What A Difference a Day Makes | Debleaire Snell

and so today saints we're going to continue in our series entitled doctrine is not a dirty word and what we've been talking about is how to merge jesus with the doctrines of the church now again there are times when we say we need less doctrine and more jesus and another side is saying we need more doctrine and less jesus but i need y'all to know if you got a doctrine that's not about jesus that's bad doctrine uh those two should not be divorced they are married together permanently come on and say amen today now last week i want you to know that this week is is a part two in sorts of the message we preached last week now last week we preached to you on the subject the doctrine of provision and there are some things that we learned from the word of god last week we learned number one that you can't worry about problems before they come that sometimes anticipated issues will drive you out of your faith then we learned on last week that god has to be your contingency plan sometimes we create disobedience cushions we pick great unbelief cushions things that we put in place to keep us in the event that god doesn't come through and then we learned on last week that you will never be fed by somebody else's portion god gave them just enough manna for their portions so they weren't supposed to look at nobody else's plate and a lot of times we'll be fed well if we just celebrate what god has in store for us and so today we're going to go right back in our bibles to the book of exodus chapter 16 i'm going to tell you by the grace of god the rest of the story exodus chapter 16. and as you're turning do me a favor sayings this is this is a critical message i'm going to share with you today so even though i know you're at home go ahead and just settle like just go ahead and silence the distractions get the little kids settled and situated do me a favor man you need to share this word for somebody be an apple or android apostle be a digital disciple be an electronic evangelist go ahead and just share this word with somebody as we get ready to go into the teaching today go back with me in your bibles to exodus chapter 16 and we're going to pick it up together here at verse number 22. exodus 16 and verse number 22 now again the context is god is feeding israel through the miracle of manna and what he tells them specifically is that each day you're only going to take a specific portion and omer and you're not supposed to keep any for the next day exodus chapter 16. i'm going to begin reading at verse 22 when you get there just say amen the bible says and so it was on the sixth day that they gathered twice as much bread two omers for each one and all the rulers of the congregation came and told moses then he said unto them this is what the lord has said tomorrow is a sabbath rest hallelujah a holy sabbath to the lord so bake what you will bake today and boil what you will boil and lay up for yourselves all that remains to be kept until morning so they laid it up until morning and as moses commanded and it did not stink nor were there any worms in him then moses said eat that today for today is the sabbath to the lord and you will not find it in the field six days you shall gather but on the seventh day the sabbath there will be none and now it happened that some of the people went out on the seventh day together but they found what they found them and the lord said unto moses how long will you refuse to keep my commandments and my laws see for the lord has given you the sabbath therefore he gives you on the sixth day bread for two days and let every man remain in his place and let no man go out of his place on the seventh day so the people rested on the seventh day today saints i want to talk to you for a little while under the subject the difference a day makes the difference a day makes let's pray together father once again as we look to your word i pray for permission to join my human weakness to your divine strength and lord i'm praying that in the hearing of the word that our faith will be expanded i pray that faith would be multiplied and i pray that someone would gain clarity and understanding so lord would you please hide me in the shadows of the cross that jesus alone might be seen that christ alone would be heard and at the end of our time together may jesus alone be praised we ask this in the name of jesus let god's people say together amen and amen again saints talking to you under the subject the difference a day makes now today's saints um i want to spend some time talking to you about the doctrine of sabbath now for those who are new that word sabbath it literally means rest or day of rest and when you read genesis chapter 2 and verse 3 the bible says that after the six days of creation the bible says that on the seventh day god rested and then the bible says he blessed the seventh day and he sanctified it and in so doing god sent forth a life rhythm for humanity that every seventh day of the week god's people were to experience rest or sabbath now understand saints that this rest that i'm talking about it is not just a prolonged nap this rest includes a revival that is a result of being connected with the savior now understand saints that one of the things that we've done to the messaging of sabbath is we spend all of our time on having the correct day instead of having the right experience in other words we mess it up because we only talk about making sure we have the correct day instead of having the correct experience and my hypothesis is this that if we told people about our experience they would be more open to hearing about which day is the right day you see too often our conversation about sabbath begins with doctrinal accuracy and not personal impact and because people never understand the impact or the blessing of sabbath then the truthfulness of it loses its meaning in other words there is no meaningful call to action because it's just information you worship one day ahead of when i do but understand that if i just give information but i give no impact it makes my witness impotent let me say it again if i only give information but i never share the impact it makes my witness impotent and see the problem with psalm is we've never shared the impact of sabbath why because some of us have never been impacted by keeping sadder and see i need somebody to know that the blessing of sabbath rest is one of the components of abundant life promised by jesus in john 10 and verse 10 do i have a witness on the line that keeping the sabbath day makes a difference in your life i need you to know that when you experience sabbath rest you don't start the new