WEBVTT 00:00:00.000 --> 00:00:05.080 We hope that you enjoy this teaching from Christ Church. 00:00:05.719 --> 00:00:11.599 This material is copyrighted and no unauthorized duplication, redistribution, or any other 00:00:11.599 --> 00:00:15.280 use of any part is permitted without prior consent from Christ Church. 00:00:15.640 --> 00:00:22.620 Please consider donating to this work in the San Francisco Bay Area online at ChristChurchEastBay.org. 00:00:27.359 --> 00:00:28.480 Hello, everyone. 00:00:28.480 --> 00:00:33.700 My name is Megan Kelly, and I am part of the Central Berkeley Community Group. 00:00:34.439 --> 00:00:38.980 Today's reading is from the book of Deuteronomy, selected verses from chapter 5. 00:00:39.079 --> 00:00:42.340 We have added one verse, but it's otherwise as printed in your liturgy. 00:00:44.219 --> 00:00:47.519 And Moses summoned all Israel and said to them, 00:00:48.140 --> 00:00:52.760 Hear, O Israel, the statutes and the rules that I speak in your hearing today, 00:00:53.280 --> 00:00:56.019 and you shall learn them and be careful to do them. 00:00:56.020 --> 00:01:02.460 It was not with our ancestors that the Lord made this covenant, but with us, with all 00:01:02.460 --> 00:01:04.219 of us who are alive here today. 00:01:05.040 --> 00:01:09.780 The Lord spoke with you face to face at the mountain, out of the midst of the fire. 00:01:09.780 --> 00:01:16.760 I am the Lord your God, who brought you out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of slavery. 00:01:17.400 --> 00:01:20.120 You shall have no other gods before me. 00:01:20.780 --> 00:01:28.819 You shall not make for yourself an image in the form of anything in heaven above or on the earth beneath or in the waters below. 00:01:28.819 --> 00:01:36.339 You shall not bow down to them or worship them, for I, the Lord your God, am a jealous God, 00:01:37.000 --> 00:01:43.099 punishing the children for the sin of the parents to the third and fourth generation of those who hate me, 00:01:43.799 --> 00:01:49.619 but showing love to a thousand generations of those who love me and keep my commandments. 00:01:49.620 --> 00:01:57.780 You shall not misuse the name of the Lord your God, for the Lord will not hold anyone guiltless who misuses his name. 00:01:59.040 --> 00:02:06.700 Observe the Sabbath day by keeping it holy as the Lord your God has commanded you. 00:02:07.560 --> 00:02:13.240 Six days you shall labor and do all your work, but the seventh day is a Sabbath to the Lord your God. 00:02:13.240 --> 00:02:20.080 On it you shall do no work, neither you nor your son or daughter, nor your male or female servant, 00:02:20.700 --> 00:02:26.719 nor your ox, your donkey, or any of your animals, nor any foreigner residing in your towns, 00:02:27.120 --> 00:02:31.120 so that your male and female servants may rest as you do. 00:02:32.200 --> 00:02:39.860 Remember that you were slaves in Egypt and that the Lord your God brought you out of there with a mighty hand and an outstretched arm. 00:02:39.860 --> 00:02:45.080 Therefore, the Lord your God has commanded you to observe the Sabbath day. 00:02:46.360 --> 00:02:50.080 Honor your father and your mother as the Lord your God has commanded you, 00:02:50.520 --> 00:02:55.780 so that you may live long and that it may go well with you in the land the Lord your God is giving you. 00:02:56.720 --> 00:02:57.840 You shall not murder. 00:02:58.660 --> 00:03:00.260 You shall not commit adultery. 00:03:00.680 --> 00:03:01.720 You shall not steal. 00:03:02.480 --> 00:03:05.480 You shall not give false testimony against your neighbor. 00:03:06.180 --> 00:03:08.260 You shall not covet your neighbor's wife. 00:03:08.259 --> 00:03:14.500 You shall not set your desire on your neighbor's house or land, his male or female servant, 00:03:14.959 --> 00:03:18.139 his ox or donkey, or anything that belongs to your neighbor. 00:03:19.179 --> 00:03:22.699 These words the Lord spoke to all your assembly at the mountain, 00:03:23.079 --> 00:03:26.319 out of the midst of the fire, the cloud, and the thick darkness, 00:03:26.939 --> 00:03:29.840 with a loud voice, and he added no more. 00:03:30.659 --> 00:03:34.459 And he wrote them on two tablets of stone, and he gave them to me. 00:03:34.460 --> 00:03:39.939 You shall be careful, therefore, to do as the Lord your God has commanded you. 00:03:40.800 --> 00:03:43.580 You shall not turn aside to the right hand or to the left. 00:03:44.300 --> 00:03:47.700 You shall walk in all the way that the Lord your God has commanded you, 00:03:47.980 --> 00:03:50.860 that you may live, and that it may go well with you, 00:03:51.379 --> 00:03:54.480 and that you may live long in the land that you shall possess. 00:03:54.479 --> 00:03:57.919 The grass withers and the flowers fade. 00:03:58.699 --> 00:03:59.939 Good morning, my God. 00:04:15.299 --> 00:04:16.000 All right. 00:04:16.099 --> 00:04:17.579 Well, good morning to you all. 00:04:17.579 --> 00:04:24.259 If you've been here for any length of time, you know that I love, love, love the bumper stickers of Berkeley. 00:04:24.979 --> 00:04:28.539 And one of my favorite bumper stickers is, 00:04:29.259 --> 00:04:30.219 Welcome to Berkeley. 00:04:30.819 --> 00:04:32.159 Now stop doing that. 00:04:33.199 --> 00:04:33.919 Has anyone seen that? 00:04:34.180 --> 00:04:35.740 It's a great bumper sticker. 00:04:35.879 --> 00:04:39.419 I've not seen anything written on stones around this town, 00:04:39.420 --> 00:04:43.980 but there are certainly lists of commands, 00:04:44.140 --> 00:04:51.080 lists of prohibitions and prescriptions that are expected of you as a citizen of the People's Republic of Berkeley. 