WEBVTT 00:00:00.160 --> 00:00:01.120 Welcome to Legacy. 00:00:01.199 --> 00:00:04.320 We're so glad you've joined to worship with us on this Sunday. 00:00:04.559 --> 00:00:07.519 And we are in Exodus chapter 31. 00:00:07.599 --> 00:00:13.119 If you want to turn there in your Bibles, and we do have Prayer Sunday set aside today. 00:00:13.279 --> 00:00:19.039 We're going to take some time at the end of the service to pray and to seek the Lord and to lift our burdens to him. 00:00:19.440 --> 00:00:25.519 And it's a real joy to do so, to really reflect on him, to meet with him, to talk with him. 00:00:25.839 --> 00:00:32.159 Yeah, ironically, the title of the sermon today, if you're taking notes, is Take Time to Get to Know Him. 00:00:32.799 --> 00:00:37.439 Take Time to Get to Know Him, Sermon number 79 through the book of Exodus. 00:00:37.600 --> 00:00:43.119 We're going to cover verses 12 to 18 in our series titled Leaving the Darkness. 00:00:43.359 --> 00:01:06.079 We've watched Moses lead the people out of Egypt, out of slavery, under the reign of Pharaoh, into the under the reign of God, into the promised land on their way, into the wilderness, into a relationship with the Almighty, through the Red Sea, seeing miracles take place, see the law being given, the tabernacle being built, this tent of meeting with God. 00:01:06.239 --> 00:01:09.120 Really some amazing, beautiful pictures we've seen. 00:01:09.280 --> 00:01:12.640 And today we will cover verses 12 to 18. 00:01:12.959 --> 00:01:17.840 There was an old story about a pastor who decided to skip church one Sunday. 00:01:18.000 --> 00:01:19.359 You know that pastor? 00:01:20.079 --> 00:01:22.959 He decided to skip church one Sunday morning and go and play golf. 00:01:23.120 --> 00:01:30.000 Now, he knew this was wrong, but the weather was just too perfect, and the chorus was calling his name. 00:01:30.480 --> 00:01:31.599 Besides, who would ever know? 00:01:31.680 --> 00:01:37.920 He told his assistant he wasn't feeling well, and so he drove two hours to a golf course in another town where nobody would recognize him. 00:01:38.079 --> 00:01:43.280 He pulled his cap down low, he paid in cash, and he snuck onto the first T. 00:01:43.680 --> 00:01:47.840 He took a deep breath, looked around, the coast was clear, and he swung. 00:01:48.000 --> 00:01:52.400 And well, up in heaven, there was an angel that happened to be watching the whole time, this pastor. 00:01:52.480 --> 00:02:04.480 And just as that little white ball left the T, suddenly a gust of wind came out of nowhere and caught the ball and carried an extra 200 yards, bounced off a tree, rolled into the cart path, and dropped right into the cup. 00:02:04.719 --> 00:02:08.240 A 450-hole drive, hole in one. 00:02:08.639 --> 00:02:11.280 The greatest shot in the history of golf. 00:02:11.439 --> 00:02:17.280 The angel turned to God, absolutely shocked, and said, Lord, he skipped church to be here and you gave him a hole in one? 00:02:17.439 --> 00:02:18.800 What in the world do you do that for? 00:02:18.960 --> 00:02:22.879 And God just smiled and said, think about it, who's he gonna tell? 00:02:27.120 --> 00:02:29.599 Let me ask you something this morning. 00:02:30.400 --> 00:02:34.400 Have you ever looked at an old photograph of someone that you loved? 00:02:34.719 --> 00:02:40.960 Really looked at it, and realized maybe you couldn't quite remember the sound of their voice. 00:02:41.759 --> 00:02:42.479 Strange feeling. 00:02:42.560 --> 00:02:51.680 You do them well, you spent time with them, but somewhere between the years and the busyness of the hurried life, the details started slipping away. 00:02:52.000 --> 00:02:55.120 The voice starts to fade, the left dimmed. 00:02:55.280 --> 00:03:00.560 And one day you held up that photograph and thought, I knew this person better than this. 00:03:01.840 --> 00:03:04.800 You know, some of us are doing that with God. 00:03:04.960 --> 00:03:17.599 We have that photograph, we have the framed verse on the wall, the Bible on the nightstand, the cross around the neck, uh, but somewhere along the way the voice has gotten faint. 00:03:18.159 --> 00:03:22.159 We can't quite remember the sweetness of his presence. 00:03:22.719 --> 00:03:24.240 We know he's there. 00:03:24.960 --> 00:03:28.639 We just haven't actually sat with him in a long time. 00:03:28.960 --> 00:03:31.120 And that's the question today I want to pose to you. 00:03:31.199 --> 00:03:34.479 How do you actually, or how well do you actually know God? 00:03:34.719 --> 00:03:36.479 How much do you know about him? 00:03:36.960 --> 00:03:43.439 Uh, and and maybe not even so much that, not how much do you know about him, but how much do you know him? 00:03:43.680 --> 00:03:49.680 Not how many verses you can quote, or how many sermons you have heard, how well do you actually know him? 00:03:50.000 --> 00:03:54.560 When's the last time you spent unhurried, undistracted time in his presence? 00:03:54.800 --> 00:04:00.319 Because here's the thing, you you can know a great deal about a person and still not know them, right? 00:04:00.879 --> 00:04:03.680 We know uh quite a bit about the president of the United States. 00:04:03.840 --> 00:04:07.520 I've never met him, I know about him, but I do not know him. 00:04:07.919 --> 00:04:11.120 And many of us are doing exactly that with God. 00:04:11.360 --> 00:04:14.560 We know about him, but we do not know him. 00:04:15.120 --> 00:04:17.920 And the reason is staggering. 00:04:18.560 --> 00:04:22.160 Uh we have not taken the time to get to know him. 00:04:23.199 --> 00:04:25.839 Taken time to get to know him. 00:04:26.160 --> 00:04:37.600 Here in Exodus 31, the Almighty, he says, above all, above all else, keep my Sabbaths. 00:04:37.920 --> 00:04:43.600 And he tells us why in verse 13, that you may know that I am Yahweh. 00:04:44.800 --> 00:04:48.000 You may know that I am Yahweh, the one who makes you holy. 00:04:48.160 --> 00:04:55.439 The Sabbath was never primarily about rest, uh, it was about relationship first. 00:04:56.639 --> 00:05:01.040 And it was a gift from God of time to us. 00:05:01.519 --> 00:05:02.639 Time for what? 00:05:03.439 --> 00:05:05.360 Time to spend with him. 00:05:06.160 --> 00:05:11.040 Over a whole day every week, carved out for one reason, so his people would take time to get to know him. 00:05:11.360 --> 00:05:14.319 We're in Exodus 31, verses 12 through 18. 00:05:14.399 --> 00:05:16.560 Can we stand for the reading of God's word? 00:05:17.120 --> 00:05:17.839 It's amazing. 