What Jesus Did: Sabbath

As the Liturgy may have indicated, we're going to be

talking about Sabbath. A couple of years ago, the

beginning of covid. Kind of we got this awesome

graphic. It's on the back of your

discipleship cards. Some of you may be familiar with

it. We kind of re-envisioned our

disciplines as a church and one of those five dish of

disciplines is Sabbath and we used this kind of question there

to get. Just a really good barometric.

Read of where our church was with the various disciplines.

So what I'm about to say is not an opinion.

But definitely it from the horse's mouth scenario, we are

not good at Sabbath as a church not Bueno.

I believe at the time it was something like 80% of the church

said, it said that they needed Improvement at the Sabbath.

Now I know many of you are new faces but a lot of you are not

and if 80% of us here said that we need to improve that the

Sabbath. I would bet in the past two

years that there have been some victories by the power of the

Holy Spirit. I would bet that many of us

Found Reclamation in this beautiful practice but the truth

is probably a lot of us. Still aren't good at it.

I know that I'm not. It's taken a lot of work, as

I've studied for this, but as we talked about Sabbath, I want you

to know that this isn't coming from condemnation, but

self-realization and hearing us, not me, but not you, either all

of us a few years ago saying, hey, we're bad at this.

I think it's really important. So I hope that you listen to

what I have to say, which means that as I'm about to tell you

what Sabbath is, I think we have to talk about waiting for a bus,

you see, when I was at Moody, specifically in Spokane, Sam is

familiar. He did this even more than me

was the only prolonged period in my life where I did not have

personal Transportation. I didn't have a car from when I

could drive, my parents gave me a car after college.

I got a car, but it was the only time Time in my life, where I

didn't have my own personal dedication or dedicated

Transportation. So I was heavily reliant on

other people always and you guessed it if nobody was

available the bus. And this means that sometimes

schedules wouldn't line up and I would have to figure out when

the next bus was and you have to walk to the bus stop.

Even though we were in a centralized location, it just

took a lot of time and for Spokane, it was actually really

easy compared to some other cities because Spokane, was this

long East to West Valley stretching from essentially

Idaho. All the way to the Columbia

River, this Valley just goes forever, but, Spokane itself.

The majority of the city while the valley Lee was East and

West. The bulk of the City.

Metropolis was north to south right in the middle of the

valley. And there was a street that cut

right down, it called division, that works out.

And if you had to go anywhere, let's say grocery shopping and

event a friend's house who didn't live in the immediate

area Church anywhere, pretty much.

You had to come into contact with division, which meant that

if you were waiting for a bus, there was a high likelihood that

you were waiting on Division and anybody who's waited for a bus.

Knows that this is miserable a truly awful experience.

In fact, waiting for anything is a truly awful experience, but

especially waiting for the bus and especially back, then it

wasn't it wasn't good back. Then there was no like in-flight

Wi-Fi, you stopped every single, stop, every single one and it

cost precious money. And I will say this, I was

living on my parents dime. However, I was a, I was a little

sensitive to it, you know? And I know many people we're not

living on their parents time and so that cost them money money

that they could be using for laundry or groceries.

More of the story waiting for the bus is a tiresome dragging

exhausting experience. And I think the truth of the

matter is, is that how that is? How I have approached the

Sabbath, but also, I think how we approach the Sabbath, we

approach. It must much like we're waiting

for a bus. And if I had to ask, I imagine

many of you when probably can Considering the Sabbath would

say something similar. It is an understood or even

necessary thing, like waiting for the bus.

That translates to a drag where we generate feelings of guilt.

Frustration and even boredom, I certainly have been right there

for much of my adult Christian Life.

Sabbath has been the spiritual practice of impatiently waiting

for the bus and getting frustrated at every small.

Inconvenience that arises from sitting around hoping to see The

Vessel down the road. I hope today we can take, but

take a step back and see the Sabbath for what it is.

Then if we peel back the layers, we see beauty and opportunity.