00:04:52.000 --> 00:04:56.900 In some ways, you could argue that the yard sign has become the new bumper sticker. 00:04:57.379 --> 00:04:59.280 There's a woman named Kristen Garvey. 00:04:59.500 --> 00:05:01.700 She's a librarian in Madison, Wisconsin. 00:05:01.900 --> 00:05:06.360 She developed a new yard sign in 2016. 00:05:06.360 --> 00:05:10.740 She took a Sharpie with a white poster board, and she inscribed these words. 00:05:11.319 --> 00:05:11.500 It says, 00:05:11.639 --> 00:05:14.980 In this house, we believe black lives matter. 00:05:15.160 --> 00:05:16.639 Women's rights are human rights. 00:05:16.780 --> 00:05:17.939 No human is illegal. 00:05:18.199 --> 00:05:19.240 Science is real. 00:05:19.420 --> 00:05:20.780 Love is love. 00:05:20.960 --> 00:05:22.240 Kindness is everything. 00:05:22.520 --> 00:05:24.400 Anybody seen this sign around town? 00:05:25.199 --> 00:05:27.920 This sign has also spawned other versions. 00:05:28.680 --> 00:05:31.480 In this house, we believe in God, the Father Almighty, 00:05:31.639 --> 00:05:32.699 maker of heaven and earth, 00:05:32.780 --> 00:05:34.900 and on and on through the Nicene Creed. 00:05:34.900 --> 00:05:35.900 I kind of like that sign. 00:05:36.560 --> 00:05:37.980 There's another sign that says, 00:05:38.160 --> 00:05:41.280 In this house, we believe that simplistic platitudes, 00:05:41.500 --> 00:05:44.420 trite tautologies, and semantically overloaded aphorisms 00:05:44.420 --> 00:05:48.240 are poor substitutes for respectful and rational discussions about complex issues. 00:05:49.699 --> 00:05:53.460 And I particularly like that sign, if you know anything about me. 00:05:54.460 --> 00:05:59.699 I bring this up because the human heart and human society can't live without lists. 00:05:59.699 --> 00:06:03.680 We can't live without lists of basic beliefs and behaviors, 00:06:03.680 --> 00:06:07.659 of simple creeds and conduct that flows out of that creed, 00:06:07.759 --> 00:06:11.120 of a list of, you know, basic truths about reality 00:06:11.120 --> 00:06:16.279 and guidelines for how to live in alignment with that reality. 00:06:16.279 --> 00:06:22.979 And because the mission of Christ Church is to lead people into a deeper relationship with Jesus Christ, 00:06:22.979 --> 00:06:26.539 I want to help us grapple today with Jesus' short list. 00:06:26.759 --> 00:06:28.439 Jesus' short list of essentials. 00:06:28.659 --> 00:06:30.959 His short list of non-negotiables. 00:06:31.079 --> 00:06:34.799 And that's why we're going to dive back in to Jesus' favorite book of the Bible, 00:06:34.899 --> 00:06:35.939 the book of Deuteronomy. 00:06:36.479 --> 00:06:40.399 And we're going to look today at this most influential text in the history of the world, 00:06:40.399 --> 00:06:45.359 the Ten Commandments, these God-given standards of the Ten Commands, 00:06:46.139 --> 00:06:50.479 are really the heart and the foundation of the message of Deuteronomy 00:06:50.479 --> 00:06:53.679 because they represent Yahweh, the Lord, 00:06:53.879 --> 00:06:59.479 and His loving, covenantal, marital relationship with His people. 00:07:00.739 --> 00:07:07.739 There's a certain here and now urgency about these commands for us here in the East Bay in 2021. 00:07:07.740 --> 00:07:10.980 And I don't know why we left this out. 00:07:11.079 --> 00:07:11.800 It was my bad. 00:07:11.900 --> 00:07:14.960 But verse 3, you just heard Megan read. 00:07:15.079 --> 00:07:17.620 In the Hebrew, it literally says, 00:07:18.639 --> 00:07:24.439 with us, we, these ones here today, all of us living now. 00:07:25.220 --> 00:07:27.280 That's who God has made this covenant with. 00:07:27.319 --> 00:07:32.319 It's a contemporary claim with each new generation of God's people. 00:07:32.319 --> 00:07:39.500 And these Ten Commands are given to Israel as a whole, collectively, as a comprehensive unit. 00:07:39.620 --> 00:07:45.259 And yet, each one is spoken in the second person's singular, you. 00:07:45.939 --> 00:07:47.199 You, Jonathan. 00:07:47.959 --> 00:07:49.500 You, Catherine. 00:07:49.699 --> 00:07:55.379 You shall bow down to no other gods besides me alone. 00:07:56.319 --> 00:08:00.839 Each of us are directly responsible to God for each of these things. 00:08:00.839 --> 00:08:07.079 And what this list really is, is a sketch of a contrast society. 00:08:07.239 --> 00:08:10.219 It's a sketch of an alternative way of life. 00:08:10.459 --> 00:08:12.259 A way that's different from the Egyptians. 00:08:12.479 --> 00:08:15.239 A way that's different from the Canaanites. 00:08:15.379 --> 00:08:23.239 This is a sketch of a different way of envisioning and living in a world where Yahweh, the Lord, is king. 00:08:23.779 --> 00:08:27.099 And in that sense, it's a blueprint for how to love Him. 00:08:27.100 --> 00:08:36.300 It's a blueprint for how to order and regulate the loves of our community so that we can live in harmony and peace under the rule of God. 00:08:36.340 --> 00:08:38.040 That's what the Ten Commands are all about. 00:08:38.899 --> 00:08:42.440 I could preach, I think, a year's worth of sermons on this. 00:08:42.519 --> 00:08:46.060 But what's the one thing I think we need to hear today? 00:08:46.059 --> 00:08:47.459 It's this. 00:08:48.979 --> 00:08:55.719 That our bondage breaker commands rest and shalom. 00:08:56.379 --> 00:09:03.019 That's what I want to see today, is that our bondage breaker commands rest and shalom. 00:09:03.099 --> 00:09:06.339 And I like to start by talking about our bondage breaker. 00:09:06.340 --> 00:09:13.180 Because there's a widespread assumption that if God is there, He wants us to follow the rules. 