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Summary:
The sabbath was made for man, not man for the sabbath. God gave it to us to help us enter into His presence. The Lord is wooing us and saying come into My presence and wait upon Me and be at rest.
Show Notes:
The Lord is opening up the sabbath rest to His people.
The Lord is saying, “come into My presence and worship and rest.
The sabbath already exist and we should simply enter into it.
The Holy Spirit is leading us into this rest. It is a overflow of His Spirit in us.
This is all about our relationship with the Father.
The sabbath rest in not a day, but a new age of the kingdom.
Quotes:
God gave it to us to be a blessing to help us enter into His presence, to lay aside every other thing, be in His presence in worship, and wait to on Him and know Him.
This has to be something that comes from your heart - and it's something that the Holy Spirit works in you...
We should let the Sabbath keep us instead of us keep the Sabbath. The Sabbath already exists. If we're looking to enter into something that already exist, that changes our approaches to it.
The Sabbath rest has to do with a greater flow of the Holy Spirit; in us and through us.
...if it's His spirit, it's going to automatically putting us in a place of peace and rest If that's what He's doing...
It all comes out of a relationship with the Lord, You have to have that time of coming into His presence and just drawing on Him.
The Sabbath is an age. It's the Age of the Kingdom.
Scriptural References:
Mark 2:27
Jesus said to them, “The Sabbath was made for man, and not man for the Sabbath.
Matthew 11: 28-30
28 “Come to me,all you who are weary and burdened, and I will give you rest. 29 Take my yoke upon you and learn from me, for I am gentle and humble in heart, and you will find rest for your souls. 30 For my yoke is easy and my burden is light.
Psalm 46:10
Be still, and know that I am God:
I will be exalted among the nations, I will be exalted in the earth.
Romans 8:26
In the same way, the Spirit also helps us in our weakness, since we do not know how to pray as we should. But the Spirit himself intercedes for us with groans too deep for words,
Psalm 16:11
You will make known to me the way of life; In Your presence is fullness of joy; In Your right hand there are pleasures forever.
Take Away:
The sabbath is an age, it's the age of the Kingdom. It is not just a day, its everyday that we can enter into His rest. The old age of human striving and futility is melting away as we are filled with His Spirit. In this new day we find that we don't keep the sabbath, we let the sabbath keep us.