00:05:17.920 --> 00:05:23.759 The tabernacle instruction has been given, and this is what he concludes with. 00:05:26.959 --> 00:05:29.920 Exodus chapter 31, take a look at verse 12. 00:05:30.079 --> 00:05:37.519 We always stand for the reading of God's word to pay honor to him, remember whose word of reading, not my words, these belong to him, and I am the delivery boy. 00:05:37.680 --> 00:05:41.040 Just telling you what it says today, and I hope we can look closely at it. 00:05:41.199 --> 00:05:42.319 Listen and obey. 00:05:42.480 --> 00:05:46.800 Uh, really, take heed to the word of God, apply it to our lives. 00:05:46.959 --> 00:05:49.839 Be not only hearers of the word, but doers of the word. 00:05:50.240 --> 00:05:51.600 Take a look at verse 12. 00:05:51.759 --> 00:06:05.839 Yahweh spoke to Moses, saying, But as for you, speak to the sons of Israel, saying, You shall surely keep my Sabbaths, for this is a sign between me and you throughout your generations, that you may know that I am Yahweh who makes you holy. 00:06:06.000 --> 00:06:10.000 Therefore you shall keep the Sabbath holy, for it is holy to you. 00:06:10.079 --> 00:06:14.160 Everyone who profanes it shall surely be put to death. 00:06:14.639 --> 00:06:19.839 Whoever does any work on it, that person shall be cut off from among his people. 00:06:20.160 --> 00:06:28.959 Six days work may be done, but on the seventh day there is a Sabbath of complete rest, holy to Yahweh. 00:06:29.120 --> 00:06:33.839 Whoever does any work on the Sabbath day shall surely be put to death. 00:06:34.240 --> 00:06:40.959 So the sons of Israel shall keep the Sabbath to celebrate the Sabbath throughout their generations as an everlasting covenant. 00:06:41.120 --> 00:06:51.920 It is a sign between me and the sons of Israel forever, for in six days Yahweh made heaven and earth, but on the seventh day he rested and was refreshed. 00:06:53.439 --> 00:07:03.680 When he had finished speaking with him upon Mount Sinai, he gave Moses the two tablets of the testimony, tablets of stone written by the finger of God. 00:07:04.079 --> 00:07:04.720 Let's pray. 00:07:04.800 --> 00:07:06.079 Father, we thank you for your word. 00:07:06.240 --> 00:07:07.680 We thank you for this reminder. 00:07:08.160 --> 00:07:09.600 And we acknowledge it. 00:07:09.759 --> 00:07:26.399 And we ask God that you'd make it clear to us that we not only hear you, we would listen deeply, we would understand you in the depths of our being, we'd see it in our own lives, we'd see our need for you, and we would make time to get to know you each and every week. 00:07:26.639 --> 00:07:28.399 Bless us, Lord, as we study your word. 00:07:28.560 --> 00:07:29.680 We ask in Jesus' name. 00:07:29.920 --> 00:07:30.399 Amen. 00:07:30.639 --> 00:07:31.920 You can be seated. 00:07:32.399 --> 00:07:34.079 So let's set the stage here. 00:07:34.240 --> 00:07:38.959 Moses is still on Sinai, the thunder's still rolling, the mountain is still wrapped in smoke. 00:07:39.120 --> 00:07:46.639 God has just finished commissioning, remember, uh Bezalel and uh Eholab to build the tabernacle. 00:07:46.720 --> 00:07:51.680 Remember, the most important building project in the history of the world at this time. 00:07:52.079 --> 00:07:59.439 Remember, the first mention of God's spirit filling someone was an artist. 00:08:00.160 --> 00:08:06.560 And we looked at that last week, to create with excellence for God's glory in their ordinary craft. 00:08:06.800 --> 00:08:08.319 We talked about it extensively. 00:08:08.399 --> 00:08:10.560 If you missed that talk last week, it was a great one. 00:08:10.720 --> 00:08:13.920 I think a great one for this city, for this time. 00:08:14.160 --> 00:08:15.360 A good reminder. 00:08:15.600 --> 00:08:19.839 And right when you expect God to say, all right, Moses, get to work, he doesn't. 00:08:20.399 --> 00:08:30.399 He pauses and he says, in effect, Moses, before you go down that mountain, I want to tell, I want you to tell my people one more thing. 00:08:30.639 --> 00:08:34.960 Above all else, keep my Sabbath. 00:08:36.000 --> 00:08:36.960 Now think about that. 00:08:37.120 --> 00:08:42.000 The artists were called, the material was ready, the blueprints were drawn, and God says, slow down. 00:08:42.320 --> 00:08:47.519 Don't even build my tabernacle seven days a week. 00:08:50.159 --> 00:08:54.720 One day in seven, you must stop building the tabernacle. 00:08:54.879 --> 00:08:55.840 You will stop. 00:08:57.759 --> 00:08:59.759 You will take time with me. 00:09:00.559 --> 00:09:03.039 You will get to know me on that day. 00:09:05.759 --> 00:09:11.440 Bezalel couldn't use the tabernacle as an excuse to skip Shabbat. 00:09:12.559 --> 00:09:14.159 I got work to do. 00:09:14.799 --> 00:09:17.440 I'm building the tabernacle of God. 00:09:18.000 --> 00:09:20.799 We fell behind schedule this week. 00:09:21.200 --> 00:09:32.720 And I got the material all set up, and I was right in the middle of it, and I finally had figured out how to do this thing that I'd been working on all week, and it's time to wrap up the tools and get on with Shabbat. 00:09:33.039 --> 00:09:34.399 I can't stop now. 00:09:34.799 --> 00:09:36.879 I'm working on the temple of God. 00:09:38.960 --> 00:09:40.639 God says, you better not. 00:09:41.759 --> 00:09:43.279 Put the hammer down. 00:09:44.720 --> 00:09:47.600 You come and hang out with me for a day. 00:09:47.919 --> 00:09:49.200 It's amazing. 00:09:52.960 --> 00:10:01.840 If Bezalel couldn't use a tabernacle as an excuse, neither can we use our work, our hustle, our deadlines to excuse ourselves from time with God. 00:10:02.799 --> 00:10:11.840 And uh man, I I didn't know this was actually, I forgot that this was hiding at the end of the instruction of the tabernacle. 00:10:11.919 --> 00:10:13.200 I mean, I just didn't. 00:10:13.360 --> 00:10:15.120 We already talked about the Sabbath. 00:10:15.600 --> 00:10:18.559 And here is God like you're about to do a bunch of work. 00:10:19.120 --> 00:10:25.279 And I want to remind you, when you start this project, you will still, you're gonna work six days, and you will rest on the seventh. 00:10:25.360 --> 00:10:26.960 You will not keep going. 00:10:27.279 --> 00:10:32.000 Point number one, if you're taking notes, God gave us time to know him. 00:10:32.799 --> 00:10:36.000 God has given us time to get to know him. 00:10:36.639 --> 00:10:51.279 Verses 12 and 13, Yahweh spoke to Moses, saying, But as for you, speak to the sons of Israel, saying, You shall surely keep my Sabbath, for this is a sign between me and you throughout your generations, that you may know that I am Yahweh who makes you holy. 00:10:52.000 --> 00:10:58.320 So, verse 13, this is the sign between me and you, that you will know that I am Yahweh. 