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that today I’m gonna talk about
something that I’ve never ever heard
talked about in church that I was in
okay um this is a topic in a subject
that most people they don’t even think
it’s worth mentioning but the Bible is
very strong and very clear about it and
um I thought today since I can preach
whatever I want I was praying God said I
want you to talk about I was like you
sure you want me to talk about he’s like
I want you to talk about it because they
need to hear it and I was like but what
if they don’t like it he said I’m
telling you they need to hear it so I’m
gonna come to you with the message about
rest so y’all didn’t know what do y’all
didn’t know what was about to happen
they like doesn’t like crazy he’s still
getting saved rest and the title of
today’s message is take a day off now
somebody just got a quickening right
there but um if your boss came to you
and just told you hey I know that you’ve
been working really hard and things have
been happening you or if you’re in
school or whatever you’re doing I see
how hard you’re working hey listen I
want to make a deal with you for the
rest of this year I want you to take one
day off and I’m gonna still pay you and
imma still give you the grade and I’m
gonna steal um act like you were here
but I don’t want you to come in I don’t
want you to do any school work I don’t
want you to email anybody I want you to
take the day off and I want you to
rejuvenate there are people in here
that would beat people up to have that
happen in their job situation there are
people in here that would say sign me up
for that today but the saddest part that
I’m finding is in the body of Christ
there are more burnt out people more
people who are workaholics there are
some people who are lazy and they don’t
get the results that they want to see so
they work in other ways to manipulate
and do all these other things and
God was telling me he said Michael my
people need to understand that I really
am a good father
and we’re talking about throwback Sunday
I want to throw it back to God’s
original intent for every person that
came into this world was to work for six
days and to rest one day a week and some
of y’all is like you don’t know my bills
pass the mic you don’t know this debt
that I have you don’t know the kids that
I have been given yes he does he knows
everything about you but it’s a
principle that most of us have not taken
to heart we’re out here trying to
provide for ourselves when God tells us
he will provide for us it really becomes
a trust issue and I’m gonna I’m gonna
walk us through the word cuz some of
y’all are like rest I don’t even think
it’s that important even worked that
hard I don’t even know what’s happening
but I’m going to help you understand one
of the greatest principles that God ever
gave and I want you by the end of this
message to have an understanding or at
least an appetite to be able to work
very hard for six days a week and rest
one day a week to honor God and so I
want us to go right now to Exodus
chapter 20 Exodus chapter 20 and I’m
going to start remember I’m going to
start reading this scripture and this is
um God giving on the children of Israel
Commandments and I want us to look at
this it says remember to observe the
Sabbath day by keeping it holy which
means set apart you have six days each
week for your emails your hair styling
your investing making deals or ordinary
work whatever your work is you have six
days a week to do that but the seventh
day is the Sabbath everybody say Sabbath
it’s the Sabbath day of what rest and
it’s dedicated to the Lord that were
dedicated means devoted that means even
if I want to do something I take away my
vote I have dedicated or devoted this to
God it says on that day no one in your
household may do any work this in
you your sons your daughters your male
and female service your livestock how
can cows work but he said take tell your
Cal tell your help for take a day off
she said Moo again anyway I’m sorry I
couldn’t help it it’s this sweater it’s
this dad sweater help me okay
not your livestock any foreigners living
among you for in six days listen the
Lord made the heavens the earth the Seas
and everything in them but on the
seventh day what did God do I want you
to see the power in that statement on
the seventh day the god of the universe
did what he rested now where did the
concept of a seven days even come from
it came from if he wanted to he could
have done one through six and started it
over again but he wanted to paint an
eternal picture of what it looks like to
live a life that is balanced and so he
worked six days in the last day he
pulled out his heavenly lazyboy kicked
that mug up and he did what rested okay
so I want you to see this picture cuz we
read this stuff in the Bible but we just
go right past it they said he rested and
that’s why the Lord blessed the Sabbath
there’s a blessing when you rest and he
set it apart to be holy so the first
point today is um it’s a commandment
like when God started dealing with me on
this because I’m one that likes to work
listen I don’t like any wasted time I
like to make sure things are moving
forward my language is a mover in my
life language so if I don’t see progress
happening on something I start twitching
I start painting stuff I started I start
doing stuff I’ll break something if it
ain’t moving if it don’t look like it’s
going for I’ll break it and then I’ll
fix it again I’m a mover I want to see
progress happening okay um but in my
life when God started to deal with me
with this I became a father a pastor I
did a house remodel I did all this stuff
in the same year and God started dealing
with me he said my
you gotta rest I said God what about the
call of God on my life you call me to
the nation’s you’re coming to the world
I got these kids to provide for I got
all of this stuff to do and he’s like
