Remember The Sabbath | Road Trip | Jimi Baccarini

Hey, welcome to Momentum Church. We have an awesome message for you today. I know you're absolutely going to love it, so make sure to leave a like on the video and comment down below anything you get from it, or if you need prayer for anything. Enjoy. All right, well who's excited to be in the House of the Lord today? Come on, let me hear you. I mean how could you not be excited after that amazing worship? Can you give it up for our amazing worship band for leading us in that moment? How incredible is it to be here? Man, we should be excited to be in the House of the Lord, and I'm so pumped to be here with you guys. I cannot wait to dive into this today. We are going to be continuing a series that we've been in for the last few weeks, unpacking the Ten Commandments, and I just want to honor someone before I start. I want to honor Pastor Steffler. What a word she brought last week. She brought the heat. Yeah, come on, absolutely, absolutely, let's go. What a word. What a word. Now imagine following that, right? You know, so, but here we are. Before we get into it though, I want to tell you a story. So a few months ago, me and my wife, we get in the car to take about a seven-hour drive down to Orlando. We got the 18-month with us. We pack him in the back, he's not riding shotgun yet. And she's in the back with him, and just to kind of keep him calm, maybe stretch out the drive between the breaks that we need to take for him. And I used to loathe the, I mean, just resent these long drives. Like anything longer than two hours, I'm flying. Like, I mean, I just didn't really enjoy it until I started getting into podcasts and audiobooks. Now don't get me wrong, I don't mind listening to music and like belting out some chords, but being able to say that I took a seven-hour drive and like learned something was always exciting to me. And so I go to my list of books, and I found one that I had put on the list a couple months

prior, called The Ruthless Elimination of Hurry. And it's about basically what you'd imagine it's about. We're all very, we're all in a hurry, and it's kind of the default setting for our society these days. So I put it on. That was about 5 a.m., they're in the backseat, I'm listening to this. About 10 to 15 minutes into it, the author starts describing something called hurry sickness. And I'm like, listen, I'm a busy person, but I'm not like sick. Like, you know, that's not me. Until he starts listing the symptoms. They are irritability, hypersensitivity, restlessness, workaholism, or just nonstop activity, emotional numbness, out-of-order priorities, lack of care for your body, escapist behaviors, slippage of spiritual disciplines, and isolation. So now I'm, yeah, whew. So now I'm over here scrambling for the AirPods, because I'm like, I need to be listening to this by myself, not over the car with my wife in there. I'm like, dude, this dude is reading my mail. I'm like, I'm hearing a diagnosis, and I'm the patient. And not only that, but I have the added bonus that my wife, who's seen me at my best and also at my worst, is hearing this, and it's instantly awkward in the room, or in the car. Like, I can feel these daggers coming from behind, just staring into me. And I, like any sensible, mature adult would do, I turned it off. I'm like, I'm not listening to this. This is clearly not for me. Now we're sitting in silence, and the tension is just so thick, you could cut it with a knife, and I'm sitting here thinking, I think I made it worse. Okay, I gotta clearly, you know, fess up and, you know, own up to it. So I go, hey babe, that was a crazy book, huh? And she ignores me, and I'm like, well, fantastic, like, now she's upset with me, I've turned it off, like, this is just not good.

I'm like, all right, well, I go, babe, that was a crazy book, huh? And I look back, and she's dead asleep. And so I'm over here creating this tension and this awkwardness, and I feel so exposed. No one's thinking about me. No one's thinking this is all about him, except me. And quite frankly, that told me more than the book probably ever could that I had hurry sickness. And so I say all this to say, I'm not coming to you today saying, hey, I got it all figured out, and let me just share with you a recipe out of my cookbook. I'm saying this because I want you to know that this is something that I am also dealing with. And as I was preparing for this and I was studying into this, the Lord had to flip it on me multiple times, like, hey, you gotta stop right there, and you gotta address that yourself. I was like, all right. So it took a while to put this thing together, if you can imagine. But I'm excited to bring this to you today because I also know that I'm not the only one with hurry sickness. Now, and I'm gonna help you self-diagnose here for a moment. If you — Well, so this is the audience participation portion. You don't have to raise your hand if you don't want to. You're more than welcome to passive-aggressively or aggressively elbow the person next to you. Now, we're gonna self-diagnose here for a moment. You may have hurry sickness if, as you approach a red light, you start counting the amount of cars in each lane and you switch to the lane with the least amount of cars to save that half, yeah.

