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0:01 The power of rest, today on fixing the money thing.0:07 Welcome to a special edition of fixing the money thing. I'm Gary Kasey.0:11 And I'm Drenda. We're glad you joined us today. As you can tell, we are at the ocean. It's sunny and it's beautiful.0:18 We're not in the office.1:01 The power of rest.1:05 Today, we're talking about resting. And, you know, let me ask you a question right off the top. What's your idea of rest?1:11 The reason we came to the1:12 ocean is because we love the ocean. And I think I think most people tend to think of the ocean as a relaxing place.1:19 Yes. It rests your soul. You could feel it in all your senses. You1:23 can Sound.1:24 Yes. Experience.1:24 Souls, the fishing, the this the sand, and the sunshine is a great escape from the hustle and the bustle of life. Yes. It's rest. And today on Fixing the Money Thing, we're gonna1:36 talk about the power of rest, and we're gonna talk about how that happens to the kingdom of God and how it changed our lives and changed your life as well. So today, you're thinking that rest is1:48 just not possible. Know? My life doesn't look like the beach right now. Well, I have a word for you. It's in the word of God. There is rest for you. It's even called the Sabbath rest. Brenda, you2:00 know, we talk about the Sabbath. We all grew up with the Sabbath. Think when I grew up, of course, even the gas stations were closed on Sunday. Mhmm. You remember that?2:09 Oh, yes. You could you could just there would be nothing. Everything was still, and people went to church, and they rested at home. Yeah. Things have kinda changed now. And it seems like with all the hustle, the bustle,2:19 the stress, people are struggling to find a place to truly find any rest, any recovery for their soul, any just a place to get away.2:28 Right. Right. So when I grew up, again, the stores were closed, gas stations were closed, and you I I like to hunt. You know that probably about me. You couldn't even hunt on Sundays. It was a day of2:39 rest. You went to church, and it was called the Sabbath. And we find the Sabbath rest in the Bible. Today, wanna talk to about the Sabbath rest in a way maybe you've never heard before. We find the term2:51 Sabbath rest in the New Testament. You may have thought, well, that sounds Old Testament being Sabbath rest. But actually, it's in the new testament in Hebrews chapter 4. Let me read this to you3:03 out of verse number 9. It says this, pay close attention. There remains then a Sabbath rest for the people of God. For anyone who enters God's rest,3:15 rest also from his own word. So note that, anyone who enters God's rest rest from from his own word. So it goes on and explains how to3:27 enter that rest, but let's talk about what that's talking about. Enter God's rest. What is that referring to? We have to go back to Genesis to find that out. The Bible says in Genesis chapter 2 verse number 13:39 that when God created the earth, of course, in 6 days, man was created at the end of the sixth day. He was going to live in the seventh day with God. Why was man3:51 made at the end of the sixth day was because everything was finished. Everything was there for man to live on the earth with everything he would need to live in that place of rest.4:03 So it says in the second chapter of Genesis referring to creation, thus the heavens and the earth were completed in all their vast array. By the seventh day, God had finished the work4:15 he'd been doing. So on the seventh day, he rested. He was not tired. Please make a note of that, Doreen. He wasn't tired. K. You know, people ask me, well, God got tired. He didn't get tired. He4:26 rested because he was Finished. Finished. Everything was complete. Yes. Alright. So now think of Hebrews chapter 4 verse number 6. It says, if we enter into God's rest,4:39 this is referring back to Genesis chapter 2 when the Bible says everything was complete, everything was finished, and man was then created to live in the seventh day with everything complete and4:50 finished. Hebrews chapter 4 is telling us, Drenda, that there is a place we can get back to where we capture back that place of provision that God had once given5:02 Adam. Everything that Adam lost has now been refound, if you will, recaptured back for our good that we can find rest. And5:14 in so doing, we're able to find our purpose and God's assignment for our life, whereas most people live life in survival mode trying to live week by week, hand5:26 to mouth, just existing.5:32 Just nudge your neighbor and say, you've got to understand this. You have to. You need to. You need to. It will change your life. Well, pastor, how do you know that? It would change mine. 9 years,5:45 panic attacks, antidepressants, judgments, liens, IRS liens, living