WEBVTT 00:00:00.080 --> 00:00:02.319 Welcome to the Awakening Church podcast. 00:00:02.479 --> 00:00:07.040 We pray this message encourages you and provides the hope and light of Jesus Christ. 00:00:07.200 --> 00:00:08.640 Thanks for tuning in. 00:00:19.519 --> 00:00:28.160 It was June of 2021, and I started, I shared part of this story when we began our Tri-Softer series. 00:00:30.239 --> 00:00:32.479 We happened to be up at Tahoe. 00:00:32.560 --> 00:00:38.799 There was a small gathering of pastors, a little conference with our mentors, Phil and Diane Comer. 00:00:39.200 --> 00:00:47.920 Now, me going into this after the last several years, exhausted, I wouldn't even use that word. 00:00:48.159 --> 00:00:50.479 You ever been there where you're beyond exhausted? 00:00:51.280 --> 00:00:51.840 Yeah. 00:00:52.159 --> 00:00:54.079 New parents are like, absolutely. 00:00:54.799 --> 00:00:55.439 Right? 00:00:56.399 --> 00:01:00.159 As I was thinking about it, I think the word I'd use is depleted. 00:01:00.560 --> 00:01:03.679 Just depleted, like just drained. 00:01:04.079 --> 00:01:11.840 Depleted to the point, and this is probably too far, but where you feel almost dead inside. 00:01:12.959 --> 00:01:17.920 Show up to this pastor's conference, and literally, it's a small gathering, maybe 50 people. 00:01:18.239 --> 00:01:19.439 Mentors are there. 00:01:26.159 --> 00:01:31.359 I remember telling Jenny within 24 hours of being there, let's go. 00:01:31.920 --> 00:01:32.879 Like, I'm done. 00:01:33.040 --> 00:01:34.159 I'm ready to be done. 00:01:34.319 --> 00:01:36.799 Thankfully, she's way more spiritual than me. 00:01:36.959 --> 00:01:38.879 And she said, No, you know. 00:01:39.359 --> 00:01:45.040 But have you been to that point where you're so depleted you can't even receive anymore? 00:01:45.359 --> 00:01:49.439 Like, even the good things that are coming into your life, you're just like, oh. 00:01:51.120 --> 00:01:54.959 And to be in that, my soul just wasn't in a good space. 00:01:55.120 --> 00:02:00.079 It'd been years uh back to back, of full of driving. 00:02:00.480 --> 00:02:04.319 And we sat down with Phil and Diane and we're talking. 00:02:04.400 --> 00:02:07.040 And I remember Phil asking me this question. 00:02:07.519 --> 00:02:08.960 He already knew the answer. 00:02:09.199 --> 00:02:10.400 He looked at me. 00:02:10.560 --> 00:02:15.120 Um he's like, Ryan, are you enjoying life? 00:02:17.520 --> 00:02:19.280 Are you enjoying life? 00:02:21.520 --> 00:02:21.840 No. 00:02:23.039 --> 00:02:24.960 It's a short answer, right? 00:02:25.199 --> 00:02:27.039 Are you really enjoying life? 00:02:27.199 --> 00:02:28.240 You know, it's interesting. 00:02:28.400 --> 00:02:37.680 We had a series back in December on joy, and when you think about joy, like joy should be one of the hallmarker calling cards for us as followers of Jesus. 00:02:37.919 --> 00:02:47.840 He said, you know, in John chapter 15, I've told you these things that my joy would be in you, and that your joy would be complete or full. 00:02:48.960 --> 00:03:09.520 And yet, if we're honest, the pace of life that we live, the pressure and the demands that we have, the stress and the anxiety, and this starts from high school or even younger on up, that we live in this frenzied state. 00:03:10.479 --> 00:03:13.599 That if we're really to answer the question, are you enjoying life? 00:03:13.759 --> 00:03:17.199 I would argue that most of us would be in that same space. 00:03:18.319 --> 00:03:19.520 Many of us. 00:03:19.840 --> 00:03:24.560 I don't I don't even really know how to do that. 00:03:25.840 --> 00:03:29.039 You know, there's this interesting uh rabbinic saying. 00:03:29.120 --> 00:03:32.879 Now, this isn't part of scripture, this is just uh uh what some rabbis used to say. 00:03:33.039 --> 00:03:40.639 So God will one day hold each of us accountable for all the things He created for us to enjoy, but we refuse to do so. 00:03:41.360 --> 00:03:47.360 Now, here's what's funny about that line, because I know some of you are like, oh, I got permission now, right? 00:03:47.520 --> 00:03:49.520 You're like, yeah, really? 00:03:50.000 --> 00:03:52.479 And others, you just put more guilt. 00:03:52.639 --> 00:03:55.759 You're like, I'm gonna be held accountable for that too. 00:03:57.520 --> 00:03:58.080 Right? 00:03:58.240 --> 00:04:03.360 How do we really begin to enter into this flourishing life? 00:04:03.680 --> 00:04:07.199 That's fundamentally what we've been talking for the last several weeks. 00:04:07.360 --> 00:04:14.319 Like, like Jesus said, I've come that you might have life and life to the full, flourishing, abundant life. 00:04:15.039 --> 00:04:17.439 Like, does that exist in Silicon Valley? 00:04:17.680 --> 00:04:19.680 Can that exist in Silicon Valley? 00:04:19.839 --> 00:04:28.720 You know, we've wrestled this question, and what if the secret to the life we've always wanted, you've always wanted, isn't in trying harder, but trying softer. 00:04:29.040 --> 00:04:31.360 And Jesus' great invitation. 00:04:32.079 --> 00:04:34.560 Come, come to me. 00:04:35.279 --> 00:04:36.480 Are you weary? 00:04:36.720 --> 00:04:38.000 Are you burdened? 00:04:38.160 --> 00:04:41.519 I'll give you rest or literally refreshing. 00:04:41.600 --> 00:04:45.120 Like I want to refresh you, the refreshing way of life. 00:04:45.439 --> 00:04:49.360 Take my yoke upon you, learn from me. 00:04:49.519 --> 00:04:51.759 Watch how I do life. 00:04:52.000 --> 00:05:01.600 And if you watch how I do life and you learn from me, not just my teachings, yes, and how I go about life, you'll actually enter into rest. 00:05:01.759 --> 00:05:02.079 Why? 00:05:02.240 --> 00:05:05.279 Because I'm gentle and humble of heart. 00:05:06.480 --> 00:05:11.439 And so, how do we begin to take on the easy yoke? 00:05:12.720 --> 00:05:16.240 His gentle and humble of heart. 00:05:16.480 --> 00:05:18.639 And here's what we've done the last two weeks. 00:05:18.720 --> 00:05:27.120 We made the shift of not just looking at what Jesus teaches, which is amazing, but actually beginning to look at how he lived. 