week tired but you start the new week invigorated because you've been kept in him when you experience sabbath i need you to know it affects your mood because your joy is made complete when you experience sabbath man you're not hiding from monday you ready from monday because your cup is already running over when you experience sabbath you experience the miracle of productivity because god allows you to do in six days what it takes everybody else seven days to do when you're under the sabbath blessing your family experiences extraordinary anointing because one day a week we take time to reconnect with god and reconnect with one another does anybody know that when you experience sabbath you get supernatural provision for isaiah 58 says that if you take your foot off the sabbath and call it a delight that even though i'm a gentile by birth i'm able to share in the inheritance that god promised of those who are descendants of jacob and i need somebody to know that when i talk about sabbath today i'm not just talking about a change in your schedule i'm not talking about a change in the day of worship i'm talking about something that's going to change your life i'm talking about not a shift in calendar calendar but a shift in your overall outcome where when you operate in covenant you're able to experience divine overflow as you come in alignment with the word of god and the thing i need somebody to know is that i'm not just telling you what i heard i'm not just telling you what i read i'm just testifying about my lived experience about what happens when you align yourself with covenant with god are y'all hearing me saints and see the thing that i want to say to the members is that sometimes we focus so much on being different that we don't tell people the difference so let me say it again see i need you to know that i'm not going to do nothing different if you don't tell me the difference and see the problem is that you need to know that keeping the different day makes a difference in your life i need somebody to know that the day makes a difference can you say amen today and so do with me if you don't if you don't mind back to exodus chapter 16 and i'm going to begin at verse number 19. exodus chapter 16 and i want us to look at verse number 19. when you get there say amen exodus chapter 16 and verse number 19 hear the word of the lord the bible says and moses said let no one leave any of it until morning notwithstanding they did not heed moses but some of them left part of it until morning and it bred worms and it stinks and moses was angry with them so they gathered it every morning according as every man had need and when the sun became hot it melted away and so it was on the sixth day that they gathered twice as much bread two homers for one are y'all hearing the word today thanks now here today we are we are moving and y'all make sure y'all share this word with somebody we're moving to the second phase of the mana miracle now i need y'all to get saints that this phase is designed to teach them that god can be trusted this phase is designed to teach them that they can be kept and preserved by god this phase is designed to teach these newly freed slaves that it's time to come out of survival mode and recognize that you can be sustained by the most high god now if you recall last week we shared that god gave some really interesting directions about the distribution of manna he says you're not supposed to keep any for the next day in fact he says i'm gonna give you a fresh portion each day when you go out to the field and i need you to know that those who did not trust god the bible says that they go out and in a contingency way they try to gather an extra portion and the bible says when they consult it is full of maggots and it begins to stink and one of the things they become clear of is that manna is highly perishable in other words manna goes stale really quick they've gotten used to seeing manna expire in a hurry in other words we don't need to try to save this more than a day because it cannot keep are y'all hearing me saints now understand that god is wanting to reintroduce them to the principle of sabbath this concept has gotten lost through 400 years of egyptian slavery so that on the sixth day what god tells them to do he says don't just go and get a single portion i want you to go and get a double portion and the reason god says get a double portion on the sixth day and so you ain't even gotta gather on the seventh day i want you to experience divine rest by getting a double portion now i need you to know saints that this is going to test their faith because one it tests their faith during the week to only get one portion but then it's another test on the sixth day to get a double portion what do you mean pastor you see the reason it tests their faith on the sixth day to get a double portion is all week long they've learned it only lasts for a day see during the week they're used to manna going bad they're used to mana expiring they're used to mana going stale they're used to seeing manner rot but on the sixth day when they gather a double portion it stretches further than it's supposed to go and through the miracle of sabbath god is trying to teach his people that when you're in covenant with me things go further than they're supposed to go when you're in covenant things last longer than they're supposed to last in covenant i extend things further then they can go without my power are y'all hearing me saints now i need y'all to get saints that this thing man is challenging their newly formed ideas about manna see to enter into this sabbath covenant requires a whole lot of faith because it contradicts everything their eyes see during the week in other words they've gotten to this place where they're used to seeing mana go stale they're used to seeing mana begin to rot their experience says manna can't last that long their experience says that manner can't stretch that far their experience teaches them that manna cannot be reserved and even though god is introducing them to the concept of sabbath he is trying to show them a broader principle that when you enter into covenant the normal rules don't apply when you enter into covenant you've got to be ready for miracle terrain when you enter into covenant i make it go further than it's supposed to go i'll make it last longer than it's supposed to last i'll extend the blessings and multiply so it doesn't run out god is trying to reveal himself as the god who sustains them and let me just say to somebody today that god wants you to learn every seventh day or saturday to experience the blessing of sabbath rest and there is somebody who is saying master