Finding Inner Rest, Part 2

Today on the summit life with Jeannie Greer so he commands us to work six days provide for ourselves by natural means that one day off of work on that they were saying the God God I am doing less able to do as you commanded me to, and ultimately providing for me is your responsibility so I'm depending on you to make up what I'm missing here but not author and religion Jeannie Greer. As always, I'm your host Molly, but events where the book of Hebrews chapter 4 with a study called, Christ is better if you missed any of the previous messages you can catch up with us by visiting JD Greer.com today Pastor JD again describes the potential danger of busyness see most of us are running so hard after success.

We miss out on God's best breath in his best almost always involves some sort of slowing down. Taking a deep breath and resting. So let's rejoin Pastor JD right now and Hebrews chapter 4 finding inner development. Development of the Sabbath on Scripture. The first Sabbath instituted is that creation God created the world six days and rested on the seventh day, through Moses, God commanded that we do the same so the command for commands found in Exodus 20 verse nine. Here is six days you shall labor and do all your work, but the seventh day is a Sabbath to the Lord your God, for in six days the Lord made heaven and earth to see you and all that is in them, and rested on the seventh day.

Therefore the Lord blessed the Sabbath day and made it holy. So he commands us to work six days to provide for ourselves by natural means benefit one day off of work, one that often do nothing, nothing that we could be doing something sometimes thought we ought to be doing something on that day were saying the God God I am doing less able to do as you commanded me to, and ultimately providing for me is your responsibility so I'm depending on you to make up what I'm missing here but not working that will Sabbath that was created Sabbath that God gave one day to stop and remember the doll of the point. God is the provider. How much did Israel contribute to their deliverance from Egypt, much interest zero right they help stimulate the flags was a great idea. Once you determine how the blood what you could knock off all the cows to block out the point that I better be the third leg like all the folds and release them on Pharaoh's porch did I would be more like the 10 practical jokes just ignored Pharaoh no what all by himself at the Red Sea grade out deliverance were God separated them from the armies of of each of the date that they help out with that deliverance was was like a group of people stand beside you blow this way will that we will soon become a cold frigid water.

Water also that I went down no rest that he is talking about here. The rest the final rest. The rest at all these other banks pointed to what Jesus the Sabbath commands and all the Sabbath teaching ultimately pointed forward to Christ. Jesus is the ultimate rest.

What I want to do is give you for statements about Christ that show you how is the ultimate Sabbath to show you how it is that you rest in him right for things about Christ that make him the ultimate Sabbath in the ultimate rest number one Christ is my righteousness. Christ is my righteousness she Christ restores to you the love and acceptance by God that you crave since creation. You know what you're craving that you were looking for when you are trying to get ahead in your looking for when you are getting married and you will always pursuit you may have you been looking for your soul been looking for that clothing. That was what it was God's approval, Christ gave it to you as a gift he gave you righteousness. He took away your souls naked and clothe with his garments, so therefore burst him look at it whoever's enter God's rest has also rested from his works as God did from his was ending the mean Chris is a work hard Crystal provide for themselves. Christians also Jesus fervently no longer working to justify myself no longer working to close myself no longer working to earn my place before God, because that's been given to me as a gift in Christ, Tim Keller talks about our damnable good works.

It's good works that we do because we don't believe that God has given us full righteousness of Christ. So we feel like I still got to accomplish this, and I still gotta be this good in order for God to accept and approve of me because you just don't believe that God has settled it forever in Christ that he could not love you anymore than he does. Right at this moment as he is completed, your salvation once for all. Christ whoever understands that has rested from his damnable good works.

We tries to earn acceptance before God.

Just like God did from his. Jesus did it, and he sat down so that means in trying to earn God's approval, you can sit down because you have in Christ. I Christ as my righteousness number two. This is very closely related about Christ as my identity crisis my identity.

One of the reasons that we can never rest is over.

