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[1271.42 --> 1275.50] know this right when you're close to christ when you're in conversation with christ there's a way |
[1275.50 --> 1281.18] in which he gives you restoration and healing that nothing else can give you it's a rest that only comes |
[1281.18 --> 1284.70] from the source of life and that is jesus christ our resurrected king |
[1287.10 --> 1293.02] there's a writer by the name of saint augustine and he had quite an interesting journey a very influential |
[1293.02 --> 1297.82] writer in the christian faith but very struggle like that guy had major struggles as a young |
[1297.82 --> 1302.86] adult to follow jesus particularly when it came to sexual faithfulness and he wrote a book called |
[1302.86 --> 1309.50] confessions i commend it to you it's a very powerful book and this is what he writes in it you have made us |
[1309.50 --> 1319.58] for yourself oh lord and our heart is restless until it rests in you does that resonate |
[1319.58 --> 1329.18] in fact when i think of canadian society i think man we are so restless we don't even know what to do |
[1329.18 --> 1333.66] with silence we don't know what to do with meditation or being by ourselves or turning off the screens we |
[1333.66 --> 1338.78] don't even know who we are by ourselves and i just hear augustine saying i've been there and we are |
[1338.78 --> 1348.06] restless until we find jesus the source of rest and we sang earlier that line i really love this line |
[1348.06 --> 1355.50] he is the well that does not run dry and our wells run dry all the time we run ourselves ragged and we |
[1355.50 --> 1362.86] come to jesus this source of life this deep well of life and he gives that to us and come to me weary and |
[1362.86 --> 1368.94] burdened and i will give you rest for your souls and i think there is for each of us a very personal |
[1368.94 --> 1374.62] invitation whatever the burdens are whatever the weariness is to come to jesus and allow him |
[1374.62 --> 1379.02] to bring rest and restoration to our burdened and broken lives |
[1381.42 --> 1388.54] sabbath is about resting in the presence of christ so that we can rest in his presence all week long |
[1389.18 --> 1395.10] it's about worshiping jesus on sunday as we are so that we can worship him all week long in our work |
[1395.10 --> 1400.94] in our labor it's about singing praises to the living god so that we can remember week after week |
[1400.94 --> 1409.98] sunday after sunday that god is god and you and i are not and we don't have to try to be only what god can be |
[1412.06 --> 1418.46] marva don is a professor a former professor at regent college and um she's in my opinion one of those |
[1418.46 --> 1423.42] women you meet and she's a saint i i was so privileged to hear her teach and read her writing |
[1423.42 --> 1428.86] but she wrote extensively on sabbath and uh marva don she wrote this book by the way it's called a |
[1428.86 --> 1436.46] royal waste of time i've always enjoyed that title a royal waste of time and she says sabbath should be |
[1436.46 --> 1440.86] characterized by four things and if you're a junior youth and you're taking sermon notes right now here |
[1440.86 --> 1447.26] are the four things i want you to write down you're getting the hint here sabbath is comprised of four |
[1447.26 --> 1455.18] things ceasing resting embracing and feasting can remember those things so if you're thinking like |
[1455.18 --> 1461.66] what does it mean to practice sabbath it's ceasing resting embracing and feasting ceasing our labor |
[1462.54 --> 1468.94] resting from our work embracing relationships and feasting in the goodness of god's creation |
[1468.94 --> 1476.46] with good food who doesn't like good food you know um some of us maybe grew up in the church and sabbath |
[1476.46 --> 1482.38] was like a bit of a legalistic thing right and i i can say that in the community i grew up in the |
[1482.38 --> 1486.94] church i grew up in it was almost like this is what you can do this is what you can't do make sure you |
[1486.94 --> 1491.50] don't do this make sure you do that and i think the intention was good but it became this like what |
[1491.50 --> 1497.50] am i allowed to do thing what i want you to hear in this invitation for sabbath is the invitation to enjoy |
[1497.50 --> 1506.70] the fullness of god's good creation relationships and food and the gift of rest what a gift that god |
[1506.70 --> 1513.74] created you and i to labor and to nap right to do lists where we work through them throughout the week |
[1513.74 --> 1519.90] and then the gift of going outside and playing with your kids the gift of having things that you need to |
[1519.90 --> 1525.98] do and you're gifted for and labor in and then you just get to eat a good meal with your family and |
[1525.98 --> 1532.54] your friends i grew up in a family uh in a dutch community and the dutch people do sundays pretty |
[1532.54 --> 1537.26] well i have to say like we go to church we come home from church yeah you know what i'm gonna say |
[1537.26 --> 1542.54] and we have this great tradition you eat dessert before lunch such a good tradition whenever we have |
[1542.54 --> 1546.46] people who are not from the dutch background they're like why do you do this backwards i'm like of |
[1546.46 --> 1551.34] course it is but it's sunday that's what we do i don't know why but you have a late you know dessert |
[1551.34 --> 1558.06] then you have lunch at like 4 p.m and dinner at like 7 or 8 or 9 it's amazing and we just enjoy food |
[1558.06 --> 1562.30] together my tape my home is full of people around the table from our church our extended family and |
[1562.30 --> 1568.06] what a gift it is to feast together without any pressures to do the work email and do the stuff that's |
[1568.06 --> 1573.90] waiting for you on monday morning just to enjoy the goodness of god's creation and enjoy meals together |