I mean, come on, I can't be alone. Okay, how about this? You may have hurry sickness if, as you're approaching that red light, you notice they have the same amount of cars, so you say, I'm gonna judge the make, model, and year of those cars to see which one's gonna take off that line quicker. I'm over here like, there's no way that semi-truck is gonna launch at the speed that I need to get to my destination. Okay, all right. You may have hurry sickness if, when you input the address into the GPS and it gives you that arrival time, you actually see that as, that's the time I'm about to beat. I mean, anybody? Yeah, all right, come on, all right. Well, I hate to say it, y'all have hurry sickness too. I'm not alone here. But isn't it crazy to think how we have never had more technology ever before in history that its purpose is to make our life easier and tasks quicker, but yet the world has never been filled with more hurried and restless people. It's all we've made is a lot of noise and speed. And so the question then is, does God have a plan to give his beloved children rest? And the answer is found in the fourth commandment. We're gonna be in Exodus chapter 20,

where we unpack how God introduces this. And he says, remember the Sabbath day to keep it holy. Six days you shall work and do all your, or sorry, shall labor and do all your work. What I want you to know is that God sincerely cares about how we use and spend our time. And there's a modern thought that we are the ones that have kind of put this all together ourselves. But in reality, even things like the seven day work week were put forth in design and presented in the very first two chapters of the Bible. God labored, he made the earth for six days and he rested on the seventh. And as I was getting into this, I would go down like these little rabbit holes and it almost gave me no content for this, but you're about to hear it anyway, is there's been times in our history where we've tried to take control of that. French Revolution, they said, we're not gonna do a seven day work week. We're gonna do a 10 day work week. We're gonna be more productive. Depression skyrocketed, suicide rates skyrocketed, production plummeted. What do they have to do? Go back to seven day work week. The Russian Revolution, they decided, we're just gonna get rid of weekends. You can imagine that was popular.

What happened? The same exact thing and they had to revert back to the seven day work week. See, this isn't just a commandment that God has given us, it's something that he has woven into the very DNA of the way you and I were created, the very fabric of the universe, the law of rest. But I find it interesting too, that God starts this commandment with the word he doesn't use for any others, which is the word remember. It's as if he knew that by the very nature of humanity, we would end up forgetting about this commandment. And think about the audience that he was speaking to at this point. He's talking to the Israelites, fresh out of enslavement in Egypt. They'd been slaves for hundreds of years. They had been overworked. They had no rest. They were slaves. They were beaten and God's telling them, don't forget to rest. I mean, you can imagine how kind of crazy that sounds, but God saw it so important to include in the 10 commandments. But yet we still do that today. I argue that the 10th, or sorry, the fourth commandment to remember the Sabbath is the most ignored commandment amongst Christians.

We need to remember the Sabbath. I'll show you this, another self-diagnosis. So I played this game with my buddy yesterday. It was hilarious. Your boss calls you, you know, you take Sunday off. Your boss calls you and goes, hey, listen, I'm so sorry to bother you. I have this project that I so desperately need done. If you can come in on your day off, I will hand you a $5,000 check on your way out. Whoa, my goodness. I'd be like, all right, $5,000. I'm going into work, like, you know, I mean, you've greased my palms enough, sir. I'm going in. Now let's back up. Boss calls you up and goes, hey, listen, can I, I need you to do a favor for me. I got. $5,000 check on your way out when you're done. I need you to go murder this person Hey, I know you're married I got a $5,000 check for you. I need you to go cheat on your spouse That's so much anymore, huh? Isn't it crazy to think that God put the Sabbath on the same level as murder and adultery? That's how much he values your time That's how much he values rest for us and when we start making excuses for ourselves I'm guilty of it as well When we start making excuses and we go back to when the Sabbath was first shown not even communicated but shown we all of it flies out the window in Genesis chapter 2 verses 1 through 2 we see God at the on the seventh day Says thus the heavens and the earth were finished in all the host of them and on the seventh day

