September 18th & 22nd

Are you tired? Worn out? Burned out on religion? Come to me. Get away with me and you’ll recover your life. I’ll show you how to take a real rest. Walk with me and work with me - watch how I do it. Learn the unforced rhythms of grace. I won’t lay anything heavy or ill-fitting on you. Keep company with me and you’ll learn to live freely and lightly.

—Matthew 11:28-30 MSG

We think that hurry leads to productivity, and productivity leads to recognition, and recognition leads to success.

When he came to the village of Nazareth, his boyhood home, he went as usual to the synagogue on the Sabbath and stood up to read the Scriptures.

—Luke 4:16 NLT

Remember the Sabbath day by keeping 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, neither you, nor your son or daughter, nor your male or female servant, nor your animals, nor any foreigner residing in your towns. 11 For in six days the Lord made the heavens and the earth, the sea, and all that is in them, but he rested on the seventh day. Therefore the Lord blessed the Sabbath day and made it holy.

—Exodus 20:8-11 NIV

1. The Sabbath is a COMMAND from God.

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…

—Exodus 20:9-10 NIV

2. The Sabbath is BLESSED by God.

11b Therefore the Lord blessed the Sabbath day and made it holy.

—Exodus 20:11b NIV

By the seventh day God had finished the work he had been doing; so on the seventh day he rested from all his work.

—Genesis 2:2 NIV

Then God blessed the seventh day and made it holy, because on it he rested from all the work of creating that he had done.

—Genesis 2:3 NIV

God blessed them and said, “Be fruitful and increase in number and fill the water in the seas, and let the birds increase on the earth.”

—Genesis 1:22 NIV

God blessed them and said to them, “Be fruitful and increase in number; fill the earth and subdue it…

—Genesis 1:28 NIV

3. The Sabbath is HOLY for God.

Remember the Sabbath day by keeping it holy.

—Exodus 20:8 NIV

Then Jesus said to them, “The Sabbath was made to meet the needs of people, and not people to meet the requirements of the Sabbath.

—Mark 2:27 NLT

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Next Steps:
1. Today, I invite Jesus in my life for the first time.
2. For the rest of 2024, I will test God and Sabbath one day a week.
3. I will read An Unhurried Life by Alan Fading or The Ruthless Elimination of Hurry by John Mark Comer.
4. I will sign up for a group and enjoy relationships God is bringing into my life.