On to Health: REST-Sabbath

Matthew 11:25-12:8 

October 29, 2023

Intro

Mark 2:27

Helps to Sabbath…

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Ephesians 1:3–12 and Hebrews 1:1-4

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Next Week: Vulnerable Children Care Sunday

Questions for the Community

Devoted to Learning  

1. What do you know of the 4th Commandment of 10? Where did you gain your knowledge? (grew up with it, learned it later in life, other)
2. Is Sabbath keeping a part of your current practice as a Christian? Why or why not? Has God shown you something this week that you need to change or grow up in?
3. Read the 4th Commandment in Exodus 20:8-9. There are lots of qualifiers…why? How do we carefully follow God’s commands without sinking into legalism? Re-read Matt. 12:1-8  

Devoted to one another

4. Who has helped you remember the Sabbath? Who can you help?
5. How can we spur one another on to the goodness of Sabbath? What pain points come as you try to live this out in a world that doesn’t value this gift of time?
6. Review the helps offered on Sunday. Which are new or helpful? What helps would you add? Share your learning!

Devoted to praying

7. Stop and thank God for this gift of time. Spend time just enjoying his company, not asking or planning or listening or reading. Choose to keep his company first and most through your days and weeks.
8. Ask Him to lead you in this whole area of observing the Sabbath. Promise to keep coming to him to learn and keep in step with the pace he’s leading you at.