Classis Soul Care
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What do I want them to know? God’s ways with our time
Why? God’s ways of time lead to health, life, wisdom, fruit
What do I want them to do? Living in God’s rhythm, Living with God’s Priorities/Commands, Living by the Spirit.
Why? God’s ways of time lead to health, life, wisdom, and fruit
ME/WE
Have you ever had a time in your life when you said “YES” to something you should have said “NO” to? You knew God said No, or your spouse God was using your SPOUSE to say you shouldn’t do it…some of you are saying yeah of course I said yes to being a Lions fan years ago (and that you knew it in your bones…and it wasn’t a bad thing, a sin thing, but it wasn’t good for you at the moment.
- Maybe it was a time that you said yes to getting together with someone from church they needed you, but at this moment you needed to say because you had other things you needed to say yes to
Or it was a phone call or text message that someone sent you. And you knew you should not have picked up the phone because you had other things or you needed to say yes to
Or maybe now that Covid is ending or appears to be ending people are saying we should start up that ministry, but now becuase of Covid there is no WE, it is YOU, and GOD is saying YOU do not have time to do it, it will drain, you but people are saying we have to do it, and you know this THE PEOPLE WHO USED TO LEAD ARE NOT HERE, so if you you say YES, you are saying YES TO LEAD it and it means you will being saying NO to something else that God wants you to do.
Gal 1 preasure to please people, but we not called to please people, love them, but we are to be a God pleaser
ANYBODY BEEN THERE?
The inverse is true....we said NO WHEN WE SHOULD HAVE SAID YES.
We said no to getting together with our family or a friend , when we should have said yes.
Your friend or daughter said lets watch the Ohio State game together, go to a movie, or grab a bite to eat…and we say no I got more church work to do
YOUR SOUL NEEDS IT
Saying no being with God to do the work of God
Or God is saying I want you to be Mary right not, but
We have all been here and will struggle not to be here?
HOW DO YOU FEEL WHEN YOU SAY YES when you should have said no? Or no when you should have said yes.
When we say yes to work when I said yes to the ministry idea or meeting with that person ....are we happy, I am so full of the Spirit, full of JOY, I am so glad I mad this decision!!
YOU FEEL ANGRY, MAD, BITTERNESS, RESENTMENT, REGRET (FOR NOT DOING THAT THING), “I can’t believe I am doing this, grrrr!!!” (we might not say it out loud) mad externally, mad internally, DUMB, STUPID “how can I be so stupid” “i wasted so much time”
AT times we take it out on others
IT IS SOUL CRUSHING, SUCKING THE LIFE OUT OF YOU
Anybody have those moments that you are doing well and then the bottom drops out
And if you do it long enough, what will happen is what happened to me after my first year of ministry BURNOUT that lead to a season where I battle of anxiety of depression.
The path we are headed down is not the straight and narrow that leads to life but the path that leads to destruction.
I have been there after a year in a half into ministry
The catalyst for it was I didn’t say no when I should have said yes and no when I should have said no.
And many times I was going at a speed that at times I was not able to hear the voice of the Lord to know what to say yes and no too.
Anybody been there?
BUT THE OPPOSITE IS TRUE WHEN WE SAY YES TO THE RIGHT THINGS, THAT GOD WANT US TO SAY YES TO TEHRE IS LIFE, PEACE, JOY, WHOLENESS, SHALOM, FRUIT
This is what is at stake
TENSION
The question is are they things we can say yes to that will rejuvenate our soul?
Yes, there are several things I can say but today I will cover two things that when we YES to these two things they will bring rejuvenation to our soul
What are the things TWO THINGS we need to say yes to that we need to say YES to that will lead to are souls being refreshed, rejuivated
What are those three things?
We yes to that will help us say yes and no to things is to live according to God’s created weekly rhythm for our lives
What is that Rhythmn?
“ ‘Observe the Sabbath day, to keep it holy, as the Lord your God commanded you.
