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What do you want?

What do you need?

“If your soul has no Sunday, it becomes an orphan. ” —Albert Schweitzer

“True rest seems to be elusive for most Americans. Only one in seven adults (14 percent) set aside a day a week for rest. And on that one day a week, what do they do? Mostly, they work. Only one in five (19 percent) of this small group say they don't do any work at all. Even fewer Americans commit to daily time alone (16 percent) or with God (21 percent) or to activities that recharge them (12 percent). Only 12 percent of American adults say that they intentionally set aside a time of day when they don't use electronic devices. ” —Andy Crouch, The Tech-Wise Family

What do you need?

What do you need? Rest!

Rest that God has and is providing for us

Rest that God was, is, and will always be for us.

Genesis 1: 5 b (ESV). . And there was evening and there was morning, the first day.

Genesis 2: 2– 3 (ESV) 2 And on the seventh day God finished his work that he had done, and he rested on the seventh day from all his work that he had done. 3 So God blessed the seventh day and made it holy, because on it God rested from all his work that he had done in creation.

The Work Assigned to Adam: 1. Be Fruitful and Multiply 2. Subdue the Earth 3. Exercise dominion

Genesis 9: 1– 2 (ESV) 1 And God blessed Noah and his sons and said to them, “Be fruitful and multiply and fill the earth. 2 The fear of you and the dread of you shall be upon every beast of the earth and upon every bird of the heavens, upon everything that creeps on the ground all the fish of the sea. Into your hand they are delivered.

Exodus 1: 7 (ESV) 7 But the people of Israel were fruitful and increased greatly; they multiplied and grew exceedingly strong, so that the land was filled with them.

Exodus 16: 22– 30 (ESV) . “. . . This is what the LORD has commanded: ‘Tomorrow is a day of solemn rest, a holy Sabbath to the LORD; bake what you will bake and boil what you will boil, and all that is left over lay aside to be kept till the morning. ’ ”. . 25 Moses said, “Eat it today, for today is a Sabbath to the LORD; today you will not find it in the field. 26 Six days you shall gather it, but on the seventh day, which is a Sabbath, there will be none. ” 27 On the seventh day some of the people went out to gather, but they found none. 28 And the LORD said to Moses, “How long will you refuse to keep my commandments and my laws? 29 See! The LORD has given you the Sabbath; therefore on the sixth day he gives you bread for two days. Remain each of you in his place; let no one go out of his place on the seventh day. ” 30 So the people rested on the seventh day.

Exodus 20: 8– 11 (ESV) 8 “Remember the Sabbath day, to keep it holy. 9 Six days you shall labor, and do all your work, 10 but the seventh day is a Sabbath to the LORD your God. On it you shall not do any work, you, or your son, or your daughter, your male servant, or your female servant, or your livestock, or the sojourner who is within your gates. 11 For in six days the LORD made heaven and earth, the sea, and all that is in them, and rested on the seventh day. Therefore the LORD blessed the Sabbath day and made it holy.

Leviticus 26: 6– 9 (ESV) 6 I will give peace in the land, and you shall lie down, and none shall make you afraid. And I will remove harmful beasts from the land, and the sword shall not go through your land. 7 You shall chase your enemies, and they shall fall before you by the sword. 8 Five of you shall chase a hundred, and a hundred of you shall chase ten thousand, and your enemies shall fall before you by the sword. 9 I will turn to you and make you fruitful and multiply you and will confirm my covenant with you.

2 Chronicles 36: 20– 21 (ESV) 20 He took into exile in Babylon those who had escaped from the sword, and they became servants to him and to his sons until the establishment of the kingdom of Persia, 21 to fulfill the word of the LORD by the mouth of Jeremiah, until the land had enjoyed its Sabbaths. All the days that it lay desolate it kept Sabbath, to fulfill seventy years.

Nehemiah 10: 31 (ESV) 31 And if the peoples of the land bring in goods or any grain on the Sabbath day to sell, we will not buy from them on the Sabbath or on a holy day. And we will forego the crops of the seventh year and the exaction of every debt.

Nehemiah 13: 15– 16 (ESV) 15 In those days I saw in Judah people treading winepresses on the Sabbath, and bringing in heaps of grain and loading them on donkeys, and also wine, grapes, figs, and all kinds of loads, which they brought into Jerusalem on the Sabbath day. And I warned them on the day when they sold food. 16 Tyrians also, who lived in the city, brought in fish and all kinds of goods and sold them on the Sabbath to the people of Judah, in Jerusalem itself!

What do you need? Rest!

Rest that God has and is providing for us

Rest that God was, is, and will always be for us.

Matthew 11: 28 (ESV) 28 Come to me, all who labor and are heavy laden, and I will give you rest.

John 6: 29 (ESV) 29 Jesus answered them, “This is the work of God, that you believe in him whom he has sent. ”

The Work of Man in Jesus: 1. Be Fruitful and Multiply Matthew 4: 19 (ESV) 19 And he said to them, “Follow me, and I will make you fishers of men. ”

The Work of Man in Jesus: 1. Be Fruitful and Multiply 2. Subdue the Earth Luke 5: 5– 6 (ESV) 5 And Simon answered, “Master, we toiled all night and took nothing! But at your word I will let down the nets. ” 6 And when they had done this, they enclosed a large number of fish, and their nets were breaking.

The Work of Man in Jesus: 1. Be Fruitful and Multiply 2. Subdue the Earth Mark 4: 39 (ESV) 39 And he awoke and rebuked the wind and said to the sea, “Peace! Be still!” And the wind ceased, and there was a great calm.

The Work of Man in Jesus: 1. Be Fruitful and Multiply 2. Subdue the Earth 3. Exercise dominion Matthew 4: 10– 11 (ESV) 10 Then Jesus said to him, “Be gone, Satan! For it is written, “ ‘You shall worship the Lord your God and him only shall you serve. ’ ” 11 Then the devil left him, and behold, angels came and were ministering to him.

John 17: 4 (ESV) 4 I glorified you on earth, having accomplished the work that you gave me to do.

John 19: 30 (ESV) 30 When Jesus had received the sour wine, he said, “It is finished, ” and he bowed his head and gave up his spirit.

Matthew 28: 18– 20 (ESV) 18 And Jesus came and said to them, “All authority in heaven and on earth has been given to me. 19 Go therefore and make disciples of all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit, 20 teaching them to observe all that I have commanded you. And behold, I am with you always, to the end of the age. ”

What do you need? Rest!

Rest that God has and is providing for us

Rest that God was, is, and will always be for us.

Do we observe the Sabbath now?

OT Shadow NT Reality Heaven 1. Circumcision Baptism 2. Passover Lord’s Supper 3. Sabbath Lord’s Day

Hebrews 4: 9– 11 (ESV) 9 So then, there remains a Sabbath rest for the people of God, 10 for whoever has entered God’s rest has also rested from his works as God did from his. 11 Let us therefore strive to enter that rest, so that no one may fall by the same sort of disobedience.

Ezekiel 20: 12 (ESV) 12 Moreover, I gave them my Sabbaths, as a sign between me and them, that they might know that I am the LORD who sanctifies them.

How will you remember what you need?

The Good New is that God promises rest, gives us rest and the best rest is yet to come.