Today, we are going to be doing a quick and I mean, quick

Excursion into Hebrews 4. However, I want to give you a

little context overview. This is towards the beginning of

Hebrews and currently, the author is comparing and

contrasting Christ to Moses. He starts that at the end of

chapter 2 and chapter 3, and the chief, recipients of the ladder

are Jewish Christians and this is likely before the destruction

of the temple in 70 AD and the more immediate context of this

comparing and contrasting Christ to Moses.

The author compares. Us as a steward or a servant of

a house to Christ. Who is first the Builder?

He says he's the Builder of all things that being God and also

the son of the household and then the author is going to

state that we that's us. The believer are in fact, the

house 3:6 is that and here the author pivots and it's very

interesting and reminds the audience of the promised.

Rest of his people's, the author, reminds the listeners of

the Disobedience of the desert but then reminds the hero that

they were not United. In faith as we are united in

faith and that would be 4:2. Now the author is pointing to

the ancient Hebrew practice and understanding illuminated by

faith in Christ, that is the Sabbath.

So church if you are able, please stand for the reading of

God's word and turn to Hebrews chapter 4, verses were only

Hebrews 4 · chapter mention

doing nine through eleven today. Excuse me.

So then there remains a Sabbath rest for the people of God for

whoever has entered God's rest has also rested from his works

as God, did from his, let us therefore strive to enter that

rest so that no one may fall by the same sort of Disobedience

church. This is God's word.

It is true, it is good. And it is beautiful.

You may be seated. These verses are perfect for our

Excursion, into elucidating, our wrongful bus, stop approach to

the Sabbath. Because within them we will see

the past the present, and the future.

It is my hope today that you will walk away invigorated with

a fresh understanding that portrays Sabbath not as inactive

or boring or cumbersome, which will probably be the hard one

for a lot of us. But rather see Sabbath as

restful joyful and ultimately future sighted.

If we approach our understanding of Sabbath and what rest is

like, we are waiting for a bus. Verse 9 is the media.

Confrontation of this understanding there, remains a

Sabbath rest. This is both indicative of the

continuation of Sabbath from the Jewish people's listed earlier.

A preservation of that good thing, but also an illumination

of what Sabbath is for the people of God, the key to

understanding. This is the fact that

understanding how Jews historically viewed Sabbath.

And I did not write this a much better scholar than us that some

of the pastor's like to reference here.

And there said this beautifully and an essay called space-time

in history. His name is NT right?

He's an Anglican he made an incredible comment that I think

will help all of us approach this holy day with a little more

reverence and hope and joy should have it behind me.

Awesome sweet. So in this it's a lecture it's

called space-time and history he has been talking about the

temple from the Jewish perspective and then he's going

to Pivot to the Sabbath. We are right at that pivot and

it's dynamite. So NT Wright says what I have

just said about the temple applies, even more to the

Sabbath, the Sabbath was to time.

What the temple was to place. I'm going to repeat that again.

The Sabbath was to time with the temple was to place.

The temple was where Heaven and Earth met held together in

dangerous symbiosis with image bearing.

Human standing at the fault line in worship and obedience. the

Sabbath was where the age to come broke in to the present age

so that God's Futures and God's present were held together again

with human beings standing at the threshold and a single

moment of rest and celebration with the Past coming forward as

well, the creation, the original Exodus and all the other moments

of divine Triumph in Israel's history, To the original

audience, Sabbath would have been a collision of Eternity

with the temporal. Temporal is just like the time

place. Here we have watches.

That's us temporal likewise church.

I submit that we should see it in the same as it seems that the

author of Hebrews is indicating this as well as the Sabbath rest

continues in Christ. This definition maybe a little

esoteric or alien. Currently, esoteric just means

weird but I hope you'll hold this first before.

We begin to break down the discipline and self.

That is that the Sabbath is the Eternal breaking into the

temporal. It is a collision of time, past

present, and future coalescing into a single moment with the

Eternal. That is God, which lead us to

ask? What is the Sabbath look like?

What does it look like for time-space to collide with?

Untie more eternal. What is that?