yeah but you need to rest if I could be
honest I didn’t know how to deal with
that how do i reconcile all of this
potential all of these great things
you’ve called me to and you telling me
not to do anything today how how is that
gonna work he said Michael when you
don’t work I go to work and it hit me
like a ton of bricks he said Michael
that’s why I made it out of the top ten
things that I could tell people the
children of Israel to live their life
right the fourth thing was to honor a
day of rest the understand this was a
commandment this was not a said you know
what you do look a little baggy under
the eyes you should take you should take
today off he said if you want to live
the life that I’ve called you to I want
you to make it a part of the way you
live to take a day off and rest now if I
asked everybody everybody else would
agree that the other nine Commandments
that we should really be intentional on
like most believers believe that thou
shalt not have any other gods before
before him we believe that we believe
that we shouldn’t make any idols we
believe that we shouldn’t take God’s
name in vain we believe that we should
honor our fathers and mothers we believe
that we should not murder
we should not commit adultery we should
not steal we should not lie and we
should not covet like if somebody came
up to you and said should I do this
you’d like no no you shouldn’t do that
but if somebody came up to you and said
should I take a day arrest God holds a
day of rest at the same level of murder
I didn’t say it somebody else like did
you just when when we violate this
moment of of taking our works out of it
and letting God work he said that is
like
you sleeping with somebody else’s
husband or wife now the Word of God is
strong and many of us have been working
all it’s from the time we could work
honestly for some of us it’s
generational I remember one of my
uncle’s pulling me aside and he tried to
use race and all this other stuff as as
as a um an encouragement but he said son
you black said duh uncle he said but
this world out here they don’t want you
to succeed
you got to work two times as hard you
got to do this is this you got to do
this if they do it like this you got to
do it ten times better just to get
recognized and I started to internalize
some of those principles and some of
those things so if somebody would do one
mile I’d do two miles out of shape and
all about the dime if somebody would if
somebody would do do something at a
level I’ll make sure I do it more and it
became something that was deep-seated in
competition and security and and and and
insecurities really and but I thought
that if I just weren’t Tamura I could
get to the place that I needed to get
but I started to find out in life man
there are some people that weren’t
working even half as hard and they ended
up in positions and there was some
people and I said hold on this is not
working
meet me just working and working and
working he said because for my children
that’s not how I set it up he I didn’t
set you up to put yourself in position
remember what the word says elevation
comes from God and so he’s trying to
work into us generationally a principle
that will allow us to trust God and
that’s the first thing I want you to
understand that it is a commandment and
I want to say this because some people
like yes it was under the law the this
was this was under law and we are not
saved because of laws we are saved by
grace through faith okay I need
everybody understand that but these were
principles that if you abide by them
they will have good outcomes for you and
if you don’t abide by them they’ll have
bad
outcomes for you let me just help you if
you go and you steal something from a
department store and you walk out
there’s consequences for that okay if
you go and you lie when you’re supposed
to be telling the truth under oath the
thing in the situation can have nothing
to do with you but if you lie about it
there are consequences for that the same
thing is if you live your life working
every day of week there are consequences
for it these are principles that God has
placed in place to make us live the best
life that we could ever live so I want
you to see it because some of y’all just
looking at me like is that what you
wanted to tell us today Pastor Mike
check this out go to Exodus chapter 16
because there are reasons God wants you
to rest and I want to tell you some of
them the first reason that God wants you
to rest is it gives God the opportunity
to provide for you supernaturally when
you take that one day and say God I’m
gonna I’m not going to put my hands to
this I’m gonna trust you with it it
gives God the opportunity to provide
supernaturally look at Exodus 16 verse
23 this is God talking through to Moses
he said this is what the Lord commands
he said tomorrow will be a day of
everybody say this next two words with
me complete tomorrow will be a day of
complete rest a holy Sabbath day set
apart for the Lord it’s set apart for
the Lord
so bake boil and fry as much as you want
today I added that fry in there y’all
saw that real quick a bacon boil pray
for me and set aside what is left for
tomorrow it says so they put some aside
until morning just as Moses had
commanded and in the morning the
leftover food was wholesome and good
without maggots and odor I want you to
understand this is when God is providing
manna from heaven there in the
wilderness and every day he’s providing
this porridge for them and that’s what I
was told when I was a kid but just
something to eat he was giving them and
it’s literally manna means what is it so
didn’t even know what it was but it was
enough to nourish them but people
started getting greedy and they tried to
store it up for the next day so the
manor would come down they would take it
and they would try to put it away but
every day that they put it away the next
morning it would be rotted there would
be maggots and worms and pesticides in