God finished his work that he had done and he rested on the seventh day from all his work that he had done Well, Jimmy, you don't understand. I'm a super important person at work, and I'm an executive. Okay, that's great God rested. Hey, Jimmy, you don't understand. I have this massive project at work. I gotta get it done Okay, well God was making the world and guess what he rested hey Jimmy you don't understand You don't understand my kids are just so crazy, okay, we are God's kids We're a little crazy and guess what God Rested see he rested to show us the importance of having rest in our lives He only communicated he showed it We need to remember the Sabbath So today as you walk out of here, I want you to remember three things So that we can all understand the importance so we can all see the Sabbath in the eyes through the eyes of the Lord The first thing is that the Sabbath is a blessing The Sabbath is a blessing See the biggest mistake that we can make is by looking at the Sabbath as a burden Look at all my goodness. I have so much. I gotta do it. I gotta take a day off It becomes this burden in our eyes, but in reality, it's been seen as a blessing all throughout Scripture Psalm 92 is a song saying to how great God is because of the Sabbath Isaiah 56 talks about how he who honors the Sabbath will be blessed Isaiah 58 reiterates the same thing Jeremiah 17 when God is communicating to his people He's saying if you on the seventh day if you'll remember the Sabbath if you will not allow a merchant in and out of your gate Meaning don't work Watch who comes in your gate the other six days He's saying look if you will take this day off watch what I do with the other six. It's a blessing. It's a blessing Time And time again, we see the Sabbath spoken about as a blessing and that's how we should see it in our lives number two The Sabbath is an expression of faith see when we are told to to remember the Sabbath and To take a day off of work and spend time in rest and remembrance of God

God is asking us. Do you trust me with six days more than you trust yourself with seven? He's saying whose hands is that day more valuable in mine? Or his and so when we don't take that day of rest What it boils down to It may look on the surface like it's just I'm too busy. This projects too big I got too much going on that might be the surface level reason But when you boil it down it comes down to we're not trusting and we're not trusting God We would rather say to him this day. I need to hold on tight to it God It's worth more in my hands than it is in yours See the Sabbath is to our schedule what the tithe is to our budget See whose hands is it worth more in? I believe that taking a day to dedicate to the Lord Which the world will never understand or comprehend is one of the greatest examples of showing fruit and having fruit from being saved in Christ Jesus and showing that fruit to a broken world because it's an expression of Faith we have to trust we see in Exodus 20 The commandment is given but in Exodus 16 again, it's shown The Israelites fresh out of Egypt They're they're just out of 400 years of slavery and like they're right away start complaining like hey Well at least there we had food we were taking care of there, but here we got nothing So God hears their call and he supplies for them miraculously Every morning, he says to them, go out and you will find this miraculous bread, this manna that's gonna sustain you. But here's the catch. Don't collect enough for the next day. So what he's saying is if you go out on Tuesday, collect for Tuesday. If you try to collect for Wednesday, you're gonna wake up Wednesday morning and it's gonna be rotten and inedible in your jars. But there is an exception. He commanded them that on Saturday, they were to collect enough for Sunday, and they would wake up Sunday and it would still be fresh. So what's crazy is every other day, it was rotten except the day that God had blessed. See, the logic says, okay,

I already did this like three times this week, and it really was gross. But you're telling me I now have to do that? Like, I imagine that first Saturday, they're going to bed, and they're probably thinking like, oh man, they're like, like I'm gonna be hungry tomorrow or something. Like, I just don't know what's going on. But they had to trust. And a key element of that as well is they also had to work on Saturday to prepare for Sunday. See, we always look at the Sabbath, the fourth commandment, as the commandment of rest, which it is. But it's also the commandment of work. He doesn't say, hey, take a day off once a week. He says, work those six days. Prepare yourself for the rest that I've designed for you. See, it's also the commandment of work. So they had to prepare themselves. See, what's interesting is how God so often will take the logic of this world and flip it on its head. You know, I've been coaching soccer for about 12 years now, and I've coached adults all the way down to kids, like where they can barely walk and kick a ball, but you're doing great, kid, and everything in between. And one of the most exciting parts for me is when they start realizing, especially when they get to high school, that they can like optimize their body and get fit. Like it's not just about like kicking a ball. It's about getting strong, getting fast, getting the cardio. And the number one mistake that I see these players do is they overwork themselves. They go all out. I need to be in the gym 24-7. I need to run non-stop. I need to go, go, go, go, go, go. But do you know that 40 to 50 studies show 40 to 50 percent of the impact on our fitness level comes from our rest. See, it's a principle, because it's not just a commandment. God wove this into our DNA. And yet we look at it and go, I need to work out more. I need to lift more. I need to— God's saying, take a chill pill. You need to rest. We see the same logic twist in the story of Gideon. Gideon is a leader of the Israelites in Judges, and he's leading the Israelites against the Midianites. They're oppressing Israel. And it says about the Midianite army that they are countless. They're millions of people. And Israelites have thousands. So, we look at that and go, man, the odds are pretty stacked against you.

