WEBVTT 1 00:00:00.000 --> 00:00:08.000 Foreign. 2 00:00:08.000 --> 00:00:39.000 Welcome to the collective table where we celebrate the intersections of Jesus, justice and joy. This podcast is brought to you by Oceanside Sanctuary Church. Each week we bring our listeners a recording of our weekly Sunday teaching at Oceanside Sanctuary, which ties scripture into the larger conversations happening in our community, congregation and even the podcast. So we're glad your here and thanks for listening. 3 00:00:39.000 --> 00:01:28.000 Well, good morning, my name is Larry Warner and I am not the regular pastor. Our co pastors, Jason and Janelle are on a well deserved and needed vacation. So they'll be back hopefully next week unless they really enjoy themselves. So I may be back again. But I've been attending here for a few years now. My background is I was a youth pastor for 11 years, a deputy sheriff in LA county for six years, a senior pastor for 10 years, and then taught graduate school for about 18 years. So one thing that tells you is I'm really old, 4 00:01:28.000 --> 00:01:29.000 but I'm glad to be here still breathing. 5 00:01:29.000 --> 00:01:32.000 So that's good and it's nice to have this opportunity. 6 00:01:32.000 --> 00:01:39.000 I want to tell you about the shirt because I've been waiting to wear it. I got it a few weeks ago and the reason I got it was 7 00:01:39.000 --> 00:01:50.000 my wife and I went shopping after church, actually on a Sunday, and she was looking at whatever she was looking at. So I decided to walk through the men's clothing section and I saw this 8 00:01:50.000 --> 00:01:56.000 shirt and I just started laughing out loud. I go, that's hilarious. 9 00:01:56.000 --> 00:01:58.000 I gotta buy it. 10 00:01:58.000 --> 00:02:08.000 So I did. Because we live in a world where we need to have a little fun, we need to have some laughs, we need to 11 00:02:08.000 --> 00:02:13.000 rest and relax. And that's what our message is about today. 12 00:02:13.000 --> 00:02:17.000 We're gonna talk about rest. And every time you hear rest, also 13 00:02:17.000 --> 00:02:20.000 hear the word relax. 14 00:02:20.000 --> 00:02:27.000 And also as you hear rest and relax, hear the word refreshed. 15 00:02:27.000 --> 00:02:31.000 Because that's really the goal. We're going to unpack that a little. 16 00:02:31.000 --> 00:02:34.000 Now, rest. When we typically talk about rest in 17 00:02:34.000 --> 00:02:41.000 church, does anyone know what we call it? Like there's a special day. Yeah, we're not talking about Sabbath. 18 00:02:41.000 --> 00:02:45.000 I'll leave that to Jason and other smart people. 19 00:02:45.000 --> 00:02:55.000 He can talk to you about the Jewish context and the cultural realities and what happened. And we're just gonna push that aside. 20 00:02:55.000 --> 00:02:59.000 Cause Sabbath is really about rest. 21 00:02:59.000 --> 00:03:00.000 And so that's what we're gonna look 22 00:03:00.000 --> 00:03:05.000 at and hopefully expand your sense of what rest is. 23 00:03:05.000 --> 00:03:13.000 Cause sometimes I think we limit rest to napping, which I'm a big fan of. 24 00:03:13.000 --> 00:03:19.000 But that's not all that rest is. And so one of the questions we'll need to ask ourselves, especially in these 25 00:03:19.000 --> 00:03:21.000 chaotic times we're living in, is what 26 00:03:21.000 --> 00:03:24.000 kind of rest do I need? And we're going to talk about various 27 00:03:24.000 --> 00:03:26.000 kinds of rest as we make our way through it. 28 00:03:26.000 --> 00:03:29.000 But I want to ground it in 29 00:03:29.000 --> 00:03:30.000 the Scriptures to begin with. 30 00:03:30.000 --> 00:03:32.000 And even before we do that, let's 31 00:03:32.000 --> 00:03:44.000 pray and get started in earnest. God of rest, restoration and refreshment, we thank you that you invite us to 32 00:03:44.000 --> 00:03:47.000 walk along 33 00:03:47.000 --> 00:04:52.000 quiet streams, to lay down in green pastures, that from the beginning you gave the gift of rest, that you have woven it into this universe. And it is desperately needed by each of us as we seek to live a life that is true to who you are and true to who you've created and called us to be, that we might be free to live, to love, to serve. So open our hearts and our minds to what you have for us. Give us words of life that again will refresh and restore. Renew us that we might live freely and lightly embrace the unforced rhythms of your grace in our lives. It's in the name of Jesus. We pray these things. Amen. Jesus rested like 34 00:04:52.000 --> 00:04:53.000 he would get away. 35 00:04:53.000 --> 00:05:12.000 See that in Mark over and over again. There's a passage in Mark that talks about him actually taking a nap, which I really love. It's Mark, chapter 4, verse 38. And it says he slept with his head on a cushion. 36 00:05:12.000 --> 00:05:21.000 See, we sometimes think this Jesus guy was this hyper serious, you know, person that just was on a mission. 