it and so what God is saying right here
is he saying
I didn’t provide every other day he said
but if you take the Sabbath if you take
a day off on the sixth day I’m going to
provide double so that you do not have
to work on the seventh day I want you to
hear this principle right here it said
Moses had commanded them in the morning
that leftover food was good without
maggots and odor so they was like oh
shoot this works
verse 25 Moses said eat this food today
for today is the Sabbath day dedicated
to the Lord now watch this there will be
no food on the ground today you may
gather the food for six days but the
seventh day is the Sabbath there will be
no food on that day on the ground let me
say it another way there will be no
provision on the day that is supposed to
honor God with rest so what does that
look like in my life Pastor Mike we’re
working we grinding and God’s providing
and all this other stuff he said take
this next day off cuz if you don’t you
out there by yourself
there will be no provision for you on
this day and and some people are saying
person like that’s that’s that’s
extremely I want you to see this in the
word this is a commandment that God is
so serious about there will be no
provision for you that means all the
emails are sin all the favor I had all
week the business deals that were being
made all the things I was trying to do
God said I’m not working with you on
this day cuz you’re not supposed to be
working on this day you’re supposed to
be resting and you’re supposed to be
honoring me now if we look at our lives
how many of our lives are really like
that consistently where we are resting
and honoring God with our lives look at
it I want you to
see it verse 28 it said the Lord asked
Moses know verse 27 some of the people
like some of the people here went out
anyway on the seventh day but they found
no provision this will be the testimony
of your life
I’m so tired Pastor Mike I’m just always
grinding I’m just always working I’m
just all have you rested lately or have
you been trying to work where there’s no
provision have you intentionally set up
your schedule and talked to your job and
talked to your family and talk to your
kids to be in a place where you’re able
to honor God and I’m not talking about
just being a lazy bum and just saying
the Lord has called me to Sabbath I have
to have my Sabbath every day I mean some
of y’all want to be taken sabbath four
days a week that’s not God okay but many
of us I’m talking to those who do work
I’m talking to those who do do whatever
God has called you to do okay one of
those days has to be taken off to honor
God he said God got man
verse 29 for verse 28 the Lord asked
Moses how long will these people refuse
to obey my commands and instructions
until 2017 till today
it said they must realize and that’s
what I want you to hear that you must
realize that the Sabbath is the Lord’s
gift to you I wish God could just bless
me with something he said I did I
blessed you with the day off that
whatever you do on that day I’ll provide
for I bless you some of y’all working
two and three jobs no time with your
family your kids will pass them like I
got in this dead and I’m trying to get
this debt off me and I’m trying to get
this and God said this would be even a
bigger testimony that you honored me one
of those days and I wiped out the dead
but what’s a better testimony that you
worked your way into a coma
and you work your way into high blood
pressure and you work your way into
diabetes because you eating fast food
because you’re working all times a night
and and and then I had to come save you
or I took the time to stop and say God
you know my situation
you know but I’m going to honor you and
today I’m going to do nothing except
spend time with my family
watch this Netflix and shield do you
understand what I’m saying okay and
that’s what God is asking us but somehow
this is not spiritual to you but we’ll
be at the hospital playing for cardiac
arrest no no it happened I have met
people who work themselves into sickness
does anybody know anybody who’s worked
themselves into sick okay God said that
should never be the case for any of my
children I see people even in school
that they’re doing so much work and
studying and you’ve taken on everything
and you’re the president of this club
and the president of that club and and
the CEO of this club and you don’t even
have time to be able to wash your body
properly do you hear what I’m saying you
need to take a break take a day off cuz
this is what God wants to give you as a
gift he said this is the Lord’s gift to
you that is why he gives you two days of
provision or two days of supply so on
the sixth day there’ll be enough for two
days on the Sabbath day you must eat
stay in your place do not go out don’t
pick up any food on the seventh day so
that so the people did not gather any
food on the seventh day um this is this
is the thing God told me he said Michael
when you work seven days we I’m starting
a church I’m the pastor of a two and a
half year old church we got a big baby
here like it’s a toddler and and I I
want to see it full grown I want to see
the parking lots full every Sunday I
want to see multiple campus and there’s
always something to do always something
to do and God told me as I was running
about a year and a half ago and trying
to do everything I was
doing everything yeah I was doing
everything I was trying to do everything
um he told me he said you’re robbing me
of the opportunity to be your God I said
what do you mean I thought you said Lord
I’m supposed to to use what you given me
the works of my hands are gonna produce
and he said yeah but you’re doing too
much
you ever had somebody around I was just
doing too much like stop just ah I felt
like that’s what the conversation me and
I had stopped Michael you’re doing too
much
he said you’re robbing me of the
opportunity to supernaturally provide
