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The Power of Rest: Restoration in Jesus
February 14, 2024 · 28 min
Join Gary Keesee as he digs deeper into works mode as well as into how resting and restoration through Jesus Christ can help you see what life is really supposed to be like.
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0:01 Welcome to another edition of fixing the money thing. I'm Gary Kasey.0:04 And I'm Drenda. So glad you joined us today. And wherever you are, it may be cool, but today we are in warm sunny Florida.0:11 It's gorgeous out here with the breeze and sunshine, but we're talking today about a topic that is going to catch your attention especially if life is a little chaotic. We're talking about the power of0:23 rest Yes. And how God has provided that for us already. We need to know how to discover it today on Fixing the Money Thing.1:12 The power of rest.1:16 Today on Fixing the Money Thing, we're talking about the power of rest from Gary's new book, Financial Revolution, The Power of Rest. So Gary, what is the power of rest?1:25 Well, obviously, rest, anyone knows what rest is. I think everyone likes to find rest. In fact, since man has lost the peace of God back in the Garden of Eden when Adam was gave it away, he1:37 became subject to a lifestyle of of the Bible says painful toil and sweat. And so everyone kind of looks forward to that rest, the weekends, the vacation, the retirement.1:48 Everyone's tired of having the weight of finding provision their entire life. Adam had it. Now when you talk, Adam had everything. In fact, we go back to Genesis chapter 2 verse number 1. It says, the2:00 heavens and the earth were completed in all their vast array and by the seventh day, God had finished the work he'd been doing. So on the seventh day, he rested from all of his work. And we have to remember, Adam was2:12 created to live in the seventh day where everything was finished, complete, and we also have to answer the question, God rested not because he was tired, Drenda, but2:23 because he was finished. Everything was there that man would need on the earth to live with provision. Everything he had need of was on the earth. So God rested not because he's tired, but because2:35 everything's there. But Adam lost the seventh day. Man was to live in the seventh day. He was created at the end of the sixth day to live in the seventh day where everything was complete. The2:47 Bible says, there remains then a Sabbath rest for the people of God. For anyone who enters God's rest also rest from his own work just as God did from his. Now this2:58 is the greatest revelation in the Bible. Believe at least 1 of them. The Bible says there is now, that's New Testament, not Old Testament. When you think of Sabbath, and you think of the Old3:10 Testament, you know, you think of the laws. But the Bible says there is now a Sabbath rest for the people of God. That would be you and me. The people of God have avenue, have access to a3:22 Sabbath rest. Just like God rested, we can rest. So let's read it again. There remains then a Sabbath rest for the people of God. Anyone who enters enters3:33 God's rest just as God did from his. Alright. So God rested. We just talked about Drenda. He rested because he was finished. Mhmm. Everything was complete. So we3:45 have what this is saying is there's a way for us to actually enter into a place of restoration, that everything that was lost, Adam lost, is now restored to us. And so to give3:57 you an idea what that's talking about, God set in place the Sabbath. So for instance, a Sabbath rest. I like how it says that. A Sabbath rest. Why did God put4:09 the Sabbath in place to begin with? Why did he rest? Finished.4:21 Completed. Finished. Man was made at the end of the sixth day of creation designed to be lived in the to live in the seventh day where everything is complete,4:33 everything's finished, everything's there for man to live in the earth. Correct? So with that mindset, let's go back to our scripture and let it talk to you differently. There4:45 remains then a Sabbath rest. What could they not do on the Sabbath? Painful toil and sweat. There remains a Sabbath rest and escape from the earth cursed painful toil and4:56 sweat system for the people of God, for anyone who enters God's rest. He wasn't tired, was finished. Anyone who enters into the complete finished work of5:08 God also rests from his own painful toil and sweat. Why? Because everything is already there. Just as God did his.5:20 I'll get it later. You got that. There remains a Sabbath rest. A way of escape for you my friend. If you'll enter into God's finished work. Now Adam5:32 lost the finished work. We're gonna find out today that Jesus brought it back. It says also that God blessed the seventh day and made it holy. Blessed means to separate or sanctify5:44 it. And so the blessing is the seventh day. Living in the seventh day, everything complete, everything finished. The Sabbath day let's talk about the Sabbath day. The Sabbath day you grew up in the American5:55 church culture which is typically Sunday