on a pawn shops. But I'm a millionaire today.5:57 I know what you're thinking. No, was already out of debt before I started this church. You gotta deal with this religious stuff first, you know? I didn't start this church to make money, started this church to help you.6:08 I was already out of debt. So I when I say I want you to have this, I want you to get this because you need to be6:20 asking questions. How did that happen for him? Hebrews chapter 4 verse 9 is our key scripture for the series. Let's put up Genesis chapter 3. Adam, of6:32 course, rebelled against God's plan, believed Satan's lies, came under Satan's jurisdiction, lost the Garden of Eden, lost God's provision, and this is what God said to him, because you listen to your wife, that part's6:43 not bad. Ladies, I read that, I'm thinking these ladies are going, that's not, no, that's good. It's just he made a decision based on6:55 facts that he didn't have all the facts and he should not have made a decision but you listen to your wife but anyway, I'm not saying not this to your wife. Because you listen to your wife and ate from the tree about7:07 which I commanded you, you must not eat of it. Cursed is the ground because of you. Let's move through here quickly. Through painful toil, you'll eat of the earth. Move through here. It'll produce thorns and7:19 thistles for you. Verse 19, I want to go there. By the sweat of your brow, you eat your food from the earth. So, painful toil and sweat is the system that was left. After Adam lost god's provision,7:31 basically, he was saying, god, you're out of here and god said, I know that. You're tying my hands. Now, because you have rejected me through your own painful toil and sweat, You'll have to make your own way.7:43 Alright, that's where we grew up. I said this every week. I'll review it again. That's where you grew up at. That's the mindset you had that anytime you needed provision, the immediate response would be painful toil and7:53 sweat. That's how you calculated it. If you're looking at a bigger house, you calculate it. Do I have enough painful toil and sweat to get it done? If you need something else, you calculate how much more painful toil and8:05 sweat. Can I add to the situation to bring the provision that I need? Is that right? Yes. People are tired of running. Matthew chapter 6, Jesus said, the unbeliever, people that don't know god's system of doing things,8:17 run, painful toil, and sweat after the things of life and he also said the things of life are not life. Life is more than the things but today, we find the whole system upside8:29 down. Those things, houses, cars, whatever it is, clothes, are designed to serve you and your purpose but now, we find man serving them, working all week long just to make enough money to buy 1 more8:41 month in his house. Right? That's not life, my friend. There is more there is more to life. Now Jesus, follow his ministry, you're gonna find things that are gonna be8:52 astonishing. You're gonna find in Luke chapter 5, Jesus walking along the shore finding fishermen there that had fished all night, caught nothing. He borrows their boat, goes out and preaches from the boat.9:04 Peter, James, and John and then after preaching tells Peter to go out into the deep water and catch fish. Peter says to him, master, we fished all night and caught nothing. We've tried the painful toil and sweat system9:16 but we're coming up short. Anyone else in here coming up short although you're putting the labor in. Yeah. Come on. That's how it is, right? You can't run fast enough to get this thing done. You9:28 might, some people can, you know, grit their teeth and make it happen but I'm telling you, you just can't quite do it in your own strength. So, Jesus after telling them where to fish caught so9:40 many fish, the nets about broke, and their their 2 boats about sank. I want this picture in your mind to be ingrained in your mind, a comparison. Jesus is9:51 demonstrating the kingdom of god. Painful toil and sweat, nothing to show for it. 2 boats about sinking with fish. Peter, James, and10:03 John were so astonished, astonished that they left the business and followed Jesus. 