i want to do it but i'm afraid that if i go into work if i don't work on sabbath then somehow it's going to mess up my employment but how many of us know this miracle was to teach us that it is god that provides the opportunity to gather and i need you to know that if god doesn't extend your employment then guess what god is going to improve your employment oh lord let me say it again if god doesn't extend your employment god will open up a door for you to find even better employment are you hearing me saints see i need you to know that god keeps you in covenant see there are some young people who are afraid of getting married because for some of our young people manna looks like marriage and that they're used to seeing it go bad they're used to seeing it go stale they're used to seeing it begin to rot and the problem is that you've been watching marriages that are not in covenants cc i need somebody to get that just because you got married in church that mean you got married in covenant and see there is somebody that's saying my marriage is about to go bad but i need you to know that if god could keep the manna then god is able to keep the marriage and there's somebody listening in disbelief and saying pastor you don't know that i'm already at my wit's end you don't even realize that i don't think i can take any more but who do you think kept you as long as you've been kept already do you realize that it was god that suspended you when you wanted to walk out the door that it was god that gave you the ability to love when you didn't want to love that it was god that kept you from going off on them that if god can keep you this far then god can keep you going forward or y'all hearing me today saints listen there is somebody that's incumbent that needs a moving covenant that needs to say i want to give a faithful tithe and offering unto the lord and you're saying i don't see pastor how the math is going to work if i give this 10 plus some it's going to mess up my money but how many of us understand that if you give it to god in covenant that god will either extend your money or he'll extend your possessions oh okay in other words if he has not extended the money then guess what god is going to extend the possessions see is there anybody on the line driving a car that should be dead by now because you're in covenant god put his hand on it and makes it go further than it's supposed to go is there anybody that's ever been driving on the highway and your gas needle was all the way down on e and you know you should have broke down 17 miles ago but because god had his hand on your car he pushed it further than it was supposed to go is there anybody that grew up like i did when you got clothes you didn't get brand new clothes they got passed down from your big brother or sister and you got mad that you had to wear hand-me-downs but your mama and daddy was in covenant and god bless the shoes and the jeans so that even though kids are hard on clothes they never got holes in them the shoes did not wear out because god had your folks in covenant and what i'm saying to somebody is that god will make your health go further than it's supposed to go he'll make your money go further than it's supposed to go he'll make your marriage go further than it's supposed to go he'll make your peace go further than it's supposed to go does anybody know that god is not going to let you run out i believe that my god is better than tupperware and anywhere do i have any tupperware saints in the room that that know when when you got some leftovers you can't just put it in a bowl and uncover it and put it inside because it'll still be affected by the elements but you know even when you get the tupperware you get the top you can't just put it on there gently you gotta mash it down till it clips because once it clips it seals the freshness in and it keeps the elements on the outside i see the reason that some of our stuff spoils is because we ain't got no covering see the reason we're spoiling is because our covering is on loose and what somebody's got to do is get jesus fixed on the top of your life and what you have will last longer than it's supposed to can the church say amen and so so so look at with us in the word here go back with me to verse number 23. look at look at number 23 man it's going to get good in a second it's going to be good in a second so the word says in verse 23 then he said unto them this is what the lord has said tomorrow is a sabbath rest a holy sabbath to the lord so bake what you will bake today boil what you will boil and lay up for yourself all that remains to be kept until morning and so they laid it up until morning and as moses commanded it did not stink nor were there any worms in it so again saints what we see here are some very curious instructions and some very insane response to the instructions so so so god says listen i'm going to give you a double portion on the sixth day so so moses instructed them do all your gathering on the sixth day get all your food prepared on the sixth day get get all your house in order on the sixth day because on the seventh day i want you to be liberated enough to experience sabbath rest are you hearing me say and notice what the bible says he says you got to get it all on the sixth day because i ain't laying out nothing for you on the seventh day so watch this so in disobedience they try to create their unbelief cushion they don't really believe god that it's gonna last more than one day and so what they do is they just get enough for one day on friday and the bible says that they go out and search for some on the seventh day and the bible says that they find not now notice says that god does not placate their disobedience did y'all notice that because god is gracious he doesn't just lay out a little bit in order to facilitate their rebellion in other words their sabbath is going to be a day of fasting their hunger pains is a reminder to them that god means what he says are you hearing me saying now as i'm pouring through this thing louis i'm trying to figure something out so as i'm looking at this whole principle of sabbath command like i'm trying to figure out uh help me lord why does god not allow rest to be optional and you know i'm trying to figure this thing out like theologically why does he put rest in the category of a command now in other words i understand certain commands i i understand thou shalt not kill as a command i get thou shall not steal as a command i understand no idols as a command i understand why you shouldn't uh covet as a command but i couldn't help but wonder why doesn't he leave something as benign as resting up to me why don't i get