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 or your male servant or your female servant, or your ox or your donkey or any of your livestock, or the sojourner who is within your gates, that your male servant and your female servant may rest as well as you.
You shall remember that you were a slave in the land of Egypt, and the Lord your God brought you out from there with a mighty hand and an outstretched arm. Therefore the Lord your God commanded you to keep the Sabbath day.
God says to us 6 days you shall work (vocationally, personally, on house projects, run errands, etc.) but on the 7th day you are to SABBATH (which means stopping)
I know for many of us our Sabbath is not Sunday
We are to Sabbot, we are to stop, stop from what
What are to stop from? Playing card games, having fun withe our family and friends, boards games, watching TV, going walks in nature
Some of us grew up that way
No, we are to stop from WORKING, laboring vocational and non-vocational labor…God’s plan for us not to stop working vocational so we can work on house projects.
This day we do not work on our sermon
Take church phone calls, you know when Bill calls it is not going to be a minute and it stealing time from you family
Open our email quickly
Catch up on that one thing house wise or work (there will always be more to do, so even when we say, I will Sabbath after I get that done, but what happens? another thing pops up)
It is a day set apart for the Lord, where we cease from working
It is a day set apart for the Lord, where we cease from working
(I know I am preaching to the choir…I am 40 years old and you have preached sermons on this better than me)
(But it is also us choir who are the worst statistically speaking who are bad at this
THREE FEARS the enemy tho
MAYBE YOU CAN RELATE TO WHY DID NOT LIVE IN GOD WAYS OF A WEEKLY RHYTMN
1. Because one of our tendencies is to be people pleasers, we love our people and want to shepherd them well, but we people please, which is a manipulation and of lover....we are to be God pleasures and not people pleasures
2. If I don’t do ____ it will not happen....Which often get translated to if I don’t do ___ (past my limits) this ministry will not grow..... God will not come through for me (I was not trusting in the …and rarely did I questions at times with stuff past my limits? God should I do this? (it is good thing so it has to be God)
Promise of Scirpture Psalm 127:1-2
Unless the Lord builds the house, those who build it labor in vain. Unless the Lord watches over the city, the watchman stays awake in vain.
It is in vain that you rise up early and go late to rest, eating the bread of anxious toil; for he gives to his beloved sleep.
3. Identity tied to work, when our work looks good we feel good, I over worked so people would say I am awesome
Instead of my identity in Christ
Pastor, elder, leader the size of of your church does not reflect the size of God’s love for you
What God created rhythm does for us
This sets a beginning boundary of knowing what days I can say yes to work things and what days
When Bill calls on our Sabbath we don’t answer
When the house project is looking at us we SAY not today
Not only does the SABBATH GIVE US HELP OF WHAT TO SAY YES and NO TOO
WE NEED THE SABBATH
THE HEART OF THE SABBATH is about
Is worship to our God
And our renewal
The Sabbath is about renewing us mentally, emotionally, physically, spiritually, (when we skip the Sabbath we are skipping being renewed)
This is Jesus point in Mark
And he said to them, “The Sabbath was made for man, not man for the Sabbath.
So the Son of Man is lord even of the Sabbath.”
Again he entered the synagogue, and a man was there with a withered hand.
And they watched Jesus, to see whether he would heal him on the Sabbath, so that they might accuse him.
And he said to the man with the withered hand, “Come here.”
And he said to them, “Is it lawful on the Sabbath to do good or to do harm, to save life or to kill?” But they were silent.
And he looked around at them with anger, grieved at their hardness of heart, and said to the man, “Stretch out your hand.” He stretched it out, and his hand was restored.
The Pharisees went out and immediately held counsel with the Herodians against him, how to destroy him.
(you couldn’t heal on the Sabbath according to the Mishnah unless it was life or death situation)
sums up the principle: ‘If a man has a pain in his throat they may drop medicine into his mouth on the sabbath, since there is doubt whether life is in danger, and whenever there is doubt whether life is in danger this overrides the sabbath.’
