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I will give you rest.
By
Pastor Young Joon Park
November 1, 2009
Matthew 11:28-30
28 “Come
to Me, all who are labor (weary) and heavy-laden, and I will give
you rest.
29 ?u>Take
My yoke upon you and learn from Me, for I am gentle and humble
in heart, and you will find rest for your souls.
30
“For My yoke is easy and My burden is light.?
We
meditated about the eternal Sabbath Day several weeks ago.
The
Sabbath day was a big event and important day through out the Israelites
history in Jesus?time and even today in Israel.
One
of the major accusations against Jesus was the Sabbath Day issue.
Even
God gave the law to put to death (Exodus 35:2) if they work on this Sabbath
Day.
This
Sabbath Day observation was not found from Adam until the Israelites escaped
from the Egypt (Exodus chapter 16) through the Bible, and then God gave the Ten
Commandments during the Israel People’s wilderness time (Exodus 20:8-11). From this point Israel people have observed this Sabbath Day as the most sacred day
among 7 days as the written Law of God even until today.
But
the origin of the Sabbath came from God’s creation, so the Sabbath was started
after the creation of Adam from the beginning of the human being.
I. The Sabbath Day
Exodus 20:8-11
8 Remember the Sabbath day,
to keep it holy.
9 Six days you shall labor,
and do all your work:
10 But the seventh day is the
Sabbath of the LORD your God: in it thou shall not do any work, you, nor your
son, nor your daughter, your manservant, nor your maidservant, nor your cattle,
nor your stranger that is within your gates:
11 For in six days the LORD
made heaven and earth, the sea, and all that in them is, and rested the seventh
day: wherefore the LORD blessed the Sabbath day, and hallowed it.
?1. The 4th of the Ten Commandments
“Remember the Sabbath Day, to keep it Holy.?/span>
?2. The Special Day
The LORD blessed
the Sabbath day and made it holy.
?3. Origin of this Day
For six days the LORD
made the heavens and the earth, the sea and all that is in them, and
rested on the seventh day;
?4. What they do
They do remember the Lord in this Special Day
They do keep it holy.
They do not work even cooking.
? Every men and women even animals
?5. Meaning of the Sabbath
God
rested on 7th day after the 6 days creations, and all His creatures
entered His Sabbath and lived in His Rest as the perfect Heavenly Kingdom on earth,
The
creature of the1st day of God’s Creation was the light.
The
creature of the1st day was entered the 2nd day of His
Creation
The
creatures of 1st day and 2nd were entered the 3rd
day of His Creation.
The
creatures of 1st day, 2nd and 3rd were entered
the 4th day of His Creation.
The
creatures of 1st day, 2nd, 3rd and 4th
were entered 5th day of His Creation.
The
creatures of 1st day, 2nd, 3rd, 4th and 5th
were entered 6th day of His Creation.
The
creatures of 1st day, 2nd, 3rd, 4th, 5th
and 6th were entered 7th day of His Rest.
Some
people believe that God created the universe literally in 6 days.
I
believe that God can create all things literally in 6 days because of His
Omnipotent.?
But
I believe that there is a meaning that’s way beyond than literal 24 hour
creation each day concept.
There
is very spiritual meaning for each day of creation through the first part of
the book of John.
Shabath
(tb'v;) ?rest, cease, celebrate, stop, remove, do not work, leave, observe
Sabbath, cause to stop, put an end, abandon, silence, discard, settle,
disappear, cut off, gone
Isaiah 40:28
Have you not known? Have you not heard that the everlasting
God, the LORD, the Creator of the ends of the earth, does not become tired or
weary? There is no searching of His Understanding.
So
His Rest means more than rest.
Even
Jesus clearly taught us about the two Great Commandments from the 10
Commandments.
Matthew 22:37-38
37 Jesus said unto him, Thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thy heart, and with all thy
soul, and with all thy mind.
38
This is the first and great commandment.
