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0:02 Jesus' first message. You say, what did Jesus teach? His very first sermon is recorded in the Bible. Luke chapter 4. Coming out of the wilderness after he's water baptized, he picks0:14 a scroll up in his hometown synagogue, reads out of Isaiah 61. He says, the spirit of the sovereign lord is on me for he has anointed me to preach good news to the poor.0:26 What is good news to the poor? That you have options. You don't have to be poor anymore. You know, people have run after0:38 provision. It becomes the number 1 thing they think about. Money, how to find money, how to find their provision. And they make all kind of bad decisions around that because of the pressure. The0:50 pressure of finding provision pushes you. It doesn't lead you. Right? It drives you. It pushes you. And people will say, I'm just tired of running. I'm tired of getting up every day and facing1:01 this weight of having to make decisions about how to find money. I can't wait till my vacation or when I retire because I finally want to find what I want to do. And so many people are in the1:13 round peg in a square hole because you're doing things you're never designed uniquely by God to do because you're doing it for a paycheck. Why? Because you don't have provision.1:25 So we have to discover how the kingdom of God is gonna change that, and it's all tied around this Sabbath rest. All around the Sabbath rest. Now let's look at Colossians. Now Adam1:37 lost the kingdom. He lost the provision of God. So what did God do? He gave him a picture. He gave him a picture of what he was someday going to restore back. What was that1:49 called that you that were here? The Sabbath day. Remember? God gave him the Sabbath day. Now, I'm not gonna cover the Sabbath year and the year of2:01 Jubilee. That's all last time. But just to kind of bring focus here, the Sabbath day, what could they not do on the Sabbath? Let's change it to the vernacular of Genesis chapter 3.2:13 They could not painfully toil and sweat. Okay. Now, without understanding. Now again, there's the Sabbath year. They couldn't sow their crops for 12 months. And the year of Jubilee that went 32:24 years without them sowing crops. And you'd have to ask, how is that possible? I'm glad you're asking. That's what God was trying to teach the Israelites. There's another way to live, and it was2:36 all aiming at Jesus. Let's look at that in Colossians chapter 2. So much discussion about the Sabbath. Denominations claim, you know, the Sabbath day is this day and that day, and it's it's God's day. And if2:48 you violate it, you know, you're gonna be struck by lightning. No. That's what law does. Right? That's why a lot of you are afraid to miss coming to church. Now, you should come to church, but you have been trained by2:59 religion that God will be mad at you if you don't. And you have to change that because you learned that from religion, a law. But as we study this, you'll figure this out.3:11 But basically, the Sabbath day was a picture of what God was going to restore. So, they they couldn't they couldn't work but Colossians says in verse 16, in the second chapter,3:23 it says this, therefore, do not let anyone judge you by what you eat or drink or with in a regard to a religious festival, a new moon celebration, or a3:35 what? Sabbath Sabbath day. Pay close attention. These are a shadow of the things that were to come. The reality, however, is found in Christ.3:47 So, the Sabbath day was a picture of what God was going to restore. It was a shadow, though. It had no reality. If I showed you a picture of a Fig Newton cookie, you know, you'd see it and you'd say, that looks good, but3:57 if I gave you 1, you would know it's good. That's called reality. So, the Sabbath was a picture only. Just a picture of what Jesus was going to restore. By the way, Jesus4:09 has come, and you're in Christ. So, you actually have the reality of the picture. What did the picture tell you? They couldn't paint they were forced to, by law, not to painfully toil4:21 and sweat. The picture told you coming in Jesus was a way to escape the earth curse system of just surviving financially and making decisions around4:33 finding money, but you'd be able to find your identity and your purpose again. Come on, folks. It's called good news to the poor. Help me out now. It's4:45 an escape from the wait. Now, we gotta talk about how that happens. We will. We talked about it the other day. But it is a shadow looking forward to Jesus, then the reality. You are in the4:57 reality. The Sabbath is not a day. It is a person. Jesus is your Sabbath. Understand that. You can kinda fight about Saturday, Friday, whatever day you wanna call the5:09 Sabbath. You are the Sabbath. You live in the Sabbath. Jesus is your Sabbath. He has restored the seventh day. He sets you in father's house as a son and daughter. He gave you citizenship in his kingdom. He5:21 has filled you with his very spirit. You now live in the seventh day. Amen. Now, let's talk about that. Again, let's go back to our scripture. Hebrews chapter 4 verse 9.5:33 There then remains a Sabbath rest for the people of God. That's New Testament. That's you. That's not Old Testament. The Sabbath rest, they couldn't