but some churches celebrate Saturday as the Sabbath. The Jews you know sunset Friday, sunset Saturday. I mean where is the Sabbath day at?6:07 Good question but in American churches we think of the Sabbath as Sunday and it's going to church and it's God's day. It's a religious day. We do things for God. We feel guilty if you miss church.6:19 It's God's holy day. Right? Or is it? Why did God make the Sabbath day? 2 reasons. Number 1, it was a picture of what Adam lost and God was going to restore.6:33 Number 2, it was a day that caused man to stop. Remember, he's now in survival mode, painful toil and sweat. Anything he would have would be by his own doing so it forced him6:45 to stop or he would run every day. It stopped him and put his focus back on God and reminded him that God was his source and that God was going to restore someday that6:57 way of life that was above survival. Colossians the second chapter is a key scripture that we need to understand. Again, I'm going quickly. You can take notes but this7:09 is again life changing. When we get here a little bit further, you'll you'll see what I'm talking about. Laying a foundation right now. Colossians the second chapter verse 16. Therefore, do not let7:20 anyone judge you by what you eat or drink or with regard to a religious festival, a new moon celebration or a Sabbath day. These are a shadow of the things7:32 that were to come. The reality however is found in Christ. The Sabbath day was a shadow. The Old Testament7:44 shadow of the Sabbath pointed forward were to come to Jesus. But Jesus is here now. Thus, there is a Sabbath rest for God's people today.7:58 The Sabbath is not a day. For instance, Lazarus had died remember and Jesus came. They said to Jesus, if you would have been here my brother wouldn't have died.8:10 I know he'll rise again at the resurrection and what did Jesus say? No. I am the resurrection. Although the resurrection happens on a specified date Jesus8:22 said I am the resurrection. I am the life And so it is the Sabbath. Jesus is the Sabbath. He fulfilled the Sabbath. The Sabbath was only a shadow of Jesus coming and restoring back8:33 to man all that Adam lost. The Sabbath was only a shadow pointing forward. The reality is in Christ. Alright. Now we gotta talk about that reality.8:46 Matthew chapter 6. Jesus said, therefore, I tell you, do not worry about your life, what you eat or drink or about your body. What you wear is not life more than food and the body more than clothes.8:58 Your spiritual assignment on planet Earth is not just to pay your bills. In fact, it's totally been lopsided upside down.9:09 Houses and cars and the things of life are to serve you. Not you serve it. They are to serve your assignment and your purpose on earth. But here we are serving our house. Said, I'm not serving my house. How do you9:21 pay for it? Labor, hours. You are serving that. You are serving it. You're serving your car. You're serving things. And when people say, well, I'd love to serve God, but you know, I'm just so darn busy. I mean, I'd love9:33 to do this. I really had I really feel God has a vision. I I really have a vision to do this for God, but you know, I just don't have the money or I don't have the time. I mean, I'm already working 3 jobs just to9:42 survive. Yeah. You're in slavery. You are in slavery to the earth curse system and we have to find a way out because Jesus said things are not life.9:56 So the Sabbath they could not work. They could not painfully toil and sweat. Alright. That's that's cool. I get that. It was a shadow. A shadow gives you some attributes. It's not reality. In other10:08 words, if I had a shadow of something, I could see kind of some attributes of the thing, but I don't see the thing. Correct? But the shadow does tell us some things. So the shadow of the Sabbath tells10:20 us that what Jesus brought the reality So if the shadow said you can't work Jesus brought the real deal. That you're free from that earth curse10:31 system. You can find life. You can find purpose. You're not just living for a paycheck. Now I know what you're thinking. You're I don't know how to get there but hang with me we'll get there.10:43 But that wasn't good enough because your refrigerator can hold enough supplies for 1 day. God wanted to make it very plain what he was showing that10:55 was gonna come to pass. So in the bible, old testament, they had more than the Sabbath. They had a Sabbath year. Leviticus chapter 25 verse number 1. The Lord said to11:07 Moses at Mount Sinai, speak to the Israelites and say to them, when you enter the land I'm going to give you, the land itself must observe a Sabbath to the Lord for 6 years, sow your fields. For 6 years, prune your11:19 vineyards and gather their crops. But in the seventh year, the land is to have a year of Sabbath rest. Do not sow your fields or prune your vineyards. What's gonna happen? You took a year off.11:31 Can't harvest, can't sow. No labor, no painful toil and sweat for a year. That's interesting. So that's the shadow. Again the shadow is11:43 telling us there's a way of