for you my question to you is are you
doing too much are you robbing god of
the opportunity to supernaturally
provide for you I think of this like
tithing when you honor God with the 10%
he’s asking for one day out of six out
of seven so you got six he gets one and
it benefits you it is not even like he’s
saying take this day come to the altar
pray all day then get up worship in a
circle for six hours
get back down go pray for 16 lost people
he said rest like this is not even a
spiritual ritual that you have to do
this is refreshment for your soul this
is recreation or recreation what do you
do one time a week that recreates you
and get you ready for this next week see
we some of y’all the things you choose
as recreation stress you out more than
your job
I don’t told my kids we all go in a big
splash this week and I can’t stay and
look you germs oh my god okay like you
you are you’re devastated because what
you do for recreation stresses you out
more than your work God so what are you
doing every week that recreates you that
brings life to you it could be playing
the guitar and you’re horrible right now
but every time you hear that ring rang
something in you just gets peaceful and
rely and you spend six hours early
nobody else can take it that’s going to
be somebody else’s Sabbath somewhere
else you understand your husband may
need to leave the house but what are you
doing every day that’s helping you
recreate because God told us that we’re
going to have to work we’re going to
have to overcome things we’re going to
have to go Unferth than we’ve ever been
but he said what’s recreating somebody
say well I don’t have that time Pastor
Mike you don’t know what I’ve been
called to God can do more in six days
than you can do in seven if you don’t
believe me look around everything that
God created he did it in six days and
then he took a day of rest and then he
packaged it up and gave it to you as a
gift and many of us are leaving the gift
that God has given us unopened and today
I just wanted to come and remind you
take a day off person like that is the
whole message yep
take a day off but because if you do
then God will start intervening in your
situation supernaturally there’s only
there’s only one captain spot in the day
of Sabbath and he said either you can
take it or I can take it and I’m
encouraging you to give God the
opportunity to be God in your life stop
trying to be the savior he already sent
one and it’s a trust issue because if
you don’t trust God then you’re going to
do it yourself but if you trust God
you’re gonna say I might have to take my
hands off this one well my son’s
graduation is coming up and god I’m
trying to pay this house off and you
know the wedding is coming up and God
said let me be God I’ll be the one that
will let the venue come to you and say
you know what we’re just like you and
that five thousand dollars we were going
to charge all those other people we gave
it to you for free see but you you well
that ain’t never happen to me because
you have not let God be God
the favor of God is not fair let me help
everybody understand this that that it’s
it’s not about fairness it’s about
relationship let me help you my kids and
yo kids there’s no comparison affair
when it comes to my house because of the
relationship we have I didn’t tell
everybody nobody’s getting any more
juice boxes and gummy snacks nobody but
if my daughter comes to me and says dad
just one more time I took out what you
told me to and I helped you with the
painting that can I have it’s not about
to be fan cuz that’s my child
she knows her daddy she knows how to
look at me and I’m don’t tell you mama
why come favor it’s not fair and
everybody’s like well God’s just
supposed to be but when you have
relationship with him when you follow
and honor his commands when you do what
he said things happen for you and I’m
trying to let people know that because
some of y’all mad right now and other
people excited who’ve experienced God’s
favor on your life
some of y’all mad like that is not right
start fouls get a relationship it works
out completely differently for you and
so I’m encouraging everybody um when you
trust God amazing thing happened I was
doing some research on fast food
restaurants and um most fast food chains
okay so McDonald’s Burger King talked
about all those stuff they’re open seven
days a week
most of them 24 hours the average
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restaurant fast-food grosses a million
dollars a year okay amid the average so
some are a little higher some are low
lower but the average gross is a million
dollars a year chick-fil-a
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is that what I need to say every Sunday
let’s give God a chick-fil-a praise Wow
lord help your church okay now watch
chick-fil-a is open six days a week okay
6:00 a.m. to 10:00 p.m. so not 24 hours
okay and the the founder truett Cathy
when he started in 1946 he started
chick-fil-a by saying we’re not going to
make our staff work on Sunday and you
can read it on all their bylaws and
everything like to give a day of rest
and worship since 1946
rest and what the average chick-fil-a
store grosses 5 million so 1 million
working 24 hours a day seven days a week
five million six days a week six to ten
when you honor God maybe this side will
get when you honor when you honor it
gives him the opportunity to work super
not there’s no way to even describe it
supernatural so I want you to start
honoring God with the Sabbath okay let
me give you another understanding of
this um the Ten Commandments are in two
places they’re there in Exodus in there
in Deuteronomy 5 I want you to see it in
Deuteronomy 5 and verse 15 it says
remember that you were once slaves this
is why we take the day of rest remember
you once were slaves in Egypt he’s
talking the children of Israel but the
Lord your God brought you out with the
strong hand and a powerful arm that is
