WEBVTT 00:00:00.160 --> 00:00:01.840 Thanks this morning for your presence. 00:00:02.080 --> 00:00:05.360 Uh thank you for Amy and for Will and their presence here. 00:00:05.440 --> 00:00:09.119 And uh pray bless them, God, this morning as they've been baptized. 00:00:09.199 --> 00:00:11.039 May they live as free people. 00:00:11.279 --> 00:00:15.519 I think often of Brandon Manning said there's nothing more maddening in this world than a free person. 00:00:16.000 --> 00:00:17.120 And so would you make them free? 00:00:17.280 --> 00:00:18.960 Make it all make all of us free, God, this morning. 00:00:19.039 --> 00:00:21.839 Would you wake us up in all the ways we need it so badly and desperately, God? 00:00:22.079 --> 00:00:23.519 And all the ways we've fallen asleep. 00:00:23.600 --> 00:00:28.160 Would you wake us up and uh give us life this morning in Jesus' name? 00:00:28.399 --> 00:00:28.800 Amen. 00:00:29.039 --> 00:00:30.239 You need me seated. 00:00:30.960 --> 00:00:32.399 Well, good morning. 00:00:32.719 --> 00:00:34.000 How are we doing? 00:00:35.280 --> 00:00:36.240 Oh man. 00:00:37.280 --> 00:00:43.119 Okay, this is my final sermon until I go on sabbatical for three months. 00:00:43.439 --> 00:00:45.840 So I will see y'all in September. 00:00:46.079 --> 00:00:47.679 And uh I'm gonna miss you guys. 00:00:47.759 --> 00:00:57.200 I you know, maybe you know this, maybe you don't, but the reason I do this is because for the longest time I've just I've loved people, I've always loved people and talking with people and sharing stories. 00:00:57.280 --> 00:01:04.480 And I'm like, this is incredible just to be able to do this with these two and to rally around these two and and love on them and baptize them. 00:01:04.560 --> 00:01:08.879 And uh what a gift this has been to just have our lives kind of brush up against each other. 00:01:09.040 --> 00:01:10.079 It's the same with all of you. 00:01:10.400 --> 00:01:12.319 And that's why that's why I pastor. 00:01:13.120 --> 00:01:16.159 Um yeah, and I've always loved talking about Jesus. 00:01:16.239 --> 00:01:18.959 I think there's something fascinating about this Jesus stories. 00:01:19.120 --> 00:01:21.439 Like they're they're so they're so wildly different. 00:01:21.519 --> 00:01:23.680 And he was a fascinating person. 00:01:24.000 --> 00:01:36.799 And uh the Bible, this ancient old book, it's just this wildly entertaining, I mean it is, but it's a wildly uh profound book that's super old and it reads like it, but it's this book that people still read and glean from today. 00:01:36.959 --> 00:01:38.959 And and so uh that's why I do it. 00:01:39.040 --> 00:01:42.319 And I and I and uh in the meantime, I've I've fallen in love with all of you. 00:01:42.560 --> 00:01:49.840 And so I'm going on sabbatical because I want to continue to sort of cherish this gift I've been given in pastoring you guys. 00:01:50.079 --> 00:01:51.519 And so uh that's what I'm doing. 00:01:51.599 --> 00:01:53.040 And so I'll be gone for three months. 00:01:53.200 --> 00:01:55.760 I'd love to say goodbye at the end if you have a chance. 00:01:55.920 --> 00:02:02.079 Um, but I am coming back in three months, uh, you know, so don't panic or or celebrate, whichever the case might be. 00:02:02.640 --> 00:02:03.920 I don't know, whatever. 00:02:04.159 --> 00:02:06.159 But uh, I'll be back in September. 00:02:06.400 --> 00:02:11.520 And um, you know, if you can't say goodbye today, that's so you can say goodbye later, but I'll be up front or whatever the case might be. 00:02:11.680 --> 00:02:13.680 But uh pray for me as often as you think of me. 00:02:13.759 --> 00:02:15.280 I'll do the same for you as well. 00:02:15.439 --> 00:02:23.280 And but before I go, I wanted to just share one final kind of message before I go this summer and and then invite you into a couple of things at the end. 00:02:23.439 --> 00:02:26.800 So this morning, my sermon is on life that is full of life. 00:02:28.560 --> 00:02:32.400 Yeah, and Jesus said it can give you life and life to the fall. 00:02:32.800 --> 00:02:34.960 And so I want to talk about three things this morning. 00:02:35.120 --> 00:02:36.960 I want to talk about uh sabbatical roots. 00:02:37.039 --> 00:02:38.639 Like, where does this idea of a sabbatical come from? 00:02:38.719 --> 00:02:39.280 What does it mean? 00:02:39.439 --> 00:02:40.960 What does the word even mean? 00:02:41.120 --> 00:02:44.240 Uh I want to invite you to perhaps do one yourself. 00:02:44.479 --> 00:02:49.360 I realize that many of you, maybe most of you, can't take three months off of work, and I understand that. 00:02:49.439 --> 00:02:54.240 And um, you know, maybe many, maybe some of you are in the room thinking to yourself, oh gosh, must be nice. 00:02:54.400 --> 00:02:57.360 Pastor Ryan gets three months off of work, and it must be nice. 00:02:57.520 --> 00:02:59.039 To which I would say, yes, it is nice. 00:02:59.120 --> 00:02:59.680 Thank you very much. 00:02:59.759 --> 00:03:00.719 It's very nice. 00:03:01.039 --> 00:03:01.599 Thank you. 00:03:01.840 --> 00:03:05.120 I would also add, you could have had my job if you wanted it, you still can't. 00:03:05.199 --> 00:03:09.759 I can help you get to uh you have your job though, and you get benefits that I don't get. 00:03:10.400 --> 00:03:12.719 So uh anyway, stay in your own lane. 00:03:12.800 --> 00:03:22.000 Uh and uh but um yeah, but I do want to encourage you to like maybe you can do things like this in your life. 00:03:22.080 --> 00:03:23.680 And I want to share why I think you should. 00:03:23.840 --> 00:03:24.639 So that's the first thing. 00:03:24.719 --> 00:03:28.400 Number two, I want to share the greatest invention of the 20th century. 00:03:28.560 --> 00:03:29.280 Who yes? 00:03:29.439 --> 00:03:31.120 And I know you know what it is already. 00:03:31.360 --> 00:03:33.520 I know you know what it is, but save it. 00:03:33.599 --> 00:03:35.280 I'll give it to you in the middle of this sermon here. 00:03:35.439 --> 00:03:46.879 And then I want to end with three things that I want to kind of get or take from or pray for for myself on sabbatical, and that I think maybe you might resonate with a little bit and also maybe pray for these same things for you. 00:03:47.039 --> 00:03:49.680 Because while I'm gone for three months, you'll have your three months. 00:03:49.840 --> 00:03:52.400 And there's some things I want you to be invited into doing as well. 00:03:52.560 --> 00:03:53.360 Sound all right? 