Fourth Commandment, which is remembering the Sabbath day, remembering the Sabbath day. I've just entitled the message today, The Rhythm of Reverence. And if you wanted a little tale snippet there, you could say living by God's tempo in a world that doesn't stop living by God's tempo in a world that doesn't stop. Anybody busy these days? Yeah, okay. I know we're Baptist. I'm not expecting hand raises. Okay. But, you know, you think about life. It's filled with to do's, right? To do's. We always are doing. We are busy people. Some would even say we are extremely busy people. I mean, just think back to some of you snickered and chuckled and said, well, I'm retired. But anyway, and I've even heard that some who say they're retired are more busy now than they were keeping schedule than maybe they were before. But we do find ourselves occupied by life in a lot of ways. And as we think today, just think back over this week. As today, Sunday being the first day of the week. So we've completed a week. This is the first day. So looking back on last week, how busy were we? How much were we doing? And brothers and sisters, the temptation is for us to look past this commandment. I think a weekly Sabbath rest is a gift from God. The really the struggle here is simply trying to answer this question. Who gets to determine what do you do with your time? Who determines or who gets to determine what you do with your time? You know, the Bible has a lot of things to say, and it also gives to us a theology of time, a theology of time. Some would even say a theology of rest. And I hope you understand that there is a theology of rest. And so what we're going to do today, I have wrestled with this all week, uh, you know, going into the Sabbath, thinking about the Sabbath and obviously probably, hopefully there's some questions within your mind thinking, well, Saturday was the Sabbath. Why does Christians call Sunday the Sabbath? What is it really the Sabbath? Who knows what the Sabbath is anymore? What do we do on the set? There's tons of questions we've got to answer in 30 minutes. Well, some of you said 30 minutes. Yeah, whatever. But, you know, more than likely 45. But in saying all of that, I really want to try my best to at least help you get a understanding, an overall understanding of the Sabbath. And in order to do that, the sermon will more so be bullet point style rather than necessarily a lengthy exegesis on Deuteronomy five. But in order to understand the Sabbath, do we start in Deuteronomy or where do we got to go? We've got to go back to the beginning, right? We've got to go back to creation. And so I'm going to give you a few bullet points as we go along just about the Sabbath, and I'm hopefully going to lead you up to the new covenant and what we understand today. But as we think about the Sabbath and we think about the law of God, please remember what we said at the beginning of studying the law of God, the moral law of God here. I've told you before, and I'll keep telling you. That as we study the old Baptist confession, the old guys, the theologians of old, they helped us to understand that we can break the law of God down into three headings. Moral, judicial, and ceremonial. Those are the three aspects of the law of God that you can divide it out. judicial, ceremonially, judicially and morally. Now, all three of those we know and confess that Jesus Christ has fulfilled them perfectly without sin. The question we now ponder with is what do we do with it? What do we do with the law of God? And we want to be careful that we don't set aside the Old Testament from the New. We don't want to be guilty of thinking we have two different Bibles in two pieces of leather. How does this all flow together? How does it fit? How is it consistently revealed to us throughout the text? And this is what we consistently find. is that the law of God was never given to the people of God in order that they might be saved. The law of God was never given to the people of God in order that they might be justified. The law of God was given to the people of God in order to guide them. The only way any person has ever come to be saved is by grace alone, through faith alone. in Christ alone. Abraham believes God and it was credited to him as righteousness. He was a believer, a justified member of the people of God prior to the giving of the law of God. And so the law was never given to justify them. The law was given to guide them. And so today, in that the law has been fully kept by God through Christ, What do we do with it? Do we just cast it off as though it's some of those things that were talked about in the Old Testament? What do we do with the Ten Commandments? How do we apply this to our Christian lives? Well, in saying all of that, we know ceremonially that Christ is the sacrifice, that Christ fulfilled all of those sacrifices, having offered himself once for all as the Lamb of God. And we know that judicially that those laws that were given to the nation of Israel governed them as a national people, judicially or civilly. Now you and I know that we no longer continue under those other than the general equity that lies in the midst of them. Now you say, what does that mean? I share this as an illustration just because it's the most simplest one that exists. But in the Old Testament law, the Bible, God told them that they were commanded to build a kind of like a precipice around the roof of their home. And the reason they did that is because they didn't want nobody to fall off