Sabbath Rest

Good morning. Good morning. All right, so I'm glad to see that you're here today. So if you have someone at CRTC, you'll have to just give him a summary of this message when you're done.

Am I loud enough to people hear me? OK, good. All right, great. So let me tell you about a guy named Carlos, a fisherman named Carlos.

He lived in a small fishing village on the coast of Mexico, a small town, a few painted boats, maybe 1,000 people in the whole town. And he would go fishing every day, of course. He was a fisherman. So one day, he's coming back from fishing.

Just caught a few fish on the elephant tuna, and getting off the boat onto the dock. And there was an American named David, an investment baker. That was on vacation, of course, checking his phone, looking around for opportunities. He saw this guy.

He said, hey, hey, I see you just caught a few fish. Is that it? Yeah, yeah, yeah. So what do you do the rest of the day?

Let me look up and see if I can do the rest of the day. He said, oh, well, here's the deal. I sleep late every day. And I fish a little.

I just did. I play with my children later on the day. I take a see yesterday with my wife, Maria. And in the evening, I walk to the village, and I play my guitar, and I drink wine with my amigos.

And David's like, yeah. David's eyes lit up. He saw an opportunity here. He said, hey, listen, I've got an MBA.

And I can help you. I can make you rich. You should fish longer hours. Buy a bigger boat.

Then maybe a second boat. And we can hire a crew. And then to get a fleet going, we open up a processing plant. Then we'll move operations to Mexico City.

Then, eventually to New York City. That's where I live now. And in 15, 20, 25 years, you can sell the company. We can sell it for millions of dollars.

And Carlos looked at him. Very politely. He listened to him. He paused.

And he said, well, and then what? David said, that, that is the best part. That's the best part. That's when you retire.

You buy a small place on a fishing village, and you sleep late, you fish a little, and you play maybe with your grandkids, take a siesta, play guitar, maybe have some wine with your friends at night. And Carlos looked at him. He said, good, I see us, but no, thank you. But that's us, isn't it?

David, grinding away for six days, maybe seven days a week, chasing the life that we think is waiting for us on the other side of more work. And God says, I'm offering it at life today. You can have it every week, every single week. Stop chasing the very thing that I'm offering up to you right now, as K said, good morning.

My name is Kacey, I'm an elder here at Grace. And all the other pastors and the other elders are on just me and Stephanie running the place. So I'm going to take it to Stephanie. So we are continuing our series.

We're in the sixth week of our series of what is called, spiritual gym. There it goes, right there. Spiritual gym, right? And we've gone over several workstations in the gym.

Fasting, prayer, word of God. We've had solitude. What else did we have? They had worship, right?

Did I cover them all? And then this week we have a new station. This one might surprise you. And I may have heard a few weeks ago when Pastor Ryan talked about going to Lifetime Fitness with Adam or Mero.

It's on record, not sitting wrong. Perfect, OK, great. And he said, I couldn't even find the weights past all the smoothie bars and massage chairs. But here's the deal.

The massage chairs, the sauna, and the recovery pools. There's a reason there. And they're also part of the spiritual gym. And that takes us to the title of this message.

And the discipline we're talking about today. And that is Sabbath rest. Sabbath rest. Sabbath rest.

Now, some of you say, well, that doesn't really feel like a discipline. That sounds like it's pretty easy. Unfortunately, for a lot of us, it's probably the hardest one of all of them. And not because it's so demanding that because it requires trust.

Because it requires trust. So like David, there's a little David in all of us that investment baker I just talked about. The relentless drive, the inability to stop. The belief that if you just rest for a moment, then you aren't taking lives seriously.

We're doing the same thing spiritually that David did when he was on vacation. Hunting, hustling, passing the very thing that God says, wait a minute, stop. Hold on. Running ourselves in the ground, ignoring the warning signs, believing that more effort equals more benefit, more growth.

Heading for a breakdown. Now, we get physical exhaustion, but we don't actually get the idea of spiritual exhaustion. But it exists. It does exist.

We call it a season. We're just in the season right now. Just in the season right now. But the consequences are just as real.

Spiritual burnout, moral, failure, and compassion fatigue. We're headed for a breakdown either physically or spiritually if we don't stop. If we don't stop. So fair warning.

Fair warning about this message. I'm going to meddle in your life. I'm going to meddle in your schedule, your weekends, your to-do list, your patterns, your rest, and your phone. Don't get mad at me.