why the Lord God has commanded you to
rest on let me help you understand this
when you’re a slave you get no days off
a slave has to do more for less and if
we be honest that’s how some of us feel
six days a week at whatever job we were
your slave to your schedule your slave
to your time your slave to meeting just
like whatever but God says um remember
that you’re you’re not your own that
I’ve given you a gift
see back in those days the only people
who got a day of rest were the elite or
the Royals and I want you to know my
daddy is the king of kings and he calls
all of us joint heirs with so we have to
do this and take a day off because it
puts us in the position to remember you
know what I want was a slave to sin I
once was bound to those things I once
was a slave to money see some of you
would do anything for money if I if I
say I’ll give you $1,000 to some of
y’all’s limit to that we couldn’t even
air it on because we’ve been so
conditioned that the things of this
world Mammon money all of these things
are going to promise us what God’s
already given us he said let me provide
for you and take this day of rest let me
help you understand it even further um
when you rest it gives us the
opportunity to be rested and refreshed
some of believers are the most
frustrated when you meet them overworked
don’t have time to it you know it was
funny I asked somebody when is the last
time you witnessed to somebody and the
person’s response was I don’t have time
to witness now if we be honest some of
us are that busy that God will bring
somebody right in our path and we don’t
have five minutes to share our testimony
with
we we don’t have we don’t have the
energy the effort I got too much going
on in my own situation
I don’t have time to how are we going to
reach the world in God’s bring he said
you can’t even think about it if you’re
not rested you can’t even you can’t even
do anything that that I’ve called you to
do if you’re not thinking about it
properly so I want you to look at this
we we rest because it gives us the
opportunity to rest and refresh Exodus
chapter 31 verse 14 I’m giving you a lot
of scripture because some of you don’t
believe this is in the word and this is
God’s Word for your life Exodus 31 verse
14 it says you must keep the Sabbath day
he keeps saying the same thing keep the
day of rest because I know some of y’all
not going to get this keep the Sabbath
day for it is holy day for you
anyone who desecrates it must be put to
death what anyone who works on the day
will be cut off from the community you
have six days each week for your
ordinary work but the seventh day must
be the Sabbath day of complete rest a
holy day dedicated to the Lord anyone
who works on the Sabbath must be put to
death
thank you gonna say it twice the people
of Israel must keep the Sabbath day by
observing it from generation to
generation this is a covenant obligated
for all time it is a permanent sign of
God’s covenant with his people of Israel
so I said well I’m not the people of
Israel go to Roman’s 11 anybody who
comes into the faith we are in grafted
into the children of Israel we are all
God’s people Jews and Gentiles you can
go and study that at another time it’s
there for in six days the Lord made the
heaven in the earth
but the seventh day he stopped work he
stopped working and was what’s that last
word now this is hard for some people to
comprehend because how can all knowing
all powerful Almighty God be refreshed
many theologians have they had a hard
time with this but I studied it because
you know it’s God how are you
refresh you are I am you’re everything
that and it’s so funny because when I
looked up this word in the original
language refreshed means breath or to
take breath or to breathe in okay and so
I started to think about it and for for
six days God was creating how does God
create by speaking what does it take to
speak so you’re breathing out let there
be light
I just want to over exaggerate so you
can see for six days he was breathing
out and then on the sixth day he created
man and he breathed the breath of life
into he created for six days and on the
seventh day what did he do he was
refreshing he breathed in and do you
know what he was saying he said and it’s
good I want you to get this picture
because what God is saying is he wants
you to expend your energy he wants you
to work hard he wants you to be
productive he wants you to breathe out
but on one day a week I’m giving you the
gift of breathing in have you ever heard
the saying that says let me catch my
breath that’s how most of us live our
life hello my kids just pooped on
himself did that job this is happening
it that’s happening we’re living our
life winded and God saying I’m giving
you six days to put it all out there but
I’m giving you the gift of one day a
week to breathe in and and for the
children of Israel was beautiful because
this was the biggest witnessing tool
that they had so when they were doing
trade with other other countries and
different things there was no
civilization that did this so for the
Jewish community Sabbath was on Saturday
and so they would be like hey
bring it up to modern times hey I’ma be
in town I’m gonna give up I’ll be in
town on Saturday we can finish up the
deal then and the email and bagans be
sorry we don’t work on Saturday you
don’t work on Saturday I’ma be in town
he said yeah we honored the Sabbath
what’s the Sabbath they’ve never heard
of it before like many people that you
work with will never have heard of
honoring God with one day a week and say
yeah um this is when um god of the
universe God God who you never heard of
God yeah he created us not a big bang
and and and he um and and he took six
days and created and he asked us to
observe on the seventh day he was like
okay so then we can do it on Monday huh
yeah but you can still come on Saturday
so we can talk about this God that I
told you about and they used it as a
