Season 3 Day 5 Genesis 2:1-3 7th Day, God’s Rest
Joy’s Notes:
Gen 2 sabbath
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Our group questions:
1. WHO are you God ?
2. WHAT are you like God?
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Are you just going through the motions?
Spiritual life = Dull? Lifeless? Joyless?
Are you burnt out? Overwhelmed?
SABBATH IS:
Remedy to BURN OUT!
It’s A heart-Rhythm that leads to intimacy & passion & nearness & being HELD by Jesus!!!
👉”I don’t need to “FEEL close to God to KNOW I’m close to God”
(Tim Kellar)
= spiritual maturity!!!!
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Gen 2:1
“the heavens and the earth were completed (“PUT IN ORDER”) in all their vast array
Genesis 2:2-3
“On the seventh day God had FINISHED his work of creation, so he RESTED (“CEASED) from all his work. And God BLESSED the 7th day and declared it HOLY
because it was the day when he RESTED (Shabbat) from all his work of creation.
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SAME HEBREW WORD!
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Joshua 5:12
“And the manna CEASED (stopped) the day after they ate of the produce of the land.
Hebrew word for CEASE= shabbat= sabbath
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Counter cultural message :
“We don’t rest from work; we work from rest!” (A posture of the heart— not just a “day.”)
• Empire system. = Striving
• Kingdom System = Abiding
EMPIRE anchored in scarcity (orphan mentality)
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FUNCTIONS IN:
• Striving
• straining
• Comparison
• Jealousy
• Control
• Outcome/results
KINGDOM anchored in Sufficiency (adopted)
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FUNCTIONS IN:
• abiding
• Safety
• Security
• Stillness
• Identity
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SABBATH:
Original sabbath (shabott)
Friday sundown to Saturday sundown.
Sabbath means: to CEASE from my work in order to celebrate Gods work🙌
Sabbath is: a celebration of Gods restoration!
• It’s where we choose to UNPLUG from the noise of our world!
It’s not a day of “rest”
BUT….
It’s a day of Celebration of what God has done!
It’s not a rest-sabbath; it’s a cease-sabbath.
CEASE translated to mean=
⁃ Sink down
⁃ relax
⁃ withdraw
⁃ Let drop
⁃ let go
⁃ let alone
⁃ refrain
⁃ Get quiet
“So few people know the warfare power of a heart at rest!“
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GOD FILLS IN SPACE:
I provide open space for His glory to fill atmosphere!
TABERNACLE
SOLOMON’S TEMPLE
— I remove external noise for God to come in and reveal his work with my heart)
“True Sabbath not only causes us to breathe, but it also causes us to laugh.” (Laughing Jesus!)
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🤍 a disciple (REST)
not a DETECTIVE
(Mary of Bethany)
“Your job is obedience, my job is results.” -God
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THE BRIDGE of 10 commandments:
• “Don’t misunderstand why I have come. I did not come to abolish the law of Moses or the writings of the prophets. No, I came to accomplish their purpose.” ~Jesus Matt 5:17
Jesus didn’t come to abolish the 10 Commandments, he came to fulfill them!
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👉The 10 Commandments in Exodus 20 deal with our:
1. relationship with God (first 3)
2. relationship with other people.(last 6)
“Love the Lord your God with all your heart, with all your soul, and with all your mind. This is the greatest and most important commandment. The second is like it: Love your neighbor as yourself. All the Law and the Prophets depend on these two commandments” (Matthew 22:37–40).
10 commandments:
1. You shall have no other Gods before me
2. You shall not make for yourselves an idol
3. You shall not misuse the name of the LORD your God
4. Remember the Sabbath day by keeping it holy
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THE BRIDGE
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5. Honor your father and your mother
6. You shall not murder
7. You shall not commit adultery
8. You shall not steal
9. You shall not give false testimony
10. You shall not covet
sabbath is the bridge To loving GOD, OTHERS & MYSELF !!!
I can’t truly love others or myself with out being a
SABBATHED-PERSON
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“Sabbath is legalistic”
One of the most dangerous ways we misuse our “freedom” is avoiding Sabbath.
⁃ sabbath IS a command!(A command of love!)
• Our instructional manual: “sabbath needed to function properly and to fulfill its purpose & original design intended by its Maker.”
• Manufacturer label= she is VERY good (abundantly exceedingly, pleasingly beautifully good)
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JESUS
Jesus celebrated the Sabbath by bringing RESTORATION!
• The sabbath is intended to be a day of MIRACLES !!!!
Jesus revealed to us that sabbath isn’t about the legality of a day
but of heart posture
🔥 (Jesus on the mountain)
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HOLY Day & satan:
• Sabbath was the first thing designated as HOLY in bible on the 7th day.
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This seventh-day rest is Gods victory dance!”
Satan keeps you away from sabbath
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If the sabbath day was declared HOLY- on 7th (complete & whole)
wouldn’t that be where satan would work to keep you away from!??
• But Everybody is in a hurry
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“ if satan can’t make you BAD, he’ll make you BUSY”🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥
• “Only in humility can I find REST —The arrogant are NEVER at rest.” Habakkuk 2:5
—-> and Satan is the AUTHOR of arrogance (Cuz he knows it leads AWAY from rest!)
⁃ Busyness keeps us from having to face our SECRET PAIN.
BUT….
⁃ Sabbath EXPOSES our secret pain.
AND….
⁃ Sabbath HEALS our secret pain!
👉sore spots!
Sabbath takes :
⁃ chaos to calm
⁃ Empty to full
⁃ Broken to mended
⁃ Crooked to straight
⁃ Dead to living
⁃ Dry bones to dancing
⁃ Upside down to right side up!
👉SABBATH enables us to Become Emotionally healthy people!
• sabbath helps identify patterns of our past by:
👉 collect, connect & correct the dots
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👉EXPOSE. EXPLAIN.
EXPEL.
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Sabbath is not intended to be HEAVY, it’s intended to be the space we find Gods LIGHT.