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• Work is a gift, not an enemy or necessary evil; God rests because He wants to delight in creation with us |
• Genesis 1: The climax of creation may be the invitation for Adam and Eve to rest and delight in God's creation |
• Rest as the first priority for humans, not just a reward after work |
• Exodus 20: The command to remember the Sabbath day by keeping it holy is prioritized before other moral laws |
• The congregation's excuses for not observing Sabbath |
• Jesus' teaching on rest in Matthew 11:28-30, emphasizing it as a relationship with God rather than just a physical act |
• Saint Augustine's concept of restlessness and the need to find peace in Jesus Christ |
• Marva Don's book "A Royal Waste of Time" and her four characteristics of Sabbath: ceasing, resting, embracing, and feasting |
• The importance of enjoying God's good creation and laboring with purpose, not just doing tasks out of obligation |
• The tradition of observing Sabbath as a time for rest, worship, and relationships, including traditions like the Dutch community's Sunday dessert before lunch. |
• Importance of observing Sabbath |
• Creative commitment required to adjust schedules for Sabbath rest |
• Benefits of putting screens away during Sabbath |
• Inviting others into a different way of living, slower pace and more focus on relationships and God's creation |
• The witness that resting and enjoying Sabbath can be to others in demanding jobs and workplaces. |
[0.00 --> 11.12] well good morning everyone if you haven't been here for the past couple weeks we're in the |
[11.12 --> 14.98] middle of a sermon series called contrast community we're looking at the distinctive |
[14.98 --> 21.80] practices and the way of life that the church has been invited into that enable us to bear witness |
[21.80 --> 27.62] to jesus in our city and we haven't pointed this out yet but these banners were made by our hope |
[27.62 --> 32.68] art collective to describe our community and you'll notice that our church is actually in the |
[32.68 --> 37.32] banner and so just think of the way in which our church is called not just as a building but as a |
[37.32 --> 43.32] community to be a light to christ we've looked at how we are invited to be a community of sacrificial |
[43.32 --> 49.06] service in a world of self-elevation last week we looked at how we were called to be a community of |
[49.06 --> 54.72] dependent prayer in a community of self-sufficiency and this morning we're looking at what it means to |
[54.72 --> 62.76] be a community of rest in a world of hurry and worry and exhaustion and i just want you to know |
[62.76 --> 68.42] that i find these passages personally challenging and i think you might too so if you have your bible |
[68.42 --> 72.92] i want you to turn with me to two books at the beginning of the bible we're going to look at |
[72.92 --> 75.46] genesis 2 and then at exodus 20. |
[81.78 --> 89.04] by the seventh day god had finished the work he had been doing so on the seventh day he rested from |
[89.04 --> 94.96] all his work then god blessed the seventh day and made it holy because on it he rested from all the |
[94.96 --> 100.12] work of creating that he had done and now over to exodus 20. |
[102.82 --> 109.60] remember the sabbath day by keeping it holy six days you shall labor and do all your work but the |
[109.60 --> 116.90] seventh day is a sabbath to the lord your god on it you shall not do any work neither you nor your son |
[116.90 --> 122.80] or daughter your male or female servant nor your animals or even foreign workers residing in your towns |
[122.80 --> 129.34] four in six days the lord made the heavens and the earth the sea and all that is in them but he rested |
[129.34 --> 137.32] on the seventh day therefore the lord blessed the sabbath day and made it holy this is god's word |
[137.32 --> 149.28] there's an american cardiologist whose name is meyer friedman and as he studied various patients |
[149.28 --> 154.10] and he learned some of the stuff that was seeming to be common among some of them he came up with a |
[154.10 --> 159.92] category to describe a disease a sickness that he was observing and this is the name of the sickness |
[159.92 --> 165.70] this is his original coining phrase hurry sickness have you heard of that phrase before |
[165.70 --> 172.82] and i'll give you his definition that he writes about in this he says hurry sickness is a continuous |
[172.82 --> 180.02] struggle an unremitting attempt to accomplish or achieve more and more things or participate in |
[180.02 --> 189.58] more or more events in less and less time and uh that might sound like efficient living to you |
[189.58 --> 195.86] but remember this is a sickness a disease that he was sort of diagnosing as he's seeing people |
[195.86 --> 202.26] come with serious heart issues as a cardiologist he's saying this is a problem and this is how i diagnose it |
[202.26 --> 210.12] now here's the real kicker you ready for it meyer friedman diagnosed hurry sickness in the 1950s |
[210.12 --> 217.86] you know what that means we're in trouble because in the 1950s are at least in my opinion as a |
[217.86 --> 226.02] millennial that was a quieter time that was a slower time that was before the invention of smartphones and |
[226.02 --> 232.16] laptops and wi-fi and streaming and all the stuff that makes our life so busy today and it makes |
[232.16 --> 238.80] me wonder if meyer friedman were to sit down with you and me today would he not diagnose all of us |
[239.52 --> 247.04] with hurry sickness i won't make you raise your hand for this but how many of us feel hurry worried and |
[247.04 --> 254.96] exhausted even right now before we dive into the passage i'm just going to take a couple minutes to give us a |
[254.96 --> 266.82] a lay of the land of the city that we live in the society we are growing up in many people have described north american society as a rat race |
[266.82 --> 276.96] you heard that phrase before that's not a kind image in my mind like a rat race like this scurried like frenzied way of living but that's the world we live in right |