tool to witness to people what I’m
saying is there will be people who are
in your company that’ll be like I don’t
see you doing the extra stuff that all
of us are doing and how are your numbers
better than us how did you just get
Employee of the Year and we it’s going
to be an opportunity for you to witness
God wants you to look good cuz then it
brings people to the kingdom so God
y’all there is no better deal did he
want you to rest he wants to prosper you
he wants you to be the best and he just
want you to tell people how it happened
honor God and he took this song that is
like not even better than all these
other songs and he took it to number one
on the charts why cuz I honored God what
are you workin for that God can already
provide well what what are you toiling
for that God says if you would just
trust me if you just trust me with it
I’ll do it in your life um now I do need
to address in this last five minutes of
the message that um if you are a bum or
lazy
I mean I just have to address it because
you know this generation is a little
different we work a job for five days
and like I didn’t like the manager like
it’s it’s just it’s just real come on
now can we be real
we have no longevity we don’t even want
contracts for our phones cuz I might
switch up on you you know I’m saying
like okay so um so if you’re a bum or
you’re lazy there’s clear things in the
word about that too so I’m not gonna
spend my message talking on it but I
want you to go check out proverbs 6 and
9 I’m gonna read it from the message
version so that you can just hear the
Spirit of the Lord he said you lazy fool
[Applause]
look at the ant he said I you so lazy
I’m gonna take you to the lowest level
strongest worker that I created okay I’m
gonna give you a lesson from the ant
look at the end and watch closely come
here fool no I’m just that’s what he
said it said let it teach you a thing or
two nobody has to tell it what to do if
you’re if you’re living and you’re
waiting for somebody to tell you what to
do you need to take a lesson from the
end that’s a whole nother message take a
lesson on my preset next week it says
all summer when it’s sun’s out guns out
and everybody’s doing all summer it
stores up food at harvest it stockpiles
provisions so how long are you going to
laze around doing nothing
how long before you get out of bed a nap
here unlap there a day off here a day
off there see it didn’t say a day off is
there a day off here and a day are you
doing it every time you can it says sit
back take it easy do you know what comes
next
just this you can look forward to a
dirt-poor life poverty will be your
permanent houseguest ouch that’s all I’m
gonna say about that so I’m not talking
about people who are lazy here keep
taking days off I’m talking about people
who are putting what God’s placed in
their hand and they’re really working it
it may not be the job you want forever
but varkids
it may it may not be what you purposed
to do but work it and then God gives you
a gift of the Sabbath and I just want to
help this is a pet peeve 30 more seconds
on this ladies on this Father’s Day if
you are dating a man that doesn’t have a
job no hear me hear me I understand a
brother that’s all has come up but it
needs to be on paper he does it don’t
don’t you cannot be with a dude that
does not have a vision or a plan look
maybe I shouldn’t do this on Father’s
Day
but many of you have babies by these
fathers okay hear me hear me what I’m
saying this is a sure sign and you’re
perpetuating the the cancer in our
society when you take them to the mall
and buy him Jordans somebody just did
that last week when you when you when
you pay his car payment and and aunt
y’all I’ve been looking every day I’ve
been online every day get a rank get a
lot more I promise you there’s some
grannies that will take you and allow
you everybody I got a record that does
not stop people from working here I’m
just I’m trying to help you and I’m just
telling you because if you don’t do this
ladies cuz you own it you got your own
car you got our own car you guys our own
weapon that okay you’re independent I
got you but if you if you keep this
going he never gets an opportunity to
become the man of God that he’s supposed
to be so so look you see how few claps
that people is like oh my god I got to
break up with your own Thank You paestum
ah
some people just gotta fend it you
posted him on your wall today that’s my
baby daddy he still ain’t put a ring on
it it’s been 17 years wait am i doing up
here what am I talking about
timeout okay he liked it that much he
should have put a ring on it I saw I’m
saying who rest
I I just I want to help you live okay
cuz sometimes we can get it confused and
all he doing is taking Sabbath and you
out here work that’s not that’s not what
it is God get Genesis 2:15 you’d go
check it later God gave Adam a job
before he gave them Eve I don’t know why
Laura okay I just save somebody from
something okay
oh so so observing this Sabbath or
taking this day of rest is is is really
serious to God and that’s my next point
it’s a serious business to God numbers
chapter 15 um there’s this guy who
breaks the law of the Sabbath and I want
you to see what happens to him says one
day while the people of Israel were in
the wilderness they discovered a man
look what he was doing gathering wood on
the Sabbath he’s picking up sticks but
he was working he said the people who
found him doing this took him before
Moses and Aaron and the rest of the
community they held him in custody like
I just see the pictures like what you in
for I killed two people what you in for
ah man I stole from somebody what you in
for man I was picking up sticks I mean
that’s that’s what this is they held him
in custody
okay because they did not know what to
do with them then the Lord said to Moses
the man must be put to death and now if
that was me y’all I’d be dead let’s take