and die, which meant that the homeowner valued human life. So the general equity or the general concept or the general principle value that you and I can take from learning that law is that we want our dwelling to be safe for those who come and visit. Amen. Okay. Now what do we do about the moral law? The 10 commandments? Well, the 10 commandments continue to abide on those who are Christian. They continue to abide for those who are Christians. The moral law of God does not get set aside. The moral law of God no longer condemns us because in Christ there's what? No longer any what? Condemnation, Romans 8.1. So what does the moral law teach us? It teaches us how to love God, And how to what? Love others. And the call upon the Christian life is to love God and love what? Neighbor. Well, your next question is how do I do that? I'm thankful we've got 10 bullet points, aren't you? We like refrigerator lists. Or maybe our wives do, but they're there, sometimes in bold. But in saying all of that, we come to the fourth commandment. We've been told who to worship. We've been told how to worship. And now we're told when to worship. So when we think about the Sabbath, we wanna go to the beginning. So if you'll go with me to Genesis chapter two, verse number three, and we'll just go here. For the sake of time, I'm not gonna get you to turn everywhere I'd like for you to go, but I'll give you all the reference points. But Genesis chapter two, verse three. Genesis chapter two, verse number three. In the beginning, in the beginning, as we think about creation, Genesis chapter two, verse number three. There is a rhythm that God has implemented or worked into the created order. There is a rhythm that God has created and placed into the very foundation of our existence. Three things come in the midst of creation. There are three ordinances that God has placed into the rhythm of the world. And the three things are this, the Sabbath, marriage and work. Those three things have been directly implemented into the created order. Sabbath, marriage and work. Now I want to give you those three. The first one being the Sabbath. Genesis two verse three. Then God blessed the seventh day and sanctified it because in it he rested from all his work when God, which God created, had created and made. That's the Sabbath. Jump down to verse 13. I'm sorry, verse 15. Verse 15. Genesis 2, verse 15. Then the Lord God took man and put him into the garden of Eden to cultivate it and keep it. To cultivate it and keep it. The Lord not only instituted the Sabbath, but he's instituted work. Now you jump down to verse 18. The Lord said, it's not good for man to be alone. I will make him a helper suitable for him. So we have the Sabbath. We have work and we have marriage. Those three elements, those three ordinances, you could say, have been implemented into our world as the rhythm by which God leads the world in its flow. Marriage, Sabbath and work. This is the flow that God has put into the mix. Now our focus today is not on marriage and labor, but our focus today is on the Sabbath. And when we think about the Sabbath, you may ask the question, well, what was the Sabbath given for? We know that God created the world and then on the sixth day, then he rested on the seventh day, right? We know that, but why was it given? Did God get tired? Now, hopefully that's a thought provoking question for you. Hopefully the answer would be no. Well, then why do you give it? Well, Jesus gives us the answer. Mark chapter two, verse 27. Jesus said to them, the Sabbath was made for man and not man for the Sabbath. In other words, the reason that God gave the Sabbath was for man. It was a good thing for mankind. It was a good thing for all creation that God worked into the rhythm of life a day of rest. The Sabbath reminds us that the rhythm that God has planted into our world is indeed theological. that it's grounded in the creation, the Sabbath. It's also part of the command within the covenant community. And it's also fulfilled throughout redemptive history. Now, God established the Sabbath at creation by resting on the seventh day. And this was not due to the fact that God got weary or tired. It was a pattern for mankind to follow. six days of labor and one day of rest. From the beginning, God placed a unique blessing on the Sabbath day, and he calls mankind to remember this day, to sanctify this day. In other words, to set this day apart from all the others because it is our way to follow God's pattern of work and rest. The command even extended to all the animals, showing that God's intention with the day of rest was not just to bless man, but it was to bless all creation, all creation. Isn't God good? He blessed all creation in Exodus 20 at the first giving of the law. It speaks of the same thing about the animals and the sojourners and all the servants and so forth. And when the Bible says, remember the Sabbath day to keep it holy, that word remember is not just commanding you and I to intellectually reflect on the day of rest, but actually commanded to set it aside and do it, to do it, to rest. So we see, first of all, today that the Sabbath is a creation ordinance. Secondly, the Sabbath is about rest and refreshment. God gave the Sabbath rest to free man up from his slavery to labor. By God's grace, you can work six days and provide for seven. God lets you work six days and it provides for seven days. The Sabbath then is also a sign of God's creative purposes. It's also a sign of God's saving grace, just