September 3, 2023
Series Overview: Streaks (consistent daily commitments) have become a culture phenom over the last few years. Whether it’s a social media app or a Pelaton goal - people are ‘streaking’ like crazy! LOL! In this series, we’re going to look to scripture for some things God calls us to have streaks in and talk through the powerful benefits that our lives experience as a result of it.
EXODUS 20:8-11 NKJV
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 the Sabbath of the Lord your God. In it you shall do no work: you, nor your son, nor your daughter, nor your male servant, nor your female servant, nor your cattle, nor your stranger who is within your gates. 11 For in six days the Lord made the heavens and the earth, the sea, and all that is in them, and rested the seventh day. Therefore the Lord blessed the Sabbath day and hallowed it.
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Blessing: Sabbath gives God the opportunity to provide for you supernaturally.
EXODUS 16:23-30 NIV
He said to them, “This is what the Lord commanded: ‘Tomorrow is to be a day of sabbath rest, a holy sabbath to the Lord. So bake what you want to bake and boil what you want to boil. Save whatever is left and keep it until morning.’” 24 So they saved it until morning, as Moses commanded, and it did not stink or get maggots in it. 25 “Eat it today,” Moses said, “because today is a sabbath to the Lord. You will not find any of it on the ground today. 26 Six days you are to gather it, but on the seventh day, the Sabbath, there will not be any.” 27 Nevertheless, some of the people went out on the seventh day to gather it, but they found none. 28 Then the Lord said to Moses “How long will you refuse to keep my commands and my instructions? 29 Bear in mind that the Lord has given you the Sabbath; that is why on the sixth day he gives you bread for two days. Everyone is to stay where they are on the seventh day; no one is to go out.” 30 So the people rested on the seventh day.
Blessing: Sabbath gives you the opportunity to rest and be refreshed.
EXODUS 31:14-18 NIV
You shall keep the Sabbath, because it is holy for you. Everyone who profanes it shall be put to death. Whoever does any work on it, that soul shall be cut off from among his people. 15 Six days shall work be done, but the seventh day is a Sabbath of solemn rest, holy to the Lord. Whoever does any work on the Sabbath day shall be put to death. 16 Therefore God’s people shall keep the Sabbath, observing the Sabbath throughout their generations, as a perpetual covenant forever.17 It is a sign forever between me and the people of Israel that in six days the Lord made heaven and earth, and on the seventh day he rested and was refreshed.’
Rest = Refreshing.
Refreshing = Blessing.
Consequence: Not keeping the Sabbath can lead to a shortened life.
EXODUS 31:14 NIV
You shall keep the Sabbath, because it is holy for you. Everyone who profanes it shall be put to death. Whoever does any work on it, that soul shall be cut off from among his people.
Consequence: Not keeping the Sabbath leads to the discipline of God.
2 CHRONICLES 36:20 NKJV
And those who escaped from the sword he carried away to Babylon, where they became servants to him and his sons until the rule of the kingdom of Persia, 21 to fulfill the word of the Lord by the mouth of Jeremiah, until the land had enjoyed her Sabbaths. As long as she lay desolate she kept Sabbath, to fulfill seventy years.
JEREMIAH 29:10-11 NIV
This is what the Lord says: “When seventy years are completed for Babylon, I will come to you and fulfill my good promise to bring you back to this place. 11 For I know the plans I have for you,” declares the Lord, “plans to prosper you and not to harm you, plans to give you hope and a future.
God didn’t make you to serve the Sabbath, He made the Sabbath to serve you.
MARK 2:27 NIV
Then he said to them, “The Sabbath was made for man, not man for the Sabbath. 28 So the Son of Man is Lord even of the Sabbath.”
Our encouragement for you life: Allow the Holy Spirit to lead you to a determination toward a healthy, biblical rhythm of rest for you life.
For more resource on this biblical topic…click here for the message Pastor Jesse preached last year regarding Sabbath.
Closing thought…
Be encouraged to use today’s message as an invitation to pursue a life that lives out the message you just received. We also invite you to (if you already haven’t) invite Christ and His forgiveness over your life, giving you eternity with Him. We sincerely pray today’s talk has blessed you and becomes your experienced reality!
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