Deuteronomy 5:6, 12-15 (ESV)

6 “I am the LORD your God, who brought you out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of slavery. … 12 Observe the Sabbath day, to keep it holy, as the LORD your God commanded you. 13 Six days you shall labor and do all your work, 14 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 or your male servant or your female servant, or your ox or your donkey or any of your livestock, or the sojourner who is within your gates, that your male servant and your female servant may rest as well as you. 15 You shall remember that you were a slave in the land of Egypt, and the LORD your God brought you out from there with a mighty hand and an outstretched arm. Therefore the LORD your God commanded you to keep the Sabbath day.”

Intro: How are we in an unseen war? And how does Sabbath help?

WHAT ARE WE BUILT FOR?
How is our sense of self or identity shaped by our work?

HOW DO WE FIGHT OUR DESIGN?
How is life without Grace (work or rest) enslaving?

LIBERATING, LIFE-GIVING GRACE
How is God’s work of Grace liberating and life-giving?

YOU CAN PRAY WITH US …
1 - Worship the LORD who has worked and rested, and made us in His likeness so that we can know Him. Praise Him, Father, Son and Holy Spirit, that His work is trustworthy and marvelous.

2 - How have you lived as if your work is yours, and that its benefits are solely yours? Confess your pride and selfishness to Jesus, asking Him to forgive you and change you into His likeness.

3 - Give thanks to Jesus for the miracle of His work to save you. Thank Him for His generosity and love to so freely share the impact of His work to actually give you rest and wholeness.

4 - Who do you know that loves things and uses people (rather than the other way around)? Pray for them asking the Father to help them to learn how to truly love people, and how to not love things so much.

5 - Ask the Holy Spirit to bear in you His fruit of love and goodness. Ask Him to bolster you in your work and fuel you in your Sabbath rest to not be squeezed into this world’s mold but to be transformed into His likeness.