00:05:27.279 --> 00:05:30.639 He said, Watch how I go about life. 00:05:30.800 --> 00:05:41.920 And in watching the pattern and the pace that Jesus goes about life, then begins to tell us, inform us, and teach us of this is the refreshing way of life. 00:05:42.079 --> 00:05:55.600 And could it be, could it be the things that we've taken, the yokes or the stuff that is hanging around our necks, the patterns that we've embraced, man, they'll never bring the life we desire. 00:05:56.639 --> 00:05:58.319 We'll never be able to answer that question. 00:05:58.480 --> 00:05:59.439 Are you enjoying life? 00:05:59.519 --> 00:06:02.800 Well, at times, at moments, but not consistently, no. 00:06:03.920 --> 00:06:06.079 Last week we looked at the lonely places. 00:06:06.240 --> 00:06:09.040 He often withdrew to the lonely places. 00:06:09.360 --> 00:06:19.600 Today we want to look at one rhythm of Jesus' life that is so countercultural even in Christianity. 00:06:19.759 --> 00:06:27.040 And it's really countercultural in um Western American evangelical Christianity. 00:06:27.199 --> 00:06:28.879 It almost became taboo. 00:06:28.959 --> 00:06:36.000 Like I grew up, and this was like one of those things where, hey, no, that's no longer for us. 00:06:36.079 --> 00:06:38.399 That's an old testament thing, right? 00:06:38.639 --> 00:06:40.720 That that's like an old school thing. 00:06:40.879 --> 00:06:42.800 We're in the new school, the new testament. 00:06:42.879 --> 00:06:45.920 You don't have to worry about that anymore. 00:06:46.079 --> 00:06:53.920 And I think because we've gotten away from it, we are now caught in a rhythm that our souls cannot sustain. 00:06:56.079 --> 00:06:58.160 Jesus did something every single week. 00:06:58.240 --> 00:06:59.279 Did you know this? 00:06:59.680 --> 00:07:01.040 Without fail. 00:07:01.920 --> 00:07:14.079 He participated in something that actually finds its roots all the way back in the origins of creation, and that the Jewish people had been doing for thousands of years. 00:07:15.120 --> 00:07:16.079 His rhythm. 00:07:16.639 --> 00:07:20.639 And he would say, This is a new way to carry life. 00:07:21.439 --> 00:07:22.879 His rhythm was Shabbat. 00:07:23.040 --> 00:07:24.319 Would you go ahead and say that with me? 00:07:24.800 --> 00:07:25.439 Shabbat. 00:07:25.600 --> 00:07:25.759 Yeah. 00:07:26.079 --> 00:07:27.279 Isn't that fun to say? 00:07:27.600 --> 00:07:28.399 Shabbat. 00:07:28.639 --> 00:07:29.839 You're like, oh, that's nice. 00:07:30.000 --> 00:07:31.279 That's lovely, Ryan. 00:07:31.519 --> 00:07:34.560 Most of us know it as Sabbath, right? 00:07:34.959 --> 00:07:38.959 Uh Sabbath or Shabbat is the Hebrew way of saying it. 00:07:39.199 --> 00:07:39.839 Shabbat. 00:07:39.920 --> 00:07:46.560 This is a rhythm that Jesus embraced every single week. 00:07:47.120 --> 00:07:48.079 He Shabbat. 00:07:49.040 --> 00:08:01.920 Now, here's what's interesting: is in Jesus' day, the reason we think, you know, modernly that, hey, maybe that's not for us, is Jesus went against the grain of the religious leaders. 00:08:02.000 --> 00:08:03.040 We know that, yeah? 00:08:03.279 --> 00:08:11.360 And if you read the Gospels, what you'll find is Jesus actually did a lot of things on Sabbath that the religious leaders didn't like. 00:08:11.600 --> 00:08:30.000 Now, by the time Shabbat or Sabbath got to Jesus' day, religious leaders had taken the commands of Scripture, and then they added lots of other different commands to make sure that you observed it properly, that you didn't miss it in any way. 00:08:30.160 --> 00:08:33.600 And so they would add upon it all these different layers. 00:08:33.840 --> 00:08:45.200 So by the time Jesus shows up onto the scene, Sabbath, which was incredibly uh powerful and beautiful, became this burden. 00:08:46.240 --> 00:08:48.639 It became a downer. 00:08:49.039 --> 00:09:04.960 In fact, uh I want to take you to Jesus' um most instructive teaching on Sabbath, and it's his only teaching about Sabbath, really, and it's sandwiched between two different times where he, you know, uh bucks up against the religious elite. 00:09:05.039 --> 00:09:18.799 And it begins with a story where Jesus and his disciples on Sabbath are walking uh through grain fields and they take some of the kernels and they begin to eat the kernels, and the Pharisees see this and they're like, hey, you know what? 00:09:19.200 --> 00:09:21.759 In the law, it tells us you you're not allowed to reap. 00:09:21.840 --> 00:09:25.600 And I know they just took a little bit of it, but technically that's a reaping. 00:09:26.879 --> 00:09:27.519 Right? 00:09:27.919 --> 00:09:49.519 And then Jesus has this line, he teaches us about Sabbath, and then right after that, he then is on another Sabbath, he's he's in the synagogue, as was his habit, and he sees a man with a shriveled up, withered hand, and he gets up and asks, Is it lawful to heal on the Sabbath? 00:09:50.240 --> 00:09:52.480 And it's crickets, it's silence. 00:09:52.559 --> 00:10:08.399 And if you read different, you know, versions of different different gospels that all give the same account, at one point you'll see that Jesus becomes indignant, he becomes angry because the very heart and the intent of Sabbath was ripped out of it for rules. 00:10:12.480 --> 00:10:16.159 And he says to the man, stretch out his hand, and he was healed. 00:10:18.960 --> 00:10:37.679 And here is Jesus' teaching right between these two Sabbath stories, and what he has to say to inform for us the rhythm, the yoke, a new way to carry life. 00:10:37.840 --> 00:10:41.360 He says, the Sabbath, or Shabbat, was made for man. 00:10:41.519 --> 00:10:42.399 Who was it made for? 00:10:42.559 --> 00:10:43.120 Help me out. 00:10:43.919 --> 00:10:47.679 It was made for man, not man for the Sabbath. 00:10:48.000 --> 00:10:50.960 So the Son of Man is Lord even of the Sabbath. 00:10:51.279 --> 00:10:58.159 The Sabbath, hello, Shabbat, this day of rest was made for you and your good and your well-being. 