Speaker 1: Welcome to Transformation Church Podcast, where we represent God to
Speaker 1: the lost and found for transformation in Christ. We're so
Speaker 1: glad you're here and wherever you're listening from, we believe
Speaker 1: God will transform your life to today's message.
Speaker 2: Today it's going to be the last installment in a
Speaker 2: series we've been in called Six Figures, which are six
Speaker 2: figures that I believe God uses to expand our faith
Speaker 2: and grow us in a life of abundance. And today's
Speaker 2: message is gonna be good because it's gonna help everybody.
Speaker 2: How many people it's gonna help, Not everybody, it's gonna
Speaker 2: help everybody, and that includes you now right now. If
Speaker 2: your heart has like proved something to me, passed them
Speaker 2: like you not gonna get this, you gotta open up
Speaker 2: your heart to be able to receive.
Speaker 3: And so what I thought about what would be the.
Speaker 2: Best thing to open up the heart of people about
Speaker 2: a subject that they already are wrestling with, I said,
Speaker 2: I gotta put it in a package that they can
Speaker 2: receive it in cause today I'm talking to the people
Speaker 2: of God.
Speaker 3: About rest.
Speaker 2: Rest.
Speaker 3: And I'll look at your face.
Speaker 2: Right now and know you tired. I can see by
Speaker 2: how you respond that you're tired. Some of y'all's facebooks
Speaker 2: and instagrams are telling on you tired. There are things
Speaker 2: that God suggests in his word, and then tho, there
Speaker 2: are things that He commands in his word. And one
Speaker 2: of the commandments that is most ignored by people who
Speaker 2: claim to know him and love him is the commandment
Speaker 2: of taking a sabbath, the commandment of resting. And right
Speaker 2: now I feel people clinching. You don't know my story.
Speaker 2: You don't know how much responsibility I have. You don't
Speaker 2: know where I came from. I got it out the mud.
Speaker 2: You don't understand I'm a blue collar worker. You don't
Speaker 2: understand that I have so much to provide for. You
Speaker 2: don't understand. You don't understand how much God loves you.
Speaker 2: God loves you so much that he gives us the
Speaker 2: gift of rest, But if you don't have the revelation
Speaker 2: of it, you never open the gift. So today, I
Speaker 2: know it's hard. Right now, some of y'all feel the resistance.
Speaker 2: I feel the resistance. So I wanted to put this
Speaker 2: message in a package that you could receive it.
Speaker 3: Today, ladies and.
Speaker 2: Gentlemen, I would like to welcome to the stage, preaching
Speaker 2: his first message, my junior preacher today, mister Harlowe Phoenix Medcalf, would.
Speaker 3: Y'all give it up?
Speaker 2: Oh?
Speaker 3: You can do better than.
Speaker 2: Arlow has a message? Would you please get your notes ready?
Speaker 2: Go ahead, Arlow.
Speaker 4: Hello, my name is Earl Phoenix Metcalf, and I'm gonna
Speaker 4: preach today. Everyone turned to your neighbor and say six seven.
Speaker 4: Turn to your other neighbor and say six seven six seven.
Speaker 4: Genesis Chapter one, God creates everything in six days. The
Speaker 4: sixth day he creates man. The seventh he rest. That
Speaker 4: reminds Us we need rest. Jesus asked all of us
Speaker 4: a question, are you really tired? He won't only give
Speaker 4: you rest for six days, but seven six seven?
Speaker 3: Do we give it up?
Speaker 5: So proud of you, buddy, Hots five, we can go home.
Speaker 3: Some of y'all was smiling so much. Y'all didn't hear
Speaker 3: what he said.
Speaker 2: What he said was that God worked for six days,
Speaker 2: but on the seventh day he rested. And it's crazy
Speaker 2: that at seven years old, Arlo has a revelation that
Speaker 2: most sixty seven year olds don't have. The truth of
Speaker 2: the matter is rest is something that is necessary.
Speaker 3: So I'm in a title.
Speaker 2: Today's message are you tired? Ooh, I don't know what
Speaker 2: that message just did to somebody, but somebody's telling on
Speaker 2: themselves the rumbles in the crowd.
Speaker 3: Look at your neighbor and just ask them the question,
Speaker 3: are you tired? If you have the faith, you can
Speaker 3: answer them.
Speaker 2: Come on, look at your other neighbor. Come on, say,
Speaker 2: other neighbor, are you tired? Today? I gotta talk about
Speaker 2: the wrestle that you're having with rest.
Speaker 3: Some of y'all are wrestling with rest.
Speaker 2: Now. I don't want anybody to confuse this with laziness.
Speaker 2: I gotta say this up front because somebody's like, perfect
Speaker 2: the message. No, I'm gonna give you context to this,
Speaker 2: but some of you are really wrestling with rest and
Speaker 2: today I hope that this message, by God's grace.
Speaker 3: Gives you a revelation of rest.
Speaker 2: Matter of fact, just to let everybody calm down, everybody,
Speaker 2: take a deep breath in, let it out, and say relax.
Speaker 2: I'm not about to condemn you. I'm not about to
Speaker 2: try to make you change today. I'm gonna just present
Speaker 2: some things to you that God presented to humanity. And
Speaker 2: then I want you to make a decision. Do you
Speaker 2: want to live the abundant life that God provided, or
Speaker 2: do you want to live this ghetto life that culture
Speaker 2: has given me. I have no idea. What's happening right now?
Speaker 2: It's ghetto down here. I want you to live in freedom.
Speaker 2: I want you to enjoy the abundant life, life and
Speaker 2: life to the fool. And if you only hear things
Speaker 2: in means or captures, I want you to catch this
Speaker 2: little the whole message I put in a meme. I'm
Speaker 2: trying to break this big thing down to something simple.
Speaker 2: Our load was first. This is my second attempt to
Speaker 2: just make you relax with this. I want to give
Speaker 2: you my message and a meme. Will you play that
Speaker 2: video real quick? Yeah? Right? Ya? Did you take a
Speaker 2: nap today?
Speaker 3: No? I didn't you need one? What was her response?
Speaker 2: What if God was coming to you today and saying
Speaker 2: you need a nap, would you tell him?
Speaker 3: No, I don't.
Speaker 2: I have too many bills to pay.
Speaker 3: No, I don't.
Speaker 2: I gotta be outside hell A y'all know what I'm
Speaker 2: talking about. No, I don't. I have too many emails
Speaker 2: to answer. No, no, no, no, no, no no no. And I
Speaker 2: think God's coming to you today through your pastor and
Speaker 2: saying you need one. Have you had a nap? Watched
Speaker 2: this not today? Have you had a nap this week?
Speaker 2: Have you had a day off this week? Have you
Speaker 2: had a day off this month? Have you had a
Speaker 2: day off this year?
Speaker 3: The reason I'm asking this.
Speaker 2: Is not because I as much as I love you,
Speaker 2: I just want you to be healthy and thriving in
Speaker 2: all of the latest things that culture is telling you.
Speaker 2: This is an ancient principle that our God put in
Speaker 2: place because he wanted us to work, not work, but
Speaker 2: he wanted us to function properly. So because God wanted humanity,
Speaker 2: his creation, to function properly, he knew what they needed
Speaker 2: before they ever went to work. My daughter, Gia's birthday
Speaker 2: is coming up and one of the things as we
Speaker 2: had her birthday party yesterday, one of the things that
Speaker 2: I learned is that there are a bunch of toys
Speaker 2: that say they work, but they don't work until you
Speaker 2: put batterysm them. Yeah, And the thing that I realize
Speaker 2: is most toys don't come with batteries. So we ordered
Speaker 2: a ton of batteries that allowed us to do something
Speaker 2: before it actually produced. God is saying I want to
Speaker 2: put something into you before I require anything out of you.
Speaker 2: You missed it, all right, Let's go back to Arlow's
Speaker 2: illustration in Genesis. God created day one, God created day two,
Speaker 2: God created day.
Speaker 3: Three, day four, day five, day six. What did he create?
Speaker 2: Man? And on day six we get with God in connection.
Speaker 2: The first day we experience with God is a day
Speaker 2: of rest, not a day of work. Your first day
Speaker 2: inexistent as humanity was not a day of work. It
Speaker 2: was a day of okay, And this is the problem
Speaker 2: with most of us do not have a revelation of rest.
