12/11/2022 Midtown Church Sacramento
God’s Way: Prioritizing Rest –
Week 3 – Rest for Life
Pastor Bob Balian
Matthew 11:28-30, The Message
“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.”
A) Everyone needs: Submission rest
B) When we Come to Christ we get: Salvation rest
C) Occasionally we feel like we want: Christian rest
How to change Rest from a Moment to a Lifestyle
1. Get Closer
Matthew 11:28
“Come to me, all you who are weary and burdened, and I will give you rest.
2. Fear Not (what others think)
Proverbs 29:25, The Message
The fear of human opinion disables;
trusting in God protects you from that.
3. Control the Controllables
Psalm 46:10
He says, “Be still, and know that I am God;
I will be exalted among the nations,
I will be exalted in the earth.”
Exodus 18:7-9
So Moses went out to meet his father-in-law and bowed down and kissed him. They greeted each other and then went into the tent. Moses told his father-in-law about everything the Lord had done to Pharaoh and the Egyptians for Israel’s sake and about all the hardships they had met along the way and how the Lord had saved them.
Jethro was delighted to hear about all the good things the Lord had done for Israel in rescuing them from the hand of the Egyptians.
Exodus 18:13-16
The next day Moses took his seat to serve as judge for the people, and they stood around him from morning till evening. When his father-in-law saw all that Moses was doing for the people, he said, “What is this you are doing for the people? Why do you alone sit as judge, while all these people stand around you from morning till evening?”
Moses answered him, “Because the people come to me to seek God’s will. Whenever they have a dispute, it is brought to me, and I decide between the parties and inform them of God’s decrees and instructions.”
Hebrews 4:9-11
There remains, then, a Sabbath-rest for the people of God; for anyone who enters God’s rest also rests from their works, just as God did from his. Let us, therefore, make every effort to enter that rest, so that no one will perish by following their example of disobedience.
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