00:09:13.899 --> 00:09:24.720 In order to find credibility and acceptance with God, we must behave ourselves and obey His laws and follow His rules if we want to win His love and get in His good graces. 00:09:25.580 --> 00:09:27.139 Where did that idea come from? 00:09:27.700 --> 00:09:31.500 Why do we associate our behavior with acceptability to God? 00:09:31.500 --> 00:09:35.240 I don't know, but it's deeply ingrained in all of us, myself included. 00:09:36.179 --> 00:09:38.700 I've got to set things right in my life. 00:09:38.779 --> 00:09:40.000 I've got to do better. 00:09:40.100 --> 00:09:41.100 I've got to start praying. 00:09:41.179 --> 00:09:42.100 I've got to pull it together. 00:09:42.299 --> 00:09:43.419 Then God will notice me. 00:09:43.539 --> 00:09:44.440 Then God will love me. 00:09:44.559 --> 00:09:46.799 Then God will rescue me. 00:09:47.399 --> 00:09:49.100 But I want us to look at verse 6. 00:09:49.200 --> 00:09:52.059 Verse 6 is the foundation stone of the Ten Commandments. 00:09:52.139 --> 00:09:54.220 And there's different ways to read it. 00:09:54.320 --> 00:09:56.100 One way is just to not read it. 00:09:56.159 --> 00:09:57.200 To skip over it. 00:09:57.379 --> 00:09:59.120 So that this sounds like this. 00:09:59.120 --> 00:10:00.919 God said, you shall not. 00:10:02.159 --> 00:10:06.539 If you want to curry my favor, if you want to gain my love, then you better behave. 00:10:06.659 --> 00:10:08.059 You better act right. 00:10:08.500 --> 00:10:17.159 And if we skip over verse 6, then God seems like a severe, harsh, exacting, demanding, inflexible God. 00:10:17.759 --> 00:10:23.820 But another way to read it is not to skip over verse 6, but to just kind of change verse 6 a little bit to read like this. 00:10:23.820 --> 00:10:36.220 I am the Lord, I am the Lord, the God, which makes God seem distant and impersonal, like a detached, indifferent, unloving God. 00:10:36.220 --> 00:10:39.480 But what does verse 6 actually say? 00:10:40.399 --> 00:10:43.080 It says, I am the Lord, your God. 00:10:43.759 --> 00:10:46.660 I'm a personal, intimate God. 00:10:46.740 --> 00:10:48.220 I'm your God. 00:10:48.300 --> 00:10:50.600 And you already are mine. 00:10:50.700 --> 00:10:51.720 You're already in. 00:10:51.820 --> 00:10:53.920 You belong to me. 00:10:54.040 --> 00:10:57.560 These rules that follow are not the condition of a relationship. 00:10:57.559 --> 00:11:04.079 They're the confirmation of a relationship that I've made with you by grace through faith. 00:11:05.279 --> 00:11:07.179 You don't gain your acceptance. 00:11:07.339 --> 00:11:15.539 You don't gain your deliverance through your behavior because I am the Lord, your God, who brought you out of Egypt, out of the house of slavery. 00:11:15.539 --> 00:11:19.519 I've already shown that I'm your advocate. 00:11:19.519 --> 00:11:25.019 I've already proven that I'm your defender, your rescuer, your liberator. 00:11:25.159 --> 00:11:26.159 I saw you. 00:11:26.319 --> 00:11:28.559 I heard you and your groaning. 00:11:28.699 --> 00:11:31.299 I came to save you. 00:11:32.179 --> 00:11:37.399 And that's why I'm commanding all of your love right now. 00:11:38.279 --> 00:11:39.679 Here's a couple of examples. 00:11:40.120 --> 00:11:43.039 Any dog owners here or dog lovers here? 00:11:43.620 --> 00:11:44.659 I see you out there. 00:11:44.659 --> 00:11:47.360 We had a dog growing up named Junior. 00:11:47.600 --> 00:11:48.039 Wonderful. 00:11:49.059 --> 00:11:53.839 Well, he was a dog that tried really hard. 00:11:54.000 --> 00:11:57.100 He was a golden retriever. 00:11:57.339 --> 00:11:58.019 We loved him. 00:11:58.100 --> 00:11:59.719 He was a terribly behaved dog. 00:12:00.839 --> 00:12:03.980 But the question is, when did Junior become our dog? 00:12:04.860 --> 00:12:09.759 Did he become our dog when we put him in our yard behind the protection of our fence? 00:12:10.439 --> 00:12:14.220 So that if Junior got out, he wasn't our dog anymore. 00:12:14.959 --> 00:12:15.240 Right? 00:12:15.279 --> 00:12:18.620 And our neighbors would find Junior and they'd call us up and they'd be like, hey, we found 00:12:18.620 --> 00:12:19.139 your dog. 00:12:19.199 --> 00:12:20.879 And we're like, no, that's not our dog. 00:12:20.939 --> 00:12:23.179 And they're like, well, your name and your number's on his tag. 00:12:23.219 --> 00:12:24.779 And we're like, yeah, but he's not in our yard. 00:12:24.839 --> 00:12:26.259 He's not behind our fence anymore. 00:12:26.360 --> 00:12:27.279 He's not our dog. 00:12:29.879 --> 00:12:32.879 Junior became our dog when we chose Junior. 00:12:33.879 --> 00:12:36.600 Junior became our dog when we purchased Junior. 00:12:36.600 --> 00:12:42.700 And then we put Junior in our yard and behind our fence because he was our dog. 00:12:43.159 --> 00:12:46.899 And we wanted him to become the best dog he could possibly be. 00:12:47.840 --> 00:12:48.980 He never really got there. 00:12:49.340 --> 00:12:53.040 But kids, here's another example. 00:12:53.180 --> 00:12:54.920 Kids, any of you have parents? 00:12:56.259 --> 00:12:56.500 Okay. 00:12:56.560 --> 00:12:58.840 Do any of you have parents who give you rules? 00:12:59.540 --> 00:13:03.519 In my family growing up, we had some rules that if you didn't follow them, you got in 00:13:03.519 --> 00:13:04.780 trouble for the three Ds. 00:13:04.840 --> 00:13:08.740 It was disrespect, dishonesty, and disobedience. 00:13:08.780 --> 00:13:12.720 My parents wanted me to be respectful, be honest, and be obedient. 00:13:12.720 --> 00:13:20.840 And they, but they didn't say to me, hey, if you follow my rules, then you'll be my child 00:13:20.840 --> 00:13:22.680 and you'll be part of our family. 