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All righty, well it's Memorial Day weekend for those that are joining us from

around the world online. It's a holiday here in the United States of America

that started primarily right after the Civil War, but it's actually a holiday

that goes all the way back to the ancient Greek and Roman empires where after

a battle they would take a time to remember to commemorate those who had made

the ultimate sacrifice so that others could enjoy their freedoms. And then the

United States of America, what we talk about is when someone dies in particular,

but when a soldier dies in battle, what we say is that they've been laid to

what? They've been laid to rest, laid to rest. Another way to say it is they've

been laid to Sabbath. And what that means is that they have labored and worked

very hard and now they have earned an eternal rest. And that's exactly what I

want to talk about today and next week as we finish the good news series on

heaven. What does it look like to rest and what does it look like to work? What

does it look like to labor in this life and then enter into the eternal rest?

And I was thinking about it, these really are the two primary categories that we

spend most of our life. Most of our life is spent working and sleeping, working

and sleeping. And it used to be that there was a bit of a balance. Most people

worked about eight hours a day and they slept a hundred years ago. Just hear me

in this nine hours a day. How many of you don't sleep nine hours a day? I sleep

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