God looked at it and said, you have too many warriors. Started saying, whittle it down. And Gideon has to whittle it down to just a few hundred men because God said, if you win with those thousands, you're gonna say we did it in our own strength. But God's saying, I need you to understand that it was my blessing that brought you the victory. So Gideon does that. He whittles it down, and he wins, and they attribute the victory to God. But here's the thing. We look at that and go, I need more warriors. I need more warriors for the victory. I need more work days for the victory. I can't give this up. I can't give up these warriors. I can't give up this work. But what God is saying, you don't need more work days. You need more trust. We need to have the faith in Him that He's going to take care of us. So as I was unpacking this and diving into the study about the Sabbath, there's a few things that jumped out at me that I want to share with you about what a Sabbath can look like for our own lives. Practical applications. The first being resting from regular work. Shocker, right? Rest from regular work. All right, let me tell you something. That email, it can wait. You can return the call tomorrow. See, when we look at what God did from the very beginning, it's not like on the seventh day God just had nothing to do. It's not like He couldn't have gone out and be like, okay, I got a little bit more. See, He rested because He prioritized the rest. Rest from your regular work. Number two, attending church and worshiping. See, when we see the commandment of the Sabbath, Sabbath given, it's always tied on to something great that God has done. See in Exodus chapter 20 it's given and it said, you know, remember the Sabbath, rest on the seventh day. Remember creation? And God is reminding them of the greatness that he's done for them. In Deuteronomy it's reintroduced and it's, instead of creation it's mentioned, remember when I rescued you from Egypt? See this act of Sabbath was for rest, but it was also for remembrance and when we gather together in the house of the Lord and we're lifting our hands up in prayer, listen, I'm not doing it, I don't think these guys are doing it because they want to look in, this is my space. What they're doing is God, you are so great for all the things that you've done for us. You are so amazing for the things that you've done in my life and those around you.

It's an act of remembrance. So on the Sabbath, attending church and worshiping. Number three, turning off your phone. I will say that again. Turning off your phone. See this is one that I struggled with. I actually sat down with someone here at the church and he was advising me, he was saying you've got to turn off your phone, at least put it on do not disturb when you rest. And I'm like, well what do you mean? Like what if someone needs you? What if there's an emergency? I'm having like FOMO about a made up emergency that's not even existed. And what I'm really saying is aren't I so important that people need to call me? How can I turn off my phone? And so I realized that when I turned it off, I was able to actually experience rest. See there's never been something that's been more hurtful to our productivity and more hurtful to our rest than the modern smartphone. And so turning off your phone, it may be uncomfortable, but turn off your phone. Number four, spending time in nature. Spend time in the very creation that God placed on this earth to be enjoyed. When we walk out there and see the magnificence of His creation, we see that this artist put together and cared about every minute detail that we could sit there and be in awe of His amazingness. Spend time in the very nature that He created. It could be going to the beach, go to the river, walk in the woods. I love sitting outside just on my front porch, just enjoying it. And in those moments, I feel so connected with God. I feel so rested. Number five, focus on relationships. Focus on the very relationships that God gifted you.