to decide whether or not i want to rest why does god make rest a requirement why does he why doesn't he leave it up to us now again so the first thing that that we learned about sabbath is that god extends something but the second thing and the reason that god makes rest a requirement is that good parents require rest see see in other words god made the sabbath command the same reason god made a sabbath command is the same reason you gave your kids a bad time growing up since i need y'all to know saying that there is this tension in the snail house where my three kids feel like their personal and civil liberties are being violated every night ah because i require them to go to bed at a certain time there is this constant protest that we can we can do it on our own that you should let us decide when it is that we want to go to bed but i need you to know that as i'm trying to be a good parent and y'all with little kids or have kids know that good parents require rest are y'all hearing me saying cc the reason i can't leave it up to them is they don't realize that their lack of focus is because they haven't rested well that the irritability is because they haven't rested well their constant bickering with each other is because they have not rested well and so as a good parent i can't leave rest up to them i've got to make rest a requirement why because if i don't require rest on this end it's going to call forth discipline on the other end and so i need them to know that rest is not punishment rest is how i preserve your god let me say again rest is not punishment rest is how i preserve you does anybody know that rest for kids is a gift come on and say amen so in other words watch this god made the sabbath a command because he's saying i can't truly preserve you if i don't require rest from you so i need you to think about sabbath rest in the context of the created order at the beginning notice something that the bible says in genesis chapter 2 that at the end of the six days the heavens and earth were finished and the bible says that on the seventh day god rested but do you know that creation week looks very different for adam and eve than it does for god in other words you realize that adam is created in the top part of the sixth day eve is created in the latter part of the sixth day so as they are created on the sixth day of the week the next thing that happens and they experience is sabbath or rest oh oh it's gonna get good do you notice saints something in the creation order that before god introduces them to work god introduces them to rest before god introduces them to responsibility he introduces them to him and covenant through sabbath rest in other words i need you to understand this about adam that rest was not a reward for a hard day week of work that rest was what would guarantee his ability to finish the work in other words for adam rest was not medicine rest was a vitamin okay okay let me say it again in other words man you because adam rested at the very beginning of creation week that next week he goes to the garden happy because rest was required he's treating eve gently because rest has been required he's happy to go about his work because rest has been required in other words saints he does not see rest as a response to fatigue rest was supposed to precede his fatigue in other words rest was not medicine it was vitamin rest was inheritance not a paycheck let me say it again rest was inheritance not a paycheck it was a gift it wasn't earned are y'all hearing these things i see i need you to realize that when god created rest before work he's saying that you're to be sustained through sabbath rest that you're going to be preserved through sabbath rest he said you're going to be sealed through sabbath rest because i wanted you to know me and rest even before you knew work why saints you see the reason that some of us have never the reason some of us have never experienced the beauty of sabbath lewis is because some of us are only drawn to the discipline of sabbath we like the rule keeping portion of it we we like all of the technical components of sabbath but we miss out on the most important thing so even one of the terms we use is somewhat incorrect we say we keep the sabbath but you realize that the bible says through jesus that the sabbath was made for man not man for the sabbath so you realize that i don't bless the sabbath the sabbath blesses me in other words i don't keep the sabbath it is the sabbath that keeps me let me say it again i don't keep the sabbath it is the sabbath that keeps me it is the sabbath that keeps me from burning out it keeps me from wearing out it keeps me from being overwhelmed it keeps you from snapping on your boss it keeps you from walking out on your kids it keeps you in perfect peace it keeps you from burning out prematurely and instead of talking about how well you keep the sabbath maybe you ought to testify about how well the sabbath keeps you are y'all hearing me today saints you see i need y'all to understand beloved that in my home listen we are not perfect but i need to know that i'm i'm just intentional enough to make sure we're gonna do most of our cleaning on the sixth day we're gonna do our gathering on the sixth day we don't get these responsibilities taken care of on the sixth day why because i wanna experience liberation no no i'm using that term i wanna experience liberation on the sabbath and the reason we prepare is because guess what man ain't cleaning nothing on sabbath ain't paying no bills on sabbath we ain't taking out no trash on sabbath i know some of y'all gonna get mad i don't even watch the news on tap why because if god can keep me on god because if i i can't keep it then guess what it just can't be kept so so guess what what i'm going to do is try to set up an environment where the majority of our focus is on god and the rest of it is going to be on each other are you all hearing me say this i need y'all to know that the different day makes a big difference and see i need to know i'm refueled in worship i'm rested because i lay aside my labor i'm reconnected with my family i ain't scared of monday morning ain't tripping about tuesday i ain't scared of what's gonna happen on wednesday because like adam i got mine on the front end so that i'm full enough to handle whatever the weak is gonna bring or y'all hear me today thanks and see this is beloved one of the reasons you know one of the reasons i keep the sabbath of scripture this scab of the scripture is because the sabbath is filled with abundant divine favor oh let me say it again for somebody who didn't get it the reason i keep the sabbath of scripture and not the day