37 00:05:21.000 --> 00:05:25.000 And I'm sure Jesus was serious and Jesus was on a mission, but still 38 00:05:25.000 --> 00:05:34.000 would rest, still would elevate rest and actually embody rest. See, when I read that passage in Mark, and it's about, he's speaking to 39 00:05:34.000 --> 00:05:39.000 the crowds, the disciples are with him, the crowd's with him, and he decides 40 00:05:39.000 --> 00:05:44.000 to send everyone away. So first he sends the crowd away. 41 00:05:44.000 --> 00:05:47.000 Hey, go away. Get out of here you knuckleheads. 42 00:05:47.000 --> 00:05:51.000 Then he sends the disciples away, hey, get in the boat. 43 00:05:51.000 --> 00:05:56.000 I'll meet you on the other side. 44 00:05:56.000 --> 00:05:57.000 And then. 45 00:05:56.000 --> 00:05:59.000 Oh, actually that's, nevermind, that's a wrong passage. 46 00:05:59.000 --> 00:06:03.000 Then he gets in the boat with the disciples. And here's how I imagine this story. 47 00:06:03.000 --> 00:06:05.000 Cause this is my other favorite story when he sends them away. 48 00:06:05.000 --> 00:06:12.000 Anyway, here's how I imagine this story. So they're getting ready to get in the boat and Jesus first words after 49 00:06:12.000 --> 00:06:14.000 he says we're gonna go to the 50 00:06:14.000 --> 00:06:24.000 other side is dibs on the cushion. Like, because it seems there's only one cushion. And Jesus is like, hey, I got the cushion. 51 00:06:24.000 --> 00:06:30.000 And he takes the cushion and he goes to sleep. Now, there's some other things that happen, 52 00:06:30.000 --> 00:06:37.000 but to me, that's sort of cool. First of all, that Jesus 53 00:06:37.000 --> 00:06:39.000 says, hey, I want the cushion. 54 00:06:39.000 --> 00:06:41.000 Because we think, you know, this Jesus 55 00:06:41.000 --> 00:06:48.000 guy, again, had no place to lay his head. All these kinds of things, self sacrifice and even to the point of death on the cross. Yes, yes, yes. 56 00:06:48.000 --> 00:06:51.000 But also cared for himself, also was 57 00:06:51.000 --> 00:06:59.000 willing to say, hey, I need a nap, I need a break, and that Christian's mine, and then go to sleep. 58 00:06:59.000 --> 00:07:03.000 Isn't that great? Jesus was human. 59 00:07:03.000 --> 00:07:06.000 Jesus was God, but Jesus was human. And sometimes we forget that. 60 00:07:06.000 --> 00:07:12.000 So now I want to talk about what Jesus says about rest. Just a couple of verses, then we're going to go to the Old Testament 61 00:07:12.000 --> 00:07:15.000 and then we'll continue on with our comments. 62 00:07:15.000 --> 00:07:19.000 But I want you to know this. Jesus is my hermeneutic. 63 00:07:19.000 --> 00:07:20.000 Or let me put it this way. 64 00:07:20.000 --> 00:07:22.000 Jesus is the lens I used to 65 00:07:22.000 --> 00:07:25.000 understand the entirety of the Bible. 66 00:07:25.000 --> 00:07:27.000 I don't look at Paul, I don't 67 00:07:27.000 --> 00:07:30.000 look at the Old Testament. First and foremost, I look at Jesus 68 00:07:30.000 --> 00:07:41.000 because Jesus shows us the heart of God. Jesus is an articulation of who this is, who God is. So then when I read the Old Testament and I come across these sometimes 69 00:07:41.000 --> 00:07:48.000 crazy passages, then I look at Jesus. Jesus. How does this go together? 70 00:07:48.000 --> 00:08:00.000 Sometimes it doesn't. And when I'm in doubt, I go back to Jesus. When I have a question about, whoa, how could God do this? 71 00:08:00.000 --> 00:08:02.000 I go back to Jesus. 72 00:08:02.000 --> 00:08:03.000 I don't understand. 73 00:08:03.000 --> 00:08:05.000 Again, Jason is going to explain all that stuff to you. 74 00:08:05.000 --> 00:08:07.000 I don't understand how that works, but 75 00:08:07.000 --> 00:08:21.000 I do understand Jesus as an articulation of God. And what I've come to know is that this God is the God of grace and mercy, a God of love, 76 00:08:21.000 --> 00:08:26.000 God who meets us where we're at and even. 77 00:08:26.000 --> 00:08:42.000 Even talks about things like rest as being important. So let's look at Mark, chapter two, verse 23, 24 and 27 should be on the screen at some point one Sabbath, which we're calling a rest day. 78 00:08:42.000 --> 00:08:46.000 Jesus was going through the grain fields. And as he made his way through 79 00:08:46.000 --> 00:08:53.000 out there, the disciples began to pluck heads of grain. And the Pharisees were saying to him, 80 00:08:53.000 --> 00:08:55.000 lord, look what they're. 81 00:08:55.000 --> 00:08:59.000 What they're doing is unlawful on the Sabbath slash rest day. 82 00:08:59.000 --> 00:09:02.000 And he said to them that Sabbath 83 00:09:02.000 --> 00:09:11.000 rest days were made for humanity, not humanity. For Sabbath rest days, Jesus is saying 84 00:09:11.000 --> 00:09:22.000 that here's the day that set aside to rest, not to serve God harder, not to honor God more, but to 85 00:09:22.000 --> 00:09:34.000 Rest, which actually is a serving of God and an honoring of God, because rest says, I trust in this God, that it's not up to me, that 86 00:09:34.000 --> 00:09:38.000 I can take a break, that I'm not the Savior of the world. 