00:03:54.159 --> 00:03:56.479 So let's begin with sabbatical and its roots. 00:03:56.639 --> 00:04:04.400 So in the ancient world, maybe you know this, but time was mostly governed by astronomical phenomenon, by the natural world. 00:04:04.639 --> 00:04:07.599 So the day, there was no clocks back in the day. 00:04:07.759 --> 00:04:14.319 Uh they knew a day was a day because the sun would rise and fall, and then the moon would do the same, and then it would happen again. 00:04:14.479 --> 00:04:16.319 And that repetition was what they called a day. 00:04:16.399 --> 00:04:22.879 Now we know the sun doesn't rise and fall, the sun actually is we're we're rotating around it, but but that was they they knew a day was a day. 00:04:22.959 --> 00:04:23.920 It was governed by the sun. 00:04:24.240 --> 00:04:28.399 Months were similar, and that the month was governed by the lunar cycle. 00:04:28.560 --> 00:04:29.199 Uh the moon. 00:04:29.360 --> 00:04:32.160 In fact, month and moon come from the same root word. 00:04:32.480 --> 00:04:37.199 And so about 29 or so days is a lunar cycle, and that's about a month. 00:04:37.279 --> 00:04:41.279 So the ancients knew a month was as long as this lunar cycle was. 00:04:41.680 --> 00:04:43.360 Seasons were the same, or years. 00:04:43.519 --> 00:04:56.240 So the year was the repetition of the seasons, these four seasons, depending on where you live, um, or the the stars in the sky, and they knew that there was this uh repeated cycle of these seasons, and this is what they called a year. 00:04:56.480 --> 00:04:59.920 Uh, the people were very tied and connected to the earth. 00:05:00.079 --> 00:05:04.959 Like the earth dictated all the that they did, and uh, it marked their time. 00:05:05.120 --> 00:05:06.720 For us, it's probably a little bit different. 00:05:06.959 --> 00:05:10.560 I mean, the markings of time in the modern world are maybe a tad different. 00:05:10.639 --> 00:05:15.040 Like if you have little kids, your time is governed by your little kids. 00:05:15.439 --> 00:05:17.519 How they wake up, when they wake up. 00:05:17.680 --> 00:05:22.800 Uh, if you have teenagers, your your time is often dictated by the the mood of that teenager. 00:05:23.279 --> 00:05:25.439 Can I get an amen for any parents of teenagers? 00:05:25.839 --> 00:05:32.160 If you're a teenager, it's dictated by like whatever exam you have coming up, whatever your next test is, or the finals, or you know, whatever. 00:05:32.319 --> 00:05:46.079 Um, and I made this joke this morning because I'm like, well, maybe uh if you're here and you're retired, you have different things that govern your, you know, your time, like your and uh your weekly Thursday trip to the hardware store, uh, or your like 7:30 p.m. 00:05:46.319 --> 00:05:47.279 bedtime. 00:05:48.160 --> 00:05:50.720 Maybe 7.45 if you're crazy and have a wild night. 00:05:50.800 --> 00:05:52.240 You want to get 15 more minutes? 00:05:52.720 --> 00:05:56.079 Um, maybe it's your visits to the doctor's office. 00:05:56.160 --> 00:05:56.480 I don't know. 00:05:56.560 --> 00:05:56.959 I'm just saying. 00:05:58.319 --> 00:06:00.399 But there are these things that govern our time. 00:06:00.480 --> 00:06:04.079 And our seasons, of course, in the modern world are dictated by Target. 00:06:04.240 --> 00:06:09.920 You know, I didn't know it was Halloween already, but apparently I went into the Target and they have Halloween decorations, so it's already Halloween season. 00:06:10.399 --> 00:06:19.920 But in the ancient world, they had these sort of astronomical phenomena that dictated and governed time, except for one unit of time, and that was the week. 00:06:20.160 --> 00:06:25.279 There's no obvious natural occurring phenomenon that governs a seven-day week. 00:06:25.439 --> 00:06:26.000 Did you know this? 00:06:26.079 --> 00:06:28.639 Nothing happens in the natural world that dictates this time. 00:06:28.800 --> 00:06:32.879 You could say this way that there's no astronomical reason for a week to be seven days. 00:06:33.040 --> 00:06:34.800 Why are we seven days? 00:06:35.040 --> 00:06:43.040 Nobody really knows, except that maybe in ancient Mesopotamia, which is like modern-day Iraq, the Babylonians invent the seven-day week. 00:06:43.120 --> 00:06:44.800 And it begins to be used in this area. 00:06:44.879 --> 00:06:53.040 And of course, later the Jews, the Israelites, they began as Israelites, uh, the ancient Israelites, they adopted the seven-day cycle of a week. 00:06:53.120 --> 00:06:55.680 Now, for them, sevens were important, also for the Babylonians. 00:06:55.920 --> 00:06:58.800 The seven was a uniquely important number. 00:06:59.120 --> 00:07:08.079 But the the Israelites added a caveat, a wrinkle in their seven-day week that was unique to any other culture around them. 00:07:08.319 --> 00:07:15.519 They said, hey, on the seventh day, we'll stop doing anything and not work. 00:07:15.920 --> 00:07:19.199 So our seven-day week won't be seven days of just working. 00:07:19.279 --> 00:07:23.120 We'll work for six days and then we'll take one day and we'll stop. 00:07:23.279 --> 00:07:25.839 It's sort of like a holiday, but every week. 00:07:26.079 --> 00:07:36.160 This is the first ever invented holiday, this regular recurring day that's not based on a natural uh occurring phenomenon. 00:07:36.560 --> 00:07:44.959 It's wholly an Israelite invention, this six and one rhythm, working for six days and then stopping or ceasing for another day. 00:07:45.120 --> 00:07:52.879 And this rhythm of six and one was not governed by the stars or the sun or the moon or any astronomical things. 00:07:53.120 --> 00:07:54.959 It was governed by God. 00:07:55.439 --> 00:08:00.879 So for them, it wasn't an astronomical rhythm, like the day or the month or the year. 00:08:00.959 --> 00:08:04.480 It was actually a theological rhythm. 00:08:04.800 --> 00:08:07.360 Yeah, this was a theological idea for them. 00:08:07.519 --> 00:08:10.720 And they called this seventh day, they gave it a name. 00:08:10.959 --> 00:08:15.920 Did you know that in the Hebrew language, the days, except for that last one, they don't have names. 00:08:16.000 --> 00:08:17.839 They just sort of given numbers. 00:08:18.079 --> 00:08:19.360 So here's an example. 00:08:19.600 --> 00:08:25.360 Uh oh, yeah, this is the rhythm that they had: six days of work and one day of not working or rest. 00:08:25.600 --> 00:08:28.639 Now, the first day of the week was, of course, a Sunday. 