2 different pictures. An airplane.10:15 If I showed you a 22 ton piece of metal and I said, this is gonna float in air. And you knew nothing about the law of lift, you would say, right. I10:27 wasn't born yesterday, dude. I'm not investing in that scheme and you'd miss out because it can float 22 tons in air, float, in10:39 air, 40, 0 feet in the air. The air is pretty thin up there but it can float there. Why? Because it's tapping into a new law. Everyone say a new law. New It doesn't cancel10:51 the law of gravity. You're pretty comfortable with that. I see you sitting there. You're not nervous floating off your off your chair. You're kind of kind of confident with that that law. Well, an airplane flies11:03 by laws. The law of lift and it's another another law and so it is in the kingdom. The the law of the spirit of life has set me free from the law of sin and death. There's another11:14 kingdom, another way of operation that you need to learn in life. And that's what we're talking about. How do I tap into the double portion? How do11:26 I do I make that work in my life? I'm glad you asked. Let's dig into it. Mark chapter 6 verse 35. By this time, it was11:38 late in the day, so his disciples came to him. This is a remote place they said. It's already very late. Send the people away so they can go to the surrounding countryside and villages by themselves something to11:50 eat but Jesus wanting to teach them how the kingdom operates said, you give them something to eat. Now, that would be like if you come to me and say, pastor, we're having trouble paying12:01 our mortgage payment. I would say to you, oh, it's easy. Just pay it off. You won't have a payment. Right? And you would do what?12:13 Tilt? Like, you didn't understand what I just said, did you? I said, no, understood what you said. Pay it off. You won't have a payment. You have the same problem they have.12:26 You give them something to eat, Jesus said, and they said that would take more than a half year's wage because their perception of provision is only tied to labor, painful toil and sweat. So they12:37 immediately calculate that ain't possible. That that just can't happen. And that's the same thing you do. That's why Romans chapter 12 says, do not conform any longer to the pattern of12:49 this world thinking like the world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind. Then you'll be able to test and approve God's perfect and goodwill. Okay. So hang on.13:01 So Jesus says, how many loaves do you have? Go and see. They they found out. They said 5 and 2 fish. So if we're standing together, you'd say, oh, I got 5 bucks. I got 5 bucks and 2 quarters.13:14 You only pay my house off with that? Maybe. We're not done yet. We got tapped into the kingdom, right? So, the long story short, you know the story, he13:25 fed 5000 men, possibly 15000. I want to focus on verse 42. It says, they all ate and were satisfied. Underline that word satisfied and the disciples picked13:37 up 12 basketfuls of broken pieces of bread and fish. They ate all they wanted. They were satisfied and they gathered 12 baskets of13:49 bread and fish. That's more than they started with. They ended up with more than they started with. That's the double portion. That's the overflow. Right?14:01 Having more than you start with after feeding 20000 people, that's pretty good. That's the kingdom way. That's the kingdom way. Now John's version of the same story is the only version that tells14:13 us some insight of how this operates. So, we need to look over John chapter 6 verse number 11 and 12. Quoting the same story, Jesus then took the14:25 loaves, gave thanks, and distributed to those who were seated as much as they wanted. I love that phrase as much as they wanted. So, they all had enough deed. I like that phrase though. I had enough. They all had enough.14:35 I like that part. That's good. They were satisfied. Jesus said, gather the pieces. Let nothing be wasted. Now, I don't have time to get into it but this let nothing be wasted phrase, this is deep14:47 stuff. We're gonna talk about this another day. God wants those fragments picked up But here's the here's the point. Jesus had to tell them to pick it up. Why14:58 pastor? Because they have a satisfied mindset. Now you've got to understand the mindset. In the earth realm, the whole goal is to stop. The whole goal, why you want15:10 1000000 dollars is to stop. The whole goal of being satisfied is so you can finally stop painfully toiling and sweating. It really has nothing to do with purpose. Thus, the lottery success,15:22 all the gambling success, it's not about purpose, it's about I want an escape out of this weight. Right?15:29 Amen. Jesus15:32 had to tell them, pick the fragments up because they didn't see them although they're trampling on them. They're walking on the fragments. To sit down, they gotta move them aside. They're they're they're they're all15:43 around them. Fragments, bread and fish all over the hillside and they're kind of, know, find a place to sit down. These fragments are in the way. This is a mess. Get out of here. Because their perspective of fragments15:54 wasn't the right perspective. To them, it's just wasted. Birds will get it. You know, fragments. Jesus had to tell them to pick the fragments up because they did not see it. People that16:06 lived to be satisfied do not see things. They're already overwhelmed. What what would they want to see? More work? More painful