Sermon Tone Analysis

Introduction

· Last Week – 2nd Service – Rest

Simplify | Solitude |Submit |Sacrifice

o Solitude and Sabbath are Kissing Cousins

· The Fear of talking about the Sabbath – you will rest from serving the Lord – Next Week

· The other fear – many of you are thinking to yourself – I am taking the Sabbath right now

My SABBATH BKREAKING REMINDER

· This morning we are going to see if in our Soul Care we can make Sabbath taking a regular part of our lives

The Original Intention of Sabbath (Exodus 20.8-11)

The Original INTENTION of Sabbath

(NIV84) 8 “Remember the Sabbath day by keeping it holy.

9 Six days you shall labor and do all your work, 10 but the seventh day is a Sabbath to the Lord your God.

On it you shall not do any work, neither you, nor your son or daughter, nor your manservant or maidservant, nor your animals, nor the alien within your gates.

11 For in six days the Lord made the heavens and the earth, the sea, and all that is in them, but he rested on the seventh day.

Therefore the Lord blessed the Sabbath day and made it holy.

· Rest

(NIV84) 2 By the seventh day God had finished the work he had been doing; so on the seventh day he rested from all his work.

- The Original Intention of Sabbath

o God rested

o Adam and Eve Rested – Paradise

o The Curse Brought work

Rest (Genesis 2.2)

§ 1st Missionaries to Hawaii

God Rested

§ The US is the most overworked Nation

Adam and Eve Rested

What is Work | What is Rest

Definitions

The Curse brought WORK

Establish a Holy Rhythm to our lives (Gen 2.3)

§ 85.8% of males and 66.5% of females work more than 40 hours a week

6 Days WORK - 1 Day Rest

Every Year - Rest part of the land

Every 7 Years - Everything Rests

Strengthen our relationship with God & Others ()

Holy

Holy

Focused worship on God

Focused Tim with Family

§ We work 137 more hours than the Japanese, 260 more hours than the British, and 499 more hours than the French

Focused Time with Friends

Transacts God’s Covenant into our lives ()

Renewing His Promes

What Sabbath has come to be ()

We follow the Letter of the Law, but not the Spirit

The Problem of the Sabbath - Legalism ()

Forgotten

We simplify it to an hour a week

Legalism - We follow the Letter of the Law, but not the Spirit

http://www.thenazareneway.com/sabbath/39_prohib_sabbath.htm

§ We do not get enough sleep, enough rest, or enough time away

Blue Laws

My Story of Non-Sabbath Taking

The Benefits of Sabbath Taking ()

It helps me Reflect and Remember ()

It helps me not to be disobedient ()

It helps Refresh and Restore my Relationship with God and Others ()

A Vacation from my problems - What About Bob - No Clip

How to Start Taking Sabbath ()

Admit you have blown it ()

Ask God to help you ())

Admit

Adjust your schedule TODAY by focusing on your relationship with God and your family ()

Then he said to them, “The Sabbath was made for man, not man for the Sabbath.

28 So the Son of Man is Lord even of the Sabbath.”

§ Don’t get me started on CHILDREN!!!

§ We figured out how to win two world wars, get Humans in space with people who had two – three recesses in elementary school

o Work and rest go hand and hand – if you get imbalanced you can wreck your life…

- The How of Taking Sabbath

§ We are the fattest nation in the world

- The Benefits of Taking the Sabbath

§ We lead the way in chronic conditions can be controlled and avoided with healthy lifestyle and exercise, including: cardiovascular disease, type 2 diabetes, infertility, hypertension, sleep apnea, high cholesterol, high blood pressure, osteoporosis, depression, anxiety, stress, and many more.

It helps us Reflect and Remember (Deut 5.15)

§ This generation will be the FIRST to live shorter lives than their parents!!!

From Work to Sabbath

Pastors are ONE of the WORST offenders of this

· Establishes a holy rhythm to our lives

(NIV84) 3 And God blessed the seventh day and made it holy, because on it he rested from all the work of creating that he had done.

o The Key Word is HOLY – Soul Care!!!

o 6 day WORK | 1 Day Rest – work/life balance

o Every Year – Rest a part of the Land

o Every 7 years – Everything Rests

Hook – what is so important

about your very important business…

· Strengthens our relationship with God & others

(NIV84) 12 “Six days do your work, but on the seventh day do not work, so that your ox and your donkey may rest and the slave born in your household, and the alien as well, may be refreshed.

o Focused time with God

o Focused time with family

o Focused time with others

· Transacts God’s Covenant into our lives

Review - make sure to say while Solitude and Sabbath are Kissing Cousins and have overlap - they are not the same thing!!!!

(NIV84) 16 The Israelites are to observe the Sabbath, celebrating it for the generations to come as a lasting covenant.

o A continual renewing of God’s Promises

o A continual reminder of our dependence on God

What Sabbath has COME to be

(NIV84) 27 Then he said to them, “The Sabbath was made for man, not man for the Sabbath.

28 So the Son of Man is Lord even of the Sabbath.”

· Forgotten

· Simplified to an hour a week

o Adam at the Hotel – it’s ok we are not at church today – my dad is a Pastor