of tradition is that the sabbath of scripture has god's extraordinary favor on it so go read it in genesis chapter 2 and verse 3 the bible says that at the on the seventh day that god rested on the seventh day the bible says god bless the seventh day and god sanctified it did you ever notice saints that in creation the first thing god ever blessed was the seventh day of the week oh you realize the first thing he ever blessed the first thing he ever enhanced the first thing he ever multiplied the first thing he ever kissed was the sabbath day of the week [Applause] so that when god said let there be light he just said is good when he separated the waters over the heavens from those underneath the heaven he just said it was good whenever he pulled the water off dry ground he just said it's good when he poured animals from the earth he just said it's good when he pulled vegetation from the earth he just said good when he created adam he just said good now when he created eve he did say very good but the first thing he ever blessed was the seventh day of the week which shows us that the sabbath blessing is all inclusive you see sunday is good but but guess what i still got to ask for a blessing on sunday i praise him on tuesday but i still got to pray for a blessing on tuesday i like to shout on wednesday but i still got to play for her blessing on wednesday i love him on thursday but there ain't no anointing on thursday because the day that has been blessed and set apart and sanctified is the seventh day of the week which means i don't even gotta pray for a blessing on sabbath i ain't even gonna ask for a blessing on sabbath all i gotta do is accept the covenant and the blessings are all inclusive oh god okay let me say this right i remember probably about it two years ago for the first time my wife and i went on what you call an all-inclusive vacation before this i'm used to just going to a place and and we paid for our food and we paid for the events and we paid for our activities but we went over to mexico and we had an all-inclusive vacation now you know when it's all inclusive what it means is you keep your credit card in your pocket it means you ain't got to worry about nothing so when you go to eat guess what it's already paid for because it was already included when you go to the sea dudes you ain't got to pay for it because it's already included when you go for the massage you ain't gonna pay for it because it's already included when you go to do this and that you ain't gonna pay for it because it's already included in other words the relaxation is included the food is included the house is included you don't want for nothing else because it's included in the covenant and when you enter into covenant with god i need you to know provision is included that peace is included that joy is included that rest is included that everything you need is included in the covenants are you hearing me today saints the second reason he made sabbath requirement is this is not only will we be preserved through rest watch this we would also be preserved through relationship let me say it again we're not just to be reserved through rest we'll also be preserved through relationship now those who are just barely religious won't get this those who just have a form of godliness but are bored of the power this this thing will really click with you because see the only people that are going to get what i'm going to say are those who are in an active and living relationship with jesus christ because see i need somebody to get this that only if i have a quantified and this is not scientific or theological uh but i would say only about 30 percent of sabbath blessing comes from taking the day off from work see the other 70 i don't get to tap into it unless i have a living connection with the savior so that you can solve you can sleep from sunset friday to sunset saturday and you'll still wake up tired in other words you still won't be ready your burdens will just have been shifted from one day to the next what you left on friday is going to be waiting for you on saturday night but what renews you is actually having a living connection with the savior why because you realize that when god created humans he created us to be preserved to rest but then we're also to be restored through relationship so we have to be restored to relationship with one another but most importantly we ought to be renewed through relationship with him are y'all still with me today church listen listen listen listen don't be in a hurry today i'm i'm gonna be here for a minute all right all right go ahead i'll go ahead and turn down the heat on the on the peas like i need to share this with you today so so go with me in your bibles real quick i need to show you something psalm 28 and verse number eight psalm 28 and verse number eight when you get down here you say amen psalm 28 and verse 8 the bible says that the lord is their what strength and he is their say the saving refuge of the anointed so the first thing the bible teaches us is that the lord is strength go to psalm 73 and verse 26 psalm 73 and verse number 26 psalm 73 the bible says that my flesh and my heart fail but god is the strength of my heart and he is my portion forever go to psalm 55 and verse 22. psalm 55 and verse number 22. put it in the bible the bible says cast your burden on the lord and he shall sustain you and he shall never permit the righteous to be moved now i pray that somebody is seeing a commonality in the scriptures that when god reveals himself to his children he does not reveal himself in an optional way he is referred to as strength as our portion as the one that literally sustains our being and so i need us to understand that it is only in canada it is not in proximity it is in connection with the savior that i am renewed that the life force of my soul is revitalized i am energized not by taking a prolonged nap but by having my soul freshly filled with the power of the spirit of god so i need y'all to understand because if somebody said well no pastor don't really make a difference because i worship on monday and i worship on tuesday and i worship on wednesday yes we should but the problem is those days we still have work am i preaching anybody today so what happens is even though you're having devotion guess what you're worshiping on the go even though i'm praying i'm praying on the go even though i'm in the word i'm in the word on the go so guess what during the week i'm at the drive-through but on sabbath i sit at the table in other words i get to take my time put my mo put my napkin inside i ain't got nowhere else to go i'm just going to be still in the presence