The Priority of the Sabbath
Review:
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- Big rocks represent your main priorities or longer-term goals.
- Little rocks represent your day-to-day responsibilities and shorter-term goals.
- Sand represents minor tasks that are not really that important.
- Water represents the unimportant distractions that prevent you from getting work done.
Sabbath is a big rock – we can’t do without it
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- Rest should energize you. If it doesn’t, then it isn’t actual rest.
Sabbath Defintion: (Strongs) שָׁבַת shâbath, shaw-bath’; a primitive root; to repose, i.e. desist from exertion
Sabbath IS Rest
Mark 2:27-28 KJV
And he said unto them, The sabbath was made for man, and not man for the sabbath: therefore the Son of man is Lord also of the sabbath.
Sabbath isn’t a regulation we are expected to comply with, it’s a requirement we are created with.
God’s Original Intentions for Man are His Eternal Intentions
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- Dominion
- To partake of and enjoy all that God has provided
- Rest and fellowship with God
- To guard and keep it (Responsibility)
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Sabbath isn’t Legalism
Legalism vs. License
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- Legalism says “it has to be exactly like this”
- License says “we don’t need that any more”
Faith is a Rest
Hebrews 4:3 KJV
For we who have believed to enter that rest…
The Daily Application of Sabbath Rest
1 Corinthians 14:10 KJV
There are, it may be, so many kinds of voices in the world, and none of them is without signification.
There are so many voices vying for our attention that we live in fight or flight mode:
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- Cell Phone notifications
- Email notifications
- Advertisements
- News updates
- Weather updates
How to Prioritize Rest on a Daily Basis
1. The One Minute Pause
Psalms 131:1-3 NKJV
Lord, my heart is not haughty, Nor my eyes lofty. Neither do I concern myself with great matters, Nor with things too profound for me. Surely I have calmed and quieted my soul, Like a weaned child with his mother; Like a weaned child is my soul within me. O Israel, hope in the Lord From this time forth and forever.
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- A weaned child doesn’t need it RIGHT NOW
- A weaned child isn’t worried it won’t be provided for. It is content.
- We simply pause and pray something like: “God I invite you into this, fill me, I need more union with you”
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2. Practice Benevolent Detachment
Mark 1:35-38 NKJV
Now in the morning, having risen a long while before daylight, He went out and departed to a solitary place; and there He prayed. And Simon and those who were with Him searched for Him. When they found Him, they said to Him, “Everyone is looking for You.” But He said to them, “Let us go into the next towns, that I may preach there also, because for this purpose I have come forth.”
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- You have to hand over everything to Him – we cannot, in our own power, save (or even carry) everyone and everything.
- You have to believe God for the rest
- Our job is connect people with Jesus, not to be Jesus FOR them
- Obey God and leave the consequences to Him
- Unplug from distractions
Psalms 1:1-6 NKJV
Blessed is the man who walks not in the counsel of the ungodly, nor stands in the path of sinners, nor sits in the seat of the scornful; but his delight is in the law of the Lord, and in His law he meditates day and night. He shall be like a tree, planted by the rivers of water, that brings forth its fruit in its season, whose leaf also shall not wither; and whatever he does shall prosper. The ungodly are not so, but are like the chaff which the wind drives away. Therefore the ungodly shall not stand in the judgment, nor sinners in the congregation of the righteous. For the Lord knows the way of the righteous, but the way of the ungodly shall perish.
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- There is a “way “ that the world lives by
- There is a “way” that believers live by
Isaiah 40:31 NKJV
But those who wait on the Lord Shall renew their strength; They shall mount up with wings like eagles, They shall run and not be weary, They shall walk and not faint.