Shawn Brummund - Restless and Rebellious (Sabbath School Study Hour)

[Music] hi welcome to our sabbath school study hour here at the granite bay hilltop 7th adventist church we are so happy that you have decided to invest this hour of study and of diving into god's word with us i'd like also to welcome our local community thank you for being here with us and we're so glad that you are here with us too today we will be studying the second lesson of our new quarterly the title of the entire lesson this quarter is rest in christ there are so many beautiful lessons that we need to learn about this reality about how to rest in jesus this week's title is restless and rebellious and pastor sean will be leading out today and i'm sure that we have a lot to learn with him here in our lesson but before um before i ask him to come out and before our courses come out i would like to invite you to take advantage of our free offer this week's free offer is why god said remember and so if you want a copy a physical copy of this and you live within the continental north america you can call 866 788-3966 or if you want to remember it better you could call 866 study more and then you can ask for uh the offer 185 offer number 185 or if you're in the usa you can text sh129 to the number 40544 or if you're outside north america you can go to study.aftv.org and you could get a digital download of that now i would like to call our coursers out sing with confidence sing because the lord is here with us and i'm sure that he will be blessing us throughout the praise and throughout the teaching [Music] is [Music] there's nothing in this world to keep [Music] is time he has waited for and now he is waiting again [Music] he oh to [Music] [Music] is [Music] [Applause] in your heart [Music] is to see [Music] dear lord we praise you for this beautiful day we praise you because you are among us and we are ready to receive your word lord please imbue pastor sean with your holy spirit as he teaches us that this quarter's lesson is all about not allowing ourselves to go restless to grow restless or rebellious and allowing you to always touch our hearts and be led by the spirit i ask you for all the worshipers that are here this this day and i ask this in jesus name amen we would all do well to underline the in in this we this quarterly sabbath school title rest in christ we want to circle it we want to highlight it we want to underline it we want to make sure that we capitalize it it is the key word in the title and theme which we continue to study as we started last week rest in christ paul had found the ticket to true rest and peace in his life and that was in the person the eternal son of god jesus christ himself we would do well to underline that in we find there the justification we find the sanctification that is found in the person and work of christ it is the only way that we can find true rest for our souls jesus summed it up best for us when we come to the book of john chapter 14 and verses 13 through 14 where jesus answered and said to the woman at the well as he was having this personal encounter with her and she with him and as he was in the heart of that conversation he was working up to the punch line when he says whoever drinks of this water will thirst again they had their conversation beside jacob's well the woman was there to fetch the water that she and or family and household needed for that day jesus says whoever drinks of this regular water will thirst again but whoever drinks of the water that i shall give him jesus says shall never thirst but the water that i shall give him will become a fountain of water springing up into everlasting life jesus is talking about himself jesus is declaring that he is the water of life not only did he equate himself with water and call himself the water of life but he also called himself the bread of heaven as well the bread of life in john chapter 6 just two chapters later in verse 35 jesus said to them i am the bread of life he who comes to me shall never hunger he who comes to me shall never hunger do you see the parallel between the conversation in john chapter 4 and the woman at the well and that in which jesus is having with the crowd that later uh some days or weeks after jesus says to the woman whoever drinks of this water will never thirst again when jesus speaks to the crowd some days later he says i am the bread of life if you eat of this bread you will never be hungry hungry again and then he follows up and brings himself and his crowd back to that conversation with the woman where he says he who believes in me shall never thirst i can speak by personal experience that when you have a personal relationship with jesus christ there is a satisfaction that is beyond compare there is a place in which you can find yourself parked for the rest of your life when it comes to any concern to the greatest philosophical questions that human beings have always asked through the ages we can find ourselves parked there with great and and full and complete satisfaction concerning the questions of where we have come from why do we exist what is our future what is our purpose in life where do we find true peace and happiness and joy all of it is found in the person in the package of jesus christ in the person of christ when we come to christ we don't need to we don't have to we don't want to look anywhere else i know some people that are very close to me very near and dear throughout my life and many of them have gone from one thing to another they've gone from pyramid power to channeling to new age meditation to to mind control they've gone from one self-help guru and to another self-help guru they've been searching years upon years upon years always thirsty but never satisfied always hungry but never satisfied never full why because they haven't found the person of jesus christ rest true rest can only be found in the person of christ as the old hymn goes it's old now it's been around for about 30 years many of us have sung it many of us can sing it from our hearts and by personal experience you are my all and all not only is it a song it's a prayer you are my