Always try to prove ourselves improve our back value in what ways are searching to begin to do that is through our work right. When we build our identity or self identity on a work in you know that the exam what you see times about this goes back to the greatest one the greatest movies that any child of the 80s should note he wasn't in the 80s was 1978. Assailant is also one of Rocky one of the Rockies was really in a good one thought mama, Rocky 38 revised people in rest homes. That's us like we are. But Rocky one where you got those little Philadelphia tidbits that's trying to get said that you get this bike with the world champ Apollo Creed and remember that that scene where he is him walking around ice-skating rink with him and grant agreements right and I walk around Adrienne in your member.

She says rock like doing it. When you go to get into the ring with the world champ you know you will pulverize you your member Sylvester Stallone great philosopher theologian that he is. You remember his answer back hurt is actually pretty brilliant as a binder 15 rounds with the world champ, although I'm not above) is every good that's what I like binder 15 rounds of the world champ that although I'm not about that statement.

Even coming out of the mouth of Rocky Balboa is a statement about most people pursue life for you. It might not be 115 rounds of the world champ for you. It might be getting married and having children, and then you'll feel like you're worth something. It might be graduating a certain place in your class might be making a certain income live in a certain neighborhood officer got a car achieving something in your career. Whatever you're doing your trying to lift yourself out of bone. This right bone. This is just another name for nakedness nakedness is just another way of understanding our fallenness and imitate something that gets tiring when you're always trying to prove your value for what you accomplish what you work in your work right is even if you do the 15 rounds of the world champ yet some point.

Mr. T shows up to take them on sale and in some crazy Russian in nine minutes. Like just never ends right and you make an Rocky number 918 you like know what ago you and let it die.

You're not a bum bum, but it never ends. It gets tiring trying constantly to establish your work is to the gospel speaks profoundly differently to you. It says that you are held in the highest regard by the highest being and therein you find rest, I reminded myself that I have the highest regard by the highest being what that tells me I don't need your approval to feel good about myself anymore.

That means it means that I don't need to achieve a certain salary level. It means that our church doesn't need to get to be a certain size, I don't need anything besides him for everlasting joy because I have the highest regard by the highest being and if God is for me.

If God could not love me more than he does.

But who cares about the opinions of a bunch of no account earthlings. Christ is better is better psychologist save three learn this in psychology class psychologist save three of our biggest needs. Human beings are to feel clean but morally clean to feel safe and feel significant learning that my psychology class and then reading first Caribbean 611 and having it just explode off the pavement will be possible, says you were washed, your justify your sanctified in the name of the Lord Jesus about Spiro got washed you're going justify your safe before God of your sake, for God that would also be up for your sanctified means your significant set apart for God in Christ.

You are clean in Christ, you are safe in Christ, your significance that provides you with rest.

I can rest. This inner turmoil. This lack of interest. This constant anxiety all goes back to that sold nakedness.

I find rest from all of that in Christ that I have the highest acceptance by the highest being listen again all of you, but especially that is my heart right now for some of my fellow man. So you get this vacations are not really gonna work for you because your body might be resting but your soul is still in turmoil without Christ you will end up working even when you're resting with Christ.

You'll rested when you work your work is no longer done to prove yourself out of rest. Number three crisis my security crisis. My security surgery. Deuteronomy 5 minutes ago.

God says the children of Israel. I care enough about you living in slavery all by myself.

Now they are all the father Paul says listen essentially the exact same thing in Romans 830 Romans 830 of the New Testament version of the roundabout apostle Paul says he did not spare his own son, will he not also freely give us all things that saved you when you resented for Carrie Naumann shot right back to today's pastor JD in just a moment but first let me tell you about a daily email devotional that's available to our Senate like family. I know we all get slammed with lots of stuff. We simply don't care about this is Wendy Gill not only come to appreciate actually experience growth from as a result, the devotional even to follow along with our current teaching in the book of Hebrews. You can stay plugged into these messages regardless of your schedule to sign up for this free resource.

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Now let's get back to the final limits of today's message here is to ascertain the brings back around the Sabbath command that one day off a week is such a pretty good deal is not the today off and I'll pay for it anyway by multiplying your work in the other six days give money away the things that is a believer you love and I'll pay you back on multiplying that money back to you.

