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· 11 viewsWhen we prioritize Sabbath rest, we acknowledge that we are not what we do, but who we are as children of God
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Why did God give the 10 Commandments?
Why did God give the 10 Commandments?
Would you say rest is something you get plenty of or not enough? Why?
Would you say rest is something you get plenty of or not enough? Why?
When you were growing up, what example(if any) of Sabbath rest was given to you?
When you were growing up, what example(if any) of Sabbath rest was given to you?
Main Idea: When we prioritize Sabbath rest, we acknowledge that we are not what we do, but who we are as children of God.
Main Idea: When we prioritize Sabbath rest, we acknowledge that we are not what we do, but who we are as children of God.
Main Idea: When we prioritze Sabbath rest, we acknowledge that we are not what we do, but who we are as children of God.
Why is the Sabbath Rest so vital that God included it in the 10 Commandments?
Why is the Sabbath Rest so vital that God included it in the 10 Commandments?
Why is the Sabbath Rest so vital that God included it in the 10 Commandments?
Why is the Sabbath Rest so vital that God included it in the 10 Commandments?
The 10 Commandments were not given with intent of these are the rules and you must follow them, these were given by God to his people to protect their spirit, to protect them from the devil, and to bring them closer to him in righteousness until Jesus came. We have to fully understand it’s intent from God’s heart.
The Sabbath: catalyst for recognizing where are value is derived from, it sanctifies us, and creates appreciation.
The Sabbath: catalyst for recognizing where are value is derived from, it sanctifies us, and creates appreciation.
Self Value
Self Value
“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.
“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.
Remember the Sabbath day, to keep it holy. 9 Six days you shall labor, and do all your work, 10 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. 11 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.
Remember the Sabbath day, to keep it holy. 9 Six days you shall labor, and do all your work, 10 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. 11 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.
The other commands begin with, “Do not.” Why do you think in regard to the Sabbath God said, “Remember”? What, specifically, are we to remember about the Sabbath?
The other commands begin with, “Do not.” Why do you think in regard to the Sabbath God said, “Remember”? What, specifically, are we to remember about the Sabbath?
What does verse 9 indicate about how God wants you to spend your week?
What does verse 9 indicate about how God wants you to spend your week?
13 “You shall not murder.
13 “You shall not murder.
God has also directed us to labor and work for six days. So working and producing is from God.
Remember that everyday is a true gift from God and all time belongs to him. Thus the time he has given us we must be good stewards of it - meaning are we spending the time he has given in the way he would like for us to spend it?
Not only are we not to work on the Lord’s day, but if we do not serve him on that day we have failed to keep this commandment as it was intended.
What did God say about the Sabbath?
What did God say about the Sabbath?
He blessed it and made it holy - setting it apart from the other 6 days of the week.
Holy: to set apart; to be different Blessed: favor, delight, strength
Holy: to set apart; to be different Blessed: favor, delight, strength
Blessed: favor, delight, strength
Blessed: favor, delight, strength
So now the Sabbath becomes different than the other 6 days of the week by God. In my study I found that God celebrated and delighted in what he had created. How about the concept that he delighted in us? That is amazing! God delights in me.
God delights or celebrates you! He is for your joy!
God delights or celebrates you! He is for your joy!
God is for us and for our joy, so he wants us to be still - the sabbath day is a day of being still - stopping from our labor and delighting in him, and what he has given us: Our families, our spouse, our children, our homes.
Our identity is not in our job. Our Identity is not what we can produce. Our identity is not in what we have done or accomplished. Or in a checklist we have completed.
Our identity is not in our job. Our Identity is not what we can produce. Our identity is not in what we have done or accomplished. Or in a checklist we have completed.
- And a voice from heaven said, “This is my Son, whom I love; with him I am well pleased.”
- And a voice from heaven said, “This is my Son, whom I love; with him I am well pleased.”
And when Jesus was baptized, immediately he went up from the water, and behold, the heavens were opened to him, and he saw the Spirit of God descending like a dove and coming to rest on him; and behold, a voice from heaven said, “This is my beloved Son, with whom I am well pleased.”
- I will make you into a great nation, and I will bless you; I will make your name great, and you will be a blessing”
- I will make you into a great nation, and I will bless you; I will make your name great, and you will be a blessing”
and behold, a voice from heaven said, “This is my beloved Son, with whom I am well pleased.”
and behold, a voice from heaven said, “This is my beloved Son, with whom I am well pleased.”
Jesus had not performed in mircales yet, he hasn’t even started his ministry at that time or how about
And I will make of you a great nation, and I will bless you and make your name great, so that you will be a blessing. I will bless those who bless you, and him who dishonors you I will curse, and in you all the families of the earth shall be blessed.”
We are to be holy and set apart-different from the world because we are God’s Children and he is our father!
Abraham had not done anything. He his known as a man of great faith in the lord, but when God came to him and spoke this to him, Abraham had not produced or done anything deserving God’s blessing.
Our identity is in that we are a CHILD OF GOD!
Our identity is in that we are a CHILD OF GOD!
And the Lord said to Moses, 13 “You are to speak to the people of Israel and say, ‘Above all you shall keep my Sabbaths, for this is a sign between me and you throughout your generations, that you may know that I, the Lord, sanctify you.