87 00:09:38.000 --> 00:09:44.000 And Jesus wants us to know that. In Matthew 11, verse 28, Jesus says, 88 00:09:44.000 --> 00:09:50.000 Come to me, all who are weary and heavy laden, and I will give you. 89 00:09:50.000 --> 00:09:57.000 Anybody, anybody. Wow, very good. Rest. I will give you rest. 90 00:09:57.000 --> 00:10:00.000 Come 91 00:10:00.000 --> 00:10:06.000 so you can rest. That's our Jesus. And then I love this paraphrase of 92 00:10:06.000 --> 00:10:16.000 this passage found in the message. Are you tired? Are you worn out on religion? Come to me, get away with me, 93 00:10:16.000 --> 00:10:20.000 and you'll recover your life. 94 00:10:20.000 --> 00:10:26.000 I'll show you how to take a real rest. Walk with me and work with me. 95 00:10:26.000 --> 00:10:45.000 Watch how I do it. I love this passage, or this part of the passage. Learn the unforced rhythms of grace. I won't lay anything heavy or ill fitting on you. Keep company with me and you'll learn to live freely and lightly. 96 00:10:45.000 --> 00:11:05.000 Isn't that lovely? Isn't that something that says, that's what I want? I don't want to get burned out on religion. That's not the point of it. The Pharisees would heap more and more rules on people. Jesus was about, hey, you need to rest. You need to be free. You need to learn to live freely and lightly. You need to embrace the unforced rhythms 97 00:11:05.000 --> 00:11:08.000 of grace, these inviting rhythms that God 98 00:11:08.000 --> 00:11:13.000 says, hey, make these a part of your life. 99 00:11:13.000 --> 00:11:24.000 Trust me, Open to me. Enter into the rest that I provide. Now I want to look at a passage in Genesis, because from the very 100 00:11:24.000 --> 00:11:38.000 beginning, rest is part of the story. Genesis chapter one is this beautiful poetic expression of creation. And it has these marvelous themes throughout it. Two of them. 101 00:11:38.000 --> 00:11:42.000 One of them is rest, and the other one I'll highlight in a moment, 102 00:11:42.000 --> 00:11:43.000 but it says this. 103 00:11:43.000 --> 00:11:48.000 Thus the heavens and the earth were completed in all their vast array. 104 00:11:48.000 --> 00:11:50.000 But the seventh day, God had finished 105 00:11:50.000 --> 00:12:08.000 the work he had been doing. So on the seventh day, he, meaning God, rested from all God's work. Then God blessed the seventh day and made it holy. Because as God rested from all work of creating what he had done. 106 00:12:08.000 --> 00:12:12.000 So actually, the first time we read about rest, it isn't called the Sabbath 107 00:12:12.000 --> 00:12:15.000 yet, it's called rest. 108 00:12:15.000 --> 00:12:54.000 And that's one of the first gifts, God. In this poetic rendition of creation, God is creating all these things and saying, they're good, and they're very good. And then at the end of it, he says, and here's what I want you to do. The last thing it did was God did was create Adam and Eve. And the next thing is like, hey, it's time to rest. Not time to get busy. Not time to. To. To get to work, but it's time to rest. And it's interesting. If you read Genesis carefully, it talks about evening and morning. And that became the Jewish reckoning for day. A day for in the Jewish community doesn't begin in the morning. 109 00:12:54.000 --> 00:12:57.000 It begins at sunset. 110 00:12:57.000 --> 00:13:00.000 And the majority of the first part 111 00:13:00.000 --> 00:13:05.000 of their day is night, is sleep, is rest. 112 00:13:05.000 --> 00:13:18.000 For rest prepares us for what is ahead. See, rest isn't merely taking care of ourselves, which is important, but it's also preparing us to be with others in 113 00:13:18.000 --> 00:13:26.000 healthy, supportive ways that show love, mercy, compassion. 114 00:13:26.000 --> 00:13:27.000 So I want to talk about one 115 00:13:27.000 --> 00:13:29.000 other thing before we move on. 116 00:13:29.000 --> 00:13:31.000 If you've heard of original sin, raise your hand. 117 00:13:31.000 --> 00:13:38.000 Anyone heard of original sin? Okay, sorry. 118 00:13:38.000 --> 00:13:40.000 What I want to talk about in 119 00:13:40.000 --> 00:13:50.000 Genesis, chapter one, you know what it talks about? It doesn't talk about original sin at all. It talks about this original goodness. 120 00:13:50.000 --> 00:14:16.000 See, when we were created, God says, it is good. It is very good. There's no original sin right there. It's talked about later. But originally, if you go back to the very beginning, no, it was original goodness. That's us. There's something good in each one of us. We're created in God's image. There's a dignity, There's a worth, there's a value. There's something to be loved and cared for, regardless 121 00:14:16.000 --> 00:14:20.000 of what we might or may not be doing. 122 00:14:20.000 --> 00:14:21.000 Original goodness. 123 00:14:21.000 --> 00:14:28.000 Let's all say that. Okay? Now let's say it like it's a good thing, 124 00:14:28.000 --> 00:14:55.000 because it is. We are good. Point to someone around you and say, you are good. You are good. You are good. You are good. You are good. Yes. Now, can we receive that? That's a different question. But the beauty of truth is it's true. Regardless. You are good. There's something good in each one of us. And sadly, the church has landed on 125 00:14:55.000 --> 00:15:01.000 original sin as the talking point. 