What idiot would turn down the deal right. 40% you that the Sabbath day in the 70% of you little time. That's the boom roasted night night. That wasn't and not try and use this try to imply that this is about manipulation to really not. Sometimes the fullness that God gives back to you is not financial because he knows the bigger need that you have is not financial and I used to tell people I used to never tell people about all the promises in the Bible that God gives about multiplying your time and your money when you honor him Sabbath and with Tylenol echoes up is when I did I felt like one of those crazy TV preachers your leg or my man got a multiply and I hate that the folks I'm going tell you there's a 20 verses in the Bible from the bars I was being unfaithful to Scripture to you when not in the least. Tell your brothers versus Proverbs 1124 25 verse 29, Malachi 3 dance across 31 to 6 38.60.you were God says you honor me and you watch because I want you learn that I'm the provider and you honor me out of faithfulness to me and you watch when I get back to you and I know some use in your thinking all you know he's doing this because this is not about the offering is not the point right about now tell you does not mean is very fiber might be that the proper you give it somewhere else.

I don't need it. Okay, amigo.

This is not about what I need is a pastor of the church. This is about your soul. Understanding that the weight of responsibility is not supposed to rest on you what God wants from you with faithfulness and when you are faithful to God. God says I will show myself as your provider. Someone asked you to do less and you can you give me space to work.plaintiff listen if you're trying to manipulate God. That's your heartedness. That's a hard issue between you and God. But see if you're given in faith you're saying God and honor you as you commanded it with my time and my money.

I will let you be my security. That's exactly what God wants from you and why did you commit your severe security want you to be your own security before I move on the last point here.

Let me share with you one other place in Scripture that this principle has become especially sweet to me. I love it when my favorite songs someone 27, one someone for someone if you can't find it up on the screen for unless the Lord builds the house as you build it labor in vain unless the Lord watches over the city, the watchman stays awake in vain. It is in vain that you rise up early and go late to rest eating the bread of anxious toil, for he gives to his beloved sleep here, something never jerked. What is the sign in verse two.

What is the sign that you know God sleep looking at a handful of you right now that are demonstrating you know God by this moment salsa is not because we be talking about what is the sign in this verse that you know God, sleep, rest, God intended sleep to be a time every day where you remind yourself that you're not God, and God says you're not me you're not me. It's not your responsibility to guard the city. It's not your responsibility to build a house or pay the bills. That's my job. It's your job. Be faithful and after you been faithful you can lie down to sleep and leave it on my that my friend listen is why God designed you so that you need sleep and you need Sabbath to that you could remind yourself daily and weekly that you're not God, and until you get this principle listen again vacations and I don't work for you to save on your vacation to give you more knowledge and I didn't worry about the money and not make it which is what you man cannot leave that stupid phone at all. You recognize the best the original sin original sin is that I want to be God does. As you will be me. That's why some of you men. You can unplug from activity but you never unplugged from the strain souls are provided to rest in Christ righteousness your identity or security number four Christ is my priority? Priority member Sabbath was given to teach them once a week.

The Christ was the point of it all yet a stop once want to ask why you're doing what you're doing an amazing how many times we don't ask the most fundamental questions about life.

But what are we doing over doing who's all for personal goal and why my here whenever asked that question, we just get involved in the activity of some is like driving a car you're worried about you the direction of the mirror in your word about what radio stations on how loud it is was acclimated will write in the car, you know, that's all great but I would suggest you there's an even more important question you want to ask when you got a car where you going, I would say that's the most for the middle question about driving a car is where are you going to do you know where you're going to start evaluating whether the decisions of the turns are making a right once. That's why love my little your GPS with my inner British woman in their because I just tell her I want to go in and she starts to evaluate the decisions I make. You want God to tell me that's going to help me get to where I need to go right as I can. So this is where I'm going in and in and then turn right here is wrong, but you understand, listen when you stop and think about what you're going to might help you make evaluations about decisions did not exit job might help develop cash bond, but because your children.

Maybe everyone's life stop and realize that that's a much more important objective in God's use your children to their eternal nut job is not yet making this move would be good for my career but it's not good for the kingdom. And it's not good for my family.