Speaker 2: So today I'm going to try to give you some
Speaker 2: revealed truth. And when I say revelation of rest, it's
Speaker 2: like something is there, but you can't see it, And
Speaker 2: a revelation is like, oh, I can see it. One
Speaker 2: of my friends said it like this. A revelation is
Speaker 2: something that comes from north south. It comes from God.
Speaker 2: A lot of our change and good information comes east
Speaker 2: west from friends and pastors. But you need a revelation
Speaker 2: to come from God to you. And that's what I'm
Speaker 2: praying for you today, is that for the first time
Speaker 2: and the last time, you get a revelation of how
Speaker 2: important rest is to God and to you, Matthew, Chapter eleven,
Speaker 2: verse twenty eight, Are you tired? This is Jesus. Jesus's response. Then,
Speaker 2: Jesus said, come to me, all you who are weary.
Speaker 2: Another translation says tired and all of you who carry
Speaker 2: a heavy burden, and I will give you. Say it
Speaker 2: out loud, say it strong, say it like you can
Speaker 2: take the next week off. Jesus' response to weariness and
Speaker 2: to people carrying a heavy load was not prayer. I'm
Speaker 2: about to mess with your religion. It wasn't a worship service.
Speaker 2: His response to your tiredness was not a meeting with
Speaker 2: the pastor The response to your heavy load and weariness
Speaker 2: was what.
Speaker 3: And some of you think I'm saying sleep.
Speaker 2: Sleep?
Speaker 3: You can do that and still wake up tired.
Speaker 2: Okay, okay, I need to find the real people in here.
Speaker 3: How many people sleep and still woe out?
Speaker 2: Come on, I'll come rest. If you read down and
Speaker 2: we're gonna read, it's rest for your soul. Is your
Speaker 2: mind at ease, is your wheel at bay? Are your
Speaker 2: emotions tanged? Some of you are literally sleeping to escape reality,
Speaker 2: going through stuff. I just need to sleep. Come on, okay,
Speaker 2: come on, y'all, I just need to sleep.
Speaker 3: You'll take things to do it.
Speaker 2: I gotta, I gotta shut my mouth, my mind down,
Speaker 2: I gotta shut I gotta you'll watch certain stuff. I
Speaker 2: gotta numb out. These are all terms, and you may
Speaker 2: have different ones. But what I'm saying is what you're
Speaker 2: doing is sleeping. What God provides is rest. And so
Speaker 2: today I want to give you the revelation of rest
Speaker 2: because this is God's gift to us. Rest is not
Speaker 2: a luxury, it's a necessity. So then when you look
Speaker 2: at this in verse twenty nine, it says, this is
Speaker 2: Jesus talking, take my yoke up on you, and let
Speaker 2: me teach you how to rest.
Speaker 3: So this is beautiful because we don't know how to
Speaker 3: do it on our own.
Speaker 2: This is why Jesus says, let me teach you how
Speaker 2: to rest. Let me teach you what you don't know naturally,
Speaker 2: let me teach you what your nature goes against. It says,
Speaker 2: let me teach you because this is my character. I'm
Speaker 2: humble and gentle at heart. That means I'm thinking about you.
Speaker 2: Think about this. If people think God is mad at you,
Speaker 2: still like he's a god that's mad at you. There's
Speaker 2: no other God. In any other religion that thinks about
Speaker 2: your rest. If God was really if you was mad
Speaker 2: at somebody, do you want them to get rest? Do
Speaker 2: you know that keeping people up is a form of
Speaker 2: torture used in warfare. It's like, how do I torture
Speaker 2: this person? Keep them awake? And what God says is,
Speaker 2: I'm a God that cares about you so much. My
Speaker 2: spirit is humble and I have a gentle heart.
Speaker 3: I'm asking you have you rested lately?
Speaker 2: I know you're doing all of these things to prove
Speaker 2: to your child'shood self that you're actually significant. But I'm
Speaker 2: asking you to come to me because you're weary.
Speaker 3: You're heavy. I want to give you. Say the word again.
Speaker 2: Rest. This is a new four letter word that you
Speaker 2: need to say a lot. Rest. Say it one more time.
Speaker 2: It says if you let me teach you, it says
Speaker 2: you will find rest. Oh. I like that. When God
Speaker 2: says I'm gonna find something, he says, you will find
Speaker 2: rest for your souls. He says, for my yoke is
Speaker 2: easy to bear, and the burden I give you is
Speaker 2: a light. To receive a revelation of rest, You're gonna
Speaker 2: have to be humble and teachable, and this is why
Speaker 2: I need everybody to understand the character of our God.
Speaker 2: God's trying to tell you what you heard about me
Speaker 2: has been misrepresented. I actually love you, I care about you,
Speaker 2: and I want you to be okay, not just today
Speaker 2: but forever. So I'm not going to just give you
Speaker 2: a miracle. I'm gonna give you a pattern.
Speaker 3: Right now.
Speaker 2: There are people who need money in your life, and
Speaker 2: if you give them one hundred dollars, they're gonna come
Speaker 2: back next week and ask you for a hundred dollars,
Speaker 2: and then they'll come back two months from now and
Speaker 2: ask you for a hundred dollars.
Speaker 3: But if you give that person a skill set, and.
Speaker 6: You give them a job, or you give them a thing,
Speaker 6: then they can actually learn a pattern that will produce
Speaker 6: what they need.
Speaker 2: God is saying, I didn't want to just give you
Speaker 2: a magic reci peal, I wanted to give you a
Speaker 2: pattern of a sabbath so that you could always have
Speaker 2: everything you.
Speaker 3: Need to do what I'm asking you to do. It's
Speaker 3: a gift.
Speaker 2: And as we look at Scripture today, I realize that
Speaker 2: there is no other religion in the world where the
Speaker 2: deity does not demand work from them. If you search
Speaker 2: every other religion, I'm just trying to give you a revelation.
Speaker 2: I'm talking to your mind so that it can drop
Speaker 2: to your heart and then it'll actually appear in your life.
Speaker 2: There is no other religion that says you don't got
Speaker 2: to work for this. How many times do you need
Speaker 2: to pray? Where do you need to turn? How many
Speaker 2: sacrifices do you need? All of these things? It's work, work, work, work, work, work, work, work, work.
Speaker 2: They demand work for stuff. God gives rest for your soul.
Speaker 2: This is the god we search, So why will you
Speaker 2: not receive this gift of rest? Other religions offer a
Speaker 2: ladder to climb. Jesus offers a refuge of rest. And
Speaker 2: this is why he does it. Write this point down
Speaker 2: because rest is a weapon. Rest is a weapon. If
Speaker 2: you actually were rested, How good would you be if
Speaker 2: you actually were rested. I'm talking about in your soul,
Speaker 2: your mind, your will, your emotions, and your body was rested.
Speaker 2: How would you handle hard situations if you.
Speaker 3: Were actually rested?
Speaker 2: How many more good ideas could come through you? You've
Speaker 2: done what you've done. Woe out, not woar out, You've
Speaker 2: done what you've done.
Speaker 3: In life. All this is says, whoe out. You can't
Speaker 3: even enjoy what God has blessed.
Speaker 2: You with because you trying to keep up with it.
Speaker 2: So did God bless you with it because the blessings
Speaker 2: of the Lord make it rich and addath No, uh oh, let's.
Speaker 3: Just put the scripture out there.
Speaker 2: Some of y'all is woe out, calling it a blessing,
Speaker 2: but losing your marriage.
Speaker 3: You got ten thousand square feet, no peace.
Speaker 2: You got cars to choose from, but no, here go
Speaker 2: to find safety in your soul.
Speaker 3: All I'm asking you is are you rested?
Speaker 2: And the truth of the matter is the culture we
Speaker 2: live in today is offering the opposite, promising the opposite.
Speaker 2: It's saying, grind hustle, do all of this.
Speaker 3: Do all this, and then you'll have money.
Speaker 2: To take a vacation, and then you'll have money to
Speaker 2: buy a second home, and.
Speaker 3: Then you'll be it's grind hustle, get it.
Speaker 2: All of these things are deceptions from the enemy. Because
Speaker 2: I heard it said one time, what the enemy can't
Speaker 2: get in front of and stop, he gets behind and pushes.
Speaker 2: And some of y'all are being pushed to the brink.
Speaker 2: You're being pushed your soul exhausted that you cannot even
Speaker 2: sense the presence of God. God's got you in a
Speaker 2: good situation right now, and you're calling it bad because
Speaker 2: it's not moving fast enough. Okay, all right, am I
Speaker 2: just talking about my own issues. Okay, I'm telling you.
