To be busy is part of our national identity because we no longer have boundaries.
We are stressed because we are so
busy:
because we are busy we are tired;
we are tired, but we don’t know how to rest.
Rest is the cure for our stress.
It is a gift from God which is available to all of us.
Rest can happen any day or night.
Looking for Rest in all the Wrong Places
(Hebrews 4:1) God’s promise of entering his rest still stands, so we ought to tremble with fear that some of you might fail to experience it.
Rest is deeper than sleep.
Rest is more than time off.
Rest is better than escape.
People are intentionally detaching from the real world through pills, drinking, porn, Net Flix, and social media.
Escapism promises a lot,but delivers little.
If you need to rest, you need to go to God.
God knows the realities of our world.
(Matthew 11:28-30 MSG)
“Are you tired?
Worn out?
Burned out on religion?
Come to me.
Get away with me and you’ll recover your life.
I’ll show you how to take a real rest.
Walk with me and work with me— watch how I do it.
Learn the unforced rhythms of grace.
I won’t lay anything heavy or ill-fitting on you.
Keep company with me and you’ll learn to live freely and lightly.”
1.We rest in salvation.
God is completely satisfied with you if you've trusted in Jesus.
When God sees you, He sees Jesus.
We enter God's rest through repentance and remain through relationship.
The turmoil might be around you, but in Him you can't feel it at all.
But it did them no good because they didn’t share the faith of those who listened to God.
For only we who believe can enter his rest.
As for the others, God said, “In my anger I took an oath.
‘They will never enter my place of rest,’” even though this rest has been ready since he made the world.
We know it is ready because of the place in the Scriptures where it mentions the seventh day:
“On the seventh day God rested from all his work.
2.We rest by keeping Sabbath.
The people of Israel had been slaves in Egypt and had no rest.
Sabbath does not mean inactivity, but to have fellowship with God and each other.
It means that you're not required to do anything.
I don't always have a day, but I can build Sabbath into every day to fellowship with God and others.
It's difficult to have a Sabbath, so it takes discipline.
Take a day off, and trust God in it.
Remember the Sabbath day, to keep it holy.
Six days you shall labor, and do all your work, but the seventh day is a Sabbath to the Lord your God.
(Hebrews 4:9) There remains, then, a Sabbath-rest for the people of God.
3.We rest through significance.
Attach purpose to everything that you do.
When it talks about rest here, it is a different Hebrew word.
It's not talking about what we're doing, but why we're doing it.
It's about getting others into heaven.
It's when our why becomes the same as God's why.
It's about spending eternity with people who would not know God otherwise, but through you.
(Revelation 14:13)
Then I heard a voice from heaven say, “Write this: Blessed are the dead who die in the Lord from now on.
“Yes,” says the Spirit, “they will rest from their labor, for their deeds will follow them.
Lord, please take my life with all it's burdens, and give me your rest.
I surrender my life to you now and forever more.
Notes taken from Mark Pettis, Highlands College President, Church of the Highlands
Stress is contagious.
We pass it on to our children.
It's hard not to be always working because of technology.
To be busy is part of our national identity because we no longer have boundaries.
We are stressed because we are so
busy:
because we are busy we are tired;
we are tired, but we don’t know how to rest.
Our problem is the absence of rest.
Rest is the cure for our stress.
It is a gift from God which is available to all of us.
Rest can happen any day or night.
(Psalm 127:2 NLT) It is useless for you to work so hard from early morning until late at night, anxiously working for food to eat; for God gives rest to his loved ones.
Looking for Rest in all the Wrong Places
(Hebrews 4:1) God’s promise of entering his rest still stands, so we ought to tremble with fear that some of you might fail to experience it.
Rest is deeper than sleep.
Rest is more than time off.
Rest is better than escape.
People are intentionally detaching from the real world through pills, drinking, porn, Net Flix, and social media.
Escapism promises a lot,but delivers little.
If you need to rest, you need to go to God.
God knows the realities of our world.
A Real Rest
(Matthew 11:28-30 MSG)
“Are you tired?
Worn out?
Burned out on religion?
Come to me.
Get away with me and you’ll recover your life.
I’ll show you how to take a real rest.
Walk with me and work with me— watch how I do it.
Learn the unforced rhythms of grace.
I won’t lay anything heavy or ill-fitting on you.
Keep company with me and you’ll learn to live freely and lightly.”
1.We rest in salvation.
God is completely satisfied with you if you've trusted in Jesus.
When God sees you, He sees Jesus.
We enter God's rest through repentance and remain through relationship.
Rest means the calming of the winds.
The turmoil might be around you, but in Him you can't feel it at all.
(Hebrews 4:2-4 NLT)
For this good news—that God has prepared this rest—has been announced to us just as it was to them.
But it did them no good because they didn’t share the faith of those who listened to God.
For only we who believe can enter his rest.
As for the others, God said, “In my anger I took an oath.
‘They will never enter my place of rest,’” even though this rest has been ready since he made the world.
We know it is ready because of the place in the Scriptures where it mentions the seventh day:
“On the seventh day God rested from all his work.
2.We rest by keeping Sabbath.
The people of Israel had been slaves in Egypt and had no rest.
Sabbath does not mean inactivity, but to have fellowship with God and each other.
It means that you're not required to do anything.
I don't always have a day, but I can build Sabbath into every day to fellowship with God and others.
It's difficult to have a Sabbath, so it takes discipline.
Take a day off, and trust God in it.
(Exodus 20:8-10)
Remember the Sabbath day, to keep it holy.
Six days you shall labor, and do all your work, but the seventh day is a Sabbath to the Lord your God.
(Hebrews 4:9) There remains, then, a Sabbath-rest for the people of God.
3.We rest through significance.
Attach purpose to everything that you do.
When it talks about rest here, it is a different Hebrew word.
It's not talking about what we're doing, but why we're doing it.
It's about getting others into heaven.
It's when our why becomes the same as God's why.
It's about spending eternity with people who would not know God otherwise, but through you.
(Hebrews 4:11)
Let us, therefore, make every effort to enter that rest, so that no one will perish by following their example of disobedience.
(Revelation 14:13)
Then I heard a voice from heaven say, “Write this: Blessed are the dead who die in the Lord from now on.
“Yes,” says the Spirit, “they will rest from their labor, for their deeds will follow them.
Lord, please take my life with all it's burdens, and give me your rest. I surrender my life to you now and forever more.
Notes taken from Mark Pettis, Highlands College President, Church of the Highlands
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