See, the people in your life are no accident. God knew exactly who your sphere of influence would be. Focus on the relationships. Focus on the family, on your spouse, on your kids, on your friends. Invest in the relationships that God has placed in your life and watch how it fills your cup. Now here's the thing. If we stopped there, we may end up falling into the very trap the Pharisees fell into. You see, what happened was, is the Pharisees had taken this one commandment and added at least 39 other laws to it. They would add stuff like, this is how many steps you're allowed to take on the Sabbath. This is how much weight you're allowed to lift on the Sabbath. These are the kind of knots you're allowed to tie on the Sabbath. They would bog it down and what it was, it was their way of maintaining power over the people. See, if you're new here, first off, welcome. Second off, a little background. So the Pharisees were the religious leaders of the Jewish people in Jesus's time. And their job was to take God's word, interpret it, and feed it to the people. But like I said, they would take it, they would twist it, they would mend it, they would add to it before it got to the work, got to the people as a way to maintain that power. They're kind of like the people that grew up as hall monitors, and then as adults they were the HOA president. And so, I'm just kidding. I'm kidding. I'm kidding. If that's you, by the way, I mean the other HOA presidents, not you. You're the exception, I promise. See that's who the Pharisees were. But we see Jesus run into this as well. In Luke chapter 6, we see in verses 1 through 5, Jesus is walking through the grain field

with his disciples on the Sabbath. And they're hungry. And the disciples go out, they reach out, they grab some grain, they rub it in their hands and they get the kernels and they swallow them. And it's almost like the Pharisees were behind a bush and were like, aha, we got you. And they accuse—you did work on the Sabbath. The crime scene is set. You ate a kernel. And what Jesus does is so interesting because he doesn't argue the rule book with them. What he does instead is he reminds them of a story they're all familiar with. The story of King David, this model for the Israelites in the Old Testament, where him and his warriors were starving and they went to the house of the Lord and they ate the consecrated bread, the holy bread only meant for the priests. See no one there was arguing that David did the wrong thing. because they recognize in that moment that the human necessity overshadowed the ceremony. And what Jesus then takes it to a whole other level. I love this. I love this about Jesus. If you start studying his teachings, he takes things like laws of the Old Testament and he ups the ante every time. So he does this here. He drops a mic on them and says, I, the Son of Man, is Lord of the Sabbath. So when he's saying the Son of Man is Lord of the Sabbath, he's saying, I am the Lord of the Sabbath. See, I am the Lord, Jesus is saying, over the very Sabbath that you have twisted to use to manipulate my people, I'm the Lord of it. You know why? Because I was there when he was created. Not Moses, not you, but me. Jesus is declaring his divinity in this moment. So the third point that helps us course correct and understand the Sabbath more is the Sabbath points to Jesus. It's important to know here today that the Sabbath as a day of rest is a physical principle. Jesus as our rest is a spiritual principle. Both matter. One doesn't replace the other. You still need the physical rhythm. Your body was not designed to run seven days a week, 24-7. It doesn't matter what level of spiritual maturity you are at. Your body wasn't designed for that. But here's the thing. If you take a day of rest and you miss out on who that day is pointing to, you're gonna close your laptop on Saturday and bear a weight on Sunday that you were never meant to bear. You were meant to share

it with Jesus. The Sabbath points to Jesus. Let's go to Matthew chapter 11 verse 28. Jesus says, man, I love this. It sends chills, man. Come to me all who labor and are heavy laden, all who are tired, and I will give you rest. Take my yoke upon you and learn from me for I am gentle and lowly in heart and you will find rest for your souls. For my yoke is easy and burden is light. See, Jesus doesn't say drop the burden. He's saying let me carry it with you. See, when we talk about a yoke, it's not the yellow part of the egg. It's actually a farming tool. And what it was used for is that they would put two ox together that if you took the individual effort of them separately and added it together, they still weren't strong, as strong as if they were actually working together. See, it's not the work doesn't go away. The work is still being done, but they were sharing it. See, Jesus isn't saying there's gonna be no work. He's saying with that work, let me carry it with you. See, some burdens were given to us so we could learn to stop carrying them alone and start sharing them with Jesus. But let me, let me push on this a little further, because there's a flip side that we need to mention. Sabbath is rest from labor, but it was never meant to be rest from calling. We find in Matthew chapter 12, verse 9 through 14. I'm gonna read it for you. I love this story. Jesus, he went from there and entered their synagogue. And a man was there with a withered hand, and they asked him, is it lawful to heal on the Sabbath? Can you imagine that? Talk about missing the point. So that they might accuse him. And he, Jesus, replied to the Pharisees, which one of you who has a sheep, if it falls into a pit on the Sabbath, will not take hold of it and lift it out? Oh, how much more value is a man than a sheep. So it is lawful to do good on the Sabbath. Then he said to the man, stretch out your hand. And the man stretched it out, and it was restored, healthy like the other. But get this, but the Pharisees, they went out, conspired against him how to destroy him. In other translations, they plotted how to kill him. That was their reaction to watching someone healed miraculously, because they had held all this power in the Sabbath. See, Jesus had every excuse available to him to sit that one out. I mean, it's not a big deal. It's the Sabbath, he's supposed to be resting. The religious leaders in the room would have applauded him for waiting one more day, but he didn't. Because his calling didn't take the day off just because his labor did. That's the distinction that I need you to catch.