it you know when you start talking room
no no I was just trying to get some wood
and put him to death the whole community
must stone him outside the camp so the
whole community took them and outside
the camp and stoned him to death just as
the LORD commanded Moses now I know
that’s hard for some people to hear but
I think there’s a greater principle
inside of this is that there were only
four things that you
get stoned for back in that day murder
adultery not keeping the Sabbath this
was funny and bad kids hate stone your
back go get Timmy today’s his day today
get him people I’ve been waiting for
this waiting boots like I can see I
don’t know why that is you tell your
kids and you start back in the old test
fit we would have stones you um here we
go it’s fun month ain’t it okay all
right but but but but this is the bigger
question why would God be so serious
about this it’s cuz he’s serious about
you and he’s serious about your purpose
my question is nobody’s getting stoned
today but are you killing yourself look
let’s ask that question he said they’re
being put to death are you losing years
off of your life because you’re not
doing it God’s Way well I opened the
business and I can’t let it fail and God
said I told you to open the business and
I won’t let it fail but are you in the
way so so the number one question that
comes with this is okay what do you do
on your Sabbath what do you do okay do I
just sit there in a quiet room and do
nothing that’s the wrong question the
real question is what do you not do what
do you not do on your Sabbath and I’m
being very practical right here you need
look at me one day a week where you
don’t do work whatever your primary form
of work is or whatever you’re doing you
need one day a week where you don’t do
that so it’s not what can I do but no
it’s what have I’ve set up already not
to do on this day my Sabbath is Friday
well I got to preach every weekend every
weekend I got to preach there’s some
weekend’s my message is
not ready by Friday Friday comes and I’m
like Lord oh I don’t know what 700
people are coming and they don’t know as
they’re texting about Church don’t know
what I was making about and God
challenged me one time this happened
probably bout three weeks ago three or
four weeks ago he said Michael I’m
serious about this
don’t do anything tomorrow on your
message and I mean the whole day I was
jacked up because I was trying to work
in myself when God was telling me just
honor me and I’ll provide for you so
about two o’clock comes and I’m about to
just study the word for myself you know
have devotion cuz I I make sure every
time I come up here I have something to
say that is from God and he was I’m
serious about this cuz when you know
better you do better and God really
convicted me up he said I’m serious
about you need to rest so me and the
family we went out we did stuff I mean
brought about six o’clock I forgot I was
preaching like I’ll say well I’ll make
it up there on Sunday and say hey like
cuz I just it was just gonna be what it
was Saturday at 5 a.m. the Holy Spirit
woke me up and gave me my entire message
and in literally 30 minutes
now watch that’s not how I wanna live
okay that’s not how I want to live what
I am saying is that he provided when I
honored him what I’m telling you is even
if it doesn’t seem like if you aren’t
choose a day Monday Tuesday Wednesday
work at with your schedule but don’t do
your work
don’t answer emails if you get an email
you can answer it back by saying what
day is this it’s my Sabbath but you got
to tell people that and you got to be
intentional with that me and Bri we’ve
been up about to have meetings and she
said pastor mike is my Sabbath I said oh
yeah that’s right we can’t meet about
that we can’t talk about that right now
why cuz if we honor God he’ll take care
of the rest
take a day of rest my last point is
unobserved sabes they accumulate if you
don’t take the Sabbath they’re being
added up uh-huh uh-huh
second chronicles 36 verse 20 this is
after the children of Israel had been
captured it says the few who survived
were taking as two taken as exiled to
Babylon and they became servants to the
king and his sons until the kingdom of
Persia came to power so the message of
the Lord spoken through Jeremiah was
fulfilled that the land finally enjoyed
its Sabbath rest lying desolate until
the seventy years were fulfilled just as
the Prophet had said okay so let me help
you understand this God had told the
children of Israel hey I’m going to take
this one step further every six years I
want you to till the land plant crops so
reap and on the seventh year I don’t
want you to till the land at all I just
don’t want you to do anything on the
line now this is their primary way of
making money he said don’t do it at all
and it got to that time and they was
looking at the bank accounts and they
finances and nails like naw I don’t know
if that was God drop a few seas jaw just
drop a few drop a few more drop a few
more matter of fact just do the whole
thing and we’ll just let God and for 70
years no no for 490 years they planted
without letting the land rest on the
seventh year so what God do say damn my
children not listening again alright you
can invade them I’ll take my hand of
covering off of you invade them take all
their family stuff
take them to Babylon so that I can let
the land enjoy its Sabbath
they key kept the whole group of people
in captivity for 70 years so the land
could rest so if God is that concerned
about land resting how much more is he
concerned about you for people who do
math think about this it was like 7
years went by he said they didn’t do it
1 7 more years to 21 years 3 they did it
for 490 years and thought they were
getting away with it they thought it was
the way of life
I mean God had him entrapped for 70
years and at the 70th year they were
freed cuz when you don’t take your
Sabbath they accumulate my question to
you is how long has it been
