March 16, 2025
Paul Gotthardt
(#3 in series)
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Exodus 20:8-11
Remember the sabbath day, to keep it holy. Six days you shall labor and do all your work, but the seventh day is a sabbath of the Lord your God; in it you shall not do any work, you or your son or your daughter, your male or your female servant or your cattle or your sojourner who stays with you. For in six days the Lord made the heavens and the earth, the sea and all that is in them, and rested on the seventh day; therefore the Lord blessed the sabbath day and made it holy. – Exodus 20:8-11
Key Truth: Sabbath tells the story of rest that includes __, betrayal, redemption, __, promises, and __.
Biblical Covenants and their corresponding signs:
Response and Reflection:
Principle 1: Rest requires personal discipline.
Principle 2: Rest involves humble trust.
Principle 3: Rest includes elements of beauty and joy.
Principle 4: Rest is satisfied in completed work.
Principle 5: Rest is fully experienced with God.
Principle 6: Rest reminds us of __.
Principle 7: Rest is a __ of freedom.
Principle 8: Rest distinguishes us from the __.
Principle 9: Rest allows for __ on eternal matters.
March 9, 2025
Paul Gotthardt
(#2 in series)
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Genesis 2:1-3
Thus the heavens and the earth were completed, and all their hosts. By the seventh day God completed His work which He had done, and He rested on the seventh day from all His work which He had done. Then God blessed the seventh day and sanctified it, because in it He rested from all His work which God had created and made.
– Genesis 2:1-3
To understand God’s plan for rest in our lives, it’s imperative that we understand the beginning of rest as mentioned in Genesis 2.
There are 2 primary words for rest in Hebrew.
God rests from His __ (shabbat; Genesis 2:2-3) and then God rests His people to __ with Him (nuakh; Genesis 2:15).
Key Truth: Our __ is connected to His __ work.
God sets a pattern in creation that He repeats at key moments in the future.
Five principles of rest from the creation account:
Principle 1: Rest requires personal __.
Principle 2: Rest involves humble __.
Principle 3: Rest includes elements of __ and joy.
Principle 4: Rest is satisfied in completed __.
Principle 5: Rest is fully __ with God.