all in all in christ he is our all in all in revelation chapter 3 and verse 20 we find that jesus pictures himself as one who knocks at the door of our heart he says behold i knock at the door of your heart i stand at the door and i knock and if anyone hears my voice and opens the door i will come in him into him and he to me we come back to the text in which we looked at last week in matthew chapter 11 and verses 28 and 29 where jesus says come unto me all you who labor and are heavy laden and i will give you rest take my yoke upon you he says for i am gentle and lonely in heart and you shall find rest for your souls that is the great theme in which we continue to study even as we've looked at this quarterly's lesson for those of us who have gone day by day through this last week as we looked at some very deep and interesting and very helpful chapters they're not pleasant chapters they're not happy chapters for indeed we find the great as it reflects the actual quarterly lesson which is restless and rebellious and so we find they're not what we should be patterning ourselves after but what we should be avoiding we find this sad story that shares with us how this large group of people that were the descendants of abraham that were led by the great prophet moses had chosen disobedience and disbelief had chosen to be restless and rebellious rather than to find themselves in the rest of christ that god had offered to them from the very moment that they left egypt now it's important for us to know that this is not the first time that christ has offered this rest when we come to jesus's life on earth in matthew chapter 11. and jesus says come unto me all you labor and are heavy laden and i will give you rest this is not the first offer no god had offered it many times in the past he had offered it to the israelites through the generation of moses we can find that in exodus chapter 33 and verse 14 god says my presence will go with you and i will give you you guessed it rest you see god had offered rest to that generation jesus offered again when he was in this life on this planet but he had offered it hundreds and hundreds of years beforehand through the prophet moses and to the generation of moses's day now it's interesting in the new testament book of hebrews chapters three through four the bible speaks more extensively on this god given rest than anywhere else if you're looking for the most comprehensive passage on the rest that can be found in christ it is in these two chapters and so i'd like to spend some time reflecting on that why because the four chapters that we looked at in this last week's study numbers chapter 11 12 13 and 14 touches on the same rest that the ancient israelites missed out on in moses's day so again we find there what not to do we find there how we can potentially miss out on that rest i want to spend some time in the book of hebrews learning how and why they missed out on god's rest and salvation so far ago and how and why we can make sure that we have that rest many if not all of you that are here today have already found that rest in christ many of you that are here today are here because you have found that rest in christ and you want to continue to nurture and continue to hold on to and continue to experience that rest that is found in christ but perhaps there's one or more that is here today either in person in our granite bay seventh-day adventist church or or watching online or on the different television networks that has never found that rest that has never come to say yes i can say with confidence that i have a personal experience with jesus christ as my lord and savior and he has given me rest and peace in a measure that i had never had before perhaps this is a day in which jesus is speaking to you and you are responding and you are hearing his voice and you want to consider over the next few minutes that we have together to study what it means to have that rest and invite it into your life the generation of israelites that escaped egypt with moses had blown it and hebrews that new testament book that comes along in the days of paul tells us not to make the same mistake and so let's spend some time there turn with me to hebrews chapter 3. and we're going to start with verse 7 so we're going to that new testament gospel book in the new testament called hebrews why is it called hebrews anybody want to venture a guess why is it called hebrews it's called hebrews because it was written to hebrews that had accepted christ as their lord and savior that were in the christian church and so god had unspawled inspired the apostle paul and said listen you need to address a very real challenge that is existing in the hearts and lives of more than one jew or hebrew that had accepted the christian faith and that is that they were tempted to backslide they were attempted to let go of this great experience and rest that is found in christ and go back to the traditional judaism in which they were raised and so they were written to that they might be able to hold on hold fast to that which god had already delivered to them that jesus is the true messiah that there is no rest outside of christ to remind them that the only rest that they have ever found in their life is in christ don't let that rest go and so when we come to hebrews chapter 3 and verse 7 it says therefore as the holy spirit says today if you will hear his voice do not harden your hearts as in the rebellion friends does that echo revelation chapter 3 and verse 20 which i quoted earlier in our study today behold i stand at the door and i knock and if anyone hears my voice and opens the door to your heart if you open the door then jesus comes in jesus never forces his way into our life he never forces us because then it wouldn't be true rest it is only true rest if we voluntarily open the door to our heart and let jesus in and so we have the same voice in this case it's not the voice of of jesus as he was walking upon this earth and says you know or shortly after i should say through the john the revelator where he says if anyone hears my voice and opens the door in this case it's king david as