Get mad at the Holy Spirit. I'm quoting the Bible. All right? So take it up with him.

Consider yourself fairly warned. Trust me. I'm going to say thanks today. You're going to go, that can't be true.

And I'm going to point to a Bible verse, and you're going to go, that can't be true. All right? So here's the question we're addressing today. Why can't we?

Why can't we just stop? Why can't we just stop and enjoy God one day a week? Is that so hard? Apparently so.

And today we'll find out why and what to do about it. So our recovery station that we're working on today has three sets or three parts to it. The first one is the design. Rest was built into us.

The need for rest was built into us. Then the second set, the second part is command. God made it non-negotiable. God made it non-negotiable.

And the third set, the third part is the practice. What do we actually do? What do we actually do? And that's where we're going to spend the bulk of our time today is on the practice.

And by the end of this, you'll know why and how to stop and enjoy God weekly. So we're going to do that. We're going to know why and how to stop and enjoy God weekly. The real question will be, though, will you?

Will you do it? So let's start. Set one, the design. All right?

God designed you, designed us, designed each one of us, our body and soul to need rest. And fighting that design breaks you. Fighting that design will break you. For the longest time, athletes throughout history, throughout all thought more work, more effort, lead it to better results.

The rest, resting, and recovery, that's for weak people, for the weak. However, modern science, modern medical technology has proven beyond a doubt. And modern athletes know this, that your muscles, your muscles do not grow while you're working out. They will grow when you rest, when you sleep, when you recover.

And this is a general principle that applies here. Growth happens in the pause. Growth happens in the pause, not in the midst of the chaos, not in the midst of all those lessons you're learning, but in the pause, in the pause. God's formula, this is how to build our bodies and how we build our souls.

Stress plus rest, stress plus rest equals growth. But stress minus rest, no rest at all means breakdown. God designed rest into your bodies, ignoring that will lead to consequences. Those consequences are not punishment, they're just physics.

They're just physics. The actual medical diagnosis, when you do too much, is called over-trained syndrome. It's a real medical diagnosis. Athletes who skip recovery, don't just plateau, they go down.

They go down. They have muscle loss, they have immune failure, hormonal collapse, the body will give you warning signs, but it won't do it forever. It'll eventually collapse, it quits. And here's the deal.

Those people that actually do that, they think they're being disciplined. And they are, but to a fault. But to a fault, they're destroying themselves. So it's clear, when you work out, whatever it is physically, work out, when you go through recovery, you will grow stronger.

But if you don't have recovery, you don't have rest, you will get weaker. So now we get to the pattern here. Now, where did this pattern start? It started at the beginning.

Let's start at Genesis. All right, Genesis two, two, three. On the seventh day, God had finished his work of creation. And so he rested from all his work.

God blessed the seventh day and declared it holy. Some of you, especially if you were hearing this kind of the first time, go, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, God rested? He was tired? How does he get tired?

I thought he was like all powerful. He didn't get tired. He's setting a pattern. He's setting a pattern.

God knew that he needed to establish a pattern for us. Work six days, take a day off. It's woven into the fabric of creation. It's not something culturally we choose to do.

It is cosmic. It is from God. David's problem earlier, the investment baker, wasn't his ambition. It was his blindness.

It's his blindness. He couldn't see that the fisherman already had what he was trying to sell him. He already had it. He thought hustle is how you get these things.

That may sound a little too familiar to some of us. Many of us in this room, many of us watching the video. We think we just do more. We just push harder that God will be more pleased with us.

But God isn't keeping score. He's offering you a gift. You can't earn what rest gives you. It's a gift.

You must just receive it. You must just receive it. Now somebody's going, OK, I get it. I get your point.

So why don't we actually rest? Good question. Before I get to that, let's talk about set two, which is the commands. The command.

What is the Sabbath? What is the Sabbath? When I say the Sabbath, some of you aren't very excited at all. You go, you actually kind of get stressed a bit about it.

A whole day of doing nothing. Have you looked at my schedule? Everything I have to do? This seems unnecessary.

Come on. I can take a break here and there whenever I need it. Not a whole day. And Jesus even set the record straight here.

The Sabbath was made for man in Mark 2, 27. Sabbath was made for man, not man for the Sabbath. So he's saying, yeah, the Sabbath is not a cage. It's not something to hold you in.

