2020 07 12 - He Will Give You Rest - God Has Rest on the Schedule
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Today’s Passage: Matthew 11
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SERIES INTRODUCTION
As a people we are tired. It feels like we are in desperate need of rest.
Listen to what Jesus says to our weary hearts...
Theme verse for the series:
28 Come to me, all who labor and are heavy laden, and I will give you rest. 29 Take my yoke upon you, and learn from me, for I am gentle and lowly in heart, and you will find rest for your souls. 30 For my yoke is easy, and my burden is light.”
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PRIMARY SCRIPTURE
28 Come to me, all who labor and are heavy laden, and I will give you rest. 29 Take my yoke upon you, and learn from me, for I am gentle and lowly in heart, and you will find rest for your souls. 30 For my yoke is easy, and my burden is light.”
MAIN IDEA
Transition from scripture to main idea
THE MAIN THING: God cares deeply about your rest
THE MAIN THING: God cares deeply about your rest
Explore the Main Idea
1. God cares so much about your rest he hardwired it into creation.
1. God cares so much about your rest he hardwired it into creation.
1 Thus the heavens and the earth were finished, and all the host of them. 2 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. 3 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.
34 “Then the land shall enjoy its Sabbaths as long as it lies desolate, while you are in your enemies’ land; then the land shall rest, and enjoy its Sabbaths. 35 As long as it lies desolate it shall have rest, the rest that it did not have on your Sabbaths when you were dwelling in it.
SHARE: What are some things on your top 10 list? Your most important values to live by.
SHARE: What are some things on your top 10 list? Your most important values to live by.
2. God cares so much about your rest it made his Top Ten list.
2. God cares so much about your rest it made his Top Ten list.
8 “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.
SHARE: What would you do to protect one of your top ten values you shared earlier?
SHARE: What would you do to protect one of your top ten values you shared earlier?
3. God cares so much about your rest he is willing to go to the extreme to protect it.
3. God cares so much about your rest he is willing to go to the extreme to protect it.
21 to fulfill the word of the Lord by the mouth of Jeremiah, until the land had enjoyed its Sabbaths. All the days that it lay desolate it kept Sabbath, to fulfill seventy years.
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Coming Back to the Main Thing: God cares deeply about your rest
Coming Back to the Main Thing: God cares deeply about your rest
SHARE: What does it mean to you to know that God cares about your rest?
SHARE: What does it mean to you to know that God cares about your rest?
Bring to Primary Application
1. Receive God’s care for your exhaustion
1. Receive God’s care for your exhaustion
2. Recognize your own patterns that feed your exhaustion
2. Recognize your own patterns that feed your exhaustion
SHARE: What is one thing you need to change or give up to allow rest to be a part of your life?
SHARE: What is one thing you need to change or give up to allow rest to be a part of your life?
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