00:08:28.800 --> 00:08:32.159 Now, the Sabbath or Shabbat was different for the Jewish culture. 00:08:32.320 --> 00:08:33.039 It still is. 00:08:33.279 --> 00:08:39.120 Their day began on Sunday, and their Sabbath or their Shabbat or day seven is actually on Saturday. 00:08:39.200 --> 00:08:45.840 Now, to confuse you even more, the days begin at sundown and they go till the next day at sundown, but that's just how they view their days. 00:08:46.000 --> 00:08:48.799 But day one is just called the first day. 00:08:48.879 --> 00:08:53.120 It's not given a name, it's just sort of like title, like where it falls in the order of its occurrence. 00:08:53.440 --> 00:08:57.440 Day two, which is Yom Shinnai, it's the second day. 00:08:57.519 --> 00:09:02.000 Uh day three, which is Yam Shali, by the way, Yah means day or period of time. 00:09:02.240 --> 00:09:04.639 Yam Shhlisi means like the third day. 00:09:04.799 --> 00:09:07.120 Then there's the fourth day, then there's the fifth day. 00:09:07.200 --> 00:09:08.960 It's just repetitive, like whatever order it's in. 00:09:09.039 --> 00:09:10.080 That's what the day we're gonna do. 00:09:10.240 --> 00:09:11.120 Sixth day. 00:09:11.360 --> 00:09:14.559 But day seven has a name. 00:09:14.879 --> 00:09:18.720 And they call it the Sabbath or the Shabbat. 00:09:19.120 --> 00:09:25.440 It's as though the day has its own identity, like its own juice, its own chutzpah, its own moxi. 00:09:25.759 --> 00:09:27.519 It's its own thing. 00:09:27.840 --> 00:09:41.519 This day was sort of unique and different, and they call it the Sabbath or the Shabbat, which by the way, uh, Shabbat or Sabbath literally means to stop or to cease. 00:09:41.759 --> 00:09:49.519 So for six days on day the first day, the second day, the third day, the fourth day, the fifth day, the sixth day, they would work and do things and strive and put forth effort. 00:09:49.679 --> 00:09:56.720 And then that seventh day, the Shabbat, the Sabbath, they would cease or stop doing many things. 00:09:56.960 --> 00:10:04.879 And not just them, but their slaves or their servants and their animals and the land, everything got a break, even the foreigners that live in their midst. 00:10:05.039 --> 00:10:06.080 And here's where they get it from. 00:10:06.240 --> 00:10:11.919 Again, not any astronomical lunar or solar phenomenon, but it comes from God. 00:10:12.080 --> 00:10:21.600 In the story, the Hebrew story of creation, God creates it in six days, and then on that seventh day, he stops creating, he stops working. 00:10:21.759 --> 00:10:29.679 So he calls it holy because on it he rests, he ceases from working and uh stops creating all that he had created. 00:10:30.320 --> 00:10:31.600 Yeah, that's where it comes from. 00:10:31.759 --> 00:10:37.759 So this six and one rhythm, it's a day, one day to stop, to cease. 00:10:38.240 --> 00:10:45.360 And and doing so, just the act of stopping was in and of itself worship to God. 00:10:45.919 --> 00:10:46.799 So follow this. 00:10:46.879 --> 00:10:52.159 Many of us on our seventh day, like, well, we'll go and we'll worship God on the seventh day in a building somewhere. 00:10:52.320 --> 00:10:54.159 But for the ancients, it wasn't that way. 00:10:54.320 --> 00:11:03.519 They said, no, just by stopping working and embracing this rhythm of six and one, six and one, by doing that, we will worship God. 00:11:03.759 --> 00:11:16.159 Because we're saying, hey, hey, this thing, this day that we're gonna cut out and just use to stop working, this day is not governed by any celestial beings or solar, lunar phenomenon. 00:11:16.639 --> 00:11:17.759 It's governed by God. 00:11:17.840 --> 00:11:26.480 It's our day to remember that this day belongs to God and that God is above all the celestial beings because he created them and he governs them. 00:11:26.559 --> 00:11:30.399 And so this day that's governed by God as a gift for us to worship God. 00:11:30.559 --> 00:11:38.639 It's no wonder that in the scriptures, then, they often give the command of the Sabbath, which comes later when they become freed from Egypt. 00:11:38.799 --> 00:11:44.399 That command oftentimes comes in concert with the prohibition of idolatry. 00:11:44.879 --> 00:11:57.120 Because many times on day the first day, and the second day, and the third day, and the fourth day, and the fifth day, we sort of get into this lull and this sort of like uh rhythm, and we sort of forget what we're doing, and then all of a sudden we find ourselves like maybe worshiping other gods. 00:11:57.200 --> 00:12:00.480 And then on day seven, it's like, no, no, no, no, no more. 00:12:00.960 --> 00:12:03.039 Worship God and God alone. 00:12:03.200 --> 00:12:07.919 So on that day, that seventh day, they would stop and they would, in stopping, they would worship God. 00:12:08.080 --> 00:12:09.600 That was their worship to God. 00:12:09.919 --> 00:12:12.799 God calls this day, as you heard, holy. 00:12:12.879 --> 00:12:16.559 This is the first time this word holy is ever used. 00:12:16.720 --> 00:12:18.240 In the Hebrew, it's the word kadosh. 00:12:18.320 --> 00:12:33.600 Everyone say kadosh, not to be confused with skadosh, similar, kadosh, and kadosh means holy, which means the first time the Bible ever calls anything holy. 00:12:34.320 --> 00:12:52.320 It doesn't call it doesn't call the land holy, it doesn't call uh the temple holy, doesn't call people or the priests holy, it doesn't call sacrifices holy, or prayers holy, or bacon holy, or naps holy, which they are. 00:12:52.399 --> 00:12:54.720 I'm just saying, not first, they're holy though. 00:12:54.960 --> 00:12:58.799 Uh or Wi-Fi Chipotle with guac holy? 00:12:58.879 --> 00:13:05.120 No, it doesn't the first thing ever deemed holy in the scripture is time. 00:13:07.919 --> 00:13:08.399 Huh? 00:13:09.519 --> 00:13:22.080 Time itself, the first holiness in the story of God and the world in the creation is a holiness in time, which means that time, by the word holy, literally means to be set apart. 00:13:22.159 --> 00:13:23.759 It's unique, it's different. 00:13:24.159 --> 00:13:32.720 So maybe for God to be holy, doesn't mean that God is so clean and proper that He cannot look upon you and your thieving and lying ways, you dirty sinner. 00:13:33.759 --> 00:13:35.279 Maybe it's not that. 00:13:35.759 --> 00:13:39.039 Maybe it's just that God is unique and different and other than you. 00:13:39.200 --> 00:13:40.080 Of course, God is. 00:13:40.159 --> 00:13:42.159 That's why God is God and you're not. 00:13:42.879 --> 00:13:44.000 But that's what it means. 