00:10:58.559 --> 00:11:01.759 And yet you will know that I am the one who has made you holy. 00:11:02.240 --> 00:11:03.039 You may know. 00:11:03.279 --> 00:11:04.879 Don't rest past these words. 00:11:05.279 --> 00:11:06.639 They are the heart of the verse. 00:11:06.799 --> 00:11:09.679 In the ancient world, every covenant had a sign. 00:11:09.840 --> 00:11:11.679 With Noah, the sign was a rainbow. 00:11:11.759 --> 00:11:13.840 With Abraham, the sign was circumcision. 00:11:14.000 --> 00:11:18.000 With Israel at Sinai, the sign was Sabbath. 00:11:18.480 --> 00:11:20.480 Shabbat, this is the covenant. 00:11:20.639 --> 00:11:23.360 Keeping covenant in rhythm, the sign. 00:11:24.240 --> 00:11:25.039 We know God. 00:11:25.200 --> 00:11:26.960 Notice what God calls it. 00:11:27.039 --> 00:11:31.840 He doesn't call it Sabbath, singular, he calls it Sabbath, plural. 00:11:32.000 --> 00:11:34.320 You will keep my Sabbath. 00:11:35.360 --> 00:11:36.639 The day belongs to Him. 00:11:36.799 --> 00:11:38.480 He sets it apart at creation. 00:11:38.639 --> 00:11:45.200 He instituted it in stone, and He gave it to His people for one supreme purpose so they would know Him, very simply. 00:11:45.360 --> 00:11:46.240 This is it. 00:11:46.559 --> 00:11:51.919 God had already given them a tabernacle in space, a place to meet. 00:11:52.159 --> 00:11:57.200 Now He says, I will give you a space of time in which you will meet. 00:11:57.440 --> 00:12:08.639 You have a place of meeting, and now I'm gonna set apart a time to meet, a day to meet, and build relationship with the God who made them. 00:12:08.879 --> 00:12:11.759 Building relationship takes time now, doesn't it? 00:12:12.240 --> 00:12:13.360 Even with God. 00:12:14.559 --> 00:12:18.960 How can you build a relationship with someone if there is no time to meet? 00:12:19.600 --> 00:12:22.879 Is there if there's no set rhythms to actually meet up? 00:12:24.159 --> 00:12:27.600 Here's the truth I want you to take home in your pocket. 00:12:27.840 --> 00:12:31.279 God, knowing God takes time. 00:12:32.799 --> 00:12:34.240 And there is no shortcut. 00:12:34.639 --> 00:12:36.320 There's no app for it. 00:12:38.879 --> 00:12:44.559 Okay, base 44, Chat GBT, Claude can't build this one for you, alright? 00:12:46.399 --> 00:12:48.639 There's no microwave version. 00:12:49.679 --> 00:12:57.120 In the New Covenant, the day moved, not because the apostles changed it, but because Jesus changed it. 00:12:57.279 --> 00:12:59.759 He rose from the dead on the first day of the week. 00:12:59.840 --> 00:13:06.639 And so Shabbat changed from Saturday or Friday evening to Sunday, the first day of the week. 00:13:06.960 --> 00:13:17.120 From that morning forward, the people of God have gathered on Sunday for thousands of years, the Lord's day to take time with the risen Savior. 00:13:17.919 --> 00:13:20.080 But the principle has never moved. 00:13:20.559 --> 00:13:34.720 One day in seven, the people of God stop, they worship, they open the word, they sing, they pray, they feast at the table, they linger in his presence, they fellowship and they come to know him. 00:13:35.759 --> 00:13:43.919 They dwell in the presence of God, they they contemplate him, they stop for a day and reflect on the Almighty. 00:13:44.720 --> 00:13:48.159 Listen to what Ezekiel said in Ezekiel 20, verse 12. 00:13:48.320 --> 00:13:51.440 Also I gave them my Sabbaths, God's speaking through him. 00:13:51.679 --> 00:14:02.720 Also, I gave them my Sabbaths, plural, to be a sign between me and them that they might know that I am Yahweh who sanctifies them. 00:14:03.200 --> 00:14:04.879 Same language, same purpose. 00:14:04.960 --> 00:14:07.279 He's literally quoting this verse. 00:14:07.840 --> 00:14:11.840 The day was a sign, a weekly invitation to take time to get to know him. 00:14:12.240 --> 00:14:16.559 Psalm 46, 10, be still and know that I am God. 00:14:17.200 --> 00:14:19.519 We have a hard time being still, huh? 00:14:20.799 --> 00:14:21.759 I do. 00:14:24.159 --> 00:14:30.320 Be still and know that I am your God. 00:14:33.360 --> 00:14:39.120 When you really do that, it's amazing how every your perspective changes. 00:14:39.919 --> 00:14:43.200 All this stuff, going on, all these things, all these things. 00:14:43.360 --> 00:14:55.759 And then if all of a sudden, if we actually find a moment where we can be still and lock eyes with him, sense his presence. 00:14:57.600 --> 00:14:59.840 Say some of the things we need to say. 00:15:00.799 --> 00:15:03.279 Pray some of the things we need to pray. 00:15:03.679 --> 00:15:05.919 Sing some of the things we need to sing. 00:15:07.919 --> 00:15:16.159 It's amazing how the mind is washed over, how the stress starts to leave the back of the neck, and all the joy comes in the morning. 00:15:17.600 --> 00:15:19.600 Jeremiah 9 23. 00:15:20.240 --> 00:15:23.039 Let not the wise man boast of his wisdom. 00:15:25.519 --> 00:15:28.399 Let not the mighty man boast of his might, no. 00:15:29.120 --> 00:15:32.080 Let not a rich man boast of his riches, uh-uh. 00:15:32.720 --> 00:15:42.960 But let him who boasts, if he boasts in anything, boast in this, that he knows and understands me, says the Lord. 00:15:44.720 --> 00:15:52.799 If you're gonna boast in anything on the planet, the one thing worth boasting about is knowing Him. 00:15:53.440 --> 00:15:54.559 Knowing God. 00:15:56.080 --> 00:16:01.840 This reinforces that knowing God is the supreme purpose of the human life. 00:16:03.679 --> 00:16:06.559 You can't get to know God in the margins of a busy life. 00:16:06.720 --> 00:16:13.279 You cannot squeeze the Almighty into spare minutes between soccer practice and the next Netflix episode. 00:16:14.080 --> 00:16:23.919 If a stranger watched your calendar for 30 days, would they have any reason to suspect there was a person in your life named God whom you were trying to get to know? 00:16:24.639 --> 00:16:26.080 Would Sunday look different? 00:16:26.320 --> 00:16:33.919 Would there be a rhythm, a noticeable intentional rhythm of set aside time just to be with him? 00:16:34.240 --> 00:16:35.039 It's ironic. 