02 Sep Labor Day & Sabbath, 9/01/2019

Posted at 00:32h in connection sunday by

Pastor Pete Hartwig

Sermon Notes

TITLE: Labor Day / Sabbath Rest

 

LABOR DAY! – HISTORY

 

Jesus Is Lord of the Sabbath

SLIDE: Mark 2:23-27

23 One Sabbath Jesus was going through the grainfields, and as his disciples walked along, they began to pick some heads of grain. 24 The Pharisees said to him, “Look, why are they doing what is unlawful on the Sabbath?”

25 He answered, “Have you never read what David did when he and his companions were hungry and in need? 26 In the days of Abiathar the high priest, he entered the house of God and ate the consecrated bread, which is lawful only for priests to eat. And he also gave some to his companions.”

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.”

 

 

10 Commandments – a good thing?

 

Exodus 20  The Ten Commandments

 

430 Years Slaves to Egypt  – a people

 

20 And God spoke all these words:

2 “I am the Lord your God, who brought you out of Egypt, out of the land of slavery.

 

I am the God sets you free – slavery

Stay free!

3 “You shall have no other gods before me.

4 “You shall not make for yourself an image in the form of anything in heaven above or on the earth beneath or in the waters below.

7 “You shall not misuse the name of the Lord your God, for the Lord will not hold anyone guiltless who misuses his name.

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 male or female servant, nor your animals, nor any foreigner residing in your towns. 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.

12 “Honor your father and your mother, so that you may live long in the land the Lord your God is giving you.

13 “You shall not murder.

14 “You shall not commit adultery.

15 “You shall not steal.

16 “You shall not give false testimony against your neighbor.

17 “You shall not covet your neighbor’s house. You shall not covet your neighbor’s wife, or his male or female servant, his ox or donkey, or anything that belongs to your neighbor.”

 

 

The least applicable

4th–  The Sabbath one day for God

 

 

4thSabbath MOST IMPORTANT –

publicly monitorable

39 forbidden tasks – harvesting – reaping –

 

¼ mile “sabbath walk”  – TAPE ON POWER LINES

 

Traditions of men! 

Teachings of the Elders

No laws about Sabbath! NONE!

 

SABBATH REST? REALLY?

 

God completed His task – NOT ME!

 

God needed rest? 8thDay?

 

SABBATH REST “me?” – 4 – 10 Commandments

 

Charlottesville (spirit of)  – Forces you to be X

 

Athletic – Or LOVE sports! UVA – DUKE

 

The Alabama (Crimson Tide) – “pounded Duke” 42-3   “Crushed”

 

Educated –  college degree – RIGHT college

 

AMERICAN DREAM – retirement

 

I CAN’T do that!

 

High school

College – Med school

Newly married – physical, emotionally, spiritually

Young couple w/ a child

Middle school kids, High school kids, COLLEGE KIDS

Grand Kids –

Dead

 

 

Genesis 2:31 – It was the 6thday – God rested “Sabbath-ed”

 

JESUS  – synagogue on the sabbath

Serving on the sabbath – others can worship!

 

Sabbath = to CEASE!!!!

 

6 days – now CEASE those

 

The BLUE LAWS – consumerism vs sabbath

 

YOU WILL REST!  –

it is called exhaustion – it is caused a crash

 

God blesses 3 things

 

-animals things, Human beings, He blesses a day!

 

 

I REALLT DON’T BELIEVE THAT GOD PROVIDES

 

 

SLIDE:  FEET TO YOUR FAITH

 

KEEP God First!  – The sabbath

 

It is not “ME TIME” –

 

SABBATH IS FOR “MAN” – Jesus

 

When you finally STOP!

 

  1. You might have to deal with yourself

 

  1. The accuser might show up

WHAT IF I DON’T GET

CEO – Right college –

Spouse, parents, workaholism

 

IDENTITY – is Christ

W/ God

 

  1. Learn how to sit before the Lord

 

ONE DAY!

 

  1. I Trust God – worship
  2. Jesus is Lord – not American dream – CEASE!

 

 

  1. I need to refocus
  2. I need rest

 

 

THE CENTER OF THIS DAY IS A TIME ALONE WITH GOD.

 

light candles – turn off electronics

Feasting

Reading of bible

Singing

 

Love making on the sabbath

 

Walking – although limited

 

Physical rest – nap

 

Time with family and friends

Time alone

Thankfulness

No consuming

Condition of the heart

Trusting God at a HUGE level