00:13:44.080 --> 00:13:54.240 So this day, this time, this maybe now in our case, a 24-hour period is a wholly unique, set apart day to be used for something different. 00:13:55.200 --> 00:13:59.759 So you have the first day, the second day, the third day, the fourth day, the final day, the second day. 00:13:59.919 --> 00:14:05.919 But on day seven, it's unique, different, used differently as worship to God. 00:14:06.320 --> 00:14:09.440 In the commandments, when God sets them free, he gives them the command. 00:14:09.600 --> 00:14:13.039 Now, as you leave Egypt, remember you're not slaves anymore. 00:14:13.120 --> 00:14:15.840 Remember that God made the world in six days and then rested, he stopped. 00:14:16.159 --> 00:14:18.799 So you should also then stop working. 00:14:18.960 --> 00:14:20.799 You can read it in Exodus 20. 00:14:20.879 --> 00:14:23.200 Uh, on that day, it's a Sabbath day. 00:14:23.279 --> 00:14:24.080 Don't do work. 00:14:24.240 --> 00:14:25.679 Neither you, your son, your daughter. 00:14:25.840 --> 00:14:28.159 Can I get an amen from the kids in the house in the room this morning? 00:14:28.320 --> 00:14:30.879 No work, mom, dad, sorry, it's the law. 00:14:31.120 --> 00:14:34.399 Uh, or your male or female servants, your animals. 00:14:34.639 --> 00:14:36.559 The animals couldn't even do work. 00:14:36.799 --> 00:14:39.279 Can I get an amen from the animals in the house today? 00:14:42.639 --> 00:14:44.000 That was unplanned. 00:14:44.159 --> 00:14:46.080 That also that was gold. 00:14:46.159 --> 00:14:47.039 I love it. 00:14:47.519 --> 00:14:49.759 Uh, where was I? 00:14:49.919 --> 00:14:52.559 Okay, uh, I'm out, I'm out the door in a couple hours. 00:14:52.639 --> 00:14:53.200 Let's just keep going. 00:14:54.320 --> 00:14:57.440 Um, okay, nor your foreigners residing in your towns. 00:14:57.519 --> 00:14:59.679 Whether the foreigners were this is not a political statement. 00:14:59.759 --> 00:15:03.600 I'm just saying in the ancient story, the outsider was always welcomed inside. 00:15:03.679 --> 00:15:04.240 That's the thing. 00:15:04.320 --> 00:15:07.519 So the outskirts should always be welcomed on the inside. 00:15:07.840 --> 00:15:09.279 So they should also get a Sabbath. 00:15:09.440 --> 00:15:10.159 They weren't even Jews. 00:15:10.240 --> 00:15:11.440 Give them a Sabbath, man. 00:15:11.600 --> 00:15:12.879 Everybody gets a Sabbath. 00:15:13.279 --> 00:15:16.879 Uh, for in six days you made the the world and on the seventh day. 00:15:17.200 --> 00:15:19.039 God, of course, rests. 00:15:19.600 --> 00:15:21.919 Do something different. 00:15:22.080 --> 00:15:23.600 It's wholly unique. 00:15:24.320 --> 00:15:27.840 Which brings us then to the greatest invention of the 20th century. 00:15:28.000 --> 00:15:29.039 Do you know what it is? 00:15:30.320 --> 00:15:33.360 Of course, it's the rumble strip. 00:15:34.240 --> 00:15:36.480 Yes, you know the rumble strip. 00:15:36.559 --> 00:15:38.240 It's got many names, of course. 00:15:38.320 --> 00:15:40.879 I I Googled this, it's got a few different pseudonyms. 00:15:41.039 --> 00:15:43.440 By the way, there was a gentleman in the earlier gathering. 00:15:43.519 --> 00:15:47.360 He comes up, he goes, Hey, Pastor Ryan, I helped build those. 00:15:47.519 --> 00:15:50.559 And for 20 years, I've helped put those in the roads. 00:15:50.720 --> 00:15:53.519 In fact, on some websites, I'm listed as one of the inventors. 00:15:53.679 --> 00:15:54.720 I'm like, what? 00:15:55.519 --> 00:15:56.799 I'm like, why didn't you interrupt me? 00:15:56.879 --> 00:15:58.320 And he's like, I didn't want to interrupt you. 00:15:58.960 --> 00:16:02.639 So I'm like, well, the today the rumble strip gets its due. 00:16:02.960 --> 00:16:04.399 It's credit it deserves. 00:16:04.559 --> 00:16:05.519 It has a few names. 00:16:05.600 --> 00:16:08.240 You might know it also as the audible line. 00:16:08.879 --> 00:16:11.840 Or you might also call this the sleepy bumps. 00:16:12.559 --> 00:16:14.240 Remember the first time I hit these? 00:16:14.559 --> 00:16:17.279 I was a young man and I was driving on the road and I was falling asleep. 00:16:17.360 --> 00:16:20.240 Oh, actually, it was a friend of mine, a friend of mine was falling asleep. 00:16:20.480 --> 00:16:23.440 It wasn't me, a friend of mine was driving and he fell asleep. 00:16:23.679 --> 00:16:29.360 And sort of as someone, but not me, but someone might do, they went off the road, hit these. 00:16:31.360 --> 00:16:36.320 And it woke me him up and was like, dear God, what is that? 00:16:37.360 --> 00:16:38.960 He didn't he didn't know what these things were. 00:16:39.039 --> 00:16:40.799 He thought it was like an alien invasion. 00:16:42.080 --> 00:16:44.159 But it saved his life. 00:16:44.879 --> 00:16:45.840 Sleepy bumps. 00:16:45.919 --> 00:16:48.639 It also might be called in your house the growlers. 00:16:48.960 --> 00:16:50.639 Anybody call them the growlers? 00:16:51.120 --> 00:16:53.440 The website, the internet says it's true, so it must be true. 00:16:53.519 --> 00:16:53.919 I don't know. 00:16:54.240 --> 00:16:56.799 Also at the Waker Uppers, that's a good name for them. 00:16:56.960 --> 00:16:57.759 How about this one? 00:16:57.919 --> 00:16:59.039 The Ruffles strips. 00:16:59.120 --> 00:17:01.600 I think someone said, hey, those are ruffles chips, call them ruffles strips. 00:17:01.679 --> 00:17:02.879 Or how about, I think it's in New Zealand. 00:17:03.039 --> 00:17:07.440 In New Zealand, they just call it what it is, which is uh speed regulating strips. 00:17:07.680 --> 00:17:08.480 That's kind of boring. 00:17:08.559 --> 00:17:10.240 I'm going back to the growlers. 00:17:10.960 --> 00:17:12.720 I love these strips though. 00:17:12.960 --> 00:17:16.319 This thing has literally saved millions. 00:17:16.400 --> 00:17:19.039 Well, I don't know that for sure, but lots of lives. 00:17:19.920 --> 00:17:31.599 There's no data because it just woke you up and you but what they do is they they like literally they they interrupt your driving and they interrupt your drowsiness and they shake you awake from your slumber. 00:17:31.759 --> 00:17:35.839 And if you're going the wrong direction, they get you back on the right track. 00:17:36.400 --> 00:17:42.799 They're an incredibly innovative interruption that saves people's lives. 