00:13:22.720 --> 00:13:24.840 And if you don't follow the rules, then you're out. 00:13:25.019 --> 00:13:27.139 Like, good luck with life. 00:13:27.200 --> 00:13:29.040 Hope you find somebody who can care for you. 00:13:30.180 --> 00:13:32.019 And it's the same with me and my parenting. 00:13:32.779 --> 00:13:37.860 Following my rules does not determine whether or not you're my kid. 00:13:39.200 --> 00:13:41.399 You don't obey to be loved. 00:13:41.399 --> 00:13:45.620 You obey because you're loved. 00:13:46.299 --> 00:13:46.639 Right? 00:13:47.100 --> 00:13:48.740 And we, that's how it works with God. 00:13:49.079 --> 00:13:49.319 What? 00:13:50.120 --> 00:13:51.000 You're mine. 00:13:51.379 --> 00:13:52.039 I'm yours. 00:13:52.139 --> 00:13:53.100 I already belong. 00:13:53.659 --> 00:13:54.059 Wow. 00:13:54.220 --> 00:13:55.000 Thank you. 00:13:55.480 --> 00:13:57.360 How can I please you? 00:13:57.439 --> 00:14:00.720 I just want to learn how I can love you back. 00:14:00.799 --> 00:14:06.399 And that's why this blueprint of the Ten Commandments is not a blueprint for salvation. 00:14:06.559 --> 00:14:08.500 It's a blueprint for love. 00:14:08.500 --> 00:14:11.279 It's a blueprint for grateful love. 00:14:12.259 --> 00:14:17.600 Now that you know who I am, that by grace, I am the Lord your God, that I took initiative 00:14:17.600 --> 00:14:20.779 for you to belong to me and belong to my redeemed people. 00:14:21.639 --> 00:14:27.139 And now that you know what I've done, that by grace, I brought you out of Egypt, out of 00:14:27.139 --> 00:14:29.579 your captivity, out of your oppression. 00:14:29.580 --> 00:14:33.500 I don't want you to obey some cold set of rules. 00:14:33.860 --> 00:14:37.800 I want you to have a warm relationship with me. 00:14:39.160 --> 00:14:41.040 Salvation is by grace. 00:14:41.660 --> 00:14:44.420 And grace leads to gratitude. 00:14:45.520 --> 00:14:47.280 God says, I've set you free. 00:14:48.000 --> 00:14:52.540 And these commands are the way to protect and preserve your freedom. 00:14:52.539 --> 00:14:59.879 If you learn my character in these commands, if you learn to love what I love, if you learn 00:14:59.879 --> 00:15:06.959 what pleases me, if you can learn how to have an exclusive, undivided, loyal love relationship 00:15:06.960 --> 00:15:12.200 with me, then you, my people, will be the freest people in the world. 00:15:13.160 --> 00:15:14.680 Because that's who I am. 00:15:15.320 --> 00:15:16.700 I'm the bondage breaker. 00:15:17.139 --> 00:15:21.940 And that's what it means to have a relationship with me to be a free people. 00:15:23.379 --> 00:15:23.820 Amen? 00:15:23.820 --> 00:15:23.980 Amen. 00:15:24.879 --> 00:15:27.940 Our bondage breaker commands rest. 00:15:28.000 --> 00:15:32.820 And I just love this because, you know, a lot of people see the God of the Old Testament 00:15:32.820 --> 00:15:36.980 as an angry, vindictive, harsh, tyrannical, oppressive kind of God. 00:15:37.500 --> 00:15:40.560 But the longest of his commands is a command for us to rest. 00:15:41.620 --> 00:15:45.220 And that's why I want to focus on commandment number four, keep the Sabbath holy. 00:15:45.920 --> 00:15:48.140 It's the longest and most specific of the commands. 00:15:49.120 --> 00:15:53.300 It's the hinge command between how to love God and how to love other people. 00:15:54.180 --> 00:15:57.379 It's the most reiterated command in all of the Old Testament. 00:15:57.780 --> 00:16:01.040 It's the most ignored command by the North American church. 00:16:02.140 --> 00:16:07.760 We've had a pandemic year of over a year's practice of not Sabbathing together. 00:16:08.460 --> 00:16:13.180 And here we are in this post-pandemic, post-industrial information economy 00:16:13.180 --> 00:16:16.879 where all of us feel hurried, overburdened, and exhausted. 00:16:17.100 --> 00:16:18.420 And we're like Bilbo Baggins. 00:16:18.720 --> 00:16:22.940 I am too little butter spread over too much toast. 00:16:22.940 --> 00:16:23.860 Right? 00:16:24.700 --> 00:16:27.740 So let's look at this command for a second. 00:16:27.860 --> 00:16:28.500 Verse 12. 00:16:30.060 --> 00:16:35.020 Observe the Sabbath day by keeping it holy, as the Lord your God has commanded you. 00:16:35.120 --> 00:16:41.320 Six days you shall labor and do all your work, but the seventh day is a Sabbath to the Lord your God. 00:16:42.260 --> 00:16:45.480 This is not a casual, nonchalant, take or leave suggestion. 00:16:45.480 --> 00:16:52.639 It's a command that involves one out of seven of our days, almost two months of our year, 00:16:53.560 --> 00:16:57.600 10 years of our life over the span of 70 years. 00:16:57.680 --> 00:16:58.539 What does it mean? 00:16:58.620 --> 00:17:00.539 What does this word Sabbath mean? 00:17:00.539 --> 00:17:06.299 The word Sabbath literally means cease, stop, rest. 00:17:07.220 --> 00:17:09.960 And what does it mean to keep this Sabbath day holy? 00:17:10.519 --> 00:17:14.799 It means that we set it apart as special, that it's unlike other days. 00:17:14.799 --> 00:17:16.180 It's totally different. 00:17:16.299 --> 00:17:18.740 It's not a day off because you just had that yesterday. 00:17:18.839 --> 00:17:19.839 It's not a second Saturday. 00:17:20.359 --> 00:17:21.779 It's not more me time. 00:17:21.899 --> 00:17:27.000 It's not more time to do what I want, to cram in more, get more travel, get more sports, 00:17:27.000 --> 00:17:28.519 binge more of this or that. 00:17:29.640 --> 00:17:34.000 It says, keep the Sabbath to Yahweh your God. 00:17:34.720 --> 00:17:39.099 Not keep the Sabbath to me, keep the Sabbath to the Lord. 00:17:39.200 --> 00:17:42.900 The Sabbath exists to remind me that life is not about me. 00:17:43.740 --> 00:17:48.720 And the default mode of the human heart is to put myself at the center. 