escape out of this survival earth curse system. But the Sabbath year had another message of the shadow. In Deuteronomy chapter 15 verse number 1 it says at the end of11:55 every 7 years you must cancel debts. Now it's getting intense. I can't sell my crops and John owes me 100000 dollars Ralph owes me12:07 50000 dollars So I'm supposed to not work and I'm supposed to cancel all the money I was counting on coming in from the debts that people owed me. Yep. That's why he added verse12:19 number 4. However, there need be no peep poor people among you. That's a good saying. For in the land the Lord your God has given you to possess as12:31 your inheritance, he will richly bless you if only you fully obey the Lord your God and are careful to follow all these commands I'm giving you today. For the Lord your God will bless you as he's promised and you will12:42 lend to many nations but borrow from none. You will rule over many nations but none will rule over you. Debt is a system of insufficiency. It is not part of God's system.12:55 He's making that plain. But now you are telling me okay I can't work for a year and I've got to forgive these debts. Mean someone help me please. Sounds good on paper but someone's got to help me understand this thing.13:08 So the shadow says there is freedom from the earth curve system and number 2 there is freedom from debt. Can I hear an Amen anywhere? Amen. Alright. The last shadow he13:20 wanted to make sure they saw regarding the Sabbath is called the year of Jubilee. Out of the book of Leviticus chapter 25 Moses said count off 7 Sabbath years.13:31 7 times 7. That's verse number 8. So that the 7 Sabbath years amount to a period of 49 years. Then have the trumpet sounded everywhere on the tenth day of the seventh month on the day of atonement. Sound the trumpet13:43 throughout your land. Consecrate the fiftieth year and proclaim liberty throughout the land to all of its inhabitants. It shall be a Jubilee for you. Each of you is to return13:55 to your family property and to your own clan. The fiftieth year shall be a Jubilee for you. Do not sow and do not reap what grows of itself or harvest the unattended vines.14:07 Do not reap what grows of itself or the unintended vines or what's left. If I'm not selling and I can't even pick up the the14:19 leftovers growing out there. It is a jubilee. It's to be holy. It only was trick taken directly from the fields. So I guess you can't pick up some things there.14:31 In this year of jubilee, everyone's to return to their own property. So the shadow, the year of jubilee said a couple things. Number 1, again, we have the no sowing, painful toil and sweat. But we have a problem because14:40 the 40 ninth year is a Sabbath year. They couldn't sow that year. They can't sow the fiftieth year and it takes all of year 51 to grow the crops to have a harvest almost 3 years. Number 2, the shadow says,14:51 all slaves are to be set free to return to their own clan. If you read the entire chapter, it's very specific. All slaves are to be set free. Why? It's a shadow. What is it saying to you? You're not a slave to the15:03 earth cursed system. You're a son and daughter of God. Remember it's aiming forward. The Jubilee is a picture of what was to come. The reality is in Christ. Number 3, all property was to be returned15:15 to its original owner. When they crossed the River Jordan, were all given an allotment of land. That was their prosperity. They're agricultural. Getting land was we've got it made. We can grow crops. We can prosper. So15:27 prosperity is returned. Son and daughter of the house of God is is now yours again. Remember Adam lost all this. It's now being returned. The reality is in Christ.15:39 But 3 years? Well, 3 years? Well, you're right. They asked that question. How? Moses answers that question. Leviticus chapter 25 verse 20. He says to them, excuse15:51 me, you may ask, how are we to eat? In the seventh year, we don't plant or harvest any crops. I will send such a blessing in the sixth year that the land will16:03 yield enough for 3 years. The entire year of Jubilee, the the Sabbath year before it and the year grazing those crops to maturity. I will bless you. While you plant during the eighth16:15 year, you'll eat from the old crop and will continue to eat from it until the harvest of the ninth year comes in. Alright. So getting some clarity here but how is this how is this possible? I believe Exodus16:27 chapter 16 gives us a very clear picture of how this is possible. Verse 23. Now remember this shadow is talking about you. Hebrews chapter 416:38 says, you have a Sabbath rest. This is all aimed to the future, but in Christ where you are, everything this is talking about, what the16:50 shadow says is yours. Exodus 16, this is regarding the manna. Moses said to them, this is what the Lord commands. Tomorrow is to be a day of Sabbath rest, a holy Sabbath to the Lord. So17:02 bake what you want to bake and boil what you want to boil. Save whatever is left and keep it until morning. So they saved it until morning as Moses commanded and it did not stink