quoted in psalm 95 in his generation god is crying out through his prophet david where he says today if you will hear his voice don't harden your hearts as in the rebellion now as it turns out that key word rebellion is reflecting the very chapters in which we studied this last week which is numbers chapter 11 through 14 where the israelites had chosen very sadly very tragically to rebel against god and against his offer of rest and so because of that they ended up spending 40 days of restlessness wandering in the wilderness until a new generation was to grow up and take their place do not harden your hearts as in the rebellion it tells us in the days of the trial in the wilderness were your fathers now he doesn't mean your biological first fathers but your great great great great great great great great great great great great grandfathers where your fathers tested me and tried me and saw my works for 40 years and so there's the sentence that we read about if you've read the sabbath school quarterly now of course we just do not have time to go through and read verse by verse all those four chapters or five chapters um but let's look at the punch line let's go to um to numbers chapter 14 and verse 32 numbers chapter 14 numbers chapter 14 and verse 32. so we're going to pick it up with numbers chapter 14 and verse 32 in verse 32 it says but as for you your carcasses shall fall in this wilderness and so there's the sentence he's saying listen you've chosen not to enter into the promised land you've chosen disobedience and unbelief rather than obedience and belief which is full trust in the promise that i gave to you that i will go before you and i will help you conquer that land and even though they may be twice your size and even though they may have the highest most fortified cities and even though they may be much more acquainted and trained and experienced on the battlefield you will still win isn't that what caleb said in the same chapters many of us have read it over the last week some of us have read it in the past caleb and joshua stand up and say the lord will deliver us god has removed the deep and departed from the protection of these people in the land of canaan in the promised land and therefore therefore i will give you the victory over them it reminds us again and it's not by might it's not by strength it's but by the spirit of the living god that we must not trust in chariots and swords but we must trust in the lord jesus christ and so when we come to verse 32 we come to the very punch line of the chapters in which we looked at it says but as for you your carcasses shall fall in the wilderness you've made your choice and now you need to live with it in verse 33 it says and your son shall be shepherds in the wilderness 40 years and bear the brunt of your infidelity of your what of your infidelity in other words their unfaithfulness their decision to refuse the rest and the victory and the peace that god was offering in the day they chose ob disobedience over obedience they chose to not believe rather than to believe they were they chose to distrust god rather to trust god and so because of that god says that you and your generation that is coming after you will bear the brunt of your infidelity how tragic is the truth that is revealed here in the fact that there are many of us as parents that make decisions that cause our sins to be upon our children that they may bear the brunt of the consequences that sometimes haunt our families for years afterwards now the grace of jesus and the mercy that is offered to us will help us to be able to still find that rest and relationship with him we can still be written in the lamb's book of life but it is reminding us again that the decisions we make is not in a vacuum we are not in isolation when we make decisions concerning sin in our life but rather it affects and can affect those who come up after us and bear the brunt of your infidelity until your carcasses are consumed in the wilderness this is a very sober sentence verse 34 it says according to the number of the days in which you spied out the land forty days for each day you shall bear your guilt your what your guilt for one year again god is making it very clear listen you are guilty this is the sentence this is like a court scene that we're reading here as god is speaking to this nation this new potential nation that god was establishing and trying to establish through them we're talking to three million people you shall bear your guilt one year namely 40 years and you shall know my rejection and of course verse 34 is one of those key verses in which we apply in the prophetic time periods those symbolic prophetic time periods that god had revealed through his prophet daniel in particular and that of john the revelator in which isaac newton other great students of the bible before us the seventh day evidence ever came along one of the great reformers isaac newton had discovered indeed this verse and it applied it to that in which daniel reveals when there's 1260 symbolic days god is talking about 1260 literal years calendar years and and this is where we pick it up but god is giving the sentence in real life to a real generation in this real time in verse 35 it goes on and says and the lord has spoken this will surely do all this do so to all this evil generation again god has nothing good to say about this generation we have to remember that the early chapters that we read in this week's quarterly study reveal that their heart is so hard that when caleb and joshua stand up against the other 10 spies that are that are are are negative and say no we must choose disobedience we must not trust in the lord because we will never be able to take these people caleb and joshua stand up as many of us have read and they say no the lord will deliver us and he will give us victory over these people and the nation became so upset with caleb and joshua for being able to challenge their choice of rebelliousness and restlessness that they begin to pick up the biggest rocks they can possibly find that they might throw them at those two as well as moses and aaron and take their lives