00:16:35.200 --> 00:16:36.240 My little Eden didn't know. 00:16:36.320 --> 00:16:38.720 This isn't even on my notes, just came to me right now. 00:16:38.960 --> 00:16:45.360 But as we left the driveway this morning, the neighbors were out like trimming the trees and like cutting down a bunch of stuff. 00:16:45.600 --> 00:16:47.600 She said, Daddy, don't they go to church? 00:16:47.840 --> 00:16:48.960 And I said, No. 00:16:49.600 --> 00:16:51.279 And says, Why wouldn't they want to go to church? 00:16:51.519 --> 00:16:52.559 I said, I know. 00:16:53.840 --> 00:16:55.840 She says, Well, they they should probably try it. 00:16:56.000 --> 00:16:57.440 And I said, Yes, I think they should. 00:16:57.519 --> 00:16:59.519 I said, I think if they try it, I think they'll like it. 00:16:59.600 --> 00:17:01.759 I said, Yeah, that's alright, Eden, you're right. 00:17:02.080 --> 00:17:03.200 She knows. 00:17:05.599 --> 00:17:08.000 She thinks everyone goes to church. 00:17:09.200 --> 00:17:12.079 She thinks everyone goes to meet with God on Sunday. 00:17:12.400 --> 00:17:13.680 She says, Don't they have a Bible? 00:17:13.839 --> 00:17:15.279 I bet they have a Bible in their house. 00:17:15.440 --> 00:17:16.240 I said, I don't know. 00:17:16.319 --> 00:17:17.599 We'll find out. 00:17:19.119 --> 00:17:20.960 Maybe we can give them one. 00:17:26.319 --> 00:17:30.240 I like that she doesn't she doesn't know. 00:17:37.200 --> 00:17:38.960 Intentional rhythm. 00:17:41.119 --> 00:17:43.119 We will worship the Lord on Sundays. 00:17:43.200 --> 00:17:46.480 For me and my house, we will serve the Lord. 00:17:48.559 --> 00:17:57.920 Sunday can't just become another day to mow the lawn, watch a game, run errands, catch up on emails, squeeze in church if you happen to wake up on time. 00:17:58.720 --> 00:18:00.880 We've got to change that here in LA. 00:18:01.680 --> 00:18:10.720 The church I grew up in, I mean, everyone goes on Sunday, everyone goes on Wednesday, and then everyone serves another night of the week. 00:18:10.880 --> 00:18:14.799 It it was just like, it's just the rhythm, it's the way that it goes. 00:18:21.519 --> 00:18:24.319 You know, like literally, it's just non-stop. 00:18:24.720 --> 00:18:27.119 Maybe a bit overboard, to be honest. 00:18:27.440 --> 00:18:32.000 But it's like, I've noticed the culture is so different, you know, here. 00:18:32.240 --> 00:18:33.599 Not for you, legacy. 00:18:33.680 --> 00:18:36.480 There are so many faithful who get it, fully get it. 00:18:36.720 --> 00:18:42.640 But it's something that it has to grow on us for sure, especially if you haven't been raised in that kind of mindset. 00:18:43.279 --> 00:18:45.359 Sunday is the Lord's day. 00:18:48.480 --> 00:18:50.720 And the Sabbath was never a burden. 00:18:50.880 --> 00:18:53.359 It was not to be a burden for you. 00:18:53.599 --> 00:18:56.400 It was God's gift of time to you. 00:18:56.640 --> 00:19:00.319 He's trying to say, trust me, you can do it in six days. 00:19:00.799 --> 00:19:03.839 Everything you got to get done, you can get it done in six days. 00:19:04.000 --> 00:19:07.839 I'm telling you, I designed the human being, I designed the brain. 00:19:08.079 --> 00:19:09.599 Set aside one day. 00:19:09.759 --> 00:19:11.119 I've designed it this way. 00:19:11.279 --> 00:19:14.880 This is the way the calendar works, this is the way the week works. 00:19:15.039 --> 00:19:19.839 There is one day to be given to me, and your life will prosper that much better. 00:19:20.000 --> 00:19:21.119 So don't refuse it. 00:19:21.200 --> 00:19:23.599 Make time to get to know God. 00:19:24.319 --> 00:19:29.359 Eugene Peterson once said it like this if you don't take a Sabbath, something is wrong. 00:19:29.519 --> 00:19:30.559 You're doing too much. 00:19:30.720 --> 00:19:33.119 You're being too much in charge. 00:19:33.519 --> 00:19:34.880 You've got to quit. 00:19:35.119 --> 00:19:41.759 One day a week, and just watch what God is doing when you're not doing anything. 00:19:45.440 --> 00:19:50.000 A day to slow down and look at the details of the leaves. 00:19:51.599 --> 00:19:53.279 We don't have time for that. 00:19:53.920 --> 00:19:57.359 But the moment you do, you're like, oh my gosh, there's a God. 00:19:59.920 --> 00:20:02.079 Look at the details in this thing. 00:20:02.319 --> 00:20:05.599 Look at the software in these seeds. 00:20:06.079 --> 00:20:07.680 Who pre-programmed these? 00:20:08.079 --> 00:20:10.000 How do they know just to grow food for us? 00:20:10.319 --> 00:20:11.599 That tastes good. 00:20:12.319 --> 00:20:14.400 It's not just bland trash. 00:20:15.279 --> 00:20:22.559 Just put water on this little thing and let the sun hit it, and just magically produces food. 00:20:23.759 --> 00:20:28.559 Point number two, if you're taking notes, God made the day for our good. 00:20:29.200 --> 00:20:31.119 So God gave us time to get to know him. 00:20:31.279 --> 00:20:37.599 He gave us a place, the tabernacle, the tent of meeting, but he also made the day for our good. 00:20:38.079 --> 00:20:39.920 Gave us the time to meet with him. 00:20:40.240 --> 00:20:44.960 Verses 14 to 17 says, Therefore you shall keep the Sabbath, for it is holy to you. 00:20:45.119 --> 00:20:50.799 Six days work may be done, but on the seventh day there is a Sabbath of complete complete rest. 00:20:51.680 --> 00:20:53.279 Complete rest. 00:20:58.720 --> 00:21:00.960 I gotta say it before well no, yeah, we'll okay. 00:21:01.519 --> 00:21:02.480 Holy to Yahweh. 00:21:02.640 --> 00:21:12.079 So the sons of Israel shall keep the Sabbath to celebrate the Sabbath throughout their generations as an everlasting covenant is a sign between me and the sons of Israel forever. 00:21:12.400 --> 00:21:20.319 Verse 15, six days' work may be done, but on the seventh day there is a Sabbath of complete rest. 00:21:20.799 --> 00:21:21.680 Complete rest. 00:21:21.839 --> 00:21:25.519 The Hebrew is Shabbat Shabbatan. 00:21:26.079 --> 00:21:28.720 Shabbatan, Shabbat Shabbatan. 00:21:29.279 --> 00:21:31.359 A Sabbath of Sabbaths. 00:21:32.480 --> 00:21:34.240 A rest of rest. 00:21:35.920 --> 00:21:36.880 Bone deep. 00:21:36.960 --> 00:21:40.559 Now, I can already feel it, especially for your workaholics. 00:21:41.519 --> 00:21:44.079 Come on, get those hands up, you workaholics. 00:21:44.559 --> 00:21:45.519 This is me. 00:21:46.079 --> 00:21:49.359 After I finish my work, I want to start another project. 00:21:49.839 --> 00:21:55.519 I don't know, it's just I just like productivity and I like I want to hit that task button. 00:21:55.680 --> 00:21:56.079 Done. 00:21:56.240 --> 00:21:57.440 I like that feeling. 