Jesus gave us a very clear and important meaning of the 10
Commandments.
“Love your God.?This is the
main key point of the first 4 Commandments from the 10 Commandments.
So
“Remember the Sabbath Day, to keep it Holy?/span>
is more than the meaning of rest.
Holy
means to set a part, separate, be consecrated.
During
all of His creatures were living in His 7th day, God consecrated
this 7th day and blessed this day for them as the eternal day of
Sabbath as the Heavenly Kingdom on earth forever. God created earth as His
perfect Kingdom.
There
is no 8th, 9th, or 10th day, but the 7th
day was the last day and forever.
All
the creation that our God created is for Adam, and the Sabbath Day was also for
Adam for the eternal life. God created Adam to live forever in the 7th
Day, the Sabbath, in the Garden of Eden.
Mark
2:27-28
The Lord Jesus said,
"The Sabbath
was made for man, and not man for the Sabbath. Therefore the Son of Man is also
Lord of the Sabbath."
But
this Kingdom of God on earth was distracted by Adam’s fall because of satan’s
temptation. And the first Adam broke the Commandment of God, and the first Adam
and Eve could not live in God’s Rest, Sabbath, place that is the perfect Kingdom of God any more. They were cast out from God’s Sabbath. At the same time they lost
every dominion that God had given to them, and they became under satan’s
oppression. Another meaning is that all of the first Adam’s descendants have
been under satan’s power since the first Adam had fallen into the old serpent’s
temptation.
This heavenly Kingdom on earth was changed because of
Adam’s fall.
?6. God’s new Secret Plan for the Sabbath
God
has started new secret plan for human beings since Adam’s fall. Also God has
revealed His Secret Plans from Genesis 3:15 until Jesus?Cross,
Because
of this new secret plan, God has been working for all of us through Jesus Christ since
Genesis 3:15.
And I will put enmity between
you and the woman, And between your seed and her
seed; He shall bruise you on the head, And
you shall bruise Him on the heel.?/span>
The woman is Mary, Jesus?mother
Her seed is Jesus included all His
Generation. Christians
He is Jesus Christ
Crush ?destroy
Bruise ?hurt but not life threatening ?
Passion and the Cross
John
15:17
But He answered them, “My Father is working until now, and I
Myself am working.?/b>
Father
God has been working for the redemption of all human beings through Jesus since
Genesis 3:15 for the perfect eternal Sabbath.
God
had been at work so hard for this redemption for 4000 years (if we count Adam
to Jesus?Cross as 4000 years) since Adam’s fall, because He loves us.
God
promised that He is going to send the Prince of Peace, and then He confirmed
with His Zeal.
Isaiah 9:7b
…The zeal of the LORD of hosts will accomplish this.
That’s
why Jesus came on earth, and died on the cross for us and poured out all His
Blood and water from His Physical body to wash out all our sin, to give the
freedom from satan’s bondage and to redeem us forever from satan.
Jesus finished the new thing, the redemption, on His Cross
completely.
John
19:30
He said, “It is finished!?
So
God’s new creation is finished 100% perfectly.
Hebrews 10:12
But this Jesus, after He had offered one sacrifice for sins for
ever, sat down on the Right Hand of God;
Jesus finished the redemption on His Cross same as God
finished His Creation,
and
Jesus sat down on the Right Hand of God the same as God did rest on the 7th
day,
and
Jesus prepared the Sabbath for all Christians.
John
14:6
I am the way, and the truth, and the life; no one comes to the
Father but through Me.
Hebrews 4:10-11
10
For the one who has entered His rest has himself also rested from his works, as
God did from His.
11
Therefore let us be diligent to enter that rest, so that no one will fall,
through following the same example of disobedience.
So
the meaning of the Sabbath is to enter to His Rest the Kingdom of God forever through Jesus Christ by the Redemption Cross which Jesus?Blood. was the cost.
