Sermon Tone Analysis

Intro

Hey y’all how are y’all?

Everyone good?

Good.

y’all know what season it its?

Not Pumpkin spice, it’s apple crisp.

So who has instagram or TikTok?

porbably more of you are on tiktok than insta.

Alright so i don’t have tiktok, but pretty much everything makes it’s ways to reels like a week later, and i can live with that.

But the cultures are about the same on Reels and TikTok and one of the things we have probably all have seen is the hustle culture, or money hacks, finance advice.

Y’all know what i’m talking about?

Quit your 9-5 with these side hustle tips, or something stupid.

I made 60k in three months by drop shipping frying pans or something.

i think my favorite side hustle was this guy goes to Ross and TJ Max and looks up how much things are selling on amazon, buys them if they’re cheaper than resells them on amazon.

You can make 1000 dollars in a hour.

Which in theory works until you realize TJ Max only keeps like 4 things and you gotta go to a bunch of TJ Max, and you burn your profit in gas in shipping.

Idk, I guess you could make some money doing those.

or the hustle gym bros, not knocking going to the gym, but the chasing a rich lifestyle, flexing culture, is wild, and just kinda weird if you read some of the quotes and mantras are out there.

i searched the hashtag hustle quotes, and their just kinda cringe.

Like “Be a mess no one dares mess with” and there is a lion in the background.

ooo, so edgy.

Just dumb sounding stuff that

Literally one of the things i saw is, work hard now, you can sleep in your Rolls Royce later.

Cool, idk about you, but id rather sleep in a house, with a bed, than a car, it might be a rolls, butttt it’s still sleeping in car.

But the idea behind both of those things, is this idea of never resting and hyper self determination.

Its almost this idea of creating your own salvation from your own efforts.

But anyways, this is one of the prevailing mindsets in our culture, you all know someone like this, I’m sure some names are popping up of people who have this mindset.

Sleep is for the week, never rest, never satisfied.

And that’s the issue isn’t, never being satisfied.

Nothing in this world can bring you actual joy, so the pursuit becomes what drives people.

So that’s where we are gonna be tonight, looking at this idea of rest.

What does it mean to rest, what does scripture say about rest, what do we do with idea of hustle culture.

What does rest look like for followers of Christ?

Context

So, Hebrews 4 is where we are at tonight, Hebrews 4:1-12 does anyone need a bible?

I you need a bible, go ahead and throw a hand up, cool cool,

who needs a bible?

okay so while you’re there let me give you some context, remember Jesus is greater is the theme of the book, thats the over arching thing.

In this passage it is building onwhat we looked at last week, and really explores rest.

What is rest?

so let read this passage, then talk about rest.

but before we do that.

let’s pray for our time in the word tonight.

pray

okay read this with me Hebrews 4:1-12

what is rest?

okay, cool, so what do we mean by rest?

what is rest?

how do we rest?

whats going on here?

So first thing we need to see is that in verse 1 is that the promise of entering in to the Lord’s rest still stands,

so what does that mean?

Last week we talked about entering in to the promised land, the was the rest given to the hebrew people, that they would see the place prepared for them by God.

But what is the rest being talked about here?

this was 600 years removed from the promised land, so what is the rest?

The rest is salvation.

This is new covenant, the rest being offered is the gospel.

Look at verse 2, Heb.

4:2 “2 For good news came to us just as to them, but the message they heard did not benefit them, because they were not united by faith with those who listened.”

The good news is rest, rest found in Christ.

and why that didn’t benefit them is because they didn’t really believe what they had heard.

Faith brings Rest not, works.

They heard this is rest, they heard this is salvation, they didn’t really believe.

They got to the promised land and said no we can’t do it, we’ll do it a different way.

we’ll do it our own way.

any of you have a friend that likes to ask for advice then do the opposite of the advice you gave them?

everyone?

cool.

who has been that person?

also everyone?

cool?

how’d that work out for you?

When i was about 19 maybe?

my family and i went to the beach, and my mom is a great mom, she is always looking out for her boys, and this trip like many other trips, we are getting ready to go out to the beach for the day, we are all day beach people, when i go to the beach, i’m on the beach at like 7 am, getting my spot, setting up for the day.

When Lauralee and i went she’d meet down there about 10, but i get it from my Dad, all day beach people.

once i sit down out there i’m only getting up to get in the ocean.

so we are getting ready, and my mom is like, here is some sunscreen, and i said, “meh, i’m good, it’s gonna be over cast today.” to which my mom replied, you still are gonna want some sunscreen and I again said, i’ll be alright, i’ll have on a long sleeve shirt, and a good hat, i’ll be alright.

and Mom said, atleast put someon your legs, and i said nah, and i didn’t put anything on, because 19 year old me was a literal genius, peak mental performance was given by 19 year old me.

so we get out there, and it’s not even that hot, lots of cloud coverage, good breeze, it’s not a bad beach day.

so we sat out there from like 8 am to 5 pm, just sitting out there, and I had a fishing shirt on, that was long sleeve, arms were fine, had a big hat, sunglasses, kept my feet under the sand.

I’m doing great, 5 pm rolls around, we stand up to go, and when I stand up, i notice, that my knees sting.

and i look down, and my knees are red.

cool.

see my shorts came down to about here, and didn’t cover my knees, and you know what i didn’t put on my knees, sunscreen.

but i’m like, it’ll be alright, i’ve been sunburned before.

so we go in, get ready, and i put on jeans, and you know how sunburn gets worse later, like in the moment, it’s not too bad but like later that night and especially the next day, it’s awful.

This was the worst sunburn i’ve ever gotten, like my knees the next morning weren’t red, they were like blood purple, they looked bruised.

and they hurt like crazy.

I hurt to walk, hurt to sit hurt to really do anything, and so the rest of the week, i had the reminder of when i was a genius and defiantly knew better.

to this day, i’ll put sunscreen on my knees if im at the beach.

So that’s the hebrew people, they thought they knew better, they said, we’ll all die if we go in there.

and the thing that actually happened was a whole generation died before any of them got to go in there.

So this rest that is salvation brings actual rest.

they were not united in faith, they didn’t trust God, that is what faith means, the greek word for faith, also means trust.

They didn’t trust God to save them.

That is the crux of salvation, do you trust God? — Yes, rest in that.

Faith brings rest, not works.

They had no faith in God, they didn’t enter his rest, they tried to make their own salvation.

They tried to earn it for themselves.

They died.