00:21:57.599 --> 00:21:59.359 I love completion. 00:22:01.839 --> 00:22:04.880 I tell my wife, all I got stuff to do, I gotta get this stuff done. 00:22:05.039 --> 00:22:08.400 She's like, yeah, but when you're done, you're just gonna make more things to do. 00:22:09.200 --> 00:22:10.319 It's true. 00:22:11.359 --> 00:22:12.240 But I can feel it. 00:22:12.880 --> 00:22:22.480 Even as I'm as I'm telling the workaholics to rest, I can feel the internal like that Monday morning hit, like, I can't, I can't wait, I can't wait. 00:22:22.559 --> 00:22:24.480 I need to get up Monday morning, I'm gonna get up. 00:22:24.559 --> 00:22:25.359 I can't wait to go. 00:22:25.519 --> 00:22:47.039 What's happening is you are you're pushing back the tide of work, and you are you you are stepping into a completion of rest in which you are maximizing your rest, which makes the engine burn hotter for Monday morning, and you might even be able to complete more this week because you're exhausting rest. 00:22:48.400 --> 00:22:49.920 And we don't do that very often. 00:22:50.240 --> 00:22:55.440 It's so good to do that, to actually get to a point where you're like, I'm actually completely refreshed. 00:22:55.519 --> 00:23:01.119 Like, I can't wait to get back to work, said not very many people in this society. 00:23:01.839 --> 00:23:05.920 But the exhaustion, or as put here in the text, complete rest. 00:23:06.160 --> 00:23:07.119 I love that. 00:23:08.880 --> 00:23:10.240 Sabbath of Sabbaths. 00:23:10.400 --> 00:23:15.359 The word Sabbath itself simply means to cease, to stop, to put down the tools. 00:23:15.599 --> 00:23:18.960 No plowing, no reaping, no buying, no selling. 00:23:19.200 --> 00:23:21.680 Now look at verse 14: embrace yourself. 00:23:21.839 --> 00:23:25.279 Everyone who profanes it shall surely be put to death. 00:23:26.559 --> 00:23:31.119 The death penalty for working on Saturday. 00:23:31.599 --> 00:23:33.359 That seems severe. 00:23:33.839 --> 00:23:35.599 But understand what God was protecting. 00:23:35.759 --> 00:23:38.400 He was protecting his relationship with his people. 00:23:38.640 --> 00:23:43.519 To willfully break the Sabbath was to publicly say, I don't need you, God. 00:23:43.680 --> 00:23:46.000 My work is more important than knowing you. 00:23:46.240 --> 00:23:48.960 And God said, That will not stand in my camp. 00:23:50.400 --> 00:23:59.279 Hear me clearly, that the civil penalty for the Old Testament Israel as a nation is not binding on us today. 00:23:59.440 --> 00:24:01.359 It was fulfilled in Christ. 00:24:01.440 --> 00:24:06.880 But the moral principle remains: God carved this in stone with his own finger. 00:24:10.400 --> 00:24:12.880 God is dead serious about your time with him. 00:24:13.920 --> 00:24:17.839 And I love when companies succeed, you know, closed on Sunday, right? 00:24:18.160 --> 00:24:23.680 When companies succeed when they make loud statements like that. 00:24:23.839 --> 00:24:27.440 Like, I'm sorry, like we're not even letting our employees work on that day. 00:24:27.519 --> 00:24:30.559 Like it's if you want to worship or not, it's up to you. 00:24:30.720 --> 00:24:33.440 But no one's working on Sunday. 00:24:33.759 --> 00:24:35.519 It's pretty awesome. 00:24:38.079 --> 00:24:42.160 The Sabbath was never primarily a rule, it was, again, always a gift. 00:24:42.400 --> 00:24:49.039 Mark 2, 27, Jesus himself said the Sabbath was made for man, not man for the Sabbath. 00:24:49.279 --> 00:24:51.599 It was a gift to you, it was a gift to me. 00:24:53.200 --> 00:24:55.119 It was made for you, it was made for me. 00:24:55.599 --> 00:25:02.640 It is God's weekly gift of grace to the most exhausted, burnt-out creatures he ever made. 00:25:03.200 --> 00:25:04.480 And we really are. 00:25:04.960 --> 00:25:06.319 Look at the animals. 00:25:06.640 --> 00:25:09.359 You ever see them burnt out and tired all the time? 00:25:10.960 --> 00:25:11.279 No. 00:25:12.319 --> 00:25:14.160 We got two kittens. 00:25:14.400 --> 00:25:17.440 They're like teenagers already, these little things. 00:25:17.759 --> 00:25:23.680 And on any given day, you can catch them laying in the tall grass in warm sun, just relaxing. 00:25:24.319 --> 00:25:33.039 Just on their back, just you know, scratching at a little bug trying to fly by and just looking around and hanging out in the grass. 00:25:34.400 --> 00:25:36.240 Man, I wish I could do that. 00:25:38.480 --> 00:25:40.960 Katie and I were reflecting on this just recently. 00:25:41.119 --> 00:25:45.759 We were uh sitting by a river in Yosemite on a blanket. 00:25:46.160 --> 00:25:53.839 It's great the kids are playing in the river, and uh we there's enough time to notice the clouds. 00:25:54.640 --> 00:26:01.599 The blue sky, giant fluffy clouds moving in the sky, just looking at them. 00:26:01.759 --> 00:26:05.839 Nothing else to do, just enjoying the sky. 00:26:06.160 --> 00:26:10.720 It was so relaxing, fun, and simple, and somehow very refreshing. 00:26:11.440 --> 00:26:12.640 We were talking about it. 00:26:12.720 --> 00:26:16.799 Everything that our soul really needs every day is free. 00:26:17.839 --> 00:26:35.519 Deep breathing, the sun, the sky, the ocean, all of nature, exercise, walks, hikes, fresh air, sitting, watching a sunset, slowing down, praying, meditating, talking with the Lord, seeking God. 00:26:35.680 --> 00:26:36.640 All free. 00:26:38.079 --> 00:26:39.200 All free. 00:26:42.960 --> 00:26:44.799 And we don't even do it. 00:26:46.240 --> 00:26:51.200 We gotta spend thousands of dollars to get the experience. 00:26:52.240 --> 00:26:55.599 It doesn't give what staring at clouds gives. 00:26:57.839 --> 00:26:59.119 Look at verse 17. 00:26:59.279 --> 00:26:59.839 Don't miss this. 00:27:00.000 --> 00:27:07.599 For in six days Yahweh made the heavens and the earth, but on the seventh day he rested and was refreshed. 00:27:08.720 --> 00:27:10.720 Imagine God being refreshed. 00:27:11.759 --> 00:27:12.960 What a great picture. 00:27:13.200 --> 00:27:19.440 Refreshed, the innipotent, never tiring God of the universe, stopped on the seventh day and was refreshed. 00:27:19.599 --> 00:27:21.440 He didn't need it the way we need it. 00:27:21.599 --> 00:27:22.960 He never grows weary. 00:27:23.200 --> 00:27:24.400 He modeled it for us. 00:27:24.559 --> 00:27:26.319 He showed us the rhythm. 00:27:26.559 --> 00:27:29.119 He stitched it right into the fabric of creation. 