or get maggots in it. Now remember the17:12 the manna the manna came down every day but by noon it was gone and you could not keep it overnight. It would spoil. But on the sixth day, it did not spoil and God's17:24 telling them, gather twice the amount. Gather more more than you normally do. Eat it on the Sabbath because today is a Sabbath to the Lord. You'll not find any of it on the ground.17:36 6 days you are to gather it but on the seventh day, the Sabbath, there will not be any. Nevertheless, some of the people went out on the seventh day to gather it but they found none. Then the Lord said to Moses,17:48 how long will you refuse to keep my commands and my instructions? Bear in mind that the Lord has given you the Sabbath. That is why on the sixth day, he gives you bread for 2 days. Everyone has18:00 to stay where they are on the seventh day. No 1 has to go out. So the people rested. How is the Sabbath rest possible? On the sixth day, they received how much manna? Enough18:11 for 2 days, the double portion. Write this down somewhere big time in your notes. The Sabbath rest is not possible without the double portion.18:23 More than enough. Sabbath rest is not possible without the double portion. I noticed in this story we find on the seventh day people are out trying to18:35 gather manna when there wasn't any. This is exactly in my opinion how the church is living. Jesus has restored the seventh day to the church. These people obviously did not get the18:47 memo. They are hungry. They did not gather enough on the sixth day. They did not understand to gather that it would not spoil. They did not get the directive. They are hungry. They are out there gathering. They think18:59 God has failed them. When all along God has given them, already given them more than enough, they just did not know to gather it. I believe, again, personally, I believe this is where the19:11 church lives today. Jesus restored this. Remember this is all looking forward as a shadow. The reality is in Christ but people do not know how to tap into or19:23 even know about what I'm talking about. There can be no Sabbath rest without more than enough. When Jesus was water baptized at the river Jordan, you might remember the story. He came into his hometown19:35 of Nazareth, went into the temple, synagogue, picked up a scroll of Isaiah and read these words out of Luke chapter 4 16 through 21. We find these words.19:46 Actually, starting verse 18. The spirit of the Lord is upon me. Now he's quoting Isaiah 61. The spirit of the Lord is on me because he has anointed me to proclaim good news to the poor. Jesus'19:58 first message was to the poor. Why? Because unless they learn how to tap into the double portion, how to tap into this escape plan, this rest restoration if you20:10 will of what Adam had lost, they're gonna be slaves all of their life to survival. Remember the story of the Escalade? We had rented an Escalade for the women's conference and Drend and I had never driven an Escalade20:21 before. And you know it's pretty easy to guess. We kinda liked it. You know it drives great. And we've given cars away before but we never said you know well there's a lot of stories I could tell you but I don't know20:33 time. But we said this time, you know we like this. We'd like to have an Escalade. We like the white pearl white. We like the short Yeah. We came into agreement. We're gonna get 1 of these. Going out to pick20:45 up my paper, cell phone rings. This is probably a month later. A guy on the phone says, hey, I wanna buy you an Escalade. Why an Escalade? He was trying to what color do you20:56 want? So we had that 1. I've told that story many times. We have that 1. But this is the part that really did you see that? We drove it for about a year and the engine light came on and so I took it to a dealer and he21:08 said, oh there's some oil, there's bit of it says no big deal. GMCs do that sometime. There's a couple other minor issues but No big deal. The car was absolutely perfect. So I was talking to the guy that had given me the21:20 Escalade. How's that how's that Escalade running for you? I said it's perfect. I love it. I said the engine light came on and dealership checked it out. Just a little bit of sensors picking up just a little bit of oil no21:30 big deal they said nothing even to be concerned about it'll last as long as I want. He says tell you what he knew I had a house in Florida you drive that 1 to Florida I'll buy you I'll buy you another 1. I said what did21:40 you say? I have 2 identical pearl white Escalades. Now that caught my attention.21:52 That caught my attention. I was like really? But you gotta learn how to tap into it. Now okay we see the effect. All okay. Right. We see the effect. I don't have that. We gotta learn how do we tap into22:04 that double portion. How did these things happen? So I'm telling you that's this is life changing. The key, Hebrews chapter 4, there now remains a Sabbath22:15 rest for the people of God. A Sabbath rest, freedom. All of those shadows aimed at this point. The realities in Christ, you're in