PAUSE: FINDING REST IN A RESTLESS WORLD
Understanding the Sabbath Day, God’s Sabbath Rest & Finding Quietness in Ultra-Busy Lives (Isaiah 30:15; 48:18 & 58:13-14). Today, we begin a study of the Sabbath Day that can impact the way we live for the rest of our lives.
TIME & MONEY: TWO BIG INDICATORS OF SPIRITUAL LIFE
There are two simple barometers of our spiritual lives: how we invest or spend our time and how we invest or spend our money. Counselors have long known that if you sit with someone and observe their financial and time usage habits, you will have a good picture of what’s happening in their lives.
Today, we examine how our time investment reflects our beliefs about whether God owns us.
God, our Creator, has shown us that the best way to live our lives is the way He, our Creator, designed us to operate. God has given us life measured by the time in which we live. God wants us to reflect His ownership of our lives by our time usage. As God said through Moses in Psalm 90:12 (NKJV):
12 So teach us to number our days,
That we may gain a heart of wisdom.
Investing our time wisely begins with understanding God’s ownership of it. This leads us to the start of time, the institution of the Sabbath Day, and all that God’s Word teaches about the rhythms of life laid down by our Creator at the dawn of human existence.
To understand the Sabbath Day, God’s Sabbath Rest, and Finding Quietness in Ultra-Busy Lives, we need to go back to the very foundation of our existence.
GOD CREATED TIME + SPACE + MATTER + LIFE
God alone is Eternal and Self-Existent, so everything else had a beginning.
All humans originated from one man, created by God on the sixth day of creation.
We know that because God said that in His Word. Please open with me to Genesis 1.
In that account, we find the first mention of time, days, a week of days, and the seventh day.
As we begin this study of the Sabbath Day, the subject of our study is a unit of time, a day of the week. It is the seventh day that starts all of this discussion. As we turn to where this entire topic starts, we will see the very first mention of days, and then the days of a week and the seventh day are all in Genesis 1-2.
The explanation of the Sabbath Day does not begin until Exodus and Moses. What is the first lesson we see in Genesis, before the giving of the Sabbath to Israel in Exodus?
THE EVENING & THE MORNING = ONE DAY
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