It's meant to be a gift. It's created to, Sabbath is created to serve us, not us, the Sabbath. So let's look at the keyword in Hebrew, which is shabbat. Shabbat, which literally means stop and enjoy.

It literally means stop and enjoy. That's what it is. The Sabbath is made to serve you. One day a week, you stop the hustle and enjoy God.

Enjoy people. Enjoy your life without having to produce something. Don't endure God. Don't perform for God.

Just enjoy God. But some of us still hear a whole day of doing nothing. That just feels irresponsible. With everything on my plate.

But God said that day, the day that you're saying is wasted, is the very point of the other six days. It's the point of the other six days. We've got it backwards. We think we rest to work.

We work to rest. That's why we do what we do. The week exists for Sabbath, not Sabbath, or the week. I really quiet in this room right now.

Really quiet. I think there's new information to virtually everyone. All right. Marva Dawn at the Elogians at this way.

The opposite of Sabbath is not work. It's joylessness. The goal of Sabbath is not to be unproductive, but to be deeply, deeply satisfied. God's not after your productivity.

He's after your joy. It's after your joy. The Sabbath is a day of joy. Every week waiting for you.

Why don't you take it? And now we get to that question. Why don't we rest? Why don't we rest?

I say there's three main reasons. Three main reasons why we don't. We're three problems. The first one is we're too driven.

We're too driven and we can't stop. I can't stop. That's like David the Banker. We are always looking for that next opportunity, that next thing, the next thing.

Go, go, go. It's discipline gone awry. It's discipline gone awry. Rest feels like weakness.

We're losing our edge. We've made an idol out of productivity. Productivity is my God. Productivity is my God.

We confused our output with our value. We've confused our output what we can accomplish with our value. Tim Keller, a pastor and author, said it this way. If you don't take a Sabbath, if you don't take a Sabbath, there's something wrong.

There's something wrong. You're doing too much. You've got to quit something. You've got to quit something.

The inability to take a Sabbath. The inability to rest is a spiritual issue. If you can't take a Sabbath rest, there is something fundamentally wrong in your life or there will soon be. We are prioritizing over God.

What is more important than God? What are you accomplishing? What is your skill set that's so important that God can't do without you for a day? For a day.

If you can't stop, that means you don't believe God can handle things without you. You don't believe God can handle things without you. Think of it this way. Romans 5, 8, Romans 5, 8, God demonstrates his own love for us in this while we were still sinners.

While we were still sinners, Christ died for us. That means when we couldn't do anything for him, we were of no productive value for him. He still sacrificed everything for us. Your worth is set on the cross, not at your desk.

Your worth is set at your cross, not at your desk. It's a gift, not a grade, not a rank. Right? Amen, right, exactly, exactly that.

So some of you get, okay, driven. I'm not driven. I'm not driven. And then said, look at my schedule.

I am over, I am drowning. Look, all the things I've done, driven, I'm just busy. And that's number two problem, too busy. Not that you can't stop, but you won't stop.

You won't stop. I'm not a second one. I consider busyness a form of fashionable rebellion. A form of fashionable rebellion.

Now some of you are going, okay, okay. It's just a busy season right now. There's a lot going on. There's so many things going on.

It's just busy right now. Soon it's going to let up. It's going to let up and things are going to be in. Really, really.

Okay, imagine suddenly everything cleared on your calendar. Imagine that. Would your reaction be hallelujah or would be, ah, I bet for a lot of us it'd be ah, because you're like, I gotta feel that calendar back up so I can feel important again. What are you addicted to?

God or approval? What are you addicted to? County 10 Boom Holocaust survivors said it this way. If the devil can't make you sin, he'll make you busy.

The devil can't make a sin. He'll make you busy. As I said earlier, busyness is a fashionable form of rebellion. I expected there'd be some mental pushback on that.

So maybe you go, no, no, no, it's not rebellion. If you're rebelling, it's because you don't love God. I love God. I am productive.

Look at my schedule. I'm at, look at me, church things I'm doing. I love God. This is not rebellion.

You got it all wrong. But really, what does rebellion do? It's distance use you from God. What does your busy schedule do?

It distances you from God. It's the same effect. Doesn't it may feel different, but it's the same effect at the end. So something you want to admit, did you just tell me that my busy schedule is keeping me from God?