of god see see this is why you need sabbath rest saints so it's kind of like see even though during the week is good you know what it's like i don't know if you've ever been in that stage of like brokenness where you ain't got a whole lot of money for gas so you only put about seven dollars in at a time now i got one witness out there that knows when you only put five dollars in at a time you realize that even though you get it only up to about two tenths of a tank you realize that it is that bottom portion of gas that burns the quickest so that if i only put a little bit in that's what it's gonna go quick and you're gonna be at the gas station every day of the week it's not till you get it full all the way to the top that that sucker is going to last a little while and what sabbath is it's saying stop just putting in five dollars stop just putting in a little bit stop just filling it up to a quarter of a tank god is saying fill it all the way to the top and then you'll be sustained for longer are y'all hearing me today saints and see i need you to understand this this is critical because god values relationship what he does is he put sabbath in the context of a command and what he does is he gives us saints a number of regulations a number of quote unquote sabbath rules and i need you to understand that any rules god gives they're not arbitrary nothing god says is just this legalistic obligation because i said so everything god says every command he gives is literally designed to preserve the relationship so so everything that god says about the sabbath is literally designed to preserve the intimacy that god has ordained for man to to to have with his creation so let me kind of liken it liking it this way i'm not sure if i can turn this in here real quick ah y'all struggling to find me i'm over here in the dark maybe i need to come to the light okay there i am i'm one of those brothers i blend in with darkness i need the light to find me so so let me just say this way i'm gonna put it in the context of marriage so again i've shared this with the body before so so so that you have me and you have sister snail what we're trying to do by the grace of god is we want to preserve intimacy in our marriage so so guess what whenever we have date night i need to know that even though we're adults we we have rules about date night so in other words we don't talk about work on date night we don't talk about bills on date night we're not talking about stress on date night in other words we put some boundaries around certain things why because if we don't have these rules these things will come in and distract or take away from relationship in the same way we're trying to preserve relationships so we got rules to our marriage so guess what we married so there ain't no third parties in our relationship in other words i'm all she needs come on she's all i need ain't no partners coming in the house in other words that's a rule in our marriage in other words we we have rules about in-laws in marriage in other words my brother can't just come whenever he feel like it can't show up unannounced he ain't gonna be in all the business we got rules around the in-laws why because if i don't have no rules guess what then it's gonna distract or destroy the relationship so again that even when it comes down to sabbath it's god is trying to foster intimacy between us and him so god says i'm gonna put some boundaries in place that on the seventh day ain't gonna be no work on the seventh day no stress on the seventh day no bills and on the seventh day no tv and i need you to understand that the rules are not arbitrary the rules are put in place to make sure that you preserve the relationship are you hearing the word today saints now let me say this now the reason some of us don't have sabbath experience is sabbath oh it's going to be torture for those who don't have relationship yo it's going to get quiet so because see i need somebody to get that the sabbath is not supposed to be the commencement of holiness it's supposed to be the culmination of holiness so guess what if you ain't met with god on monday or tuesday or thursday it's going to be all kind of awkward when you got to shut out all the distractions and you got 24 hours along with jesus christ because one of the things that happened saints is when you're zealous when you're zealous about relationship you are intentional about moving out all the distractions so since when you don't have relationship what happens is you don't mind having all these type of distractions see for some of us i was scared to say it this way but it's true see for some of us sabbath is like being in quarantine with a spouse that we hate in other words because we're not being fed by the relationship even though it's covered all out here in these streets let me run to the grocery store let me go ahead and cut the grass let me go over here to ross our marshalls let me just run into the office why because i don't really enjoy the relationship i welcome distractions because i don't want to be alone with a certain person and see the same thing happens with sabbath what happens is we institute and welcome all these distractions because we don't like being alone with jesus christ so what happens is we want to have all these theological questions sadly don't understand saints help me because when you when the relationship is what matters the most like like what you're trying to do is you're trying to minimize all these distractions so you can stay plugged into god you you ain't you don't want tv to get in the way you're not trying to let fields get in the way you're not trying to go to work because you're trying to value this time that you have with the savior so what happens is when you come to me and you're well well pastor is it okay if i go to the gym on saturday well is is it evil but what it's sharing to me is that you you trying to get away from something oh well pastor is okay if we go to the mall or have the birthday party is it evil is it sinful or your love shows me you ain't you ain't you trying to get away from something well pastor can i do this and can i do that no no what i'm saying is see don't make it about do's and don'ts a list of right and wrong what i'm saying is if you prioritize the relationship it'll be clear where you go where you don't what you're doing what you stay abstain from are y'all hearing the word of god today says see the sabbath has to be about relationship because i need you to know saints said listen it's crazy like myself is a little different than most people since as i'm preaching the word but like uh the week of my birthday you know we went away and had some