like the rainbow that God put in the sky with Noah. As we think about the Sabbath, it was also a sign that God would take care of his people even though he let them one day rest. that God would take care of his people. You see, trusting the Lord in the Sabbath meant resting from business as usual, as you read in Isaiah 58 and Amos 8, and then gathering for a sacred or set apart assembly, as we read in Leviticus 23. In other words, the Sabbath equals two things. Worship and rest. Worship and rest. They're linked all throughout the scripture. Hear me say this. We rest so that we might be free to worship God. And we give worship to God in part by trusting him enough to rest. I'm gonna say that one more time. We rest so that we might be free to worship God. And we give God worship in part by trusting him enough to rest. This is built into the Sabbath that God has called us to rest and refresh. Exodus 23, 12, six days are to do your work, but on the seventh you shall cease from labor. Exodus 31, 17 is a sign between me and you and the sons of Israel forever, forever. Six days the Lord made heaven and earth, but on the seventh he ceased from labor and was refreshed. So just as God rested and refreshed, as the scripture says here from his creative work, so people are called to cease from their labors and find refreshment in him. So we see Sabbath as a part of the creation ordinance. We see Sabbath as a part of refreshment and rest. And thirdly, we see Sabbath as, well, I'm sorry. Thirdly, we also want to see the Sabbath in Israel's life. And this is where we'll come back to Deuteronomy five. So the 10 commandments have been given to Israel twice. You remember in Exodus 20, the 10 commandments were given. And when Moses finally came off the mountain, what'd he do? He broke the tablets, right? He broke the stone tables. Well, he broke them because the people of Israel had formed the golden calf and they began to fall down and worship the calf. So they didn't enter into rest because of their unbelief. And because of their rejection of God, they were sent out into the wilderness to wonder for 40 years. before he brought them back to enter in. But in the life of Israel, you see the Sabbath observed in three or four different ways. One way, you see it done weekly. Work six days, rest on the seventh. You also see what is called a sabbatical. Sabbatical years. Every seven years, there was given rest for the land and rest for the people, according to Leviticus 25. Then you have what is called a jubilee year. Every 50 years there would be this great proclamation of liberty, of freedom, and the property would be returned. All debts would be canceled. Everything would be set free. Leviticus 25. And then this trumpet would sound all throughout the land, which meant that all debts were canceled. That's what it meant. And so the rhythm that all this rhythm reminded God, reminded Israel of God's provision for his people, every single bit of it. But not only was it implemented weekly, not only was it implemented every seven years, sort of sabbatically, but also it was done in a jubilee year every 50 years. They would sound the trumpet and everything would be released of its debt. All people, all land, everything would be set free. But it was also something they prophetically looked for to be fulfilled. Most of us love the prophecy stuff, and you love to read about Daniel, his prophecy of the 77s in Daniel chapter 9, and it kind of builds on that same sabbatical rhythm, and it's talking about this future redemption that would come at the end of seven groups of seven would be a special Sabbath would happen. And guess that if you do the math, I'll leave that to Shannon, but if you do the math and you add it all up from Daniel's prophecy to the coming of our Lord is that number. Jesus brings this prophetically uttered hope of Sabbath. So the Sabbath was a part of Israel's life. The Sabbath is also a part of redemptive history. Israel's journey from Egypt to Canaan was a movement towards Sabbath rest, but they couldn't enter because they had no belief. They didn't believe they lost their rest. And so now here in Deuteronomy five, we see the second giving of the law. and this second giving of the law, I invite your attention to verse number 12. You see here where verse 12 says, observe the Sabbath day to keep it holy as the Lord your God commanded you. So here they were given a call to sanctify the day, a call to sanctify the day in verse 12. And three things about verse 12 you can see here, that it was commanded by God, they were to set it apart for worship and it was to be a continual pattern forever. Those three things fall into place here. The Bible tells us, teaches us how Moses has brought the people back together. He's about to reiterate a lot of things he told to the previous generation. And he's encouraging this new generation that has risen up as they're about to follow Joshua into the promised land. He's telling them to remember these things, plant them deep into your mind. Don't do like your fathers did. Don't do like the generation before you. They are called to remember The Sabbath. The second thing, verses 13 to 14 here, it tells us that there are to six days you shall labor and do all your work. But the seventh day is a Sabbath of the Lord, your God. So secondly, we see they are called upon to cease from their labor. Work six days, seventh day, rest. Now, the interesting thing that has sometimes stood out to people, maybe when you're reading your Bible through in