00:10:58.399 --> 00:11:04.879 It wasn't made for you to come observe and somehow earn kudos for God. 00:11:06.960 --> 00:11:10.080 And we miss this all the time. 00:11:11.279 --> 00:11:17.519 See, in even those stories, did you know that Jesus healed seven different times on the Sabbath? 00:11:17.840 --> 00:11:27.039 And what we find, he says it's made for man, the Sabbath was intended to be a day of healing and wholeness, and you're missing it. 00:11:27.360 --> 00:11:39.279 See with the grain and what he's doing, that Sabbath was actually made to actually have your needs met, not withhold them for rules and regulations and obligations and restrictions. 00:11:39.679 --> 00:11:42.720 Sabbath was made for your good, for my God. 00:11:42.960 --> 00:11:43.360 My good. 00:11:43.519 --> 00:11:45.120 Well, what is Sabbath? 00:11:45.600 --> 00:11:50.799 I like how Peter Schizero in his book Emotionally Healthy Leadership, he defines it. 00:11:50.879 --> 00:12:00.720 Uh he says, Biblical Sabbath is a 24-hour block of time in which we stop work, enjoy rest, practice delight, and contemplate God. 00:12:00.799 --> 00:12:03.279 It's a 24-hour period of time. 00:12:03.519 --> 00:12:08.320 In the Jewish uh tradition, your day begins at sundown. 00:12:08.639 --> 00:12:18.080 And so it started on Friday evening, and we go till sundown on Saturday, and they would stop and they would rest and to be with God. 00:12:18.320 --> 00:12:23.039 Sabbath literally means the word means to stop, to cease. 00:12:23.360 --> 00:12:26.399 And it also means to delight. 00:12:26.720 --> 00:12:28.799 And you have both of those going on. 00:12:29.120 --> 00:12:39.039 To stop and to delight, to cease because you are a limited, finite human. 00:12:39.200 --> 00:12:47.200 You have to stop and recharge weekly, you have to have a Sabbath rest weekly and delight. 00:12:47.440 --> 00:12:49.759 It's made actually for your good for fun. 00:12:49.919 --> 00:12:53.039 And so if it's boring, you're doing it wrong. 00:12:53.679 --> 00:12:54.799 Seriously. 00:12:55.039 --> 00:13:04.799 So here's what I want to do because I think most of us aren't really familiar with this like me, and probably aren't very good at Sabbathing, like me. 00:13:05.440 --> 00:13:06.879 Let me give you the framework. 00:13:07.039 --> 00:13:09.679 Where did this come from and why does it matter? 00:13:09.759 --> 00:13:15.840 And why, actually, more now than ever, you need it, I need it in the Silicon Valley. 00:13:16.000 --> 00:13:18.159 It's a new way to carry life. 00:13:18.399 --> 00:13:19.039 Shabbat. 00:13:19.440 --> 00:13:20.480 Where did it come from? 00:13:20.639 --> 00:13:24.720 Let's go back to the very creation, the rhythm of creation. 00:13:25.039 --> 00:13:32.879 I want you just to see some things, the framing of how God designed the universe and designed us to operate within it. 00:13:33.039 --> 00:13:34.799 It goes all the way back to that. 00:13:35.039 --> 00:13:39.440 God designed the day, think about this, to begin with rest, not work. 00:13:39.759 --> 00:13:40.799 Did you get that? 00:13:40.960 --> 00:13:45.679 It's a slight shift, but in our American Western understanding, the day begins when? 00:13:46.240 --> 00:13:47.360 In the morning. 00:13:47.679 --> 00:13:48.159 Right? 00:13:48.480 --> 00:13:49.120 Sun up. 00:13:49.200 --> 00:13:50.159 Hey, the day begins. 00:13:50.240 --> 00:13:52.240 And your day begins with work. 00:13:52.480 --> 00:13:53.840 Your day begins with the task. 00:13:53.919 --> 00:13:57.919 Your day begins with the list, all the things you have to do. 00:13:58.240 --> 00:14:01.679 And it says, in the beginning, God created the heavens and the earth. 00:14:01.759 --> 00:14:03.279 And then notice what does it say? 00:14:03.440 --> 00:14:05.919 And there was, help me up, evening. 00:14:06.240 --> 00:14:08.080 Huh, that's curious. 00:14:09.200 --> 00:14:10.240 Not morning. 00:14:10.720 --> 00:14:14.639 There was evening and there was morning the first day. 00:14:14.879 --> 00:14:18.399 And actually, this is repeated through all the days of creation. 00:14:18.559 --> 00:14:20.480 And there was evening and there is morning. 00:14:20.720 --> 00:14:26.480 And so actually, we are to work from rest, not the other way around, that the day begins. 00:14:26.559 --> 00:14:31.759 And it's just one of those things that if you and I can begin to think, it's a perspective shift. 00:14:31.840 --> 00:14:42.320 And so you realize, no, I'm actually beginning my day with rest and renewal and replenishment and filling up before I ever go out. 00:14:43.360 --> 00:14:45.279 Rest begins the new day. 00:14:45.440 --> 00:14:50.320 Secondly, you want to see under here, actually, God created humanity as co-workers with him. 00:14:57.200 --> 00:14:58.960 In the image of God, he created them. 00:14:59.200 --> 00:15:00.879 Male and female, he created them. 00:15:01.039 --> 00:15:03.840 You've been made in the Imago Dei, the image of God. 00:15:04.000 --> 00:15:09.600 Your reflection of him, your maleness and femaleness all have an integral part of that. 00:15:09.759 --> 00:15:13.120 And then he goes on to say, God bless them. 00:15:13.279 --> 00:15:16.879 And he said to them, Be fruitful and increase in number. 00:15:17.440 --> 00:15:20.480 Translation, get busy with it and have a lot of fun doing it. 00:15:20.960 --> 00:15:21.600 Right? 00:15:22.080 --> 00:15:25.039 Seriously, this is this is right here. 00:15:25.919 --> 00:15:33.759 Fill the earth and subdue it, then rule over the fish in the sea and the birds in the sky and over every living creature that moves on the ground. 00:15:34.080 --> 00:15:38.080 God actually created you to do good work. 00:15:39.039 --> 00:15:45.279 See, we kind of think of work either as two things: work as a necessary evil, or work is everything. 00:15:45.360 --> 00:15:46.720 It's your identity. 00:15:47.600 --> 00:15:49.360 And he's like, no, no, no. 00:15:49.840 --> 00:15:50.720 You've been created. 