Sabbath: Rest as Resistance and Practiced Trust

If you cannot stop, then something's driving you. What is that something? Because that's not how the Lord's intended this. The the command includes, this is great, both work and stop. Both are included. Both are necessary. With without work, without Sabbath, work without Sabbath, that leads to exhaustion. And Sabbath without work that leads distortion. You can't have one without the other and so God does this. He established this rhythm. [00:46:01] (35 seconds)  #WorkRestRhythm

You're not relocating your work remember not doing that you are releasing your work And you're not entering your rest. You are I'm sorry. You're not earning your rest rather. You are entering into the rest. And then once over time, every time as we practice this, you you will find that once what what once drove you will lose its grip, and you'll find that you're no longer in Egypt, so to speak, and and you will live like you don't have to, and that refreshment from the Lord will come. Because the work that matters most has already been accomplished. [01:03:13] (42 seconds)  #EnterRestNotEarn

They've come out of Egypt, and now they they are people who can require work from others, and God says, hey. I'm putting a limit on that authority. God says to Israel, he says, you don't get to build your life on someone else's exhaustion. He says, you don't get to secure your rest by removing it from others. That's not the way this is going to work. You know, in Egypt, they were driven, and now they have the power to drive, and God says, that pattern stops here. [00:50:44] (34 seconds)  #RespectOthersRest

Sabbath has become kind of a punk rock thing. You know? Sabbath is a weekly act of resistance. It is saying, I'm not going to live like the world lives. I am not gonna be a master to to what this culture has set as an expectation. I'm gonna give myself to God. It's very much counter cultural. It's an act of resistance. [00:58:42] (24 seconds)  #SabbathResistance

You don't have to earn your rest. Here's what you do instead. You enter into it. You see the difference. You don't got earning. You enter into it. So Sabbath is this. It's it's each week. What do you do? You step out of that system. You step out of that system, and you receive the life of Christ, the freedom of Christ. [00:56:45] (24 seconds)  #EnterRestReceiveLife

It's like you're measuring your day by output. That's how we think in our culture. And what it is really is it's slavery in a different form. It's an internal kind of slavery. It has a real effect because there's this voice in your head that is keeping score. There there's this market that's setting the pace of your life, and there's an algorithm that's actually feeding the whole cycle over and over again. And and the byproduct is this, fatigue, fatigue, anxiety, all that becomes normal. [00:40:57] (36 seconds)  #OutputCultureIsSlavery

And and what Sabbath was doing for the people and it does for us also is it keeps redemption right in front of us. The context of the Sabbath is redemption, and it's meant to to train your body, to train more importantly your soul, your inward person, to live as someone who's been delivered. Delivered from slavery. No longer a slave to fear, to work, whatever it might be, the demands, to the world's expectations. [00:54:06] (32 seconds)  #SabbathRemindsRedemption

And every system will do this. It'll reveal what it values most. And this one, in our culture, in this culture, it it values production above all else. Go on. You know that. Sabbath interrupts that. And it's not just to give you a break. The idea is this. It's gonna give you back your life. The Sabbath wants to refresh us. That's the idea. Keep going. Verse 15. Okay? The Lord says, remember [00:52:25] (29 seconds)  #SabbathGivesBackLife