time to be still i need you to know that just having prolonged time to be able to pray and to be able to fill my soul up with the word of god and to just study and and just download it without having to prepare for nobody else i need your number you know i'll tell you by saturday night man i was on 10. like i was ready to go do something because that's what when you get refueled and strengthened by god and he is your strength and he is your portion and he is your source you can handle whatever the week brings because you get renewed in jesus christ are you all hearing me today saints last thing i want to say real quick is that sabbath is like really close it is a symbol of divine grace now i'm saying pastor are you taking this too far how does the sabbath become a symbol of grace so you remember in the exodus command in exodus 20 verse 8 he says six days shall you labor and do all your work but the seventh day is the sabbath of the lord thy god in it thou shalt not do any work thou nor thy son nor thy daughter nor thy manservant nor thy maidservant nor thy cattle nor thy stranger that is within our gates so the sabbath command is not only am i going to give you sabbath the command is that i then give sabbath oh yeah you ought to get it see in other words i don't just receive it i also am commanded to give it y'all still not getting this see because i get it for free i also have to give it for free in other words we told you already that the sabbath is not paycheck it's inheritance it's gift it is not earned and it is a foreshadowing of how grace is supposed to work what do you mean preacher you realize that during this time you had slavery as a practice as in indentured servitude as a practice so that when somebody owed you something what you would do is you would make them work until the debt had been completely repaid you didn't give them no days off until you had been made whole but god says that even your servants that owe you something when the seventh day comes because i've given you rest you're supposed to give them rest you don't require of them what i have not required of you because you got it free you give it free so what does that have to do with forgiveness what does it have to do with grace you know what jesus made forgiveness a command because he gave forgiveness for free in other words i don't create forgiveness i just borrow forgiveness from the mercy i have received from god and the reason i extend rest is because i have received rest and i don't ask from you what god has freely given to me somebody ought to shout hallelujah to the lamb of god that the sabbath is a weekly reminder that salvation is a gift it is given to us by for free and guess what i don't hold on to your debts i don't constantly recount your debts against me but every seventh day i release them and i live out of the overflow of that which has been given to me by god can somebody say amen today listen listen and as i'm closing i want somebody to understand that god is wanting to call us not just into doctrinal accuracy man he wants us man to have sabbath experience man god wants you to be so rested and so refueled and mad man so turned up man that that come sunday you ain't tripping you ain't mad man like me listen see for some of us we just different but it's never made a difference and it's because we're only drawn to the discipline or the correctness of it but we're not experiencing the connection of divine grace the reason some of us some of us don't have that experience is just because we've been in ignorance we all we have known is is the first day of the week through tradition is what we have been taught and there's nothing wrong with that and the bible says in ignorance god winks at it but now he calls all men everywhere to turn around and walk into the truth but they don't know some of us we're just we're not we never had sabbath experience we're just cultural sabbatarians in other words the sabbath is just barely different than any other day it's just the day you go to or watch church but there ain't no difference in work in conversation and preparation all i do is go to church but we don't experience divine rest and in there some of us man we just we've made sabbath about us because we're drawn to the discipline of it and it's about how well we keep it as opposed to how well it keeps us but i need you to know states that god wants you to experience the miracle of productivity where you doing six days the same amount of work it takes everybody seven days to do i want you to know that when you're in covenant man god stretches things further than they are supposed to go listen when you operate in divine covenant god will stretch your employment and if he doesn't stretch it guess what he'll improve it when you're operating covenant man god will stretch your marriage he'll give you strength to stay with him eat her even if you feel like you ain't got nothing else to give listen when you operate in covenant god will stretch you i mean i'm a witness like anybody ever just been in that place well man you look at your money what's come in and you look at what's come out and you look at how god is sustaining you like man the math just don't add up the math just don't add up because god god has just got his hand over your stuff god wants somebody to get to a place man where where you recognize that that rest is a requirement because he's going to preserve you through rest see see some of us man we walking around here all anxious overwhelmed worn out on edge snapping responding and and it's literally because we're not being sustained by rest we we are always operating in that last tenth of a gas tank we live we live like that so some of us are it's just like that person there are times where you know i i forget to charge my phone ignited and i'll charge it in the car in between stops and guess what get just like gas that last little ten percent it goes quick but at some point i just got to let it be still take a whole day to just get charged up and some of us men are always perishing always eat always just barely making it always struggling always stretching from one minute to the second to the next why because we are never experiencing sabbath rest we never take the time to be made completely full and there's somebody that needs to be preserved through relationship now this is the key saints it is important that you know the truth about sabbath it is very critical that you have the right day but you could never have this experience i'm talking to you see the funny thing some of us amen and but y'all don't y'all ain't got no idea from experience what i'm talking about y'all don't know what i'm it just sounds like