Or what is rest for that matter. As it turns out contextually, we

know that rest holds both present and eternal Dynamics.

We see this in verse 10 for whoever has entered God's.

Rest has also rested from his works as God, did from his

entering, the Sabbath does contain a component of laying

off from traditional Labor's to best understand this.

We have to start at the back from the verse Because it helps

understand what works are as God did from his, what did God Rest

from? He is infinite omnipotent.

It is ludicrous to Simply assume that he was tired and needed a

nap. After six days of work, we know

this. However, he still rested So

let's see what he rested from or rather, what he rested to.

So I have Genesis 22 through for should be Bingo.

Awesome Genesis 22 through four states.

Thus the heavens and earth were finished and all the host of

them. And on the seventh day, God

finished his work that he had done and he rested on them

rested on the seventh day, from all his work that he had done.

So God blessed the seventh day and made it.

Holy Because on it, God rested from all his work that he had

done in creation, why? We know he's not tired, we know

he doesn't run out of energy as we run out of energy.

We know that it's not tedious for him or cumbersome in the way

that we might find work, tedious or cumbersome.

Well, the original word for Sabbath offers a little

explanation or at least a sparked the beginning of it.

It meant more more than a casual lay down.

It meant also to cease from work.

Sure. We see that it's not just laying

down to like stop or to be an active.

We see that it means to cease to work, and that's a very specific

clarification. What's the difference?

Well, if you're ceasing to do one thing, that means it least

that there is room for other things, it's not a complete, an

action, rather, it's a replacement or another action.

We see this in that verse, it has little to do with exhaustion

fatigue or soreness rather. It's it is simply disengaging

from the activity of producing creation for God.

I'm not pointing a day exclusively for Holiness and

blessing simply as it says in Genesis.

He set it. Apart is not the same as the

others for God. We know he is perfectly

satisfied in his trinitarian self.

He is infinitely, self-satisfied in his truth, goodness and

beauty, or his holiness. They're also shows what the

shape of our Sabbath should look like it is not the same grinder

toil. It is set apart.

We're like, God, we are now seeking satisfaction as God as

God perfectly did, and does we have a day that he is modeled?

We're in our chief sensitivity, our emotions, our thoughts, our

actions are all motivated and away where we are hyper self

aware. That we are pursuing the

satisfaction in In God. And that is, in fact, what rest

is that's the irony right? As much as that.

Seems like it's own toil rest is not simply.

Putting off of toil rather like God who doesn't perfectly the

rest of the author of Hebrews is truly referring, to is a day of

awareness and of satisfaction and God.

And why is it that we participate now?

Well, the right, quote in the Jewish, traditional

understanding illuminate, that clearly we need to treat Sabbath

that desire for satisfaction and God to have a day set, apart as

something that is the Collision of time.

With eternity, we need to treat this set apart day, like it is,

in fact, the coming eternity What are we really striving for

and where we find it is at the end of Revelation and I should

have it up behind me. This is revelation 21 1 through

5. Then I saw heaven and Earth for

the first Heaven, and the first Earth had passed away, and the

sea was no more. And I saw the holy city, the New

Jerusalem coming down out of Heaven, from God prepared as a

bride adorned for her husband and I heard a loud voice from

the throne saying, Behold The Dwelling Place of God is with,

man, he will dwell with them and they will be his people and God

himself will be with them as their God.

Church he wipe away every tear from their eyes and Death Shall

be no more neither shall there. Be mourning nor crying nor pain

anymore for the former things have passed away and he who was

Seated on the throne said, behold I am making all things

new. So the Sabbath rest is a

temporal activity and we see this in Hebrews and we see it

beginning in Genesis with God's demonstration but it is a

temporary Activity, not in and of itself, but of promised, Hope

For What Waits an eternity. It is not frustratedly waiting

for a bus and rest is not merely lying down to us.

No rest is much more, beautiful and hopeful it does not exclude.

The fact that we are exhausted. It's not neglectful of that.

Rest is a very self-aware practice where, you know, that

you are tired and exhausted. Rather it does not neglect or

excuse me, it does not neglect. The fact that we hurt either.