In light of eternity. I think the kingdom the family are much more important than exactly how much money I make a where my career ends up Sabbath and tithing remind you that God is your priority.

Many of you this is precisely the place where your faith, listen to become real because this is where the rubber of your faith hits the road you got is this theory God, but this is where action comes real, L. M. It ought to grip me all these letters for much of anniversary or the church melody from a girl no longer goes to church or she moved out west Mr. G. Pressures of this said, I am. I came to Christ at your church. I started to date a guy at the summit who also came to Christ, dear so we really grow in our faith. It was an exciting time we got engaged.

She said shortly after we got engaged after one of your sermons. He came to me and he said God has convicted me that I need to start typing she said I freaked out because I knew that if he was in start typing when the school of thought on his money usually died on my money and she said I was all fine with God being out here in everything she said but that's real money, real money, and she says it freaked me out because she went on her letter. She said the God use that to show me the difference in the faith that was in word only a faith were actually trusted God. She says I know you get a lot of hate mail whenever you talk about giving and I do I do I am ready for. She's in a a lot of hate mail, but I want you to understand that this issue of giving is exactly the place where my faith went from being a theory to be in something where I actually in reality trusted God for many of you this is going to be the issue show you whether or not trusting God is out here.

Whether trusting God is actually how you live is when you trusting God you honor him first. You do what he tells you to do and you leave the rest to him. Summit church listen I will tell you there is grass much rest and having Christ as your priority because I know the pondering about modern Christ is my priority.

He promises to provide everything else everything in my favor promises. Matthew 633 but seek first the kingdom of God and all these things will be added to you all be singular. That includes the Greek word translated all a very unusual word literally means all you and all means everything we do the talking word all means your job, your finances into retirement. It means whether not to get married.

Whether or not you have children, relationships, all of its all of it when Christ is your priority when you put him first and he says everything else to be added to you right away and supporting this waiver for one. Therefore, all the promise of entering his rest still stands still available, let us fear lest any of you church should seem to have failed to reach it. Let us therefore strive to enter that rest, so that no one may fall by the same sort of disobedience is racially failed. They would believe they thought they still needed to build their identity based on that hastily derive their security. They made themselves a priority and they did not enter in the gift that God had offered and which is rest in Christ is a gift and a gift has to be personally received as a gift that is offered to you. Christ is paid. All your sin that your righteousness is offered you full acceptance of the father.

He says that would be your identity because we have a love of the father, the highest being gives you the highest approval you will need everything else will be your security because he will watch over you as a tender father no longer live underneath the rain of a cruel taskmaster. He will be your priority. Which means you honor him and everything else you will add to you. That's a gift, and he says if you enter you will find rest for seven today if you will hear his voice to not harden your hearts, and when you begin arresting him you'll find your work. Don't quit working hard. It just takes on a different flavor. It's not a work that comes out of strain at work comes out of rest. You can rest even while you're working as you found your identity and your security telling you this permitting will be a line in the sand. Look at your life and parts as you start to understand price. Your identity Christ as your security. Christ was rising be around your soul. Finally, experience rest rate never been able to find your true rest is available to you striding so far and take time to enjoy the blessings of Jesus message today on Senate life when pastor Jeannie Greer clearly teaching series called Christ is better and you can hear previous messages or download the sermon transcript when you visit us online@jeanniegreer.com while you're there, you can also browse pastor Jeannie's blog he covers topics about real life issues with wisdom straight from God's word. We subscribe to our email list. Gilbert future blog posts and resource updates sent straight to your inbox go to Jeannie Greer.com Senate life is here for you every day on your radio station online thanks to the generosity of listeners like you donate because they want to reach more people and when you join our team and donate today. We'll say thanks by sending you our featured resource from pastor JD Bible study that follows our current teaching for the 10 sessions to drive home that the average devotion we want each chapter of the book of Hebrews to challenge and encourage you in your walk with ask for your copy when you begin by calling 552 24. Get a copy when you donate online. Jeannie Greer.com by Molly Vivace sewer to join this study right here on Senate life Jeannie here