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Summary of last week
Sabbath (שַׁבָּת, shabbath):
It means that you STOP or to cease from
Nuakh:
Rested or settled in
We looked at the number 7 in Genesis 1 and saw the reoccurrence of the number in the text.
The number 7 in Hebrew
It communicated a sense of “fullness” or “completeness” (Seven is spelled with the same consonants as the word “complete/full” in Hebrew)
In Genesis 1:1 we see the beginning and the end.
The Sabbath in Genesis 2 of the creation Narrative points us to the end of the story as well.
It does not say there was morning and then evening.
We believe this is intentional because it points to the end of the story when we will reign with Jesus forever Full and Complete.
Throughout the creation narrative we see the flow of life with Sabbath mixed in.
Day 4 points us to the other festivals.
So we see the beginning and end in verse 1 and Day 4 the festivals of Sabbath and rest and then of course Day 7 God himself Stops from the work of creating and then His presence fills the Garden.
The text says on 7th day he blesses it or
May it be abundant.
May it be full.
May it be exponentially Complete.
(Illustration)
How do you like it if you go through the drive through and this is how you get your drink cup?
I paid $1.19 and this is as full as it gets?!?!?!
This is the tension for us in life.
We are constantly seeking to be full and complete.
We long to be full and complete.
Consumerism often drives us to believe that stuff can make us full and complete.
I am exhausted so I am just going to veg out on my phone and just relax watching reels.
If I had more stuff or more money then I would be more full and complete.
This desire to be full and complete drives us.
Day 7 God rest and the number seven means full and complete.
Day 7 does not end so it points to the end of all time when we are forever with Jesus full and complete.
Practicing the Sabbath reminds us of God’s desire for us to be full and complete.
This constant desire to live full and complete lives has us constantly searching, striving, pushing, and chasing after the nest big thing that will make us complete and full.
This causes us to
Multitasking
Think about it for a minute.
Students often have 5 different inputs coming at them while doing homework.
They will be listening to music with an earbud, doing homework, text messaging a friend, on their chromebook, and the tv is on.
In 2007, students from Kansas State University surveyed themselves and discovered they cream 27.5 hours of activity into every day-multitasking.
(Elmore Gen Z Unfiltered)
Multitasking can be helpful.
If I am driving somewhere, then I can also be on the phone chatting with my dad while taking my kids to school.
Tim Elmore argues that multitasking is damaging our students.
They grew up with social media and they are constantly multitasking.
Of course the dangers of texting and driving are harming our students but he argues it is more than just this.
Multitasking is playing in to depression and anxiety.
A squirt of dopamine is released when we accomplish one of the items on our multitasking list.
It makes us feel good.
This leads us to pursuing more short-term task or easier task that make us feel good.
We are soon caught up in quantity over quality.
We work harder not smarter.
We don’t really focus.
Sadly, we trade in health and value for speed and volume.
Read Page 154… MIT Neuroscientist Earl Miller reveals...
Multitasking for the sake of feeling full or complete.
The opposite of Multitasking...
Mindfulness
the basic human ability to be fully present, aware of where we are and what we’re doing and not overly reactive or overwhelmed by what’s going on around us.
The average American consumes ten thousand messages a day.
8 Years ago there were 950,000 apps in the app store.
Today there are over 2 million and apples says we want you to feel good about using every single one of them.
Mindfulness according to Psychological Science (that is clearing or focusing our minds) can control stress, improve sleep, and even avoid illness.
The American Psychological Association cites it as a hopeful strategy for alleviating depression, anxiety, and pain.
Two Kinds of Work
Nuahk: He settles him into the garden.
All throughout this narrative here in Genesis 2 it continues to point back to God as creator and He God creating this Garden and building out the garden if you will and then he places man into this Garden of Eden.
Have you ever made a Garden before?
Starting a garden takes a lot of work!
Once the garden is started, then the work slows down some.
God does the work to create the garden and then he places man there to work it or cultivate it and watch over it or steward it.
I really like the analogy that the Bible project guys use.
They say this work is much like sorting your kids Halloween candy.
You have candy that you did not get or collect and now the work that you do is to sort their candy so that the chocolate does not get mixed up with a twizzler.
If that stays one night, then it will guarantee taste like a chocolate twizzler.
So you have to sort this candy.
The other thought on this would be the idea of the work it takes to open a birthday or Christmas gift.
I think of a young toddler who works to unwrap the gift and then the excitement they find on the inside of the gift.
This is the type of work that is happening before the fall of creation.
It’s like you accidently drop a seed and boom the seed sprouts and there is abundance.
The purpose of man in the garden is to work but it is enjoyable work.
Eat and enjoy the land
Contingent on Trust and Obedience
The enemy begins to temp them and say your cup is not full and complete here in the garden.
You need to explore the tree of the knowledge of good and evil.
Trust and an obedient response to God’s will is necessary for humans to experience the ultimate Sabbath rest
The Bible Project
Adam and Eve are tempted and they give in to the temptation believing that they are not full and complete without the knowledge of good and evil.
The result is the second type of work.
Because you disobeyed and ate from the tree of knowledge of good and evil.
The ground is cursed.
You will eat from it by means of painful labor.
No longer do you drop a seed and abundance springs up but now you will eat to survive by painful labor all the days of your life.
Now too exist you must work the ground and labor in it.
It will produce thorns and thistles
This is quite the contrast from Genesis 2:9
Genesis 2:9 (HCSB)
9 The Lord God caused to grow out of the ground every tree pleasing in appearance and good for food,
Now it will produce thorns and thistles.
I have very good memories of riding in the pickup truck with my grandpa looking for thistles.
I also have memories of wanting to get back to the house with grandma and grandpa spotting a thistle that we had to deal with.
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