00:27:29.359 --> 00:27:30.400 Six and one. 00:27:30.640 --> 00:27:31.759 Six and one. 00:27:31.920 --> 00:27:32.960 That's God's math. 00:27:33.119 --> 00:27:37.759 Six days you work hard, faithfully as unto the Lord, and on the seventh day you stop. 00:27:42.880 --> 00:27:44.480 Work hard. 00:27:46.720 --> 00:27:48.000 Work hard. 00:27:48.720 --> 00:27:56.400 If I ever created a camp for young guys, step one is they would dig holes for two weeks. 00:27:57.599 --> 00:27:58.160 Why? 00:27:59.920 --> 00:28:01.279 Why are we digging a hole? 00:28:01.920 --> 00:28:03.440 Just keep on digging, my man. 00:28:06.480 --> 00:28:07.759 What are we looking for? 00:28:08.400 --> 00:28:09.599 Just keep digging. 00:28:13.200 --> 00:28:14.319 Just keep digging. 00:28:15.920 --> 00:28:18.400 Just keep digging, keep digging, keep digging. 00:28:20.079 --> 00:28:21.119 Break your back. 00:28:22.079 --> 00:28:23.359 Break your hands. 00:28:25.039 --> 00:28:26.480 Feel the pain of calluses. 00:28:27.680 --> 00:28:30.480 Feel the sweat and the dirt on your face. 00:28:31.599 --> 00:28:33.519 Feel the sun pounding on you. 00:28:34.559 --> 00:28:35.440 Keep digging. 00:28:37.599 --> 00:28:39.759 But you works by the sweat of your brow. 00:28:41.279 --> 00:28:42.400 Genesis 3. 00:28:45.279 --> 00:28:48.240 You will learn what hard work is. 00:28:48.319 --> 00:28:50.720 You will learn to work hard. 00:28:53.920 --> 00:28:56.640 My grandmom used to make us dig holes in the backyard. 00:29:00.000 --> 00:29:02.880 Seven years, eight years old, she's to climb up in the top of that tree. 00:29:03.039 --> 00:29:04.160 Here's a bowsaw. 00:29:04.240 --> 00:29:05.759 Go cut down that branch. 00:29:06.480 --> 00:29:07.200 I didn't know. 00:29:07.359 --> 00:29:09.759 I was just so I was just it wasn't frightening to me. 00:29:09.839 --> 00:29:10.960 I was stoked. 00:29:11.680 --> 00:29:16.799 You're giving me a bandsaw, and I get to go up there in the top of this tree and cut down this giant limb? 00:29:16.960 --> 00:29:17.839 Let's go. 00:29:19.680 --> 00:29:23.119 Go dig a six-foot hole, you and your brothers in the backyard. 00:29:23.359 --> 00:29:26.160 It's gonna be the compost for all the fruit trees in the backyard. 00:29:26.240 --> 00:29:26.799 Go dig it. 00:29:27.599 --> 00:29:28.000 We did. 00:29:28.079 --> 00:29:28.960 We loved it. 00:29:33.039 --> 00:29:36.079 Six days, you shall work hard. 00:29:37.599 --> 00:29:39.200 Not work, work hard. 00:29:40.000 --> 00:29:43.119 Work hardly is unto the Lord and not men. 00:29:44.079 --> 00:29:45.839 It doesn't say work easy. 00:29:46.799 --> 00:29:47.920 It says work hard. 00:29:48.079 --> 00:29:50.240 If it's not hard, you're not working. 00:29:51.039 --> 00:29:53.119 The next generation needs to know. 00:29:54.160 --> 00:29:55.440 You're not working. 00:29:56.480 --> 00:30:01.920 Six days you shall work hard unto the Lord, and on the seventh day you shall rest. 00:30:04.720 --> 00:30:10.079 Seventh day you stop, you let God be God, and you remember that you and I are not. 00:30:10.559 --> 00:30:14.160 And in the stopping of the work we get to know him. 00:30:14.480 --> 00:30:16.000 That's the application. 00:30:16.319 --> 00:30:17.759 Might sting a little. 00:30:18.480 --> 00:30:24.559 But many of us are strangers to God because we have decided we know better than he does. 00:30:25.599 --> 00:30:31.839 I think it's very interesting that it says six days work and one day rest and worship him. 00:30:32.079 --> 00:30:37.119 It doesn't say rest and worship for six days and work one day. 00:30:38.640 --> 00:30:40.720 How do we get that backwards? 00:30:41.279 --> 00:30:45.200 Six days work hard and one day stop and worship. 00:30:45.440 --> 00:30:48.079 That doesn't mean we're not in communion with God all day. 00:30:48.319 --> 00:30:51.039 There's a clear command that we work hard. 00:30:53.680 --> 00:30:56.480 God says six days and one, we say seven and zero. 00:30:56.640 --> 00:30:58.640 God says stop, we say one more email. 00:30:58.799 --> 00:31:02.400 God says, come and know me, and we say maybe next week. 00:31:02.640 --> 00:31:13.359 Now we wonder why God feels distant, why our prayers feel like they bounce off the ceiling sometimes, or why our walk with the Lord feels like an acquaintance instead of a son or daughter. 00:31:13.680 --> 00:31:15.680 He shouldn't feel like an acquaintance. 00:31:16.000 --> 00:31:19.680 He should feel like our father, and that we know him well. 00:31:19.920 --> 00:31:20.799 The great J.C. 00:31:20.960 --> 00:31:23.599 Penny, yes, JC Penny. 00:31:25.440 --> 00:31:38.000 He said, if a man's business requires so much of his time that he cannot attend the Sunday morning and the evening service and the Wednesday night prayer meeting, then that man has more business than God intended for him to have. 00:31:50.640 --> 00:32:04.640 Isaiah 58, 13, if because of the Sabbath you turn your foot from doing your own pleasure on my holy day and call the Sabbath a delight, then you will take delight in Yahweh. 00:32:04.960 --> 00:32:06.319 Isn't that great? 00:32:06.640 --> 00:32:14.480 If you turn away from doing your own pleasure and working for your own gain and turn to me, you will find delight, God says. 00:32:14.799 --> 00:32:16.720 In his presence is what? 00:32:17.839 --> 00:32:19.599 Fullness of joy. 00:32:19.920 --> 00:32:25.200 At his right hand are pleasures, the pleasures you're seeking forevermore. 00:32:25.440 --> 00:32:34.000 Now I'm not saying, you know, uh, I don't know, you know, you have to go in your prayer closet and sit on your knees, you know, for 10 hours on Sunday. 00:32:34.079 --> 00:32:35.920 That's not what's being said. 00:32:37.200 --> 00:32:41.759 What I'm telling you is whatever is restful for you. 00:32:41.920 --> 00:32:49.039 Coming to church, celebrating, meeting with God, fellowshipping with other believers, hanging out with the family the rest of the day, relaxing. 00:32:49.200 --> 00:32:53.279 Just get your mind on him and resting. 00:32:53.440 --> 00:32:55.680 That is it, very simply put. 00:32:55.920 --> 00:33:03.759 Get your mind and heart on him and get refreshed in him with the relaxing things around you. 00:33:04.240 --> 00:33:10.559 The great preacher Charles Spurgeon said this: our Sabbaths are days of heaven upon earth. 00:33:11.279 --> 00:33:17.359 We then quit our daily callings and devote ourselves to the worship of God and to the contemplation of his glory. 00:33:18.160 --> 00:33:19.920 Days of heaven upon earth. 00:33:20.079 --> 00:33:25.440 That's what Sunday is supposed to be, because that's what time with God is supposed to feel like. 00:33:25.759 --> 00:33:30.880 Point number three, and finally, the Sabbath points us to knowing Christ. 