00:17:49.640 --> 00:17:53.519 Our mothers and fathers of the faith, they used to say, you know, we are, all of us, 00:17:53.819 --> 00:17:56.180 homo incurvatus in se. 00:17:56.180 --> 00:17:59.500 We are human beings curved in on ourselves. 00:17:59.720 --> 00:18:05.500 And our fatal flaw is that we push God out, that we make him irrelevant and trivial and 00:18:05.500 --> 00:18:08.039 peripheral and marginal to our lives. 00:18:08.100 --> 00:18:13.440 And having done that, we create, we make created things ultimate things. 00:18:13.600 --> 00:18:17.500 We take good things and we turn them into God-like things. 00:18:17.600 --> 00:18:23.039 Our work, the money that we make from our work, the achievements that we accomplish in 00:18:23.039 --> 00:18:25.519 our work, the approval that we get in our work. 00:18:25.519 --> 00:18:30.559 And instead of saying, you know, God is the center, God is everything for me and work 00:18:30.559 --> 00:18:31.859 is how I serve him. 00:18:32.339 --> 00:18:34.839 We so easily say, you know, my work is everything. 00:18:34.960 --> 00:18:39.799 And that's where I find my identity and my purpose and my very salvation. 00:18:40.639 --> 00:18:42.599 And that's why God gave us this command. 00:18:42.720 --> 00:18:48.180 This seventh day tells us that life is not about me and it's not about what I produce. 00:18:48.519 --> 00:18:53.539 Life is about the Lord and what it means to have a relationship with him. 00:18:53.539 --> 00:19:01.700 The people of God had 400 years under the tyranny of unceasing work, not a single day off. 00:19:02.579 --> 00:19:05.619 But the Lord of the Exodus came and he willed their freedom. 00:19:05.740 --> 00:19:10.740 And when he willed their freedom, he also willed for them to have one day in seven where they 00:19:10.740 --> 00:19:11.680 were free people. 00:19:11.680 --> 00:19:18.019 And you see, the freedom is not the absence of restrictions. 00:19:18.320 --> 00:19:20.720 Freedom is finding the right restrictions. 00:19:20.960 --> 00:19:25.860 Freedom is finding the most liberating and humanizing restrictions. 00:19:25.960 --> 00:19:31.380 There's a huge difference between freedom from and freedom for. 00:19:31.960 --> 00:19:33.279 And God says, yes, you are. 00:19:33.320 --> 00:19:38.140 I want you to be free from your work, but I want you to do that so you can be free for worship. 00:19:38.140 --> 00:19:43.620 We all need the external rest of our bodies, right? 00:19:44.140 --> 00:19:45.180 I mean, is that just me? 00:19:45.380 --> 00:19:46.280 Who's exhausted? 00:19:46.560 --> 00:19:49.460 We need the external rest for our bodies. 00:19:49.640 --> 00:19:54.200 But what we need even more is the inner recalibration of our souls. 00:19:56.100 --> 00:20:01.180 When Catherine and I have a date night, which is not as often as it should be, and that's just 00:20:01.180 --> 00:20:07.180 a public time of confession for me, I know some of you will keep me accountable to become 00:20:07.180 --> 00:20:09.200 a better husband, the husband that I should be. 00:20:09.259 --> 00:20:17.900 But when Catherine and I have a date night, it enables us to move from coexisting and running, 00:20:18.080 --> 00:20:25.660 mutually running St. Clair Enterprises to sitting down and looking one another eye to eye 00:20:25.660 --> 00:20:32.320 and sharing heart to heart and enjoying this union that we have and renewing the covenant 00:20:32.320 --> 00:20:34.100 that we've made with each other. 00:20:34.860 --> 00:20:36.740 My kids are like, ooh, Dad, that's gross. 00:20:38.380 --> 00:20:39.420 You're embarrassing us. 00:20:39.580 --> 00:20:42.440 But the Sabbath is kind of like that. 00:20:42.440 --> 00:20:50.759 The Sabbath is like a date with the Lord our God to renew our intimacy and our joy and our 00:20:50.759 --> 00:20:54.259 pleasure in having a relationship with Him. 00:20:54.259 --> 00:20:56.759 Listen to what He says in verse 15. 00:20:56.879 --> 00:21:01.640 He says, remember that you were slaves in Egypt and that the Lord your God brought you out 00:21:01.640 --> 00:21:05.119 of there with a mighty hand and an outstretched arm. 00:21:06.160 --> 00:21:09.279 God is saying, look, it doesn't take long for our memory to fade. 00:21:09.279 --> 00:21:14.660 It takes about six days to forget God, to forget your identity in God, to forget about your relationship 00:21:14.660 --> 00:21:17.559 with God, to let your heart grow cold. 00:21:17.559 --> 00:21:25.859 And so what you need is a day to be reminded of the strong hands of your creator God who 00:21:25.859 --> 00:21:30.419 worked mightily to redeem you from the chains that had you in bondage. 00:21:30.480 --> 00:21:37.899 What you need is a day to be reminded of the strong arms of the Lord that stretch themselves 00:21:37.899 --> 00:21:42.039 way out in compassion for you to bring you close to Himself. 00:21:42.039 --> 00:21:49.039 What you need is a day to be reminded of how this God uncreated and dismantled an entire 00:21:49.039 --> 00:21:54.480 kingdom, an entire empire in order to set you free. 00:21:54.480 --> 00:21:59.440 And see, the early Christians got this, right? 00:21:59.480 --> 00:22:06.319 When they celebrated their Sabbath day, it was a day of just unbelievable joy and delight. 00:22:06.779 --> 00:22:11.839 Because when they came together, they were remembering that resurrection day when they 00:22:11.839 --> 00:22:14.980 heard the news, Christ is risen from the dead. 00:22:15.519 --> 00:22:19.500 And that's what shifted the Sabbath day to Sunday, right? 00:22:19.500 --> 00:22:25.420 And they would come together on Sunday and they would celebrate their liberation from their 00:22:25.420 --> 00:22:28.180 old life of bondage to sin and death. 