Songs Holy Holy Holy (Nicaea) Sing His Name Christ Be Magnified I Speak Jesus Breathe Sermon Notes Exodus 20:8–11 (NLT) “Remember to observe the Sabbath day by keeping it holy. 9 You have six days each week for your ordinary work, 10 but the seventh day is a Sabbath day of rest dedicated to the Lord your God. On that day no one in your household may do any work. This includes you, your sons and daughters, your male and female servants, your livestock, and any foreigners living among you.11 For in six days the Lord made the heavens, the earth, the sea, and everything in them; but on the seventh day he rested. That is why the Lord blessed the Sabbath day and set it apart as holy. Deuteronomy 5:15 (NLT) Remember that you were once slaves in Egypt, but the Lord your God brought you out with his strong hand and powerful arm. That is why the Lord your God has commanded you to rest on the Sabbath day. Mark 1:15 (NLT) “The time promised by God has come at last!” he announced. “The Kingdom of God is near! Repent of your sins and believe the Good News!” Dan Allender - Menuha is the Hebrew word for rest, but it is better translated as joyous repose, tranquility, or delight. “To the biblical mind Menuha is the same as happiness and stillness, as peace and harmony. . . . It is the state in which there is no strife and no fighting, no fear, and no distrust.…[Sabbath] is the queen of all days, the day in which division, destitution, and death are put aside to celebrate our union with God, the abundance of his love, and the wild hope of the coming kingdom. Isaiah 25:6–8 (NLT) In Jerusalem, the Lord of Heaven’s Armies will spread a wonderful feast for all the people of the world. It will be a delicious banquet with clear, well-aged wine and choice meat. 7 There he will remove the cloud of gloom, the shadow of death that hangs over the earth.8 He will swallow up death forever! The Sovereign Lord will wipe away all tears. He will remove forever all insults and mockery against his land and people. The Lord has spoken! Dan Allender: All Sabbaths are a direct, face-to-face, underdog challenger to death. The Sabbath looks death in the eye and says, “O death, where is your sting?” Mark Buchanan - Cronos is the presiding deity of the driven. Cronos: sequential time Kairos: quality/sacred time Cronos is death.