Jesus rested from labor constantly. I mean, he withdrew, he would sleep, he would leave the crowd, get away from the crowd, but he never once rested from who he was and what he was sent to do. Rest and calling were never in competition for him and they should never be in competition for you and I. See, some of us have used the I need a break as a permanent address rather than a temporary rest stop. We've stepped back from serving, from leading a group, from showing up, and we told ourselves it was Sabbath, but then it's been six months, it's been a year, maybe it's been more. See, rest and avoidance, they look identical on the surface, on the outside, but they're not the same thing. Rest restores you for the calling, avoidance runs from it. See, if you're resting from the very thing that God put you here on this earth to do, something else is probably going on. Whatever it is, calling a season a disengagement, a Sabbath, doesn't make it a Sabbath. It just might make it easy to justify it. Notice back in Genesis, God rested on the seventh day. He didn't retire on it. He wasn't done. Now let's check out Hebrews chapter four, verse one. God's promise of entering his rest still stands. So we ought to tremble with fear that some of you might fail to experience it.

You know, if we add the context of chapter three, the author of Hebrews in the chapter before this verse is said, is saying all about the promised land, this promised land of Israel that was given to God's chosen people, the Jewish people, and they came within feet, in inches, of crossing over into the promised land. They even sent people in there to check it out. But yet they never stepped foot this generation. Why? Because when they were right there, right within arm's reach of the promise that God had placed in front of them, they said, we can't do this. The people are too big. We can't conquer this. See, it wasn't the lack of a promise. It was a lack of a belief. And what God is saying is this generation, their lack of belief, they missed out on this blessing, this promise, this rest. And what the author of Hebrews is saying in chapter four is he's saying the promise still stands today, but the promise that he's talking about is a promise about a man. It tells us that this story was never just about a piece of land in the Middle East. That was a shadow. That was a preview.

The real rest that's being promised here is bigger than real estate. It was a person. So when you and I hear the promise of entering his rest still stands, that's not ancient history. That's an offering sitting open right here, right now, today in this room. And it's possible to sit two feet away from it and still miss out on that promise. That's what that warning is. We should fear that some of us may miss out on that. That's what salvation is. See, it's not a reward for enough effort. It's not a finish line you cross after enough good days outweigh the bad days. It's rest. See, every religion of this world runs on the same engine. Do enough, be good enough, perform enough, and maybe, just maybe, you'll earn your way to peace with God. That's the entire operating system of human religion. Work first, rest later, if, by the way, you're good enough. But God flips that on its head from page one of the Bible. He rested, and then he invites us into that rest. And when Jesus stood in that grain field and said, I am the Lord of the Sabbath, he's saying, I am the rest that you've been trying to work for your entire life, the rest. that you've been grasping for. That's me. Stop working. Come to me. And that's the gospel.