Not only does it not neglect that we are exhausted.

It does not neglect that we are heart nor does it deny the Pains

of a broken World. However, the practice of making

a day, holy of pursuing God as God perfectly and infinitely.

Pursues himself is for us, the believer, the act of Hope

Sabbath is a tooth and nail slog through a mired and Fallen World

to look forward. To, to not just be here, but to

be forward and backward, where we will be in the presence of

God and all those toilsome days Church.

Those tear-filled nights. And those broken World, pains

will not even be a memory. This is why the author so

clearly elevates Christ above Moses.

Moses was a faithful Steward to a house Christ is the son of the

household who is adorned its Furnishings with infinite Beauty

and invited all who believe, come and rest.

Which leads us to the final verse church.

Let us therefore strive to enter that rest so that no one may

fall by the same sort of Disobedience currently Sabbath

in. The temporal sense is a

striving. It is an effort as much as we're

going to call it rest in the author of Hebrews.

Does there is a weird irony, that that so long as we are

here, it's going to take work and the converse of that effort,

whether that is a lack or wrong efforts, as we see in verse Evan

are both disobedient. So not doing it, seems to be

Disobedience but also may be doing the wrong things is

Disobedience, why is that? Well, if Sabbath is as right,

says, eternity colliding with time and the shown this swear

man gets to participate in that hopeful Revelation Vision than

Sabbath is the closest forecasted vision of what it

will be like to no longer be disobedient again.

This is why it is such a fight, not just a slouch day, but to

reframe the mind of a time, we call Sabbath all together

because it seems like Hebrews is indicating that.

The Sabbath is the Nexus of Hope and Beacon of trajectory for

where we are to go and that forms us and sends us forward

throughout the rest of our time on Earth.

Sabbath n, is not only an eternal reprieve exploding into

the temporal, but also the calibration.

In church by which we learn to act and move in a fallen world.

So Sabbath just isn't the promise of what's to come and

how we get to play in that realm now because of God's promise.

But in fact, doing it Faithfully learning from it humbly, that

all is going to Tool us to make more days in the coming time

like Sabbath church. This is precisely what makes

Matthew 5 so powerful. If you're not familiar Christ,

heals a man with a withered hand on Sabbath, Jesus is not simply

saying I'm the lord of the Sabbath.

I do what I want. Sometimes we tend to give them

passed like that and certainly he does call himself the lord of

the Sabbath so that would seem fair.

But rather in that verse and that passage, he states that it

is good to do, good on the Sabbath.

So rest in the sense of the Sabbath Sabbath cannot simply be

idleness church. Here Christ is showing the, a

old man, the Sabbath, as the son of the house, inviting him into

God's rest. This then is the second more

difficult to apprehend aspect of the Sabbath, or at least a

pitfall that we can participate in that doing wrong things.

Or more precisely neglecting to do good things can also lead to

Disobedience Church And I mean, I get it this can be frustrating

because there's only seven days in a week and most of us pack

them and some of us have families, larger, families,

growing families and it's all just so much.

And now somebody who is single has a very even work, schedule

is telling me somebody a mother of two, three or four one, you

know that I have to set apart this day and do these things.

I get that it can be frustrating.

Strating. It's almost as if you could say.

You mean to tell me. I have to make a whole special

day and on that day I can't do nothing to use a double

negative. Lest I be disobedient but I must

do certain things. Also less.

I'd be disobedient. Honestly Church?

Yeah. I'm saying that.

Yeah, and look, I know that may feel unfair.

I get it. I have a Monday to Friday job.

My weekends are available. I can do my errands on a

Saturday morning for many of you.

That Liberty is much, much harder I get it.

However, the truth is church and this may be a little hard, but

even using that comparing recourse, we miss the attention.

The initial task of the Sabbath seeing it as a hurdle not as a

Eight way is chiefly our problem to approaching the Sabbath as a

day set apart by casting it. In that light, we participate in

the same dogmatic pragmatism that naysayers of Christ did

albeit. It looks different.