00:17:45.119 --> 00:17:47.519 Yeah, the Sabbath is just like that. 00:17:48.319 --> 00:17:56.400 The Sabbath is an interruption in our ordinary, repetitive, ongoing day one, day two, day three, day four. 00:17:59.359 --> 00:18:01.279 And then comes the Sabbath day. 00:18:01.440 --> 00:18:07.039 This holiness and time, this uniqueness, this day that's set apart, that's different from all other days. 00:18:07.119 --> 00:18:09.680 And maybe you and I should do something different. 00:18:09.920 --> 00:18:15.039 The Sabbath disrupts the monotony of any regularity in our lives. 00:18:15.200 --> 00:18:26.880 Let's face it, many of us in the modern world, thankfully, the technology and how advanced we are, and look, things are way better now than they were 100 years ago and 500 years ago, we're living like kings did a couple hundred years ago. 00:18:27.200 --> 00:18:38.559 But let's be honest, we wake up, uh, we have our coffee, we eat breakfast, we go to work, uh, we have lunch, we commute back home, we come home, we scroll on our phone, we fall asleep, we wake up and do the same thing the next day. 00:18:38.799 --> 00:18:42.079 And it's the same thing over and over and over. 00:18:43.200 --> 00:18:47.440 Uh David Foster Wallace calls it the day-to-day trenches of adult life. 00:18:47.519 --> 00:18:51.359 It's this highly, highly repetitive structure. 00:18:52.720 --> 00:18:57.680 And we're tempted to think, oh man, my day is the exact same every nothing changes. 00:18:59.039 --> 00:19:07.359 And there's a paradox though, because even though it feels like nothing changes, it's the same thing every day in and day out, everything's the same. 00:19:07.920 --> 00:19:10.880 Things are dramatically changing all the time. 00:19:11.920 --> 00:19:16.160 While you've gone through your week or your year, your kids have started to grow up. 00:19:17.039 --> 00:19:19.759 Old wounds have begun to heal for you. 00:19:20.160 --> 00:19:21.920 You want to experience new wounds. 00:19:22.000 --> 00:19:25.680 Your physical body's different than it was just then yesterday. 00:19:26.000 --> 00:19:30.160 You know, your body like regrows itself every couple of months or something like that. 00:19:30.240 --> 00:19:30.640 It's a lot. 00:19:30.720 --> 00:19:31.759 I mean, it's like it's crazy. 00:19:32.319 --> 00:19:34.880 You literally aren't who you were a couple of years ago. 00:19:35.519 --> 00:19:38.480 And the problem is it's not that not that things aren't changing. 00:19:39.039 --> 00:19:40.000 Uh that's not the problem. 00:19:40.240 --> 00:19:45.119 The problem is that that we things changed slowly and we never noticed it. 00:19:46.240 --> 00:19:48.480 Like we were absent from our own lives. 00:19:49.279 --> 00:19:53.279 How many of you can say, gosh, I'm just I'm not awake to my own life? 00:19:53.839 --> 00:19:59.519 This is why the days are long, but the years are short. 00:19:59.839 --> 00:20:01.920 And you wake up and go, how did I get to be 30? 00:20:02.079 --> 00:20:03.599 What am I doing here? 00:20:04.079 --> 00:20:06.960 Or now I'm 50, and or I'm retired, like, what am I? 00:20:07.119 --> 00:20:08.799 I don't even know how I got here. 00:20:09.839 --> 00:20:16.880 And it's as though we've sort of fallen asleep and we've gone on autopilot, like default mode. 00:20:17.039 --> 00:20:24.559 And trust me when I tell you that the world is all too happy to let you stay in that default autopilot mode. 00:20:24.880 --> 00:20:30.000 Because to the world, you're just another cog in the machine, spitting out production cubes. 00:20:30.799 --> 00:20:32.160 Get back in there, worker bee. 00:20:32.240 --> 00:20:34.559 We got more things for you to build and make for us. 00:20:35.599 --> 00:20:43.119 And our lives are and we're absent to our own lives, and we don't see it. 00:20:44.720 --> 00:20:50.559 And maybe along the way we've sort of numbed ourselves out and we've worshipped other gods along the way as well. 00:20:51.680 --> 00:20:53.680 Real life is freedom. 00:20:53.920 --> 00:20:55.839 Real life is life. 00:20:56.400 --> 00:21:03.680 See, the Sabbath isn't rest from life, it's like to be present for life, to wake up and see what's going on all around us. 00:21:04.160 --> 00:21:09.440 Yeah, this rhythm of six and one, it wakes us up fully. 00:21:10.559 --> 00:21:14.799 So, by the way, here's a quote that this one commentator says, I love this. 00:21:14.960 --> 00:21:30.480 It says, by following a pattern of living, the Jews, the Israelites, and observance and conformity with its intrinsic holiness, like following this rhythm of six and one, seven, Israel transforms its mundane existence into a spiritual experience one day a week. 00:21:31.440 --> 00:21:32.240 It wakes them up. 00:21:32.319 --> 00:21:33.680 It's a rumble strip. 00:21:34.000 --> 00:21:36.160 Right in the middle of their week. 00:21:36.640 --> 00:21:42.880 And this raises the question: could we not do this every day of the week? 00:21:43.839 --> 00:21:46.000 Wake ourselves up from our slumber? 00:21:46.400 --> 00:21:48.240 Be awake and present? 00:21:49.920 --> 00:21:53.200 Somehow, like realize that I'm driving off a cliff? 00:21:53.279 --> 00:21:54.240 I shouldn't probably do that. 00:21:54.319 --> 00:21:55.680 I'm glad I woke up. 00:21:56.160 --> 00:21:57.440 Or lift my head up. 00:21:57.519 --> 00:22:00.559 Oh my gosh, I didn't realize I was driving through the beautiful mountains and Colorado. 00:22:00.640 --> 00:22:01.599 I was looking down the whole time. 00:22:01.680 --> 00:22:05.920 I didn't realize there was wonder and beauty and awe and grandeur all around me. 00:22:07.440 --> 00:22:08.960 I was asleep. 00:22:09.440 --> 00:22:10.079 Yeah. 00:22:10.880 --> 00:22:14.319 What might you and I create this summer? 00:22:14.480 --> 00:22:19.599 How might we create a holiness in time to wake ourselves up? 00:22:20.000 --> 00:22:22.000 Now, maybe you can't do a three-month sabbatical. 00:22:22.079 --> 00:22:22.319 Fair enough. 00:22:22.400 --> 00:22:24.640 Maybe you can, like, but maybe you could do like a daily thing. 00:22:24.720 --> 00:22:29.359 Like maybe I have a friend who wakes up every morning to watch the sunrise. 00:22:30.640 --> 00:22:38.240 To wake himself up, to be present, to not allow the days to just go on and on and on. 00:22:38.400 --> 00:22:40.400 And to see the world in wonder and beauty. 00:22:40.480 --> 00:22:42.319 Maybe there's a weekly rhythm you could have. 00:22:42.400 --> 00:22:47.759 Maybe once a week you could get together with your friends and family or your neighbors and have dinner together. 00:22:48.079 --> 00:22:51.599 Katie and I were invited to our friends Brax and his wife last week. 00:22:51.680 --> 00:22:52.480 They invited us to their house. 