weakly since you’ve had a day of rest
some of y’all accounts are overdrawn how
so Mike why are you telling us this cuz
God wants you to repurpose and he wants
you to be fulfilled when you do it have
you ever gotten something and it wasn’t
all you thought it was gonna be
God said I don’t want you to get the
thing or the place you wanted to get to
and not be able to be healthy enough to
enjoy it
so I discipline is so important in your
life
that’s why changing is so important in
your life tell the story I heard pastor
Robert Morris because this is who
introduced me to this concept I’ve been
in church all my life I’ve never heard
one message on rest ever and he said you
know I got to a point their ministry was
booming I mean thousands and thousands
of people he had come from overseas and
it’s a funny story but he tells it way
better but I’m gonna tell it today he
said that he was exhausted not taking
any breaks doing everything in the name
of the Lord ministering into all kinds
of you see you can do it in the name of
the Lord and kill yourself in the name
of the Lord so he was doing all this
stuff and he had got off the shower and
he went to his underwear drawer and he
had one pair of
and his brain he said stopped working
and all he could think was what am I
gonna do tomorrow he was so tired that
he didn’t think about washing he didn’t
think about going to Walmart and buy 15
pairs for $7 he didn’t think about none
of that he said what am I going to do
tomorrow there’s a place that you can
get so tired that you stop thinking
right can I help you many temptations
that come in your life come when you’re
tired the enemy always hits prey at
their weak moment you work in 9:00 to
5:00 in the mail lady just walking
through here’s your mail mr. Todd you
get behind me Satan
do you understand I got to sleep because
I got to see you coming do you see what
I’m saying
and if you if you trace it back many of
your bad decisions were when you were
exhausted uh y’all being fake you you
answered the call should be sleep hello
what’s he doing sleep get off my phone
do you understand what I’m saying but
when when we’re tired we make poor
decisions he said he went to his sock
drawer afterwards getting ready to go to
another meeting just continue in the
movie not taking her Sabbath and there
were no socks that grown man fell on the
ground and started crying and he said
I’m losing it socks and underwear have
taken me out
he went to his head guy his name is Tom
Lane and he told him the story because
that’s who his meeting was and he had
the wisdom to say you’re not losing it
said you’re exhausted he said so this is
what we’re gonna do their board came
together they gave him eight weeks off
said don’t come to church don’t preach
don’t prepare you take this sabbatical
eight weeks and don’t do anything and
this man had eight weeks off on the 53rd
day he said I started to feel normal
he was like I I I was in my quiet time
with the Lord and he said he said what
day is it he said the 53rd day and he’s
like I just feel good today he said
that’s how many Sabbath’s you own for
one solid year he had been working
without a break and on the 53rd day
release my question is to you
how many sadness is the you Oh some
people say I just need to take the the
year off when you know better there’s
there’s no condemnation when you’re in
Christ Jesus he’s not holding you back
but today on this Father’s Day fathers
who are trying to provide for everybody
and everything and make sure that make
sure you model God’s Way of living to
your kids take a day of rest I want to
pray for everybody and I want to pray
that God would allow this principle not
law this principle to take root in our
life and look at me real quick if you do
this God promises to bless you
there’s not a better deal in history
that you get time off and I’ll bless
everything you don’t do on that day
father I thank you that as a church we
hear your word and I thank you Father
God that you you give us the real
revelation of honoring you with the day
of rest and worship God for many of us
is a very hard concept to get but you
said in your word it’s a gift so god
today we receive that gift thank you for
every person who does work hard that
uses the labor of their hands that that
does father what you called them to do
and trying to reach purpose now god I’m
thanking you that you make it a
milestone or a memorial in their hearts
God that they honor you with the day
father where you get to really be
Jehovah Jireh our provider God forgive
us for in the past of trying to do
everything in our own self and I just
thank you God today that as we know
better we’re gonna do better give us
wisdom of how to spend how to recreate
how to rejuvenate how to be everything
you’ve called us to be father God and I
thank you father that you’ve created
this just for your children no longer
slaves but heirs to the throne we trust
you we believe you and we thank you in
Jesus name Amen
oh don’t hold on hold on hold on hold on
because I heard somebody in the prayer
there’s like so we just supposed to take
to Sabbath off but what if an emergency
happens on the Sabbath
go to Matthew chapter 12 whenever you
get a chance the Pharisees were trying
to catch Jesus up and He healed the man
on the Sabbath and we caught him not so
messed up the man was laying and now he
can walk and maybe like forget that we
gonna get Jesus cuz he worked on the
Sabbath and she said guys how many times
do I have to go through this if your
lamb fell in a ditch on the Sabbath I’m
not saying leave him there until the
next day
go get your lamb and just get him and
then go back to resting it so so and
then he says this he says the Sabbath
was not made for man to serve it that
the man gets served by the Sabbath so
again this is not legalistic this is a
principle that if you put this to play
in your life you’ll see blessings amen
let’s give God praise right now for that