toil and sweat? Excuse me. That's not what they want to see. They're trying to find a spot16:17 to sit down, not pick up. Alright, here's a phrase, you gotta write this down. You must see past satisfied to ever tap into the double portion.16:29 Now, this is very important, very important understanding. God never supplies, never ever ever ever satisfied only. The kingdom of God doesn't operate16:41 that way. Never. The double portion is always there. The overflow is always there. You're gonna have to decide now you are jumping in and you're not jumping in, gritting your teeth. You're not going to jump in16:53 running as fast as you can. You need to hear god. You need to hear god. You need to have a god plan. You need to have god show you the fragments. You need to know where to harvest, what to harvest, what it looks like,17:04 when to harvest. You've gotta have god on this. Because you're not called of god to be a pauper. You are called to rule and reign in life through Jesus Christ. You are,17:16 you are the astonishment. Peter, James, and John were astonished, the Bible says at the catch of fish. You are the astonishment. You are to live an astonishing life.17:29 You are the picture that people are looking for. They're running to and fro, running, running, running and all of a sudden, boom, a light shines. It's your life. And you go, what? How did how did you I'm glad you asked.17:41 Let me share with you the kingdom of God. Let me tell you the good news in in the word of God. Let me tell you about Jesus. Well, that's all religious stuff. Forget religious stuff. This is life. Forget everything you17:51 learned about church. This is about the kingdom of god. Changed my life and it's changing your life, changed all kind of people's lives. But as I said, Exodus chapter 1618:03 verse 27, nevertheless, some of the people went out on the seventh day to gather the manna but they found none. They didn't get the memo. Or18:15 they, for whatever reason, didn't gather the double portion. Now, we're going to jump into this but I'm just going leave you at this tidbit. This is go over well with the internet crowd really. Take notes. What did18:27 god say to them? When they couldn't gather, they didn't, they went out there trying to gather in the seventh day and didn't find any. That's what he said. Then, the lord said to Moses, how long will you refuse to keep my18:39 commandments and my instructions? Bear in mind, the lord has given you the Sabbath. That is why on the sixth day, he gives you bread for 2 days. He was upset.18:50 Why? Because they didn't gather enough. How's that preach?18:55 Come18:56 on. God's upset because you're not prospering enough. Why? Because you're not prospering enough? He wants you to have a double portion. That's what it says, isn't it? He wanted them to have the19:08 Sabbath rest. He's upset because they're gathering in their own strength like there was no Sabbath rest. He said, wait a minute, stop. Guys, I gave you the double portion. What are you doing out here?19:19 As I said, I believe a large majority of the church world don't get this. They'll pray and ask god to help them grit their teeth and work harder, run faster, and work19:31 longer. Get my body grace to work 23 hours a day. God, please, just get great. That is not going to get it done. You gotta tap into the kingdom. How it works? To find the19:42 rest. The options, the freedom that God has for you. But I just think that's pretty interesting. He's actually upset at them for not gathering the double portion.19:54 He wants you to have it. He wants you to have it. He's he's provided it for you. He wants you to have it. You need it. He wants you to have it. There's things to get done. You got things to do besides paying your bills.20:06 I mean, paying bills are good. Don't misunderstand what I'm saying. I'm just saying there's bigger fish to fry than just buying a car. There's people's lives at stake. There's things to get done in the earth realm.20:17 There's assignments and purposes that will require more than you just paying just to survive another month and thank god that's possible. We all start some place20:29 but this is the year you're going to start. 1 of the I was at a minister's conference this week and 1 of them got up and said, you know, this isn't the year to pray. Now, that's not saying not to pray. You know,20:39 sometimes there's years of change and intercessions going on and travailing. That's happened. This is the year to do. Now, you have to pray it out of course but I'm saying this is the year to20:51 do, to capture, to harvest, and to step in there and and to have what god says especially in this area. You have things to get done. Amen? Amen. All of us do. Harvest season. It's21:03 harvest season.
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