00:33:31.039 --> 00:33:31.920 Praise God. 00:33:32.160 --> 00:33:39.599 Verse 17 and 18, for in six days Yahweh made the heavens and the earth, but on the seventh day he rested and was refreshed. 00:33:40.000 --> 00:33:49.519 When he had finished speaking with him upon Mount Sinai, he gave Moses the two tablets of the testimony, tablets of stone written by the finger of God. 00:33:49.920 --> 00:33:50.559 Amen. 00:33:51.599 --> 00:33:59.440 Verse 18, when he had finished speaking, he gave Moses these two tablets, tablets of stone written by the finger of God. 00:33:59.680 --> 00:34:01.039 Super cool picture here. 00:34:01.200 --> 00:34:05.200 Again, two tablets, tablets of stone and written with God's finger. 00:34:05.440 --> 00:34:08.000 This isn't because God has hands like us. 00:34:08.159 --> 00:34:09.599 No, God is spirits. 00:34:10.079 --> 00:34:20.480 It's a way of telling us these commandments came from God Himself, not from Moses, not from a committee, not the religions of the ancient Near East, God's touch and God's finger. 00:34:20.719 --> 00:34:23.440 And right there in the middle of those commandments was the fourth. 00:34:23.599 --> 00:34:25.679 Remember the Sabbath to keep it holy. 00:34:25.920 --> 00:34:28.159 The Sabbath wasn't a suggestion. 00:34:28.320 --> 00:34:29.519 It is, of course, scripture. 00:34:29.679 --> 00:34:34.159 It's stone, it's sacred, and it carries on to this day and age. 00:34:34.400 --> 00:34:40.800 Notice verse 17, God says, it says that God Himself rested on the seventh day after creation. 00:34:42.320 --> 00:34:45.840 The Sabbath wasn't invented at Sinai on the mountain, no. 00:34:46.719 --> 00:34:49.679 It was brought in at the Garden of Eden. 00:34:49.760 --> 00:34:52.559 It was brought in at the beginning of creation. 00:34:54.960 --> 00:34:57.119 It was woven into time. 00:34:59.039 --> 00:35:01.760 It was woven when God created time. 00:35:01.840 --> 00:35:05.280 When he created the week, he wove the Sabbath into it. 00:35:05.599 --> 00:35:09.119 God built time with him into the rhythm of life. 00:35:09.360 --> 00:35:13.199 So the Sabbath was rooted in creation and it pointed towards redemption. 00:35:14.480 --> 00:35:17.440 The Old Testament Sabbath was a shadow. 00:35:17.840 --> 00:35:24.480 Colossians chapter 2, verse 16, therefore no one is to act as your judge in regards to a Sabbath. 00:35:24.960 --> 00:35:31.039 Things which are a mere shadow of what is to come, but the substance belongs to Christ. 00:35:31.360 --> 00:35:33.199 The shadow is the day. 00:35:33.360 --> 00:35:35.519 The substance ultimately is the Savior. 00:35:40.239 --> 00:35:43.760 And here is the really the heartbeat of this whole sermon. 00:35:43.840 --> 00:35:51.920 When God said in verse 13 that you may know that I'm Yahweh who makes you holy, he was giving his people a hint of something glorious that was coming. 00:35:52.079 --> 00:35:54.960 You didn't get to truly know God by working harder. 00:35:55.119 --> 00:35:57.840 You get to know him by coming to his son. 00:35:58.559 --> 00:36:01.440 John 17, 3, the key. 00:36:03.119 --> 00:36:05.840 Some of the most stunning words Jesus ever prayed. 00:36:06.000 --> 00:36:15.280 He says, This is eternal life, that they may know you, the only true God, and Jesus Christ whom you have sent. 00:36:15.440 --> 00:36:16.239 Did you hear that? 00:36:16.480 --> 00:36:18.880 Eternal life is knowing God. 00:36:19.119 --> 00:36:22.159 It's not all this other religious things. 00:36:22.719 --> 00:36:25.199 You can't know the Father except through the Son. 00:36:25.360 --> 00:36:31.760 When Jesus cried out from the cross, it is finished, he was doing for us what we could never do for ourselves. 00:36:32.000 --> 00:36:34.480 He kept every commandment we have broken. 00:36:34.719 --> 00:36:36.960 He paid every debt we owed. 00:36:37.280 --> 00:36:43.199 Then he died and was laid in the tomb and rested on the Sabbath in the silence of the grave. 00:36:43.519 --> 00:36:49.039 Hebrews 4 9 says, So there remains a Sabbath rest for the people of God. 00:36:49.360 --> 00:36:57.280 For the one who has entered his rest has himself also rested from his works, as God did from his. 00:36:57.760 --> 00:37:00.320 The Sabbath fulfilled in Christ. 00:37:00.559 --> 00:37:05.679 Salvation is resting from your works in his on Sabbath. 00:37:06.079 --> 00:37:15.440 We cannot forget on this first day of the week, the day of the resurrection, that he rose, and he invited every weary soul to come to him and know him. 00:37:15.840 --> 00:37:21.760 Come to me, all you who are weary, heavy laden, and I will give you what? 00:37:22.400 --> 00:37:23.360 That's it. 00:37:25.039 --> 00:37:26.559 I love verse 17 in our text. 00:37:26.719 --> 00:37:33.440 It says, speaking of creation, on the seventh day that he God rested, and that he God was refreshed. 00:37:35.039 --> 00:37:36.079 Refreshed. 00:37:36.960 --> 00:37:40.079 The seventh day is not for work, it is for refreshment. 00:37:40.239 --> 00:37:41.679 Let that sink in. 00:37:43.199 --> 00:37:47.440 Seventh day is not for work, it is for rest and refreshment. 00:37:47.920 --> 00:37:55.119 Sunday should be a day of refreshment for you, a refresh in God, a rest in Him, through Him, with Him all day. 00:37:55.199 --> 00:37:56.079 It's the Lord's day. 00:37:56.159 --> 00:37:57.679 You get six days. 00:37:58.000 --> 00:37:59.920 We have to give the Lord one. 00:38:03.599 --> 00:38:04.800 Here's the application. 00:38:04.960 --> 00:38:07.760 Maybe some of you have been knowing about Jesus your whole life. 00:38:07.840 --> 00:38:09.679 You've never actually known him. 00:38:10.480 --> 00:38:22.000 You've been working you with your fingers to the bone, trying to earn what cannot be earned, trying to be good enough, trying to fix what you've broken, trying to outwork your guilt and run, outrun your shame. 00:38:22.880 --> 00:38:25.280 There's no rest at the end of your road. 00:38:25.440 --> 00:38:32.079 You can work seven days a week, 24 hours a day the rest of your life, and you will never, ever know God that way. 00:38:32.800 --> 00:38:34.239 The law cannot save you. 00:38:34.480 --> 00:38:36.079 Religion cannot save you. 00:38:36.320 --> 00:38:38.639 Sabbath keeping cannot save you. 00:38:38.880 --> 00:38:40.800 The Apostle Paul would have done it. 00:38:41.039 --> 00:38:44.719 Saul of Tarsus would have accomplished it if it was possible. 