that very day if it were not for the fact that god himself intervened by appearing in a glorious fashion at the meeting of the tabernacle of meeting to be able to bring a stop to that attempt on the lives of these four men those men would have died that same day and so when god calls this evil this generation and evil generation he really means it they've made their choice don't feel sorry for them god loves them he didn't want it this way but they have made their choice to do this evil generation this evil congregation who are gathered together against me in this wilderness and they shall be consumed and there they shall die now the men whom moses sent to spy out the land who returned and made all the congregation complain against him by bringing a bad report of the land those very men who brought the evil report about the land died by the plague before the lord and so god's immediate judgment upon those who were the most guilty and led out in this rebellion and had helped influence and convinced the rest of the nation to rebel against god indeed found themselves dying first but joshua the son of nun and caleb the son of jefferna and remained alive of the men who went out to spy out the land and so joshua and caleb were the only two of the 12 original spies that lived not only did they live but they outlived that entire generation that did die in the wilderness over the next 40 years and then joshua and caleb in great health advanced ear years yes but in perfect health entered into the promised land and set up their cities and their houses and their families why because god blesses faith god blesses belief do you believe that when you trust him and you surrender to him and you obey him god blesses you he blesses you with strength and with health and with rest true peace after all isn't that the rest of you know last week the first quarterly study in the first week we looked at was that concerning physical rest emotional rest mental rest this is concerning more than anything mental and spiritual rest that is found in christ that's what god is talking about here and so we return back to hebrews chapter 3. hebrews chapter 3 where were we in hebrews 3. we're back in hebrews 3 and uh we were reading about the sentence oh yeah verse nine is where we last left off where your fathers tested me and tried me and saw my works forty years therefore i was angry with that generation and said they always go astray in their heart and they have not known my ways so i swore in my wrath they shall not enter my my rest you see the rest that is found in christ is conditional the rest that found is found in eternal life written in the lamb's book of life the rest that is found in god and knowing that we are part of the eternal family of god comes with conditions those conditions are faith which includes trust as well as obedience which is our surrender to god and when we are willing to make that choice to meet those conditions then god offers us rest in christ god offers us the gospel that is the gospel hebrews chapter 3 and we are now in verse 12 verse 12 it says beware brethren lest there be in any of you any evil heart of unbelief there it is god had called the generation of moses an evil generation an evil congregation and here we find that paul in reflection of that is saying to the present jewish believers that had found that rest in christ and he says beware brethren lest any of you invest in any of you an evil heart of unbelief and departing from the living god and so friends as we go through these passages in the highlights of chapter 3 and 4 we're going to find that unbelief and obedience or disobedience or disbelief are the key words so we have obedience and faith or disobedience and unbelief those are the key words that keep repeating itself in verse 13 in verse 13 it says but exhort one another daily while it is called today lest any of you be hardened through the deceitfulness of sin for we have become partakers of christ now we want to pick that up again i don't maybe sound like a broken record but i think it's too easy for us to forget that the the christian religion is based not on a theory and philosophy first it is based on a person it is based on the person the eternal living jesus christ and that's why paul says over and over in different ways i've been crucified with christ i am in christ in this case he says we have become partakers of christ of the person if we have if we hold the from the beginning our confidence steadfast to the end that's why paul says in other places in his letters listen we need to fight the good fight we need to run the races if we are out to win that race we need to finish the race that's why when he came to the end of his life he said i have fought the good fight i have finished the race and now there is laid up for me a prize a crown on that day and not only for me only but for all who have loved his appearing and so there's great encouragement as well as warning that is found in this chapter concerning the rest that god so much as wants us to be able to have we skip down now to verses 18 and 19 of the same chapter in hebrews in hebrews 3 and verse 18 it says to whom did he swear that they would not enter his rest but the to those who did not what to those who did not obey so there's the other key word remember i said again and again we find those two key words unbelief and disobedience so they could not enter in speaking of that rest in christ because of unbelief and then we come to chapter four chapter four verse one he goes on and says therefore since a promise remains of entering his rest let us fear lest any of you seem to have come short of it and so very clear even as we stop here and reflect on these verses that we looked at so far very clearly it was unbelief and disobedience that were the two factors that kept that generation of moses from entering into the rest of christ so we want to beware of those two great enemies because these are the greatest enemies of rest and peace and joy and eternal life that can be found in our lives if we only agree if we only surrender to jesus in verse two it says for indeed the gospel was preached to us