Speaker 2: God had to teach me. He said, I slowed this
Speaker 2: thing down. You think the company's going down, He said,
Speaker 2: I'm saving your life. All delay, all backup, All deals
Speaker 2: not working are not from the devil.
Speaker 3: Some of the things.
Speaker 6: That God is doing is because we don't have enough
Speaker 6: sense to preserve ourselves.
Speaker 3: You know, if that deal actually went through, you would
Speaker 3: have lost your marriage.
Speaker 2: If you actually would have made it in that field,
Speaker 2: you would have lost your mind. Okay, let me stop me.
Speaker 2: Part of what I know with my literal makeup is that.
Speaker 5: I can go go go go, go, go, go go go.
Speaker 2: God has had to teach me, Michael. Just because you
Speaker 2: can doesn't mean I want you to. Uh oh uh oh.
Speaker 6: Just because you can watch this, here's my insecurity mine.
Speaker 2: Just because you can doesn't mean that you should do it.
Speaker 2: Because how many people if it makes us feel good
Speaker 2: and it scratches some childhood wound of feeling significant, or
Speaker 2: or people are gonna praise me for this, or I'm
Speaker 2: being too honest of here. Okay, let me, let me
Speaker 2: go back to the scripture. What I'm trying, what I'm
Speaker 2: trying to tell everybody is the same faith. It takes
Speaker 2: you to believe for miracles. It takes that faith to rest.
Speaker 2: And most of y'all have faith to praise God and
Speaker 2: not faith to walk away from the desk. You won't
Speaker 2: shut the laptop, you won't stop checking the email and
Speaker 2: the dow and you won't see all. It's all all
Speaker 2: it's going. It's crazy. How in the world is a
Speaker 2: little ticker controlling your peace? Is quiet in here, and
Speaker 2: it's okay, I get it, because what's happening is that
Speaker 2: the mindset of culture is a mindset to keep you enslaved. Okay.
Speaker 2: The problem is right now is that you think you're free,
Speaker 2: but you're enslaved. That was the same problem with the
Speaker 2: children of Israel. When they were enslaved, they had no
Speaker 2: days off. The proof you were a slave is you
Speaker 2: didn't get to rest. So when God brought them out
Speaker 2: from under Pharaoh's rule and they were in the wilderness,
Speaker 2: one of the commandments that God made sure to on
Speaker 2: the top ten list put on their is you should
Speaker 2: observe the Sabbath. Why because the Sabbath was only reserved
Speaker 2: for sons. Only sons got to take a rest. So
Speaker 2: the Sabbath proves your freedom. Oh God, I'm gonna need
Speaker 2: a whole series. When you can take a break, it
Speaker 2: means you know who got it. When you can walk
Speaker 2: away from being God, then you have a God.
Speaker 3: When you walk away from being.
Speaker 2: Provider, then he's Jehovah Zirah.
Speaker 6: Your provider. When you can step.
Speaker 3: Back and moon walk out of having to.
Speaker 2: Literally do everything for yourself, it means you make room
Speaker 2: for God to step in. Many of us still have
Speaker 2: our Egypt mentality. If it's gonna happen for me, I
Speaker 2: got to get it out the mud. Hold on, wait,
Speaker 2: did you not come into the kingdom economy? Did you
Speaker 2: not believe Jesus when he said you are no longer
Speaker 2: a slave? The curse is broken off of you whom
Speaker 2: the sun sets, it's free, and we don't think about that.
Speaker 2: You're free to rest, Oh God, whom the sun sets free,
Speaker 2: And you think you're noble, I'm just you know me,
Speaker 2: I'm gonna just put in that extra, And God said,
Speaker 2: I didn't ask you for all that. I don't. Actually
Speaker 2: I call it disobedience. You actually think you're doing something noble.
Speaker 2: It's sin. Did y'all hear what I just said? When
Speaker 2: you don't observe a twenty four hour period where you
Speaker 2: walk away from your work every week, God's like, why
Speaker 2: do they disobey me all the time? Grace after grace,
Speaker 2: mercy after mercy, day after day provided for him. They
Speaker 2: in that little house that they didn't think they could
Speaker 2: ever get. And I did that with the job they
Speaker 2: didn't never think they were gonna be able to get.
Speaker 2: And I did that, and I provided and I restored,
Speaker 2: and they still don't trust me. I gave them the
Speaker 2: blessing of the book. I gave him the blessing of
Speaker 2: the business. I gave him the blessing of the thing.
Speaker 3: And they still won't trust me.
Speaker 2: What do I have to do to let them unwrap
Speaker 2: this gift that would relieve their soul of weariness? Some
Speaker 2: of you, you don't need a new career, You need
Speaker 2: to take a day off.
Speaker 3: You're so overwhelmed.
Speaker 2: Life is just no. You're disobedient. What is a sabbath?
Speaker 2: It's a pause. It's a pause. It doesn't mean I'm
Speaker 2: not coming back to this. It means I have to
Speaker 2: stop right now. And it takes faith to pause. A
Speaker 2: twenty four hour period. Write this definition down. A sabbath
Speaker 2: is a twenty four hour period that God gives humanity
Speaker 2: with to reframe from work, remember Him, and rest your soul.
Speaker 2: Every week, God wants to give every person under the
Speaker 2: sound of my voice a twenty four hour period that
Speaker 2: God gives you with to refrain from work, to remember
Speaker 2: Him and to rest your soul. I'm gonna read it
Speaker 2: one more time so your soul can hear it. Every week,
Speaker 2: God wants to gift you personally with a day to
Speaker 2: refrain from work, to remember Him and to rest your soul.
Speaker 3: Even in the ancient times, this was a.
Speaker 2: Radical innovation at the time because everybody was working. I mean,
Speaker 2: they didn't have buildings and they didn't have bulldozers. They
Speaker 2: didn't have all everything they did they had to make.
Speaker 2: They didn't have Amazon, They couldn't order nothing. You want
Speaker 2: to purse, go kill something, dry out the skin, sew
Speaker 2: it together. You got some more fig leaves over there,
Speaker 2: like you had to make everything.
Speaker 3: So think about all of the work that was happening in.
Speaker 2: God saying, hey, take the day off, Come walk and
Speaker 2: talk with me. Remember how good I am. Look at
Speaker 2: those trees. Are they worried? You don't have to either.
Speaker 2: Look at those birds. I know you've missed them every
Speaker 2: day because you've been so occupied, But they've been here
Speaker 2: every day. They don't worry about what they're gonna eat
Speaker 2: or drink. You see them lilies over there. Look how
Speaker 2: beautiful those colors. Don't those colors make you feel something?
Speaker 2: They didn't dress themselves. I did that. I'll do that
Speaker 2: much more for you if you would rest. I said
Speaker 2: it before, but slaves never rested, only sons did. And
Speaker 2: this is where I have to bring this up, because
Speaker 2: culture is feeding us a lie that I have to
Speaker 2: correct with the word of God. Culture says rest is
Speaker 2: a reward for work. Hear what I just said to you.
Speaker 2: Culture says you better work, and you better work until
Speaker 2: you earn a rest. God says rest is a requirement
Speaker 2: for work. First full day rest and the prerequisit was
Speaker 2: because God knew Adam was about to work. I'm gonna
Speaker 2: give him rest because he about to put in that work.
Speaker 2: Rest should be a sign that God wants you to work.
Speaker 2: It is not oh, I'm not gonna work because I
Speaker 2: just need the rest. It's like, na, you better get
Speaker 2: this rest because after this rest we about to put
Speaker 2: in this work.
Speaker 6: You can't even feel rested if you don't feel worked.
Speaker 2: Oh God, I'm talking with people who don't work. Anybody
Speaker 2: who really work know that the only way of rest is.
Speaker 3: Good if you did good work.
Speaker 2: So what I'm trying to tell you is God gave
Speaker 2: a six day work period and a one day rest.
Speaker 2: But I think a lot of us got the God complex.
Speaker 2: So what we did is we did what God did
Speaker 2: instead of what he said. Day one, work day two,
Speaker 2: work day three, work day four, work day five, work
Speaker 2: day six, work day seven.
Speaker 3: Rested. But then he told us, don't do what I did.
Speaker 2: Do what I said, rest day two, work day three.
Speaker 2: Do you see what I'm saying. Okay, let me start
Speaker 2: it again.
Speaker 3: God worked on day one today six, then he rested.
Speaker 2: He made us and said rest on day one, work
Speaker 2: the other six days.