work, is available5:45 to the people of God. For anyone who enters God's rest rest from his own work just as God did his. Genesis chapter 2 verse 1, back at creation.5:57 Thus, the heavens and the earth were completed in all their vast array. By the seventh day, god had finished the work he'd6:09 been doing, so he rested from all of his work. He wasn't tired. Why did he rest? He was finished doing what? Completing all that man needed on the earth. The earth is finished.6:21 Everything's there for man. Then man's to live in the seventh day. So understand, go back to Hebrews chapter 4 now, you'll get this. There remains, there remains6:32 a Sabbath rest. That's the shadow for the people of God, for anyone who enters God's rest, it's optional. Anyone who enters into God's rest also rests from his own work,6:44 referring back to Genesis chapter 3 verse 17, just as God did his. God rested when he worked because he was finished. Everything is complete. What the scripture is saying,6:56 there is a place, there is a way to live life of restoration. Jesus brought the reality of the kingdom into your life. Now, you can find that rest. Everything's finished. Everything is7:07 complete. Everything you need in Christ. Is that making sense? There is a Sabbath rest. Sabbath was a picture, a shadow looking forward in Christ. You now live in the reality of the Sabbath.7:21 It's Sunday every day in your world. Okay? Now, how do I tap into the Sabbath rest, pastor? Exodus chapter 16, I'll pick out7:33 1 scripture. Remember the manna? The manna came down in the more in the evening, in the morning, I guess you should say. And then they would eat the manna, but it would evaporate by noon. Now the Bible says God7:45 did that for a purpose. He was training Israel to trust him for their provision. They're about to head into battle. They're about to well, conflict, if you will. They didn't really fight7:57 with swords. They're about to head into the promised land where they're gonna encounter giants and walled cities, and God has to train them to trust him. That's why the manna evaporated every day.8:09 But Moses is here in Exodus chapter 16 talking about the manna. He said to them, this is what the Lord commands. Tomorrow is to be a day of Sabbath rest, a holy Sabbath to the Lord.8:21 So bake what you want to bake and boil what you want to boil. Save whatever is left and keep it until morning, which is different because, next verse, so they saved it until morning. This is the morning of the8:33 Sabbath, as Moses commanded, and it didn't stink or get maggots in it because previously, it would not, it wouldn't make it overnight. They couldn't store it. It came every morning, and then it8:44 evaporated, or it just got bad. So, Moses says, eat it today because today is the Sabbath to the Lord. You'll not find any of it on the ground today. 6 days, you are to gather it, but on the seventh day, the Sabbath,8:56 there'll not be any. Nevertheless, some of the people went out on the seventh day to gather it, but they found none. The Lord said to Moses, how long will you refuse to keep my commands and my instructions? Bear in9:08 mind, the Lord has given you the Sabbath. That is why on the sixth day, he gives you bread for how many days? Alright. That's the double portion. We read that. You'll find that in Isaiah 61 as well. Speaking of the9:20 church age, the double portion is yours. You've got to answer this question though. How was the Sabbath rest possible? You have to eat on the seventh day.9:32 So how was it possible? The double portion. Meaning that there's more than enough. There was enough, more than enough. And of course, the Bible had the Sabbath year where they went a whole year without having provision9:42 as far as sowing and toiling, and the year of Jubilee, 3 years without sowing their crops. But God was trying to get them to understand He is their source, and there's another kingdom, another way of living that9:54 they've not experienced. He gave it to them in pictures because Jesus hadn't come yet, but now you have the reality of that. But I submit this to you. Most of the church is living10:06 like they did, going out on the seventh day trying to find provision and not finding any. Because they have not been taught what the Sabbath was all about. They've not been taught of the reality of10:18 Christ. They've not been taught that they live in the Sabbath, that the seventh day has been restored to them. They don't know how to tap into it, and thus they're living like they're still under the earth curse system.10:29 You could say, amen. That's how it is. I know. Been in financial services all my life. People are on debt just surviving. So the Sabbath rest is only10:40 possible by what? The double portion. Simply meaning more than enough. Without more than enough, there's no rest. You know that from experience.10:52 More than enough. You gotta have more than enough to have options. More than enough. Okay? Hi. I'm Gary Kasey, and you will never fulfill your destiny until you fix your money thing.11:04 Visit GaryKasey dot com, and don't forget to hit the subscribe button below for more amazing weekly videos on fixing your money thing. And thanks for watching.
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