Sabbath: Finding Rest in a Restless World

It's the Lord's day, not me time day. And the way the reason why I think that's important is because it declares ownership. So the day belongs to the Lord who also belongs to the Lord. We do. We confess this, the Heidelberg Catechism. What is your greatest comfort in life and in death? It is that I belong not to myself, but to my faithful savior. He purchased me. He bought me. He has saved me. [01:12:23] (27 seconds)  #LordsDayNotMeTime

I want us to remember as we go through the momentum campaign that the reason we are doing this is not because we love buildings. It's not because we love construction. The reason we are doing this is because we love Jesus, we love our neighbors, and we want to see them moving towards Jesus. We want to make room for more people to move towards Jesus. That's why. [00:47:09] (34 seconds)  #CampaignForPeopleNotBuildings

So when we come in and we see these big new beautiful buildings and things like that, we need to remember the reason why is so that we can be making room for more people to move towards Jesus. When you pull into the parking lot and all of the good spaces are gone and the only spaces left are the ones up here and I just told you not to park in those. We don't get frustrated. We remember the reason this is worth it. [00:47:43] (27 seconds)  #MakeRoomForMore

Jesus observed observed the Sabbath and he did so perfectly. He kept the 10 commandments perfectly. However, he had no problem breaking up the pharisees' traditions around it because they had missed the point. They didn't want the disciples picking grain to eat. They didn't want Jesus even healing people on the Sabbath because they were missing the point. They had surrounded the practice of Sabbath with an exhausting set of rules and regulations that effectively strangled all the meaning out of it. [01:08:03] (35 seconds)  #JesusAgainstPharisaicRules