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If you have a Bible, and I hope you or somebody does, you can look on with, let me invite

you to open me to Genesis chapter 2.

So we're in this series, we're calling God's Good Design, where we're looking at the first two

chapters of the Bible and seeing God's good design, where we're looking at the first two chapters of the Bible

and seeing God's good design for creation, for humanity, for sexuality, today and next week,

for rest, and then work after that, and then marriage. But today, it's rest. And I want to start

with a call to intercessioncession and then with a confession.

So first the call to intercession.

We're about to see a biblical pattern of six days of work and one day of rest.

And it's not lost on me that we're talking about this when many of you who work in our government,

including some I've been talking with this morning, are walking through uncertain, challenging days,

including some of you who are without work or without compensation for work.

So I want to call us in our lives and our families and our

church groups and our church family to intercede to pray for restoration of work in our government

and for workers affected by this across our city and in our church family and to pray that God will help us

as his church to be salt and light to care for and support one another in this world amidst uncertainty

and challenges when it comes to work specifically so that's the call to intercession for work.

And at the same time, I need to make a confession about rest because I'm about to preach on this

topic and I need to be vulnerable with you, not just as one of your pastors, but as your brother

in Christ, and confess

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