Church. First, we must as right?

And the author of Hebrews show fight to set a time as something

set apart. We do this by realizing the

eternality of the Sabbath. Not just that, it's a day, but

seeing it as something that even though we perceive it as a day,

is a platform by which God is preparing and showing us

eternity. That hope by reframing that in

our minds. We can already.

I'm sorry we can already begin to fight that hurdle.

All of seeing Sabbath as just something that I have to do when

we see it as eternity. Sure we may have that first

inclination but the combat of that should really be simple.

I am the problem. It's not these things that are

set before me it's not the hours in a day it's none of that.

I am the problem to Sabbath because if this is what eternity

is and I am the one grumbling who's to blame eternity in the

light of God or myself. Who we all acknowledge is a

sinner and a sinful World broken and shamed.

So Sabbath is the current hope and promise rest in that eternal

glory and presence of Christ. So first perhaps most difficult,

we need to reframe our understanding of how we

participate. To make it God's day.

A holy day, the effort is cataclysmically difficult, and

all of the noise of the current age, our phones TV sports teams

video games, all this can become clutter and I really need you to

know become clutter, if we do not first grasp that the goal of

Sabbath is eternal hope I'm not merely saying that as many have

and did in the past that this means a full stop on fun.

Hobbies and excetera on a single day.

Certainly that may be needed though.

Like I'm not saying that you can't do things that you love.

I am saying that for some it might be needed and that we will

need to evaluate that. But rather if we were to truly

make the most of Sabbath, the first step is making everything

about God. Everything.

Just for some starters that this can look as simple as praying

before every activity. I know it's commonplace to pray

in the morning to pray in the evening to pray before meals and

to tell people you're praying for them when they ask for help

but really making a day where every change in flow you

introduced with that change prayer.

That's what I started to do. When I was asked to prepare this

sermon as somebody who doesn't Sabbath.

Well, I just started to consider what it would look like

introducing prayer into my life. Life.

So that everything that I did on that day.

Just one day, I made every action, the mundane and the

great about God just to see how it would change my mind and it

did, and I have a story to share with you that has nothing to do

with Sabbath. However, it has made me

sensitive to that Sabbath frame of mind.

A few few weeks ago, I was hanging out with some people

from church for a Friday evening, great meal was cooked

for us. There is Good drink, good

conversations. And a kid was there, a bunch of

kids were there? And one of them has recently

just been really into the Legend of Zelda, specifically, Legend

has out of the breadth of the wild to those of you that don't

know. It's one of the greatest video

games of all time. It's a beautiful work of art

with an incredible like encapsulating narrative and open

world. It's truly beautiful.

And so this child and I frequently talk about Legend of

Zelda, breath of the Wild, And I had the opportunity to talk with

him and his mother about it, but more importantly as I've been

taking Sabbath just a little more.

Seriously, I've been trying to cast everything that I do kind

of with an evaluative mind of is this or can this be for worship.

And I realized something that may make some people in church

upset that even a video game can be done for worship and this is

what I was telling this child's mom.

I was talking to Mom about how if we can't play a video game to

pursue the beauty of it as a created.

Thing of Art and then allow that to cause us to reflect upon the

Divine that we are missing something.

When playing a game like that the gem in the suit there is

that we have the opportunity to turn all of creation and

engagement and reflection of God, this mode of thinking needs

to be the chief and first move with which we make our we make

with regards to Sabbath. How do I see God on this holy

day and all things that I do? This cognitive shift of or

appraisal of things will quickly present challenges too many

activities, that vary for individuals.

This is where it's not. So set in stone.

But what is set in stone is that the effect is the same.

If you do this genuinely, we will become aware of those

things on this day set apart that are preventing us from

engaging with God, from a pursuing eternity in.

This is where we diverge from Disobedience.

We find that Sabbath is not a command of Action.