126 00:15:01.000 --> 00:15:24.000 But it's original goodness because that's what gives us the ability to rest. If I know I am good, not ultimately good, not that I have it all together, not that I'm perfect, but that there's worth, there's value, there's dignity. I don't have to prove myself. I don't have to produce more. I don't have to have a bigger house or a fancier car or a better title. 127 00:15:24.000 --> 00:15:27.000 Doesn't mean those don't happen. 128 00:15:27.000 --> 00:15:30.000 But 129 00:15:30.000 --> 00:15:34.000 at the ground Level, I'm good regardless. 130 00:15:34.000 --> 00:15:56.000 And if I know that, then I can rest because I'm not in competition with anyone else. I don't have to have the scarcity mentality because God is going to help me to embrace the unforced rhythms of grace, to live freely and lightly and open to whatever God brings my way. And there is never a question of my worth or value or dignity, because 131 00:15:56.000 --> 00:16:05.000 a God of love loves. God can't help God's self because God is love. 132 00:16:05.000 --> 00:16:14.000 So when we want to rest, sometimes we need to remind ourselves that, hey, we're not the savior of the world. It's not dependent on us. I don't have to earn these things. 133 00:16:14.000 --> 00:16:16.000 I need to rest. 134 00:16:16.000 --> 00:16:23.000 Because we're not about original sin. We're about. 135 00:16:23.000 --> 00:16:29.000 Okay, I'm gonna do that one more time, so I sort of clue you in. Mm. 136 00:16:29.000 --> 00:16:41.000 We're not about original sin. We're about right. Isn't that great? Isn't that a better message? Isn't that good news? That's Genesis. 137 00:16:41.000 --> 00:16:54.000 Original goodness, each and every one of us. So now I want to talk about the Ten Commandments. Excited, aren't you? Because I don't. 138 00:16:54.000 --> 00:17:11.000 People. People do not get this. But rest is embodied in the Ten Commandments in an ingenious way. See, the first three commandments are about honoring God, honoring your higher power, honoring the divine, whatever you want to say. But it's realizing that I can't do it on my own. 139 00:17:11.000 --> 00:17:16.000 I need something bigger, greater than I am now. Again, I looked at Jesus and it's 140 00:17:16.000 --> 00:17:28.000 like, wow, that's the one I want. I want a God of love, of grace, of mercy. Then the last six commandments are, here's 141 00:17:28.000 --> 00:17:41.000 what it looks like to live in community. It talks about lying and not coveting and those kinds of things, but sandwiched in the middle is rest. 142 00:17:41.000 --> 00:17:54.000 See, we can only rest if we really know who God is, that God is trustworthy, that the world is in God's hands. It doesn't mean I withdraw and don't do anything, but I can trust in that. So I can go to sleep at night. 143 00:17:54.000 --> 00:18:03.000 Now I lay me down to sleep kind of thing, and then rest comes in. So now that enables me to rest 144 00:18:03.000 --> 00:18:06.000 so that I can be a positive 145 00:18:06.000 --> 00:18:09.000 force in the community. 146 00:18:09.000 --> 00:18:14.000 See, it's not just rest for the sake of rest. It's not just rest for my sake either. 147 00:18:14.000 --> 00:18:16.000 That's not the Christian way. 148 00:18:16.000 --> 00:18:25.000 It's rest for the sake of others. It's caring for myself so I can care for others. Any of you ever been on an airplane. 149 00:18:25.000 --> 00:18:29.000 Any of you ever paid attention to that little thing that Stuart just says? 150 00:18:29.000 --> 00:19:15.000 What are you supposed to do with your air mask? Seems pretty selfish. Shouldn't I be helping? Especially my kid? No. Because I've got to take care of this so I can do those other things. So we need to remember that rest isn't selfish. Rest is getting to a place where I can actually love and serve others so that my relationships are interactions and not transactions. Meaning that I can be with you and I don't need anything from you because I come rested. I come seeped in the knowledge that I have value and worth. And so now I can be a conduit of love and grace and mercy so I don't have to come to you with my little beggar's bowl saying, hey, I like your shirt today. 151 00:19:15.000 --> 00:19:16.000 Well, I like your shirt today. 152 00:19:16.000 --> 00:19:19.000 And then we fill it up, but it has holes in it, so it 153 00:19:19.000 --> 00:19:22.000 never actually works for us. 154 00:19:22.000 --> 00:19:26.000 But when we're rested, we don't have to get. 155 00:19:26.000 --> 00:19:30.000 We can give, we can extend love. 156 00:19:30.000 --> 00:20:02.000 We can turn the other cheek. We can go the extra mile because we're rested. Rest prepares us for. We don't know what, but we're ready because we're rested. So rest isn't this auxiliary reality. It's something that's woven into the fabric of the universe, as I said, but also desperately needed by each of us. How many of you are good at resting? 157 00:20:02.000 --> 00:20:06.000 Okay, one person who's already asleep. 