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[Hold the Sermon Title…]
Introduction
How many of you ever heard some advise that you thought was unattainable in your season of life?
The other day I was listening to one of my favorite Pastors speak and he was describing his morning routine.
His morning routine of coffee, prayer, bible reading and journaling sounded epic.
And then when they asked him what time all of this was done, I was like, there is NO WAY I can do this right now!
You see this guy’s kids are all grown and out of the house.
He’s an empty nester.
I’m not.
Last week my kids went back to school and can I tell you that every morning it was a struggle?
Every morning my kids don’t want to wake up.
They don’t want to pull back the blankets.
I’m fighting with them to get out of the door on time.
My favorite Pastor, he’s having time with Jesus.
You know what I am doing?
An exorcism.
That’s right, I’m praying the demon of sleep off my boys.
And really, there is some truth to fact that I am in a season of my life where I don’t think I can have mornings like this Pastor.
One day, I am too going to have an empty nest and maybe then m mornings will look like that.
But where I have to be careful is to completely dismiss this idea that I can’t have that now.
I can have something that looks like that now, but it will be more applicable to my current context.
Now I say all of that because I am going to tug on some things today that I’d hate for you to say, “that can never happen for me,” and you completely dismiss an opportunity to apply these principles to your context.
So let me get to our text today, and then I’m going to hit you with our sermon title.
Scriptural Exegesis
[CONTEXT]
Several months ago I started a series that I called “Hot Mess”.
We didn’t get to finish this series, but I am going to come back to it in the future.
The context of this series is that here in Corinth, a church that Paul planted, this church became a hot mess.
In chapter 3 of this letter to the Corinthians Paul is addressing the divisions in the church.
The church began to fan girl over their favorite teacher of the scriptures and they formed their own tribes within the church.
As Paul is addressing this silliness we read this verse; “you are the temple of God and God’s spirit dwells in your midst.”
The direct context isn’t to an individual, but to the body of believers in Corinth.
You all make up the temple of God and his spirit is here among you.
So if you decide to bring divisions here you are actually dividing the body of Christ and He is not going to have that.
[APPLICATION]
I am using this scripture and making the application that on an individual level, becuase we are a part of that temple, and I am going to use the word church now, we have a responsibility to steward our part.
Someone say MY PART.
Someone say MY PART IS ME.
So if we collectively steward our parts of the church, then we are contributing to the health of the church.
As I get better, the church gets better.
As I get healthier, the church gets healthier.
Deeper Into My Health
So next week, we are diving into three areas of health - physical health, emotional health and financial health.
And if you are wondering why I spent all of this time teeing up next week’s message it is becuase none of that matters if we don’t get this one thing right.
I so strongly feel that there is a principle that we must first get in order to properly frame everything else that I want to talk about next week.
This one thing is so important that I couldn’t bundle it with the others, it demanded its own day and it’s own space.
So today, I want to spend my time together with you all talking about this one topic; rest.
Deeper Into Rest
Now, I say that word and some of you are excited and ready to lean in, and then there are others of you who are already looking at the clock.
But let me challenge you today on this important conversation and let me see if we can get some fresh perspective about rest today.
Rest/ Sabbath
Let’s go talk about the very first mention of rest.
Let’s go back to the Book of Genesis and read about the 6th and the 7th day of creation.
Here is Day 6:
Here is Day 7:
On the 7th day of creation we read that God decided that is was time to rest from his work.
He did not rest becuase he was tired, but he rested because he was done.
Now this was the 7th day for God, but it was the first day for Adam.
We start from a place of rest.
The Western Culture has put this idea of rest on its head and it is in direct conflict with the word of God.
We treat rest as something for the weak.
We treat rest as something for the light weights.
The American work ethic prided itself on showing up and doing it sick or doing it hurt.
Let me pause here and just say that if there is one thing we need to normalize from this pandemic that we are trying to come out of, is we need to normalize NOT COMING TO WORK SICK.
Pre-COVID you didn’t get to call in sick unless you were sick sick.
You needed a note from your Doctor to validate that you were too sick to come to work.
Think about that.
I remember showing up to work with my nose so runny, and coughing, with a mild fever, and there were no work from home options.
You showed up!
Because that’s what we do.
We’re Americans.
You show up sick so you can risk getting everyone else sick and everyones collective performance drops and profitability lessens becuase that’s what Americans do!
Ok, let me get back to the topic of rest.
The reason some of this is going to challenge you is because you’ve put American culture over Kingdom culture and we need to remember that before you are a citizen of the United States you are a Citizen of Heaven.
So just because our culture does not value rest does not mean that God, and his word, does not value rest.
Here’s what we know about rest.
Not only did God rest to model rest to us, but he included it in the 10 Commandments.
What are the 10 Commandments?
Let’s review:
Don’t have any other Gods.
Don’t use God’s name in vain.
Keep the sabbath day, which is a day of rest, hello.
Honor your parents.
Don’t kill.
Don’t cheat on your spouse.
Don’t steal.
Don’t lie.
Don’t covet your neighbors wife.
Don’t covet your neighbors stuff.
Now you might say Pastor Josh, that was the Old Testament, and we don’t keep the Old Testament anymore.
We are a New Testament church.
Ok, so which of the 10 Commandments are you deciding not to keep?
You gonna cheat on your wife because that was in the Old Testament?
You gonna start stealing from your job because that was in the Old Testament?
You gonna start killing people because that was in the Old Testament?
Of course not!
You’re not going to do any of those things because morally they are wrong.
And so when I look at the 10 Commandments I see moral commands that we should be keeping!
But there is one Command there that is completely broken, and that is the Sabbath.
We agree with the other 9, but why not this one?
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