But rather Church it is a command of luxury and of Grace

the Sabbath mind engages past days weeks months years the ever

present and the future with hope and thankfulness the Sabbath is

beginning, the process of Eternity, a perspective shift

for every action back to the Divine I think, most of us

especially as Protestants are so fearful of being active in

disciplines because we are Are like afraid of being perceived

as or holding the sentiments of earning our faith.

I don't want to just do a checklist.

I hear all of us, say it. I've said it.

Is it's as common verbiage used. Whenever someone asks, how

disciplined development is going?

I'm sure as we've gotten into these Fighter Group cards that

many of you have probably used verbage like this, to either

explain why you haven't done them or maybe explain how you

answered a certain card. So that we perceive things as

checklists. You see that this has got to be

ironic though because it Paints the disciplines in the light,

where we engage in that rhetoric we are putting God's fruits.

It's in an unreachable place in ancient times.

Civilization saw the mountains as the residences of God, but

truthfully, I don't think much has changed down here on Earth.

We often treat the disciplines as an idealized Mountain, then

reject them for fear of infringing, on the meaning of

Faith which is super weird in some sick backwards version of

Kate Bush's classic running up that hill.

We just see all these practices which they are effort but we see

them as fruitless gains frustrations.

When in fact we miss the beauty of reality that the disciplines

are not on top of the hill. Nor is God, Sabbath is that

proof church. We are not running up a hill,

the Mountaintop came down to us God in the sun left off.

The mountain to reunite with mankind.

This is the Sabbath That Rock Church.

That is the gospel. So you might be asking yourself

or me. What does it look like?

What I've already shared a little bit about like prayer and

how I think about a video game but let's just start with a day.

It's not as simple to say today, they do not work, we need to

begin by making a day where we fight tooth and nail to

appraise. All things, morning noon and

night, and the light of thankfulness and hope in Jesus

Christ, This is why it is so valuable if possible to practice

Sabbath on the same day as a church service, it's almost like

as if all the faithful Saints of all of history have kind of

figured out that if we already have a large portion of our day

when available to do a lot of this together that it would

benefit the rest of our data continue doing that.

I'm not saying that that is the only way.

It's just that is idealized because we haven't set up that

way both as a culture and as a faith It's so valuable because

you're going to be with family friends who are all fighting for

that same, joy in the same room for that, same portion of the

day. Also, the Sabbath should be

filled with confessions, it should be filled with

forgiveness prayer and hope so Church, organize your Sabbath to

confront yourself in everything seeking and seen opportunity to

worship God in all you do, pray more than just for meals as a

family reach out a helping hand to those around you as Christ

did the a old man and healed his withered hand survey Church, all

of your interests and confront their value or your inability to

participate. If you cannot perceive them as

something god-honoring. If you know, this is going to be

a struggle for you schedule. Your fighter groups sometime

after church or before church? Ask your community group

members, if they want to hang out later in the day.

Even if it's just a catch-up and break bread, not to sell anyone

out here, but I hear many households do after church,

brunches and lunches. I know some of your faces.

I know you make pancakes and eggs and I know some of you have

the ability to and are probably just waiting for somebody to ask

see if they would be willing to take you in church.

If you know that you're going to struggle, ask for help, ask

other Christians who are also hoping And that eternity, that

rest to help you rest. Now here in time.

And remember that those of you taking us in that is the model

that the author of Hebrews even references, Christ is the son of

the household of the Builder, who invites Us in to see

invited. The a old man into rest from his

ailment, we should be inviting each other and in reminding,

each other of rest. But most importantly in all of

these actions remember Church. Sabbath has to be a specific

time. It really does.

But the time is for naught. If we cannot see The specific

time as the Jews, did the beautiful and hopeful Collision

Of Time and Eternity that. Rest on this day, looks both

backwards to the beginning of creation and forward to our

Eternal hope in Christ design. Your Sabbath to be reflective of

that truth. Spend time in Fellowship, sing

songs of worship, pray, fervently, and in all things big

and small Church give, thanks to God.

You know, there is a bus stop story.

That looks a little a little like this.

Now I know that this is going to be a pretty failed analogy, but

I want you to just get an idea here.