158 00:20:06.000 --> 00:20:07.000 All right, couple over here. 159 00:20:07.000 --> 00:20:08.000 Tina. 160 00:20:08.000 --> 00:20:12.000 Very good. 161 00:20:12.000 --> 00:20:13.000 That's honest. 162 00:20:13.000 --> 00:20:20.000 Because resting is difficult because there's a lot of baggage. There's a lot of things. I'll rest when I die. 163 00:20:20.000 --> 00:20:33.000 That's something people say we're about producing things getting more and more and more that's wired into the world, especially in the West. 164 00:20:33.000 --> 00:20:38.000 And so it all mitigates against resting. 165 00:20:38.000 --> 00:20:40.000 But we need to rest. 166 00:20:40.000 --> 00:21:35.000 The world needs well, rested people. I don't know if you pay attention to politics at all, but they make a whole lot of decisions. Like at 2 in the morning, what I don't know about you, but that's not my best time. They're not rested. They need. Sometimes someone needs to say, okay, nap time, everybody. Let's grab a blankie and go. Go lay down. And then we'll revisit this. Because as we rest, it helps us holistically. Those who study rest, talk about it helps us physically and even on the cellular level. Like, something happens when we're rest. Think of winter. Winter is when all creation is resting, but it doesn't mean nothing's happening. 167 00:21:35.000 --> 00:21:37.000 A whole lot's happening. 168 00:21:37.000 --> 00:21:39.000 And pretty soon we're going to see the result of that. 169 00:21:39.000 --> 00:21:46.000 And we call that spring, not because nothing happened, but because things were going on. 170 00:21:46.000 --> 00:21:53.000 See, rest is like that. Rest is like a winter where things are going on deep within us 171 00:21:53.000 --> 00:21:54.000 and 172 00:21:53.000 --> 00:21:56.000 also helps us cognitively. 173 00:21:56.000 --> 00:22:03.000 How many of you do wordle and or connections? Anyone? Just me. Just old people. All right, good to know. 174 00:22:03.000 --> 00:22:12.000 Oh, Joey. Yay. One young person. Well, when I get up and try that the first thing in the morning, 175 00:22:12.000 --> 00:22:14.000 it doesn't go well. 176 00:22:14.000 --> 00:22:23.000 But if I resist the temptation to push through it and I come back a few hours later, 177 00:22:23.000 --> 00:22:28.000 Wow, I'm a genius. I got it. 178 00:22:28.000 --> 00:22:33.000 These connections that didn't seem. Especially with connections, these connections like, oh, 179 00:22:33.000 --> 00:22:36.000 there, there, there, there. 180 00:22:36.000 --> 00:22:38.000 Not because I took a nap in between. 181 00:22:38.000 --> 00:22:44.000 But my pace is a pace of restedness. 182 00:22:44.000 --> 00:22:47.000 See, it's not just about ceasing from activity. 183 00:22:47.000 --> 00:23:02.000 We'll talk about this in a moment. But it's also about an internal state of restedness that's much, much different. And the only person who knows that if that's happening or not will be you. 184 00:23:02.000 --> 00:23:06.000 But the ability to be inwardly calm, 185 00:23:06.000 --> 00:23:27.000 collected, that's a place of rest that we can live out of that place. Because one of the passages I want to talk to you that I skipped, and it's. It's Exodus, chapter three. It's not on the. It won't be on the board. Verse 31 and 17. 31, 17. 186 00:23:27.000 --> 00:23:29.000 And it says this. 187 00:23:29.000 --> 00:23:30.000 It's. 188 00:23:29.000 --> 00:23:31.000 You'll see. It's sort of the pattern that happens 189 00:23:31.000 --> 00:23:32.000 over and over in the Old Testament. 190 00:23:32.000 --> 00:23:35.000 Six days of the Lord rested, worked. 191 00:23:35.000 --> 00:23:43.000 And on the sixth, on the seventh day, the Lord rested. So six days the Lord worked. On the seventh day, Lord rested. 192 00:23:43.000 --> 00:23:49.000 But in this passage and in every translation I've read of it, it has these two words. 193 00:23:49.000 --> 00:24:05.000 It's nowhere else in the Bible except at this 3117. And to me, this has become the sort of the lens that I look through, rest through. And it's these two words. And was or was refreshed. 194 00:24:05.000 --> 00:24:28.000 See, rest is to be refreshed. Sometimes we rest, and it is not refreshing. How many of you have gone on vacation and you came back more tired than you left? That's not rest. I understand why you might do that, but that's not rest. So when you think of rest, when you think of relaxing, have that in 195 00:24:28.000 --> 00:24:31.000 the back of your mind. Does this refresh me? 196 00:24:31.000 --> 00:24:33.000 Because a lot of what we call 197 00:24:33.000 --> 00:24:41.000 rest is just killing time or Actually, I guess it'd be called binge watching Netflix. 198 00:24:41.000 --> 00:24:48.000 But anyway, same thing. It's a mindless. And sometimes we need to do that, but that's not really rest. 199 00:24:48.000 --> 00:24:50.000 Like, that'll happen to me sometimes. 200 00:24:50.000 --> 00:24:52.000 Like, I need to take a nap, and I go, hey, I want to 201 00:24:52.000 --> 00:24:54.000 see this one thing. 202 00:24:54.000 --> 00:24:55.000 And so I pull out my phone 203 00:24:55.000 --> 00:25:02.000 or my little computer, and all of a sudden it's like, well, my rest time's over and I'm not rested. 