[276.96 --> 290.96] we become masters of organizing and scheduling and packing things into our day we don't have enough time to eat so we uber things to our home or we stop by fast food on the way to the next work meeting we squeeze things in more and more |
[290.96 --> 302.96] we get up earlier and we stay up later to accomplish all the things that we feel need to be done does this sound true for you just so you know i'm preaching to myself too |
[302.96 --> 316.96] and then there are these things who's got one of these oh man these things make hurry and put it on steroids right because you're always connected you're always on |
[316.96 --> 334.96] you're working your work email floods into your phone at all times of the day sometimes even through the night if you've got friends they're often messaging you day and night and if you're on whatsapp group chats probably my least form of communication your phone will always be dinging and buzzing ... |
[334.96 --> 346.94] it takes an incredible amount of discipline not to be on these things all the time and having all the worries that come with it one i didn't even mention either was just scrolling through the news and hopefully |
[346.94 --> 352.46] all the worries that pulls into our hearts and our minds and what is a new normal for us by the way i'll just |
[352.86 --> 368.94] embody this is for us to be on our phones scrolling through something texting someone and trying to have a half conversation with your spouse or your child or your friend and co-worker and then you always say to them you've done this haven't you where you're like pardon say that again because you w... |
[368.94 --> 376.62] we're worried we're worried and we're exhausted that's the nature of the society that we just grow |
[376.62 --> 382.78] up in it's normal to us and now i'm going to ask some of the harder questions the first is why do we live this way |
[383.42 --> 388.86] like why do we live at a pace that is not sustainable that is not good for our hearts our bodies and our |
[388.86 --> 396.14] relationships and there are many answers to that one sociologist says there's two twin drugs that we all love |
[396.14 --> 403.42] one is accomplishment and i'll admit i like this one getting stuff done feels good knocking things off |
[403.42 --> 409.90] the to-do list making a new project building things that's very exciting for many of us the other one is |
[409.90 --> 419.18] accumulation we live in a consumer society the thing we want without ever saying it out loud is more and if |
[419.18 --> 425.26] you want the more of a consumer society you gotta hustle right it doesn't just happen you gotta hustle |
[425.26 --> 431.26] you gotta work you gotta make the most of your time to get ahead and after the 9am service i had two very |
[431.26 --> 436.38] honest sobering conversations with two young dads who are deep in their work right now with families |
[436.38 --> 442.06] to care for they just said like the demands are overwhelming like to not just run and do all the stuff |
[442.06 --> 445.18] of the corporate world is craziness the demands are great |
[445.18 --> 452.22] other reasons that we do more than our bodies can even handle or our minds can have capacity for |
[452.94 --> 457.18] is sometimes just the fear of missing out right we get invited to all these things we've got friends |
[457.18 --> 462.62] doing exciting things and the hardest thing for us to do is say no and then see someone post on social media |
[462.62 --> 468.78] that amazing event you said no to right it's tough and maybe even more personally |
[469.74 --> 474.30] some of us like being busy because we're a bit afraid of what we'll find out about ourselves that |
[474.30 --> 478.86] goes on in our minds and hearts when we become silent right i have to deal with the stuff that's |
[478.86 --> 484.54] going on within us that drives us and moves us and all the rest it's easier to stay busy than to deal |
[484.54 --> 492.54] with the stuff within for some of us and now some some hard diagnostic questions okay how are you doing |
[492.54 --> 501.26] like actually how's your health how's your body where are you carrying all your stress |
[502.94 --> 507.98] it's probably not going to be a surprise to you that in some of the most recent studies i have read |
[508.54 --> 514.46] one in four people in north america quit or step down from their positions for a season because of |
[514.46 --> 520.30] stress anxiety and burnout and if we localize that to just our church that's like over a hundred people |
[520.30 --> 526.06] that will quit or step down from their positions just because of stress and burnout and if you don't |
[526.06 --> 531.42] know what burnout is burnout is your body saying even though you in your mind think you can do this |
[531.42 --> 536.38] i give up as your body and now you have to deal with it it's actually a gift to us when we burn out |
[536.38 --> 542.54] because we have to stop and heal so that we can do our work in a better way but that's our reality |
[542.54 --> 546.38] and you probably won't be surprised to hear that almost every canadian university in college is |
[546.38 --> 551.82] is scrambling and i should actually move that down grade schools and high schools are scrambling |
[551.82 --> 556.06] to get all the support for the mental health crisis that is upon them with students |
[556.94 --> 565.26] from from burnout to anxiety to chronic fatigue to all the rest it's real and it's important just to |
[565.26 --> 569.66] highlight that these are students who aren't even yet in the the heavy demands of many workplaces this is |
[569.66 --> 577.02] just the preparation and that to me is like this major red flag of something's not right in the |
[577.02 --> 582.38] society that we live in there's something fundamentally baked in that's wrong that's harming us it's harming |
[582.38 --> 589.98] our relationships it's harming our bodies and we shouldn't be okay with it now to go another level closer |
[590.86 --> 598.30] how are your relationships like actually with your spouse your kids your parents your friends your |
[598.30 --> 604.06] co-workers i read years ago and i don't remember who said this but it's stuck with me it kind of |
[604.06 --> 609.98] burns a hole in my head and that's this you can't love well when you're in a hurry have you ever notice |
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