Christ, You22:27 have access to all of that but you have been trained in the earth curse system which is limiting you which is causing you to think wrong, anticipate wrong. You've got to change your thinking and you got to learn how22:39 the kingdom operates. Understanding what the Sabbath rest is, the double portion, more than enough, is a major key to22:51 your life. Understanding how we tap into the double portion, it's hidden, it's not obvious, and how God helps us, and how God got upset in Exodus 16 because they were out23:03 there trying to gather on the seventh day when all along he'd already provided it, but they missed it. Yeah. And I believe I believe that's the church age today. God has already provided more than enough. He's already23:15 provided the escape from the earth care system. The double portion, not just satisfied, not just satisfied. A lot of believers are satisfied, but they're not in the double portion. They're not23:27 having those 12 baskets left over to be fully free to accomplish their assignment.23:31 Mhmm.23:31 And so this book is essential.23:33 Right. It's about the assignment. Grab a hold of Gary's book and you know, God has good things for you. You can get into the kingdom. You can go from just beginning to buy to getting to the place of being23:45 completely fulfilled in Christ.23:48 That's all the time we have today. Go to Gary Kasey dot com and get Your Financial Revolution, The Power of Rest. I guarantee the principles of revelation, that book, will literally change your life. It's what changed23:58 our life. And you can get it all right there, plus a lot of other great articles on the kingdom, how the kingdom operates. We would like to mentor you in the kingdom, the laws of the kingdom, an understanding of how24:09 God's kingdom operates. Also, you consider becoming part of Team Revolution, our mentorship program. We look forward to seeing you next time right here on fixing the money thing.24:20 There are 24 hours in a day, 525600 minutes in a year. But when do you find time to rest?24:30 See, you can only rest if everything's taken care of. And there's a concept in the Bible, which we call the power of rest, that the New Testament talks about in Hebrews chapter 4 verse 9 that says, there24:41 remains a Sabbath rest for the people of God. A lot of people think that's Old Testament, but the New Testament says there's a Sabbath rest for New Testament people. And it's not24:53 talking about what day is Sunday or Saturday or the the Sabbath. It's talking about what happened on the Sabbath, or I should say what didn't happen. What couldn't happen is they were not allowed to work on the Sabbath,25:05 and yet their needs were well taken care of. In fact, they had the Sabbath year, the year of Jubilee, and all of those instances, they were not allowed to work, yet they had an abundance of provision.25:17 Your abundance, your double portion is in the Sabbath rest. Gary Kasim's timeless message shows you the spiritual principles necessary to discover your much needed respite from the25:28 rush of day to day life. The power of rest is an essential piece of understanding the kingdom. Gary's book, Your Financial Revolution, Power of Rest, and a step by step25:40 workbook make it easier than ever to unlock your kingdom promises and set yourself on the path to prosperity. This power of rest bundle is always available online or over the25:52 phone. But haven't you slaved for long enough?25:55 There's things to get done in the earth and you need the the the double portion and the Sabbath rest to get past survival into your destiny.26:04 Your destiny awaits. You weren't meant to work in painful toil and sweat all 525600 minutes of the year. You were meant to26:15 prosper through kingdom provision working in your life.26:20 And God has put it in our spirit that we have to get this out there because people need to know what the Sabbath rest is. God wants you to find rest in purpose and passion. Not trying to get to Friday night and26:32 try to find vacation, but he wants you to look forward to Mondays. And that's possible, friend. It's possible.26:38 Rest means living without worry, anxiety, or stress. Find refreshment with Gary's eye opening teaching, now available as an audiobook. Call the number on your screen, visit our26:50 website, or write faith life now at PO Box 7 79, New Albany, Ohio 4 3 0 5 4 to confirm your prosperity and rest today. The most27:02 transformative of the 5 financial revolution books is your solution to world weary exhaustion. Now is your time to rest. Look forward to Monday, and don't27:14 waste a single minute.27:16 I believe this. Once you have 1 experience with the kingdom, it changes your life forever.27:23 Have you been baptized in the Holy Spirit? This essential information is so important, it's on Gary's heart to share it with you for free. Claim the gift of his pivotal book27:35 today. It's time to defeat your debt and discover your destiny.27:41 Well, this27:49 going to to do We're experience Faith Life Church for yourself. 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