204 00:25:02.000 --> 00:25:05.000 I mean, I was even laying down, 205 00:25:05.000 --> 00:25:12.000 and maybe the phone hit me in the face a couple times, but I'm not rested. 206 00:25:12.000 --> 00:25:13.000 And so think, when we think of 207 00:25:13.000 --> 00:25:17.000 rest, think of being refreshed, being renewed. 208 00:25:17.000 --> 00:25:22.000 And now I want to talk about different categories of rest. And there's going to be a bunch 209 00:25:22.000 --> 00:25:28.000 of slides that come up on the screen so you can put the first one up. Rebecca. 210 00:25:28.000 --> 00:25:33.000 So we're going to talk about different kinds of rest. So these next slides, I'm not going to go. 211 00:25:33.000 --> 00:25:35.000 I mean, I'll name them off, but 212 00:25:35.000 --> 00:25:52.000 this is Kodak moment. So you take out your phone. Take out your phone and take pictures of these screens. Because rest is not just physical rest, and we need to remember that. I'm expanding our sense of what rest is. 213 00:25:52.000 --> 00:25:58.000 Now, if you have a good mind, maybe you can remember it. But for me and others. 214 00:25:58.000 --> 00:26:21.000 So physical rest, that's the one. We all sort of know the next one. Mental rest. See, we need to mentally rest and get some ideas of how you can do that. But to give our brain a rest, there's so much coming our way. There's so much we're thinking about. There's so much we're planning, we're doing. Sometimes we need to take a mental 215 00:26:21.000 --> 00:26:23.000 rest next, 216 00:26:23.000 --> 00:26:37.000 an emotional rest. And this can be going to your therapist and expressing your feelings, because holding those things together is not restful. Processing our things with a. With a dear friend, or again, even 217 00:26:37.000 --> 00:26:41.000 some paid professional can be helpful. 218 00:26:41.000 --> 00:26:58.000 Putting your phone on do not disturb is hugely helpful. Not on vibrate, on silent do not disturb. So you cannot get a call. Nothing's going to pop up on your screen. That's huge because it allows you to 219 00:26:58.000 --> 00:27:02.000 be in the moment, to be mindful, to be present. 220 00:27:02.000 --> 00:27:04.000 Because this phone, I was going to 221 00:27:04.000 --> 00:27:10.000 bring a phone and just throw it and break it. I thought. 222 00:27:10.000 --> 00:27:20.000 I was afraid I might hit somebody, so I threw out that idea. But these phones are insidious and they 223 00:27:20.000 --> 00:27:26.000 rob us of rest over and over again. Mental rest, emotional rest. 224 00:27:26.000 --> 00:27:36.000 Oh, on emotional rest, too, you need boundaries with people, especially people who Are drains. 225 00:27:36.000 --> 00:27:38.000 Do anyone know people who are drains in your life? 226 00:27:38.000 --> 00:27:56.000 Okay, you can only be. You need to be rested when you spend time with them. Otherwise you're just gonna be. You're gonna crash and burn. And that's actually caring for that person. Good boundaries, again, they're not only good for me, but they're good for the people in my life. But sometimes, again, this Jesus guy can 227 00:27:56.000 --> 00:27:59.000 get in the way. It's like, well, Jesus, you know, he 228 00:27:59.000 --> 00:28:16.000 was always there for everybody. No, sometimes he says, hey, that's my cushion. I'm taking a nap. We need to do that. If Jesus did it, we need to do that. We are not the savior of the world. Jesus was still took a nap. 229 00:28:16.000 --> 00:28:29.000 Sensory rest, again, from screens and those kinds of things. There's so much that we're bombarded by, and we need to, again, unplug. 230 00:28:29.000 --> 00:28:32.000 Studies show that. That it's not helpful to look at 231 00:28:32.000 --> 00:28:38.000 your screen right before you go to sleep. I'm sure none of you do that, 232 00:28:38.000 --> 00:28:43.000 but you might know someone who does. And that's not conducive to sleep. 233 00:28:43.000 --> 00:28:46.000 It might be better to have give 234 00:28:46.000 --> 00:28:49.000 your phone its own little bedroom. So it's not even in your bedroom. 235 00:28:49.000 --> 00:28:56.000 It's somewhere else so it can rest a little before you engage with it. 236 00:28:56.000 --> 00:29:03.000 So sensory rest, social and relational rest. 237 00:29:03.000 --> 00:29:12.000 And this is not just for introverts. This is for all of us. Own your boundaries, have boundaries. 238 00:29:12.000 --> 00:29:16.000 Because again, as we take care of ourselves, it's preparing us so we can 239 00:29:16.000 --> 00:29:21.000 serve and love others in positive ways. 240 00:29:21.000 --> 00:29:34.000 Next, creative rest. So creative rest is doing something that refreshes you. So it might be a hobby. Like one of the things that my wife likes to do that would be under arrest. 241 00:29:34.000 --> 00:29:42.000 For her, not for me. Is gardening like. No, that's work. That's called work. 242 00:29:42.000 --> 00:29:44.000 No, for her, it feeds her soul 243 00:29:44.000 --> 00:29:52.000 and it gets in touch with nature and her herself and God in deeper ways as she gardens. 