It isn't perfect but maybe it can serve as that reminder of

how to transform your Sabbath by show of hands.

Is anyone familiar with the movie?

Forrest Gump, hit me with the picture.

If it's on there, hit me with the picture.

Awesome. Sweet.

Somebody is waiting for a bus. Now, listen, some of you are

nerdy bookworms like me. So I know that this is based on

a novel by Sally Field, and you will not catch me saying this

often, but I do believe the movie shines into Transcendent

way that the book does not quite capture.

And it diverges greatly. Anyway, real quick.

If you are familiar and you or if you're not familiar and you

haven't seen this, I'm sorry for the spoiler.

I'm about to spoil, like the entire movie, not the

nitty-gritty, but the overarching narrative.

The whole movie is basically told from a tour from a bus

stop. So in the very beginning it

comes in and Tom Hanks deliver some incredible opening lines.

Some voiceover it's shot really beautifully but as you begin to

like, as, as the story unfolds, what you realize is that Forrest

Gump, Tom Hanks is retelling his entire life story at a bus stop.

Verse or cramps, the many incredible things of his life,

both bad and good. Not with malice or hatred far

from it actually, but with sambar and hopeful reflection it

isn't until the end of the movie, though, that the audience

is revealed to Forest trajectory he is waiting for a bus to go.

See his unrequited. His long unrequited, love, and

the son, he didn't know he had again.

I know this isn't perfect, but it does shed a little light into

how the perspective can shift. We see his whole life, the

beautiful, and the Ugly Church, the triumphs, and the defeats

the friends and the enemies, but here Forest isn't spiteful, he

may be exhausted more specifically.

In this exact moment, the movie, he like, just got done running

after like three years. And when I say running, I don't

mean like I went for a run in the morning.

I mean, kind of like that. David Goggins running 80 miles a

day Insanity. There's like a whole scene

towards the end where he just runs for three years because a

Earl, doesn't love him across country, not, like, down the

road. He runs from like Maine to

California. He's probably exhausted.

However in this moment at the bus stop where in the whole of

his life takes place, he is humble and he is reflective, he

is peaceful. And ultimately as he goes onto

the bus to carry on with his life, there's a glimmer of hope,

this is the Collision of his past present and future.

I think that's what Sabbath is church.

Sabbath will be a large roadblock for many of us chiefly

myself. I'm not good at it.

However, if a writer can redeem, a bus stop, I have Supreme

confidence in the Holy Spirit to redeem and set apart a day for

us to conform Us in preparation for eternity to illuminate us to

the beauty of the Sabbath church that is again.

Eternity, colliding and divine matrimony with time and

incarnate time of God opportunist.

Us with a glimpse of what is to come church.

That is our final rest in hope. That is the Sabbath.

Let's pray. Oh Lord, my Lord.

This is I day, the Heavenly ordinance of rest, the open door

of worship, the record of Jesus. Resurrection.

The Seal of the Sabbath to come the day when Saints militant and

triumphant unite in Endless song.

I blessed thee for the throne of grace that here, free favor

rains, that open access to it is through the blood of Jesus that

the Tails, torn aside. And I can enter the holiest and

finally ready to here, waiting to be gracious.

Inviting me to pour out my needs.

Encouraging, my desires promising to give more than I

asked or than I think. But while I bless these shame,

and confusion or mine, I remember my past misuse of

sacred things. My irreverent worship my base.

Ingratitude, my cold dull, praise sprinkle all my past,

Sabbath's, with the cleansing, blood of Jesus, and made this

day, witness deep Improvement in me, give me in Rich.

Abundance, the blessings. The Lord's day was designed to

impart, may my heart be fast bound against the worldly,

thoughts or cares. Flood my mind with peace.

Peace Beyond understanding made my meditations be sweet.

My acts of worship life liberty, Joy might drink the streams that

flow from thy Throne, my food, the precious word, my defense,

The Shield of faith and my heart.

Be more knit to Jesus church. All men.

Thank you. The English language is you can

almost turn anywhere.