00:15:50.879 --> 00:15:55.759 There's work in the garden before the fall, and there'll actually be work in heaven, by the way. 00:15:55.840 --> 00:16:01.360 You're gonna have good, meaningful work to put your hands to, to put your minds to. 00:16:02.639 --> 00:16:06.879 See, he created you to be a co-worker with him. 00:16:07.360 --> 00:16:11.200 You know, and sometimes I think there's some myths about work that we buy into. 00:16:11.360 --> 00:16:13.919 One is that there's secular and sacred work, right? 00:16:14.080 --> 00:16:18.559 Ryan, I work at Apple, I work at Google, I work at Beats, I work at wherever. 00:16:18.720 --> 00:16:20.240 And that's secular work. 00:16:20.320 --> 00:16:24.320 And then, you know, it's nice when you pastors, you do the sacred work. 00:16:24.480 --> 00:16:27.200 That is not a paradigm in scripture, by the way. 00:16:27.519 --> 00:16:30.960 All honest work is sacred work. 00:16:31.440 --> 00:16:33.759 Like what you're doing is sacred. 00:16:33.919 --> 00:16:40.480 The primary place of discipleship is the workplace, it's where you spend the most amount of time. 00:16:41.440 --> 00:16:43.279 Like what you do matters. 00:16:43.440 --> 00:16:45.200 How you do it matters. 00:16:45.840 --> 00:16:50.320 Paul would say, and whatever you do, whether word indeed, do it all into the name of the Lord Jesus. 00:16:50.399 --> 00:16:56.320 Like, I'm gonna do this work in the name of the Lord Jesus because it's sacred and it's meaningful. 00:16:56.559 --> 00:17:03.360 I think uh the other thing, myth that we kind of buy into is that it's only uh only paid work counts as work, right? 00:17:03.759 --> 00:17:05.519 Nothing could be further from the truth. 00:17:05.599 --> 00:17:09.440 There's lots of unpaid work that is real work and really meaningful. 00:17:09.599 --> 00:17:12.160 And we've seen even pendulum swings here, right? 00:17:12.240 --> 00:17:22.319 And I I think back in the 80s and 90s, like if you were a stay-at-home parent or mom, like um if you went to work, it was looked down upon. 00:17:22.559 --> 00:17:27.599 And then now today the pendulum is swung is like if you stay at home, it's looked down upon. 00:17:27.920 --> 00:17:34.640 All work is beautiful, uh, that is honest, and it's like you're created to be co-workers with them. 00:17:34.799 --> 00:17:39.920 Finally, God set boundaries to work for our good. 00:17:40.559 --> 00:17:41.440 He set boundaries. 00:17:41.759 --> 00:17:42.640 Notice what he says. 00:17:42.880 --> 00:17:47.519 But by the seventh day, God had finished the work he had been doing. 00:17:47.680 --> 00:17:50.559 So on the seventh day, he rested. 00:17:50.799 --> 00:17:52.079 He s Shabbat. 00:17:52.720 --> 00:17:57.680 He Shabbat ceased to be still from all his work. 00:17:58.000 --> 00:18:02.480 Then God blessed the seventh day and made it holy, literally set it apart. 00:18:02.559 --> 00:18:05.680 This is where the idea, you know where the word holiday comes from? 00:18:05.920 --> 00:18:07.359 Holiday, we get this, you know this. 00:18:07.599 --> 00:18:08.720 I'm not telling you anything new. 00:18:08.799 --> 00:18:09.759 It's holy day. 00:18:09.839 --> 00:18:11.279 It's a set apart day. 00:18:11.440 --> 00:18:20.720 It started all the way back here, a holy day, because on it he rested from all the work of creating that he had done. 00:18:21.039 --> 00:18:23.440 God set boundaries. 00:18:24.160 --> 00:18:27.839 Now, we don't like boundaries, do we? 00:18:28.799 --> 00:18:31.039 We don't like limits, do we? 00:18:31.680 --> 00:18:38.319 I think that's one of the reasons we don't embrace a Shabbat, a Sabbath, is like, don't tell me what to do, don't tell me what I need. 00:18:38.400 --> 00:18:40.559 I'm good, I can do it, I'm capable. 00:18:42.000 --> 00:18:42.640 Right? 00:18:43.279 --> 00:18:45.599 Isn't that kind of like our Silicon Valley? 00:18:45.680 --> 00:18:48.160 Like, yeah, no, man, I got it. 00:18:48.480 --> 00:18:49.519 Just back off. 00:18:49.759 --> 00:18:51.119 I can handle this. 00:18:51.839 --> 00:18:53.200 Here's what's interesting, right? 00:18:53.359 --> 00:19:04.880 If you're driving on this really um precarious mountainous road and there's a cliff, and you see the guardrails, you're never like I can't believe they put those there. 00:19:08.799 --> 00:19:10.640 What were they thinking? 00:19:11.359 --> 00:19:12.240 Seriously? 00:19:12.559 --> 00:19:13.759 All the way up? 00:19:15.440 --> 00:19:15.839 Right? 00:19:16.079 --> 00:19:18.400 You you just don't you just don't think that. 00:19:18.960 --> 00:19:23.039 In fact, those guardrails, if you're like me, you're like, oh, thank God. 00:19:23.839 --> 00:19:24.319 Right? 00:19:24.559 --> 00:19:38.640 Because when they're not there, you've been there, I've been there, you're not there, you're like white, knocking it, gripping it, your knees, okay, my knees are shaking, and you're going up it because you recognize those guardrails aren't in place to keep you from fun, but they're there to keep you from harm. 00:19:40.000 --> 00:19:47.839 And God puts a boundary on our days, on our weeks, knowing left to ourselves, we will run ourselves into the ground. 00:19:48.000 --> 00:19:57.759 He didn't cease to work because he was tired, he ceased for our good and set a boundary to say, you are my image bearer. 00:19:59.759 --> 00:20:04.000 And you actually get to reflect me by resting in the work that I finished. 00:20:06.240 --> 00:20:10.720 And I put this boundary here, a Shabbat for space. 00:20:10.880 --> 00:20:11.119 Why? 00:20:11.279 --> 00:20:22.160 Because we are finite, limited beings that need daily renewal, and we actually need a weekly Sabbath rest. 00:20:22.559 --> 00:20:33.680 This goes all the way back to the framing of the fabric of the universe, like how God designed it, and you've heard it said, like if when you go against the grain of the universe, you what? 00:20:33.920 --> 00:20:35.759 You get splinters, yeah. 00:20:36.160 --> 00:20:37.680 I guess you hadn't heard that one. 00:20:39.279 --> 00:20:48.720 And then fast forward, and you see God setting up a new people, a new nation, drawing them out uh from bondage in Egypt. 