00:22:28.200 --> 00:22:34.200 And they would celebrate their entry into this new life of freedom that Jesus bought for them 00:22:34.200 --> 00:22:35.160 by His blood. 00:22:35.680 --> 00:22:42.559 They would celebrate His mighty hands that He allowed to be pierced for their salvation. 00:22:42.700 --> 00:22:47.500 They celebrated His outstretched arms of love on that cross. 00:22:47.500 --> 00:22:54.400 They celebrated the rest that Jesus won for them when He cried out, 00:22:54.880 --> 00:22:57.019 It is finished. 00:22:58.140 --> 00:23:04.940 All the work that was needed for your salvation has been accomplished. 00:23:05.140 --> 00:23:06.539 You are a free people. 00:23:06.940 --> 00:23:09.099 You are a victorious people. 00:23:09.799 --> 00:23:14.740 And the first Christians, they would come together and they would meditate on that deliverance story 00:23:14.740 --> 00:23:17.880 from the scriptures and they would literally chew on Jesus. 00:23:18.079 --> 00:23:21.120 They would chew on the gospel at the Lord's Supper. 00:23:21.180 --> 00:23:22.079 And then you know what they would do? 00:23:22.180 --> 00:23:23.500 They would linger. 00:23:24.620 --> 00:23:29.559 They would linger and they would luxuriate with what they called an agape feast. 00:23:30.579 --> 00:23:38.599 Their agape feast was this love feast where they had like a long, lavish lunch party with Jesus, 00:23:38.599 --> 00:23:42.539 the resurrected Jesus as their host and the center of attention. 00:23:42.980 --> 00:23:47.939 And these were such raucous parties that the Apostle Paul had to write a letter, 1 Corinthians. 00:23:48.319 --> 00:23:50.939 And he had to say, hey, your feasts are so festive. 00:23:51.219 --> 00:23:53.279 You need to kind of dial it back a little bit. 00:23:53.359 --> 00:23:54.419 Some of you are getting drunk. 00:23:55.019 --> 00:23:56.959 Some of you are going home from church getting drunk. 00:23:58.139 --> 00:23:59.659 Why were they so excited? 00:23:59.660 --> 00:24:03.060 Because the living Lord was in their midst. 00:24:03.600 --> 00:24:09.220 The crucified yet risen Jesus had come among them and he had said, come to me, 00:24:09.779 --> 00:24:14.220 all you who are weary and all of you who are burdened, 00:24:14.220 --> 00:24:17.100 because I want to give you rest. 00:24:18.000 --> 00:24:19.240 I am rest. 00:24:19.920 --> 00:24:21.120 I am the Sabbath. 00:24:21.259 --> 00:24:24.279 I am everything that the Sabbath has always been pointing to. 00:24:24.440 --> 00:24:26.220 Come to me. 00:24:26.220 --> 00:24:36.420 Our bondage breaker commands us to rest and to rest in him. 00:24:37.039 --> 00:24:39.360 But he also commands us not just to rest. 00:24:39.460 --> 00:24:42.700 He commands us to practice shalom. 00:24:43.720 --> 00:24:45.799 He commands us to practice shalom. 00:24:46.799 --> 00:24:48.360 I read this article this week. 00:24:49.140 --> 00:24:54.380 It said, when Jews say Shabbat shalom or Sabbath peace 00:24:54.380 --> 00:24:57.520 to family and friends after a draining work week, 00:24:57.820 --> 00:25:01.080 we mean far more than have a peaceful and restful day. 00:25:01.860 --> 00:25:07.880 What we are really saying is, may God restore you to wholeness on the blessed Sabbath. 00:25:08.860 --> 00:25:10.160 So let's practice that. 00:25:10.280 --> 00:25:11.040 Shabbat shalom. 00:25:12.780 --> 00:25:13.820 Shabbat shalom. 00:25:14.940 --> 00:25:17.780 You can turn to your neighbor and say Shabbat shalom. 00:25:17.779 --> 00:25:18.980 Shabbat shalom. 00:25:19.519 --> 00:25:24.220 So the Sabbath is this gift that restores us to wholeness 00:25:24.220 --> 00:25:28.480 because it centers us and saturates us with the Lord himself, 00:25:28.480 --> 00:25:33.599 but simultaneously it centers us and makes us concerned about our neighbor. 00:25:35.720 --> 00:25:40.200 And you can see how we're to desire Shabbat shalom 00:25:40.200 --> 00:25:42.759 for the other people around us in verse 14, 00:25:42.759 --> 00:25:43.460 where it says, 00:25:43.460 --> 00:26:07.920 You, my people, are responsible to give the gift of Shabbat shalom, 00:26:08.519 --> 00:26:11.720 that restoration of wholeness to the most vulnerable of people, 00:26:11.720 --> 00:26:14.720 kids, youth, the next generation, 00:26:15.279 --> 00:26:18.700 to your servants, people who are employed by you 00:26:18.700 --> 00:26:20.519 and depend upon you for their livelihood, 00:26:21.420 --> 00:26:24.900 to refugees, people who are foreigners 00:26:24.900 --> 00:26:28.279 and who sought refuge among you, the people of God. 00:26:28.299 --> 00:26:32.380 You need to even give the gift of Sabbath and Shabbat shalom to your animals. 00:26:33.799 --> 00:26:34.400 Amazing. 00:26:35.559 --> 00:26:36.700 Speaking of animals, 00:26:37.779 --> 00:26:39.900 George Orwell wrote a book, 00:26:39.900 --> 00:26:41.800 and in that book, 00:26:41.860 --> 00:26:44.000 the animals rebelled against their farmer 00:26:44.000 --> 00:26:47.120 and they turned manor farm into animal farm. 00:26:47.180 --> 00:26:47.780 You read this book? 00:26:48.560 --> 00:26:51.840 They adopted these seven commandments of animalism, 00:26:52.500 --> 00:26:54.340 the most important of which is, 00:26:54.460 --> 00:26:55.920 all animals are equal. 00:26:56.880 --> 00:26:58.500 And then if you keep reading that book, 00:26:58.560 --> 00:26:59.720 as the years pass, 00:26:59.800 --> 00:27:01.860 those seven commandments of animalism 00:27:01.860 --> 00:27:04.700 are a bridge down to one simple phrase, 00:27:04.759 --> 00:27:05.540 and it says this, 00:27:05.539 --> 00:27:07.339 all animals are equal, 00:27:07.859 --> 00:27:10.659 but some animals are more equal than others. 