Yeah, you got it. You got it. That's it. That's exactly what I'm saying.

You got it. Now something you got OK, OK, I got those. That's not my issue. I rest.

I rest. I go home. I collapse on the couch. I net flicks all day.

I rest. But I wake up the next day. I'm just as exhausted as I was before. Rest doesn't do it.

It's the wrong kind of rest. That's the third problem. The wrong kind of rest. You are escaping rather than restoring.

Distraction is not rest. Distraction is not rest. Collapse on the couch. Doom scrolling.

Binge Netflix. It started. John Mark Comer said this. Much of what we call rest today is actually just another form of consumption.

Media, entertainment, shopping, scrolling. It's all num-min, num-min, not resting. True rest is restorative. True rest is restorative.

There's a difference between rest and escape. So all of these problems have the same root. We don't trust God enough to stop. We don't trust God enough to stop.

Now some of you are going, OK, the driven person saying this. I trust you, God, but I got to get back to work. The busy person is saying I trust you, God, but you know, I don't know what I can take off. I trust you, God, the escaping person said I trust you, God, but I'd rather check social media than hang out with you.

These are different people, different excuses, but they all come down to God. God, you're not enough if I stop. I know I'm going to a lot of silence because I'm hidden. I told you, not going to like this.

I told you, not going to like this. Rest is trust made visible. Rest is trust made visible. Right now, a lot of us, including myself, this message is very convicting to me, are not showing him a lot of trust.

And that's exactly why this was not a suggestion. And that takes us to why I called this second set the command. The fourth commandment, let's read it. Exodus 28 through 10, the fourth commandment.

Remember to observe the Sabbath day by keeping it holy, set apart, separate from the others. You have six days each week of your ordinary work, but on the seventh day is a Sabbath day of rest dedicated to the Lord your God. It's the fourth commandment. It's in the list with the nine other commandments.

Same list, same authority. And so it's the same authority as don't murder. So let me go, wait a minute. Did you just put breaking the Sabbath and murdering people in the same category?

Well, it's not that I did. But let's put it this way. We never rationalize the other commandments. Okay?

We never go, sorry God, I'm too busy not to murder somebody this week. I couldn't afford to honor my parents. The bills are tight. If I wanted Stevie's truck more than he does, can I steal it?

It's not stealing, is it? All right? But when he comes to breaking the Sabbath, I just can't afford to rest. I got too much to do for that.

It's just a season. It's just a season. We act as though this command matters less. You know it doesn't.

You've always known it doesn't. You know it doesn't. Here's Mark again, John Mark comers. I'm going to screen again what he says very bluntly.

The Sabbath is the only one of the 10 commandments that Christians in America brag about breaking. Brag about breaking. You don't want to imagine someone come and walk and go, look at the watch I just stole. It's a Rolex.

Woo hoo. We'll be coming and go, I just worked 10 days straight. Give me a high five. Yeah.

We wear exhaustion like it's a badge of honor. God calls it disobedience. Ouch. It's actually my notes.

Ouch. Ouch. Exactly. But God saw this coming.

He knows you. He knows exactly who you are. You have six days each week for your ordinary work. But on the seventh day you must stop working.

Again, one of the things I love about the Bible, there are so many things that are complicated and understand about what does he mean by this? What's this dragon? What's this? I don't know.

It's something that are abundantly clear. You must stop working even during the seasons of plowing and harvest, which is to say even in your busiest seasons. So for Mattyby, even when it's back to school time at Target, you must stop working. Even your busiest seasons, you must stop working.

There is no qualifiers here at all. None. Zero. Zip.

Not up. We're too driven. We're too busy. We're too escapist.

We want to destroy ourselves. We don't know it, but that's what we're doing. That's why God commanded otherwise. Not to control us, but to save us.

God commands us to Sabbath rest because he knew we'd destroy ourselves without it. Consider this. A father sees their young toddler child headed towards oncoming traffic. Does he go, hey, buddy?

Can I get your eyes? Look at me. Hey, Uncle Mon, buddy, buddy. No, what he says is, stop.

I covered up my microphone. That's love in a hurry. This is what your God's doing to you. He's saying stop.

Rest. Trust me. It's a command because he knows you would do otherwise. You would head into oncoming traffic.

Understand, we take this very seriously at grace, at this church. How seriously? It's in the job description of our pastors. Our staff that's hired here.