as well as to them i've always been intrigued ever since i first came to this verse and i stopped and i paused wait a minute i thought the gospel has only preached from pentecost on i thought the gospel was only preached from the life of jesus perhaps on if you want to back up to the life and ministry of christ no it tells us that the gospel of jesus christ has been preached to every generation of every human beings and indeed we find it even in moses's day and i started to ask myself where in the bible does it say that the gospel was preached to that generation well we find it in the sacrificial system for sure that's the gospel in 3d we find the sanctuary the holy place the most holy place the the symbolic throne of god the government in which his government is ruled in the ten commandments we have the mercy seat we have the cherubim that are worshiping these exalted angels we have the shekinah glory of god hovering above that that ark in the most holy place we have the the altar of sacrifice which is proclaiming that only through the shedding of blood is the remission and complete erasement of our sins we find all of that great symbolism that was given to the israelites now did they have to put two and two together yes they did but did they have the writings of moses yes they had the person in the writings and teachings of moses we have to remember as i took my mind back to genesis chapter 3 and verse 15. in that third chapter of genesis in which moses not only wrote in the bible but surely had preached to his generation that god had promised to mankind right from the beginning from the moment in the same day that they had sinned that there would come a seed of the woman and that singular seed was a man and that man was none other than jesus christ the eternal son of god and he would crush the head of the serpent one day and then that same chapter in general genesis chapter 3 as we find that god then clothed them with skins of of animals and which only can come from a sacrifice of the death of an animal and then when we come to genesis chapter 4 which moses wrote and surely preached to his generation that indeed god had instructed adam and eve who then instructed cain and abel that they must bring to the altar a sacrificial animal that they sacrifice after they confess their sins teaching them right from the very beginning of mankind that indeed only by the shedding of blood will there be the remission of sins and so the gospel of jesus christ was written about and preached about and talked about by the very prophet and person moses to his generation and yet they refuse to believe and that's why paul can confidently write under inspiration in verse two he says for indeed the gospel was preached to us as well as to them but the word which they heard did not profit them what word is that friends the word of god in this case it is the word of moses the prophet of god that is giving direct divine messages of truth to that generation starting with genesis chapter 3 in verse 15. indeed we find here some great and deep truth that says to them but the word the word of god which they heard did not profit them not being mixed with faith in those who heard it you see we can hear the truth of god we many of us have heard it more than once but there's more than one of us i know as a pastor and evangelist there's more than one of us that hear the word of god but we continue to choose against it even as moses generation did and so faith yes as it says in romans faith comes by hearing and hearing by the word of god we have the potential to grow in faith when we hear the word of god but we also have the potential to harden our hearts against the word of god that's why this great deep passage on the rest of christ is telling us that we must respond with faith we must respond with belief i believe the word of god and i surrender to it by giving my obedience to jesus christ in verse 3 it goes on and says for we who have believed do enter that rest and again there's a direct equation if we choose belief which is faith then we enter into the rest if we choose this disbelief then we are rejected from that rest we are exempt from that rest that peace and the joy that is found in christ and and so in verse 3 it says for we who have believed you enter that rest so i swore in my wrath they shall not enter my rest as he again reflects upon those who had rejected it although the works were finished from the foundation of the world now where is paul going with this although the works were finished from the foundation of the world he's talking about justification he's reflected upon the god the fact that god worked work work work work work work for six days as he came to the end of the sixth day as the sun set he says now i'm entering into the seventh day of the week the holy sabbath i'm going to rest on it i'm going to bless it which he actively did and then he declared it a holy day now he's using that first week of this earth's history to be able to demonstrate the justification that is found in the person in the work of christ although the works were finished from the foundation of the world friends that's why paul could also say in other places ephesians chapter 2 and verses 89 for by grace you have been saved through faith it is not of yourselves it is a gift of god it is not of your works why lest anyone should boast for we are his workmanship created for good works in christ jesus and so paul he is reflecting on the great truth and rest that is found in the justification that comes from christ in the personal work of christ when we give our obedience and surrender to him and we choose to believe in verse four he says for he has spoken in a certain place of the seventh day in this way and god rested on the seventh day from all his all his works he's reflecting upon the completed works even as christ calls us to reflect upon the completed works of christ that covers our imperfect life that we might be justified before a holy god and again in this place they shall not enter by rest god is contrasting what they refused in verse 6 it goes on it says since therefore it remains that some must enter