00:27:12.859 --> 00:27:15.440 Some animals are more equal than others. 00:27:16.299 --> 00:27:20.579 That's precisely what this law is meant to protect us from, 00:27:20.639 --> 00:27:23.579 that some people are more equal than others. 00:27:23.579 --> 00:27:25.859 It says, 00:27:25.859 --> 00:27:32.319 do not recreate the oppressive empire of Egypt among yourselves, 00:27:32.319 --> 00:27:34.240 where the outsiders and the powerless, 00:27:34.460 --> 00:27:35.240 the slaves, 00:27:35.679 --> 00:27:36.000 women, 00:27:36.480 --> 00:27:37.899 people in the lower classes, 00:27:38.139 --> 00:27:41.279 worked unceasingly to get all the stuff done, 00:27:41.299 --> 00:27:43.659 while the insiders and the powerful people 00:27:43.659 --> 00:27:45.699 just enjoyed leisure. 00:27:45.700 --> 00:27:51.440 This is a protective act for the vulnerable, 00:27:52.140 --> 00:27:54.640 for the sake of social justice. 00:27:55.380 --> 00:27:59.420 And this is why Jesus himself is so serious 00:27:59.420 --> 00:28:03.240 about Shabbat Shalom for the most vulnerable, 00:28:03.380 --> 00:28:05.500 because what did Jesus do to get himself 00:28:05.500 --> 00:28:07.160 in so much trouble on the Sabbath? 00:28:07.880 --> 00:28:09.180 He fed the hungry. 00:28:10.039 --> 00:28:12.799 He exercised mercy to those who were sick 00:28:12.799 --> 00:28:14.559 and wounded and broken. 00:28:14.559 --> 00:28:17.539 In fact, we have seven stories recorded for us 00:28:17.539 --> 00:28:18.220 in the Gospels, 00:28:18.299 --> 00:28:22.000 where Jesus healed and restored people on the Sabbath day. 00:28:22.099 --> 00:28:25.919 There was a man who was dehumanized by demons. 00:28:26.779 --> 00:28:28.440 There was Peter's mother-in-law 00:28:28.440 --> 00:28:30.940 who was raging with a fever that would have killed her. 00:28:31.000 --> 00:28:33.379 There was a man who had a withered hand 00:28:33.379 --> 00:28:35.419 and a woman who was crippled 00:28:35.419 --> 00:28:38.559 because she was bent over like this for 18 years. 00:28:39.339 --> 00:28:41.079 There was a man who had endema. 00:28:41.220 --> 00:28:43.299 His whole body was just swollen. 00:28:43.299 --> 00:28:47.460 There was a man who was unable to walk for 38 years. 00:28:47.740 --> 00:28:49.680 And then there was that man born blind, 00:28:49.799 --> 00:28:51.500 never seen the light of day. 00:28:52.220 --> 00:28:53.859 There are at least seven people. 00:28:53.940 --> 00:28:55.440 We know there was probably many more 00:28:55.440 --> 00:28:57.220 not recorded in the Gospels 00:28:57.220 --> 00:28:59.960 who walked around with their testimony, 00:29:00.159 --> 00:29:03.019 their eyewitness testimony of Shabbat Shalom, 00:29:03.740 --> 00:29:05.960 that on this holy day, 00:29:06.700 --> 00:29:10.519 Jesus put me back in a right relationship with God, 00:29:10.519 --> 00:29:12.740 and he put me back in a right mind. 00:29:13.519 --> 00:29:17.079 On this day, Jesus gave me life and energy 00:29:17.079 --> 00:29:18.819 so that I could serve other people. 00:29:19.680 --> 00:29:20.960 On this Sabbath day, 00:29:21.079 --> 00:29:23.879 Jesus gave me the ability to work again. 00:29:23.940 --> 00:29:24.680 And on the Sabbath, 00:29:24.859 --> 00:29:27.980 Jesus caused me to stand up straight with dignity. 00:29:28.660 --> 00:29:29.680 On the Sabbath day, 00:29:29.799 --> 00:29:31.460 Jesus came and he comforted me 00:29:31.460 --> 00:29:33.400 and he relieved me of my pain. 00:29:33.400 --> 00:29:35.220 And on the Sabbath day, 00:29:35.340 --> 00:29:36.360 Jesus caused me to, 00:29:36.700 --> 00:29:38.800 my feet to start running and dancing 00:29:38.800 --> 00:29:42.019 in a way they hadn't done in a really long time. 00:29:42.080 --> 00:29:43.180 On the Sabbath day, 00:29:43.480 --> 00:29:45.560 I saw the world. 00:29:45.920 --> 00:29:46.400 I saw colors. 00:29:47.200 --> 00:29:50.400 I saw people and human faces for the first time. 00:29:50.400 --> 00:29:55.540 All these people had their Shabbat Shalom stories 00:29:55.540 --> 00:29:59.240 about this Jesus who came, 00:30:00.280 --> 00:30:01.519 that we might have life 00:30:01.519 --> 00:30:04.340 and have it more abundantly. 00:30:04.460 --> 00:30:06.400 And why was Jesus so intentional 00:30:06.400 --> 00:30:08.780 about Shabbat Shalom for the most vulnerable? 00:30:09.320 --> 00:30:10.200 Because he said, 00:30:10.400 --> 00:30:13.460 my heavenly father is a liberating God 00:30:13.460 --> 00:30:15.980 who's given us a liberating ethic 00:30:15.980 --> 00:30:19.220 to make us into a liberating people. 00:30:20.400 --> 00:30:22.200 And so as we close, 00:30:22.300 --> 00:30:25.220 I just wanna invite a little bit of reflection 00:30:25.220 --> 00:30:26.240 on some application. 00:30:27.480 --> 00:30:28.140 Christ Church, 00:30:28.780 --> 00:30:32.360 how do you sense the Lord Jesus inviting you 00:30:32.360 --> 00:30:34.019 and challenging you maybe 00:30:34.019 --> 00:30:37.040 to keep the Sabbath consistently holy 00:30:37.040 --> 00:30:38.500 to the Lord your God? 00:30:39.259 --> 00:30:43.160 Some of us might change the way we prepare on Saturdays. 00:30:43.180 --> 00:30:44.080 We might sleep more 00:30:44.080 --> 00:30:45.980 so we can wake up more rested on Sunday. 00:30:46.060 --> 00:30:48.440 We might show up more prayed up. 00:30:48.440 --> 00:30:50.360 We might clear out our schedules 00:30:50.359 --> 00:30:52.079 and set aside our work 00:30:52.079 --> 00:30:53.779 and get our chores done 00:30:53.779 --> 00:30:55.879 and have our hearts primed and ready 00:30:55.879 --> 00:30:57.759 for a day that's centered upon 00:30:57.759 --> 00:30:59.959 and saturated with the Lord himself. 