Sabbath | Part 2 | Rest

Vineyard Groningen Sermons

Sabbath is a key-stone habit to resist a culture of restlessness. The combination of insatiable desires in our heart and a consumption-driven digital economy constantly drives us to want more, have more, be more. Sabbath invites us to leave the tyrannical system of more and experience a deep satisfaction in God, so that our soul can find rest in Him. In this message we take a closer look at how Sabbath comes to us in the Law, with the intention to make sure that the people of God would not treat themselves, or anyone or anything else as goods to be consumed or commodities to be dispatched for endless production, but to trust in God, be satisfied with enough and ensure justice for all. This is a highly relevant message for us today as well, as we are living under a system that looks a lot like Egypt, always driven to more and more. But there is another, more painful side to this as well. Failing to keep the Sabbath and a drivenness to more also takes away Sabbath-rest from the most vulnerable, and turns us into slave-drivers. But our God is a Sabbath-keeping and a Sabbath-giving God.