00:20:48.799 --> 00:21:03.359 And so Israel had been down in Egypt for 400 years, they had been slaves, they had been commodities at this hands of the empire, and they were only as good as what they could do. 00:21:04.000 --> 00:21:20.640 And God pulls them out and he says, I want to give you a new way of being in a land as you step in, and he uh gives them the Ten Commandments, and here we see Shabbat again, and we see him framing, and it's powerful and it's beautiful. 00:21:20.799 --> 00:21:24.559 And the very first time, and we he gives the Ten Commandments, by the way, twice. 00:21:24.640 --> 00:21:25.920 We'll talk about that in a second. 00:21:26.000 --> 00:21:32.319 Uh, the very first time Moses gives the Ten Commandments, he's with the people, Mount Sinai, smoke, thunder. 00:21:32.400 --> 00:21:33.119 I mean, it's amazing. 00:21:33.200 --> 00:21:35.839 It's a it's a light show, it's pretty intense and awesome. 00:21:36.000 --> 00:21:52.240 And he comes down, and these people had just been uh pulled out of slavery, rescued, and now they're in the wilderness in the barren land, and God gives them these ten commandments that we all go, yay, you know what? 00:21:52.640 --> 00:21:55.200 Sounds like a pretty good idea not to murder anyone. 00:21:55.599 --> 00:21:56.880 I like that one. 00:21:57.759 --> 00:21:59.759 And coveting, yeah, it's probably not so good. 00:22:00.319 --> 00:22:00.880 Stealing? 00:22:00.960 --> 00:22:02.319 Yeah, gotcha. 00:22:02.880 --> 00:22:09.039 And he he institutes, thinks about this, as one of the core ones, institutes Sabbath. 00:22:10.319 --> 00:22:14.799 As one of the core framings for how they would go about life. 00:22:14.960 --> 00:22:19.680 And he says, remember, remember the Sabbath day by keeping it holy. 00:22:19.839 --> 00:22:21.279 Remember, don't forget it. 00:22:21.519 --> 00:22:23.920 Because we're forgetful beings, aren't we? 00:22:24.240 --> 00:22:25.920 Remember the Sabbath day. 00:22:26.079 --> 00:22:29.599 And then he he gives them the why, if you want to go read it on your own. 00:22:29.759 --> 00:22:33.839 He gives them the why and it connects it back to what we just talked about the creation. 00:22:33.920 --> 00:22:36.880 Like this is how God framed the universe. 00:22:37.440 --> 00:22:42.799 Like you're just operating in the rhythm of how God designed life to work. 00:22:42.960 --> 00:22:46.319 Remember the Sabbath day, keep it holy. 00:22:46.480 --> 00:22:47.440 Now think about this. 00:22:47.599 --> 00:22:49.839 They had just left Egypt. 00:22:50.319 --> 00:22:52.799 They're now in the wilderness. 00:22:53.279 --> 00:22:55.599 Resources are scarce. 00:22:56.160 --> 00:22:57.680 And he's saying, you know what? 00:22:57.920 --> 00:22:59.279 Take a day off. 00:23:00.640 --> 00:23:02.480 Well, wait, wait, wait, wait a second. 00:23:02.640 --> 00:23:02.960 Okay. 00:23:06.240 --> 00:23:06.880 Really? 00:23:08.160 --> 00:23:13.279 Because I know you said this manna thing's gonna be happening, and manna is literally the what is it? 00:23:13.359 --> 00:23:13.839 That's what it means. 00:23:13.920 --> 00:23:17.759 They're like, we don't know what it is, but we're gonna eat it, and it's not bad, right? 00:23:17.920 --> 00:23:28.400 And but but take a day off when we look around, resources are scarce, we're we're we're we're on a journey, we're traveling, I we can't afford to take a day off. 00:23:29.359 --> 00:23:32.960 See, Sabbath keeping is actually an act of faith. 00:23:33.359 --> 00:23:38.480 An act of faith that, man, I actually trust God to work when I'm not working. 00:23:38.960 --> 00:23:41.039 I trust God to provide. 00:23:42.240 --> 00:23:43.839 See, our concern, isn't it? 00:23:43.920 --> 00:23:51.279 Like even just thinking about Sabbath is like, okay, a 24-hour period of rest, Ryan, that's not how the valley works. 00:23:52.160 --> 00:23:53.839 I'll fall behind. 00:23:54.720 --> 00:23:56.960 Someone else will get ahead. 00:23:58.079 --> 00:24:04.079 And it's this act of faith where you say it's a statement that we're not God. 00:24:04.880 --> 00:24:06.799 You are, and you're in control. 00:24:06.960 --> 00:24:15.279 And if you rested and we're gonna rest and you're finished work, hey, we're gonna be at rest, trusting you will take care of it. 00:24:15.759 --> 00:24:16.960 And I like how A.J. 00:24:17.200 --> 00:24:25.119 Uh Swoboda, uh, in his book on Sabbath, a great scholar up in the Portland area, uh, writes about Sabbath. 00:24:25.279 --> 00:24:38.240 He says, Sabbath dethrones humanity from its self-aggrandized place of lordship over creation by handing authority of the world back to the one to whom it already belongs. 00:24:39.200 --> 00:24:40.319 God, you're in control. 00:24:42.559 --> 00:24:43.759 You know the future. 00:24:45.279 --> 00:24:49.759 And you're inviting me, no, you're calling me, you're beckoning me into a rest. 00:24:50.079 --> 00:24:56.000 And I believe I'm too important, too essential, too indispensable to stop. 00:24:57.440 --> 00:24:58.640 It's an act of faith. 00:24:58.799 --> 00:24:59.839 I trust you. 00:25:00.799 --> 00:25:08.000 The other thing that we see with Sabbath is not just an act of faith, it's actually an act of resistance. 00:25:08.640 --> 00:25:10.160 An act of resistance. 00:25:10.319 --> 00:25:12.559 I get that line from Walter Brugeman. 00:25:12.720 --> 00:25:14.880 He wrote this great book, Sabbath as resistance. 00:25:15.119 --> 00:25:17.599 Say no to a culture of now. 00:25:18.640 --> 00:25:29.119 In it, he writes that Sabbath as resistance declares our lives are not defined by uh production and consumption of the commodity goods. 00:25:29.759 --> 00:25:34.240 It's this resistance to the demand and the gods of this age. 00:25:34.480 --> 00:25:38.799 Now, I told you Moses gives the Ten Commandments twice. 00:25:38.880 --> 00:25:41.839 He gives it in Exodus, and then he gives it in Deuteronomy. 00:25:41.920 --> 00:25:46.880 And Deuteronomy literally means second law, duatuonomy law, second law. 00:25:47.039 --> 00:25:48.960 Well, why did he give the law twice? 00:25:49.119 --> 00:26:06.559 Well, he gave it at Mount Sinide, and then he fast forward 40 years later, they've been watering around a brand new generation who was too young to remember really the days in Egypt as being slaves, and or were born in their wandering period. 