00:22:52.559 --> 00:22:54.319 They have a Sabbath dinner every Friday night. 00:22:54.400 --> 00:22:55.440 And they invited us over. 00:22:55.519 --> 00:22:56.400 We had pizza. 00:22:56.559 --> 00:22:59.279 And we prayed and had a dinner and just hung out and talked for a couple hours. 00:22:59.359 --> 00:23:01.039 It was like this unique, weird thing. 00:23:01.279 --> 00:23:02.559 It was awesome. 00:23:02.799 --> 00:23:04.799 And I don't, I don't won't forget about it. 00:23:05.039 --> 00:23:06.799 Because it was unique and different. 00:23:07.039 --> 00:23:08.319 Maybe you could do that. 00:23:08.480 --> 00:23:12.480 And then doing stop for a moment and create some holiness in time. 00:23:12.720 --> 00:23:21.119 Peter Deusman was like, hey, what like what about like if you're at work and you know you you get because of laws, you get like a 15-minute break in your workday or an hour lunch. 00:23:21.279 --> 00:23:24.079 What if, I'm just throwing this out there, don't stone me. 00:23:24.240 --> 00:23:31.279 What if instead of scrolling your phone for that whole time on break, you put the phone down and just talk to somebody? 00:23:31.519 --> 00:23:40.000 Or went for a walk, or looked at the birds, or touched grass, whatever your things are, you know, and create this whole missing time. 00:23:40.240 --> 00:23:42.000 Maybe you could create a rhythm this summer. 00:23:42.240 --> 00:23:44.240 What rhythms might you create? 00:23:44.880 --> 00:23:47.200 Well, I'm going on a sabbatical, a three-month one. 00:23:47.440 --> 00:23:49.920 Sabbatical comes from this word Sabbath. 00:23:50.240 --> 00:23:58.640 And in the in the 1500s, in the in the English language, they began to use it as a way to talk about things that recurred in sevens or every seventh. 00:23:58.880 --> 00:24:06.160 So in 1880, Harvard began to give their professors every seventh year, they gave them a year off. 00:24:10.640 --> 00:24:12.000 I'm just saying. 00:24:12.880 --> 00:24:13.920 Just saying. 00:24:14.960 --> 00:24:16.720 Companies now do this. 00:24:17.039 --> 00:24:22.400 Modern companies that are not like Christian or Jewish, uh, they give them sabbaticals. 00:24:22.480 --> 00:24:23.839 Here's a couple of companies that do them. 00:24:24.079 --> 00:24:26.400 Adobe gives their employees sabbaticals. 00:24:26.640 --> 00:24:28.079 So does Patagonia. 00:24:28.160 --> 00:24:31.119 So does some company called Toggle, who knows what toggle is? 00:24:31.359 --> 00:24:32.160 Okay, okay. 00:24:32.319 --> 00:24:33.680 It's like the software company. 00:24:33.839 --> 00:24:36.640 They do like software things, you know. 00:24:37.599 --> 00:24:38.000 Right? 00:24:38.960 --> 00:24:43.599 Uh they give them also um Nike gives sabbaticals to their employees. 00:24:43.759 --> 00:24:53.519 And the greatest, the pinnacle of all godly companies producing wonderful things in the world that does it, Chipotle Mexican grill gives her people sabbaticals. 00:24:54.079 --> 00:25:02.079 Which does mean many of your friends who do this kind of stuff are participating in the rhythms of God without even knowing it, maybe. 00:25:02.240 --> 00:25:09.119 And while saying, I don't really believe in God, they're actually engaging in this beautiful life-giving rhythm that God ordained from the beginning of all things. 00:25:09.440 --> 00:25:10.799 I'm just saying. 00:25:11.200 --> 00:25:12.000 And that's what I'm doing. 00:25:12.160 --> 00:25:13.039 That's something I'm taking three months. 00:25:13.119 --> 00:25:16.480 They're gonna set apart this time and just be unique and different and to see what happens. 00:25:16.559 --> 00:25:19.119 And I want to, I wanna I want to like sort of pray for three things. 00:25:19.200 --> 00:25:20.559 I'm gonna give them to you fast. 00:25:20.960 --> 00:25:36.240 The first thing I hope for on my sabbatical that like happens or that I can like experience is I want to slow down enough to listen to what constant motion silences. 00:25:36.559 --> 00:25:42.799 I mean, you guys, we go a thousand miles an hour, 24 hours a day, seven days a week. 00:25:42.960 --> 00:25:44.319 It's kind of the nature of the beast. 00:25:44.400 --> 00:25:46.880 We're out there hustling and grinding, and good for us. 00:25:47.599 --> 00:25:55.279 But what happens is there are things just beneath the surface that are like begging for our attention, that they're hiding just down below there. 00:25:56.400 --> 00:26:04.480 And we don't hear them because constant motion and work and distractions and numbing out disallows us from hearing these things. 00:26:04.559 --> 00:26:06.000 It quiets the voices. 00:26:06.160 --> 00:26:08.480 Our own soul is begging for attention. 00:26:08.720 --> 00:26:11.599 The Spirit of God is asking, hey, come and be with me. 00:26:11.680 --> 00:26:12.799 Let me let me show you some things. 00:26:12.960 --> 00:26:14.079 Or I want to grow you in. 00:26:14.240 --> 00:26:16.319 And we don't because we're too busy. 00:26:17.279 --> 00:26:18.559 And you know how I know it? 00:26:18.799 --> 00:26:26.640 Because many of you drive down the road and something will happen, like a person just cuts you off barely, and you lose your mind. 00:26:27.680 --> 00:26:34.720 Oh I call this a level eight infract, a level eight reaction to a level two infraction, you know? 00:26:35.200 --> 00:26:38.160 Or you go home and for no reason you're just like you're mad at the dog. 00:26:38.319 --> 00:26:40.480 Stupid dog, what goes in the way? 00:26:41.440 --> 00:26:42.640 Or you yell at your kids? 00:26:42.720 --> 00:26:44.720 And you're like, I just got home, why are you yelling at me? 00:26:44.960 --> 00:26:51.680 Yeah, there's something down there that you have not paid attention to, and now it's coming out the side, and everybody knows it except for you. 00:26:53.279 --> 00:26:59.519 Yeah, so how can we slow down just enough to kind of see what's just beneath there? 00:26:59.599 --> 00:27:06.319 Because there might be sadness down there, might be grief, fatigue. 00:27:06.640 --> 00:27:08.640 You could be exhausted, tired. 00:27:09.279 --> 00:27:12.480 There could be some joy down there, celebrations you've never had. 00:27:12.720 --> 00:27:16.319 There could be anxiety, depression, fears. 00:27:18.079 --> 00:27:19.519 Who knows what's down there? 00:27:19.680 --> 00:27:24.000 But here's the thing those things are all a part of the contract with life. 00:27:24.160 --> 00:27:26.559 It's what it means to be a human, be alive. 