And the Lord said to Moses, 13 “You are to speak to the people of Israel and say, ‘Above all you shall keep my Sabbaths, for this is a sign between me and you throughout your generations, that you may know that I, the Lord, sanctify you.
Sanctification
Sanctification
Hebrew meaning for Sabbath: Cease; stop or break from the norm
Hebrew meaning for Sabbath: Cease; stop or break from the norm
And the Lord said to Moses, “You are to speak to the people of Israel and say, ‘Above all you shall keep my Sabbaths, for this is a sign between me and you throughout your generations, that you may know that I, the Lord, sanctify you.
Hebrew meaning for Sabbath: Cease; stop or break from the norm
Hebrew meaning for Sabbath: Cease; stop or break from the norm
- And a voice from heaven said, “This is my Son, whom I love; with him I am well pleased.”
- And a voice from heaven said, “This is my Son, whom I love; with him I am well pleased.”
Jesus had not performed in mircales yet, he hasn’t even started his ministry at that time or how about
The Sabbath is not about us, but about God. Our culture says”do what you feel like doing”, or “you deserve to treat yourself.!” God intends to bless us through the holiness of Sabbath rest.
God has set us apart as his people from the rest of the world and this includes Sabbath rest. We will not give into the influence, pressure, and tyranny of a culture that says to find indentiy in our productivity.
- I will make you into a great nation, and I will bless you; I will make your name great, and you will be a blessing”
- I will make you into a great nation, and I will bless you; I will make your name great, and you will be a blessing”
We are to be holy and set apart-different from the world because we are God’s Children and he is our father!
Abraham had not done anything. He his known as a man of great faith in the lord, but when God came to him and spoke this to him, Abraham had not produced or done anything deserving God’s blessing.
Constant business yields, being in a hurry, which yields stress which can lead to anxiety, thus we lose our joy, appreciation for God, our family. God is also not able to sanctify us!
Constant business yields, being in a hurry, which yields stress which can lead to anxiety, thus we lose our joy, appreciation for God, our family. God is also not able to sanctify us!
Our identity is in that we are a CHILD OF GOD!
Our identity is in that we are a CHILD OF GOD!
Are you uncomfortable with total silence? We are to plugged in!
Are you uncomfortable with total silence? We are to plugged in!
We do not like total silence, because we do not like what we hear! We hear within the depths of our spirit God crying out, speaking to us, fighting for us! But we run from it by drowing him out. We drown him out with music, television, I Phone- instagram, facebook, and etc.
When God sanctifies us he make us holy! When we are busy we are not still and when we are not still can’t speak to us, guide us, and convict us to repentenance. When God speaks to us, convicts us, and leads us to repent we grow in a closer relationship with him!
Then we can appreciate with thanksgiving for our spouse more, our kids more, the job he has given unto us, the people in our lives. But when we are constantly busy-we have very little time for God to show these things to us.
Appreciation/Thanksgiving
Appreciation/Thanksgiving
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. So God blessed the seventh day and made it holy, because on it God rested from all his work that he had done in creation.
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1-3
Thus the heavens and the earth were finished, and all the host of them. 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. So God blessed the seventh day and made it holy, because on it God rested from all his work that he had done in creation.
Do you think God needed six days to create the heavens and earth, or was He trying to teach us something? What about the day of rest? Was He tired, or was He trying to teach us something?
Do you think God needed six days to create the heavens and earth, or was He trying to teach us something? What about the day of rest? Was He tired, or was He trying to teach us something?
Do you think God needed six days to create the heavens and earth, or was He trying to teach us something? What about the day of rest? Was He tired, or was He trying to teach us something?
Do you think God needed six days to create the heavens and earth, or was He trying to teach us something? What about the day of rest? Was He tired, or was He trying to teach us something?
God neither slumbers on sleeps. He wasn’t tired after 3 days. Some in society may say that we are under grace now and not under the law; however this was given and demonstrated by God in the beginning before the law was given to Moses. God rested to celebrate his creation and to delight in it.
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Remember that everyday is a true gift from God and all time belongs to him. Thus the time he has given us we must be good stewards of it - meaning are we spending the time he has given in the way he would like for us to spend it?
At that time Jesus went through the grainfields on the Sabbath. His disciples were hungry, and they began to pluck heads of grain and to eat. But when the Pharisees saw it, they said to him, “Look, your disciples are doing what is not lawful to do on the Sabbath.” He said to them, “Have you not read what David did when he was hungry, and those who were with him: how he entered the house of God and ate the bread of the Presence, which it was not lawful for him to eat nor for those who were with him, but only for the priests? Or have you not read in the Law how on the Sabbath the priests in the temple profane the Sabbath and are guiltless? I tell you, something greater than the temple is here. And if you had known what this means, ‘I desire mercy, and not sacrifice,’ you would not have condemned the guiltless. For the Son of Man is lord of the Sabbath.”
Tomorrow is not promised
Jesus and his disciples are walking through the grainfields and they were hungry so they picked some head of grain and ate it. The pharisees saw them and said that is unlawful. Basically Jesus told them to lighten and the law is not tether you down and that the sabbath was made for man, not man for the sabbath. So do what brings you delight, playing basketball, maybe it’s golf, or maybe going to the pool.
Do you enjoy what God has blessed you with?
What about thanking him for what he has done for you?
Are you thanking God for all things? Sabbath allows for this thanksgiving.