in that is to the rest and those to whom it was first preached did not enter it because of disobedience there it is you see the pattern there again he designates a certain day saying in david today so now he's saying listen now we go from genesis and we come some twenty five hundred years or even more we come some four three thousand years into the future we find the generation of david as david cries out today today if you'll hear his voice do not harm your hearts and then verse 8 for joshua had given them rest then they would not have afterward have spoken of another day reflecting again that so many generations of god's people have rejected the rest that is offered in christ in verse 9 it says therefore there remains a rest for the people of god for he who has entered his rest has himself also ceased from his works as god did from his again it is reflecting justification we are to reflect and rest in the works of christ to know that we are acquitted before a holy god not because of anything that we can do in of ourselves in concern to doing good even though god has called us to do his be his workmanship and to do good that good is not what saves us or justifies us or quits us before a holy god only through the person and work of christ are we acquitted before a holy god verse 11 it goes there that let us therefore be diligent to enter that rest lest anyone should fall according to the same example of disobedience and so here we have some very powerful verses two of the most powerful chapters concerning that spiritual and then an extension of that mental and emotional rest that found that we can be found in christ we discovered that the israelites of moses chose disbelief and disobedience and that was expressed and and it was demonstrated in some some very ugly ways as we made our way through those four chapters or five chapters the opposite is to choose belief and obedience that's what god is trying to tell us here as hebrews is reflected upon the numbers chapters and so when we choose the second option of belief and obedience then what takes place well there's two aspects of this rest this peace that god offers to each and every one of us if we have not already found him and the first one is called justification we started to reflect upon that in the actual last text that we read in hebrews chapter 4. what is justification well i started to give a hint it's a being acquitted before a holy and perfect god as we come to him as very imperfect people but justification ultimately consumer can be summarized in the fact that it is the perfect to complete works of christ that covers our imperfect lives that's why paul can also write in the same book of hebrews in which we have been looking at in chapter 10 and verse 14 when he says for by one offering he has perfected forever those who are being sanctified through that one offering and the work that god applies through his son jesus christ in the most holy place or now and before that in the holy place in the holy heavenly sanctuary that work of priestly intercession that jesus does for us because of all of that we have been perfected forever now what are the benefits of knowing and experiencing and accepting and having justification as a real part of our life experience well there's a long list i'm sure it's not exhaustive as i reflected upon myself but one is for certain that we have found forgiveness of the most vile and shameful sins in which we have ever committed friends it doesn't matter what you've done there's too many people that are walking around the devil is convinced and continues to convince that the sins or sin that you have committed in the past is one that is beyond god's forgiveness and i am here to tell you that god has made it very clear through the works and the teachings of christ as well as his apostles that there is no sin in which god cannot forgive except the sin in which we refuse the voice of god and so we can experience the forgiveness of our most vile and shameful sins that we have ever committed and then finally god offers us a clean slate we come to first john chapter one verse nine many of us know by by memory many of us have come to memorize it and write it upon our hearts and our minds and our life experience if we confess our sins he is faithful and just to forgive us our sins and cleanse us from how many of those sins from all of our unrighteousness now friends that's pretty comprehensive but pastor you don't know what i've done you you have no idea the shame i'm embarrassed and i'm and i'm fearful to even share it with you the things that i have done in the past jesus says through my blood i i my sacrifice is sufficient i will cleanse you of all your sins because of the perfect life and death of jesus that covers up the other benefit that comes in experience and justification that part of that rest that god offers to us is that we have room to grow in his grace through the years that we give our faith and our surrender and our willing obedience to him because friends i don't know about you but one thing i've learned is that even though i accepted christ as my lord and savior and i give him my sincere belief each and every single day and i give him my willing obedience and say lord write your law upon my heart there are times throughout the days in which i find myself still falling short of god there are times when i have to come to christ at the end of my day or throughout the day and say lord please forgive me for which i have fallen short of your holiness and your great standard in which you have set before me that's why jesus says when you pray on a regular basis our father who art in heaven hallowed be thy name thy kingdom come thy will be done on earth as it is in heaven give us this day our daily bread and forgive us our our sins our trespasses our debts even as we forgive those who sin against us jesus knew that you would need to pray that on a regular basis because he knew you would need to grow under the umbrella of that justification that god offers to you that christ covers you with a perfect life so now when god looks down upon you he only sees a perfect child a perfect daughter