The Rejection of the King Matthew 12

LIFE AS IT WAS MEANT TO BE Sabbath Rest LIFE AS IT WAS MEANT TO BE Matthew 11:28 “Come to Me, all who are weary and heavy-laden, and I will give you rest.”

LIFE AS IT WAS MEANT TO BE Sabbath Rest LIFE AS IT WAS MEANT TO BE Genesis 2:2–3 By the seventh day God completed His work which He had done, and He rested on the seventh day from all His work which He had done. Then God blessed the seventh day and sanctified it, because in it He rested from all His work which God had created and made.

LIFE AS IT WAS MEANT TO BE Sabbath Rest LIFE AS IT WAS MEANT TO BE Isaiah 58:13–14 “...call the sabbath a delight, the holy day of the Lord honorable, and honor it, desisting from your own ways, from seeking your own pleasure and speaking your own word, then you will take delight in the Lord, and I will make you ride on the heights of the earth....”

LIFE AS IT WAS MEANT TO BE Sabbath Rest LIFE AS IT WAS MEANT TO BE Genesis 5:29 Now Lamech called his son’s name Noah, saying, “This one will give us rest from our work and from the toil of our hands arising from the ground which the Lord has cursed.”

Sabbath Rest FOUND IN JESUS ALONE

Sabbath Rest FOUND IN JESUS ALONE Matthew 23:4 “They [Scribes and Pharisees] tie up heavy burdens and lay them on men’s shoulders, but they themselves are unwilling to move them with so much as a finger.”

Sabbath Rest FOUND IN JESUS ALONE Acts 15:10 (cf. Galatians 5:1) “Now therefore why do you put God to the test by placing upon the neck of the disciples a yoke which neither our fathers nor we have been able to bear?”

Sabbath Rest FOUND IN JESUS ALONE John 14:6 Jesus said, “I am the way, and the truth, and the life; no one comes to the Father but through Me.”

Sabbath Rest NEVER COMPLETE TODAY Hebrews 4:9 So there remains a Sabbath rest for the people of God.

Application When life is not what you expected... trust and hope When life brings good gifts... enjoy and give thanks At all times... give and keep giving

The Rejection of the King Matthew 12