Jesus is saying you are missing the POINT of the SABBATH, it is about healing, renewal…not about heavy weights.
The Sabbath is about RENEWAL AND HEALING
How many us have to come to worship on the or our Sabbath Sabbath worried, heavy laden, sorrowful but you left RENEWED?
The Sabbath is about Renewal
It Renews our mind (the Word of God comes and renews our stinking thinking)
It renews our Spirit (we sing praises to the Lord and our Soul lifts)
It renews our physical bodies (our bodies recover)
Friends God has given us the gift in the Sabbath, it is for our good)
God says open the gift
Say YES to the weekly rhythmn, it will help you say Yes and NO to things
And it is good for you SOUL
Your church needs it, your family needs you to rest,
BEFORE we move on, let’s pump the brakes
We rest 1 day we work 6
Does this mean that all we do is work on our work days?
Work from when we get up until we go to bed?
NO
If all we did was work, who would get edged out?
Not only that, if we work from when we wake up to when we sleep we will have not time for GOD (we may be doing the WORK of GOD being a Marth, but being a Mary gets edged out), FRIENDS, or FAMILY....is this what has in mind....sadly we have seen many pastors, Saints over WORK and as a result THEIR FAMILY GETS NEGLECTED AND THEY NEGLECT THEIR RELATIONSHIP WITHD GOD
So how many hours should we work?
There is no number given in scripture of how many hours we are to work in a week, but we can see from history and phycology and the medical field is that the amount of hours that we should work, this includes house work, errands, on average over 6 days (there are going to be busy seasons at vocationally work and home work) is at most 8-9 hours a day. When we get over 55 hours a week. It has destructive affects on our MENTAL, EMTIONAL, PHYSCIAL, SPIRITUAL LIVES and we actually start to become counter productive, we will end up doing double work because we did work past our limits.
What God says to us we are to work 6 days, 50-55 hours a week including household work, and take a rest for 24 hours, Sabbath is a gift
Knowing they were created for a weekly ryhthmn and not all of my work day is to be dedicated to rest.....
This helps us know what to say Yes and NO
When we say to the right things we will have peace, joy, goodness, Zoe life/ life of our life
2. 2nd thing we say are to say YES, that will help us say YES and NO too is to be Mary’s in a Martha world, and in a job
We live in a Martha world, get things done, move forward, accomplish things
This is not to be our mentality, yes we are to work, work is good, but being a Mary is better
Isn’t one of the ploys of the enemy is either make us lazy or too busy
Let’s read what Jesus says
Now as they went on their way, Jesus entered a village. And a woman named Martha welcomed him into her house.
And she had a sister called Mary, who sat at the Lord’s feet and listened to his teaching.
But Martha was distracted with much serving. And she went up to him and said, “Lord, do you not care that my sister has left me to serve alone? Tell her then to help me.”
But the Lord answered her, “Martha, Martha, you are anxious and troubled about many things,
but one thing is necessary. Mary has chosen the good portion, which will not be taken away from her.”
Mary chose the better.
Martha is not wrong
Pastor, elder, leader, God is saying to you “why are you anxious and troubled about many things?”
I know you have a lot going on
I know Covid has been hard
I know your soul is wearied
I know you plate is full
I know you are on the verge of burnout
Come to me, all who labor and are heavy laden, and I will give you rest.
Come be at my feet, come be at my feet, come be in my presence, come listen to my voice, let me blow my ruach, my Spirit into you
casting all your anxieties on him, because he cares for you.
Do you know what else God does when we are Mary? Not only does God fill our souls, He shows us the Martha things we are to do....It is out of being a Mary God speaks to us.
This is what I am calling you to do
Here’s what you should say yes and no too.
When the Spirit of truth comes, he will guide you into all the truth, for he will not speak on his own authority, but whatever he hears he will speak, and he will declare to you the things that are to come.
Pastor, elder, leader, brother sister.
May we be people who keep the Sabbath rhythm and sit at the feet of Jesus.
Our souls need it, our family needs it, our church needs it.