a year, is there's something new added here in Deuteronomy that is not in Exodus 20. In Exodus 20, we have one little phrase that's a little bit different from we have in Deuteronomy 5. So in Exodus, what was God doing when he led Israel out of the land of Egypt? Let's just ask that question. What was God doing? God was doing something other, not other, but God was doing also another creative work. What was he creating in the book of Exodus as he led these people out of the land of Egypt? He was creating a nation. He was creating a nation. And what God wanted to do is to remind the people of Israel of this work rest rhythm. And so part of that was pointing them to the fact that they had been rescued or created from the land of Egypt. God had formed them into a nation. He had given them laws and instructions, and they were to follow that after doing their work, just like God did, resting on the seventh day, resting on the seventh day. All of this to emphasize that they depended on God. But here in Deuteronomy 5, we see in verse 15 that this little section is added. You shall remember that you were a slave in the land of Egypt and the Lord your God brought you out of there by a mighty hand and by an outstretched arm. So in other words, God went from calling them to remember the creative order to also tying the Sabbath to be connected to two things, creation and redemption. creation and redemption. So not only were they in their mind, use the Sabbath to remember the God's creative order, but they also now were commanded in Deuteronomy five to take the Sabbath. And it also remind them of their redemption, not only creation, but also redemption. They were to remember redemption, how the Exodus God had created them, formed them as a nation. And then in Deuteronomy, he called them to remember the fact that they had been brought out of slavery. They have been brought out of slavery. And then he says in verse, the end of verse 15, therefore, the Lord your God commanded you to observe the Sabbath day. So that's a very short summary of the Sabbath in the old days, or in the old covenant. Now, You and I, hopefully, as good Bible students, we know that Christ has inaugurated the what? New covenant. Now what does that mean for you and me in the new covenant regarding the Sabbath day and the rhythm that God has worked into creation? How does that impact us? And how does that work for us? Well, Let's study. Let's consider this today. Because our main point in walking through the Ten Commandments is on how does this apply to you and me? So we know that the Ten Commandments are not only for the laws, but they're also for the same. They guide us and they call us to obey. They call us to follow the very will of God for our life, how we worship God and how we love our neighbor, how we love God and how we love our neighbor. And part of that is for the Christian to be reminded that there is this theology of rest in our life. that there is this theology that God has implemented within the creative order that you work six days and you rest on the seventh trusting God to provide for you that even though you didn't work all seven, he's still gonna take care of you. He gives you one day, one day call for rest. And that's the Sabbath day. Now, some of you in here which I, I just want to do it because I know that the argument might come up, but some of us might would say, well, I don't think Christians are to observe the Sabbath any longer. And Hey, we can have this, we can have this discussion anytime, but I want to just point out the three texts in the new Testament that most people might run to to say, Hey, Christians are not called to remember the Sabbath anymore. The first one's Romans 14 verses two and verse five. It's talking about how one person may eat anything while another one who's weak can only eat certain food. And then it's talking another way. He says, somebody, one person judges one day to be more important than another day. And someone judges every day to be the same and so forth. Well, you say, well, see there, they don't matter about days. Some people find that more days important than the other. All right, well, what's the first step in Bible study? You ready? Context, context, context, okay? What do you do with context? What was Paul writing to refute? What were people struggling with? Oh, I've gotta keep the law in order that I might be saved, right? So what was Paul doing in Romans 14? He was letting them know that some of the Jewish Christians who were struggling now as part of being a Christian, that they were no longer under certain ceremonial aspects of the law. That's what he was struggling with. But is the Sabbath part of the ceremonial law? No, it's part of the moral law. It's part of the Ten Commandments. So these days and these festivals that the Jewish community was so ingrained that they had to celebrate, they were struggling by the fact that now they were set free from. It wasn't set free from the moral law of God, the Ten Commandments. They were set free from the ceremonial aspect of it. So the point of Romans 14 is Paul correcting the idea for these Jewish Christians who were struggling, and also some Gentiles who were struggling, to understand that the ceremonial aspect of the law did not hold them or bind their conscience. Also, there's another passage in Galatians 4, 10 to 11. He says, you are observing special days, months, seasons, and years, and I'm fearful for you, for perhaps my labor for you has been wasted. Well, there you see