00:27:27.119 --> 00:27:28.640 I know anxiety sucks. 00:27:28.799 --> 00:27:29.359 I hate anxiety. 00:27:29.519 --> 00:27:32.160 I don't, but it's part of life. 00:27:32.880 --> 00:27:38.160 I know there's like certain levels of these things and just get out of it, you gotta for sure, and treat it as you need to. 00:27:38.240 --> 00:27:43.039 But I'm just saying, for most of us, like our fears and our lows, like this is part of life. 00:27:43.279 --> 00:27:44.480 I hate being sad. 00:27:44.640 --> 00:27:45.359 But guess what? 00:27:45.519 --> 00:27:47.359 Being sad is a part of life. 00:27:47.599 --> 00:27:49.359 It's how you know you're alive. 00:27:49.920 --> 00:27:56.720 And when we numb out with drugs and alcohol and antidepressants, it just brings like this middle level of zero of grayness. 00:27:56.880 --> 00:27:59.200 It brings the lows up, but it brings the highs down. 00:27:59.279 --> 00:28:01.200 You end up in here, just blugh. 00:28:01.440 --> 00:28:07.759 And I'm not anti-medication, I'm just saying this is what happens when we like numb out and we quiet the voices and we just keep going. 00:28:08.240 --> 00:28:10.960 And the machine is happy to let us do it. 00:28:11.519 --> 00:28:12.880 Yeah, but what's down there? 00:28:13.039 --> 00:28:18.880 What if we slow down long enough to hear these things instead of avoiding them? 00:28:19.119 --> 00:28:21.279 Yeah, what things do you need to hear? 00:28:21.519 --> 00:28:23.119 The summer, what's down there? 00:28:23.359 --> 00:28:24.799 There's this beautiful story. 00:28:25.119 --> 00:28:28.000 Elijah, he has this incredible encounter with God. 00:28:28.160 --> 00:28:30.319 He defeats the prophets of Baal on Mount Carmel. 00:28:30.480 --> 00:28:30.880 You might know the story. 00:28:30.960 --> 00:28:32.000 It's in 1 Kings 19. 00:28:32.079 --> 00:28:34.000 I'm not going to go through it, but I'll just quickly. 00:28:34.319 --> 00:28:36.000 And incredible encounter with God. 00:28:36.319 --> 00:28:41.279 God shows up on display, like a mysterious magical display. 00:28:41.519 --> 00:28:44.240 He leaves like the man, he's the man, Elijah. 00:28:44.400 --> 00:28:48.319 And this queen, Jezebel, threatens to kill him. 00:28:48.559 --> 00:28:53.519 And suddenly Elijah freaks out and panics and runs and hides. 00:28:53.680 --> 00:29:00.400 He finds a desert, goes to the desert, hides under a bush, and he says, God, you can take my life now. 00:29:00.799 --> 00:29:04.160 Homie, five minutes ago, you were the king of the what happened? 00:29:04.480 --> 00:29:06.480 He crashes out under this bush. 00:29:06.720 --> 00:29:09.359 An angel comes, feeds him some food. 00:29:09.599 --> 00:29:11.839 He wakes up, eats it, he goes back to sleep. 00:29:12.160 --> 00:29:15.519 Angel comes again, wakes him up, gives him some food, he goes back to sleep. 00:29:15.759 --> 00:29:19.200 Third time, angel comes, wakes him up, gives him some food, he falls back asleep. 00:29:19.359 --> 00:29:21.599 Sometimes you just need a good nap and some food. 00:29:21.759 --> 00:29:22.240 Amen. 00:29:23.759 --> 00:29:28.480 Elijah had a bunch going on, he didn't even know it right beneath the surface. 00:29:28.640 --> 00:29:30.880 His own success masked it. 00:29:30.960 --> 00:29:32.319 He didn't know it was down there. 00:29:32.559 --> 00:29:39.440 He crashes out and he like and he needs to rest and slow down, and he does finally. 00:29:39.519 --> 00:29:43.680 And then the angel go to the cave and meet with God. 00:29:45.119 --> 00:30:02.559 Yeah, what rhythms can you create to slow down enough to make sacred holy this time and hear what your soul wants to say to you, or what God wants to tell you, and resist the machine, maybe even rage against the machine. 00:30:02.720 --> 00:30:03.440 Are you with me? 00:30:04.079 --> 00:30:04.960 Number two. 00:30:05.200 --> 00:30:06.160 Uh here it is. 00:30:06.319 --> 00:30:08.960 Number two, uh, I want to remind myself on sabbatical. 00:30:09.440 --> 00:30:11.200 Ryan, you are not God. 00:30:12.559 --> 00:30:13.759 You're not, dude. 00:30:14.000 --> 00:30:15.200 So calm down. 00:30:15.359 --> 00:30:19.920 In six days, God made the earth, and on the seventh day he stopped. 00:30:20.400 --> 00:30:22.880 But that tells me that God made the world, not you, Ryan. 00:30:23.039 --> 00:30:26.319 The universe existed before me and before you. 00:30:26.559 --> 00:30:27.839 Believe it or not, did you know this? 00:30:27.920 --> 00:30:28.960 That it existed before you. 00:30:29.119 --> 00:30:31.680 And it will keep going on after you and I die. 00:30:31.759 --> 00:30:32.640 Did you know this? 00:30:32.880 --> 00:30:40.319 And in the hundred years or 300 years, you and I will be a photograph on a wall somewhere, maybe, maybe on the cloud or wherever that is. 00:30:40.559 --> 00:30:41.599 That's it. 00:30:42.079 --> 00:30:42.720 Done. 00:30:43.039 --> 00:30:45.599 You and I are not that big a deal. 00:30:45.839 --> 00:30:48.960 What will Central do for three months without the Reverend Dr. 00:30:49.039 --> 00:30:50.079 Ryan Braille? 00:30:51.359 --> 00:30:54.480 I know I'm not the third William, but I'm God, it's pretty dignified, you know? 00:30:54.799 --> 00:30:56.880 What will you guys do without me? 00:30:57.279 --> 00:30:57.920 Oh, I don't know. 00:30:58.079 --> 00:31:00.079 The same thing they've been doing for years, Ryan. 00:31:00.240 --> 00:31:01.200 Calm down. 00:31:02.559 --> 00:31:05.440 What will your job do without you if you stop for one day? 00:31:05.599 --> 00:31:07.440 I don't know, it'd probably be fine. 00:31:07.680 --> 00:31:16.000 Now, look, I get that there are some jobs where you have to, like if you're living in a coal mine or whatever, whatever the thing like, but most of us, we can take a day and just stop. 00:31:16.960 --> 00:31:22.400 And if the machine won't let you, I would question that. 00:31:23.519 --> 00:31:24.960 That's not sustainable. 00:31:25.200 --> 00:31:27.200 It's not life that's full of life. 00:31:27.279 --> 00:31:28.799 It's not, it's not the rhythm of God. 00:31:28.880 --> 00:31:31.440 It's just, it's, it'll suck you dry. 00:31:32.319 --> 00:31:33.519 You are not God. 00:31:33.680 --> 00:31:35.200 Stop trying to be God. 00:31:35.599 --> 00:31:36.960 It's actually quite relieving. 00:31:37.039 --> 00:31:40.000 It's a good relief, and it's also like this humbling, like, okay, but it's fine. 00:31:40.079 --> 00:31:40.880 It's actually liberating. 00:31:40.960 --> 00:31:43.039 You can just kind of be yourself and do your thing. 