Sabbath Rest: Learning to Trust Jesus Daily

So God created the Sabbath not just simply like, hey, have a break, have have have a time off, sleep in. That's not ultimately what the purpose was. The purpose was worship. So if you look in Exodus chapter 20, look at verse 10, it says this, but the seventh day is a Sabbath to the Lord your God. So just look at that word to. It's not for the Lord, but it's to the Lord. Ultimately, the point of Sabbath is for you to connect with your creator, for you to have some time that you're not just working, but you're resting knowing God. It's a day for worship. It's a day to slow down and connect with God. [00:40:14] (45 seconds)  #SabbathPurposeWorship

what I found is that most of us have replaced time with God for time with our phone. Here's here's the danger. Most of us give our day to Instagram or Facebook rather than to the Lord in the mornings. Most of us spend most of our time like focused on what's happening in the phone rather than resting in God and worship. Why? Because it's it's a temporary cure to social anxiety, but it just creates greater anxiety. It takes away our intimacy with God. And what God desires for us to have is to have true intimacy and relationship with him. So don't settle for temporary rest. It's maybe on a phone. It's actually something that you need to find rooted deeply in Christ, which brings us to the greatest rest which is Jesus. [00:45:05] (48 seconds)  #ChooseGodNotPhone

Like, you know, Adrian Rogers famously said, hey. If the devil can't make you bad, he'll make you busy. Right? Like, you'll just get busy, and busyness is the enemy of intimacy. So, like, when you get really, really busy, you can't find close friendships with people. You get really, really busy. You can't be connected to your spouse when you're really, really busy. What happens? You don't have time to be in a relationship with Jesus. And so sometimes we're so busy, we run right past the lord in our quiet times to the very next thing that we're doing. [00:42:23] (32 seconds)  #BusynessKillsIntimacy

You know, sometimes we think about work, we're like, just thinking about working with our hands or working with our minds or just kinda working to create money or, like, provide resources for our family. But the work that the bible is talking about here is the deeper work, the one that we're constantly toiling in, the internal battle that all of us face with saying no to sin. Who's saying, hey, I'm gonna live a holy life. The bible tells us none of us can do that on our own. It's also talking about the internal struggle and restlessness that all of us have where we're never really fully content. Have you ever wondered, like, why are you not content? [00:48:57] (36 seconds)  #InnerWorkNotJustWork

So god takes this very seriously. And he doesn't give any loopholes. Right? He's like, hey, listen. Every sixth day, you need to stop working, and you can't work anymore. You're supposed to take a rest. You, your family, your kids, you can't make your kids work. Your servants, they can't work for you. Your animals, they can't work. Even the resident aliens are basically saying people that are not Jewish who are living there. You can't import labor and make them work while you rest. Everybody's supposed to take a break and just stop working, [00:35:09] (34 seconds)  #SabbathForAll

Like, someone was thinking like, hey, if I could just be popular, then I'd be content. If I could just have enough money, then I'd be content. If I could just look the right way, I could be content. If I was just healthy again, I'd be content. But deep down, when we even have all those things, we can still feel incredibly lonely and insecure. You know, I think a lot of us think that we're climbing a mountain of life. We're trying to be successful. We're trying to get to the top. We're trying to get to a place where everybody's like, yep. That person actually made it. But what happens when you get to the top of the mountain and realize you're still you and you hate yourself? [00:49:34] (37 seconds)  #SuccessDoesntSatisfy

And you go, well, what's step two? Because that's gotta be a much harder step. Step two is repeat step one. Just keep doing it over and over and over again. Jesus, here's my mess. Take it. Because here's the thing. We just take it back. Hey. I'm giving it to Jesus. I I just need that back. Hey. I'm gonna give it to Jesus. I'm gonna take it back to today. I don't know what you carried this morning but Jesus wants to carry the burden and give you rest right now. Not later, now. [00:53:44] (35 seconds)  #LetJesusCarryIt

So here's what I think we all need to do. We need to find the two step process of trusting Jesus. You know what it is? Here it is. There's two steps. Number one, give your burdens to Jesus. That's it. Like, what you're feeling, the anxiety you're you're you're feeling pressing in on your chest this morning, this feeling you're always behind, you're never gonna catch up, this feeling that you're like, man, I'm just tired and burdened. Give it to Jesus. Jesus is like, give it to me. I'm I'm willing to take it from you. So bring your burden to Jesus. That's what the gospel's all about. [00:52:51] (44 seconds)  #GiveAndTrustJesus

We run right to work. We run right to other things. We have no time to be resting and connecting to Jesus Christ. Sometimes we we schedule our weekends that make them so full that we don't have any time to connect with God. Like, we we're just running from one thing to the next. We we schedule Saturday night out so late that we don't have any time to wake up and be rested in worship on Sunday mornings. We find ourselves so busy filling up our afternoons of travel or trips or sports or all these things. And listen, I'm in the middle of this with you. Like, I'm like, I'm literally the Uber driver to my kid's best life. Like, this is literally, like, what life is like right now. [00:42:56] (40 seconds)  #ProtectSundayWorship

And I do. Like, every time I have a free moment, I just stare at it. It's fun it's interesting. Like, phones have become this, like, antidote to social anxiety. It used to be that people, like, you know, feel really anxious when they show up at stuff or they, like, go smoke somewhere. I know that seems, out of place in church, but people would be, like, nervous. Today, only thing people do is just stare at their phones. Like, if you're, like, feel like you're awkward, what are gonna do? They're gonna just stare at their phones and just just look at them. Why? Because there's this dopamine hit that we get when we look at it. [00:44:36] (28 seconds)  #PhoneDopamineTrap

Listen, if you've been a Christian for a long time, you had a moment where you walked an aisle or prayed a prayer or you gave your life to Jesus and you're like, that's enough and it is. But following Jesus is constantly giving him the burden every day and every moment. So if you're a follower of Jesus and you need to pray during this response song, you're welcome to come pray at the altar. You're to pray where you are. You're welcome to just give that thing to Jesus right now. And if you've never given your life to Jesus, you've never trusted him with a burden, you can do that by simply giving it to him right now right where you are. He knows you, loves you, cares about you, believes what's best for you. [00:55:20] (46 seconds)  #GiveBurdensDaily

And I don't know about you, but, like, our days are so busy. In fact, seniors, I just wanna tell you, here's the thing that's hard, is that at every season of your life, you're gonna be the busiest you've ever been. I don't know how to help you with this other than that. I mean, I remember being in high school and thinking, like, I am so busy. I only have two hours to play video games. I'm just stressed out of my mind. Like, I've got so much going on. And then I went to college, and all the high school work seemed easy. And all of sudden, I had all those extra stuff, and I felt so busy. Then I graduated, [00:40:59] (32 seconds)  #EverySeasonIsBusy

Have you ever been on a vacation and on the ride home you're like, I need a vacation from the vacation I just went on? I don't know. If you're a parent, you realize that a lot of travel with your children is not a vacation. It's just a family trip and there's a difference. Like, you just you mean, there was this one time. We were coming back from the beach. Kids were a lot younger and we're driving on the interstate. Everything's going great. We're like, this is the best vacation we've ever had. And all of a sudden, [00:26:45] (33 seconds)  #VacationShouldRestore