it, special days, months, seasons, and years. Well, again, we've just been through Galatians and our sentence. What was the point there? They were trying to get people to enslave themselves back under certain aspects of the law. And Paul says that's no longer binding. And then Colossians 2.16 is the big one. It says, so let no one judge you in food or drink or regarding festival or new moon or Sabbaths. Well, there you go. But I want you to, some of your translations in Colossians 2 16 is going to have the word Sabbath in singular form. And some of you is going to have it in plural. The Greek word is plural. It means Sabbath. So in other words, days, it's not talking about the Sabbath. It's talking about special days. The same thing Paul has said in Galatians four and also in Romans 14. Did you catch the triad or the triad there? Drink and food, drink, festival, new moon or Sabbaths. That's the way Paul spoke, festival, new moon or Sabbaths. You can find that same language talking about ceremonial aspects of the law, 1 Chronicles 23, 2 Chronicles chapter two, 2 Chronicles chapter 31, Nehemiah 10, Isaiah one, Hosea, you get the point. The point is, as Paul is saying, no one's justified by observing ceremonial aspects of the law. just because you observed the Feast of Tabernacles or the Feast of all these other things does not make you right with God. What makes you right with God is by grace through faith in Christ alone. He's not trying to tell them that they're no longer called upon to observe the Sabbath. That's not the point. He's telling them that their justification before God does not come by observation to the ceremonial laws. So just because it's a new moon and you worship don't make you right with God. Just because it's some ceremonial feast and you observe it don't make you right with God. What makes you right with God is grace and faith. That's what makes you right with God. So what do we do with this Sabbath? And I was so tempted to do this on Resurrection Sunday morning, but I just wasn't ready. And I knew better than to attempt it. But hear me say this. The Sabbath is fulfilled in Christ. Okay? Now this is what I want you to see in regards to the Sabbath. For some of us, we may have encountered Seventh Day Adventist. who argue that, you know, anybody that don't worship on Saturday have major issues. I don't want to state too much of their belief and misrepresent them, so I just know that the Sabbath is a big deal for them. If you don't worship on Saturday, then There's a lot of things that go bad for you, so to speak. So I'm not going to strawman that or try to tell you all their things and misrepresent them. But I know that that group you will come across, and that will be one of the most heated discussions among Christians and Seventh-day Adventists is the worship on the Sabbath. Well, here we are on Sunday, right? What do we do with that? When did God move the day of the Sabbath, so to speak? That's the question. So let me help work all this out. The Sabbath was fulfilled in Christ, okay? Hear this statement. By Jesus's resurrection from the dead, Jesus Christ fulfilled God's redemptive purposes, okay? By Jesus's resurrection, God, through all of that, Jesus fulfilled God's redemptive purposes. Now, Jesus resurrecting from the grave is also an event that is just as important as the event of creation itself. Because in Jesus's resurrection, a new creation has occurred. In Jesus's resurrection, a new creation has occurred because in the resurrection, God brought to fulfillment his creative redemptive program or his plan. So it's for this reason that Christians today, we not only look forward to that final day when Christ returns, but we also not only look into the future hope of Sabbath rest, we look back in the fact that it has been accomplished. Now, therefore, the new covenant has radically changed the perspective of the Sabbath. Here's a major turning point in the message. And I need you to hear these few statements. The current Christian does not follow the Sabbath pattern of the people of the old covenant. We are in the new covenant. Therefore, hear me say this, We do not first labor for six days looking forward to rest. Instead, we begin the week by rejoicing in the rest already accomplished. That's the new covenant reality. We don't work looking for rest. We start off the week knowing we have rest in Christ. We start off the week from a standpoint of rest before we go into our labor. We start off the week enjoying rest in Christ before we go into the week of work. The Christian can then enter joyfully into his six days of labor, confident with victory in Christ that he's already won. We begin the week with rest. We're not looking forward to the end of the week that we may rest. We start our week by knowing we have it. That's the transitional moment that the resurrection brought. We're not looking for rest. We start the week off by resting in Christ. Now, as you think about all of that, you say, oh, are you sure that old way has, this new creation, old creation, what are you talking about? Have you, hopefully you've read Isaiah 65. Isaiah 65 talks about this glorious new, this new heaven, new earth. this new creation. And he says in Isaiah 65, 17, behold, I create new heavens and new earth and the former shall not be remembered or come to mind. That's the whole discussion throughout the New Testament is that this old covenant is fading away in order that it may give way to the new covenant that Jesus Christ is bringing. And so in