Speaker 6: He was trying to say, I'm setting you up because
Speaker 6: you can't handle what I did.
Speaker 2: You not built like me, You can't work and then rest.
Speaker 2: I'm God, I can do all things. I know everything omnishing,
Speaker 2: I know everything all that was, he said, because.
Speaker 3: I love you. You rest first.
Speaker 2: I know you. I know your attitude, I know you
Speaker 2: get hangry, I know your habits, I know your temperament.
Speaker 2: I know you need to go to sleep. First, You rest,
Speaker 2: and then all the things out are there. They're gonna
Speaker 2: be there tomorrow. Those contracts will be there tomorrow, those
Speaker 2: emails will be there tomorrow. Some of y'all that don't
Speaker 2: have do not disturb on your stuff. How do you
Speaker 2: function the level of interruptions of your life that you
Speaker 2: allow in right now? How in the world do you
Speaker 2: have any peace? It's quiet in here today. Okay, so
Speaker 2: let's keep going. If you go to Exodus chapter five,
Speaker 2: verse seven, I want you to look it up on
Speaker 2: your own time. Pharaoh's strategy was never to kill the
Speaker 2: children of Israel.
Speaker 3: It was to exhaust them.
Speaker 2: Y'all didn't hear what I just said. What if the
Speaker 2: enemy doesn't want to kill you, he just wants to
Speaker 2: exhaust you. What if what if you're at series goal
Speaker 2: is never to take you out, just make you not
Speaker 2: strong enough to do anything. Exhaustion is the new weapon
Speaker 2: of massive destruction.
Speaker 3: Have you ever been tired just scrolling?
Speaker 2: Come on, you switch fingers, y'all know some of y'all
Speaker 2: on your pinky fingers scrolling news on twenty four to seven,
Speaker 2: got four news channels on what's Fox saying? What's the inn? Saying?
Speaker 2: What's MSNBC saying? What's the exhaustion? News feed all the time?
Speaker 2: And then don't get into your family group chat. The
Speaker 2: emotional disability of cousin Jerome locked up again, Stacy Dayton,
Speaker 2: somebody that dated your other cousin again, Like.
Speaker 3: Y'all know what I'm talking about? Or watch this. The
Speaker 3: exhaustion of silence.
Speaker 2: Because the manipulation that happens many times relationally because we're
Speaker 2: not talking. Okay, let me, I'm going too deep. What
Speaker 2: if what if there was a way to reset every
Speaker 2: week where all of that stuff lost its power in
Speaker 2: your life? What if God knew he wasn't gonna take
Speaker 2: us out of this world, but he would give us
Speaker 2: tools in this world to actually live higher.
Speaker 3: Than this world. That's just what the Scripture means.
Speaker 2: When it says we are in it, but not of it,
Speaker 2: but you in it and of it. Jesus doing his
Speaker 2: greatest miracles with a shot clock on three years left,
Speaker 2: big miracles, everybody coming. What does Jesus do? All right, y'all,
Speaker 2: all right, it's been fun. God bless you. He would
Speaker 2: withdraw often on your greatest day of miracle impact money,
Speaker 2: our culture, like, do it again, run it up, we
Speaker 2: can pack it out again. Four nights at Madison Square Garden,
Speaker 2: back to back to back. Let's get all this money.
Speaker 2: And God was like, yeah, where's the limit. And some
Speaker 2: of us are so close? Why are you telling me?
Speaker 2: Be careful? You won't rest. Be careful, Be careful the
Speaker 2: decisions you make unrested. Be careful of the people you
Speaker 2: keep around your children unrested, Okay, be careful. Be careful
Speaker 2: of saying your opinion. I'm just being honest right now.
Speaker 2: Be careful of talking at all.
Speaker 6: Some of y'all, some of y'all just need to say,
Speaker 6: can I respond to this tomorrow?
Speaker 3: Why are you saying this?
Speaker 2: Passing Mike? Because nobody makes their best decisions exhausted. Sabbath
Speaker 2: the sabbath or a day of rest isn't just rest
Speaker 2: from work. It is your proof of freedom. And I
Speaker 2: just want to let you know. Pharaoh is not dead.
Speaker 2: It just comes with push notifications. That algorithm that for
Speaker 2: you page, that next deadline, that inbox those emails. All
Speaker 2: it's doing is exhausting you to the point where you
Speaker 2: don't dream, you don't worship, and you don't fight back.
Speaker 2: This is why you are being beat up at the
Speaker 2: same level as people who don't know God. It's because
Speaker 2: you're on the same training plan as them. You're exhausted,
Speaker 2: and so you're too exhausted to pray. Come on, let's
Speaker 2: be honest, God, do it. Okay, y'all gonna act like
Speaker 2: I'm the only one that pray to prayer like that,
Speaker 2: Let yo will be done, Bible talking about pray without
Speaker 2: ceasing you like Lord, If you don't do it, it
Speaker 2: won't be done. Why you're exhausted? Are you tired? Why
Speaker 2: are you still wrestling rest when it's the gift that
Speaker 2: God gives to you. Husbands and wives haven't been able
Speaker 2: to have a civil conversation. Not because you don't love
Speaker 2: each other, because you're tired. You're both tired trying to
Speaker 2: provide for a home that neither wanted you like coming
Speaker 2: to right now. Not because the home is bad, Because y'all,
Speaker 2: you need to go get a one nice stay in
Speaker 2: a holiday in I'm not I'm trying to give y'all
Speaker 2: real secrets.
Speaker 6: Somebody needs a staycation at the home with sweets and
Speaker 6: the other one at the best westernt.
Speaker 2: And then you need to talk after your rest. All right,
Speaker 2: all right, how somebody, why are you saying this? Because
Speaker 2: the lie is that I need to perform, and if
Speaker 2: I perform, then I'll get approval and praise. So the
Speaker 2: reason why people work is because if I work and
Speaker 2: I get this money, or if I work and I
Speaker 2: get this accoladeer on my work and I get these grades,
Speaker 2: and I work and I get this thing, and I
Speaker 2: work and I get this compliment, then.
Speaker 3: I will be approved and praised.
Speaker 2: And the reason why this is important is because all people,
Speaker 2: even down to children. The reason why we clap so
Speaker 2: loud for Urlow is because we inate innately know that
Speaker 2: a child needs to be approved and praised. Arlow could
Speaker 2: have got up here and say abc D, Jesus is Lord,
Speaker 2: and everybody's.
Speaker 3: Still with him, like why cause you.
Speaker 2: Know from a child you need if I'm gonna do
Speaker 2: this again, if I'm gonna actually become everything, if he
Speaker 2: gonna stand up here and preach one day, he has
Speaker 2: to be approved and praised. So guess what the enemy
Speaker 2: tries to tell you? Work for it, work for? And
Speaker 2: God says, I'll give it to you first. Can I
Speaker 2: give you an example? This is an eternal example that
Speaker 2: Jesus literally gets baptized by his cousin John. And the
Speaker 2: first thing that happens before he ever works a miracle.
Speaker 2: This is before he turns water into wine.
Speaker 6: This is before the fishes in the lows, this is
Speaker 6: before he heals any blind eyes, before he ever starts working.
Speaker 2: He gets approved in praise. He gets dumped down in
Speaker 2: that water. The sky's open, and the Bible says, like
Speaker 2: a dove descending, it says, this is my son, identity
Speaker 2: in whom I'm well please, I'm approving him, and I'm
Speaker 2: praising him in front of everybody.
Speaker 3: And from that place he went to work.
Speaker 2: Oh God, all right. So the lie is you need
Speaker 2: to perform so that you get approval in praise. But
Speaker 2: the truth is you're already positioned. This is my son,
Speaker 2: this is my daughter. I'm well pleasing them. You already
Speaker 2: got approval and praise. Now go work. What's your last name, Tom?
Speaker 2: Go put in that work. My daughters they get I
Speaker 2: hype them up before they do anything, and it and
Speaker 2: and and I mean it's at.
Speaker 6: The borderline right now, like maybe too much. She's like,
Speaker 6: but I hype them, I hype them up.
Speaker 2: What's your name? My name is Jia?
Speaker 3: What you do? Everything good?
Speaker 2: And I'd be like, ah, my Jia.
Speaker 3: She she wakes up in the morning. We had a
Speaker 3: birthday party yesterday.
Speaker 2: I said, how you feeling to day? I feel great?