It's not do enough and then maybe God accepts you. It's God already did what needed to be done on the cross. And he's saying come and rest in what I've finished. See Jesus didn't die so you could work harder for God. He died so you could stop trying to earn what he's already giving away. And if you, yes, come on, amen. And if you've never done that, if you've never said you're my rest Jesus, you're my Lord. If you spent your whole life trying to be good enough, work hard enough, or show up enough just to be right with God, hear the promise of Hebrews 4.1 today. The promise still stands. It has not closed. But don't let it be said of you that you got this close and still failed to enter it. I invite you to bow your head and close your eyes. See there may be some of you here today. I know there's someone here today. This rest that we're talking about, this promise that we hear in Hebrews 4.1, it's speaking to your heart and that's for a reason. You see God not only cares so much about your time, he cares so much about you. Not just your neighbor, not just the dude with the mic, but you care so much that he sent his one and only son to live a perfect life here on earth with us, to die a horrendous death, to shed his blood, to wash away the sins that you and I have committed all our lives. Because you're a sinner, I'm a sinner. Wipes it all clean and conquered that very sin. Conquered death when he rose again from the grave. And then he's sitting there and saying, come to me. Stop working for something he's already earned. And accept his promise. Accept his promise of rest. And all we need to do is reach out. He's within arm's reach. He's right there speaking to you now. And accept it. I'm going to lead you in a prayer in just a moment. And if that's you, I want you to repeat after me. But don't think that it's me that's getting you to salvation. Listen, if I could, I'd drag you across that line. And don't think it's just the words that get you to salvation either. Empty words will just fall. It's a posture of the heart. It's these words flowing from a broken, sinful heart into the ears of the Father in heaven and saying, Lord, I need you. That's what it is today. And church, we're going to say this with them. Because it's a reminder of when we were in that seat. When we were saying those words for the first time. I want you to repeat after me. Father God, I know I'm a sinner who needs a Savior. I believe you sent your son Jesus to live a perfect life and die a horrendous death. To shed his blood. To wipe away my sin. And he rose again, conquering death and sin. Lord, Jesus, you are my Lord.

I accept your gift of forgiveness. I live for you today and all my days in your rest. Amen. Amen. Now, if that was you here that prayed that prayer for the first time, we want to celebrate you. Because we know how big of a deal it is. We know that the Scripture tells us that even if one soul crosses the line into salvation, heaven erupts with a roar of cheer. And you're about to hear a taste of heaven here today. But we also want to resource you. We want to give you resources to help you on the next step. Because salvation isn't the end point. It's the starting point to a life with Jesus. So, we're going to ask you to have a moment of boldness. Don't procrastinate. Don't hesitate. And be bold with me, if you will, today. And raise your hand on three. Ready? One, two, three. Let's get loud, church. I saw that hand, I saw that, I love that. Come on. And if you're online, text Jesus to the number on your screen, Blackwater, we want to hear from you. Pandawap, hit that button. I'm going to invite you, if you'll stand with me, I'm going to invite the prayer team to come forward. Now, for a lot of you in this room, what I just described isn't new information. You're already His, you already said yes to Jesus a long time ago. You already know about the rest that I'm talking about is available to you. And yet, you're exhausted. Maybe it's not a salvation problem for you today. Maybe it's a surrender problem. Somewhere along the way, you took the yoke Jesus offered you in Matthew 11 and you, instead of pulling it together with Him, you've slipped Jesus out. Maybe it wasn't all at once, maybe it was gradual, maybe it was slow. But here you are, saved, sure of where you're going when you die, and yet running on empty every single day you're alive. Some of you are tired of carrying something you were never asked to carry yourself. A burden that was never meant, or sorry, a burden that was meant to be shared. And instead, you've been white knuckling it for months.

Some of you need to stop and remember the very rest that you received when you believed. A rest that was never something you had to earn in the first place. And so here's what I want to do, in a moment, I'm going to invite you to come forward. Not because you need to say a prayer to be saved, you already know that verdict, but because this is you physically walking up and putting something down. This burden that you've been bearing, this pace you've been going at, that God never designed you to. You don't have to say anything elegant, you don't have to have the right words, all He's asking you to do is to come to Him, kneel if you're able, and tell Him what you've been carrying and let Him take it back. See, as I was preparing for this, and I was thinking about this moment, it was, I just kept picturing a red light going off, like a warning. And it was this warning that don't make the mistake of walking out of these doors carrying the same weight that you carried in here, a weight that you were never designed to carry. Don't make that mistake. This is your opportunity, this is your chance. Don't wake up tomorrow and go, well what if, I should have, don't live in that regret. Instead, have the boldness that your Lord has for you, and to step forward and to say, Lord, it is yours, I'm sorry I took it on myself, I release it back to you. Have that moment with the Lord, whether it be with the prayer team or the Lord, have that moment with Him. He's asking you, I'm asking you, I'm challenging you, be bold, release it to Him. Well, I really hope you enjoyed that message today, if you did, make sure to leave a like on the video, comment down below, anything you got from it, you can even share it with a friend to make sure they see it as well, and you can subscribe to our YouTube page, that way you can stay up to date with everything that is going on at Momentum Church. You can also give by clicking on a link down below, or you can go to our website, MomentumChurch.org to support the mission. Have a great day.