244 00:29:52.000 --> 00:30:09.000 And so that's creative rest for her. What is some creative rest in your life? That's not about napping. It's not about not doing something. It's actually about engaging, but in something that refreshes you. You know, I have a friend who loves to. 245 00:30:09.000 --> 00:30:21.000 I mean, he's basically a coffee dealer because he has a scale and he has a temperature thing and he has a grinder and he measures everything out. 246 00:30:21.000 --> 00:30:26.000 But he loves serving people coffee. Anytime I speak at that church, he 247 00:30:26.000 --> 00:30:32.000 pops in with all of his stuff and makes me a latte because I really like his lattes. 248 00:30:32.000 --> 00:31:03.000 But for him, that's refreshing, that's creative, that's restorative. So those are different kinds of rest. So think of rest as a menu. Let's say since we're in church, let's say a cocktail menu. And so these are the ingredients. So when I say, what kind of rest do I need? There might be two or three answers. 249 00:31:03.000 --> 00:31:17.000 It might mean one part physical rest, two parts social rest, and just a splash of creative rest. 250 00:31:17.000 --> 00:31:39.000 But start thinking about it in those lines because we're these holistic beings and we're all different. So rest is going to look different based on who we are, who God created us to be, and what we need at any given time. So here's a laundry list of ways that you can rest. And again, it's not not choosing one over the other. It's asking the question, what do I 251 00:31:39.000 --> 00:32:36.000 need to be refreshed? What do I need to be able to be restored? Refreshed. Renewed. So that I can love and serve others. That I can interact with them in healthy ways, that affirm them and show them love and not needing anything from them. On my desk at home, I have this bear. And you unscrew its head or hat, and then you tickle its tummy and bubbles. And bubbles come out. 252 00:32:36.000 --> 00:32:44.000 And when I am stressed or when I am feeling overwhelmed or I am whatever, 253 00:32:44.000 --> 00:33:34.000 I take off his hat, I tickle his little tummy, and I gently blow bubbles. And then I watch them because they're my prayers to just live on the. You know, to me, the wind currents or the unforced rhythms of God's grace. And what would it look for me like for me right now to just float for a moment with God, trusting, knowing that I'm enough, knowing that I'm loved, knowing that God cares for me. When I used to commute, I'd have other bubbles in my car because sometimes you get stuck. I had an hour commute. And so I would roll down my window or actually wouldn't roll down. That's the old days. 254 00:33:34.000 --> 00:33:35.000 And then I would take all my 255 00:33:35.000 --> 00:33:54.000 bubbles and I would just blow them out the window. And that was my prayer. Relax. We're not going anywhere. Let the bubbles be a bubble. Be the bubble in the breath of God. 256 00:33:54.000 --> 00:33:57.000 So at the end of when Joey 257 00:33:57.000 --> 00:34:00.000 comes up, not yet. 258 00:34:00.000 --> 00:34:05.000 I have. I don't know if I have enough for everyone because I thought of this last night, but this is how many 259 00:34:05.000 --> 00:34:09.000 bubbles I have in my house. 260 00:34:09.000 --> 00:34:13.000 So here's bubbles. And so if you'd like to take 261 00:34:13.000 --> 00:34:28.000 them, you can come up while we're Singing the last song. And again, I don't know if I have enough for all of you, but many more than I thought I had. Don't shake them. 262 00:34:28.000 --> 00:34:29.000 And these are really good bubbles. 263 00:34:29.000 --> 00:34:50.000 They're not the bubbles you get for your kids. They're from. They're wedding bubbles. So they have good, good solution. If you get those bubbles from the store, you're just going to get frustrated, you're not going to rest. This little guy is from Germany. I mean, I'm very serious about my bubbles. 264 00:34:50.000 --> 00:34:57.000 But that could be your prayer. Where do you get stressed out? Where do you need to be reminded to rest, to be refreshed, to relax? 265 00:34:57.000 --> 00:35:24.000 Put that there. And then when you need it, just take it out. That becomes your, your wordless prayer. God, help me to settle down, settle in. So as we rest, here's some little pointers. Start small. The ideal gets in the way of the good. 266 00:35:24.000 --> 00:35:28.000 Be realistic. If you just got a puppy, you're 267 00:35:28.000 --> 00:35:34.000 not going to rest. Or little kids under age of 5, you're not gonna rest. 268 00:35:34.000 --> 00:35:37.000 Or a grandparent with your grandkids coming 269 00:35:37.000 --> 00:35:38.000 over, you're not gonna rest. 270 00:35:38.000 --> 00:35:51.000 Okay, that's the way it goes. But when that's not there, rest and grab little snippets of rest. Like if you take a shower, you can rest. 271 00:35:51.000 --> 00:36:09.000 You know, don't get, oh, gotta get. You know, it's like, just breathe a little as you lather up and just image the water washing over you as an invitation to rest and relax. Ask the question from time to time, what do I need right now? 272 00:36:09.000 --> 00:36:14.000 Schedule little micro breaks in your day. You know, taking a little walk, just 273 00:36:14.000 --> 00:36:32.000 even around your desk says something. Or outside if you're able to. Or bring up a picture that has some beauty in it that communicates to your soul. Unplug in the evenings. My daughter, who tends to be a nut, her and her husband decided that 274 00:36:32.000 --> 00:36:37.000 they're going to use no electricity 275 00:36:37.000 --> 00:36:40.000 after they're done with dinner. 