some of you though that might be your life.
Maybe you’re in between jobs or maybe youre living at home or maybe you’re not working right now because you’re pursuing a hobby.
And if that’s how you live, then overtime life starts to become drab and you’ll begin to struggle with remaining interested with anything and struggle with feeling significance.
You were made to do more than just hang out.
You were made to participate in the kingdom work of the King.
You were made to contribute and partner with God to take the city of Carson and this world forward.
My point is that both overwork and underwork rob us for the capacity to live to the full.
So this rhythm of six days of work and one day of sabbath six days of work and one day of sabbath.
This is the kind of rhythm that God set into motion from the first minute of the first hour of the first day.
Which is why, later on, when God calls out a people, if you know the story of the Old Testament.
The story of Israel.
When God calls out a people he actually commands the sabbath.
Turn to Exodus chapter 20.
One book over to the right.
This is what we now call the ten commandments.
God is at the top of Mount Sinai, Israel is at the base and God spoke all these words.
“I am Yahweh God who brought you out of the land of Egypt.
Out of the land of Slavery.
You shall have no other God’s before me.
You shall not make for yourself an image.
You shall not misuse the name of Yahweh, your God.
Then listen to commandment number 4. It’s right there Exodus chapter 20 verse 8.
“Remember the Sabbath Day.” Don’t forget about it.
Don’t get sucked into the Rat race to the crazy hectic busy way of life particularly in the late modern west.
Remember there is a day.
It’s blessed it’s holy it’s set aside.
It’s vital and it was made for you.
Remember that.
How?
By keeping it holy.
Here’s another hebrew word.
The word holy in hebrew is kadosh.
And it can be translated set apart for or dedicated to.
We read six days you shall labour and do all your work but the seventh day is the Sabbath to Yahweh your God.
It’s not just a day for rest.
To take a nap, read a novel, sleep in.
Yes that.
But it’s also a day for worship.
It’s holy, it’s set apart and dedicated to Yahweh God.
An entire day out of work week to set aside to focus your mind your heart your body your life onto the God who made you.
When I sabbath i run everything through that grid.
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