that, I want to hopefully intrigue your mind to consider a Bible search now. But we get talking about this seventh day, but have you ever picked up on this phrase throughout the Old Testament, the eighth day? The eighth day? Well, let me just refresh our memory this morning, okay? Circumcision for the male children happened on what day? The eighth day. Genesis 17, 12, Leviticus 12, three. God would command that every male child be circumcised on the eighth day as a sign of the covenant with Abraham. And what that symbolized was an entrance into the covenant community and holding to God's promises. So it happened with circumcision. Secondly, when the priest, at the completion of the priest being consecrated, guess what day that took place on? the eighth day. Leviticus 8, verse 33 to Leviticus 9, verse one. Aaron and his sons were consecrated over a seven-day period, and on the eighth day, their ministry began at the altar. That's almost shouting time right there if you know what happened on resurrection day. He sat down at the right hand of what? the father to begin his ministry at the altar. Anyway, let's keep going. Cleansing of lepers and ritual purification happened, guess when? On the eighth day. Leviticus 14, verse 10 and verse 23. A leper would be completely healed at the eighth day process. They would bring offerings on the eighth day, and that symbolized restoration and full covenant fellowship. The fourth one, and these are, I'm not giving you all of them, but cleansing after bodily discharges. Leviticus 15, verse 14 and verse 29. Guess when that came to fruition, that they would be renewed and health restored. Ready? The eighth day. Dedication of the tabernacle and the glory of God. Leviticus nine. Guess when that happened? There was a seven day ordination period and on the eighth day, Moses instructed Aaron to offer sacrifices and God's glory appeared to the people. Guess when that happened? On the eighth day. The Feast of Tabernacle. It was a solemn assembly that would gather, guess when? On the eighth day. Leviticus 23, 36, Numbers 29, 35, Nehemiah 8, 18. Consecration of the altar under the leadership of Solomon. 2 Chronicles 7, 8 through 10. God's permanent presence came to rest in the temple, guess when? On the eighth day. Offerings for the eighth day after festivals occur. Numbers 29, 35 to 38. When Christ rose from the grave, guess what day it was? The eighth day. Which is why you and I as Christians worship on the eighth day. is because the entire Old Covenant pointed when gave birth to the consummation of what it prophetically stood pointing for for centuries. Is that the 8th day would be the consummation of the inaugurating of the kingdom of God. That's why I worship on Sunday. It's the 8th day. His resurrection took place not merely on the first day of the week, but it was on the eighth day, the day beyond the old created order now bringing rise to the new creation. That Christ is forming. In the old covenant. The eighth day marked a covenantal belonging through circumcision, through cleansing of the unclean, through the consecration of the priest, through the feast of God's people. And now in the new covenant, the eighth day speaks forward of the fullness of those things that were anticipated, pointing to new hearts and true holiness, endless joy and eternal communion with God. Every Lord's Day that we gather, brothers and sisters, we gather to live in light of the eighth day, celebrating that Christ lives. From creation to the cross, from Canaan to new creation, the Sabbath reveals the heart of God for his people. You ready for it? Rest. Rest. You remember the greatest invitation ever given? Come unto me, all who are weary and heavy laden, for I will give you rest. How does that apply for us today? You and I need one day a week in following the commands of God to rest. We should observe that. We should observe it. We should follow it to the best of our ability. And it should be this day, the Lord's day, to worship him and rest. Maybe you're not so much struggling with a work schedule. Maybe you're struggling with a sin problem. Maybe you don't have any rest or peace in your heart. Maybe, maybe you're longing for that day that you could say, I have been relieved of my burdens. I have been relieved of a thought that I have to work to earn my way before God in order that he might be satisfied in me. Maybe you're so you've been so laborious in your life regarding religiosity that today you just find yourself completely weary and heavy laden with the thoughts of work just being heaped up on your plate and you just can't stand it no more. You know that there's no way you're ever going to do enough. to be made right with God and you're longing for peace, you're longing for something to give you that sense of rest and hope. Can I say to you today that the Lord of the Sabbath has come and his name is the Lord Jesus Christ and he offers you today to come and find rest and find peace for your weary soul in him and in him alone. Would you come to Christ? Would you look to Christ and find rest? Would you look to Christ and find peace for your soul that has been bombarded with guilt and shame and burdens of being guilty before God? Oh, look to Christ today to see that you have freedom. There is blood that flows from Emmanuel's veins. The sinners that plunge there will lose all their guilt and shame. Would you look to Christ? and be saved today and know what it is to have rest in Christ. Look to Jesus. Look to Jesus and find rest. Let's pray.