They are required to take Sabbath, required. And if they regularly fail to take Sabbath, it is a fireable offense. It's written in their contract. If you don't regularly take Sabbath, we will fire you.

That's how serious we take it here. I hope you want us to take all 10 commandments seriously. Thankfully, we don't have to list. Do not murder.

But still, we're going to take all commandments seriously. Wouldn't you think it's important for the pastor to follow all 10 commandments? How about you? Exactly.

It's very important. We take it very seriously. We practice, at least as best we can, we practice what we preach. Rest is trust.

Make visible. Rest is trust, make visible. Now, somebody going, okay, you convinced me. I got it.

I got it. But I have no idea what to do on the Sabbath. I mean, come on. How do I take a Sabbath?

What does it even mean? Good question. We're going to set three, which is the practice and where we spend most of our time today, the practice. Set three.

The Sabbath has four threads or four parts. Rest. I'm sorry. Stop, rest.

Gather, delight. Stop, rest. Gather, delight. We're going to go through each one of them.

But before we do, I want to take a slight deviation and get the two set up questions. One is which day are we talking about and how do you prepare? So which day is the Sabbath? Which day is the very practical question.

Let's go over the common candidates here. We've got Saturday. Which is Saturday. At creation.

The fourth command is specifically names of the Sabbath day. It's the OG. The other option is Sunday. I mean, there's other options too, but another common option is Sunday.

Jesus rose on Sunday. Appeared to a disciple's on Sunday. Poured out his spirit, the spirit on Sunday. And the early church met often on Sunday.

This is a fun theological debate that we're not having today. I love those kind of things. We'll get together and have coffee and talk about it. I love it.

But here's the deal. Which day it is is not essential. Not essential. At grace we have a credo in essentials unity.

In other words, the most important things, we're going to be unified. And not essential is diversity. For the things that are not essential, not critical. We're going to have differences of opinion.

And that's fine. But no matter what, love. And all things love. Which day is non-essential?

Christians of good faith can come to different decisions. And that's fine. It changes nothing. The principle still holds.

That you actually rest one day out of seven and hold it separate for God. That's the fourth commandment. That's non-essential. I mean, that is essential.

That is essential. That is important. You have to do that. Here's the deal.

Pick a day and protect it. Pick a day and protect it. Put it on your calendar. Tell people about it.

Build your week around it. Understand this is important. The enemy of the Sabbath is not the wrong day. It's no day at all.

The enemy of the Sabbath is not the wrong day. It's no day at all. Now for the rest of this message, just to make things easy, I'm going to refer to the Sabbath being on Sunday. So if your Sabbath is a different day than adjust accordingly in your mind, however that works for you.

Now we're talking about preparation. The key to successful Sabbath is the day before. So in this case, Saturday. So you can't have a successful Sabbath Sunday without a good Saturday prep.

And this is why most people wind up struggling with the Sabbath is they did not prepare. Exodus 16, 22, or 25. We're not through, 22 and 25. On the sixth day, they gathered twice as much food, manna.

The next morning, Moses said eat it today for today is a Sabbath to the Lord. In other words, God gave them double the food on Saturday. In this case, Friday for them, the sixth day. So they could rest on the seventh.

The same principle applies to us. On Saturday, get your work done. Whatever this homework, schoolwork, yard work, whatever. Get your work done.

Get your groceries. Get your house clean enough so it won't bother you the next day. Prep your meals or have food ready that you can eat easily. Gas up the car.

Get the kids all taken care of. All that done. By the Saturday night, get your mind right. Get your transitioning.

Get your mind right. It's over this time. Remember that Sunday is not the day to catch up on the things you missed. That was Saturday.

Pray and prepare your heart for worship the next day. Preparation is not optional. It's obedience. If you don't prepare, you will not rest.

If you don't prepare, you will not rest. Now get to next thing. The Sabbath robe. This is a metaphor.

Not a real robe. It is a real robe, but this is a metaphor I'm talking about. Think of the Sabbath as a thick, luxurious robe. What kind of ones you get at a very high end hotel?

Good thing it's a cool day. Heavy, warm. The con you put on and you think, I'm not taking this sucker off. I don't know.

That is what the Sabbath should feel like. That's what's happened. The Sabbath is woven from these four threads. Stop, rest, gather and delight.