a perfect son not because you are perfect no he knows all about you but because his son covers you and is in between you and the father because he sees you through christ he sees a perfect life that's justification so oh i don't know about you but i just not so i can have a license to sin paul went on extensively inspiration to be able to tell us don't run with it in the wrong direction but nonetheless don't be robbed of that experience either and tippy-toeing through each day hoping that that you've been perfect enough to be accepted by a holy god no christ accepts you even as you're growing and you're failing and you're and you're disappointed himself and yourself in different ways so you could have room to grow and just be able to take a deep breath and say lord thank you for taking that burden off my heart that i can know that christ has done it for me and now it can grow and and learn what it is to be like christ that's justification well what about sanctification are the last few moments together sanctification is the other part of the rest that god gives to us through christ the person and work of christ and that sanctification is found in our obedience and in the fruits of the spirit our character and so there's a two parts of sanctification yes obedience to his law yes the ten commandments the other commandments and counsels and statues that he gives to us directives yes but the second one is just as important and that is the fruits of the spirit love joy peace kindness long suffering self-control mercy sometimes we call that our character god forms our character so that we're not only obeying the moral law of god but our character is developing with these spirits these fruits of the spirit what are the benefits that lead to rest and peace through sanctification well one of the first ones is that christ works in us with his goodness when we are to surrender to him when we surrender to him it is his goodness that works in us isn't it good to know that we aren't called to obey and form our character and our own strength there's too many religious people including those who call themselves christian that are trying to make their way through the day and they're gritting their teeth and they're saying lord i'm going to be a good person whether i like it or not but that's not the experience that god wants us to have he wants us to come before christ in the morning and say lord have mercy upon me a sinner again i die to myself even as paul died daily and i accept you into my heart and i say lord please write your law upon my heart that i might not sin against you we've become a blessing to many other people we become appreciated and trusted by others and best of all as i've come to experience coming from a very sinful background and 20 years of age we have a clear conscience in justification in the rest of christ i know that my conscience is clear because i am obeying him to the very best of my ability as he works in me and so friends that's our study for this week and i want to invite you to uh please take advantage of our free offer which is why god said remember which is written by joe cruz the founder of amazing facts ministries please take advantage of that and dial in for that because this will give you more study now of course this particular booklet is reflected upon the rest that is found in the seventh day of the sabbath in genesis chapter one and genesis chapter two and uh and so please if you want to study more about the sabbath please take advantage of this go ahead and dial 1-866-788-3966 and that's one eight six six study more and ask for offer one eight five and uh and if you're in the u.s you can also text sh129 and you want to text that and dial it to the number four zero five four for those who are outside of north america and would like to see receive either of these free gifts you can well actually the digital gift you can go ahead and go to study.aftv.org sh129 and so you can find that in the internet a free download of the same free gift offer so continue to study continue to grow and again if you haven't accepted the rest that is found in christ i want to invite you to do that even now thank you for joining us and we look forward to seeing you next week don't forget to request today's life-changing free resource not only can you receive this free gift in the mail you can download a digital copy straight to your computer or mobile device to get your digital copy of today's free gift simply text the keyword on your screen to 40544 or visit the web address shown on your screen and be sure to select the digital download option on the request page it's now easier than ever for you to study god's word with amazing facts wherever and whenever you want and most important to share it with others amazing facts change lives [Music] i'm scarlett varley i grew up in a military home both my parents were in the navy and my mom left fairly early and then my dad stayed for 15 years and so he was deployed a lot we would read the bible every night together as a family and i mean i knew like that god was there and like i knew that he like died for me but it wasn't something that like you know stuck in my head any time i went to church i never got enough information you know you're there for just like an hour i was super super hungry for knowledge and i wasn't being given it and even though i accepted christ my faith like really wasn't all that strong i mean i lost my first friend in high school you know my first boyfriend to suicide and that was really hard and i didn't understand it and i was just really really depressed i was also like abused and so i was just really confused and i was like lord why was i put in that situation where i had no control over anything i was suicidal i was developing an eating disorder so like all these things were just coming into play you know i don't feel loved you know that's not something that would happen if i was loved or that's not something that happened if maybe i must have done something wrong if i went through that and i just blamed myself for everything on the outside i was still like super happy and outgoing and i'd give everyone