00:38:45.280 --> 00:38:49.280 Only Jesus can save you, and only in Jesus can you truly know God. 00:38:49.360 --> 00:38:52.880 The most wonderful thing in the world is that He has already done everything needed. 00:38:53.039 --> 00:38:54.880 He kept the law you've broken. 00:38:55.119 --> 00:38:57.280 He paid the debt you owe. 00:38:57.599 --> 00:39:00.159 The payment has been made. 00:39:01.679 --> 00:39:02.880 Past tense. 00:39:04.559 --> 00:39:13.119 He died the death you deserved, and he rose to invite you into a relationship that begins with him this morning that will literally never end. 00:39:15.440 --> 00:39:18.400 We gotta stop trying to do what only he can do. 00:39:20.639 --> 00:39:23.519 We don't do it because we have to, we do it because we want to. 00:39:25.519 --> 00:39:28.079 God does not want us with fear but with love. 00:39:28.400 --> 00:39:30.800 And he keeps his people forever with love. 00:39:30.960 --> 00:39:34.880 The religions of the world keep their people with fear. 00:39:41.039 --> 00:39:49.679 Come into a relationship with your father, the God who made you, and taking time to talk with him on Sundays is a good thing. 00:39:50.000 --> 00:39:52.800 Augustine said this in his confessions. 00:39:53.599 --> 00:39:55.840 I don't know who is anyone who's ever said it better. 00:39:56.000 --> 00:40:04.000 He says, You have made us for yourself, O Lord, and our hearts are restless until they find rest in thee. 00:40:05.440 --> 00:40:07.519 Until we find rest in him. 00:40:09.280 --> 00:40:13.679 Every restless heart is looking for what only Jesus can give. 00:40:14.239 --> 00:40:16.719 The Sabbath points us to knowing Him. 00:40:18.320 --> 00:40:20.559 That's what we remember every single Sunday. 00:40:21.199 --> 00:40:31.039 We come in here and we remember that all the working, all the performance, all that we're trying to do, we know ultimately is filthy rags. 00:40:32.639 --> 00:40:34.719 Apart from me, you can do nothing. 00:40:35.840 --> 00:40:37.280 We reconnect with him. 00:40:37.920 --> 00:40:41.199 Say, Lord, forgive all of my bad motives this week. 00:40:42.159 --> 00:40:51.119 And for all of the things that I do to try to build my own pride, my own arrogance, boasting in myself of the great deeds that I do. 00:40:51.519 --> 00:40:55.119 And help me remember that all this is a gift for you. 00:40:55.519 --> 00:40:56.639 I'm grateful. 00:40:56.719 --> 00:40:59.360 I'm thankful to know you and to walk with you. 00:40:59.599 --> 00:41:06.559 I gladly give you my life again and again and again, every weekend, every Sunday. 00:41:07.920 --> 00:41:11.039 We stop for a day and we remember the Lord. 00:41:11.280 --> 00:41:15.280 And legacy, this is not a uh, this really isn't a bomb. 00:41:15.360 --> 00:41:20.639 This is more of a celebration in my mind, because I do feel that the church does this. 00:41:20.880 --> 00:41:23.440 I do feel that that is your heart. 00:41:24.000 --> 00:41:31.280 Your mind is already set apart from this city, worshiping the Lord each and every Sunday, communing with Him. 00:41:31.599 --> 00:41:35.199 Let's not forget that God gave us time to know Him. 00:41:35.440 --> 00:41:37.840 The Sabbath is there, it's carved and sown. 00:41:38.000 --> 00:41:40.719 Let's not forget that God made the day for our good. 00:41:40.880 --> 00:41:42.880 He gave it to us for our good. 00:41:42.960 --> 00:41:48.719 And let's not forget the Sabbath points us to knowing Christ every single week, more and more. 00:41:48.880 --> 00:41:54.400 This is eternal life, that they may know you, Jesus Christ. 00:41:54.639 --> 00:41:56.800 And Jesus Christ his Son, whom He sent. 00:41:57.920 --> 00:42:05.119 Want to close, we're gonna enter into prayer, take some time to reflect on the Lord, and this is gonna be a great time of worship. 00:42:05.280 --> 00:42:11.360 I'm so happy that we get time to worship and just pray and talk to the Lord. 00:42:11.599 --> 00:42:12.960 And so we're gonna turn to him now. 00:42:13.039 --> 00:42:14.239 I want to pray for everybody in this room. 00:42:14.320 --> 00:42:20.960 I want to pray for forgiveness of our sin first, and I want to pray that God would open heaven for us now and listen to our prayers, okay? 00:42:21.119 --> 00:42:22.559 Uh we're gonna turn to him now. 00:42:22.639 --> 00:42:23.039 Let's pray. 00:42:23.119 --> 00:42:25.679 Father, we worship you in this place. 00:42:26.559 --> 00:42:30.800 And God, I pray for everybody here in this room, Lord, that you would help us. 00:42:31.119 --> 00:42:37.039 God, that you would strengthen us, and that we would turn to you with all of our hearts. 00:42:37.199 --> 00:42:40.719 We pray, God, that you would forgive us of our sins. 00:42:41.280 --> 00:42:47.679 The things that try to keep us from you, things that try to ruin our relationship with you. 00:42:48.800 --> 00:42:50.159 We ask that you would forgive us. 00:42:50.239 --> 00:42:53.679 We thank you for the work of the cross, your death, burial, and resurrection. 00:42:54.719 --> 00:42:56.400 Thank you for saving us. 00:42:56.800 --> 00:42:58.159 Thank you for making things right. 00:42:58.239 --> 00:43:01.519 There are some in this room, maybe, who don't feel like they know you, God. 00:43:01.599 --> 00:43:05.840 I pray that you would forgive them and you would call them into relationship with you in this moment. 00:43:06.000 --> 00:43:08.000 They would turn to you with all of their hearts. 00:43:08.079 --> 00:43:12.960 They would make you Lord over their lives, they would call upon you to save them from their sin. 00:43:13.039 --> 00:43:19.599 And they would walk in your commands, walk in your ways, choose to live the life that you have given to them. 00:43:20.079 --> 00:43:21.039 Help us, Lord. 00:43:21.119 --> 00:43:23.280 We yield to you, we turn to you now. 00:43:23.599 --> 00:43:24.960 We do it in Jesus' name. 00:43:25.119 --> 00:43:44.559 Father, I pray as we call out to you now that you would hear from heaven that you would heal us, heal our minds, heal our hearts, heal our bodies, heal our situations, that we would take this Sunday, this Shabbat, to rest in you, to rest from the performance. 00:43:51.039 --> 00:43:55.280 Come to me, all ye that are heavy laden and burdened, I will give you rest. 00:43:55.920 --> 00:43:57.760 We would come to you, Jesus. 00:43:58.079 --> 00:43:59.679 We would make you Lord. 00:43:59.920 --> 00:44:01.920 Bless this time as we seek you now, Lord. 00:44:02.000 --> 00:44:03.039 We pray in Jesus' name. 00:44:03.199 --> 00:44:03.679 Amen.