00:26:06.640 --> 00:26:10.240 And he gives the Sabbath, but he changes the why a little bit. 00:26:10.319 --> 00:26:12.400 It's really fascinating, it's really interesting. 00:26:12.559 --> 00:26:14.640 Notice what he says when he changes it. 00:26:14.880 --> 00:26:22.480 He writes this he says, Therefore, uh observe the Sabbath day by keeping it holy as the Lord your God has commanded you. 00:26:22.559 --> 00:26:23.839 Okay, so we're to observe this. 00:26:24.000 --> 00:26:28.319 Six days you shall labor and do all your work, but the seventh day is a Sabbath to the Lord your God. 00:26:28.480 --> 00:26:29.920 Now notice this, remember. 00:26:30.640 --> 00:26:32.319 He said, Remember the Sabbath. 00:26:32.400 --> 00:26:34.960 Now he wants them to remember something else. 00:26:35.279 --> 00:26:43.039 Remember that you were slaves in Egypt, and that the Lord your God brought you out of there with a mighty hand and an outstretched arm. 00:26:43.200 --> 00:26:46.559 Therefore, the Lord your God has commanded you to observe the Sabbath. 00:26:46.880 --> 00:26:55.440 Remember, it's connected to how God has designed the framing of the universe, but remember where you once been and where your people came from. 00:26:55.759 --> 00:26:58.079 Remember that you never got a day off. 00:26:58.880 --> 00:27:09.279 Remember that you toiled at the hands of the empire, and that you were just a commodity for the gods of their land. 00:27:10.000 --> 00:27:14.160 I am not a god like that. 00:27:16.720 --> 00:27:17.519 Remember. 00:27:23.359 --> 00:27:27.759 The gods of success, the gods of upward mobility, the gods of keeping up with the Joneses. 00:27:28.000 --> 00:27:29.920 Who are the Joneses, by the way? 00:27:30.799 --> 00:27:32.240 They seem awful. 00:27:32.559 --> 00:27:34.319 If your last name is Jones, I'm sorry. 00:27:34.400 --> 00:27:36.160 I just I apologize. 00:27:37.119 --> 00:27:38.720 But we do this. 00:27:41.440 --> 00:27:46.480 Insistently striving and never arriving. 00:27:48.319 --> 00:27:50.240 Consistently exhausted. 00:27:51.599 --> 00:27:52.240 For what? 00:27:53.359 --> 00:27:55.279 Only to get pulled back to Egypt. 00:27:56.640 --> 00:28:00.640 So Sabbath keeping is an act of resistance. 00:28:01.519 --> 00:28:12.799 Author Tim Keller says it this way: anyone who cannot obey God's command to observe the Sabbath is a slave, even a self-imposed one. 00:28:13.279 --> 00:28:26.720 Your own heart or our materialistic culture or an exploitive organization or all of the above will be abusing you if you do not have the ability to be disciplined in your practice of Sabbath. 00:28:26.960 --> 00:28:30.400 Sabbath is therefore a declaration of freedom. 00:28:30.799 --> 00:28:33.279 Some of you need to declare freedom. 00:28:33.519 --> 00:28:34.960 And I'm gonna tell you how to do that. 00:28:35.039 --> 00:28:38.000 I'm gonna give us really a beginner's guide to Sabbath. 00:28:38.160 --> 00:28:41.920 And you're like, Ryan, my work won't let me do that. 00:28:42.079 --> 00:28:43.839 It's 24-7 right here. 00:28:43.920 --> 00:28:45.920 I gotta respond to emails, by the way. 00:28:47.039 --> 00:28:50.480 Not within 24 hours, within 24 minutes. 00:28:50.799 --> 00:28:52.240 Even that's long. 00:28:53.119 --> 00:28:55.279 Just tell your boss you're Sabbathing. 00:28:57.200 --> 00:28:59.200 It actually works, by the way. 00:28:59.920 --> 00:29:01.359 A day off is a different thing. 00:29:01.599 --> 00:29:03.920 Sabbath, it's a holy thing. 00:29:04.480 --> 00:29:05.519 Well, how do we do this? 00:29:05.599 --> 00:29:08.160 Let me give you a beginner's guide for Sabbathing. 00:29:08.319 --> 00:29:11.359 First, would you start small but start now? 00:29:11.680 --> 00:29:13.440 Start small, but start now. 00:29:13.599 --> 00:29:15.599 Uh 24 hours might feel like a lot. 00:29:15.759 --> 00:29:20.880 It might even be impossible with your current pace of what you're going through in life. 00:29:21.200 --> 00:29:23.279 Okay, start small. 00:29:23.599 --> 00:29:24.720 What about four hours? 00:29:24.799 --> 00:29:26.640 Can you Sabbath for four hours? 00:29:27.119 --> 00:29:28.079 Could you? 00:29:28.799 --> 00:29:29.680 Why not? 00:29:29.920 --> 00:29:31.039 What about eight? 00:29:31.279 --> 00:29:32.799 Could you Sabbath for eight hours? 00:29:32.880 --> 00:29:38.160 Could you just say, okay, this block, eight-hour chunk, like you put it on your calendar, it's designated. 00:29:38.559 --> 00:29:42.319 You know, it's what about 12 hours? 00:29:42.640 --> 00:29:45.759 See, start small, but start now. 00:29:45.920 --> 00:29:51.039 And some of us, even that whole idea of a weekly rhythm of stopping, we're like, no, we we're not gonna do that. 00:29:51.200 --> 00:29:52.160 I don't need that. 00:29:52.319 --> 00:29:53.839 I'm just built different, right? 00:29:54.720 --> 00:29:56.079 I'm type A. 00:29:57.839 --> 00:29:59.119 I'm strong. 00:30:00.079 --> 00:30:02.000 I got lots of energy. 00:30:02.400 --> 00:30:18.960 You know, I did a triathlon a while back, and um, as I was training for it and learning about how to do triathlons, here's what was fascinating is when you're doing any of these distant marathons, um, they don't tell you you should drink when you're thirsty. 00:30:19.599 --> 00:30:22.960 And they don't tell you you should eat when you're tired. 00:30:23.279 --> 00:30:35.200 In fact, what they say, and the training is, is there's a certain amount of time you should be taking fluids consistently, and then you also need to be getting your electrolytes in these little goopacks, which are nasty. 00:30:35.519 --> 00:30:37.759 But I'm told they're good for you. 00:30:38.480 --> 00:30:43.599 And I'm told you do it even if you don't feel like you need it. 00:30:43.920 --> 00:30:44.559 Why? 00:30:45.759 --> 00:30:49.359 Because if you wait until you do, it's too late. 00:30:51.039 --> 00:30:56.079 Friends, when you wait until you feel like you need a rest, it's too late. 00:30:57.680 --> 00:30:59.279 It's just too late. 00:30:59.599 --> 00:31:11.519 That's why we live these lives and we're wondering why our souls are in dissonance with everything around us, and we just keep going, and we're in that depleted state where I was, where finally you like just to stop. 00:31:11.599 --> 00:31:15.680 You're like, I don't even like it anymore because I don't like here. 00:31:17.839 --> 00:31:19.920 Start small, but start now. 00:31:20.000 --> 00:31:23.759 Let me just give you four words to guide Sabbath, okay, Shabbat. 