"Sabbath Rhythm - Rest"

And He said to Adam, “Because you listened to your wife’s voice and ate from the tree about which I commanded you, ‘Do not eat from it’: The ground is cursed because of you. You will eat from it by means of painful labor all the days of your life.

Genesis 3:18 HCSB

It will produce thorns and thistles for you, and you will eat the plants of the field.

Genesis 3:19 HCSB

You will eat bread by the sweat of your brow until you return to the ground, since you were taken from it. For you are dust, and you will return to dust.”

Ewwwww...

The suffering is the consequence of the rebellion - not the curse. The curse defines the consequence of the rebellion.

Rebellion, corruption, and suffering.

Then came the Redeemer.

Some lessons from the boat:

1. work isn’t bad.

Luke 5:1 HCSB

As the crowd was pressing in on Jesus to hear God’s word, He was standing by Lake Gennesaret.

Luke 5:2 HCSB

He saw two boats at the edge of the lake; the fishermen had left them and were washing their nets.

Luke 5:3 HCSB

He got into one of the boats, which belonged to Simon, and asked him to put out a little from the land. Then He sat down and was teaching the crowds from the boat.

Luke 5:4 HCSB

When He had finished speaking, He said to Simon, “Put out into deep water and let down your nets for a catch.”

Luke 5:5 HCSB

“Master,” Simon replied, “we’ve worked hard all night long and caught nothing! But at Your word, I’ll let down the nets.”

Luke 5:6 HCSB

When they did this, they caught a great number of fish, and their nets began to tear.

Luke 5:7 HCSB

So they signaled to their partners in the other boat to come and help them; they came and filled both boats so full that they began to sink.

Luke 5:8 HCSB

When Simon Peter saw this, he fell at Jesus’ knees and said, “Go away from me, because I’m a sinful man, Lord!”

Luke 5:9 HCSB

For he and all those with him were amazed at the catch of fish they took,

Luke 5:10 HCSB

and so were James and John, Zebedee’s sons, who were Simon’s partners. “Don’t be afraid,” Jesus told Simon. “From now on you will be catching people!”

Luke 5:11 HCSB

Then they brought the boats to land, left everything, and followed Him.

2. Doing God’s work isn’t always the “big” stuff, but if called…follow.

Mark 4:35 ESV

On that day, when evening had come, he said to them, “Let us go across to the other side.”

Mark 4:36 ESV

And leaving the crowd, they took him with them in the boat, just as he was. And other boats were with him.

Mark 4:37 ESV

And a great windstorm arose, and the waves were breaking into the boat, so that the boat was already filling.

Mark 4:38 ESV

But he was in the stern, asleep on the cushion. And they woke him and said to him, “Teacher, do you not care that we are perishing?”

Mark 4:39 ESV

And he awoke and rebuked the wind and said to the sea, “Peace! Be still!” And the wind ceased, and there was a great calm.

Mark 4:40 ESV

He said to them, “Why are you so afraid? Have you still no faith?”

Mark 4:41 ESV

And they were filled with great fear and said to one another, “Who then is this, that even the wind and the sea obey him?”

3. Jesus took naps. Be like Jesus.

The human body and rest

THE Sabbath Rest

Hebrews 4:1 NLT

God’s promise of entering his rest still stands, so we ought to tremble with fear that some of you might fail to experience it.

Hebrews 4:2 NLT

For this good news—that God has prepared this rest—has been announced to us just as it was to them. But it did them no good because they didn’t share the faith of those who listened to God.

Hebrews 4:3 NLT

For only we who believe can enter his rest. As for the others, God said, “In my anger I took an oath: ‘They will never enter my place of rest,’ ” even though this rest has been ready since he made the world.

Hebrews 4:4 NLT

We know it is ready because of the place in the Scriptures where it mentions the seventh day: “On the seventh day God rested from all his work.”

Hebrews 4:5 NLT

But in the other passage God said, “They will never enter my place of rest.”

Hebrews 4:6 NLT

So God’s rest is there for people to enter, but those who first heard this good news failed to enter because they disobeyed God.

Hebrews 4:7 NLT

So God set another time for entering his rest, and that time is today. God announced this through David much later in the words already quoted: “Today when you hear his voice, don’t harden your hearts.”

Hebrews 4:8 NLT

Now if Joshua had succeeded in giving them this rest, God would not have spoken about another day of rest still to come.

Hebrews 4:9 NLT

So there is a special rest still waiting for the people of God.

Hebrews 4:10 NLT

For all who have entered into God’s rest have rested from their labors, just as God did after creating the world.

Hebrews 4:11 NLT

So let us do our best to enter that rest. But if we disobey God, as the people of Israel did, we will fall.

"Sabbath Rhythm - Rest"

Work and rest

In the beginning...

And it was very good...

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