Speaker 2: Not good? I feel great. I said, I'm glad you
Speaker 2: feel great.
Speaker 3: What's today?
Speaker 2: It's my birthday party day? I said, what you what
Speaker 2: you mean? What you got? How you feel? She's like,
Speaker 2: people are coming over, We're gonna swim, and I'm gonna
Speaker 2: get some presents because I already know y'all got me
Speaker 2: some good president. I said, how did you? But what
Speaker 2: I'm saying to you is she lives from approval. My
Speaker 2: baby doesn't wake up in the morning be like daddy,
Speaker 2: Hey dad, Hey, how many dishes do you want me
Speaker 2: to wash? How? What do you need me to do
Speaker 2: to be called your own? What I'm saying to you
Speaker 2: is you're good enough right now for God to approve
Speaker 2: you right now. Gotta keep moving all right, here we go.
Speaker 2: If you need to check that reference. That's Matthew, chapter three,
Speaker 2: verse seventeen. I'm moving because there's so much that I
Speaker 2: have to say, because there are people that are hearing
Speaker 2: me about the Sabbath, and right now your mind's going
Speaker 2: to legalism. Well okay, so technically, if I start my
Speaker 2: Sabbath at six pm and I don't check my email
Speaker 2: into then well what if somebody call stop? Since God
Speaker 2: has gifted us the Sabbath, people have tried to actually
Speaker 2: dip it in legalism, but the Sabbath is dipped in love.
Speaker 2: All he said, he said, I'm the Lord of the Sabbath.
Speaker 2: I gave I gave this to you so you could
Speaker 2: be good. So don't if y' there's a there's a
Speaker 2: story in the Bible that Jesus heals a man on
Speaker 2: the Sabbath and all the religious people got mad. Now,
Speaker 2: first off, the man was literally.
Speaker 3: Sick, blind, jacked up.
Speaker 2: If I was a religious person, I'd be like, that
Speaker 2: is good for him. I'm wow, that's awesome. What day
Speaker 2: is it's a sabbath? Hey, don't tell nobody. My man
Speaker 2: can see Like.
Speaker 7: Immediately they were like you, you are not good because you
Speaker 7: did on the Sabbath, and he's like, Yo, what how
Speaker 7: did y'all get this love gift?
Speaker 3: Confused with all this legalism.
Speaker 2: He said, if your if your ox falls into the
Speaker 2: ditch on the sabbath, don't leave your ox there till
Speaker 2: tomorrow it'll be dead. Pick it up, get your friends,
Speaker 2: the club of y'all gonna have to work today.
Speaker 3: But this can't be the pattern.
Speaker 2: So so so so if it happens, just make sure
Speaker 2: it's not the potter. If your odds is falling into
Speaker 2: ditch every time it's a sabbath, that's.
Speaker 3: You can't drive like that say pattern, But.
Speaker 2: God's saying like if something happens, if they email you,
Speaker 2: or if you gotta go into work or you that like, okay,
Speaker 2: but every week, every week.
Speaker 3: On your off day, Yo, Bosston want to.
Speaker 2: Have a meeting, and you've never say any boundaries to
Speaker 2: be able to let them know. Hey, I'm gonna just
Speaker 2: lead that. I'm gonna back away from the camera. I mean,
Speaker 2: all I'm saying to you right now is if you
Speaker 2: get this revelation of rest, I'm almost done.
Speaker 3: Rest becomes a resistance.
Speaker 2: That'ser, Mike, what are you talking about? Eat is the
Speaker 2: meakest most power move you can ever make. It's not
Speaker 2: big and boisterous and none of it. It's like, no,
Speaker 2: I'm about to go rest. Yeah, I'll be back for that. God,
Speaker 2: you see what's happening over there. I'm about to trust
Speaker 2: you at your word right now while worry is trying
Speaker 2: to creep up my back and fear is trying to
Speaker 2: make me intimidated, and I don't know what's gonna happen
Speaker 2: with all those people and what they talking about. Father,
Speaker 2: you said if I trusted you and I did what
Speaker 2: your word says, you would fight my battles. So, Father,
Speaker 2: what I'm about to do is go get a massage
Speaker 2: and play golf today.
Speaker 3: And I'm gone, y'all don't hear me.
Speaker 2: And I'm gonna trust that as I am resting your working,
Speaker 2: I'm gonna trust.
Speaker 6: That you're providing for the needs that I can't even
Speaker 6: make happen for my bick What would happen? What would
Speaker 6: happen if we really believed God? What would happen that
Speaker 6: you could be playing lasers with.
Speaker 2: Your kids, developing a greater relationship that would last for decades.
Speaker 3: While God.
Speaker 2: Is telling those who have been enemies or adversaries against
Speaker 2: what you was working on.
Speaker 3: He was moving them out the way.
Speaker 2: Somebody say resistance Exodus chapter No, I'm gonna go James
Speaker 2: chapter four real quick, because I gotta give you this.
Speaker 2: This is the revelation I need you to see. Ooh, ooh,
Speaker 2: I've heard this scripture of my whole life, but the
Speaker 2: Holy Spirit gave me a new revelation on it. It said,
Speaker 2: and he gives grace generously. As a scripture say God
Speaker 2: opposes the proud, but gives grace to the humble. Okay,
Speaker 2: verse seven here it is so humble yourself before God.
Speaker 2: Now the next part requires humility first. Okay, humble your
Speaker 2: before God. Then what's the next part of the verse.
Speaker 2: Resist the devil and he will flee from you. One
Speaker 2: of the greatest resistance or resistance is you can have
Speaker 2: against the devil is to rest in his face. You
Speaker 2: want the devil to flee, go ahead and rest. He's
Speaker 2: trying to keep you up in anxiety and depression. Rest.
Speaker 2: I'm telling y'all this light here has been one of
Speaker 2: my greatest tactics to fight the enemies in my mind,
Speaker 2: the enemies that come from the outside. Is to say,
Speaker 2: you know what, God, if your word says to resist
Speaker 2: the devil and flee. What I'm about to do is
Speaker 2: about to be a lot of activity for no reason.
Speaker 2: I'm about to email this person. Make sure these people
Speaker 2: know my point of view. I'm about to go here,
Speaker 2: do this, try to make this, get a fifth job, try.
Speaker 3: To go do this.
Speaker 2: Do you know what I'm about to do. I'm about
Speaker 2: to trust you, and I'm about to resist the devil
Speaker 2: because the devil is watch this, watch this, dank you Jesus.
Speaker 2: When the devil came to tempt Jesus, everything he was
Speaker 2: trying to get Jesus to do was activity outside of
Speaker 2: his purpose. The way he resisted the devil is he
Speaker 2: had to rest and remind the devil of the word.
Speaker 2: If you jump from this, if you go from this,
Speaker 2: I'll bring you. He was trying to create unnecessary activity.
Speaker 2: Do more work, do more work, prove to me. Turn
Speaker 2: these stones into pray it. Do more work, you prove
Speaker 2: to me. And because he was approved by his father
Speaker 2: before he went into this wilderness, he said, I don't
Speaker 2: gotta work for you to prove who I am. I've
Speaker 2: already been approved, I have already been called, I've already
Speaker 2: been I've already been seated. So the next time you're
Speaker 2: gonna see me work is when God gives me approval
Speaker 2: to do these miracles. Okay, so rest is a resistance.
Speaker 2: Somebody needs to say I'm ready because I'm rested. What
Speaker 2: if that was the truth. What if it was the
Speaker 2: truth that every time something hard came, you were ready
Speaker 2: for it because you were rested. PESSI, Mike, are you
Speaker 2: serious about this? Is this like a message that you're
Speaker 2: I'm gonna teach this every year and I have been
Speaker 2: for the last almost decade. The reason I'm saying it
Speaker 2: is because most people are looking for a miracle when
Speaker 2: God wants to give them a method. He's trying to
Speaker 2: give you a principle that will allow this not to
Speaker 2: be a one time thing for you. So rest is
Speaker 2: a resistance, and then watch this. Rest is a reminder Exodus,
Speaker 2: chapter twenty, verse ten. But the seventh day is the
Speaker 2: Sabbath day. It's a day of rest dedicated to the
Speaker 2: Lord your God. On that day, no one in your
Speaker 2: household may do any work. This includes all your sons,
Speaker 2: your daughters, your male your female servants, everybody work for
Speaker 2: your livestock, foreigners, all of that don't do no work.
Speaker 2: And I started to think about that, and then I
Speaker 2: started to think about the Christian Chicken Place.