00:31:24.079 --> 00:31:25.920 Stop, rest, delight, worship. 00:31:26.160 --> 00:31:28.319 Stop, rest, delight, worship. 00:31:28.480 --> 00:31:29.519 It's that simple. 00:31:29.759 --> 00:31:33.039 And by the way, I know we have like high schoolers in here. 00:31:33.279 --> 00:31:35.519 High school, you should love Sabbath. 00:31:35.680 --> 00:31:37.279 You go, like, hey, um, stop. 00:31:37.680 --> 00:31:38.880 Listen to this, okay? 00:31:39.119 --> 00:31:42.960 Write down on Sabbath, I will not make a list. 00:31:43.119 --> 00:31:44.880 On Sabbath, I will not. 00:31:45.039 --> 00:31:47.920 And high schoolers, I will not do homework. 00:31:48.400 --> 00:31:50.000 Mom, I'm shabbating. 00:31:52.319 --> 00:31:52.960 Right? 00:31:54.480 --> 00:31:57.200 All the parents just got mad at me right there. 00:31:58.000 --> 00:32:00.240 I got three teenagers, all right? 00:32:01.200 --> 00:32:03.759 There's six days to homework. 00:32:05.920 --> 00:32:07.759 I will not do emails. 00:32:09.119 --> 00:32:11.359 I will not go on social media. 00:32:12.400 --> 00:32:13.359 I will not. 00:32:13.759 --> 00:32:15.759 See, Sabbath means to stop. 00:32:16.559 --> 00:32:17.680 What are you gonna stop? 00:32:17.839 --> 00:32:19.119 What are you gonna put down? 00:32:19.440 --> 00:32:21.680 What are you gonna rest for a season? 00:32:21.920 --> 00:32:22.559 To stop. 00:32:23.519 --> 00:32:24.640 Then rest. 00:32:25.359 --> 00:32:27.039 Now let me define rest. 00:32:27.680 --> 00:32:34.079 Resting is engaging in um activities that restore and replenish you. 00:32:34.400 --> 00:32:38.079 Resting is engaging in activities that restore and replenish you. 00:32:38.160 --> 00:32:40.000 For some, it is a nap, okay? 00:32:40.240 --> 00:32:41.440 I'm not a big napper. 00:32:41.519 --> 00:32:43.200 I took a couple yesterday. 00:32:43.279 --> 00:32:44.640 I just kind of tired. 00:32:44.720 --> 00:32:48.160 I was slept through a movie, which is typical. 00:32:50.160 --> 00:32:52.720 It doesn't necessarily mean take a nap, though. 00:32:53.039 --> 00:32:55.519 What are activities that restore and replenish you? 00:32:55.599 --> 00:33:00.400 So if stop on Sabbath, I will not, fill that in, make a list, rest. 00:33:00.720 --> 00:33:02.000 On Sabbath, I will. 00:33:02.160 --> 00:33:04.880 What are activities that restore and replenish you? 00:33:05.359 --> 00:33:05.680 Okay? 00:33:06.240 --> 00:33:10.480 Uh I've heard it said that if you work with your mind, you often rest or play with your hands. 00:33:10.640 --> 00:33:13.519 If you work with your hands, you often rest or play with your mind. 00:33:13.680 --> 00:33:19.519 And so if you're behind a computer screen the entire time, you probably need to rest with your hands in some capacity. 00:33:19.680 --> 00:33:21.359 It restores and replenishes you. 00:33:21.440 --> 00:33:25.680 If you're working at a job that's really physical, you probably rest with your mind. 00:33:25.759 --> 00:33:28.960 It might be a book, it might be a crosswords puzzle, it might be a game. 00:33:29.119 --> 00:33:32.559 What are some of those things as you think on Sabbath I will? 00:33:32.720 --> 00:33:34.799 And you begin to go and carve out time. 00:33:35.039 --> 00:33:36.240 These is the place. 00:33:36.480 --> 00:33:37.279 Guilt-free. 00:33:37.440 --> 00:33:38.480 Had you ever think about this? 00:33:38.559 --> 00:33:40.799 Why did God have to command the Sabbath? 00:33:42.000 --> 00:33:46.000 Because we needed it, and we need not feel guilty about it. 00:33:46.240 --> 00:33:49.680 And for some of you, you feel so guilty about stopping. 00:33:50.640 --> 00:33:54.400 And now I'm guilty, and you forgive feeling guilty about stopping. 00:33:54.720 --> 00:33:57.119 I'm sorry, I wasn't meaning to do that. 00:33:58.079 --> 00:33:59.119 Breathe. 00:34:00.079 --> 00:34:00.720 Stop. 00:34:01.039 --> 00:34:01.519 Rest. 00:34:01.599 --> 00:34:02.880 And then delight. 00:34:03.039 --> 00:34:06.720 You can write fun if you want fun instead of delight. 00:34:07.279 --> 00:34:10.639 Make a list of things that bring delight. 00:34:12.960 --> 00:34:20.960 I remember in that conversation with the combers, Phil asking me, What brings you delight? 00:34:21.119 --> 00:34:22.320 What brings you joy? 00:34:23.119 --> 00:34:24.800 What do you do for fun? 00:34:26.400 --> 00:34:30.639 And had gotten so far away from it, I couldn't answer it. 00:34:30.880 --> 00:34:39.679 You know, one other mentor gave me just kind of this like um kind of gauge on the dashboard of your life to know how how your soul's doing. 00:34:39.840 --> 00:34:42.320 And I think this would be helpful for you as well. 00:34:42.559 --> 00:34:46.559 And he's like, you know, the warning sign, just to like pay attention. 00:34:46.719 --> 00:34:51.760 He's like, you know, the warning sign is when I care too much about things I shouldn't care about. 00:34:52.000 --> 00:34:58.159 So for me, if I care too much about sports or the warriors winning, which that's not happening. 00:34:59.039 --> 00:34:59.840 Never lose soul. 00:35:00.079 --> 00:35:00.320 Yeah. 00:35:01.280 --> 00:35:02.400 It's tough, brother. 00:35:02.559 --> 00:35:14.559 Um and when I don't care about things I should care about, when things that really matter, relationships and Jesus and uh character and those sort of things. 00:35:14.639 --> 00:35:20.000 There's this light on the dashboard to go, okay, man, I need to do some soul work. 00:35:20.320 --> 00:35:27.119 And and when you can't identify, when we struggle to identify delight and fun and joy, what are the things that you really enjoy? 00:35:27.199 --> 00:35:29.519 It might be being in his creation. 