a hug and compliment them and try to put the attention on other people and so people didn't know what i was going through [Music] i was just super confused about life and why am i here like i don't think i have a reason to even be alive i was really confused with god like why would you let this happen like why wouldn't you intervene i just wanted to change it i wanted to change it so bad and there was nothing i could do i quit choir because um i was around too many people choir was a big thing i just isolated myself because i couldn't stand being around people and i was like oh well if i don't have any friends and something happens to them well then it won't affect me because i'm not part of their lives and so i was just really scared of just losing people and so i thought if the more i pushed them away the easier it would be to just go through life the problem was i didn't turn to god and that's what i needed him most my sophomore year in high school we went um on this thing called fall weekend so we went on a retreat for like the weekend and they showed this clip of jesus christ on the cross and that broke me i mean i was crying crying so much and after they showed the clip you know everyone's super quiet and they're like all right go out on the campus and we're gonna do this thing called 20 minutes and so i'm sitting out there and i'm just like praying i gave my life to christ and it was just such like a beautiful moment right around that time my dad found doug batchelor on the tv and so he's like scarlett come watch this i'm like all right like i'll watch it and so we started watching it like all the time and he's like you know this is like the bible truth i was like it definitely is he's like scarlett you should go to avco and i was like it's not really my cup of tea i was a very spirited person and afco was it was structured and i me as a person i wasn't too structured but you know the more i thought about afco the happier i got and it was like a two weeks notice before afko started she's like you got accepted like we emailed you your letter and all this stuff and i was like oh no oh no i have to pack up my entire life and so i'm like like frantically like packing up everything and me and my dad like drive cross-country and afco is not what i expected at all they've definitely led me and helped me and talked to me and taught me and just loved me and accepted me as who i was and just helped me grow as a person it's showing me different ways of life and just how to live like a better life in all sorts of areas without the help of the lord and without like people who love the lord and love me i wouldn't be where i am today even though i didn't want him i you know i kind of shoved him away he didn't let go and so i'm super grateful [Music] amazing facts change lives [Music] i met my ex-wife and her family were real big into drugs and it started out with them wanting me to go to the doctor to help get them drugs and you know i'm noticing they're going to the doctor they're coming back with like 60 pills and they're selling these pills for like a thousand bucks and i'm thinking wow this is a lot of money i'm giving these people so i'm just going to start selling it myself the problem with that was we had all this money but we was absolutely miserable she would go out and sleep with other guys to get drugs and that ended my marriage but during this time i have to get a job to build back up to where i was at to open my shop again so i get a job at food city and when i get this job at food city there's my wife now rebecca she's a cashier there and when i walk in she's the most beautiful girl i've ever seen in my life i i was like man i could never have a girl like that wow she's so beautiful but as i'm working with her she's actually kind of mean to me and she's saying i don't want anything to do with you get away from me stuff like that but you know i just keep being nice to her and keep trying to give her my phone number and it's around christmas eve we just been dating for a little while and moved in together my ex-wife shows up with my three children that i had by her and she's like here's your kids here's their birth certificates here's their social security cards i'm done and we're starting a family we have already have three kids during this time we spent the next year watching nothing but amazing facts on youtube i didn't even know they even had a website at this time i just knew that this little guy on youtube was super smart was teaching bible and i wanted to follow him i wanted to be a christian i gave my life to god now because of these truths that i'm learning from doug batchelor just because doug taught it didn't make me real sure about going to this church i really didn't want anything to do with it but i call the guy up and i'm telling him and i'm not very nice about it actually i'm telling him look uh we was thinking about coming to your church and he's really nice and he's like well you're more than welcome to we'd like to have you come and i'm like well hold on i'm gonna lay down some ground rules i'm telling him i said look here i'm covered in tattoos and i'm a tattoo artist and he don't say well you know wow i didn't know all that don't come to my church he says you're more than welcome we would love to have you please come he asked me what i want to do and i said well i want to preach i said i have all these truths i have all this knowledge stuff i've never known before stuff about i had when i was younger that would have been life changing to me i said i got to share this with the world i said i want to preach i want to teach he gives me the book so study that well now that i'm a bible worker i'm able to go reach people that most of the normal churches wouldn't even bother to even speak to i'm able to go out and reach the people who have lived the life that i've lived i'm able to let them know that i am like you i've been there i've done that i want to show you what my life is like now i want to teach you this bible i want to show you what jesus can do for you it's not too late [Music] [Music] you

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