[1573.90 --> 1582.38] don't you want to recover this now i'm aware i'm not uh ignorant of the pressures we all face many |
[1582.38 --> 1587.74] of us have shift work many of us have kids and various demanding things and sports and all the rest |
[1587.74 --> 1594.54] and i realize it takes what i think is creative commitment creative commitment i can't solve your |
[1594.54 --> 1599.58] schedule but i'm sure there are ways you can adjust it so that you can enjoy the gift of sabbath |
[1599.58 --> 1605.02] and ideally if possible a 24-hour block for some people and i have family members for whom this is |
[1605.02 --> 1609.74] true sabbath is friday to saturday because saturday is actually the easiest day for them for other |
[1609.74 --> 1615.90] people it's saturday to sunday or in my case it's sunday to monday right and i know people in fact some |
[1615.90 --> 1620.62] family members of mine and friends the way they start sabbath matters they have a family meal and they |
[1620.62 --> 1625.26] light a candle and i think that's such a good practice it's just one small way of saying this day |
[1625.26 --> 1630.38] today is different and we're now around the table and we are starting sabbath together |
[1631.18 --> 1635.50] and other practices and this is one we've tried to implement with varying degrees of success in our |
[1635.50 --> 1642.54] family as we call it tech free sabbath and you you know where this is going right we put our screens |
[1642.54 --> 1646.78] away and that that's uh i think britney and i are probably the worst at this actually |
[1647.58 --> 1651.98] but we say to our kids like it's sunday let's enjoy relationships let's go outside let's go for a walk |
[1651.98 --> 1655.74] let's have some people over let's go to some people's houses but let's put the screens away |
[1656.38 --> 1659.66] because you know this the second you pull your screens out you're not in conversation with each |
[1659.66 --> 1666.06] other right screens dominate so many hours per day and you will be amazed at how much time you get back |
[1666.06 --> 1670.70] if you put your screen away if you put your phone on silent you leave your phone out of the room it |
[1670.70 --> 1677.58] will be a gift to you to your family and to your friends take work email off your phone silence the group |
[1677.58 --> 1687.50] chats and begin to enjoy the gift of sabbath sabbath for many people is just a gift that's waiting to be |
[1687.50 --> 1697.26] unfolded and enjoyed and i'll finish with this sabbath might be one of the most prophetic and beautiful |
[1697.26 --> 1704.78] things we can invite our society into they live in a rat race you live in a rat race it's time for us to |
[1704.78 --> 1709.58] get off that rat race and invite people into a different way of living the way we were created |
[1710.14 --> 1718.54] let's show our society how to rest let's show them how to enjoy relationships and not be lonely |
[1718.54 --> 1723.74] let's show them how to put the screens away and invest in the beauty of god's world and the beauty |
[1723.74 --> 1731.42] of good food around the table with loved ones and friends let's show our society how to enjoy the creation |
[1731.42 --> 1736.86] rather than rush our whole life away only to burn out and be anxious and exhausted |
[1738.06 --> 1743.02] and it might just be the case that that will be your best witness especially if you live in a very |
[1743.02 --> 1747.66] demanding job in a very demanding workplace you're going to be the one who shows up rested |
[1748.62 --> 1753.26] working with a different pace to you and it's going to be that pace that rhythm that health that |
[1753.26 --> 1758.14] you bring to the workplace that will make people think what are you doing differently that's making |
[1758.14 --> 1764.70] you less worried less hurried and less exhausted and you then get the opportunity to point people to |
[1764.70 --> 1771.90] jesus right who in his death and resurrection liberated you from the slavery to accumulation the |
[1771.90 --> 1780.54] slavery to accomplishment and all the rest so that you can live in his presence and find in jesus christ |
[1780.54 --> 1785.34] the deepest source of rest let's pray together |
[1792.46 --> 1798.46] father we just thank you for the gift of your word and that you're the kind of god who commands rest |
[1800.86 --> 1807.98] and i feel the need to pray on all of our behalves a prayer of confession that we are way too rushed |
[1807.98 --> 1816.54] we are too hurried for relationship with others and relationship with you and would you have mercy on us |
[1818.46 --> 1827.66] would you teach us how to slow down would you teach us how to be attentive to those around us |
[1829.34 --> 1831.18] would you teach us how to be attentive to you |
[1831.18 --> 1838.14] father we ask that you would fill us with your spirit in a way that makes us silent |
[1839.50 --> 1848.14] and enjoy the world you've placed us in because you are no slave driver you do not delight in our |
[1848.14 --> 1857.10] exhaustion so teach us lord to rest that we may know how to be refreshed in you amen |
[1857.10 --> 1863.58] i invite you to stand with me and sing a song of response called oh come to the altar which really |
[1863.58 --> 1865.58] you |
• Introduction and welcome |
• Review of the church's summer series on Jesus' hard sayings |
• Reading of Matthew 16:13-21, specifically the passage where Jesus asks his disciples "who do people say I am?" and Peter responds by declaring him as the Messiah |
• Explanation of the context of the passage, including a description of the location (Caesarea Philippi) and its pagan associations |
• Reflection on Jesus' question to his disciples in the midst of this symbolic location |
• Roman religious life allowed multiple options for worship, as long as Caesar was recognized |
• Jesus asks his disciples about his identity in a location considered "enemy territory" |
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