00:35:29.599 --> 00:35:36.880 It's often Shabbat always involved a really good meal, often with a nice bottle of wine. 00:35:37.119 --> 00:35:40.079 The Jewish tradition, by the way, for married had a lot of sex in it. 00:35:40.159 --> 00:35:40.960 I just gonna say that. 00:35:41.039 --> 00:35:42.000 I'm just gonna delight. 00:35:42.239 --> 00:35:46.800 So there's no fuddy duddy in there and games. 00:35:47.679 --> 00:35:50.800 Stop, rest, delight, worship. 00:35:51.039 --> 00:35:55.119 Contemplate and center your hearts and minds on the goodness of God. 00:35:55.360 --> 00:35:57.679 Like this is all in the atmosphere of God. 00:35:57.760 --> 00:36:03.440 I He created this from the creation as a rhythm for us with Him. 00:36:03.519 --> 00:36:05.840 It's an act of faith, an act of resistance. 00:36:05.920 --> 00:36:16.079 And as we begin to enjoy Him and His creation and His goodness, and like this is the centered on, oh my gosh, you have provided this for me. 00:36:16.239 --> 00:36:19.760 You might have just a little bit more extended time with Him. 00:36:19.840 --> 00:36:23.760 You might just get more a little bit more quiet space, a long walk. 00:36:24.000 --> 00:36:30.719 Doing it like practicing Sabbath on a Sunday is great because you already have community and worship in the sermon. 00:36:30.880 --> 00:36:43.760 And your Sunday changes when you come prepared with it, knowing, hey, in the morning I'm preparing my heart and I have a day to rest and to play and to be in his presence and with other people, where you worship and you keep God at the center. 00:36:43.840 --> 00:36:49.039 It's not taking a day off from God, but drawing closer to him. 00:36:49.440 --> 00:36:51.840 Stay consistent then and then be creative. 00:36:52.000 --> 00:36:54.880 Stay consistent and be creative. 00:36:55.760 --> 00:36:57.199 Make it a weekly rhythm. 00:36:57.280 --> 00:37:02.639 Just put it in there, even if it's four or eight hours a week to start, and then be creative. 00:37:03.039 --> 00:37:04.159 Switch it up. 00:37:04.480 --> 00:37:08.800 If you started going to the ocean, because man, that's renewing and life-giving. 00:37:09.039 --> 00:37:12.000 Maybe you go to the city, maybe you go to the mountains. 00:37:12.320 --> 00:37:13.840 There's a lot of freedom there. 00:37:14.320 --> 00:37:20.800 Finally, what I said last week, I just wanted to repeat new seasons require new rhythms. 00:37:21.199 --> 00:37:23.760 New seasons require new rhythms. 00:37:23.840 --> 00:37:29.360 We often get into ruts in life when we try to bring in our old rhythms into a new season. 00:37:30.800 --> 00:37:39.360 And so as a college student moving into career, and you had different time, you had different capacity, and now you're moving into career. 00:37:39.440 --> 00:37:41.440 You bring in your old rhythm, you get into a rut. 00:37:43.920 --> 00:37:49.440 It happens when you shift from being single to dating to married. 00:37:49.920 --> 00:37:53.920 Oh my goodness, new rhythms when you have kids, right? 00:37:54.079 --> 00:37:56.320 And then stages of kids change. 00:37:56.719 --> 00:38:01.199 And so what that means is, you know what, what season am I in and what rhythm do I need? 00:38:01.519 --> 00:38:05.039 What season am I in and what rhythm do I need in this season? 00:38:05.199 --> 00:38:10.239 As I I know I need the rhythm of Shabbat, it might look a little different because of the age of our kids. 00:38:10.320 --> 00:38:13.039 It might look a little different because my work is ever changing. 00:38:13.199 --> 00:38:14.239 And so, you know what? 00:38:14.320 --> 00:38:18.320 I'm I'm a firefighter, so I'm four on or three on and four off. 00:38:18.480 --> 00:38:20.320 So my day may have to change. 00:38:20.480 --> 00:38:20.800 Okay. 00:38:21.199 --> 00:38:25.039 New rhythms, new season, grace. 00:38:26.960 --> 00:38:32.000 Um, I just want to leave you with a question. 00:38:32.559 --> 00:38:34.800 It was the question that Phil asked me. 00:38:36.400 --> 00:38:40.079 And it's the question I just want you to answer as we try softer. 00:38:44.320 --> 00:38:46.639 What really brings you joy and delight? 00:38:48.000 --> 00:38:49.599 What do you do for fun? 00:38:52.239 --> 00:38:58.480 What is refreshing and replenishing to you? 00:39:00.400 --> 00:39:03.360 That's your homework this week. 00:39:04.559 --> 00:39:05.599 What is it? 00:39:07.039 --> 00:39:13.119 His son John Mark wrote a book called The Ruthless Elimination of Hurry, and he asked a similar question. 00:39:13.280 --> 00:39:15.280 I'll leave this one with you. 00:39:16.559 --> 00:39:24.960 What could you do for 24 hours that would fill your soul with deep, throbbing joy? 00:39:27.360 --> 00:39:28.480 Isn't that good? 00:39:31.039 --> 00:39:33.199 That's the God that you serve. 00:39:33.679 --> 00:39:35.920 That's the God who beckons you. 00:39:36.639 --> 00:39:40.239 Get out of the rat race, the hurry, the pressure, the pace. 00:39:40.559 --> 00:39:46.480 What could you do for 24 hours that would fill your soul with deep throbbing joy? 00:39:46.639 --> 00:39:54.320 Would you take time, write it down, and would you enter the rhythms of grace, the rhythms of Jesus? 00:39:56.079 --> 00:39:58.559 God, I just pray for my friends. 00:39:58.960 --> 00:40:04.000 This is so counterintuitive and counter-cultural to the world we live in. 00:40:04.639 --> 00:40:07.199 Would you give them grace? 00:40:08.079 --> 00:40:11.199 Would you give them freedom from guilt? 00:40:15.440 --> 00:40:22.559 Would you allow, as Scripture says, for them to enter into your rest, your refreshing? 00:40:26.960 --> 00:40:31.280 Thank you for your invitation, your call, your care. 00:40:37.440 --> 00:40:44.000 Would you give them the courage to carve out time every week? 00:40:45.119 --> 00:40:46.400 Jesus' name. 00:40:47.119 --> 00:40:47.599 Amen. 00:40:50.719 --> 00:40:53.039 We hope you are blessed by this message. 00:40:53.199 --> 00:40:57.679 Please subscribe to our podcast for access to every episode as they're uploaded. 00:40:57.840 --> 00:40:59.920 And hey, we'd love to connect with you. 00:41:00.079 --> 00:41:06.000 Take a next step by filling out our virtual connection card at awakeningchurch.com slash card.