Speaker 3: And there's not too many companies.
Speaker 2: That like publicly like like, hey, we're closing down today
Speaker 2: because we're honoring our staff and honoring the Lord.
Speaker 3: Do you know the Chicken Christian Place?
Speaker 2: Y'all know who they are until they sponsor us. I
Speaker 2: ain't saying they name momoent No, I'm just from holler
Speaker 2: at me. But I just want I want you to
Speaker 2: know every almost every other establishment is twenty four hours,
Speaker 2: seven days a week. How many people are buying mc
Speaker 2: doubles at three point thirty in the morning. Somebody is,
Speaker 2: but not that many somebodies. I just I want you
Speaker 2: to know. Like the idea is more time, more money,
Speaker 2: more You know that Christian Chicken Place.
Speaker 3: They make.
Speaker 2: Almost five times per store what all the other places make,
Speaker 2: being closed more times than all the mother places is
Speaker 2: closed and having a full twenty four hours where they
Speaker 2: do not bring in any revenue, less footprint on the earth,
Speaker 2: more productivity. Now, we could just act like it's coincidence,
Speaker 2: or we could say there's a blessing for following the
Speaker 2: principles of God. Exodus chapter twenty, verse ten. But the
Speaker 2: seventh day is a Sabbath day. It's so you can rest.
Speaker 2: Exodus chapter twenty three, verse ten. It says, plant and
Speaker 2: harvest your crops for six years, but let the land
Speaker 2: watch this be renewed and lie uncultivated during the seventh year.
Speaker 2: God is so gangster about the Sabbath that he even
Speaker 2: wants the land to rest. He said, plant it, harvest
Speaker 2: for six years, but let the land be renewed and
Speaker 2: lie uncultivated. Don't plant nothing, don't pick nothing for the
Speaker 2: seventh year. Then let the poor among you harvest what
Speaker 2: grows on it and leave the rest for the wild
Speaker 2: animals to eat.
Speaker 3: The same applies for your vineyards and your olive gardens.
Speaker 2: The children of Israel were in a place where God
Speaker 2: was like, Hey, I'm gonna let it be harvest for
Speaker 2: six years, and then I need y'all to have a
Speaker 2: limit and let this land rest. You already got plenty,
Speaker 2: there's already enough. I need you to trust me and
Speaker 2: let it rest. They didn't do it. They kept picking,
Speaker 2: they kept sowing, they kept harvesting. And what God had
Speaker 2: to do is he had to let them be taken
Speaker 2: into captivity so the land could rest. My question to
Speaker 2: you is what are you still working that God is
Speaker 2: requiring rest from? The sad truth is God allowed all
Speaker 2: those people to be taken into captivity. And this is
Speaker 2: my point.
Speaker 3: Constant activity leads to captivity.
Speaker 2: If you're always doing something, something's gonna trap you up.
Speaker 2: There shouldn't be this many energy drinks that are successful.
Speaker 2: Core rage monster. Just say any kind of word and
Speaker 2: it's an energy drink. Don't give me no emails. But
Speaker 2: coffee shouldn't be making that much money.
Speaker 3: That coffee is not just because it tastes good. Stop it,
Speaker 3: stop it. You're tired.
Speaker 2: Maybe not all of it, but some of it is.
Speaker 2: I got to do this.
Speaker 3: I got to stay up.
Speaker 2: I got to do this because somewhere in my life
Speaker 2: I'm not rested. There's pills, there's adderalls, there's all kinds
Speaker 2: of stuff, there's a People do all kinds of stuff
Speaker 2: to do what they think they need to do when
Speaker 2: God's already given us a gift. And today I'm asking
Speaker 2: you to activate your faith. If you have faith to pray,
Speaker 2: you have faith to come to salvation, if you have
Speaker 2: faith to believe in miracles, if you have faith for
Speaker 2: all these other things in our Christian faith. I'm going
Speaker 2: to ask you to add one more to that. Would
Speaker 2: you please have faith to rest? Matter of fact, you
Speaker 2: might need crazy faith to do this. What would happen
Speaker 2: if our love was actually rested? How would we interact
Speaker 2: with our children, and our kids and our neighbors, all
Speaker 2: the people that we were called to help. Know Jesus,
Speaker 2: some of us can't even interact with the people around
Speaker 2: us because we're just we're so unrested. You know, when
Speaker 2: you're not rested and you got one nerve, I don't
Speaker 2: know where your nerve is, but like and then it
Speaker 2: just be like people get on your nerves. Somebody said,
Speaker 2: my last nerve.
Speaker 3: Huh the kids you made out of love?
Speaker 2: You start from my wife. She says, go talk to
Speaker 2: your father, and it's like your father the eighties are kids.
Speaker 2: Your dad will help you.
Speaker 3: WHOA. What she really does is said, your daughter needs you.
Speaker 2: I'm like, hold on your daughter, our daughter? Why? Why?
Speaker 2: It's because when you're unrested. Maybe this is my last point.
Speaker 2: Rest produces restoration. If you would rest something on the
Speaker 2: inside of you would come back a lot. If you
Speaker 2: would rest that creativity, that you better I'm having writers brought.
Speaker 2: You're tired, and it's been tired. Listen the children of Issuel,
Speaker 2: he had to let the land rest. The equivalent, if
Speaker 2: you study it out, was the amount of sabbaths they
Speaker 2: skipped that they had to let the land rest. Your
Speaker 2: body is keeping score, and so is God. I'm gonna
Speaker 2: say something that's strong. I'm gonna say something that's strong,
Speaker 2: but I need you to hear me say it. There
Speaker 2: are people that I know God had to sit down
Speaker 2: because they wouldn't sit down. You could take that however
Speaker 2: you want to take it, but you shouldn't. You that
Speaker 2: little boopy, that little ankle sprain should not have taken
Speaker 2: you out for six months.
Speaker 3: But what I'm saying is God.
Speaker 2: Was like, you will not You won't rest, you won't
Speaker 2: sit down, you won't you won't stop, you won't reflect,
Speaker 2: you won't refrain, you won't repair, you won't restore, you
Speaker 2: won't renew, you won't revive. Y'all want a revival, I
Speaker 2: bet you it'll come if we start resting then spending
Speaker 2: time with God, and in that prayer, we're not struggling
Speaker 2: to get a word from God. He just drops it
Speaker 2: because it's just the context of our relationship. He's like, oh,
Speaker 2: I'm gonna oh yeah, yeah, you've been resting all day.
Speaker 2: I know you're gonna need this tomorrow. Do you know
Speaker 2: all of the things that have been most impactful in
Speaker 2: my life has happened after I've rested the ideas the
Speaker 2: books Relationship Goals was the first series that I preached
Speaker 2: off a sabbatical. So it was crazy faith. So was
Speaker 2: everything else that ever was. I'm just like, I just
Speaker 2: feel like there's an impact that God gives. I'll give
Speaker 2: you one last example.
Speaker 3: The children of Israel.
Speaker 2: They were supposed to pick up food for six days,
Speaker 2: but on the sixth day he put double out, so
Speaker 2: on the seventh day they didn't have to work.
Speaker 3: He's that good.
Speaker 2: He said, don't try to store it. He said, if
Speaker 2: you store it and you try to harvest it, it'll rot.
Speaker 2: And some of you have been frustrated because what you've
Speaker 2: been working for has rotted. You thought it was gonna
Speaker 2: be more for you. You thought it was going to
Speaker 2: create security and abundance. And God said, that's got a
Speaker 2: rock because you're not obeying me. But if you would
Speaker 2: rest let me work, I'll double it. I'll multiply it.
Speaker 2: I'll give you what your work did not deserve.
Speaker 3: All why because it's my nature.
Speaker 2: I'm the God who does exceedingly abundantly above all you
Speaker 2: can ask, think, imagine, or come to me. All who
Speaker 2: are weary and I will give you Say it with me.
Speaker 2: Are you tired? Are you tired today? God wants to
Speaker 2: give you rest. Many of you know that this is
Speaker 2: the time of the year, if you're new at our church,
Speaker 2: that I take a time of rest.
Speaker 3: Since the beginning of our church, my.