Whoever
believes in Jesus Christ as their Savior and Lord, we all are in His Eternal
Sabbath the Kingdom of God forever.
Only
this 4th Commandment, God commanded us to remember and Keep it Holy,
but the other 9 commandments were not mentioned to remember and keep it holy
but obey.
Same
as Jesus commanded to His Disciples to remembrance of Jesus?Flesh and His
Blood through the communion.
Everyday
is our Sabbath Day, and we need to remember this Sabbath Day of Jesus Christ
and His Blood and keep it holy in our daily life. We really need to follow
Jesus Christ in daily.
We
should not be a Sunday Christians, but everyday, because we are in His Sabbath
Day forever.
II. In His Sabbath
1. Our Father God’s Blessing in His Sabbath
Ephesians 1:3
Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who
hath blessed us with all spiritual blessings in heavenly places in Christ:
2. As Chosen people in His Sabbath
Ephesians 1:4
According as He has chosen us in Him before the foundation of the
world, that we should be holy and without blame before Him in love:
3. As His Children in His Sabbath
Ephesians 1:5
Having predestinated us unto the adoption of children by Jesus Christ to Himself, according to the good pleasure of His Will,
4. As His Children’s special privilege in His Sabbath
Ephesians 1:6
to the praise of the glory of His Grace, which He freely bestowed
on us in the Beloved.
5. The Forgiveness in His Sabbath
Ephesians 1:7
In whom we have redemption through His Blood, the forgiveness of
sins, according to the riches of his grace;
6. As an inheritance in His Sabbath
Ephesians 1:11
In whom also we have obtained an inheritance, being predestinated
according to the purpose of Him who work all things after the counsel of His Own
Will:
7. As God’s Possession in His Sabbath
Ephesians 1:13
In whom ye also trusted, after that ye heard the word of truth, the
gospel of your salvation: in whom also after that ye believed, ye were sealed
with that Holy Spirit of promise,
8. The Life in His Sabbath
Ephesians 2:5
even when we were dead in our transgressions, made us alive
together with Christ
9. Our Place in His Sabbath
Ephesians 2:6
And raised us up with Him, and seated us with Him in the heavenly places
in Christ Jesus,
10. The Salvation in His Sabbath
Ephesians 2:8
For by grace you have been saved through faith; and that not of
yourselves, it is the gift of God;
11. The Citizen of Heaven in His Sabbath
Ephesians 2:19
So then you are no longer strangers and aliens, but you are fellow
citizens with the saints, and are of God’s household,
III. Jesus?
open invitation
Matthew 11:28-30
28
“Come to Me, all who are labor (weary) and heavy-laden, and I
will give you rest.
29 ?u>Take
My yoke upon you and learn from Me, for I am gentle and humble
in heart, and you will find rest for your souls.
30
“For My yoke is easy and My burden is light.?
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John 10:10
The thief comes only to steal and kill and destroy;
I (Jesus) came that they may have life, and have it abundantly.
Our
life is not easy, because so many things are required and it is very easy for
us to get caught up with something. Especially under the current the economic
situation, so many people live with worries and stresses. Young people life is
not easy because of the all kinds of violations, pollution, diseases, climate
change?/span>
Labor
?sin
Heavy-laden
?hopeless
Jesus?Invitation
He
is welcoming everyone.
Come to Me, all who are labor (weary) and heavy-laden
Jesus?Promise
I
will give you rest
Jesus willing to
help you
Take My
yoke upon you and learn from Me, for I am gentle and humble
in heart
For My yoke is easy and My burden is light
Jesus?Promise
and you will find rest for your souls.
Jesus does not have any plan to give you a yoke to handle
by yourself.
Jesus said, “My Yoke?/span>
He
is going to share His yoke with us, and he is going to work with us.
Many
times we try to do our own way ?fail
Jesus knows everything.
We
just yield ourselves to the Lord, He will lead us perfect way.
Come to the Lord and rest in Him continually.
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