276 00:36:40.000 --> 00:36:41.000 None. So they couldn't. 277 00:36:41.000 --> 00:36:48.000 And they couldn't watch any screens either. 278 00:36:48.000 --> 00:36:54.000 That's a little crazy to me, but it is good modeling. 279 00:36:54.000 --> 00:36:57.000 So way to go. 280 00:36:57.000 --> 00:36:59.000 But maybe I could do something. 281 00:36:59.000 --> 00:37:05.000 Maybe not. As I would say, on the crazy side, 282 00:37:05.000 --> 00:37:10.000 try to get restorative sleep. 283 00:37:10.000 --> 00:37:16.000 You spend a lot of time on the mattress. You have a crappy mattress. Talk to Jason. Maybe he can give you some money or something. 284 00:37:16.000 --> 00:37:25.000 But get a good, get a good mattress. Get a good pillow. When I travel, I've traveled around the world. 285 00:37:25.000 --> 00:37:30.000 My pillow has been around the world. Cause it makes a difference, you know, 286 00:37:30.000 --> 00:37:42.000 White noise can be helpful, but try and try to get they say around seven hours sleep now we're all different. But find out again. Figure out what do I need. And the way you prepare for tomorrow 287 00:37:42.000 --> 00:37:50.000 is what you do tonight. So take that seriously. I need to get to bed right now because I have an early meeting. If I'm going to get to that 288 00:37:50.000 --> 00:37:51.000 and I want to get my seven 289 00:37:51.000 --> 00:37:58.000 hours, I'm going to need to do this. All right, I think that's about it. 290 00:37:58.000 --> 00:38:08.000 We owe it to ourselves and we owe it to the world to rest. We owe it to ourselves and we 291 00:38:08.000 --> 00:38:09.000 owe it to the world to rest. 292 00:38:09.000 --> 00:38:20.000 Jesus rested and invites us to do the same. As we rest, we are able to serve from a place of love, a 293 00:38:20.000 --> 00:38:25.000 place of grace giving place of mercy with no strings attached. 294 00:38:25.000 --> 00:38:27.000 When we're rested, we can be that 295 00:38:27.000 --> 00:38:40.000 non anxious presence that can be Jesus to those that we walk with. Rest isn't an option, it's a necessity. 296 00:38:40.000 --> 00:38:45.000 And we owe it to ourselves and we owe it to this community and we owe it to the world to 297 00:38:45.000 --> 00:38:52.000 get some rest, to be rested in that variety of ways, whatever it may be for you. 298 00:38:52.000 --> 00:38:55.000 So how many people are going to try and rest today? 299 00:38:55.000 --> 00:38:58.000 Raise your hands. All right, that's sort of the same 300 00:38:58.000 --> 00:39:08.000 people every time, but that's good. So we have some people who can be rested. Because remember, the last thing is this, resting is hard. 301 00:39:08.000 --> 00:39:14.000 It's countercultural. And so go ahead, man. 302 00:39:14.000 --> 00:39:20.000 Joy's all rested now he's got to get. 303 00:39:20.000 --> 00:39:34.000 It's counterintuitive, countercultural, but it's needed. It's needed by this world we live in. It's needed by us, our families, our communities. So rest. 304 00:39:34.000 --> 00:39:40.000 And I put up these, I put these bubbles up there. If you want to take this as the token of, yeah, I'm going to 305 00:39:40.000 --> 00:39:41.000 try to rest more. 306 00:39:41.000 --> 00:39:47.000 Please do so and give it a try. Don't shake them. When you shake bubbles, they get all bubbly. It's hard. 307 00:39:47.000 --> 00:39:56.000 They don't. They don't. It's hard to blow them. So take it gingerly and then take it out and it has a heart on it, reminding you that God loves you. 308 00:39:56.000 --> 00:40:04.000 And then and slowly and steadily you blow. 309 00:40:04.000 --> 00:40:12.000 Let's pray. God, we thank you that you are a God of rest, restoration, refreshments, and 310 00:40:12.000 --> 00:40:14.000 that you not only invite us to 311 00:40:14.000 --> 00:40:27.000 rest, but over and over again throughout Scripture tell us to rest. May we live as those who know who we are, loved by you, having value, dignity and worth. 312 00:40:27.000 --> 00:40:29.000 So we might feel the freedom to 313 00:40:29.000 --> 00:40:46.000 rest for our sake. But also for the sake of those that we walk with, those that you put into our lives, that we may love them well, serve them well even as you love and serve us. It's in the name of Jesus we pray these things. Amen. 314 00:40:46.000 --> 00:41:06.000 Thank you for joining us for this Sunday teaching, no matter when or where you're tuning in. To learn more about our community or to support the work we do, Visit us@oceansidesanctuary.org We hope to see you again soon.