Speaker 2: Oversight pastor, Pastor Tim Ross, has told me it's like
Speaker 2: you got to take a break every summer because I
Speaker 2: need to make sure that you don't need that like
Speaker 2: you think you need it. And I need to make
Speaker 2: sure that your family is the thing that lasts. And
Speaker 2: I've watched people give their whole life to men, industry
Speaker 2: and lights and big and all this other stuff and
Speaker 2: gain the whole world and lose their soul. And every
Speaker 2: summer there's people like, well, I'm not going to church
Speaker 2: because passion, Why ain't there? Like I'm not God. I
Speaker 2: would really like you to know I love I'm human
Speaker 2: through I love that you like how I speak and
Speaker 2: all that other stuff.
Speaker 3: But God can use a donkey, and.
Speaker 2: Sometimes that's how I feel up here. He all like,
Speaker 2: sometimes that's exactly how I feel like He can use.
Speaker 3: I'm just being real man, like.
Speaker 2: I got much rather to do some other stuff that
Speaker 2: was more low key and different things like this is
Speaker 2: what he called me to do. So I stand up
Speaker 2: here every Sunday and do it to the best of
Speaker 2: my ability. Not perfection but progression. But one thing that
Speaker 2: I am doing is I following the method. And so
Speaker 2: for the next couple of months, I'm not gonna be here.
Speaker 2: And I want to say this because most pastors hide it.
Speaker 2: They do y'all know, y'all have made pastors in America
Speaker 2: so scared to even tell you that they're not gonna
Speaker 2: be there because you gonna vote whether you come or
Speaker 2: not to hear from God if they gonna be there.
Speaker 2: I'm not a slave no more. I'm free. So I'm
Speaker 2: just gonna I'm gonna let you. I'm gonna let you
Speaker 2: know right now, I'm not gonna be here. I'm gonna
Speaker 2: be with God. I'ma be with Natalie'm gonna be with
Speaker 2: them kids. I'm gonna I'm gonna be praying every day
Speaker 2: for you. I can't take a break from that. That's
Speaker 2: my job as your pastor. I go to God on.
Speaker 3: Your behalf and ask God for wisdom. I'm asking God
Speaker 3: for what is the word of the year.
Speaker 2: Where are we going? What are you saying for us
Speaker 2: to do?
Speaker 3: Are we doing conference next year?
Speaker 2: Are we not? God? How? I'm putting everything on the table.
Speaker 2: The reason I'm telling you this is because I want
Speaker 2: you to be this free in your own life, to
Speaker 2: create some patterns that allow you and listen. I just
Speaker 2: need everybody to hear me. I'm not going to speak
Speaker 2: for other people. I'm not now working, working, working, working,
Speaker 2: because I'm not working here. I am really trying to
Speaker 2: reset my soul. And if you love me and you
Speaker 2: love this church, pray for me. This has gotten to
Speaker 2: a place that was out of my sight. This is
Speaker 2: beyond my wildest dreams and imagination.
Speaker 3: I'm just out here trying to follow God.
Speaker 2: And I believe that we are called to represent God
Speaker 2: to the lost and found for one reason, what is
Speaker 2: it transformation in Christ? And so I would just ask
Speaker 2: that you pray for me. I don't want to let
Speaker 2: you know. The one thing a good restaurant owner is
Speaker 2: never gonna do is leave you without a bomb chef.
Speaker 2: The one thing you gonna do every Sunday here is
Speaker 2: you gonna eat eat. You're not just gonna eat, you
Speaker 2: gonna you know, as you put it twice. Hey, So
Speaker 2: I just want everybody to know Pastor Charles is about
Speaker 2: to do a brand new series that's about to and
Speaker 2: then Pastor Tim Ross is gonna come behind him and
Speaker 2: do a whole series like this summer you about to
Speaker 2: ee because God can use anybody that's willing and open.
Speaker 3: What I'm asking us, let's grow. But I don't want
Speaker 3: this just to be for me.
Speaker 2: I've embraced this principle so much that there are people
Speaker 2: that leave.
Speaker 3: The church every year.
Speaker 2: I take us about a gole. No pastor, shit da
Speaker 2: da da da. Hold on, wait a minute. Pastoring is
Speaker 2: the only full contact sport without an off season. People
Speaker 2: will cuss you, fuss you, talk about you, may YouTube
Speaker 2: videos about you, and you're supposed to just get up
Speaker 2: there and pray for him. Sometimes we need time to heal.
Speaker 2: Here be held, I'm being too vulnerable. Okay. What I'm
Speaker 2: trying to tell you is this is so real that
Speaker 2: you need it in your own life. So I'm just
Speaker 2: gonna ask you, we get seven days before next Sunday.
Speaker 2: Pick a day. Pick a day that you're gonna step
Speaker 2: back from the work, step back even from social media,
Speaker 2: because some of y'all it's not even the work that
Speaker 2: exhausts you, it's the comparison that does. Comparison is exhausting.
Speaker 3: Just pick a day.
Speaker 2: Talk to your spouse about it, talk to your friend.
Speaker 2: If it starts at least coming out of your mouth,
Speaker 2: maybe that's evidence that maybe one day it'll happen. Come on,
Speaker 2: let's be honest. Some of y'all is just in your head,
Speaker 2: and some of y'all try to figure out, So how
Speaker 2: do I do it? How do I er? I got you?
Speaker 2: You're gonna have to learn how to do this. You're
Speaker 2: gonna have to listen to this message every day this week.
Speaker 2: You may be gonna have to go back and search
Speaker 2: the script. God, give me a revelation, North, South, give
Speaker 2: me a revelation so that I don't I don't break
Speaker 2: this standing all over this building. The last thing I
Speaker 2: want to say to you, just because I don't want
Speaker 2: you to get too spiritual and not realize the practical
Speaker 2: I've tried to be practical through this whole message. But
Speaker 2: I want you to hear this last thing. Rest is
Speaker 2: good and you can have recreation. Did you hear what
Speaker 2: I just said. I don't want you in a room
Speaker 2: with a candle for twenty four hours, No hear me?
Speaker 2: Because I like, go do something recreational, Go fishing, Go
Speaker 2: take a walk in nature, go shopping within your means. Also,
Speaker 2: I want to give you this because this is just
Speaker 2: my heart as I do this, because people are about
Speaker 2: to try to do this and I want I don't
Speaker 2: want you to. I want to give you all that
Speaker 2: I can right now. Also, if it starts off as
Speaker 2: rest and then it becomes work, it's no longer rest.
Speaker 2: Me and Charles talk about it all the time. When
Speaker 2: we start doing stuff. It might start off as rest
Speaker 2: and then we start dialing it in. He became he
Speaker 2: started riding a bike, like what three or four years ago.
Speaker 2: Three years ago he started riding bikes, and then now
Speaker 2: he's like a professional bike rider. Like he'd be coming
Speaker 2: to the house and fool.
Speaker 3: Like gear and stuff. And I was like, what is this?
Speaker 2: And he said it used to be RESTful, but then
Speaker 2: it turned into work, So it no longer doesn't mean
Speaker 2: he can't do it. It no longer can be considered
Speaker 2: a part of his sabbath unless he's doing it on
Speaker 2: a huffy and the only way if it's a pink hoffy.
Speaker 2: I know you're not going hard, okay, cause sometimes golf
Speaker 2: might start off RESTful and then you're in a competition.
Speaker 3: Cooking, mate, start.
Speaker 2: Off rest you know what I'm gonna bake today, and
Speaker 2: it's like the rest of the thing, the red velvement.
Speaker 2: It's not right. No, you stressed. The reason I'm saying
Speaker 2: this is because watch this. If you lie to yourself,
Speaker 2: you'll never live a right life. I'll never be there
Speaker 2: when you're doing what you're considering rest. You can convince
Speaker 2: your husband or your wife as RESTful, but you will
Speaker 2: be the only one that knows.
Speaker 3: Don't lie to you. Don't lie to your own soul.
Speaker 2: Are you tired?
Speaker 3: Because God wants to give you rest.
Speaker 2: If you need rest in an area of your life,
Speaker 2: whether you're in this room or online, would you just
Speaker 2: lift your hands. I want to pray for you. Thank you, Lord,
Speaker 2: Thank you, I thank you Lord God.
Speaker 3: Today here we all are.
Speaker 2: Saying that we need your rest rest for our souls. Today, Father,
Speaker 2: many of us are admitting we're tired, tired of how
Speaker 2: it's been done, tired of how we've had the function,
Speaker 2: tired of how we've chosen to live. And today we
Speaker 2: are coming to you and we're saying we want to
Speaker 2: do it your way.
Speaker 3: If you gave us a day of rest a sabbath as.