00:31:01.159 --> 00:31:02.299 For some of us, 00:31:02.299 --> 00:31:03.939 we might change our mindset 00:31:03.939 --> 00:31:06.259 about what this holy day is, 00:31:06.259 --> 00:31:08.399 that it is indeed a holy day, 00:31:08.500 --> 00:31:09.899 that it's liberation day, 00:31:10.059 --> 00:31:11.899 that it's resurrection day. 00:31:11.979 --> 00:31:14.779 And that means that it's a day of joyous feasting 00:31:14.779 --> 00:31:16.500 and cheerful celebration 00:31:16.500 --> 00:31:18.200 and grateful thanksgiving 00:31:18.200 --> 00:31:20.740 with our crucified yet risen Lord. 00:31:21.619 --> 00:31:22.680 For some of us, 00:31:22.720 --> 00:31:25.579 we might place a higher value on in-person worship. 00:31:26.579 --> 00:31:27.619 Before the pandemic, 00:31:28.119 --> 00:31:30.819 average Bay Area Christian attendance at church 00:31:30.819 --> 00:31:33.559 was 2.5 Sundays a month. 00:31:34.240 --> 00:31:36.139 I have zero data to back that up. 00:31:36.180 --> 00:31:38.000 I'm just spitballing here as a pastor. 00:31:38.000 --> 00:31:42.039 I can't imagine it got better during the pandemic. 00:31:42.940 --> 00:31:44.880 But when you are not here, 00:31:45.099 --> 00:31:47.579 we cannot harmonize our voices with yours. 00:31:48.460 --> 00:31:49.519 When you are not here, 00:31:49.579 --> 00:31:51.819 we cannot share the bread and wine with each other. 00:31:52.299 --> 00:31:53.279 When you are not here, 00:31:53.339 --> 00:31:55.099 we cannot teach your children the Bible 00:31:55.099 --> 00:31:58.200 and help them nurture relationships 00:31:58.200 --> 00:31:59.880 around Jesus himself. 00:32:00.220 --> 00:32:04.380 So maybe we need to wrestle a little more 00:32:04.380 --> 00:32:06.460 with the way that this act of Sabbath, 00:32:06.580 --> 00:32:07.580 this practice of Sabbath 00:32:07.580 --> 00:32:09.400 is an irreducibly physical 00:32:09.400 --> 00:32:11.260 and embodied act of worship 00:32:11.260 --> 00:32:13.460 as a community together. 00:32:14.260 --> 00:32:15.880 Some of us might need to come 00:32:15.880 --> 00:32:18.240 with more of a readiness to welcome people 00:32:18.240 --> 00:32:20.680 we don't know into Shabbat Shalom. 00:32:21.360 --> 00:32:23.220 To show up and intentionally make this 00:32:23.220 --> 00:32:26.160 a sacred and special day for someone else 00:32:26.160 --> 00:32:27.700 by receiving strangers 00:32:27.700 --> 00:32:31.160 into our companionship of Sabbath rest with us, 00:32:31.260 --> 00:32:32.260 looking for the people 00:32:32.259 --> 00:32:36.819 who need to experience the shalom of the Lord. 00:32:38.059 --> 00:32:38.900 And last thing, 00:32:38.980 --> 00:32:40.119 some of us may be wondering, 00:32:40.299 --> 00:32:43.059 hey, when are we gonna do this agape feast, 00:32:43.680 --> 00:32:44.779 you know, with all the wine 00:32:44.779 --> 00:32:46.099 and the joy and all that? 00:32:46.640 --> 00:32:47.640 Well, let me say, 00:32:48.099 --> 00:32:49.339 anytime you want. 00:32:50.720 --> 00:32:51.839 Anytime you want. 00:32:51.900 --> 00:32:52.779 At your home, 00:32:52.920 --> 00:32:53.660 at a restaurant, 00:32:53.960 --> 00:32:54.619 at a park, 00:32:54.799 --> 00:32:55.400 invite me, 00:32:55.480 --> 00:32:56.440 I'll bring some wine. 00:32:56.599 --> 00:32:57.519 Anytime you want. 00:32:58.200 --> 00:32:59.619 We are, as a church, 00:32:59.700 --> 00:33:01.000 gonna have another nacho bar. 00:33:01.000 --> 00:33:02.740 You remember the nacho bar back in June? 00:33:02.819 --> 00:33:03.859 We're gonna have one of those 00:33:03.859 --> 00:33:05.880 on October 17th. 00:33:05.880 --> 00:33:07.480 We're gonna need an army of crockpots, 00:33:07.619 --> 00:33:08.400 meat, cheese. 00:33:09.700 --> 00:33:11.259 And we're gonna party. 00:33:11.359 --> 00:33:13.079 We're gonna have an agape feast, 00:33:13.160 --> 00:33:15.119 a love feast that's holy to the Lord. 00:33:15.140 --> 00:33:16.259 And we hope that you'll come 00:33:16.259 --> 00:33:17.700 and celebrate with us 00:33:17.700 --> 00:33:19.180 because that'll be the 15th birthday 00:33:19.180 --> 00:33:21.099 of Christ's church that we're celebrating. 00:33:21.099 --> 00:33:26.019 I'll stop talking now. 00:33:27.039 --> 00:33:28.079 Our bondage breaker 00:33:28.079 --> 00:33:30.519 commands rest and shalom. 00:33:31.399 --> 00:33:33.139 And I want you just to hear these words 00:33:33.139 --> 00:33:35.339 from God through the prophet Isaiah 00:33:35.339 --> 00:33:36.240 as I close. 00:33:37.219 --> 00:33:38.879 This is what he says to his people. 00:33:40.480 --> 00:33:41.899 If you keep your feet 00:33:41.899 --> 00:33:42.980 from breaking the Sabbath 00:33:42.980 --> 00:33:46.179 and from doing as you please 00:33:46.179 --> 00:33:47.219 on my holy day, 00:33:47.220 --> 00:33:50.400 if you call the Sabbath a delight 00:33:50.400 --> 00:33:53.259 and the Lord's holy day honorable, 00:33:54.299 --> 00:33:55.600 and if you honor it 00:33:55.600 --> 00:33:57.100 by not going your own way 00:33:57.100 --> 00:33:59.480 and not doing as you please 00:33:59.480 --> 00:34:00.819 or saying idle words, 00:34:01.500 --> 00:34:03.500 then you will find your joy 00:34:03.500 --> 00:34:04.579 in the Lord. 00:34:05.100 --> 00:34:06.480 And I will cause you 00:34:06.480 --> 00:34:07.759 to ride in triumph 00:34:07.759 --> 00:34:09.480 on the heights of the land 00:34:09.480 --> 00:34:10.300 and to feast 00:34:10.300 --> 00:34:11.840 on the inheritance 00:34:11.840 --> 00:34:13.119 of your father Jacob 00:34:13.119 --> 00:34:15.179 for the mouth of the Lord 00:34:15.179 --> 00:34:16.500 has spoken. 00:34:17.480 --> 00:34:18.440 In the name of the Father, 00:34:18.579 --> 00:34:19.440 Son, and Holy Spirit. 00:34:20.179 --> 00:34:20.480 Amen.