Sermon Notes
Why rest from work?
Pastor Stephen Hsu
Gen 2:1-3
2 Questions: Why and How do we rest?
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BIG IDEA: We rest from work because God made rest holy, so that we can love Him more.
Thus the heavens and the earth were completed in all their vast array. 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. 3 Then God blessed the seventh day and made it holy, because on it he rested from all the work of creating that he had done.
—Genesis 2:1-3
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WHY REST FROM WORK?
1. Because God stopped work on the 7th day. (v. 2-3)
2. Because God made the 7th day holy. (v. 3)
3. Because rest comes before work. (1-3)
Busyness is the enemy of spirituality. It is essentially laziness. It is doing the easy thing instead of the hard thing. It is filling our time with own actions instead of paying attention to God’s actions. It is taking charge.
—Subversive Spirituality, Eugene Peterson
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HOW SHOULD WE REST?
1. Crawl: Be With Him (Mark 3:14)
2. Walk: Be Yoked to Him (Matthew 11:28-30)
3. Run: Delight In Him (Isaiah 58:13-14)
If you keep your feet from breaking the Sabbath and from doing as you please on my holy day,If you call the Sabbath a delight and the Lord’s holy day honorable, and if you honor it by not going your own way and not doing as you please or speaking idle words, then you will find your joy in the Lord…—Isaiah 58:13-14
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Conclusion:
I am my beloved’s and my beloved is mine. —Song of Solomon 6:3