Speaker 2: A gift, today, we're going to unwrap that gift, and
Speaker 2: we're gonna unwrap it every week. I'm praying for practical
Speaker 2: wisdom of how this applies to each one of our lives. God,
Speaker 2: for those of us who need to set boundaries, I
Speaker 2: thank you that you're giving us courage right now. For
Speaker 2: those of us who need to even figure out language, Father,
Speaker 2: to be able to renegotiate things that we've already put
Speaker 2: in place or contractor or said that we're gonna do. Father,
Speaker 2: I thank you that when you see your heart, you
Speaker 2: begin to work on the hearts of man.
Speaker 3: So today here we are, Father.
Speaker 2: Many of us. The reason why we're working so hard
Speaker 2: is because we're trying to make ends meet. And today, God,
Speaker 2: I'm asking you that you would give us the ability
Speaker 2: to produce wealth but not have to sacrifice our health. God,
Speaker 2: I'm asking you to help us as a body to
Speaker 2: embrace your principles that are counter cultural. God, I'm gonna
Speaker 2: go to Instagram today and ain't nobody gonna be telling
Speaker 2: me the rest. But your word has told me that
Speaker 2: this is an ancient practice that produces eternal results. So
Speaker 2: today I trust you. Would you calm the inner critic
Speaker 2: in me that has judged others for not working hard enough?
Speaker 2: Would you? Would you calm Father, and even forgive the
Speaker 2: inner Pharisee and Sadducey that have literally mocked other people,
Speaker 2: Father God for doing too much? Today, Father God, I'm asking.
Speaker 2: I'm coming humbly asking you to give me grace to
Speaker 2: start a new pattern. Let my family benefit because of
Speaker 2: this new pattern. Let my soul be refreshed because of
Speaker 2: this new pattern. I trust you enough, and I have
Speaker 2: faith enough to rest. Thank you, Lord. I believe God's
Speaker 2: doing a work on the inside of some of you
Speaker 2: right now that won't be undone by hurry. I can
Speaker 2: even hear the single moms or even the people with
Speaker 2: young children.
Speaker 3: Like, how am I gonna do this? God's gonna give
Speaker 3: you wisdom. He's gonna give you.
Speaker 2: Wisdom on nap times are gonna turn into a place
Speaker 2: of rest for you. God's gonna give you some people
Speaker 2: that can watch the children for a few hours to
Speaker 2: be able to do so. I'm telling y'all, and some
Speaker 2: of y'all are the answers to people's prayers. Some of
Speaker 2: you been like, I don't know what to do with
Speaker 2: my time, and God's gonna tell you. Go get your nephews.
Speaker 2: Go get your nephews from your sister for a little bit,
Speaker 2: take them out, take them to the park. I just
Speaker 2: feel like God's gonna give give all of us a
Speaker 2: peace to play. And how we all are sustained here
Speaker 2: in this room under the sound of my voice, and
Speaker 2: you're weary of life. I want you to know this.
Speaker 2: I was almost gonna make it my last point, but
Speaker 2: I didn't give you nine last points already, So I'm
Speaker 2: about to go on sabbatica. God bless you. Rest is
Speaker 2: a person. He said, come to me, all who are weary,
Speaker 2: and I'm.
Speaker 3: Gonna give you me. I'm gonna give you rest.
Speaker 2: I'm rest. I'm peace in the middle of the storm.
Speaker 2: I'm the way out of no way. I'm the corner stone.
Speaker 2: I'm the prince of peace. Rest has.
Speaker 3: Jesus.
Speaker 6: If you need rest, You actually need Jesus.
Speaker 3: This is why you can't get it in nothing else.
Speaker 2: This is why when people try to make false gods
Speaker 2: and all that stuff, they live their life working. Because
Speaker 2: he said, I am rest. I'm the one that makes
Speaker 2: you stop working. I'm the eternal sacrifice. Listen to his language.
Speaker 2: It is finished. Think about the language Jesus talks about.
Speaker 2: He's like, I'm the one that finished it all.
Speaker 3: So you could rest.
Speaker 2: All you have to do is receive me. So today,
Speaker 2: your first step to walking into rest, if you're tired
Speaker 2: of how life has treated you and what you've been
Speaker 2: going through, is to accept Jesus. He is rest for
Speaker 2: your soul, not just today, eternally your name will be
Speaker 2: written in the Lamb's Book of life. Pastor Mike, how
Speaker 2: can you do this? Because he takes people like me
Speaker 2: who are liars and manipulators and addicted to pornography. I
Speaker 2: have all kinds of bad stuff in my heart, and
Speaker 2: God said I'll take you if you'll receive me. And
Speaker 2: I gave him all my heart and he helped me
Speaker 2: change my habits. Today, if that's you in this room
Speaker 2: or watching online, I don't care how you got here today,
Speaker 2: is the day of salvation, and I need the church
Speaker 2: to begin to pray because somebody's eternity is in the
Speaker 2: balance right now. You may have been walking around God
Speaker 2: for a long time, but he wants you to walk
Speaker 2: with him today. I want to introduce you to rest.
Speaker 2: I want to introduce you to Jesus and just a moment,
Speaker 2: I'm about to pray, and if you want to be
Speaker 2: included in this prayer, I just want you to slip
Speaker 2: your hand up on encounter through your saying pasta. I
Speaker 2: want to be included in that prayer. I want to
Speaker 2: receive Jesus as my personal Lord. And save you're online YouTube,
Speaker 2: if you're watching on the Panda app, right here in
Speaker 2: this room, everybody's included in this. If that's you, I
Speaker 2: want you to make that decision. And it's the whole
Speaker 2: reason that Jesus came so that you could have freedom
Speaker 2: in your own life. One, you're making the greatest decision
Speaker 2: of your life. Two, your name is about to be
Speaker 2: written in the Lamb's Book of life. You want to
Speaker 2: receive Jesus right now. Three, shoot your hand up in
Speaker 2: the air all over this place.
Speaker 3: I want to see you. I see you, I see you.
Speaker 3: I see you, I see you. I'm so proud of you.
Speaker 3: I see you, I see you. I see you. And
Speaker 3: more than that, God sees you.
Speaker 2: All the way in the back Transformation Church, can we
Speaker 2: give God praise right there? Hear me? Hear me. We're
Speaker 2: leaving in two minutes for that Transformation Church. Nobody prays alone.
Speaker 2: So for the benefit of those who are coming to Christ.
Speaker 2: What everybody, just lift your hands and pray this prayer
Speaker 2: with me. Say God, thank you for being my place
Speaker 2: of rest today. I come to you.
Speaker 3: I believe you lived, you died, and you rose again
Speaker 3: just for me.
Speaker 2: Here's my life. I repent of the old way, and
Speaker 2: I turned to you. Change me, renew me, Transform me
Speaker 2: yours forever in Jesus' name.
Speaker 3: Amen. Hey, all over.
Speaker 6: This building, can we join heaven and rejoicing for gold
Speaker 6: who have just joined the family.
Speaker 2: Welcome to the Kingdom Family. If you just made that decision.
Speaker 2: As the altar workers come, I want you to text
Speaker 2: save to A two eight two A two. If you're
Speaker 2: watching online, that's for you too. Our team wants to
Speaker 2: send you some resources to help you walk this out.
Speaker 2: Remember it is progression, not perfection. And if you're in
Speaker 2: this room and you need prayer. A worship team is
Speaker 2: about to sing one more song as people are going
Speaker 2: to grab their kids and leaving, and I want you
Speaker 2: if you need prayer in this room, I want you
Speaker 2: to come get prayer. There are people that need agreement
Speaker 2: right now for things that are going on, a.
Speaker 3: Loved one, a child, hard time.
Speaker 2: You might need revelation and this resting and you need
Speaker 2: somebody to agree with you. Come up here for prayer,
Speaker 2: and we want God to do the work that only
Speaker 2: he can do. I am so excited that this is
Speaker 2: my church and as you go through this summer, I
Speaker 2: just wanted to want you to know I'm praying for
Speaker 2: you and I believe the best is yet to come
Speaker 2: for us. Father, thank you for your people, Bless them
Speaker 2: to have a RESTful week.
Speaker 3: And we declare, Father.
Speaker 2: God, that you will be lifted up as we live
Speaker 2: this life of abundance so people can know you and
Speaker 2: be transformed in Christ in Jesus' name, everybody say we agree,
Speaker 2: We expect amen go out and.
Speaker 3: Live a transform life.
Speaker 2: I love you so much, thank you for joining us today.
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