preacher hype to a bunch of us because we never had the experience i see the reason we don't have the experience is because the relationship and for some of us man's sabbath is like quarantined we hate to see it coming and we love to see it leaving because we're not being fed by the relationship i'm going to encourage somebody i'm pleased don't hear me don't i'm not saying oh dudes and don't no no the rules preserve the relationship and what i'm saying is beloved the more you are fed by the relationship and the more you grow in that relationship the more you are nurtured in christ and revived in christ and made whole in christ guess what you minimize the distractions automatically you you ain't gonna let anything get in the way because this is the time that has been set aside between me and god and guess what let me just say this because guess what all relationships have to grow so when my friend we first joined church man sometimes it was hard turning off tv hard not going to florida state games hard stop doing this but guess what as the relationship grew as our love for christ increased as he became more dominant in our lives everything else automatically began to lose his whole so so is the intentional thing to say no don't do this no longer do that no longer do the other no way i want you to be intentional is nurturing the relationship start on monday tuesday and wednesday and you build up such great time with god that you can't wait for the sabbath to come because now i can sit at the table i ain't in the drive-through ain't on the go i can sit still with my maker and there's somebody today that that has been hearing about the sabbath truth and you've been exposed to it through relationships or or friends that may keep the sabbath or maybe you just notice it in scripture and today you need to make it up in your mind to say i need to enter into sabbath experience that i want to begin keeping the sabbath of the scriptures the one described in genesis 2 and exodus 16 and exodus 20 the one the sabbath of scripture that jesus kept and again we make no pronouncements about believers of any other faith we are all god's children we all god's children but god is calling you to greater understanding of truth the bible says to him who knoweth to do good and do it to not to that person it is sin and god is saying i want you to function in truth but i need you to understand i'm not just giving you information but i'm giving you something that is not just a change of day but when you enter in the covenant you're going to experience a change of your life abundant favor supernatural provision in your health in your in every area of your life and you want to make it up your mind you're here in huntsville area to say i want to become be become a part of this bible believing sabbath keeping church here first church we want to walk alongside you and guess what we worship on a different day but if you've been watching us you know we love jesus more than anything else in the world you want to make it up in your mind say i need to go all the way i need to be baptized maybe you need to come back to church and be rededicated to god maybe you need to say all right maybe i'm not ready to get baptized but i need to start with the study of the word i need to start studying the scriptures to see what it is that the lord is asking of me and how i can honor and please him in my discipleship journey if that's your desire today right now just email us at prayer first sdachurch.com prayer at firstsdachurch.com or right there in the comment section on youtube or facebook there should be a little link coming up that says type form you can click on that link click on that link and you can make your decision known to get bible studies or to be baptized to join the church or maybe you just been in a place man where where where were you in a church where the truth has not been taught and you saying man i need to get somewhere where i'm going to be fed i've been watching each week man i'm this is where i i'm growing this is where i'm being nurtured and you want to say i want to make first church my first my church you can say i want to transfer i want to become a member of this body of christ we're glad to have you as tom bowden on the on the on the hotel six co said we'll leave the light on for you we're glad to have you here you're welcome you're welcome so right now would you please make that decision no don't say tomorrow guess what you ain't even got to ask nobody's permission you ain't got to ask your mom and then you ain't got your cousins you ain't got to ask anybody you you see what is in the word what god is saying to you and you want to experience the amazing power the life-changing power of going all the way with christ to say i want to become a seventh-day adventist christian uh member of the first seventh-day adventist church would you make that decision no to say i want to join the church through baptism or or rededication or through transfer or through professional faith this is the day that the lord has made would you rejoice and be glad in it father in heaven we thank you for your word your word is a lamp and to our feet and as a light unto our path and father today i am praying that our large takeaway is that we need you that we can that we are sustained in you that we are fueled and fed in you that you are our sustenance that you are our strength and father may we not be as a disobedient israel that at times tries to gather a double portion when a single is required and may we not be like those that that refuses to gather on the sixth day but we're gonna we're gonna do some more on the seventh day because we don't believe i'm praying lord that some longtime believer would begin to have an experience with you that revives and transforms and literally helps them get prepared to be translated when you come lord help us lord to have such a love and a thirst and a yearning and a desire for you that the distractions automatically become nullified because we prioritize first your kingdom and its righteousness and we know all other things will be added from there so lord my prayer today is that somebody experiencing the gospel of jesus christ would know what it is to be born again and i pray that as you're calling unto them as your spirit is speaking unto them lord i pray to god that you would free them and strengthen them right now to say yes to submit to click on the link to send the email to make it official to go all the way in a relationship with you this lord is my prayer this is my plea we ask it in the matchless name of jesus let all god's people say together amen

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