00:31:43.200 --> 00:31:45.200 It's going to be okay. 00:31:45.599 --> 00:31:51.119 Many of us are addicted to being wanted and needed to our own significance. 00:31:51.279 --> 00:31:52.000 I'm so important. 00:31:52.160 --> 00:31:54.400 Without me, this thing will fall apart. 00:31:54.640 --> 00:31:56.480 Maybe, maybe not. 00:31:57.039 --> 00:31:58.720 The ego longs to be important. 00:31:58.880 --> 00:31:59.839 Notice me, see me. 00:31:59.920 --> 00:32:01.359 It's how we get, it's how we survive. 00:32:01.440 --> 00:32:06.799 It's this sort of uh, you know, this uh this thing that has sort of helped us live this long. 00:32:06.960 --> 00:32:07.759 Fair enough. 00:32:08.079 --> 00:32:11.119 But man, it's not sustainable. 00:32:12.319 --> 00:32:17.279 We we've we've become addicted to our own importance, and you and I are not God. 00:32:19.440 --> 00:32:22.319 Sabbath is an end of striving. 00:32:24.720 --> 00:32:26.319 It's okay, just relax. 00:32:27.200 --> 00:32:30.079 Like you'll know, because when you stop, some things will arise. 00:32:30.160 --> 00:32:31.680 What arises when you stop working? 00:32:31.920 --> 00:32:38.000 Guilt, the need to go check your phone, anxiety, fear. 00:32:38.799 --> 00:32:39.440 What am I? 00:32:39.599 --> 00:32:40.960 Who am I without this thing? 00:32:41.200 --> 00:32:44.960 Who am I with if I'm not preaching every week and they're laughing at my jokes? 00:32:46.880 --> 00:32:48.000 Who am I? 00:32:48.880 --> 00:32:49.839 I don't know. 00:32:50.079 --> 00:32:51.519 What comes up when you stop? 00:32:51.920 --> 00:32:54.319 You and I are not God. 00:32:54.640 --> 00:32:55.119 I love this. 00:32:55.440 --> 00:32:59.039 Someone says, hey, he who watches over you will not slumber asleep. 00:32:59.359 --> 00:33:00.319 You're fine. 00:33:00.720 --> 00:33:02.799 God, God will watch over you while you sleep. 00:33:02.880 --> 00:33:04.160 So you can sleep. 00:33:04.400 --> 00:33:06.240 Relax, take a day off, rest. 00:33:06.480 --> 00:33:07.759 Stop working. 00:33:10.400 --> 00:33:12.960 Okay, lastly, I think this is my third one, right? 00:33:13.839 --> 00:33:16.880 Um, I want to learn to become a human again. 00:33:17.440 --> 00:33:19.119 I'm not a machine. 00:33:20.319 --> 00:33:25.759 My time shouldn't be governed by my job and by dictatorial sort of pro no. 00:33:27.119 --> 00:33:30.000 I'm a human first and foremost. 00:33:30.880 --> 00:33:31.680 That's who I am. 00:33:31.839 --> 00:33:34.880 That's what my that's what my sort of I'm the beloved son of God. 00:33:34.960 --> 00:33:41.200 In fact, Jesus says, I love it how he says, he says, hey, the Sabbath was made for humankind, not the other way around. 00:33:41.359 --> 00:33:42.960 Don't get it twisted. 00:33:43.599 --> 00:33:46.000 It's a gift for us to slow down and stop. 00:33:46.720 --> 00:33:48.720 And remember, I'm just, I'm just Ryan. 00:33:48.960 --> 00:33:49.519 I'm okay. 00:33:49.599 --> 00:33:50.480 It's all right. 00:33:50.720 --> 00:33:52.160 I want to be a human again. 00:33:52.319 --> 00:33:55.039 In fact, I love how Isaiah, Isaiah says it this way, the prophet. 00:33:55.119 --> 00:34:04.160 He's like, hey, listen, when you obey the Sabbath, if you keep your feet from breaking the Sabbath and you stop doing as you please on this holy day, this is God speaking through Isaiah. 00:34:04.319 --> 00:34:12.639 If you call the Sabbath a delight and you carve out a holiness in time, and in just doing that and doing nothing, you're worshiping God. 00:34:12.719 --> 00:34:21.760 When you do that and you honor it, and you don't go your own way, and you don't do as you please, and you hit those rumble strips, you wake up, oh okay. 00:34:22.000 --> 00:34:27.280 When you do that, then you will find joy in the Lord. 00:34:30.639 --> 00:34:33.039 Man, how many of you could use some joy? 00:34:34.960 --> 00:34:36.960 Maybe there's some reason to stop. 00:34:37.119 --> 00:34:37.920 Just stop. 00:34:39.039 --> 00:34:42.320 For five minutes a day, or for 10 minutes, or for one day a week. 00:34:42.480 --> 00:34:49.679 Maybe you take a week's vacation with the family and just go sit on a lake and fish and play board games and I don't know, pray together, eat meals. 00:34:49.760 --> 00:34:52.079 And in doing so is worship. 00:34:52.239 --> 00:34:53.199 Listen, you have my permission. 00:34:53.440 --> 00:34:55.920 If you skip church to do that, do it. 00:34:57.920 --> 00:34:59.199 That's what my prayer is for you. 00:34:59.280 --> 00:35:01.280 As I go, I went too long, I apologize. 00:35:01.519 --> 00:35:03.360 Uh, I'll be around now if you want to hang out and chat. 00:35:03.440 --> 00:35:04.480 If not, it's okay, go. 00:35:04.639 --> 00:35:12.400 May you, Central Lutheran church, this this next summer, may you experience life that's full of life. 00:35:12.639 --> 00:35:18.639 May you carve out time to stop, to slow down, to cease, and to like notice like what's down there. 00:35:18.719 --> 00:35:19.599 Let it come up. 00:35:19.840 --> 00:35:21.280 It might terrify you. 00:35:21.599 --> 00:35:22.159 Good. 00:35:22.800 --> 00:35:24.480 That's what it means to be alive. 00:35:24.719 --> 00:35:25.599 So be alive. 00:35:25.760 --> 00:35:26.880 What's the alternative? 00:35:27.039 --> 00:35:28.960 To be a robot or to be dead? 00:35:29.199 --> 00:35:29.920 I don't want that. 00:35:30.079 --> 00:35:32.480 Man, let it come up and face them. 00:35:32.800 --> 00:35:34.159 It won't last forever, I promise. 00:35:34.239 --> 00:35:36.239 Your emotions get on the bus, they get back off the bus. 00:35:36.320 --> 00:35:37.679 It's you'll be fine. 00:35:38.559 --> 00:35:40.480 And also remember, you're not God. 00:35:40.559 --> 00:35:41.280 So it's fine. 00:35:41.360 --> 00:35:42.320 You're fine. 00:35:42.559 --> 00:35:44.400 You're not responsible for everything of your body. 00:35:44.880 --> 00:35:45.840 You're not God. 00:35:46.480 --> 00:35:47.119 Whew. 00:35:48.480 --> 00:35:53.679 And also, may you learn to be a human again, to live in this flourishing, this gift of life. 00:35:53.840 --> 00:35:56.559 May your life fully full of life. 00:35:56.719 --> 00:35:57.199 I love you guys. 00:35:57.360 --> 00:35:58.480 We'll be praying for you. 00:35:58.559 --> 00:36:02.239 Um, I'll see you in well, three months in a couple minutes, too, but I'll see you in three months. 00:36:02.320 --> 00:36:04.320 Uh pray for me as often as you think of me. 00:36:04.400 --> 00:36:05.440 And uh yeah, bless you guys. 00:36:05.840 --> 00:36:05.920 Peace.