Let's get the first one. Stop. Stop. It's thread one.

Stop. The Sabbath, shabbat, literally means stop. Stop and enjoy. Stop.

Before you can rest, you have to stop. And God's very specific. It's very specific about what to stop. And the Hebrew words tell us exactly what it is.

So listen in. What are you supposed to stop? There's four things. Stop, laboring.

Stop working. The Hebrew word for work here is mela ka. It's the same word used for God in creation. Mela ka.

It doesn't just mean your job that you get paid for. It doesn't just mean your school work. It means any kind of purposeful, productive work. Any kind of purposeful, productive work.

He was so serious about it. He told Israel, do not light a fire in your home on the Sabbath. That's Exodus 35, 3. That's the ancient equivalent of saying don't do laundry.

Don't do the dishes. Don't mow the lawn. He drew a line not just through your paycheck. He drew it through your to-do list.

Does that make sense? Now, somebody going like this. Wait a minute, wait a minute, wait a minute. I love working on the car.

I love to work. I love to go for a run. Are you telling me I can't do these things? Well, here's the test.

Here's the test. Are you producing something? It's the reason why you're doing it. But why?

It's because you're being productive or because it restores you. It restores you. Be honest, those are two different feelings. If I feel like I've accomplished something, I've accomplished something.

The next feeling is that I feel arrested. Two totally different feelings. Why are you doing it? That's up to you to decide.

Well, you and God will know. But you decide which one it is. That's all there is to that. Next.

Stop trading. Stop trading. Nehemiah found merchants buying and selling on the Sabbath. He didn't treat it well.

He shut down the city gates. He posted guards. He was really upset. Hebrew word here is macar, which means to sell, to trade, to transact.

That means no shopping, no errands, no transactions of any kind, no commerce. The test here is it's money or good changing hands. If so, don't do it. Stop.

No objections are coming your head. I'll come back to that second. Stop demanding. Stop demanding.

Exodus 2312. You must rest so that your servants, your household and the foreigner, may be refreshed. The word here for refresh is nafash, which means to breathe, to catch your breath. What God is saying is he wants everyone in your orbit, your household, your employees, the door-dash person to take a break, to take a breath today, not just you.

That means you can't text your employees. Hey, I got a quick question. That means you don't load your kids down the shores so you can go rest. That means no one long shopping, no one care on that day.

Don't bring the crew over. Don't have Amazon deliver on that day, which I did this morning. So I already messed up. Think about who's working so that you don't have to.

Here's the test. Is your rest making someone else work? Now, here's where the revolt starts. Here's where the chairs are thrown and there's gnashing and screaming and hollering.

No, rest runs. I can't eat. What are you talking about? This is insane.

Get him out of there. I know. I know. I told you I was in the middle.

I expect major upset in this pushback, either resentment that builds over time or you're upset right now. And I welcome it. I would love. Please.

Someone come show me how I'm wrong on this. I'm not. All right. So it's clear in Scripture on Sabbath.

Jeremiah shut down commerce. And the M.I. 13, 15, 3, 19. Look it up.

Prove I'm wrong. God said your rest shouldn't cause someone else theirs. Exodus 2312. These are real texts in the Bible.

Read them yourselves. Okay. Listen, I'm not saying if after church today you go eat a cracker barrel you've committed us in. Not saying that.

Okay. What I am saying is recall, first one is I'm not saying that's good Mark 227. The Sabbath was made for man, not man for the Sabbath. We're not being legalistic here.

Not being legalistic. But, but, you probably should prep on Saturday and eat at home with your family, with your friends. That's more like real Sabbath. It's real rest.

It's not causing other people to work. That's more like true Sabbath. It's more like true Sabbath. It's more like true Sabbath.

Do you know who has to figure it out? Chick-fil-a. They're closed. You know this?

They're closed every Sunday. You know that very well. You're probably frustrated about it when you leave. Okay.

They don't make their employees work and they don't tempt you to trade and transact on that day as well too. And they don't make you force other people to work for you so you can rest. They lose millions of dollars every week. Millions of dollars.

Probably hundreds of millions of dollars every week. They're still the most profitable fast food chain per location in America. They trusted this very principle I'm talking to you about. And God has honored it.

You hear me. I hope you hear me. Understand, if you are going out to eat on Sunday, it's probably actually not about rest. It's probably because you didn't prepare on Saturday.